Home & Garden Spiders can get ****ed

[SugarShane]

Re: People who torture (some) animals get respect from me

I don't know if its true or not but as a kid in primary school (grade 6 or 7) I remember my science teacher telling us that the average human swallows 4-6 spiders a night? Can anyone clarify?

Nope, pure rubbish. The average person wouldn't even swallow 1 in their lifetime.

 

[RU_]

Re: People who torture (some) animals get respect from me

Ok good, I remember having nightmares once or twice after being told haha.

 

[Marklar_33]

The theory is 8 in a lifetime...and really, I'd believe it. A tiny spider could crawl into your mouth while you sleep, although unlikely, but how about a dead spider baked into a pie, for example? I know I have downed a spider when I've walked through a web! Not the best feeling, that!

 

[Ron The Bear]

http://www.straightdope.com/columns...on-consume-four-spiders-per-year-in-his-sleep

 

[Freo4life]

Solution?
[youtube]9KDOWT__kaA&feature=related[/youtube]

 

[brandonr54]

I kill them even if they are outside. A dead spider is a good spider. I can't believe people who just put huntsmens outside. You're practically inviting them back into your house or car if you don't kill them.

This. Especially bolded part.

 

[Bobby P]

Not sure why I kept reading this thread. ALL SPIDERS MUST DIE. Except daddy long-legs.

 

[Gabbie]

Not sure why I kept reading this thread. ALL SPIDERS MUST DIE. Except daddy long-legs.

Spotted one big one this morning on kitchen ledge, sprayed it, still alive but scurried onto bench to hide behind cannisters, got the dust pan and brush out and shifted cannisters and swiped it onto floor hoping one of my two dogs who was watching the action would pounce on it, but no, he gave it a sniff then wandered off. What The!!! Used my trusty rubber thong and swipe, spider gonski!!

 

[Mattman93]

I'm genuinely scared of spiders, but I ****ing hate this attitude about just killing them soon as you see them (or killing them at all for that matter). Especially when it's outside.

It's mean, and I just can't do it. Would never kill one like in that video for example, and I'd be ****ing angry if I saw anyone else doing it.

They might be scary as hell, but they're pretty cool creatures.

 

[Byron_Clanger]

Solution?
[youtube]9KDOWT__kaA&feature=related[/youtube]

I support this

 

[RickSanchez]

Why did I click this thread knowing spiders scare the shit out of me and now reading about them crawling in your mouth (although I was told that a while ago). Will not sleep, thanks a lot.

 

[SA1NTER]

There's only one good type of spider.

A dead one.

 

[MoscowHawk]

Had a huge one living on the outside of the flywire in my room a few years ago. It'd spun up quite a web out there too! Covered the whole bloody window.

I let this poor behaviour go on for several months till I'd had enough of it (constatntly living in fear that one day the window just wouldn't be enough for it, and it would come inside to conquer new lands. Anyway, it was just disgusting to look at every time I entered the room).

Didn't have any bug spray at home, nor could I open the window wide enough from the outside to get a hit at it. So I only had one option - deodorant + lighter

Lit the thing up and WHOOOOOSH! The whole web goes up in raging flames, charring the ceiling in my room. Managed to put out the fire, and low and behold.... the mother****er is still alive!! Barely even flinched.

Unfortunately I left home a couple of days later and am unaware of this spider's fate.

 

[vealesy]

I spose its ok to kill spiders if you're a wimp, but dont start whinging about all the flys!

 

[Ron The Bear]

Was walking back from the supermarket a few weeks ago and pulled up an inch short of this orb weaver's trap, strung across the footpath at face level. Have always regarded these as "friendly" spiders, though some can apparently give a nasty bite. He's not huge, but big enough to cause a panic with both hands busy carrying shopping bags.

 

[RU_]

Oh shit, **** that. Too close for comfort.

 

[Wallaby]

I'm genuinely scared of spiders, but I ****ing hate this attitude about just killing them soon as you see them (or killing them at all for that matter). Especially when it's outside.

It's mean, and I just can't do it. Would never kill one like in that video for example, and I'd be ****ing angry if I saw anyone else doing it.

They might be scary as hell, but they're pretty cool creatures.

I agree entirely. Your comments make perfect logical sense.

Unfortunately, when faced with a spider, I become completely illogical, and turn into a crazed, non-functioning, erratic lunatic. I wish I didn't. I reeeeally wish I didn't. It's pathetic, I know.

My wife once checked on me after a huntsman incident - it was on the ceiling and it didn't get within 20 feet of me. After she had disposed of it, she checked my pulse and it was going like the clappers, I was sweating, but cold - she said it was like I was having a drug reaction.

Phobias are not fun.

 

[theboxmike]

Was walking back from the supermarket a few weeks ago and pulled up an inch short of this orb weaver's trap, strung across the footpath at face level. Have always regarded these as "friendly" spiders, though some can apparently give a nasty bite. He's not huge, but big enough to cause a panic with both hands busy carrying shopping bags.

Looks a trap set for a human to me

 

[Lance Uppercut]

There's only one good type of spider.

A dead one.

disagree:

 

[Smoooothy]

 

[RU_]

HOLY CRAP. Maaaaan. You'd sell the house if that swarm was there.

 

[The Big Sticks]

Was walking back from the supermarket a few weeks ago and pulled up an inch short of this orb weaver's trap, strung across the footpath at face level. Have always regarded these as "friendly" spiders, though some can apparently give a nasty bite. He's not huge, but big enough to cause a panic with both hands busy carrying shopping bags.

Once, when I was walking back to my car from work when it was almost dark, my head came to within an inch of one of these bastards just hanging from a tree.

Needless to say, I didn't go near any trees for the remainder of the walk back to my car.

 

[Wallaby]

It's always fun to go riding in Lysterfield park early in the morning - particularly with a new guy. Some of the tracks are incredibly narrow between trees, and we always let the new guy go first.

Sometimes, for some strange reason, the new guy will leap off his bike (sometimes while it is still travelling) and start slapping at his face screaming - 'Get it off me!'. Not sure what's going on there.

 

[jacqui9]

I was taking the rubbish bin out the front last night, when I saw a huntsman run under my brother's gym set. I was walking through the shed, so it was quite dark at the time, but there was just enough light for me to see it scurry away.

I tentatively walked back through the shed to go inside, when something
moved across my bare foot. Having a massive spider phobia, I screamed (I seriously never scream...ever), prompting my brother to run outside calling out to see if I was alright.

Turned out that a leaf had blown across my foot

 

[BigKahunaBlue]

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