Do you hate spiders?

[eddie]

If you do, check out the size of this one they found recently!! Probably could have gotten a part in the Aliens movies,lol

http://news.msn.com/science-technology/giant-tarantula-as-big-as-human-face-discovered-in-sri-lanka

[Task Force]

Thats... that's a spider all right.:o Think I am gonna need a bigger set of boots if I ever end up there.

[frau kaleun]

http://www.thelulz.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/8493_517504284964147_820776054_n.jpg

[Dowly]

The only spiders I dont hate are Tarantulas and these guys:
http://i1183.photobucket.com/albums/x462/Dowly/originalvmpbl-1px-1.jpg

(Some jumping spider or something)

[frau kaleun]

The only spiders I dont hate are Tarantulas and these guys:
http://i1183.photobucket.com/albums/x462/Dowly/originalvmpbl-1px-1.jpg

(Some jumping spider or something)

But... but... he looks so cute and friendly!

[AVGWarhawk]

I had a Mexican Red Leg Tarantula when I was a kid. Her name was Morticia. Nice spider. About as big as my hand. My brother had a Cinnamon Brown Tarantula. Her name was Ursala. Nasty bugger. Rear up and gnash her fangs at ya!

[Jimbuna]

Nope, don't hate spiders at all....but I am petrified of them :)

[Wolferz]

Nope I ain't skeered. I use to do work that required crawling under homes where there were plenty of the eight legged critters. I just gave them the clap if they got in the way of what I was doing (Termite treatment)
Then I pulled out the chemical weaponry and finished off all of them at once.:D

[Jimbuna]

BULLY!! :)

[eddie]

Nope, don't hate spiders at all....but I am petrified of them :)

I'm with you on that Jim,lol That's why I could never watch the Arachnaphobia movie!:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aQ6vg3JB2U

[Karle94]

Love them. My room is always infested with them from may til oktober-november. Some even stay alive that long, to my great surprise.

[Rhodes]

As big as a human face hei...
http://www.unclesgames.com/images/products/856260002656_big.jpg

[Cybermat47]

But... but... he looks so cute and friendly!

I know, right? Those guys are adorable! They're even cuter than Huntsmen!

Did I mention that I once had a pet Redback called Plop II?

[Armistead]

I'll take a snake over a spider any day.

[WernherVonTrapp]

I tend to like spiders. I usually refrain from killing them when I can, but if I find one inside my home, I have to destroy it. Spiders do bite, and some of them quite nastily at that.
http://www.ascendedhealth.com/brown-recluse-spider/img/img_brown_recluse_spider_bite_01.jpghttp://www.badspiderbites.com/images/brown-recluse-spider-bite-b.jpg

[frau kaleun]

I used to kill them on sight but I've gotten more tolerant - usually now I go for the "catch and release outside" response. Unless they refuse to cooperate with the rescue mission, and then... well... I had a big one run up into my bedspread once and then it was on like Donkey Kong. :O:

Have to say that my acquired tolerance has been somewhat affected by playing Skyrim, where spiders are bigger than you and want to have you for lunch. And not in the "would you care for some more tea, Dovahkiin?" way either. :huh:

[Madox58]

I have a 'deal' with spiders and snakes.

1. Don't come near me and I won't kill you.
1a. "near" shall be defined as 'within visual range'.
2a. "kill" shall be defined as 'the most expedent method of terminateing any life forces by any means. Includeing Weapons of Mass Destuction (AKA RAID).

2. Should I kill you? The following acts are allowable.
1a. The remains 'May' become a food source.
2a. The remains ' May' become 'bait' for tempting further violations of Clause 1.
3a. The remains 'May' be used as desired by Me. IE.. A belt.

[vienna]

I have no fear of spiders and I actually find them fascinating to observe. When I was in elementary school, about age 7 or 8, one day I went to the neighborhood barber shop (not willingly, but on command from my mother). This was an old school barber shop that one would expect in 1958. It was a meeting place for all the males in the neighborhood and many of the problems of society and politics were discussed by the patrons. There were manly magazines like "Field and Stream", "Road and Track", etc., and a few "racy"magazines of the time like "Esquire". The barber shop was directly across the street from the Catholic school and church I attended. On this day, someone in the shop looked up to see one of the parish priests crossing the street (jaywalking, actually) and heading toward the door of the barber shop. Immediately, the various patrons began to hide away the more questionable reading matter, the converstaions became more dignified, and, when the priest finally did enter the shop, the place was a model of holy decorum. Being the custom at the time, all of the patrons deferred to the priest and offered to let him be the next customer (it was a one-man shop). The priest declined and sat down to wait his turn. While all this was going on, I had become enthralled by a fly that was being stalked by a spider in a corner of the shop window. The fly just sat there as the spider very slowly edged closer and closer and closer to its prey. At the very last moment, the fly seemed to sense the nearness of the spider and tried to move away. But the spider was quicker and grabbed the fly, subdued it and promptly began spinning a web cocoon around the fly's body. I was so intently watching all this happen that I didn't notice the priest, wondering what I was looking at, had taken a seat next to me and had seen the spider make its kill. The priest startled me when he spoke, saying, "That is a fine example of what happens when one is oblivious to the danger of evil around them." He then turned the situation into a sort of mini-sermon for the rest of the patrons...

I rather miss that barber shop and, to this day, when I see a spider, I remember that day in the barber shop...

<O>

[Madox58]

Ahh....................
This could be envisioned as potential serial killer stuff.
:hmmm:

We're gonna keep an eye on you!
:o

[WernherVonTrapp]

I used to feed ants to the funnel-web spiders in my back yard when I was a kid. I was fascinated by their lightning speed. Then, one day, I watched a blue-tailed wasp chasing the spider around his own web. I was amazed that the wasp seemed to be just as adept at negotiating the web as the spider was.
http://www.indiabirds.com/images/gallery_birds/funnel-web-spider05.jpghttp://fineartamerica.com/images-simple-print/images-medium/blue-tailed-wasp-ward-smith.jpg

[frau kaleun]

I vote that this thread be filed under the Nightmare Fuel category from tis point forward. :O:

[Feuer Frei!]

Link is down.

[TorpX]

http://www.thelulz.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/8493_517504284964147_820776054_n.jpg


LOL. If you're out of matches, I'll be happy to lend you a flamethrower and some naplam.

[frau kaleun]

LOL. If you're out of matches, I'll be happy to lend you a flamethrower and some naplam.


We should probably just nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[Feuer Frei!]

NVM, found another source for this spider. Beautiful spider, colours are amazing, wow.
I personally love spiders, they have fascinated me for many years. I always treat them with much respect and courtesy when being close to them.
I don't harm them, if i happen to find one in my house, i attempt to trap it, being careful not to harm it and release it outside.
I don't understand how people can hurt or kill for pleasure such beautiful creatures. Bugs the hell out of me. Even moreso when it's for fun or stupid crap like that.

[Madox58]

Damned Arachnid Lovers!
:nope:

There should be a Law that keeps you all locked up!
:hmph:

[Feuer Frei!]

Damned Arachnid Lovers!
:nope:

There should be a Law that keeps you all locked up!
:hmph:

:haha: Dam straight. I'd be a lot happier with my 'animals' than a lot of those pesky humans :O: At least animals/creatures don't complain.

[eddie]

Link is down.

Here's another link. Since this spider lives in tree's, imagine this thing dropping down on your shoulder!

What's hard to think about, there are tarantulas in South America whose size is over 12 inches wide.:huh:

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/04/04/oh-good-face-sized-tarantulas-discovered-in-sri-lanka/

[Cybermat47]

I personally love spiders, they have fascinated me for many years. I always treat them with much respect and courtesy when being close to them.


Same here mate. I even had a pet Redback once. And I'll never forget when my house had three Huntsmen lodging. The first one announced his presence by jumping on my Mum's head :haha:

A couple of weeks later, one was next to my head when I was trying to sleep :o

[Madox58]

That's why you live on a penal Island!
:stare:

All you lovers of more then 7 but less then 9 legs belong there!

[Feuer Frei!]

That's why you live on a penal Island!
:stare:

All you lovers of more then 7 but less then 9 legs belong there!

This one's for you Jeff:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fWwGkUx-6Tg/UELJ55llujI/AAAAAAAAAHE/fav2KNoqzeI/s1600/spider+paint.png

[Madox58]

:up:

I'm glad someone sees my humor as just that.
:salute:

(Still an ugly little beasty I'd ask the wife to kill!)
:haha:

[Cybermat47]

(Still an ugly little beasty I'd ask the wife to kill!)
:haha:

It's as ugly as a puppy :)

Look at those big innocent eyes... locked on it's next victim, no doubt.

[Mork_417]

Hate spiders, but hate snakes more.

[Dowly]

Nobody loves me... :cry:
http://i1183.photobucket.com/albums/x462/Dowly/Spidey.jpg

[Oberon]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsgnzgoMjn1qa3hcso2_400.jpg

[Dowly]

:har::har:

[Jimbuna]

That's why you live on a penal Island!
:stare:

All you lovers of more then 7 but less then 9 legs belong there!

LOL :)

[AVGWarhawk]

I vote that this thread be filed under the Nightmare Fuel category from tis point forward. :O:

Just what do you mean...

http://theathleticnerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/arachnophobia-spider-movie.jpg



:o

[STEED]

Is this spider bigger than the Goliath spider?

http://www.earthrangers.com/content/wildwire/piotr_naskrec_goliath_bird_eating_spider.jpg

[Jimbuna]

http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/3775/funnyspiderscarytoiletp.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/109/funnyspiderscarytoiletp.jpg/)

[STEED]

I hear the sneaky one known as the funnel web bites your bum when your sitting down for a No.2 in Australia. :huh:

Check your toilet seats or else. :o

[eddie]

Steed, the Goliath is the largest spider.

[STEED]

Steed, the Goliath is the largest spider.

Cheers. :up:

[Sailor Steve]

(Still an ugly little beasty I'd ask the wife to kill!)
:haha:
How does she react when you jump up on a chair and scream? :O:

[Ducimus]

I tend to like spiders. I usually refrain from killing them when I can, but if I find one inside my home, I have to destroy it. Spiders do bite, and some of them quite nastily at that.
http://www.ascendedhealth.com/brown-recluse-spider/img/img_brown_recluse_spider_bite_01.jpghttp://www.badspiderbites.com/images/brown-recluse-spider-bite-b.jpg

Yeah I had something like that happen to the back of my left thigh, just above the knee. Brown recluse bites suck. My leg was so badly swollen, i couldn't bend it. The doc's in the ER milked puss out of my leg for 20 minutes, and it was so badly infected local pain killers they tried to use didn't work. I felt every move of the scapel when they went to remove the necrotic tissue from my leg. I saw it when they put it up on the table. It was like they took a core sample out of my leg. It was oddly fascinating. I could see the skin, they layer of fat beneath it, and a chunk of meat below that.

Did i mention this was painful? I had a death grip on the gurney, and a big wad of gauze to bite down on. Kinda ilke some old john wayne western where they give you a stick to bite on while they start cutting.

It makes for a nice scar.

Oh yeah, the best part was, i was a study case for a bunch of AF medical "Clinical students". The doc was a full bird colonel. He finishes up with me, and says to the bunch of these guys just out of tech school, "Ok who wants to pack the wound!". Also, being face down on a gurney, reading the labels on the drawers, one of which said, "Misc implements for rectal torture". Joy!

[mako88sb]

There's a 1987 movie called "The Believers" starring Martin Sheen and Helen Shaver. She has one scene with spiders that was pretty creepy to.

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=helen%20shaver's%20spider%20scene&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CDEQtwIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.metacafe.com%2Fwatch%2Fmv-9eLv%2Fthe_believers_spiders%2F&ei=_QxfUcq3BsyuigKy14FA&usg=AFQjCNFVNOLT8AeCMpRzM-lkUVaiZH48EQ

[vienna]

This thread brought this song to mind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NxCEjMbNqY

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[WernherVonTrapp]

Yeah I had something like that happen to the back of my left thigh, just above the knee. Brown recluse bites suck. My leg was so badly swollen, i couldn't bend it. The doc's in the ER milked puss out of my leg for 20 minutes, and it was so badly infected local pain killers they tried to use didn't work. I felt every move of the scapel when they went to remove the necrotic tissue from my leg. I saw it when they put it up on the table. It was like they took a core sample out of my leg. It was oddly fascinating. I could see the skin, they layer of fat beneath it, and a chunk of meat below that.

Did i mention this was painful? I had a death grip on the gurney, and a big wad of gauze to bite down on. Kinda ilke some old john wayne western where they give you a stick to bite on while they start cutting.

It makes for a nice scar.

Oh yeah, the best part was, i was a study case for a bunch of AF medical "Clinical students". The doc was a full bird colonel. He finishes up with me, and says to the bunch of these guys just out of tech school, "Ok who wants to pack the wound!". Also, being face down on a gurney, reading the labels on the drawers, one of which said, "Misc implements for rectal torture". Joy!Wow, that's a horrible story. Those pics I posted are, in fact, Brown Recluse Spider bites. Obviously you know the look as well as the pain, and those weren't even the worst images I found. I didn't want to post anything too gruesome.
I got bit by a funnel web spider once, my fault because I used to play with them as a kid. Worst I got was a painful boyl that was slightly larger than a pencil eraser. Hurt like hell though. Did you have any long-lasting affects, scarring, etc.?

And just to add another spider to the web, has anyone seen the Australian Bird-Eating Spider?
http://whoaskedyoushow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/australian_bird_eating_spider.jpghttp://media.nowpublic.net/images//27/2/272f677d472c1c0be49ab042b3c3ff7a.jpg
Eating a Bat (I think):
http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/p480x480/602248_618830241465288_63578479_n.jpg
:huh:

[Jimbuna]

^ Horrible little buggas (the spiders) :huh:

[Nippelspanner]

http://cache-thumb1.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/docserver/getimage.aspx?regionguid=f39cf481-8730-419e-a4a7-a8334a1d96bc&scale=209&file=11902009042300000000001001&regionKey=K4XaTR0AurCCV9g%2flFiStQ%3d%3d

[vienna]

Another spider song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yvoRtHSQ4Y

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[WernherVonTrapp]

http://cache-thumb1.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/docserver/getimage.aspx?regionguid=f39cf481-8730-419e-a4a7-a8334a1d96bc&scale=209&file=11902009042300000000001001&regionKey=K4XaTR0AurCCV9g%2flFiStQ%3d%3d:haha: Is that a real spider or did somebody add the smiley face to it?

[Nippelspanner]

It's real!
Found it on Hawaii I think...

[Madox58]

I've seen a few in Ohio that have a Death's Head on them!
:o
I'm told it's a harmless Garden Spider.
But I don't trust them 8 legged freaks!
All sneaking around and web slinging.
:stare:

They do make really good targets for Air Gun practice though.
:smug:

[Cybermat47]

And just to add another spider to the web, has anyone seen the Australian Bird-Eating Spider?
http://whoaskedyoushow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/australian_bird_eating_spider.jpghttp://media.nowpublic.net/images//27/2/272f677d472c1c0be49ab042b3c3ff7a.jpg
Eating a Bat (I think):
http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/p480x480/602248_618830241465288_63578479_n.jpg
:huh:

That's why I love my country :smug:

[Madox58]

BACK to your cell! Inmate!
:haha:

Do you know that every Human on Earth can crush 100 of those freaks everyday and NOT have much of an impact on things?
:o

They may be your OverLords someday!

[vienna]

They may be your OverLords someday!


I do believe that, perhaps, many of them are already memebers of Congress...


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[Cybermat47]

They may be your OverLords someday!

BREAK OUT THE PARTY HATS!

:woot::woot::Kaleun_Party::Kaleun_Cheers:

[Madox58]

You missed this part..............

BACK to your cell! Inmate!
:haha:

[Platapus]

"Brown recluse bites suck."

They do. Very sorry to hear this. Nothing funny about a Brown Recluse bite. :nope:

[Platapus]

And just to add another spider to the web, has anyone seen the Australian Bird-Eating Spider?
http://whoaskedyoushow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/australian_bird_eating_spider.jpg


:huh:

That is a Chestnut-Breasted Mannikin which is a species of finch. It is about 10cm from tail to beak so it is a pretty small bird. Still impressive that it would be caught in a Golden Silk Orb Weaver web which can grow to between 5 and 6 cm (just the body). This girl is known to weave rather strong webs though.

The question is now that she caught the bird, what will she do with it? :)

[Cybermat47]

The question is now that she caught the bird, what will she do with it? :)

Same as usual: drink it's internal organs after liquefying them :up:

[Jimbuna]

Do you know that every Human on Earth can crush 100 of those freaks everyday and NOT have much of an impact on things?
:o



True is that...:o


http://api.ning.com/files/7elMwlcCAXSeDJ3QLxg8zj*bX5uJqBffol3-YKYztYljKUW8rJWFRe9uvXQHZkXLNQsxqZicFMz3Co*m*viCng __/st3.jpg (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=starship+troopers&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=YFrQk8CFkPrhtM&tbnid=hZcOLg-Scaj0gM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmy.spill.com%2Fprofiles%2Fblogs%2 Fstarship-troopers-review-1&ei=Lf1fUdjWMufT0QXU2IGQBg&bvm=bv.44770516,d.d2k&psig=AFQjCNFzVDzXoWsG4FqidPBE0xuVYnQXsw&ust=1365331578432752)

[raymond6751]

A couple of months back I got two bites from a little guy in my washroom. I had a major reaction. Luckily, I had some anti-histomene nearby and my puffer (for bronchitis).

Now I have to carry an epipen around. The doctor said I was very lucky to have been in arms reach of medication.

[nikimcbee]

Do you hate spiders?

yes.

Next question.