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  • 06-05-2008 12:42AM
    #1
    useful_contacts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭


    Today i learned the average human ingests 4.3 (exactly is the global average)SPIDERS in their sleep

    I mean ............EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

    What new things have you learned today?


    EDIT: PS: the thread was ment to be about things you learned today......


    not spiders!!!!!


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  • #2
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,496 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    How do ya inhale .3 of a spider? I mean come on! :rolleyes: :D


  • #3
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    I've heard this kind of stat loads of times before although I heard 10. It's likely to be rubbish anyway since it would be so hard to get proper data. Any links to articles where someone's actually studied this? I would think they'd struggle to get a research grant for this kind of thing.


  • #4
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    basquille wrote: »
    How do ya inhale .3 of a spider? I mean come on! :rolleyes: :D

    Detachable legs ftw!


  • #5
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Me = skeptical.


  • #6
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Ahh that doesn't mean anything... I mean you could go your whole life without eating any, and then the day before you die you eat like a million, so it's not as gruesome as it sounds, you aint eating them every day. You also have to consider all the crazy cultures in the world that probably eat spider sandwiches, that would bring up the average too.

    On a side note, spiders are delicious, yum.


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  • #7
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,496 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    DaveMcG wrote: »
    You also have to consider all the crazy cultures in the world that probably eat spider sandwiches, that would bring up the average too.
    Leave Carlow outta this..!


  • #8
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    I think there are on average 4.3 insect legs in a bar of chocolate.


  • #9
    kaki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 674 ✭✭✭kaki


    Fried spider is a delicacy in Cambodia. We should count ourselves lucky: we get all of the spider and none of the hydrogenated fat...for free!


  • #10
    ModeSkeletor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 126 ✭✭ModeSkeletor


    Nothin beats a few spiders and a cup of tea.


  • #11
    xsiborg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    how many dust mites feed on you every night as you sleep? :eek:


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  • #12
    burgess1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭burgess1


    I heard that the thing about swallowing insects in your sleep is one of the most commonly quoted pieces of misinformation on the net.


  • #13
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    useful_contacts wrote: »
    Today i learned the average human ingests 4.3
    The global spider population must be on the down-turn. I heard seven some years ago.


    No where near as impressive now. :(


  • #14
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Yeah I'm always hearing that nugget - we apparently swallow spiders in our sleep. I'm inclined to believe it's a load of bullsh1t.


  • #15
    pebbles21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,816 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    cunnilingus/fellatio+crabs=loads of insects consumed:D


  • #16
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Dudess wrote: »
    I'm inclined to believe it's a load of bullsh1t.

    How come? Fair enough, the numbers may differ person to person - statistics aside. But, wouldnt you agree at least one little fella slipped into your mouth? ;)


  • #17
    useful_contacts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭useful_contacts


    ok it was something i heard in conversation...

    yet this is funny.............:D


  • #18
    weemcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,588 ✭✭✭weemcd


    nonsense, they're far more likely to crawl up your nose and lay eggs on your brain... everybody knows that :rolleyes:


  • #19
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,159 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    I hear they can impregnate women. Spider babies FTW


  • #20
    useful_contacts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭useful_contacts


    weemcd wrote: »
    nonsense, they're far more likely to crawl up your nose and lay eggs on your brain... everybody knows that :rolleyes:

    I MAY VOMIT!!!!!


  • #21
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    It's a load of bollocks.


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  • #22
    useful_contacts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭useful_contacts


    the thread was ment to be about things you learned today......


    not spiders!!!!!


  • #23
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    per sleep or in our lifetime?

    And how the fook are we supposed to be able to record that statistic at all if we are asleep?

    I like to assume ALL of us arent being watched. The only reason I dont mind the red blinking light in the corner is because im a bit of an exhibitionist.


  • #24
    Sherifu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    useful_contacts wrote: »
    the thread was ment to be about things you learned today......


    not spiders!!!!!
    FAIL. I hadn't heard this "fact" before.


  • #25
    nkay1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,950 ✭✭✭nkay1985


    useful_contacts wrote: »
    the thread was ment to be about things you learned today......


    not spiders!!!!!

    Well it's sure as hell about spiders now!!!

    I heard that there's a spider that bites you causing paralysis, then it crawls up onto your face and starts to eat your eyes!


  • #26
    Naos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,740 ✭✭✭Naos


    Good man Karl, was about to post it that!

    Ah Spider sandwiches... I remember one fine day when I was a young un at a cattle mart with my Grandad. After watching the auctions for the cows we retired to a cafe where we got some bread, cake and tea.

    I noticed a spider on his slice of bread and kind of gasped and pointed it out. He looked at me dead in the eye and said "Spiders are very nutritious" then proceeded to fold the bread over and to my horror, eat it.

    Oh how I miss that man.


  • #27
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    useful_contacts wrote: »
    What new things have you learned today?

    That it's "play it by ear" and not year :p


  • #28
    Jigsaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,510 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    I've not learnt anything yet today and I very much doubt if I will. In fact, if anything I may regress.


  • #29
    The Master
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 14,324 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Master


    last night and this morning I learned not to take a laxative and a sleeping pill at the same time:(


  • #30
    Puddleduck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Puddleduck


    that boots plus lots of walking equals pain


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  • #31
    Creature
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,005 ✭✭✭Creature


    I learned nothing today because I like to research these so called 'facts' which more often than not turn out to be twaddle. But please, do go on warning me about exploding spider cacti and whatnot.


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