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Its that time of the year again...

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  • #32
    The Express
    Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭The Express


    Capture the little c*nts with an empty coffee jar. Let them climb up the side of it, then tip it over and close the lid.

    If that doesn't work, smash the f*cker to pieces with a slipper or hot water bottle.

    Job done.


  • #33
    eimearcmh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 599 ✭✭✭eimearcmh


    I don't like this thread:(....i thought it would be about the lead up to Chistmas. The title is VERY misleading
    Couldn't even bring myself to look at the second photo


    Scans the room for the little 8 legged monsters


  • #34
    h57xiucj2z946q
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭h57xiucj2z946q


    eimearcmh wrote: »
    I don't like this thread:(....i thought it would be about the lead up to Chistmas. The title is VERY misleading
    Couldn't even bring myself to look at the second photo


    Scans the room for the little 8 legged monsters

    Neither could others it seems..

    IMG_20100822_230255.jpg (116.6 KB, 99 views)
    IMG_20100901_231942.jpg (175.0 KB, 66 views)

    The 2nd pic is better to be honest.


  • #35
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,984 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    eimearcmh wrote: »
    I don't like this thread:(....i thought it would be about the lead up to Chistmas. The title is VERY misleading
    Couldn't even bring myself to look at the second photo

    Im very glad its not about christmas to be honest. We'll here enough about all that ****e in a few weeks time.

    Don't mind xmas week but the 2 months of consumer zombie madness that preceeds the 25th wrecks my head.:(


  • #36
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Fizman wrote: »
    That was an apartment spider.

    The dreaded Arachnus Apartamentus.


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  • #37
    eimearcmh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 599 ✭✭✭eimearcmh


    Marco Deafening Insecticide wrote: »
    The 2nd pic is better to be honest.

    My thought tracking.......Your Damo, which is Damien (i presume), and are male.....therefore likes such creatures. Therefore im presuming that the 2nd picture is worse and more graphic! Therefore i shall be avoiding picture 2:)


  • #38
    eimearcmh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 599 ✭✭✭eimearcmh


    fonecrusher1 wrote: »
    Im very glad its not about christmas to be honest. We'll here enough about all that ****e in a few weeks time.

    Don't mind xmas week but the 2 months of consumer zombie madness that preceeds the 25th wrecks my head.:(

    It is far to early, i agree. I had my mother ring me today to tell me how many weeks away it was until Christmas. Sure its still summer.:rolleyes:


  • #39
    h57xiucj2z946q
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭h57xiucj2z946q


    eimearcmh wrote: »
    My thought tracking.......Your Damo, which is Damien (i presume), and are male.....therefore likes such creatures. Therefore im presuming that the 2nd picture is worse and more graphic! Therefore i shall be avoiding picture 2:)

    Yeah, sorry your correct :-)


  • #40
    Osgoodisgood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 870 ✭✭✭Osgoodisgood


    BluesBerry wrote: »
    apparently the average human being will eat 8 spiders in their lifetime they crawl into your mouth as you sleep and you swallow them :eek:

    Urban Myth.

    I once overheard some people discussing this very same story of unknowingly consuming creepy crawlies. They were at the next table. At McDonald's.


  • #41
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,819 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Osgoodisgood wrote: »
    Urban Myth.

    I once overheard some people discussing this very same story of unknowingly consuming creepy crawlies. They were at the next table. At McDonald's.

    It was probably wishful thinking, I know I'd rather eat a spider than a Big Mac! :pac:


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  • #42
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    BluesBerry wrote: »
    Im not that afraid of spiders but this one was huge and just didn't want it crawling into my ear or mouth as I slept....... apparently the average human being will eat 8 spiders in their lifetime they crawl into your mouth as you sleep and you swallow them :eek:


    This is a myth (a fairly retarded one at that) created by a journalist to see how fast disinformation can be disseminated on the Internet.

    http://www.brownreclusespider.org/eating-spiders-while-asleep-myth.htm

    http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.asp


    On topic, these spiders (Tegenaria Duellica) are around in Autumn because it's mating season, they're looking for lurve, they won't be as prevalent by October. They are the fastest spider in the world and their bite is potentially dangerous but it's very unlikely they will bite you.

    BTW, these are giant house spiders, so most are likely to live in your house anyway, just normally they hide a bit better :eek:


  • #43
    stbrennan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 111 ✭✭stbrennan


    DDAAAMMMMNNNNN NATURE YOU SCARY!!!
    GET IN MY BASEMENT!


  • #44
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    Haha weird I just opened tris thread and noticed that every girl in the place was suddenly freaking out. There was one of them big garden spiders ya know the evil looking ones. There was a space of at least 5 or 6 foot around it as they all pointed and going eurgh eek and all them noises. I eventually found it under the divider and put a cup on it and flipped it over with a bit of paper underneath it. took up most of the cup and walking past one of the mates i just HAD to show her, headphones on, starin at the screen and i lower the cup infront of her... I've never seen someones eyes grow so big so quick and she flew half way cross the floor (seat is on wheels) bringing ipod and all with her. Ah i love this time of year!!!


  • #45
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    KungPao wrote: »
    I saw the BIGGEST house spider I've ever seen the other night in my apartment...dropped the phonebook on the fecker.

    and said 'call a taxi, I haven't enough dinner for both of us.'


  • #46
    Cheap Thrills!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,723 ✭✭✭Cheap Thrills!


    :eek: Thanks OP, you've just reminded me something....

    *Fetches silicon frame sealant gun and begins sealing window frames*


  • #47
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Seen one of the eight legged scumbags in my room last night, darting across the floor under the wardrobe. Spent the next hour trying to find it because you just know the minute the light goes out it's going to appear on the bed somewhere. Never found the b@stard :mad:


  • #48
    eimearcmh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 599 ✭✭✭eimearcmh


    Erica<3 wrote: »
    I think it's because they are beginning to die off.

    Thanks thats slightly reassuring:o
    I saw two very very small ones last night...killed them there and then....didn't want to give them a chance to grow into adulthood!!!!


  • #49
    h57xiucj2z946q
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭h57xiucj2z946q


    http://sobasc.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/spider-hell.jpg


  • #50
    RockinRolla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 575 ✭✭✭RockinRolla


    Marco Deafening Insecticide wrote: »
    When the critters come into the house.
    First pic was a few days ago, then another tonight on the bathroom wall (a big-ish bastard) (pics attached)


    Seems to always be around August/September when these critters come into the house (more so). Anyone else notice that?
    What causes them to come into the house more commonly at this time of the year anyone know?

    JESUS CHRIST, OP.

    That's a tarantula....thank god I don't live in the wild west...all sorts of weird animals down there.


  • #51
    Amhran Nua
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭Amhran Nua


    Marco Deafening Insecticide wrote: »
    When the critters come into the house.
    First pic was a few days ago, then another tonight on the bathroom wall (a big-ish bastard) (pics attached)
    Yeah I caught one of them hanging on the wall over my head when I woke up the last day, couldn't even fit his legs into the top of one of those jumbo sized coffee jars, I had to use a bit of paper to poke them back under. Its a common Giant House Spider I think, can give you a nasty nip (and they are fast) but less painful than say a wasp sting. Eviction time in the AN house for that lad, the wife voted him out.


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  • #52
    FruitLover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭FruitLover


    I recently discovered (first-hand, unfortunately) that in Japan, we have jumping spiders.


    These are spiders that jump.


    So I have no sympathy for you and your ordinary Irish spiders...


  • #53
    h57xiucj2z946q
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭h57xiucj2z946q


    I just did a search, others aer getting nice surprises too:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056006096
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054982518&page=20


  • #54
    eimearcmh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 599 ✭✭✭eimearcmh


    Amhran Nua wrote: »
    Yeah I caught one of them hanging on the wall over my head when I woke up the last day, couldn't even fit his legs into the top of one of those jumbo sized coffee jars, I had to use a bit of paper to poke them back under. Its a common Giant House Spider I think, can give you a nasty nip (and they are fast) but less painful than say a wasp sting. Eviction time in the AN house for that lad, the wife voted him out.


    AHHHHHHH. Irish spiders can nip?!!!
    I'll be sleeping on the kitchen table at this rate!:(
    Im going to go hover now......


  • #55
    Amhran Nua
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭Amhran Nua


    eimearcmh wrote: »
    AHHHHHHH. Irish spiders can nip?!!!
    Indeed they can, and that one holds the land speed record for arachnids as it turns out. Just don't surprise them. Nobody has ever died from an Irish spider bite, that we know of.


  • #56
    storm2811
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,183 ✭✭✭storm2811


    Brb closing all windows..>_>
    I've never seen a spider that big here,fcukin hell.:(


  • #57
    Jaxxy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,297 ✭✭✭Jaxxy


    Amhran Nua wrote: »
    Indeed they can, and that one holds the land speed record for arachnids as it turns out. Just don't surprise them. Nobody has ever died from an Irish spider bite, that we know of.

    Do you mean the spider in the OP's first pic? I have one of those in my room, he's deadly, he eats all the other little feckers.


  • #58
    Amhran Nua
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭Amhran Nua


    JaxxYChicK wrote: »
    Do you mean the spider in the OP's first pic? I have one of those in my room, he's deadly, he eats all the other little feckers.
    Thats the one, Giant House spider its called. I wanted to leash him and set him on the field mice in the garden but of course herself would have none of it. Mind you, if anyone has travelled in the tropics they'd be delighted to see a beastie like that hanging over their head compared to some of the villainous characters haunting the hot countries. As they say, the day you're tired of checking your boots for snakes is the day you're tired of living.


  • #59
    Jaxxy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,297 ✭✭✭Jaxxy


    Amhran Nua wrote: »
    Thats the one, Giant House spider its called. I wanted to leash him and set him on the field mice in the garden but of course herself would have none of it. Mind you, if anyone has travelled in the tropics they'd be delighted to see a beastie like that hanging over their head compared to some of the villainous characters haunting the hot countries. As they say, the day you're tired of checking your boots for snakes is the day you're tired of living.

    I don't mind him at all, he lives behind my wardrobe I think, I've called him Gok. I remember seeing a Hunstman the first time I was in Australia, fascinating creatures really, stared at it for ages then got all giggly every time it moved.


  • #60
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    I just pissed all over the house to mark my territory. That way the spiders will know to stay away.

    Oh wait...


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  • #61
    Hail 2 Da Thief
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Hail 2 Da Thief


    Pfft women!!


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