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Spider in the room

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  • 27-10-2014 11:40pm
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    Mrs Garth Brooks
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    I've got a spider in the bedroom. I can't reach it as its in the corner, in the ceiling, over the wardrobe.

    I've got the window open hoping it will crawl out sometime. Or the cat might come in and eat it if it was to come near me.

    Its a massive spider. What do I do.


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    Witcher
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    You eat it, fcuk the cat.


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    Birneybau
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    Sleep with your mouth shut.


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    PizzamanIRL
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    Set fire to the whole room.

    Just that room though. You don't want any unnecessary damage done to other parts of the house over a silly spider.


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    FairytaleGirl
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    Spray him with hairspray so his legs stick together then squash him!

    If that fails Burn him with Fire!
    Actually burn your whole house down, he may have friends!


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    Mrs Garth Brooks
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    Blay wrote: »
    You eat it, fcuk the cat.

    Eh, no thanks


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    coffee_cake
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    Ignore it and it'll go away


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    michael999999
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    Mrs Garth Brooks wrote: »
    I've got a spider in the bedroom. I can't reach it as its in the corner, in the ceiling, over the wardrobe.

    I've got the window open hoping it will crawl out sometime. Or the cat might come in and eat it if it was to come near me.

    Its a massive spider. What do I do.

    Keep your mouth closed when sleeping!


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    One eyed Jack
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    Blay wrote: »
    You eat it, fcuk the cat.


    Just for a minute there, I was disappointed you didn't say 'Shoot it!' :p


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    PizzamanIRL
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    PizzamanIRL wrote: »
    Set fire to the whole room.

    Just that room though. You don't want any unnecessary damage done to other parts of the house over a silly spider.
    FairytaleGirl wrote: »
    Actually burn your whole house down, he may have friends!

    I think we know who the logical thinker is here.


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    Pat Mustard
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    Have you tried looking on the web, OP?


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    Witcher
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    Mrs Garth Brooks wrote: »
    Eh, no thanks

    Turning down free food..lucky you, there are people in Africa that would eat the wall he was on too for the want of food :pac:


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    Chucken
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    FairytaleGirl wrote: »

    Actually burn your whole house down, he may have friends!

    In low places?































    Sorry.


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    Ed Winchester
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    If she's in the corner, near the ceiling, that's a sure sign its a female and is likely giving birth to her babies. Probably thousands of them.

    Sweet dreams.


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    MyNameIsMethos
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    Leave the poor spider alone: he'll hunt errant moths&flies while you sleep! Spiders are our 8legged friends :)


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    ALiasEX
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    Mrs Garth Brooks wrote: »
    I've got the window open hoping it will crawl out sometime.
    Because nothing ever crawls in.


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    biko
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    Leave it alone. It won't harm you and it will keep the smaller stuff at bay.
    Or panic.
    Whichever.

    Birneybau wrote: »
    Sleep with your mouth shut.
    This actually quite interesting. In a 1993 PC Professional article, columnist Lisa Holst wrote about the ubiquitous lists of "facts" that were circulating via e-mail and how readily they were accepted as truthful by gullible recipients. To demonstrate her point, Holst offered her own made-up list of equally ridiculous "facts," among which was the statistic about the average person's swallowing eight spiders per year, which she took from a collection of common misbeliefs printed in a 1954 book on insect folklore. In a delicious irony, Holst's propagation of this false "fact" has spurred it into becoming one of the most widely-circulated bits of misinformation to be found on the Internet.


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    SoulTrader
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    MyNameIsMethos wrote: »
    Leave the poor spider alone: he'll hunt errant moths&flies while you sleep! Spiders are our 8legged friends :)

    I'd prefer 4 2-legged friends tbh.


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    Summer wind
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    If you've got a hoover with a long nozzle hoover his ass.


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    Witcher
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    ALiasEX wrote: »
    Because nothing ever crawls in.

    +1

    He'll invite his mates in if you do that OP:pac:


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    Smidge
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    The Mustard wrote: »
    Have you tried looking on the web, OP?

    You could do with a ba-dum-tish to go with that :D


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    PizzamanIRL
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    Spiders have very sensitive hearing. They can hear you moving etc. when you're awake in bed. Once you're asleep they can tell because the lack of movement and noise. Then you're at your most vulnerable state. That spider and all his friends can do what they want to you. Crawl all over your face and in your mouth and nostrils. They'll be all over you.

    Once you wake up, they scatter, but they'll still be nearby. Watching. Waiting.

    Good night!


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    Chunners
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    Suck it up with a hover


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    Smidge
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    PizzamanIRL wrote: »
    Spiders have very sensitive hearing. They can hear you moving etc. when you're awake in bed. Once you're asleep they can tell because the lack of movement and noise. Then you're at your most vulnerable state. That spider and all his friends can do what they want to you. Crawl all over your face and in your mouth and nostrils. They'll be all over you.

    Once you wake up, they scatter, but they'll still be nearby. Watching. Waiting.

    Good night!

    That's also when they wait to have their babies.
    Hundreds of them.
    While you are asleep


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    pablo128
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    Summer wind wrote: »
    If you've got a hoover with a long nozzle hoover his ass.
    There are times when I come home from work and am informed there's a spider in the hoover and i've to empty the hoover into the wheelie bin. When I get to the hoover there's usually tissue wedged into the nozzle so he can't 'escape'!:pac:


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    PizzamanIRL
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    Smidge wrote: »
    That's also when they wait to have their babies.
    Hundreds of them.
    While you are asleep

    In the warmth of your pillow case.


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    ALiasEX
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    It's trespassing. Call the guards.


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    Fr_Dougal
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    Spiders are very social creatures. Know the way you see a spider and think you see it again and again? Nope, they're different spiders. Typically you'll have a nest of anywhere between 6-12 spiders in a spider 'clan'.

    During the winter they move indoors, this is when they're at their most dangerous as their bites become more poisonous and the spiders themselves become more irritable. They also hunt in packs when indoors. Little known fact; spiders are one of the very few insects that remember people, and they hold grudges.


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    Smidge
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    PizzamanIRL wrote: »
    In the warmth of your pillow case.

    Naturally, thats where the best nesting is done. The heat of your head acts as an incubator for their multitude of hairy legged offspring. And those white little crusty bits that you think are biccie crumbs in the bed?
    Nope...egg casings.
    Thousands of them


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    The One Doctor
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    Lighter and a can of Lynx, bye bye spider.


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    Ghost Buster
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    Hoover the bitch.


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