Has anyone else got an ANT WORLD? Please come and talk ants with me

[FrannyandZooey]

Right we finally scraped together about 25 nervous looking ants and introduced them to their spacious new accomodation. Several promptly died and the rest spent a couple of days running around, much to ds's delight:

"We've got PETS!"

"Mummy look they are having a RACE!"

"Those two are very funny they just bumped HEADS!"

"Now they are having an ANT CIRCUS!"

So I was thinking this has got to be one of the best things anyone had ever bought him. Now on day 5 the ants are

well

I don't know where they are. They have gone somewhere. Underground? There is a tunnel. It doesn't seem to have ants in it. There is bugger all sign of life. Is this it? Are the first few days the only time you get to see them doing anything? Or have we killed them all? What do I tell ds?

I held a giant african land snail in my local library. It had the perfect imprint of the palm of my hand when i turned it over, it was kind of amazing.

Franny what exactly happened in this Amserdam zoo, you didn't do anything awful to the snails did you?

It's strange because in my limited experience of LSD, snails feature large (small snails) but not in a bad way.

I have had TWO extremely unpleasant trips involving snails, one the giant kind, one the average sort (the latter was by far the worst) and they are now persona non grata for the rest of my life

no I didn't harm the African snails but I think a few Dutch people may have suffered (one woman in particular may have pulled a muscle while laughing, for instance )

[mind boggling]

Have you noticed the snails on the advert that keeps appearing on the right hand side of the page?

What? NOOOO

you are all mean teasing fuckers

go and bother some ants or something

So, would you like us to call snails by a completely different name to stop the flashbacks? How about 'pumice stones', or 'flannels'?

We have one too, I tihnk they all died but I will show ds this thread tomorrow (once I've checked it for swearing)

it WOULD have been fine to show your ds, WWW, but Boco kept making me mention my terrible drugs experiences

'Tis the advert for Fairy something or other with the little baby in the fluffy nappy ... and snails.

You're right, though, we are cruel to tease.

oh I don't mind CARTOON snails with fluffy white nappies on or whatever they are meant to be

The baby has the nappy, the snails are bare-arsed.

Should we maybe call them 'back-scrubbers', or 'nail files' or 'exfoliators'?

Oh ok! I will show him edited highlights then

WWW I am not sure if it has exactly been an educational thread on the whole

I still haven't forgiven you for breaking things up between me and Matt you know

ah, lionheart. Thank you for your interest. I don't have a link - and you have maybe googled by now out of sheer excitement - but snails lay their eggs through a small orifice in their neck!

NECK!

Well, if a snail has a neck, it's where you would imagine a neck to be.

Tiny little soft pearls, one after the other, loads of them. Fascinating.

actually the links are making me feel ill 'cause I am eating and drinking and it didn't really look like any of the images I can find. Much prettier.

Oh my god - neck? Franny, breathe breathe! Stay in the present.

Franny you and Matt were never right for each other, one of your [hard stare]s could totally melt his auntie dance.

do NOT post your filthy snail birth pictures I FORBID IT

think of WWW's ds, won't you? His poor little innocent eyes

Boco those are just MORE LIES you just couldn't handle the TRUTH which is that we were destined to live happily ever after with our spoon collection

what's up with www's ds? Can't handle a snail?

HOW has a thread about ANTS turned into a ruddy SNAIL CONVENTION?

I mean does it say come and talk SNAILS with me? Does it? Hmm?

ants skitter about so much (or kill each other) that everyone soon loses interest in them

good

oh bugger am bored of talking ants

Earwigs? I hate 'em.