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Edwin
08-15-04, 07:42 PM
My crix can kick your crix's behind.

Link:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040816/D84G0DLO2.html
dank7oo
08-15-04, 08:37 PM
Riiiiiight ...

Jason
Vanan
08-15-04, 09:39 PM
LMAO!! Er....ok. Talk about bored phucks.
hhw
08-15-04, 10:11 PM
Fights between animals is huge in asia. You've got cocks, jay thrushes, praying mantises, crickets...

My dad told me when he was a little kid, he used to sneak out to the cemetary at night with his brothers to catch crickets. They would then yank a hair out of the cat and fashion a cricket leash out of it. And yes, they would use the crickets for fighting.
Samba
08-16-04, 08:48 AM
Oh my gosh!!! Get a freakin' life!!!! LOL
Edwin
08-17-04, 05:59 AM
Maybe they are practising for "Starship Troopers", lol. HHW, I have heard of these fights, but always thought it was no longer practised.
JonD
08-17-04, 01:16 PM
Hehe, funny that there is a cricket lovers assoc. in HK!:D
marisa
08-17-04, 01:22 PM
Why exactly do the crickets fight in the first place? My feeder crickets never seem to "fight"

That's hilarious.

Marisa
Will
08-17-04, 02:18 PM
It's big in Asia. I first noticed this kind of stuff when I was looking to find info on breeding feeders for my Beardie.


http://app1.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2001/0719/cu18-1.html
Because winning is a matter of money, in the past 10 years several methods of cheating have emerged such as applying a special smell to the head of a fighting cricket in order to drive away the other, as well as feeding the crickets stimulants.
:rolleyes: **Sigh** Even the crickets are juiced up nowadays... :rolleyes:
Will
08-17-04, 02:21 PM
LOL, another one that made me chuckle...

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail_frame.cfm?articleid=50093&intcatid=42

Crickets that were reluctant to fight were tickled by a long thin paint brush.
ib_inked
08-17-04, 03:02 PM
Crickets are considered a good luck symbol to some in some parts of China and Japan. This is why there is a cricket lovers association there.
Edwin
08-17-04, 04:15 PM
LOL, this quote cracked me up.

"Even today, in parts of eastern Asian, the male cricket will be caged so people can enjoy the song they make."

Link:
http://www.asianartmall.com/cricketcagearticle.htm
JonD
08-17-04, 05:01 PM
Originally posted by ib_inked
Crickets are considered a good luck symbol to some in some parts of China and Japan. This is why there is a cricket lovers association there. That makes sense now...thx ib;)
HumphreyBoagart
08-18-04, 05:40 PM
HHW-How long was you're cats hair!?! Did you have to tie a few together, or what?

In public school we used to catch flies and make a leash out of human hair. It's way funnier than crickets, they just fly in a circle around you hand, but you can't really see the hair so it just looks like it's flying around your hand for some strange reason.