"What are you doing"?

So... does anyone else get grief for browsing and writing on the snake forum maybe a bit too often? [emoji14] My husband has been razzing me because whenever I'm writing or looking at something on my phone or laptop lately, it's been this forum.

BUT LOOK AT ALL THE PRETTY REPTILES! 8)

(me every day on animal forums in general) :please:

Years ago I could not understand why my daughter spent so hours a day on forums, and my ex on Facebook. Now here I am doing the same. :confusd:

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Originally Posted by ratchet

So... does anyone else get grief for browsing and writing on the snake forum maybe a bit too often? [emoji14] My husband has been razzing me because whenever I'm writing or looking at something on my phone or laptop lately, it's been this forum.

BUT LOOK AT ALL THE PRETTY REPTILES! 8)

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Story of my entire life. months ago when my bf said we could get a snake I started doing research and its been history since then. He doesn't understand why I still hang out with you guys now that we have 2 :cool::P

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Originally Posted by ratchet

So... does anyone else get grief for browsing and writing on the snake forum maybe a bit too often? [emoji14] My husband has been razzing me because whenever I'm writing or looking at something on my phone or laptop lately, it's been this forum.

BUT LOOK AT ALL THE PRETTY REPTILES! 8)

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Yup. I also get crap for showing whichever person I am with, regardless of how they feel about reptiles, any new random Instagram pics of herps I think are pretty or gorgeous or cute.

"Look (honey, mom, brother, friend, co-worker, random person I just met who incidentally also loves reptiles) at this (adorable, cute, handsome, gorgeous, beautiful but surely expensive) little (Burm, boa, retic, ball, monitor, gecko, dragon, other herp) owned by this one guy/gal I follow on (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Youtube)!!!! :O:bow::O:bow: Don't you just love it?!?!"

Yeah.... I'm excitable... :D

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Originally Posted by ratchet

So... does anyone else get grief for browsing and writing on the snake forum maybe a bit too often? [emoji14] My husband has been razzing me because whenever I'm writing or looking at something on my phone or laptop lately, it's been this forum.

BUT LOOK AT ALL THE PRETTY REPTILES! 8)

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I fee like I've told you this before, but your username is freakn hilarious haha. I hate that term with a passion!

Also, none of my friends know how often I'm on this thing :D.. My family knows I have an obsession, but they don't really care :D.

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Originally Posted by h00blah

I fee like I've told you this before, but your username is freakn hilarious haha. I hate that term with a passion!

Also, none of my friends know how often I'm on this thing :D.. My family knows I have an obsession, but they don't really care :D.

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Haha! The reason I have that as my username is because my name is Rachel and an old guy at work misread my name patch on my coveralls and called me Ratchet. It's been my nickname ever since at the shop I used to work at. ;) So no, I ain't ratchet. I'm Ratchet!

I think my family thinks I'm nuts too. My parents aren't reptile people, my husband likes them but not as much as I do! My stepsons go through phases with wanting to hold the snakes and such, I think they are just so used to them that they don't really pay attention to them. I feel like I'm obsessed but I don't want to push it on anybody and drive them nuts! Except for my sister, I text her pictures and stories constantly, she doesn't have a choice. [emoji14]

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Originally Posted by ratchet

Haha! The reason I have that as my username is because my name is Rachel and an old guy at work misread my name patch on my coveralls and called me Ratchet. It's been my nickname ever since at the shop I used to work at. ;) So no, I ain't ratchet. I'm Ratchet!

I think my family thinks I'm nuts too. My parents aren't reptile people, my husband likes them but not as much as I do! My stepsons go through phases with wanting to hold the snakes and such, I think they are just so used to them that they don't really pay attention to them. I feel like I'm obsessed but I don't want to push it on anybody and drive them nuts! Except for my sister, I text her pictures and stories constantly, she doesn't have a choice. [emoji14]

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lmao! awesome origin story haha!

poor sister :rofl:! The reason I'm on this forum 24/7 is because I can freely talk about BPs without people looking at me like: :confusd::weirdface or a mixture of :yes: and :confusd:.

I also brain-dump on my sister all the time haha. But she's kinda cool about it because she's into the all the dog breeds and genetics and stuff, so we often find similarities :P.

Love the story of your name Ratchet! Can't wait to tell my daughter, Rachel, she will love it!
Growing up she had people mispronouncing her name. How do you mispronounce "Rachel" ? :confusd:

Haha love all these replies. I usually respond with, "Im doing snake stuff."

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Originally Posted by JoshSloane

Haha love all these replies. I usually respond with, "Im doing snake stuff."

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Haha, I got to use your line last night. "Just snake stuff." :P

I get teased about how often I'm at my desk tik-tak-tik-ing away, whether I'm on BP, Reddit, another forum, or my email... DH's line is usually "are you writing a book over there??" He's a gamer and a browser, so on the rare occasion I catch him writing something longer than two lines, I like to use his line back at him. ;) He doesn't give me a lot of grief about BP, since he's the one who got me into sneks to begin with. Sometimes he even asks me to look something up on "my snake forum".

Its been going on here for the last 5 or 6 years LoL

Now its not as much balls as it is OCDing on vape stuff. :rofl::rofl::rofl:

My answer used to be "snake stuff" - more recently it's either "moderating", when there's stuff to take care of (and I head off to the office for a few minutes), or she doesn't even ask anymore... because Tapatalk.

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Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl

Its been going on here for the last 5 or 6 years LoL

Now its not as much balls as it is OCDing on vape stuff. :rofl::rofl::rofl:

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I was snooping in that post, that stuff baffles me, haha. I had no idea what you could do with those things!! :P

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Originally Posted by ratchet

I was snooping in that post, that stuff baffles me, haha. I had no idea what you could do with those things!! :P

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trying my hand ant making some of my own flavors now................ :confusd::confusd:

My GF always asks me what I'm doing. I tell her the same thing I did few minutes ago....snakes, tech, cars etc. She calls me the "blogger" Lmao. :D

My husband is just glad I'm here and not talking to him about it constantly. I've tried hard to be extra considerate with him and not even discuss it a lot. His phobia is so bad he has only barely looked at one picture. I still can't entirely believe he finally said yes. I don't even bring Snape downstairs unless he's gone. I told him if he ever gets to a point he wants to look from across the room to let me know, and that I won't bug him about it.

Last night was cool because he went out floundering with some of the guys, so my son and I got to watch TV and Snape got some good outside time. He is such a chill little fellow. His belly is pink and he's starting to get a little baggy and his skin feels funny, but he wasn't fussy at all. Once he's in blue it may be different, but so far so good.

It's kind of a relief reading through these posts haha because my bf razzes me for being on here I used to spend all my internet time just scrolling blogs on tumblr now I barely go on there and I'm always on here!! It's way more fun I like the reptiles and ppl too!! I tell him how its not JUUUST snakes tho and ppl get onto some hot topics like the vape/e-cig page ahahahah that cracks me up. xx

Actually, I've gotten to the point that I'll click onto another site if I hear the BF coming. Sigh... It is just easier.

I TOLD him half the people on here seem to have advanced degrees - when people are making jokes about tryptophan (off a pic of an unlabeled ring structure), and collections are listed by the Latin name - it is not like the place is populated by a bunch of low-IQ lost souls.

Whatever. He is on travel for two weeks of contract work, so, for now, I can do what I want.

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Originally Posted by Eric Alan

because Tapatalk.

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Lol... That's my exact answer to my gf. Though she stopped asking a while ago.

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