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Ummmm what the heck is it?

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  • #32
    Doyler92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭Doyler92


    A bit off topic here but I am terrified of them.


  • #33
    tallaghtoutlaws
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,067 ✭✭✭tallaghtoutlaws


    Only us and the Brits call them Daddy Long Legs but it is actually a crane fly to the rest of the world.

    Cock robin is right the spider in his pic is a Daddy Long Legs. Some Daddy Long legs are more venomous than some of your well known deadly spiders. But only to other spiders :D

    I lived with a dude who was a insect and spider freak :D and knew everything about them. :D:D


  • #34
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Adyx wrote: »
    Which is a Daddy Long-legs.

    What?!? A daddy long legs is a spider......with long legs. They don't have wings, they dont fly, they live in sheds, they get along together. AmIright?


  • #35
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,495 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    Cranefly!


  • #36
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    strobe wrote: »
    What?!? A daddy long legs is a spider......with long legs. They don't have wings, they dont fly, they live in sheds, they get along together. AmIright?

    Fail.


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  • #37
    bop1977
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    Does anyone else like pulling their legs off?


  • #38
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    bop1977 wrote: »
    Does anyone else like pulling their legs off?
    That's called masturbation, you dirty boy.


  • #39
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    cock robin wrote: »
    That aint a daddy long legs. It's a crane fly.

    A Daddy Long Legs is a Crane Fly.


  • #40
    SoupyNorman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    killaspec wrote: »
    I have seen them around but can anyone tell me what it is?

    3c4cfaac.jpg


    Jesus man clean your house once in a year huh.


    Alls I can say is, at least you're not one of those underclass humans trying to travel to the stars on Gattaca.


  • #41
    Reeni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭Reeni


    Doyler92 wrote: »
    A bit off topic here but I am terrified of them.
    Ditto. The picture of it without warning made my chest hurt :(

    Also that sink is just nasty.


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  • #42
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    It's probably healthier to eat that crane fly, than wash your hands in the sink OP.


  • #43
    jiltloop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    koHd wrote: »
    I call them horse flies. And the spiders posted above daddy long legs.
    A horse fly is something different altogether, horseflies bite and give you hives.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse-fly


  • #44
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    CLEAN YOUR FÚCKING SINK :mad:


  • #45
    Adyx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭Adyx


    strobe wrote: »
    What?!? A daddy long legs is a spider......with long legs. They don't have wings, they dont fly, they live in sheds, they get along together. AmIright?

    No only in the US and maybe Canada is a Daddy Long-Legs a spider. As pointed out, in Ireland and the UK, a Crane fly is called a Daddy Long-Legs.

    Edit: Actually if you check the Wikipaedia link from the post just before my first post it actually confirms this. Not that means a whole lot. But there is also a shit-load of anecdotal evidence.


  • #46
    _whiskers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭_whiskers


    nasosznik trzes 1 (vo).jpg
    Always called these daddy longlegs and the op crane fly? :confused:


  • #47
    Saft Hans
    Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭Saft Hans


    My mam always called them Harry Long Legs??? And so we call them "Flying Harries":P


  • #48
    Wade in the Sea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 276 ✭✭Wade in the Sea


    A sign from God?



    Telling you to clean your house. Is that a sink or a loo?


  • #49
    phasers
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    They're horseflies, what is wrong with you people?

    A daddy long legs can't fly and it has 8 legs


  • #50
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    phasers wrote: »
    They're horseflies, what is wrong with you people?

    A daddy long legs can't fly and it has 8 legs
    Yeah, it's the majority thats wrong, not you.


  • #51
    strokemyclover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭strokemyclover


    I think the official term is Daddius Longlegium


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  • #52
    Adyx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭Adyx


    This is a horsefly.
    In Ireland/UK this is a Daddy long-legs/Crane fly.
    In America this is a Daddy Long-Legs.

    Edit: Wasn't this on Boards a couple of years ago too?


  • #53
    Cheap Thrills!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,723 ✭✭✭Cheap Thrills!


    It's a messenger from beyond...he says 'clean your sink'


  • #54
    flas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭flas


    a south african girl i know is convinced these are mosquito's!!every time she see's one she shouts mosquit in her south african accent,its kinda funny,trying ot explain to her is very hard that we dont have any mosquito's in Ireland!she even killed one and started showin it around saying lookin it has a sting type thing on it...


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