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dimity_blueI love eBay, and eBaying, but sometimes I sit back and scratch my head wondering what the heck people see in certain items. For instance...live (or rather, very much dead now) insects in plastic.
Call me squeamish, but there is no freaking way I would wear a spider embedded in a piece of plastic on a chain around my neck. Or a scorpion bracelet either, if it comes to it. The very idea makes my skin crawl!
Yet there's a seller on eBay who appears to specialise in that very thing. Or rather, she specialises in dead insects in 'artifical amber'. Now, I know that amber is basically resin from trees that hardened thousands of years ago, and you frequently get trapped insects in there - but that's natural! No one sat down and deliberately stuck the insects in there in order to sell them as pieces of jewellery. So, doing it deliberately is cruel, IMO.
It also strikes me as bizarre. If you like the insect in question, would you want to wear its dead body to decorate yourself? And if you don't like the insect, why would you want its dead body anyway?
The whole thing gives me the shudders.
Call me squeamish, but there is no freaking way I would wear a spider embedded in a piece of plastic on a chain around my neck. Or a scorpion bracelet either, if it comes to it. The very idea makes my skin crawl!
Yet there's a seller on eBay who appears to specialise in that very thing. Or rather, she specialises in dead insects in 'artifical amber'. Now, I know that amber is basically resin from trees that hardened thousands of years ago, and you frequently get trapped insects in there - but that's natural! No one sat down and deliberately stuck the insects in there in order to sell them as pieces of jewellery. So, doing it deliberately is cruel, IMO.
It also strikes me as bizarre. If you like the insect in question, would you want to wear its dead body to decorate yourself? And if you don't like the insect, why would you want its dead body anyway?
The whole thing gives me the shudders.
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Date: 2005-09-11 02:26 pm (UTC)That's for sure! Maybe the stuffed deer heads or foxes are a form of boasting? I don't get it though, and I do not understand people who have their pets stuffed either. If you've ever seen the film "Hope Floats", Sandra Bullock's character's mother has a ton of stuffed cats all over the place in various poses and costumes. Really icked me out. Mind you, I thought that film sucked anyway.
And I don't like spiders...but as long as they're prepared to keep their distance, I normally tolerate them or, if they're annoying me, just catch them and evict them. Well, that's if I get 'em before the cats do. My cats like spiders. A lot. But I suspect the spiders feel less friendly towards the cats.