Giant Spiders

BlibBlab

WTF is up with all these giant spiders appearing all of a sudden? I've never seen spiders so big and they're seemingly indestructable too. I'm burning down my house and moving to to Mars if I see another one, I don't even know how they're getting in they're so big. Anyone else plagued by them?

Dtp1979

BlibBlab wrote: »

WTF is up with all these giant spiders appearing all of a sudden? I've never seen spiders so big and they're seemingly indestructable too. I'm burning down my house and moving to to Mars if I see another one, I don't even know how they're getting in they're so big. Anyone else plagued by them?

Shjte. I thought it was people on Facebook just postin big spider pics and takin the piss. Are you takin the piss??

wazky

On average, we eat 8 spiders in our lifetime as they crawl into our mouth as we sleep.

Think about that now when you are drifting off to sleep tonight.

Sir Arthur Daley

The good summer is the cause of it, they ride like mad in the heat.

kneemos

The bigger one's are are more intelligent so be careful.

wretcheddomain

wazky wrote: »

On average, we eat 8 spiders in our lifetime as they crawl into our mouth as we sleep.

I've always wondered how exactly this is measured?

Do scientists watch a sample of 1,000 people sleep over a lifetime? Not at all, it's complete and utter distilled sh1te.

The Adversary

Left the door open to leave the dog out, went upstairs. When I came back down there was 4 or 5 of them all over the kitchen/sitting room aswell as an assortment of crane flies and a couple of moths. Moral of the story? Don't own a dog.

ShadowHearth

No big spiders here . There is tiny one hiding behind bog roll pack in the toilet. I called him Bob. I talk to him while I lay a brick.

wazky

wretcheddomain wrote: »

I've always wondered how exactly this is measured?

Do scientists watch a sample of 1,000 people sleep over a lifetime? Not at all, it's complete and utter distilled sh1te.

Can we not just along with it though to frighten the sh1te out of the arachnophobes here?

Mr.Pinchy

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Shjte. I thought it was people on Facebook just postin big spider pics and takin the piss. Are you takin the piss??

Na man, he is telling the truth. I saw a spider on my wall the other day, for a split second I thought it was a moth, then I noticed the rugby player sized legs on it...I ran out the room Shrieking...

Captain Chaos

A spider woke me up at 5am the other morning walking across my face. I thought I was imagining it and brushed my hand across my face with my eyes still closed and felt it as my hand hit it. Woke up in shock looking for it with the lamp on and saw it walking up my arm. It was only the size of a 2euro coin but had a very big body for its size. Could feel the crunch when I killed the fecker.

fleet_admiral

My dog dissected one last night. I dont know if she ate it but there was nothing left when I checked her a few minutes later

kneemos

wretcheddomain wrote: »

I've always wondered how exactly this is measured?

Do scientists watch a sample of 1,000 people sleep over a lifetime? Not at all, it's complete and utter distilled sh1te.

Fruit and veg probably have some of those tiny lads on them,who sleeps with their mouths open?

BlibBlab

wazky wrote: »

On average, we eat 8 spiders in our lifetime as they crawl into our mouth as we sleep.

Think about that now when you are drifting off to sleep tonight.

These ones would choke you first, massive horrible things, if you were partial though they'd keep you fed for the week

YFlyer

BlibBlab wrote: »

WTF is up with all these giant spiders appearing all of a sudden? I've never seen spiders so big and they're seemingly indestructable too. I'm burning down my house and moving to to Mars if I see another one, I don't even know how they're getting in they're so big. Anyone else plagued by them?

Why the heck would you do that?!! Spiders are from Mars

Dtp1979

fleet_admiral wrote: »

My dog dissected one last night. I dont know if she ate it but there was nothing left when I checked her a few minutes later

Of the dog or the spider?

Dades

Captain Chaos wrote: »

A spider woke me up at 5am the other morning walking across my face. I thought I was imagining it and brushed my hand across my face with my eyes still closed and felt it as my hand hit it. Woke up in shock looking for it with the lamp on and saw it walking up my arm. It was only the size of a 2euro coin but had a very big body for its size. Could feel the crunch when I killed the fecker.

That big guy might have just saved you from a fly that was trying to go up your nose.

toastedpickles

Google the hobo spider, apprently a house in england or someplace was infested with them

sleep tight

Dtp1979

toastedpickles wrote: »

Google the hobo spider, apprently a house in england or someplace was infested with them

sleep tight

Turn around slowly. What's that on your shoulder

Osmosis Jones

toastedpickles wrote: »

Google the hobo spider, apprently a house in england or someplace was infested with them

sleep tight

The irony:p

MidlandsM

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

The good summer is the cause of it, they ride like mad in the heat.

bit like myself..... :pac:

DoozerT6

Every fecking year, about this time...haven't seen any of the massive ones yet, but have had the fellas with the tiny bodies and long spindly legs knocking around for a few weeks already. The other ones are nearly as big as crabs. *shudders in anticipation of the onslaught to come*.

Tail Docker

BlibBlab wrote: »

WTF is up with all these giant spiders appearing all of a sudden? I've never seen spiders so big and they're seemingly indestructable too. I'm burning down my house and moving to to Mars if I see another one, I don't even know how they're getting in they're so big. Anyone else plagued by them?

You're new here, right?

entropi

YFlyer wrote: »

Why the heck would you do that?!! Spiders are from Mars

I thought it was Biker Mice?

Its the heat that does it, they love it. When the turn in the weather comes then they try move indoors to stay warm.

Tail Docker

wazky wrote: »

Can we not just along with it though to frighten the sh1te out of the arachnophobes here?

Makes sense, that does...t'eldest hater....

wazky

Tail Docker wrote: »

Makes sense, that does...t'eldest hater....

G'way with your mange!

Edit: and he isn't a special case, I hate everyone.

jimmythedivil

This time of year the males leave their normal habitat to find females. Sher I suppose they are mad for the ride like the rest of us.

MonkieSocks

Put some Sugar on the floor at all your Doors.

The Spiders will eat the Sugar and it will rot their Teeth, so they won't be able to Bite You

twinytwo

why do you think they created the flamethrower........ incinerate those fcukers

Tail Docker

wazky wrote: »

G'way with your mange!

Edit: and he isn't a special case, I hate everyone.

.

Banjo String

One just ran across my living room floor, and for a split second I was like, ok lads, who own the VW beetle and why the **** didn't you Park it outside .

Fat Christy

wazky wrote: »

On average, we eat 8 spiders in our lifetime as they crawl into our mouth as we sleep.

Think about that now when you are drifting off to sleep tonight.

Tell that to the vegetarians!!!

AlanS181824

Hate spiders so much.... Hoovering them up is mean but the thoughts of picking them up.... Euck!

Karl Stein

I trap them when they're indoors and release them outdoors. They do good work. I'd feel guilty if I killed one.

Cats are ruthless bastards and just murder spiders for lols.

PizzamanIRL

Why are people so afraid of harmless spiders? We're tremendously bigger than them and they don't do anything bad to you.

Oh there's a spider on that far wall over there sitting absolutely still doing nothing? I must stop what I'm doing and kill it because... because what?

Having a fear of spiders seems to be part of human nature for some reason.

BlibBlab

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Why are people so afraid of harmless spiders? We're tremendously bigger than them and they don't do anything bad to you.

Oh there's a spider on that far wall over there sitting absolutely still doing nothing? I must stop what I'm doing and kill it because... because what?

Having a fear of spiders seems to be part of human nature for some reason.

I don't mind small ones, but these are giant yokes that you can hear walking across the floor and would takes lumps out of you if you got bitten. Their webs are probabbly bigger than our houses

Dtp1979

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Of the dog or the spider?

wazky

wazky wrote: »

On average, we eat 8 spiders in our lifetime as they crawl into our mouth as we sleep.

Think about that now when you are drifting off to sleep tonight.

I woke up once to feel one crawling across my lip. That wasn't a particularly pleasant moment.
Another time I woke up to see one being illuminated by my alarm clock - it had somehow managed to crawl inside it. My Dad had to open the clock to get it out!

I'm sort of indifferent to spiders - I don't like them particularly but wouldn't run away screaming from one either. I would try and move a very big one though, to stop it crawling all over me in my sleep.

Aphex

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Why are people so afraid of harmless spiders? We're tremendously bigger than them and they don't do anything bad to you.

Oh there's a spider on that far wall over there sitting absolutely still doing nothing? I must stop what I'm doing and kill it because... because what?

Having a fear of spiders seems to be part of human nature for some reason.

I read that it has to do with evolution or something, in that we fear spiders because they may harm us due to a bite or something. In that case, why don't we fear dogs as much since they kill so many people each year?

I love dogs and hate spiders btw.

Deank

His name is Tango, he's a camel spider, a great pet.

http://www.factzoo.com/sites/all/img/insects/famous-camel-spiders-iraq.jpg

--LOS--

Aphex wrote: »

I read that it has to do with evolution or something, in that we fear spiders because they may harm us due to a bite or something. In that case, why don't we fear dogs as much since they kill so many people each year?

I love dogs and hate spiders btw.

Because spiders are ugly :P

Most of us were brought up to fear them, that's all it is, it's irrational but it's quite hard to retrain your thinking. I would have screamed at the sight of one when I was younger but I'm ok ish with them now, although I was sitting down one evening and a plastic bag started rustling beside me from a spider walking around inside, that scared the life out of me. But just cover it with a beaker, slide an envelope/bit of card underneath, lift up, out he goes.

Aceandstuff

I've seen these all over the country over the past month, most recently in my rented accomodation. Just a bit too big to fit in a tablespoon, with pincers. Don't worry lads, they seem to have more trouble climbing at that size. They don't bother me, but my housemate doesn't come downstairs anymore except to leave.

greedygoblin

Captured and evicted one in my sitting room earlier on. I reckon it was the same fella that escaped from my clutches a few days ago.

A few minutes later I found another one in the bedroom but the baxtard escaped! A few years ago I would have turned the room upside down searching for him; seemingly I must be growing accustomed to them cos I said "fcuk it, he's no harm anyway".

That was til a couple of minutes ago when I sensed he was on the wall beside me. Turned on the light and lo and behold, there he was! Now he's sitting in a plastic cup on the desk beside my bed. I'll throw him out in the morning. He'll be grand.

krudler

Giant spiders? this is a giant spider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNHK565cVe8

RobertKK

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/weird-news/giant-spiders-set-invade-homes-4276622

Professor Hart said people have nothing to fear as the big creepy crawlies will offer a free pest control service."They often feed on the most common species, preventing a few species from becoming dominant," he said.
"We want to encourage people to respect and learn more about their little house guests."

I like the big ones, a few have come into my house, but they run so fast so I don't bother trying to catch them.
They are so scared of people.
It is like they suffer from a phobia of humans...the irony :pac:

K.Flyer

They certainly seem bigger than usual this year, as are the shrieks from certain members of the family!
Just caught one in the bathroom earlier using a pint glass. He was big enough that the ends of his legs were all the way around the rim.

kryogen

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Why are people so afraid of harmless spiders? We're tremendously bigger than them and they don't do anything bad to you.

Oh there's a spider on that far wall over there sitting absolutely still doing nothing? I must stop what I'm doing and kill it because... because what?

Having a fear of spiders seems to be part of human nature for some reason.

Its built in to you from childhood, like many fears among other things

Personally I kill em for sport, not out of fear, I am like a Roman Emperor, sometimes they get the thumbs up and are free to go about their business, other times they must die. Ce La Vie

Galwayguy35

According to the people who know the fine summer produced lots of bugs for these guys to eat and made them bigger, I've wooden floors and it's easy to hear them running across the sitting room.

I put them in a jar and put them outside, spider guts are messy to clean up.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I don't know what's with them this year but they're masssssssive. Like, so big you could put a saddle on them and ride them.
I spent about ten mins at 4am the other morning trying to drown one in the bath with bleach and surgical spirits but they're mutant like.

--LOS--

Maybe they've all come from the internet like these ones....http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/killer-spiders-found-in-carlow-home-30579120.html

Killer Wench

I will burn down a block just to kill a spider. Just saying.