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Can't sleep, the spiders will eat me!!!
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08-05-2008 1:44am#1
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I've had two nest loads hatch in my room while I haven't been there before, thousands of tiny little spiders everywhere. Vacuumed the lot up and went out, came back to find my room full of webs and spiders again, gave it another vacuum and slept on the couch.
Next day I go back up to the room and it's full of them again.. Ran the vacuum over them again and they didn't re-appear in such force again so slept in the room that night despite there still being a few around.
They were tiny though so were nothing to be concerned about. Have moved out since and have been finding huge spiders around the house since a few weeks after we moved in. They're nothing to lose sleep over though as they're no harm and keep the house insect free, I just hate the sight of the huge ones randomly appearing, such as the night I was lying on a beanbag watching tv and one appeared at the side of it. Bastards.
Jaysus remind me never to stay over at rb_ie's :eek:
How do you sleep man!
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Seems weird that you would prefer a house full of spiders to a house full of insects.
You know what I meant.Jaysus remind me never to stay over at rb_ie's :eek:
How do you sleep man!
I've never seen one of the big ones in my bedroom thankfully. This is exactly the type we've been getting here. Also have gotten a few small ones over the past few nights appearing but again, harmless.You haven't seen spiders til you've been over here. Some seriously huge fuckers in these parts.
Lol, how often do you encounter them? I'd be more concerned with the little ones over there tbh!0 -
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My fear of spiders crawling on me at night was shaken off when I was in San Diego last summer and I was introduced to Mr Cockroach. Now as disgusting and all as they were, we got on fine because we didn't have any in the flat. Until one night. We saw one walking up the wall just inside the door. Holy sweet bejebus. One of the lads knocked it outside with a frisbee, but I did not sleep that night for fear of an attack. We were all sleeping on air beds on the floor (hey...students on a J1, it was normal) so liability for attack seemed greater. That's the one thing I do not miss about SD.
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A friend of mine stayed in Sydney and Melbourne I think and barely saw any, so I think that's where I'll be headed tbhGet a fair few in the bathroom. There was a decent sized hairy fecker sittin on my towel the other day. He was harmless enough though.
Red backs are pretty leathal but not too common in urban areas, though my uncle did have a few in the damp corner of his shed. Ugly bastards. Have yet to see a wild Huntsman unfortunately.
How do they get into your place? I'd have everything sealed shut if I thought something like that could get in tbh0 -
A friend of mine stayed in Sydney and Melbourne I think and barely saw any, so I think that's where I'll be headed tbh
Ah you'd still get a few there, especially in the suburbs. If you start backpacking through little towns that's where you'll see them....and the snakes!How do they get into your place? I'd have everything sealed shut if I thought something like that could get in tbh
Usual ways I presume. Itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout etc. We have a balcony as well where some of them live and sometimes I forget to close the screen doors so they probably sneak in that way too.0 -
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i wish i could give you thanks :pac:The Cure Lullaby (how appropriate)
On candystripe legs the spiderman comes
Softly through the shadow of the evening sun
Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
Looking for the victim shivering in bed
Searching out fear in the gathering gloom and
Suddenly!
A movement in the corner of the room!
And there is nothing I can do
And I realise with fright
That the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight! :pac::pac::pac:
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I've had two nest loads hatch in my room while I haven't been there before, thousands of tiny little spiders everywhere. Vacuumed the lot up and went out, came back to find my room full of webs and spiders again, gave it another vacuum and slept on the couch.
Next day I go back up to the room and it's full of them again.. Ran the vacuum over them again and they didn't re-appear in such force again so slept in the room that night despite there still being a few around.
They were tiny though so were nothing to be concerned about. Have moved out since and have been finding huge spiders around the house since a few weeks after we moved in. They're nothing to lose sleep over though as they're no harm and keep the house insect free, I just hate the sight of the huge ones randomly appearing, such as the night I was lying on a beanbag watching tv and one appeared at the side of it. Bastards.
my lord! sounds like a real nightmare
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ACK! I really hate spiders and have done for a long time. This was quadrupled last year by my second story.
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This was quite a while back now... I think I was about 18 at the time. I was over at a friends house just chilling and watching telly. My friend suddenly starts screaming and freaking out. She points to the wall next to the telly. "SPIDER!" I look over and sure enough, there's a decent size spider sitting happily on the wall. "KILL IT OMG GET RID OF IT!!!" says she. *sigh* says I.
So I do what I have to do. I go and get a HUGE big ball of bog roll and run back to the room. I approach Mr. Spider and move in for the kill/grab. Just as I'm about to grab/squash/whatever him with the bog roll, he leaps off the wall and onto my chest area. Logically, I go absolutely nuts and start screaming and dancing around the room like a lunatic. I believe I even began to strip at one stage. Anyway, this continued until it was pointed out to me that Mr. Spider was gone. I heard from my friend that he reappeared back near the telly a week later. THE BASTARD!!! :mad:
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I had a terrible ordeal with a spider in my old attic bedroom last year(I've since moved out thank fcuk!). I was just dozing off and had left the light on in the smaller room/walk in wardrobe in the attic. Just as I was about to close my eyes and go into a deep sleep, I see something moving on the floor out of the corner of my eye.
At first, I thought I was imagining it but then it moved again and I actually jumped with fright because in the semi dark it looked HUGE. I thought it was a mouse.
So I jumped up and put the big light on to see the biggest bloody 'house' spider I've ever seen. The thing was a monster! Anyway I quickly launched an Argos catalogue at it and the thing just sat there staring at me for a sec, then legged it. I literally had to chase it around the room for about 40ish minutes as it hid behind the telly and under the bed etc.
I finally got the ugly smarmy fcuker after it ran up a wall and hid behind my New Jersey Devils hockey jersey (which was pinned to the wall). I picked up one of my CAT boots and hit where I guessed it was hiding so hard that the boot nearly went through the poor plasterboard. I was delighted with myself when I uncovered a rather squishy spider. TAKE THAT, YE BASTARD!0 -
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ACK! I really hate spiders and have done for a long time. This was quadrupled last year by my second story.
1.
This was quite a while back now... I think I was about 18 at the time. I was over at a friends house just chilling and watching telly. My friend suddenly starts screaming and freaking out. She points to the wall next to the telly. "SPIDER!" I look over and sure enough, there's a decent size spider sitting happily on the wall. "KILL IT OMG GET RID OF IT!!!" says she. *sigh* says I.
So I do what I have to do. I go and get a HUGE big ball of bog roll and run back to the room. I approach Mr. Spider and move in for the kill/grab. Just as I'm about to grab/squash/whatever him with the bog roll, he leaps off the wall and onto my chest area. Logically, I go absolutely nuts and start screaming and dancing around the room like a lunatic. I believe I even began to strip at one stage. Anyway, this continued until it was pointed out to me that Mr. Spider was gone. I heard from my friend that he reappeared back near the telly a week later. THE BASTARD!!! :mad:
2.
I had a terrible ordeal with a spider in my old attic bedroom last year(I've since moved out thank fcuk!). I was just dozing off and had left the light on in the smaller room/walk in wardrobe in the attic. Just as I was about to close my eyes and go into a deep sleep, I see something moving on the floor out of the corner of my eye.
At first, I thought I was imagining it but then it moved again and I actually jumped with fright because in the semi dark it looked HUGE. I thought it was a mouse. So I jumped up and put the big light on to see the biggest bloody 'house' spider I've ever seen. The thing was a monster! Anyway I quickly launched an Argos catalogue at it and the thing just sat there staring at me for a sec, then legged it. I literally had to chase it around the room for about 40ish minutes as it hid behind the telly and under the bed etc.
I finally got the ugly smarmy fcuker after it ran up a wall and hid behind my New Jersey Devils hockey jersey (which was pinned to the wall). I picked up one of my CAT boots and hit where I guessed it was hiding so hard that the boot nearly went through the poor plasterboard. I was delighted with myself when I uncovered a rather squishy spider. TAKE THAT, YE BASTARD!
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Ah it wasn't so bad. Started off quite funnily though, I was sitting at my laptop and saw this tiny spider crawl up and along the bottom of the monitor, "aww" I thought as I watched it go on it's way. A few seconds later another one made the exact same journey, "aww" I thought, whilst at the same time thinking quite odd. Another few seconds and another one was passing. I had a black desk so wouldn't notice them while they're on it, but I looked along it and saw a little line moving. Turned out to be a little queue of baby spiders to cross my laptop, followed the queue up and found a line leading to my bed. Loads of of them were climbing along the line at the time, so I pulled up the duvet and low and behold there was a load of them on the bed. Another line was anchored to the bed at a different angle, followed that (also full of little spiders) and there was a load of them on my shelves and then on the ceiling. How I didn't notice, I don't know. I just put it down to being wrecked after being away for two weeks and came back and immediately sat down to check my emails without noticing.sweet-rasmus wrote: »my lord! sounds like a real nightmare0 -
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