It's that time of year again..

xOxSinéadxOx · 07-08-2008 02:50AM

why does everyone have a problem with spiders?

MOTHS FFS!

MagicMarker · 07-08-2008 02:55AM

Just be thankful you don't have mosquitos!!

Dinxminx · 07-08-2008 09:47AM

There's this one little f*cker in my room. I woke up one morning only to find him crawling on my pillow. I flicked him away in my half-asleep, merciful state and I haven't seen him since. He's clearly seen me though -

He's bitten me THREE TIMES since I saw him*. He's like the Vampire Spider! Next time I see him he won't be so lucky...

Anyone know how to make a spider trap?

*No, I haven't developed any special abilities. I checked.

Captain Ginger · 07-08-2008 10:01AM

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

why does everyone have a problem with spiders?

MOTHS FFS!

Yeah I fu<>ing hate them, it's been pretty hot at night so I have my window open, and because I have my computer screen on they all fly in, and the other nigth a massive one entered, I sprayed it with anti wasp spray and it took it down.

Killed a few spiders as well as of late.

KnifeWRENCH · 07-08-2008 10:10AM

We have a thing that catches them:
http://www.gadgetshop.com/media/gadgetshop/products/ProductGalleryImage3/233460.jpg
My Dad got it for my sister. It comes in handy.

And my Gran is terrified of them, so she has this beeping thing in her hall. Apparently, the noise keeps them away.

I'm not too scared of spiders but I'm not a fan of them either.
Still, I'd prefer to be in a room with 10 spiders than be anywhere near a wasp *shudders*

christeb · 07-08-2008 10:13AM

Groundskeeper Willy on seeoing the alien: "Kill it, kill it, kill it"
Lisa shines light on alien: "Wait, it's only Mr. Burns"
Willy: "Ahhhh, it's Mr. Burns. KILL IT, KILL IT, KILL IT"

Same appproach to spiders. I don't mind the ones that look slike Daddy Long Legs* with no wings, but the meaty little feckers that you know are just filled with venom and speed, I hate them.

*And yes, I do realise that DDL's are supposedly the most venomous...

Malari · 07-08-2008 10:51AM

christeb wrote: »

Groundskeeper Willy on seeoing the alien: "Kill it, kill it, kill it"
Lisa shines light on alien: "Wait, it's only Mr. Burns"
Willy: "Ahhhh, it's Mr. Burns. KILL IT, KILL IT, KILL IT"

Same appproach to spiders. I don't mind the ones that look slike Daddy Long Legs* with no wings, but the meaty little feckers that you know are just filled with venom and speed, I hate them.

*And yes, I do realise that DDL's are supposedly the most venomous...

More venomous than monster spiders but they can't bite you - not powerful enough to pierce human skin. Monster spiders however...it's like a wasp sting, bloody painful. So now when I pick them up to throw them out the window I make sure my fingers are nowhere near the fangs.

javaboy · 07-08-2008 11:08AM

christeb wrote: »

*And yes, I do realise that DDL's are supposedly the most venomous...

Malari wrote: »

More venomous than monster spiders but they can't bite you - not powerful enough to pierce human skin.

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

Urban legend I'm afraid: http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.asp

Harvestmen or DDL as they are sometimes known aren't poisonous or venomous. I think Mythbusters covered it too.

token56 · 07-08-2008 11:10AM

Are these the really quick feckers, I think there cool to be honest, they must be pissing themselves knowing the scare some many people, although then they just get stood on.

Only one way to overcome your fear, fill a bath with them and jump right in

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 07-08-2008 11:16AM

What, spider on a beermat, beermat in the bath and see if he likes rafting...?

Malari · 07-08-2008 11:19AM

javaboy wrote: »

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

Urban legend I'm afraid: http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.asp

Harvestmen or DDL as they are sometimes known aren't poisonous or venomous. I think Mythbusters covered it too.

Not to humans! But all spiders are venomous to some degree.

kmick · 07-08-2008 11:20AM

Dinxminx wrote: »

There's this one little f*cker in my room. I woke up one morning only to find him crawling on my pillow. I flicked him away in my half-asleep, merciful state and I haven't seen him since. He's clearly seen me though -

He's bitten me THREE TIMES since I saw him*. He's like the Vampire Spider! Next time I see him he won't be so lucky...

Anyone know how to make a spider trap?

*No, I haven't developed any special abilities. I checked.

Spiders can bite you but there jaws are so weak they cant break the skin. They are just curious not malevolent. Next time you see one say hello and leave it be. Its bad luck to kill one.

Steve_o · 07-08-2008 11:21AM

I don't mind them so much, its the moths i hate... evil baxtards!!!

javaboy · 07-08-2008 11:25AM

Malari wrote: »

Not to humans! But all spiders are venomous to some degree.

Yes true. I meant to say 'to humans'.

Malari · 07-08-2008 11:32AM

javaboy wrote: »

Yes true. I meant to say 'to humans'.

S'allright. I love mythbusters

didn't see the DLL one yet

Dinxminx · 07-08-2008 11:37AM

kmick wrote: »

Spiders can bite you but there jaws are so weak they cant break the skin. They are just curious not malevolent. Next time you see one say hello and leave it be. Its bad luck to kill one.

Oh I wouldn't kill it. I just wouldn't allow him to live in my room any more. I can't kill things, and I actually like creepy crawlies (anyone else think Woodlice are the cutest things ever? No? Just me then..)

Also found this on a mythbuster site (just looked it up): "There are well-documented human bite cases from spiders as small as 3 millimeters long. (The bites caused no ill effects, of course!) It's not that spiders can't bite, but that they don't bite except very rarely."

My Charlotte was suffering some serious PMS last week, that's all.

Also, if it's not a spider biting me then what the hell else could it be? They're certainly not mosquito bites..

christeb · 07-08-2008 11:38AM

Bad luck to kill them is it??

How much bad luck have I brought on myself with the 6 I've killed in the last week?

javaboy · 07-08-2008 11:41AM

When I was a young'un my friend and I used to collect spiders from all around and transplant them to a massive bush in his garden. I got bitten on the palm of the hand once for my troubles by one of these girls: http://www.littlehistories.co.uk/images/2007/09/22/garden_spider_cr.jpg

We stuck to that type of garden spider. The "bite" didn't break the skin or hurt really but it did pinch and managed to hold on even when I turned my hand upside down. Them were the days.

RandolphEsq · 07-08-2008 11:56AM

KBarry wrote: »

Failing that, stand on the fcukers.

I couldn't do that. The crunch and squelch is too horrible . . . I'd prefer to just throw something heavy on it.
I also have a fear that they will jump up onto my face if I get to close and stare at them.
Last night I had a nightmare of big spiders. I was in my house when one big massive one appeared and then a few more crawled out of the floor so I turned to run and then ran into a giant web and got stuck. Then they all started crawling over my body and face rubbing their hairy legs all over me . . . . I still get hard thinking about it . . . . That was a joke there, it was awful

redshoulder · 07-08-2008 01:12PM

I just trap them and put them outside.

fitz0 · 07-08-2008 01:28PM

Malari wrote: »

More venomous than monster spiders but they can't bite you - not powerful enough to pierce human skin. Monster spiders however...it's like a wasp sting, bloody painful. So now when I pick them up to throw them out the window I make sure my fingers are nowhere near the fangs.

... they have fangs? ... ... ... feck

Malari · 07-08-2008 02:28PM

fitz0 wrote: »

... they have fangs? ... ... ... feck

Why, spider, what big fangs you have!
All the better to inject the venom with my dear!

Doop · 07-08-2008 02:49PM

I was watching TV in bed the other night

and to my shock I noticed a hugh shadow against the wall of a massive spider.. on closer inspection it was quite a small spider casting the shadow, there he was crawling down the bed, right beside my head..!

I dont mind em too much wouldnt kill one... or touch one really, you need to use the old nudge em onto a piece of paper trick, and out the window he goes.

My arch nemis of the insect world is the earwig, eewwww, freak out :eek:

redshoulder · 07-08-2008 05:55PM

Hate earwigs aswell, remind me of The Wrath of Khan movie

Uthur · 07-08-2008 06:07PM

a small one tried to crawl up my nose while i was in bed last night. i am
NOT joking!

HAIRY JAPANESE BASTARDS!!!!!!!

sam34 · 07-08-2008 06:22PM

hate fookin spiders, but much worse than them are daddy long legs! hate them bastards!! the noise they make with their wings is horrible. freaky yokes, and they move fast

Tar.Aldarion · 07-08-2008 06:34PM

Mmm, love spiders. Pretty cool yokes, just watch em walk around really...

Mossy Monk · 07-08-2008 07:12PM

I cannot understand the fear of spiders found in Ireland. They are tiny things.

Uthur · 07-08-2008 08:06PM

Mossy Monk wrote: »

I cannot understand the fear of spiders found in Ireland. They are tiny things.

is you a MENTALIST mossy??

i swear there was one in the bathroom a few years back
that was more than 4 inches across. i dropped a turnip
sized blob of shaving cream onto it and it was still able
to move around. i admit we'd just had the hottest
year in irish history so maybe that was something to
do with it but this thing was as big as my hand!

Peared · 07-08-2008 10:20PM

Well thanks people I feel much much better now.

Yes much better

It's that time of year again..

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