I’ve heard people say pretty much the same thing about cats, or rats, or rabbits; it’s all down to perspective. I’ll have to admit though, I’ve never actually heard of anyone doting on a pet earwig, but it’s a big, strange world.
[sigh] …welcome to my world… 
Stones-in-his-head has become a running gag. Gotta love this board! 
How can you say that when there are still people in West Texas with [gasp] dial up modems!? (Oh the horror!)
Seems to me like you needs a little perspective, ya cheese eating surrender monkey lover!
All of the creatures you mentioned usually stay dead after the administration of blunt force trauma with an object much, much larger than they are.
But when you’ve whaled on an earwig with your shoe, and five minutes later it gets up and starts crawling menacingly toward you, pincer-thingies waving…
Ahhhhh!!! Earwig! Earwig!
OK, stop frightening me, already.
I had a pet spider when I was in high school - a crab-like spiny orb weaver. (The females tend to be less than half an inch wide; the males are so tiny that they’re rarely noticed.) I named her Daria, and she lived outside under one of the eaves. Mom was so concerned about this that she called an exterminator; he assured her that the spider was harmless (she could still bite though).
Why are you people posting to a BBQ Pit when there are people in the world who don’t even have fire?!
PERSPECTIVE!
Y’know, that memory where she laid an egg, and then a hundred baby spiders came out and ate her isn’t actually yours, right?
Skin job.
I’d say it’s a safe bet that someone, somewhere out there in the big weird world, finds earwigs especially endearing for exactly the reasons you’ve just stated.
Dude! If you truly believe what you typed here, then you must starve to death. Let me say that again. You must starve to death. If you eat, at any time, between the time of this post and the time you die of starvation…you are a hypocrite. For then you will have shown compassion for your hunger despite thousands of children dying of starvation every day. If you enact the “well I have to eat to survive; and ETF doesn’t have to mourn the death of his horse to survive” doctrine (aka the “my compassion is more critical than his” doctrine) then please inform me/us where to draw the line. Cannot I buy gas for my vehicle because my compassion for not running out of gas will be misplaced, in light of starving children?
In short: I don’t have to feel bad because I feel bad because I stubbed my toe and the suffering of starving children is exponentially larger than my stubbed toe pain.
Now if I’m stealing food from the starving children…well that’s a brand new story…and thread.
P.S. I am not urging and/or recommending you starve yourself to death. In fact, I urge you NOT to starve yourself to death. I urge you to eat, survive, and then do all you can, with all of your desires and capabilities, to help starving children.
Anyway, I expect this is something we’ll all laugh about when nonpolar becomes a moderator.
Odds that Sisyphus’ Stone will ever be able to post again without someone replying with “PERSPECTIVE!!”: Zero.
[sub]I’m still a little saddened that “Reported!!” and “PINWORMS!!” never caught on…[/sub]
Earwigs are only endearing when they are dropped into the ears of your enemies.
[khan]
Bring a message to Ahdmeeral Kirk for me, Chekhov…
[/khan]
Yeah, it’s gonna be fun, ain’t it?
Perspective, huh? And what about YOU? How can you sit there on your indolent, pampered posterior and say things like that when there are monkeys out there in the jungle who HAVE NO CHEESE TO EAT? :eek: :mad:
I know that this has already been said, in several different ways, but…
You’re pitting nonpolar?
Ummmmm, that’s kinda like writing a complaint letter to the mud that gets tracked into your house. The boy is harmless and a bit, well, perhaps “tetched”?
Gross? yeah, nonsensical? definitely, but c’mon!!! You’ve GOTTA know that going into a thread with his name on it.
He’s kinda like the jokes in Reader’s Digest (except not clean :D), silly fluff with no substance, but mildly intriguing when one is too sleepy to put thought into a deep thread that requires a bit of grey matter.
OOoor, he could actually be smart, and is just playing dumb. Which is mildly interesting all by itself, in that “I can’t think right now, so THIS might be slightly entertaining” way.
I have to join in with those saying pitting him is silly.
Stike my first post, the linked thread had not yet opened up (@W#ER@ Dialup GRRR).
Not an earwig, but…
I was watching some show on Discovery or Animal Planet a few years ago about parasites. Some guy was travelling and had a blow fly get under his skin (on his belly). He left the thing there, named it (Eddie or Freddy or something), and sort of got attached (ha!) to it. He finally had to get it taken it out because it was becoming a nuisance (who’d a thunk?).
You knew someone was going to come up with some real-life example of this, didn’t you?
Um, Teddy, perhaps?