Home & Garden Spiders can get ****ed

[ManWithNoName]

You guys understand that you are irrationally scared of something that can't hurt you, right?

I can see why people are scared of poisonous spiders, as they are dangerous, but all huntsmans and the like do are eat flies and other annoying insects. Can someone explain this irrational fear?

No, spider bites don't hurt. A little venom never harmed anyone.

 

[Benno_900]

You guys understand that you are irrationally scared of something that can't hurt you, right?

I can see why people are scared of poisonous spiders, as they are dangerous, but all huntsmans and the like do are eat flies and other annoying insects. Can someone explain this irrational fear?

I agree. They are cute, furry little things.

 

[patsmith]

No, spider bites don't hurt. A little venom never harmed anyone.

Read the second sentence...

 

[ManWithNoName]

Read the second sentence...

Reading the whole post is overrated

 

[Equus]

Was on the freeway once and noticed a huntsman just above the side window.
Shit. my. self.
Wound the window down and kicked the car into about 130 just hoping he would fly out the window. I allways compare it to when someone blows a hole in a plane in the movies and some poor bastard is sucked out.

Exact same thing happened to me except it was in peak hour traffic. I noticed a black spider the size of thumb scurrying around my back window and making his/her way to the front seat. I was terribly afraid and I had to somehow quickly pull to the emergency lane and kill it.

Unfortunately, I was in the right lane and people were not letting me through and at this point I was panicking so I hopped out of my car and opened my boot to get a wrench out to kill this mother****ing spider. People were honking at me for about 5 minute and thought I was a madman smashing something at the backseat.

I smashed it and all the juice came out and stained my fabric seat. It's still there and it's certainly one of the most scariest experience I've ever had.

 

[Abdullah]

Reason enough for me.

Are Huntsmen not particularly dangerous? I've always been under the impression they were poisonous?

It depends sometimes nothing sometimes an ulcer and some dizziness/ickyness in tummy but nothing horrible.

 

[JDC!]

I don't understand, you went through the trouble of catching the spider yet you killed it anyway. It is mean and unnecessary.

If I caught a spider in my house I would release it outside. Very rarely do you see the same spider in your house again, not that you would know whether or not it is the same spider.

 

[lewigie]

What is this, the R.S.P.C.A board?

.. Yes I know insects are different to animals.

 

[CrazyQ]

Kill all spiders.

I think I just saw one doing back flips.

They're plotting agaisnt us, I can feel it.

 

[patsmith]

Kill all spiders.

I think I just saw one doing back flips.

They're plotting agaisnt us, I can feel it.

I, for one, welcome our new arachnid overlords, and wish to point out my long-term support of them.

 

[HoldenMagroin]

I, for one, welcome our new arachnid overlords, and wish to point out my long-term support of them.

Me too, with the sole of my shoe.

What is this, the R.S.P.C.A board?

.. Yes I know insects are different to animals.

I'm sure it will become one, once it's in Thrawn's radar.

 

[Thrawn]

What is this, the R.S.P.C.A board?

.. Yes I know insects are different to animals.

Rofl. They are animals.

I'm sure it will become one, once it's in Thrawn's radar.

Since you appear to be the bastion of knowledge regarding my posting habits, I shouldn't remind you that I actually have a slight fear of spiders.

 

[TheGhostOfJohnBelushi]

I'd rather a few spiders around the house than bloody flies. Hate those things.

My wife is terrified of spiders. I'll only get a bit startled by them but generally not too afraid. Often step on them barefoot or squash them with my hand. Except redbacks. Hate redbacks, they are evil and serve me no purpose.

Huntsmen are good for catching in glass jars and scaring people.

Oh, and I've had the experience of killing a spider and seem a shitload of baby spiders crawl everywhere. That is kinda freaky. The next time, I caught a similar spider in an icecream container and then filled it with flyspray and closed the lid. Sleep little spiders.... sleeeeeep....

 

[magic_johnson!]

i have a spider geussing game for you all

found dead in a pool
slightly bigger then a 50 cent coin one would think
has two humps (bodies or whatever), eight legs
one of the bodies and the legs are yellow, and the other 'body' was bright red.

Redback would be the obvious one, but after a few google image searches it seems that redbacks are all black, one bod with just a red stripe on it.

what's everyone reakon?

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

The next time, I caught a similar spider in an icecream container and then filled it with flyspray and closed the lid. Sleep little spiders.... sleeeeeep....

Ordinarily Id say you were a cruel prick for doing that to animals. But **** them.

I hope they suffered.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

i have a spider geussing game for you all

found dead in a pool
slightly bigger then a 50 cent coin one would think
has two humps (bodies or whatever), eight legs
one of the bodies and the legs are yellow, and the other 'body' was bright red.

Redback would be the obvious one, but after a few google image searches it seems that redbacks are all black, one bod with just a red stripe on it.

what's everyone reakon?

Was it a narrow spider? If so it was probably an orb-weaving spider of some sort

 

[magic_johnson!]

Was it a narrow spider? If so it was probably an orb-weaving spider of some sort

umm maybe, can't really recall. i fished it out while swimming and put it on the edge to fetch and bring indoors later on to take a picture of it, but it must have blown away (it was definently dead...haha). Are they dangerous?

 

[Benno_900]

Ordinarily Id say you were a cruel prick for doing that to animals. But **** them.

I hope they suffered.

Yep, those spiders are normally huge as well.

Imagine it releases those spiders (50+) in the house and they grow to that size ... and then they mate ... and then there would be millions of huge spiders taking over your home.

But no, don't kill those poor things, release them outside. It won't try to get back in to mate, it'll just **** off.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

umm maybe, can't really recall. i fished it out while swimming and put it on the edge to fetch and bring indoors later on to take a picture of it, but it must have blown away (it was definently dead...haha). Are they dangerous?

Nah. They carry venom, but only enough to paralyse small insects and the like. You might feel a sting but, apart from allergic reactions you may have to its venom I don't think it would harm you at all.

 

[lenny&carl]

F*cking evil beady-eyed little c*nts.

 

[soupaman]

This happened about 2 months ago.

I was driving some mates and I to Macca's at about 3 on a Saturday morning, and at a red light noticed there was a fairly big huntsman in the middle of my drivers window. As soon as I checked it was on the outside the light went green, so I kept driving because we could get rid oif it at Macca's, which would have been a minute away. Halfway through this trip it runs out of sight, towards the back, and once we reach Macca's we can't find it, and give it up for a lost cause.

The next two weeks I was expecting it to appear out of nowhere, and in that time I had to clean the car, which involved very quickly removing all the items (and there was a lot of them) from the boot as carefully as possible to check if the spider was on them. But it didn't reappear until the next weekend.

I had just turned right onto a highway and was accelerating up to 80kmph when I notcied something move on the drivers armrest. Noticing it was the spider I decided it would probably be a good idea to pull over to the side of the road. However it proceeded to move up to the edge of my window, which was open. So a nicely executed slap sent the bugger flying.

On another note I was sitting here in the study on Tuesday night, and watched a Daddy longlegs come out of nowhere, dropping onto another spider from a considerable height, before killing and devouring it. Was very cool and I think I'll allow him an extended stay if he keeps doing that.

And about a week back I went outside at night to the garage to get some ice cream, but when I came back in there was a mid-sized huntsmen on the doorstep surrounded by ants. So I thought it would be ionteresting to watch because I've heard these things sometimes fight eachother, except on closer inspection it turned out they weren't ants, but atleast 40 baby huntsmen. So they all met their maker through either mortein, my foot or both.

 

[Power King]

If I caught a spider in my house I would release it outside. Very rarely do you see the same spider in your house again, not that you would know whether or not it is the same spider.

If you're a young woman, I can understand this post.

If you're a man...

Oh, and I've had the experience of killing a spider and seem a shitload of baby spiders crawl everywhere. That is kinda freaky. The next time, I caught a similar spider in an icecream container and then filled it with flyspray and closed the lid. Sleep little spiders.... sleeeeeep....

^jorel6669 for foreign affairs minister.

 

[Silvagnis]

Spiders kill flies and indicate it's going to rain when they come inside.

Release them.

How to remove Huntsman from your place

Death to Moths who deserve to be wiped out.

I hit those ****ers with the magazine or paper equivalent of a nuke and they still keep flying.

And about a week back I went outside at night to the garage to get some ice cream, but when I came back in there was a mid-sized huntsmen on the doorstep surrounded by ants. So I thought it would be ionteresting to watch because I've heard these things sometimes fight eachother, except on closer inspection it turned out they weren't ants, but atleast 40 baby huntsmen.

Remember the spider that lived outside your window? Orange body, green legs. Watched her build a web all summer, then one day there's a big egg in it. The egg hatched...
The egg hatched...
Yeah...
...and a hundred baby spiders came out... and they ate her.

 

[Porps_is_HOT_loz]

I hate spiders.. ew.

I have a pretty funny story; and its true.

My best friends mum was driving us somewhere one day and Louis saw a spider on the windscrean, so when the mum stopped at a red light she wiped it off with the windscreen wipers and it flew into the persons car next to us (they had there window down).

Me and Louis nearly died of laughter.

The end

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

^jorel6669 for foreign affairs minister.

What about attorney general?