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Stupid spiders!!

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  • #2
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Just clean your house & stop f*cking whining.


  • #3
    Peyton Manning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    Could be worse, you could have these buggers...


  • #4
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Just clean your house & stop f*cking whining.

    Great insight there! But unfortunately, that's not a nefarious set of plans designed to kill or maim a huge bastard spider.

    Besides, my house is clean. It's the temperature they are after.


  • #5
    SadieSue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭SadieSue


    Hover them up!


  • #6
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Archimedes wrote: »
    Could be worse, you could have these buggers...

    That's disgusting :eek:


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  • #7
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    stop feeding them


  • #8
    SadieSue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭SadieSue


    Archimedes wrote: »
    Could be worse, you could have these buggers...

    KILL IT WITH FIRE!

    *shivers*


  • #9
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    SadieSue wrote: »
    Hover them up!

    3:30 in the morning dude :( Need something more neighbour-friendly.


  • #10
    Peyton Manning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    dlofnep wrote: »
    That's disgusting :eek:

    That's not the half of it. They're also loyalists!


  • #11
    Saaron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 614 ✭✭✭Saaron


    Oh great...I hate that time of year.

    I live in an old house.. and it seems to have spiders that just mutate into monsters!

    I think last year was the worst, I found one so big that I was unable to kill it. It was hiding with it's friend in my curtains.. I could not believe the size of one of them. AGHHH! Body & legs included he looked much larger than my hand. :(

    That was the only time I've actually had to sleep in another room out of absolute fear. Normally I let other ones live as I don't really mind them unless they're VERY close to my bed.

    My Aunt has HUGE spider problem. She can count about up to 40 spiders in a matter of weeks, I don't know how she gets so many, but I've seen them regularly and they're always massive! :(

    Oh well, that's all. :D


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  • #12
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Archimedes wrote: »
    That's not the half of it. They're also loyalists!

    Big bastard loyalist spiders. Just what I need. :mad:


  • #13
    CorkMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    dlofnep wrote: »
    3:30 in the morning dude :( Need something more neighbour-friendly.

    Torch the place, that oughta get rid of em.


  • #14
    dublingirl01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭dublingirl01


    Oh, i would cry . . :(


    I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE spiders!


  • #15
    KevinVonSpiel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 522 ✭✭✭KevinVonSpiel


    Saaron wrote: »
    Oh great...I hate that time of year.

    I live in an old house.. and it seems to have spiders that just mutate into monsters!

    I think last year was the worst, I found one so big that I was unable to kill it. It was hiding with it's friend in my curtains.. I could not believe the size of one of them. AGHHH! Body & legs included he looked much larger than my hand. :(

    That was the only time I've actually had to sleep in another room out of absolute fear. Normally I let other ones live as I don't really mind them unless they're VERY close to my bed.

    My Aunt has HUGE spider problem. She can count about up to 40 spiders in a matter of weeks, I don't know how she gets so many, but I've seen them regularly and they're always massive! :(

    Oh well, that's all. :D

    Eh, Sauron... did it look like this?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA0ffVBw584


  • #16
    jd007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,094 ✭✭✭jd007


    Archimedes wrote: »
    Could be worse, you could have these buggers...

    I feel all itchy now :(


  • #17
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Great insight there! But unfortunately, that's not a nefarious set of plans designed to kill or maim a huge bastard spider.

    Besides, my house is clean. It's the temperature they are after.

    Bollox. Dirty houses attract insects & spiders.

    Just clean it or quit whining.


  • #18
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Was in the bathroom earlier and this big mother****er of spider that i last missed going back around 6 weeks ago was out on the floor of the bathroom again, i knew it was the same guy because i missed him last time and he had crawled under the bath, so i snook up really quiet and smack the **** with the toilet roll and i got him, poor ****er feel sorry for him now espically since he had survived so long.


  • #19
    some_dose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭some_dose


    Dear Op,

    Last night I went to watch tv. After a while I felt a twinge on my foot (I was shoeless and sockless). I wriggled my foot and then looked down only to find that I'd angered a giant house spider (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_house_spider). Being incredibly arachnophobic I stood up. A ten minute altercation happened with myself and the spider (who I called Barry) having a stare-off (we've all been there). Then, no word of a lie, he CHASED me across the room. I won't deny it, but I screamed like a little girl and ran out of the room. I'm here now in the same room typing this. I think it's........Oh God.......Oh no....He,p meeeeeeeee.rpvjnbreoivvv


  • #20
    noura
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭noura


    my god I hate them so much, I saw in my balcony spiders's sons :D I afraid coz they don't want to leave, and they're getting bigger day after day what should I do ???? I can't even touch them :confused:


  • #21
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    I have two in jars as pets already :-)


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  • #22
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Spiders aren't stupid at all. I think they're great and I don't get why anyone would want to kill them.


  • #23
    KevinVonSpiel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 522 ✭✭✭KevinVonSpiel


    some_dose wrote: »
    Dear Op,

    Last night I went to watch tv. After a while I felt a twinge on my foot (I was shoeless and sockless). I wriggled my foot and then looked down only to find that I'd angered a giant house spider (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_house_spider). Being incredibly arachnophobic I stood up. A ten minute altercation happened with myself and the spider (who I called Barry) having a stare-off (we've all been there). Then, no word of a lie, he CHASED me across the room. I won't deny it, but I screamed like a little girl and ran out of the room. I'm here now in the same room typing this. I think it's........Oh God.......Oh no....He,p meeeeeeeee.rpvjnbreoivvv

    I just looked up that wikipedia page... looks like he's looking for a mate... & it looks like he just got lucky.


  • #24
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,187 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    I was catching 2-3 a night for a period of about three weeks. There are less now, not sure why. I have a pint glass that I brush them into. They can't climb up the inside of it. I just put them outside.
    The smaller ones who hang about their webs don't bother me as much because they don't run around the floor waiting for me to crush them in my bare feet (horrible!).


  • #25
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,925 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    There's a huge orange and black one outside the front door of where i'm staying for college. I must look like a ****ing lunatic or robber looking for this spider every time I open the door


  • #26
    Sofiztikated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    This is just great, loyalist spiders building union jack webs in republican houses. Next thing you know, there'll be july's in March and whatnot.

    I dislike spiders. Not hate, but dislike. Don't like killing them though.


  • #27
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    some_dose wrote: »
    Dear Op,

    Last night I went to watch tv. After a while I felt a twinge on my foot (I was shoeless and sockless). I wriggled my foot and then looked down only to find that I'd angered a giant house spider (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_house_spider). Being incredibly arachnophobic I stood up. A ten minute altercation happened with myself and the spider (who I called Barry) having a stare-off (we've all been there). Then, no word of a lie, he CHASED me across the room. I won't deny it, but I screamed like a little girl and ran out of the room. I'm here now in the same room typing this. I think it's........Oh God.......Oh no....He,p meeeeeeeee.rpvjnbreoivvv

    Yup, that's the lad. Tegenaria duellica, otherwise known as the Big Bastard Spider. He shall be ok until tomorrow - Then he's going out the window if I can find him.


  • #28
    me_right_one
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭me_right_one


    Those giant house bastards, do they spin webs? I've never seen one hiding in a corner with a web out, they're always either goose-stepping across the floor or doing Sylvester Stallone impressions on the walls. Anyway, their web would prob be like guitar strings! Is there any way to repel them, any smells, predators etc.?


  • #29
    some_dose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭some_dose


    me_right_one wrote: »
    Those giant house bastards, do they spin webs? I've never seen one hiding in a corner with a web out, they're always either goose-stepping across the floor or doing Sylvester Stallone impressions on the walls. Anyway, their web would prob be like guitar strings! Is there any way to repel them, any smells, predators etc.?

    Can of Lynx + Lighter = no more spiders (as well as no more house but fcuk it, what price are you willing to pay?!)


  • #30
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    me_right_one wrote: »
    Those giant house bastards, do they spin webs? I've never seen one hiding in a corner with a web out, they're always either goose-stepping across the floor or doing Sylvester Stallone impressions on the walls. Anyway, their web would prob be like guitar strings! Is there any way to repel them, any smells, predators etc.?

    Yeah, but they ambush prey by hiding in a web-made tunnel rather than using a web to catch flies.


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  • #31
    me_right_one
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭me_right_one


    That is disgusting. You mean to tell me there are **shudders** web-made-tunnels in my house? I can only imagine they're about the circumference of a pen, and about 2 inches long to house these bastards


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