View Full Version : How many of your friends think your weird?
Bigbob55
10-21-2005, 9:27 PM
All of us here know how cool and intersting keeping fish are, and how obsessive it can be.
How many of your friends think your just weird to spend hundreds of dollars on large aquariums and interesting fish?
I told my parents that I bought an aquarium. And they're like "Why? We have an extra 10G laying around you could have used"
me: "well, I bought a bigger one..."
them: "how big?"
me: "50 gallons.."
them: "Why the heck do you want such a big aquarium?"
me: "Cause I wanted to"
them: "..... well, how much did it cost?"
me: "140 dollars....... (good price! - all included).
them: "well.... its your money I guess."
And all my friends make fun of the fact that I go to petco or petsmart almost every day just to check out their selection. And that I get excited when I find a new petsmart that i've never been to, and am excited when I find they have something the other ones don't.
I'm an 18 y/o college student, and all my friends just think im weird for liking fish so much, even my G/F, and she's an animal lover.
How many of your friends or family think your weird for liking fish so much?
My "friends" just give me funny looks and move away when they see me coming......
sublime1184
10-21-2005, 9:36 PM
do fish count as friends? :huh:
hurdledude1298
10-21-2005, 9:40 PM
everyone thinks im weird! :dance2:
Maybe I just resemble my avatar a bit too much.....would you move away if you saw that coming near ?? :huh:
Kasakato
10-21-2005, 10:32 PM
There's:
Fish
Geeks :rolleyes:
XM Radio
Computers
Clothes
Hair
Books
Girls
And everything you can think of. No matter what someone at school will pick one and go with it all day, but I do too so its all good. :rolleyes:
For keeping fish? Not really probably because I'm not totally obsessed with fish like you seem to be. Your crazed fish obsession will probably climax in a few months give or take.(If your new to this)
Larissa
10-21-2005, 11:02 PM
Yup, everyone thinks I'm crazy. I've had my 10g for about 7 years and my 55g for around a year and a half and I'm certainly not tired of it yet.
aknif
10-21-2005, 11:13 PM
Friends? What friends?? I had to get rid of them all because they didn't like my fish......
:D
they all just roll there eyes.. :rolleyes: .. at first they say kool tanks .. but when we tell them we are getting another tank they think we are crazy ..
5.. 10g tanks .. 2 for snails 2 for the kids tanks .. one for the dwarf puffer..
65g Hex comunnity .. 11 inch pleco.. 3 inch pleco... 4 mollies.. 6 white clouds... 1 marbled headstander.. 4 cory cats.. 4 inch YoYo loach.. 2 gouramis.. 3 guppies...
30g extra high tank with a 5 inch Red Devil ..
20g high gonna get set up as soon as it is sealed .. has a slight leak ..and will be for a green spotted puffer..
would like to get atleast a 55 or bigger for a schooling community tank.
Marn
Harlock
10-22-2005, 12:07 AM
Heck no my friends don't think I am weird. They KNOW I am weird. Not just for fish though, I mean, i generally and a moody, funny, quirky little person. I was raised by sarcastic people with snappy comebacks so had to be a quick thinker. In some ways, it's great, I hear I am a blast to be around. On the other hand, once you've been around me a while you pretty much want to hang yourself because I never stop. So, in short doses, I rock, but otherwise, well, just ask my wife... sure, I have kept my promise to make her laugh everyday of my life but, sometimes I just know she is laughing AT me and not with me. Oh well, as the French say, comment dit-on mushroom en francais?
Raskolnikov
10-22-2005, 12:34 AM
All of my friends think that I'm strange, and my fish keeping habits aren't the half of it.
125gJoe
10-22-2005, 2:34 AM
I can say, there's nothing weird about the 125 gallon tank, except some 'visitors' really like it!
But then again, when it comes to explaining the tank and ,... it does become a bit strange...
No time to elborate now. Stop by. I'll show you.. :D
I have a little yellow spray bottle..... it is filled with 4/5 water 1/5 vinegar. I use it as a training technique for my puppy -- I spray it in his direction if he tries to steal food or chew on furniture. The smell freaks him out so I've only had to spray it 4 or 5 times and that was MONTHS ago... Now all I have to do is pick up the bottle and show it to him and he behaves himself. I use the same technique when my friends try to touch one of my fish tanks. Needless to say they don't come over much anymore. :confused:
Holly9937
10-22-2005, 2:45 PM
I'm with some of the other posters, people think I'm a little strange for reasons other than my fish tank. But my friends were shocked when I told them a while back... "oh, I'm so excited I'm finally getting a new tank...really? How big?? Oh only 180 gallons :eek: "
FreddytheFish
10-22-2005, 2:53 PM
Friend? What's a friend?
No but really, lots of people think I'm either wierd or mental, or a combination of the two. And its not just fishkeeping that gives them this idea. Whenever I start to talk about fish, most people roll their eyes and leave. Good thing i have antitang to talk to. :D
Freddy....I hear ya on the rolling eyes thing....lol....I have to really work hard to control my desire to talk fish just about everywhere I go. I work at a school and it's hard not to try to get into each of the classes to check out thier tanks.....it's a hard life...... http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/indifferent/indifferent0009.gif
FreddytheFish
10-22-2005, 3:42 PM
EMS, exactly how I feel. I'm in Student Council at my school and every Thursday I have to pick up paper recycling from some of the classes. Well, one of the classes I was assigned had a fishtank in it and so I was trying to look at it while picking up two full boxes of paper and balancing the ones I was already carrying, and the teacher was looking at me all funny and I almost dropped the boxes. :o
I think I need rehab, I'm addicted to fish. :help:
Marala
10-22-2005, 4:07 PM
Yeah, I say I have a passion for fish, but everyone else calls it an obsession. I try repeating to my self over and over that I don't need another tank, but I few days later and a new one is there! Not that I would EVER give this hobby up! It really is addicting! When I start talking about fish everyone in the room just looks at me funny so I am slowly learning to not go into all the details! I guess it isn't surprising that my friends don't come arround so much anymore!
daveedka
10-22-2005, 4:53 PM
Unfortunately most of my friends don't even know about my fish. They all know me through scouts, hunting, fishing or work, and they know I am Obsessive about anything I do. I'm sure they all know I'm wierd, but it has nothing to do with the fish.
Dave
Let's see, our house (custom) has no windows on the street side, we have no lawn, I grow bananas in the side yard (USDA zone 6), we have a kite tree in the living room, I have ~2 dozen fish tanks (but many more kites). Why would people think that we might be weird?
125gJoe
10-22-2005, 7:09 PM
Kites?
If it's not too much a problem... ....can you post pictures of the 'kites' ?
Thanks, in advance...
I think it's clear we're not weird because we keep fish. We obviously keep fish because were weird. As others have said everyone thinks I'm weird and most don't even know about the fish. One of my best friend regularly says "You're so weird", I say "Yes, we've established that already". She just smiles and shakes her head.
daveedka
10-22-2005, 8:57 PM
I think it's clear we're not weird because we keep fish. We obviously keep fish because were weird.
Nice summary :D :D :D :help: :D
dave
Oh yes and in addition to being boring, Normalcy is way over-rated.
nursie
10-22-2005, 9:54 PM
Friends? My family thinks I'm weird, and my coworkers too. Of course the coworkers are the ones putting puffers in betta bowls!
reiverix
10-22-2005, 10:12 PM
My wife thinks I'm a bit looney but at least my willow tree thinks I'm normal.
daveedka
10-22-2005, 10:35 PM
My wife thinks I'm a bit looney but at least my willow tree thinks I'm normal.
Kinda the pot calling the kettle black on that one John (your wife, not the willow tree)
dave
125 Joe - no shots of the kite tree that I know of, but most of the types of kites hanging in tree are visible at:
http://www.guildworks.com/perf.php
All are my son's designs.
OrionGirl
10-24-2005, 9:45 AM
I've never asked if anyone thought I was weird for keeping tanks. Some of my family thought it was odd at first, but now, they all ask about how the tanks are, and everyone had their favorite occupant to ask about (my grandmother always asks about my african clawed frog, for example).
As for my co-workers--they all have their own obsessions, some much more expensive than mine, so why criticize?
But, bigger than that--why would I care if someone did think this hobby made me strange? Their life, their choice, my life, my choice.
flyfly
10-26-2005, 3:14 AM
friends? who needs friends when you got fish. Right guys? um right... guys??
...guys???
mandimoron
10-26-2005, 2:35 PM
My tanks are right beside my computer, so I'm always recounting amusing anecdotes of crazy fishy-ness for my friends via MSN, but I don't think they get it. O_o
"Awww, my cory catfish is sleeping on the plant again! Haha, he's like an aquatic cat in a tree!"
"...What's a cory catfish?"
mogurnda
10-26-2005, 2:48 PM
I was blessed/cursed with a brain that is constantly free-associating. Some find it hysterical, but slow-witted people generally find it disturbing. Because I often didn't make much sense, some of my friends referred to me as "The Loon" when I was younger. I have learned to curb it with age, so now most people think I'm just a bit odd.
Keeping fish actually makes me seem more normal.
OrionGirl
10-26-2005, 3:18 PM
Another great point--serial killers don't keep fish tanks. Always a good defense, even if you do have predatory fish that would be able to 'hide' a body...
BUCKEYEMOLDED
10-26-2005, 3:57 PM
My Daughter and her friends call me the fish nerd!
the wife giggles when they call me that.
mogurnda
10-26-2005, 4:36 PM
Another great point--serial killers don't keep fish tanks. Always a good defense, even if you do have predatory fish that would be able to 'hide' a body...
That's what my defence attorney keeps telling me.
You go, Mo! You be as odd as you wanna be, man! We still lust... uh, er, I mean, we like you anyway!
;)
Intermision
10-26-2005, 4:47 PM
Suprisingly my friends don't think i'm weird, what's even more suprising is that this is y first hobby that my dad hasn't thought I was wasting money on.
Debra Mark
10-26-2005, 4:47 PM
You go, Mo! You be as odd as you wanna be, man! We still lust... uh, er, I mean, we like you anyway!
;)
LOL....spoken like a true evil twin and sexy fish geek afficionado....
.....I'm so proud.....;)
TommyR
10-27-2005, 4:08 PM
I've been called insain,crazy,nuts,etc. LONG before I got into fish!
All without taking any drugs or drinking my whole life too! I'm screwed up enough, I don't need drugs to make that worse! LOL!
I've always loved making people laugh since I was young, either ad libbing stuff, making noises,doing impressions,faces,etc. That's the main reason they think I'm nuts.
:duh:
I love it!
Having fish isn't crazy at all, it's perfectly normal anyway!
Tom
OrionGirl
10-27-2005, 4:48 PM
If it makes any difference, pretty well the first questions new visitors have, as they glance around with vague unease and shifting posture is: So how many tanks do you guys have, anyway?
The fact that I nearly always have to actually count them to come with a number doesn't reassure them, for some reason.
125gJoe
10-28-2005, 1:49 AM
If it makes any difference, pretty well the first questions new visitors have, as they glance around with vague unease and shifting posture is: So how many tanks do you guys have, anyway?....And, I went to your homepage, and didn't see a single tank... :(
Got pics?
:)
OG....lol.....I know what you mean about having to stop and count.....!
OrionGirl
10-28-2005, 9:54 AM
Holy lightning bolts! I haven't checked mu page in a long time--looks like it's been removed. I'll have to check into that--there really were pics of the 'glass boxes', but they were all outdated. I'll work on that sometime...
NotGumbel
10-28-2005, 10:54 AM
100% of my friends think I'm weird, but that doesn't amount to many people all told ... because I'm weird :cool:
Bryant