Ants grow big in China...

was known by her Internet name Sister Blood and Tears

Let's not blame bankruptcy just yet.

Talk about making a mountain out of an ant hill.

There's something witty to say here............but I don't know what.

I had an ant farm when I was a kid... I had no idea you could make a business out of it.

Bet they're hard to milk.

were they dairy ants? they are the worst. if you don't milk them on time they start holding back.

Somewhere, a grasshopper laughs his ass off.

I am really getting a kick out of these replies...

Some local ant farmers plan to hold a ceremony to commemorate the dead.

I hope it's not a picnic.

Sister Blood and Tears? Ant Farmer? My life suddenly seems so much better. My only question - Did the mother and son keep and nourish the ants?

There is nothing about this article that makes sense to me. Ant farming...Sister Blood and Tears...Ponzi Scheme...it's just - it's just too much all at once.

Ant farmer?

BugFarmer: I am really getting a kick out of these replies...

And this is my first out loud laughter of the day. Thank you.

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Ants carrying leaves.

I'm sorry I missed it.

I went Fushun that day.

/ yea that's stretching it a bit.
//saved by the slashies.

Not amused.

Looks like PFC soldier ants to me, GungFu.

The first question I'd ask an ant farmer is "How do you get the ant to stay stuck in the ground? Then I'd ask, "Do you use fertilizer?"

Poor lady. She she have farmed Sea Monkeys instead. They're guaranteed to grow.

JonnyBGoode: I had an ant farm when I was a kid... I had no idea you could make a business out of it.

Apparently you can't.

Sir Cumference the Flatulent: JonnyBGoode: I had an ant farm when I was a kid... I had no idea you could make a business out of it.

Apparently you can't.

Uncle Milton begs to differ. Link (new window)

♪Dead ant, Dead ant, dead ant dead ant dead ant dead ant deadaaaant ♪

Ball of Confusion: Sir Cumference the Flatulent: JonnyBGoode: I had an ant farm when I was a kid... I had no idea you could make a business out of it.

Apparently you can't.

Uncle Milton begs to differ. Link (new window)

Good grief. That thing hasn't changed one bit in 40 years. Probably longer, but I can vouch for the exact product that far back.

44 years

The woman, who was known by her Internet name Sister Blood and Tears, jumped off from her home on was thrown from the third floor of the building at around 5 p.m. that day without leaving any message, said some ant farmers who later visited her family.
The newspaper had a little trouble translating the original Mandarin into English, so I fixed it.

I had an ant farm and those farkers didn't grow shiat!

Michael Ellis despondent!

"Ant farming...Sister Blood and Tears...Ponzi Scheme...it's just - it's just too much all at once."

Bit of fail in the article; the original plan wasn't a Ponzi scheme, but a legit business venture that went belly up...apparently ants are used in some forms of Chinese medicine.

/or should I say some formicidae of medicine?

guess the log rolled over...

No Alien Ant Farm references yet?

Leaves disappointed...

notmtwain: Chinese Mountain Ant Essence

Both men and women claim that after using Ant for even a short time that their interest in sex increases significantly and that their sexual performance improves in numerous ways.

from one Chinese Mountain Ant Extract:

Ant can increase the amount of DNA and RNA inside of human cells. This is believed to slow down aging and to aid in the regeneration, and even rejuvenation of tissue.

// Ant nothing to sneer at.

/// Ant IQ stores popping up all over.

I think the pills having Viagra in them might have something more to do with the sexual benefits then anything.

In November 2004, when the company attempted to export its health products, the Food and Drug Administration barred them from America, ruling that they contained prescription-strength sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra.
http://www.nysun.com/foreign/in-china-a-million-fall-for-ant-farm-ponzi-scheme/ 6 9460/

Brockway: If only suicide was part and parcel of bankruptcy. I am so sick of these FARKing idiots making stupid decisions, and then getting bailed out by some other group of people who didn't make those stupid decisions.

And this story also shows how to make money - defraud it from others and pay off the people who could have stopped it.

I don't think you understand how bankruptcy works. I used to think the same way as you when I was 12.

Mongo cut wood: Bet they're hard to milk.

Nah, milking is the easy part. What you have to watch out for are stampedes.

Ant meat is only a commodity in "Fallout 3"

I'd just like to share with you the deadly Jack-Jumper ant (this one I took home and Photographed just for you guys). In Australia, I have to deal with the filthy little bastards each time I go into the bush to Prospect (for Gold). They inhabit most of the land here and have excellent eyesight (they are attracted to movement from many feet away). I got stung a few months ago and my Kidneys hurt for a week... felt like an electric cattle prod attached to a white-hot sledge hammer. The stinger contains a venom that triggers anaphylactic shock and death in many people. They kill more Australians than sharks, crocodiles, dogs, bees and wasps combined annually.

I dare Chinese ant-farming noobs to try and farm these nasties! My local museum has a huge nest in Lucite held together with big screws. Always wondered what would happen if you cracked it open. They jump in leaps of 5cm at a time. Pricks. My fellow Prospectors call them "Rape Ants". I have pondered taping one to a stick and making a "poor man's" cattle-prod out of it. Or a stun-gun.

nero_design

Coulda done without that. Thanks.

I'm just shocked that no one has made fun of the ant farm company. Wang Fengyou.
Other than getting a laugh out of ant farming in general. The company name though it
may mean something else entirely in Chinese gave me a small chuckle.

nero_design: "Rape Ants"

Aren't those commonly called bullet ants?

ccunningham22 2009-01-11 09:15:40 AM

guess the log rolled over...


Thank you

/made me laugh
// no really... i ant lyin

nero_design:

[photo of mutant Australian ant]

But do they make your prick grow? I figure there has to be some freaks out there who'd pay good money to have miniature venomous electric cattle prods attacking their penis. Germany... Japan... Brazil... San Francisco... Martha's Vineyard...

nero_design: I'd just like to share with you the deadly Jack-Jumper ant (this one I took home and Photographed just for you guys). In Australia, I have to deal with the filthy little bastards each time I go into the bush to Prospect (for Gold). They inhabit most of the land here and have excellent eyesight (they are attracted to movement from many feet away). I got stung a few months ago and my Kidneys hurt for a week... felt like an electric cattle prod attached to a white-hot sledge hammer. The stinger contains a venom that triggers anaphylactic shock and death in many people. They kill more Australians than sharks, crocodiles, dogs, bees and wasps combined annually.

I dare Chinese ant-farming noobs to try and farm these nasties! My local museum has a huge nest in Lucite held together with big screws. Always wondered what would happen if you cracked it open. They jump in leaps of 5cm at a time. Pricks. My fellow Prospectors call them "Rape Ants". I have pondered taping one to a stick and making a "poor man's" cattle-prod out of it. Or a stun-gun.

Dang! What do you guys have in the soil down there? So many nasty stinging poisonous creepy ass bugs and snakes and jellyfish and ... and other stuff in Australia.

/scared

Oh, the humantity!

/sorry, had to.

So let me get this straight...middle-aged woman in china with who goes by an internet handle that makes her sound like a middle-aged, emotionally-disturbed, white-trash woman who lives in a trailer park (want to take bets on whether she had a tattoo of a tear somewhere on her face?) invests all her money in an ant farm and thinks she'll get rich. When riches fail to roll in, said emo-woman decides to commit suicide and leaves her mother and child alone in poverty to face her debts.

Got it. Strike her off the list for mother of the year award.

tonesskin
I used to think the same way as you when I was 12.


Nice tone there, spanky! I have a feeling that despite your vague insinuations of having a much more highly evolved understanding of all things financial that you are right now, at this very moment, ringing up your fiftieth happy meal of the morning.

nero_design: I got stung a few months ago and my Kidneys hurt for a week... felt like an electric cattle prod attached to a white-hot sledge hammer. They kill more Australians than sharks, crocodiles, dogs, bees and wasps combined annually.

Is there anything in Austrailia that can't kill you?

Do you have angry grasses, too? Like nettles from hell that stab you and digest your melting leg-juices, or something.

Bitter Barn: Nice tone there, spanky! I have a feeling that despite your vague insinuations of having a much more highly evolved understanding of all things financial that you are right now, at this very moment, ringing up your fiftieth happy meal of the morning.

Aw, you are so precious! By me saying, "I don't think you understand how bankruptcy works" (to someone who clearly doesn't), you assume I am saying I am a financial wizard. Then you pull the fast food "holier than thou" judgment. That is adorable. You make me so horny when you are that cute.

Lamune_Baba:
Is there anything in Austrailia that can't kill you?


Frankly, if you survive a vacation down under, you didn't get out much.

notmtwain: Chinese Mountain Ant Essence

Ant can increase the amount of DNA and RNA inside of human cells.

That photoshopped bottle of ant mush will increase my DNA? Why keep this a secret? This should be national news! I wonder if it can clone human babies too.