Arachnophobia!

phaxx · 22-09-2001 12:38AM #1

Well, perhaps that's exaggerating a bit, but I still don't like 'em.

The bathroom here seems to be a favourite spot for spiders to hang out (literally

) I don't know why, probably something to do with the moisture maybe. Anyway, right now I estimate abot 10-15 little creepy things in there, all around the ceiling. It's worse in the winter, and there's more of them already, and they only get worse as the weather gets colder. If we clear them all out, they come back, or new ones anyway, and we don't want to have to deal with them every second day, SO, on to the point of the topic, does anyone know of smelly candles or little electronic gizmos that are supposed to get rid of bugs? I remember seeing a little box that looked like a smoke alarm that emitted a high-pitched beep every few seconds, well out of range of our hearing, but apparently it bothers most bugs - do they work?

I'm not a creepy-crawlie person

They don't get into any other room in the house, they seem to really like the bathroom. We had two pretty big ones (by MY standards - okay?

) a while ago, always afraid one's going to drop on me or something.

*shudder*

Thoughts?

Alis · 22-09-2001 01:41AM

I must admit I do not like those eight legged creatures :eek:

I'm not saying I have a phobia of them but give me a mouse instead any day!

Both my brothers 'like' spiders and one of them is usually around, thankfully

They pick them up with their bare hands :eek:

They got it from their father. He 'loves' spiders. He used to threaten to throw them at me when I was little :eek: Actually maybe he just used to like tormenting me :mad: Once he eat a huge spider in front of me, just to disgust me. I'm actually not joking here :eek:

If you don't like spiders check out this fact:

*An average of 8 spiders die inside your ear in your lifetime*

I think that is true. I don't have a source right now but I got it of a BBC documentary some years back.

I sleep with my personal stereo on so they won't get in my ears.

The best tip I can give you is masking tape. It is those little holes between things they get in. Masking tape them up!!!

I shall watch this thread attentively for more tips, so if you have a good one, please share it

phaxx · 22-09-2001 01:54AM

Eeeeeww.. yeah I can remember, a few years ago, I was walking home and something hit my ear, felt like a fly. I touched my ear a bit, as you do, and carried on. When I got home, my mother noticed something in my ear, and found kinda half a spider.

Ate a spider? Ah well it's all protein I guess! (What someone in the family used to say whenever anyone swallowed a fly)

Drakus · 22-09-2001 02:00AM

I bought one of the electric Gizzmos - rubbish, a complete con job. You will find spiders and others crawlies in the bathrooms as they come up the bath/sink drain. Get plastic covers for these. Spiders also like to nest/breed on window sashses(the insides of the window frames that only become visible when the window is open), keep these areas clear by hovering/brushing from time to time. If you see one stamp it out.

Alis · 22-09-2001 02:13AM

phaxx wrote:

Ate a spider? Ah well it's all protein I guess! (What someone in the family used to say whenever anyone swallowed a fly)

Swallowing a fly by accident and deliberately eating a spider are two very different things. I'm not talking small spider either. I'm talking a black, thick legged thing with body about the size of a pea, if not bigger.

We were having dinner. I was crying because I had seen a spider in one of the bathrooms and I wanted him to get it before it ran away and hid somewhere. He was very annoyed that I wouldn't be quiet so he went out of the room and came back with it in his hand, promply killed it with his fork, mashed it around on his plate and continued eating.

Lads, it was nothing short of sick

phaxx · 22-09-2001 02:17AM

That image will haunt me for a while now, ta.

Alis · 22-09-2001 02:20AM

phaxx wrote:

That image will haunt me for a while now, ta.

Sorry. At least you can comfort yourself by saying you only heard it on a message board, probably not even a true story.

I won't forget it, this lifetime and I *know* it is true.

yellum · 22-09-2001 02:43AM

Most of them are meant for mice and rats. Its a high pitched sound that most humans cannot hear. I can hear the damned things. Theres one in the attic at home and I can here its whine go up and down. Most annoying. Stilll th whine from this computer blots it out now.

Thats not a nice story Alis. Am sorry you had to witness that as a child. Ewww.

Damien.

Bard · 22-09-2001 05:11AM

I don't dislike spiders as much as I do those "daddy-long-legs" thingies... (what are they actually called, again???)

fe<kin little backsterds flitting around my ceiling keeping me awake.

I've ultra sensitive hearing... AND insomnia...

dammit.

--

Spiders annoy me. They don't scare me.
I kill them. They then no longer annoy me.

yellum · 22-09-2001 02:24PM

those ones that bite you. They're normally around in the evening. Those ba$tards really get me bad. I have to take antihistamines and apply loads of anti-itching cream when I get the smallest of bites. The bite usually swells and spreads into a big 5inch diameter point of irratation. If I scratch it, it spreads more.

Whatever those things are freak me out. It can be very amusing actually watching me out in the garden. Paranoid lunatic putting on a good show !

phaxx · 22-09-2001 05:11PM

Hehe, that's exactly what I'm like with wasps.

Augh! (runs away screaming)

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 22-09-2001 05:18PM

hey phaxx
hrm
security guard just told us all to **** off, and get out of the comp room

so don't have time to say much, stil not able to irc, copms here suck ass, there is a possibility of a lan party soon(which is a blessed miracle) , and ....
i miss irc

ttyl

Alis · 22-09-2001 05:22PM

I have low blood sugar so nothing really bites me. Apparently insects don't like the taste of my blood

I'm a bit nervous of wasps and bees. I've never been stung by one as yet. One day I'm sure I will be and I expect I'll be very worried because I'll be thinking 'Am I one of those people who is allergic to bee and wasp stings? Am I going to die now?'

This thread is turning into 'admit your phobias'. Where are all the people with tips on keeping spiders out?

Al

phaxx · 22-09-2001 05:23PM

Heh, hi mord. You do know I have an email address, right?

End of off-topic-ness

havok* · 23-09-2001 01:46PM

UUugh, Spiders. Fusking Hate the things.

A few facts to clear up.

The dont get in by climing up the Drains, thats a common wives tale. Spiders cant swim, and most cant escape the sufrace tension if they come in contact with water.
Every room has hundreds of tiny of nooks and crannys just big enuff for them to get in and out.
The reason ppl think that is The amount of times u'll find a spider in the Bath or Sink. The Actul Reson for this is alot of them (depends on the size) cant get back out. This is why theres always a fusking HUGE spider in the bath

Bard, the "real" name for those Daddy long legs thingys is the Cream Fly. There not actully a spiders (only 6 Legs). There still Horrible things tho:(

There are Tons of Products for killing the things, but there not the kind of thing u'd want to be spraying around ur bathroom.
Suppose we're stuck with them

orangerooster · 23-09-2001 01:50PM

I shudder and nearly get sick when i see any of those things.I kil them in ways that not in the most sick straight to video horror film would show.Bleach+slugs=disintigration.Blocks+snails=white mess.Blowtorch+worm=laughing rooster.Spiders i can deal with i have a disdain for wasps and their ilk but slugs and anything like them scare the sh!te out of me.Anyone feel the same?

azezil · 24-09-2001 02:34PM

When ever i see a spider in my room i grab the vacuum!

I don't mind them... well the little irish ones anyway, but i prefer not to have little things crawleing around my room in the nite, i feel very vulnerable when i sleep so the less liveing things the better!

Dr. Loon · 24-09-2001 03:03PM

I can deal with the small fúckers (spiders) as above, just hoover them up, but I believe I'm somewhat arachnaphobic.... if I lived in Australia I'd be a dribbling mess... I'm soooo beedin scared of the big hairy bástards.... really badly.
The hoover is the king though... also as far as I remember you actually swallow something like 6 spiders in your life, while you sleep of course!!! Once I don't see them, I don't give a ****, if the stupid gits want to crawl into my mouth, be swallowed into a pit of acid and die, then that's fine by me.....

MeeMee · 24-09-2001 03:46PM

I am NEVER GOING TO SLEEP EVER AGAIN!! Between having them lodge in your ears or crawling across your mouth overnight...eeGADS! Who the hell comes up with these stats?!!

Best way to get rid of a spider is a hoover. Can't think of any preventions other than sealing every orifice in the house with an industrial supply of wax.

Canaboid · 24-09-2001 05:17PM

See here:

http://images.google.com/images?q=%22sun+spider%22

and here:

http://www.everything2.com/?node=camel+spider&type=e2node

and never sleep again.

phaxx · 24-09-2001 06:24PM

I'm not clicking those links - "http://images.google.com/..." in a thread entitled "Arachnophobia!" ! I hate them enough already :P

A hoover you say. I hate them, but I don't want to go at them with the hoover... I'm too damn nice.

neuro-praxis · 24-09-2001 06:40PM

I likes spiders I does. There are several in my room and I'm quite happy with them. You know, spiders are great. They kill all the flies. And the flies are the dirty creatures that are carrying disease around the place. So, if you have spiders, you don't have yucky flies. And I think I heard something about having spiders means you also don't have mice, because mice eat them or something. But I might as well point out that I'm not sure if I made that last bit up or not.

I don't like wasps and bees, I have been stung about 5 times and it's not nice. I must have sugary blood.

What I don't like, however, is when I'm going home late at night and I feel the familiar crunch-squelch of my runner hitting a snail on the path.

Bleugh.

WhiteWashMan · 25-09-2001 08:57AM

get a cat.
not only are cats loving cvreatures, but they have a really nasty habit of playing with spiders for about half an hour until they eat them

at least, my cat used to do that.

azezil · 25-09-2001 09:44AM

I used to keep a cat indoors but the stupid thing kept rolling up in a ball on my face! while i slept! makes it kinda hard to breath!

But ya my present cat likes to eat moths n crane fly's n stuff...

beaver · 25-09-2001 09:49AM

Originally posted by Canaboid
See here:

http://www.everything2.com/?node=camel+spider&type=e2node

That rocks! Time spiders started standing up for themselves!

Shiminay · 25-09-2001 10:16AM

I guess I'm lucky...

Never had a fear or phobia of creepy crawlies - living beside a wood for most of my life, I've always been surrounded by the frickin' things!
Woodlice were the most common, but loads of spiders and snails and slugs and stuff - an ant colony too.

I do hate wasps - not afraid of them, they just annoy me cause they're evil looking creatures and they can cause a great deal of pain when they sting - bastids! They always seems to be attracted to my glasses too and having that sort of thing buzzing around your eye is quite freaky and will make the most hardened of us jump and start brushing them away like a lunatic!

A young man who goes under the nick of bedlam and who can often be seen on the security boards is very afraid of spiders! It's very funny

My former housemate said he's chased him round with a little spider in his hand and poor old bedlam's goes screaming like a 7 year old girl and running away as fast as possible - I laugh a lot at these sorts of things because I'm a sick human being and I love seeing others suffer from silly things like this

The only thing to remember folks - in Ireland we don't have any life threatening spiders (unless you're extremely allergic), so be safe in that knowledge.

phaxx · 27-09-2001 01:57AM

Not life-threatening perhaps, but they're big and ugly and and and and....

So what's the best solution so far, hoover them up?? That's too evil and they'll just come back anway. Aren't there smelly candles or something that they don't like?

adnans · 28-09-2001 08:45PM

Originally posted by Dr. Loon
I can deal with the small fúckers (spiders) as above, just hoover them up, but I believe I'm somewhat arachnaphobic.... if I lived in Australia I'd be a dribbling mess... I'm soooo beedin scared of the big hairy bástards.... really badly.
The hoover is the king though... also as far as I remember you actually swallow something like 6 spiders in your life, while you sleep of course!!! Once I don't see them, I don't give a ****, if the stupid gits want to crawl into my mouth, be swallowed into a pit of acid and die, then that's fine by me.....

its true, he's scared shítless of spiders. for example, just got Thief for the PC and started playing the first level which hooked us both into the game preety quickly. Dr. Loon thought he was on the winner of a game here untill he came to 2nd level (the mines) where there were a good amount of spiders lurking around. he started swearing, switched off the monitor and turned down the volume. i dont think you ever played it anymore

adnans

Evil Phil · 30-09-2001 11:44PM

I'm not as afraid as I used to be. I'm into rock climbing which has 2 spider points.

Spider point A: Having to put your hand into a crack full of spider webs to avoid falling.

Spider point B: Hanging on for dear life on the most difficult climb ever, and having a huge one run accross your hand.

So as I say I'm not as afraid as I used to be. Still don't like the big brown guys that charge across the carpet when you're watching telly. I nearly had a tarantula crawl onto my head in Indonesia last year. *shudders*

Dr. Loon · 01-10-2001 10:22AM

Originally posted by adnans

its true, he's scared shítless of spiders. for example, just got Thief for the PC and started playing the first level which hooked us both into the game preety quickly. Dr. Loon thought he was on the winner of a game here untill he came to 2nd level (the mines) where there were a good amount of spiders lurking around. he started swearing, switched off the monitor and turned down the volume. i dont think you ever played it anymore

Nah... haven't played that game since. Why'd they have to put manky spiders in!? Thief 2 was good though.

Kix · 01-10-2001 10:58AM

I don't know what's going on. I've never seen so many fuping big spiders inside my house as this weekend. Perhaps the weather was driving them inside. My girl is terrified of them, I'm not super fond of them myself but she is really, really scared.

Saturday night there was a huge one in our bedroom. Tried to catch it, I prefer not to kill them, and it escaped under the door of our en-suite. Cue massive search in which spider is finally discovered acidentally squished under bathroom mat.

I think they're out for revenge.

Get back yesterday evening and there's an even bigger one in the hallway hovering over the hatstand. Quick remove it to the outside. Spend ages comforting poor trembing girlfriend and assuring her that they like to stay up high on walls and don't like to hide in coats/sofas/beds because there's no food for them there.

They're determined to make a liar out of me.

Just before bed we're about to leave the sitting room and another massive one runs across the armchair beside us. Panic ensues and I manage to finally catch the b'stard and get him out of the house.

The best is yet to come.

We're asleep, having checked the bed and bedroom very carefully. I'm lying so that my arm is over to my girlfriends head. Some god-forsaken hour, although asleep, I feel something crawling up my arm towards her head. Instinct takes over and slap, I squish this enormous f'in spider on my arm. Thankfully, my beloved remains unaware of what's going on as I stumble about half-asleep trying to wash off squashed spider.

YEUCH!

I generally believe in complete honesty in a relationship but I think that if I told her that she'd never sleep again.

If tonight is the same or worse I think I'm going to have to move.

K

Arachnophobia!

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