Big bastard spider!

Karl Hungus

http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/9365/spider3rt.jpg

Saw this ****er crawling up the wall just about a foot away from my head. Saw him out the corner of my eye as he passed me by on his climb.

I took the picture before I disposed of him. Sorry, no remains to be seen I'm afraid. It's very blurry as the big fecker darted as I got the camera near him, but I think he was about 2" big.

Yes, he did scare me. I can tell you one thing, I'll be getting out the hoover out tomorrow, and giving a good clean out to ever little nook and cranny I can find. I'm pretty sure he came in the toilet window when it was open earlier tonight, but I'm still shuddering at the thoughts of him bringing friends.

Ruu_Old

A friend of mine would have picked it up and left it outside, she hates when I murder them. Your're a murderer, a murdiddleyurderer!:(




would have done the same thing, evil bastids *shivers*

conky_05

if you were in the amazon it'd be a totally different story

Dave!

lol, aussies must laugh at our pathetic excuses for spiders

"you call thet a spaiidah? DIS is a spaiidah!"

I just saw the first daddy long-legs of the summer the other day... most disgusting. things. in the world ever.

Karl Hungus

DaveMcG wrote:

lol, aussies must laugh at our pathetic excuses for spiders

"you call thet a spaiidah? DIS is a spaiidah!"

That's not a spider, that's a wedge of cheese!

DaveMcG wrote:

I just saw the first daddy long-legs of the summer the other day... most disgusting. things. in the world ever.

Really? I honestly think they're the least bothersome insects. They just kinda flap around and bump into things, like toddlers, except without all the crying, or screaming mothers. Those fellas I've no problem with picking up in my hands and escorting outside.

Archeron

That spider looks like its carrying a spear. A particularly dangerous type.

Pherekydes

conky_05 wrote:

if you were in the amazon it'd be a totally different story

Why? They're all poisonous.:eek:

jimmidy_cricket

Ah bless, you must've been watching aracnaphobia the other night! When I lived in oz, my house mate found a massive huntsman in his room ('bout the size of a toddlers fist), we caught it in a lunchbox and fed it cockroaches, it was deadly seeing the spider pounce on them and suck the life outta them. We decided to keep him till the next day and try catch a small lizard to see what he'd do, but he escaped from the box

freewing

what do you mean ESCAPED!! from the box, did he have some kind of equipment or possibly help from his friends and is he now roaming the country side looking for kicks( not really a fan of bugs meself). i found a fairly large spider in the back of a truck trailer . it was big enough to span the widest point of a pint glass, strange thing though we sent it off to a lab to see if it was poisonious and it turned out to be a common garden spider found all over Ireland :eek:

Jumpy

We aussies do laugh at your spiders.

Look up 'Funnel Web' in Google and know real fear!

WetDaddy

we caught it in a lunchbox and fed it cockroaches, it was deadly seeing the spider pounce on them and suck the life outta them. We decided to keep him till the next day and try catch a small lizard to see what he'd do, but he escaped from the box

That's weird, I did the same thing with a French guy and some woodlice once. It was hilarious cos h--... Actually, forget about it.

Has anyone noticed that there's friggin' *LOADS* of daddy-long legs around at the moment? And I don't mean what the Americans call "crane flys", I mean the actual daddy-long legs which are those spiders with small, semi-transluscent bodies and long, thing legs. You usually see them skuttling across the carpet (presumably some kind of arachnid initiation ceremony).

But they seem to be everywhere at the moment! We just finished building a rehearsal room and in the middle of a jam one day, I counted 27 of the fellas just hanging out on the ceilings. I didn't mention it to Gráinne, our trumpeter, because she's terrified of spiders. Hilarious to think she was completely surrounded by them. Ninja spiders!

Scoops

Huntsman - there were loads of them in this place we stayed near Port Stevens in NSW - I mean they were everywhere!

Evil_Bilbo

a beast of a spider nearly made me crash the car the other day. Drivin into work and he started to emerge from that sun-vizor thing right infront of my head. Feckin massive he was. I've a serious phobia of spideys so this made me physically sick. Couldnt even get away from it till I got to a set of lights, then I jumped out of the car and pulled him out (with a tissue!) and jumped on him.

I still dont feel safe in the car, and always check the sun-blocker thing anymore! Pathetic I know...

Spalk0

Archeron wrote:

That spider looks like its carrying a spear. A particularly dangerous type.

Oh my GOD.....theyre advancing as we speak!:eek:

Run for your lives.....every man for himself!!!!!:D

The_Goose

Has anyone noticed the weird insects that you ve never seen before just popping up. Last year there were fly bee s spider with funky colours and ****ing huge too!
Must be the global warming or something.
Weird little dudes

jimmidy_cricket

Jumpy wrote:

We aussies do laugh at your spiders.

Look up 'Funnel Web' in Google and know real fear!

Didn't come across any funnel web bastads on my travels, but your red tip and white tip feckers creeped me out so much. It was such a relief coming home and being able to go to the toilet without thinking mid pee "sh!t I forgot to check under the seat" I ruined so many trips to the jax that way!

jimmidy_cricket

freewing wrote:

what do you mean ESCAPED!! from the box, did he have some kind of equipment or possibly help from his friends and is he now roaming the country side looking for kicks( not really a fan of bugs meself). i found a fairly large spider in the back of a truck trailer . it was big enough to span the widest point of a pint glass, strange thing though we sent it off to a lab to see if it was poisonious and it turned out to be a common garden spider found all over Ireland :eek:

I dunno the lid looked closed to me, next day though the box was empty (bar the coakroach crysalis the spider created) with the lid just sitting ontop. I suppose it wasn't sealed tight and he just pushed it off? I didn't mind him being in the house as they can't kill ye and they keep the roaches down, which is nice!

xabi

I spotted one of the bigs ****s in my hallway last year, not a spider fan, so i picked up a copy of the Auto Trader that i was reading and was about to drop it on him from a height when i realised he would probably pick it u and take it away. In the end the only thing i could find that i knew would do the job was the Argos catalogue - "The Big One" that is.

X.

d-redser

Evil_Bilbo wrote:

a beast of a spider nearly made me crash the car the other day. Drivin into work and he started to emerge from that sun-vizor thing right infront of my head. Feckin massive he was. I've a serious phobia of spideys so this made me physically sick. Couldnt even get away from it till I got to a set of lights, then I jumped out of the car and pulled him out (with a tissue!) and jumped on him.

I still dont feel safe in the car, and always check the sun-blocker thing anymore! Pathetic I know...

F**king hell!!! I am terrifed of them b**tards and I would have literally screamed myself to death! I would probably have to do a "tuck n roll" out of the car and hope for the best!!

Tobias Greeshman

When I read the post I thought you had seen a Tarantula climbing your bedroom wall or something. It was probably a Wolf Spider, they're harmless and the one you seen was probably about the largest you'll find. They normally don't come inside homes in Ireland but warm weather and rain they probably seeked shelter and ended up inside your house for one reason or another.

I don't understand why so many people have a phobia of them, especially when in Ireland they're harmless.

fits

Those wolf spiders will bite when cornered though. Its harmless but an unpleasant thought. I dont like those big fellows much myself, its instinct. My partner though is terrified of them, he screams like a little girl when they appear, so its always me who has to throw them out the window.:mad:

Why didn't you just catch him in a cup or something and bring him outside!!


I caught a fly the other day and brought him outside. He was nearly dying =( But then he was happier.

OMcGovern

silas wrote:

I don't understand why so many people have a phobia of them, especially when in Ireland they're harmless.

They're evil and alien looking....
I think we, as mammals, have a general understanding of other mammals.
But lizards, snakes & insects are too different. Anything with more than 4 legs in inherently evil.

Luckily, there's only 21% oxygen content in our atmosphere.
Insects don't have lungs, so they can only grow to a certain size, before their crude respiration system can't cope, and they become genetically infeasible.
If someone genetically engineered an insect with lungs, then it could grow to ANY size.... we could be overrun by giant bugs in no time. Much like a scene out of "Starship Troopers".

Sweet dreams :-)
Owen

Joeface

I fear comes for evolution.......back in the day a billion years ago there was a mini genitic war....who would rule the earth the fleshies or the Sceletons.... Humans and Animals have flesh on the out side and spiders have Sceletons, but as creatures got bigger, Spiders and the like could not evolve as Gravity would have made it impossible to move . Our fear comes form the knowelge that if things had gone different we would not exist as they if our side would kill us all just as StarShip Troopers Predicts


lol

The Bollox

as far as I can see, there is not just one thing that we,or at least I, hate about them. it's their appearance for one, look at the big ones (tarantulas, tunnel spiders) they have a vary low centre of gravity which to me says speed, they are very fast on their many legs. Another thing about them is their uncanny ability to hide, and unfortunatly they hide in places where you can sort-of see them. a big theory as to why so many humans fear spiders is because back in the middle ages it was thought Spiders carried the black death, and they got a very bad reputation.

I don't really mind them when they are stationary, it's when they move that I get freaked out, I just hate them

carbonkid

The tiny wee ones wont bother me at all but you the ones where the back half os they're body is bigger that the front, dont know why but they really put the ****s up me!

meowCat

I'm annoyed by a faily big and fat spider these days, too. I saw it in my bathroom at the beginning of the week, but it was early in the morning and I decided to catch it later and closed the door. But it managed to escape and now I sort of hear it around but I cannot see it.

Usually, I catch them with a glass and a postcard and throw them out.

I know someone though, who catches them by grabbing them at one leg :eek: and then throwing them out. It's the most disgusting thought to me to touch a spider with my fingers. Others just kill them with a shoe or something, but I find that leaves nasty staines on the wallpaper. And some people never grow tired of explaining how usefull they are and just leave them.
Hello, my new pet :rolleyes:

OP, you should have included a poll so we can see what the majority of people does with them.

The Free Man

i used to be afraid of spiders, til one night i was fairly drunk after a night in town. i was in my bathroom and there was a huge spider in the bath, so i started playing with him!! theyre all grand once you get to know them

meowCat

The Free Man wrote:

i used to be afraid of spiders, til one night i was fairly drunk after a night in town. i was in my bathroom and there was a huge spider in the bath, so i started playing with him!! theyre all grand once you get to know them

playing with it :eek:

The Free Man

i wasnt in the bath

that sentance does look rather suspect. i was just scooching him up and down it, them put him out the window, i swear!

xXxnaoisexXx

ewwww i hate spiders!!!

Saruman

I would have killed it myself unless i had something to hand to get it out safely.
I do not have a phobia of anything but if there is a spider in my bedroom i do not want it possibly crawling around me at night.. more to the point.. my wife is scared of them so she will make me get rid..

Pity it was not a tarantula... they are harmless and supposed to make good pets too.. furry lil critters

Thirdfox

say "furry lil critters" to me and I think of chipmunks not tarantulas

Put on a bathrobe once and found it crawling on me now I check my bathrobe everytime...

MartMax

meowCat wrote:

I'm annoyed by a faily big and fat spider these days, too. I saw it in my bathroom at the beginning of the week, but it was early in the morning and I decided to catch it later and closed the door. But it managed to escape and now I sort of hear it around but I cannot see it.

There is no fat spider... u all r fat hobbits...

Hugh Hefner

I hate spiders. I hate them so much. I'm the same with most insects. Damn Summer. Now they'll be all around.

I usually kill them but I'd get them outside if it was practical enough.

I was in a house down the country once, just lying on the couch, when suddenly I saw a beetle! Big bastard! I had never seen one before and all I could think was, "You look like the pictures!" It was chilling. I would have killed it only it was so feckin' big. I was afraid that if I did the old kitchen paper trick, that the smashed entrails would seem though and get on my fingers. No having that.
So I got a shovel and after a while I scoped him up. Luckily I had picked him up on his back so he wasn't crawling on the shovel. I tried to move him with a jerk and ended up flipping him over. Ahhhhh! Then he started crawling toward the handle and even up it toward my hands only about 5 inches away. I ran to the backdoor and flung the shovel as hard as I could. I didn't see where he went, but he wasn't on the shovel. Job done.

grimloch

If I have anything to say about it, no insect will be left alive in my house. Either I'll take off my slipper or I'll run upstairs and get the complete works of William Shakespeare to deal with the little bastards.

Not really on topic but a wasp the size of my dog came into my room yesterday, the thing sounded like a bleedin' aeroplane. So strong in fact that it survived two small smacks of a slipper and it was only once the aforementioned works of William Shakespeare were brought out that I defeated the beast.

Sparky

Ive never been afraid of spiders, the rest of the house is however.
So I usually end up picking up the spider and bringing it outside.

The only spider I would'nt go near would be the black widow.
http://www.west-ext.com/pests/black_widow_spider_picture.jpg

Tar.Aldarion

Spiders...wtf are yee scared of tbh. I imagine they are quite scared all of the time. :P
Not the harmless tiny things, noes!

The Bollox

Thirdfox wrote:

say "furry lil critters" to me and I think of chipmunks not tarantulas

Put on a bathrobe once and found it crawling on me now I check my bathrobe everytime...

A few years ago I put on a pair of trousers I had been wearing the previous day only to find there was a big garden spider in the inside leg. I compulsivly checked every item of clothing I was going to wear that was lying on my floor for about 4 years

The Bollox

Thirdfox wrote:

say "furry lil critters" to me and I think of chipmunks not tarantulas

Put on a bathrobe once and found it crawling on me now I check my bathrobe everytime...

A few years ago I put on a pair of trousers I had been wearing the previous day only to find there was a big garden spider in the inside leg. I compulsivly checked every item of clothing I was going to wear that was lying on my floor for about 4 years

Metacortex

I hate spiders, glad i haven't seen any big ones lately.

I do share the night shift with a mouse though. I had forgotten about it up until 10 minutes ago when it ran past my chair scaring the bejesus out of me. Little bastard.

conky_05

one theory i heard or read somewhere ( cant remebr which!) was that when the humans were nearly wiped out after the last ice age or something, there was basically these big bad-ass spiders around that were all fatally poisonous and were a serious threat to what little humans were left. So it's basically instinctive that spiders will kill you, even though most of them can't.

The Hill Billy

Was this the one?

http://www.zoo.org/educate/fact_sheets/spiders/giant.html

I come across two or three a week in my place.
Up to five or six a day in September/October.

Fast beggars too. Can run around 1 foot per second.

The Bollox

I was in my brothers room playing his X-Box about 4 months ago. I looked down and saw a big spider, only a fraction smaller than the one in that picture, run out from under the bed, and I was in my bare feet at the time, so I jumped. Then I sat there for a minute before I went into the bathroom and got a bit of toilet paper, so I could pick the f*cker up. It took two tries because he was so fast.