Daddy Long Legs

The Backwards Man

What's the point of these beasties? I'm not a cruel man, I think they have every right to a happy a fulfilling life as the next creature, but seriously, can you ever remember the last time you were enamoured by one of the lonfg legged bastards?

brevity

I hate the ones with wings. Uncoordinated ****s.

kneemos

One of creations fuk ups.

Señor Fancy Pants

brevity wrote: »

I hate the ones with wings. Uncoordinated ****s.

Even more uncoordinated with one wing!

The Backwards Man

brevity wrote: »

I hate the ones with wings. Uncoordinated ****s.

They are the ones that some sadistic fcuker didn't pull the wings off. Poor bastards really, imagine how lucky we are to be who we are and then thing of some poor Daddy Long Legs sitting out on your porch, waiting to be picked on. If they were hedgehogs they would get a bowl of milk at least.

Frynge

I love the backwards man's Monday night /Tuesday morning threads.

NachoBusiness

I was doing the dishes and killed one by mistake as I cleaned along the window edge. I tired to save him at the last minute and for a while it looked like he'd make it but he died awhile later. I still feel bad about it. If I hadn't cleaned the dishes, he'd still be chilling right now. Why must my very existence mean death to innocence.

The Backwards Man

Frynge wrote: »

I love the backwards man's Monday night /Tuesday morning threads.

If you were a Daddy Long Legs, you wouldn't be able to read my threads.:(

The Backwards Man

NachoBusiness wrote: »

I was doing the dishes and killed one by mistake as I cleaned along the window edge. I tired to save him at the last minute and for a while it looked like he'd make it but he died awhile later. I still feel bad about it. If I hadn't cleaned the dishes, he'd still be chilling right now. Why must my very existence mean death to innocence.

Aye, I'm not one to believe in higher powers and all that mullarkey, but I'll tell you one thing, if God is a Daddy Long Legs, most of us are fcuked.

brevity

I cannot feel sorry for them. They fly directly at my face and then I feel and hear their fluttery wings and legs.

I've no problem with the noble spider, but these science experiments have a date with a rolled up magazine.

kneemos

NachoBusiness wrote: »

I was doing the dishes and killed one by mistake as I cleaned along the window edge. I tired to save him at the last minute and for a while it looked like he'd make it but he died awhile later. I still feel bad about it. If I hadn't cleaned the dishes, he'd still be chilling right now. Why must my very existence mean death to innocence.

Every step you take leaves a world in destruction.

dee_mc

There's one looking over my shoulder right now as I read your Backwards ramblings. Nosy fecker. He says hi.
Note to self, buy peppermint oil tomorrow to spray around the doors and windows, supposedly it deters all sorts of spiders and creepy types.

The Backwards Man

dee_mc wrote: »

There's one looking over my shoulder right now as I read your Backwards ramblings. Nosy fecker. He says hi.
Note to self, buy peppermint oil tomorrow to spray around the doors and windows, supposedly it deters all sorts of spiders and creepy types.

I don't like peppermint . . . oh wait:(

Son Of A Vidic

brevity wrote: »

I cannot feel sorry for them. They fly directly at my face and then I feel and hear their fluttery wings and legs.

They really are the fúcktards of the winged world and if they lost the obsession with trying to fly into our ears, their life expectancy would increase accordingly.

The_Valeyard

They are harmless feckers. OH hates them, I just pick em up and put them outside, no need to squish or hurt them.

Ave Sodalis

NachoBusiness wrote:

If I hadn't cleaned the dishes, he'd still be chilling right now. Why must my very existence mean death to innocence.

If it's any consolation, they only live at most 2 weeks anyway. Males spend their whole lives looking for a female to change from the disgusting bug they are before. Females spend their whole lives looking for a damp place to lay eggs. They're pathetic because their sole purpose in life is reproduction. They only need to survive long enough to fertilise and lay eggs.

The Backwards Man

sup_dude wrote: »

If it's any consolation, they only live at most 2 weeks anyway. Males spend their whole lives looking for a female to change from the disgusting bug they are before. Females spend their whole lives looking for a damp place to lay eggs. They're pathetic because their sole purpose in life is reproduction. They only need to survive long enough to fertilise and lay eggs.

Living for sex sounds like a pleasant enough way to exist to me!:pac:

dee_mc

sup_dude wrote:

If it's any consolation, they only live at most 2 weeks anyway. Males spend their whole lives looking for a female to change from the disgusting bug they are before. Females spend their whole lives looking for a damp place to lay eggs. They're pathetic because their sole purpose in life is reproduction. They only need to survive long enough to fertilise and lay eggs.

I don't know why this post made me feel sad, but it did

Ave Sodalis

The Backwards Man wrote:

Living for sex sounds like a pleasant enough way to exist to me!

Not when it means you either spend your whole life waiting for sex, have it once and then die, or you're mated with before you have time to even grasp the fact you're back in existence, and then be forced to live the rest of your life searching for a place to lay eggs...and and then die too.
It's like Romeo and Juliet. If Juliet got knocked up, that is.

TheLastMohican

The raison d'être of Christy Moore's Reel In The Flickering Light

The Reel in the Flickering Light
by Christy Moore


As I was walking home one evenin'
I know this takes some believin'
I met a group of creatures
With the strangest lookin' features

A poor old dove and a worm in the weed
And a fine old pigeon, yes indeed
A daddy longlegs jumpet sprite
As he danced to the reel in the flickering light
Oh round we go, heel to the toe
And the daddy longlegs jumpet sprite
As he danced to the reel in the flickering light

On his thin and wispy spindles
He was deft and he was nimble
His eyes were scientific
And his dancing was terrific

And the rats and worms they made a din
And the nettles in the corners took it in
"Oh God" says I, "Tonight's the night"
"We'll dance to the reel in the flickering light"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZPp2f6G0FQ

The Backwards Man

sup_dude wrote: »

Not when it means you either spend your whole life waiting for sex, have it once and then die, or you're mated with before you have time to even grasp the fact you're back in existence, and then be forced to live the rest of your life searching for a place to lay eggs...and and then die too.
It's like Romeo and Juliet. If Juliet got knocked up, that is.

Balconies didn't exist when Romeo and Juliet was first performed. Not a lot of people know that. I bet they had Daddy Long Legs though. Millions of them.

bodice ripper

Disturbed a bunch of them in long grass, and they flew up into my then three foot long hair. Not funny. Don't try it.

The Backwards Man

bodice ripper wrote: »

Disturbed a bunch of them in long grass, and they flew up into my then three foot long hair. Not funny. Don't try it.

Hence the saying, 'get you in the long grass;

TheLastMohican

bodice ripper wrote: »

Disturbed a bunch of them in long grass, and they flew up into my then three foot long hair. Not funny. Don't try it.

You are talking about your head hair?

bodice ripper

TheLastMohican wrote: »

You are talking about your head hair?

yes, but only because i am not tall enough for three foot long hair anywhere else.

fatknacker

Daddy long legs.

Who? Who named you?

AMKC

Used to be loads of these at the old parents house when I lived at home. They used to live in the skylight we had in the bathroom. Have not seen any in years now. Spiders are mostly harmless. There is a huge one outside my house do as long as it stays out there it will stay alive and I don,t mind. I will put most out but if it gets into the house its lights out.

TheLastMohican

bodice ripper, do you live in Amsterdam?


Go on ........ give us a blast of Jacques Brel's Port Of Amsterdam. Or just sing along-a-Jacques:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8lWkNnhJB0

Junkyard Tom

We're all God's creatures.

Pac1Man

Saw one today (yesterday) with an egg sack attached to it's body. Looked like it was carrying around a maraca.

Hijpo

If they are all Daddys and therefore all male, how do they reproduce? How might you tell a daddy long legs from a mammy long legs? Are mammy long legs legs shorted than daddy long legs legs?

TheLastMohican

You're talking mammary long legs there

Bobby Baccala

Arguably my least favourite insects alongside wasps, what a shíte pair of specimens

Ruu

They tortured me as a child! Hate them! I poured scorched engine oil over one once when I was a lad.