Stupid spiders!!

wonton · 19-09-2010 04:52AM

haha according to wikipedia we dont have any in ireland

kowloon · 19-09-2010 05:05AM

wonton wrote: »

haha according to wikipedia we dont have any in ireland

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the feckers I'm catching just run about, have never seen them make webs.

19-09-2010 05:23AM

I f**king hate the bastards so much that it would even creep me out to read through the previous threads!

I live in a converted attic, nice modern conversion with an ensuite down the far end. I moved up there in a few months ago but since then have had to deal with at least 10 of what i'd call big spiders. Ones up to a certain size I can just about get to grips with catching in a glass and throwing outside but the big-bodied big-legs guys have to be 'taken out' fast.

Now I don't condone the killing of any of God's/Evolution's creations, but there is an exception to every rule. My housemate has some airsoft guns and I recently came about with the notion of simply shooting the terrifying menaces. There is a drop-floor type circular bath in my ensuite, and guaranteed every few days there'll be a giganton of a spider holding my tub to ransom. So the airsoft gun was perfect.

TODAY!! (technically yesterday), while hovering out the remains of the last unwanted visitor, who was at least the circumference of a coke can in size, his much larger kinsman rolled on down the side of the tub.:eek: I didn't so much **** myself, as myself shat me, out of my skin and out the door of the ensuite. It was certainly the largest I've ever seen apart from the spiders in the pets stores. I tried to shoot him, but my hands were shaking. So he now resides in the hoover.

WTF?!?! This is a creature 1/1,000,000th of my mass! It is definitely the legs, what on earth do they need so many legs for? I need to get past this, as my apparent fear is hindering my enjoyment of life and a kick-ass hot tub! Rats, Snakes, mice, athiests, no problem, big-ass Irish house spiders irk me.

One last story. While watching a movie on my laptop in bed a few weeks ago I felt something twitch at my shoulder (you know where this is going), I brushed it away thinking it was a fly or something else that I could pass no remarks of. A minute or so later I seen the silhouette of many legs passing over the sheets before the laptop. 15 minutes it then took to solve that equation.

Is there any spray or spider-annoying transmitter gadget I can get? I'm kinda looking at this experience as a way of getting over the whole '**** it's a spider' thing, but it's not really going that way. And they just keep on coming, I really don't like them.

Eltaz · 19-09-2010 05:32AM

this Thread make me itchy :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::p:p

if you were bear gryll you'd eat him:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

some_dose · 19-09-2010 06:04AM

Eltaz wrote: »

this Thread make me itchy :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::p:p

if you were bear gryll you'd eat him:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

No you'd probably ate his shite

Peyton Manning · 19-09-2010 06:07AM

Eltaz wrote: »

this Thread make me itchy :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::p:p

if you were bear gryll you'd eat him:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Followed by the chef's recommended desert and a bottle of house wine I'm sure.

Oat23 · 19-09-2010 09:14AM

I went downstairs to get breakfast a few minutes ago and there was a massive bashtard on the wall. One of the ones with the very long legs.

Luckily there was Mr Muscle spray so I owned that bitch, he tried to run off but I wasn't having any of that. I grabbed a bread knife and bear grillz'd him by sticking the knife in his body. Goodbye spider, hello fry up!

I'm pretty proud I handled the situation myself. I usually just run out of the room and get someone else to kill them...I've got a serious fear of spiders

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CiDeRmAn · 19-09-2010 09:30AM

My biggest problem with the little buggers is that when I throw them out the door, or swipe one away from my clothing, I am aware that they scurry back to darkness in a random way, but why, why does it always seem to be back towards me?
I mean, it's like it wants to have a "frank exchange of views" over the whole, get the feck off me issue I thought was settled when I bounced it off my lapel!

Some of them are so big though, I half expect the doorbell to ring after throwing their hairy, 8 legged ass out!
Then hear a little thick dublin accent go "Do We Have A Problem?"

bronte · 19-09-2010 09:35AM

Can't stand them.
A fcuker came in the window a few nights ago.
OH was away so couldn't get rid of him for me.....not that he's much better with spiders. I honestly did not sleep. Must've sprayed have a can of febreze on the bastid. Hoovered him the next day...should have done it in the beginning. :mad:

19-09-2010 09:37AM

They're all over the house, even though we only cleaned yesterday and got rid of cobwebs. It's mad!
Try to ignore them though, I feel bad about killing any

Cunning Stunt · 19-09-2010 10:02AM

Best invention ever. Now I can ''catch'' the feckers, without getting too close

http://www.spidercatcher.net/EU/product.htm

Coriolanus · 19-09-2010 01:49PM

Ahh, if you live in a town you don't know big spiders at all.

I've had to catch ones that wouldn't fit in a pint glass (my usual catchment tool) without cutting off the legs at the knee, I had to go rummaging for a big plastic mixing bowl.

19-09-2010 01:53PM

Since half the country is thinking of emigrating to Australia............

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

Coriolanus · 19-09-2010 01:54PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Since half the country is thinking of emigrating to Australia............

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

HAha, wow, that's deadly!

Novella · 19-09-2010 02:05PM

Ahhh. I have so many spiders in my apartment. I don't know where they're coming from. >_<

the purple tin · 19-09-2010 02:37PM

I don't mind them too much until they grow over a certain size. The really big hairy ones scare the bejay out of me. I try to catch them and chuck them out but I could never kill them -when I was young I was always told it was very bad luck to kill a spider.

Irish Guitarist · 19-09-2010 02:51PM

After you've gone on your spiding killing spree you'll probably have flies and other insects buzzing in your ear all day long. I could get banned for saying this, but it will serve you right.

Coriolanus · 19-09-2010 02:56PM

the purple tin wrote: »

I don't mind them too much until they grow over a certain size. The really big hairy ones scare the bejay out of me. I try to catch them and chuck them out but I could never kill them -when I was young I was always told it was very bad luck to kill a spider.

I think that's only the money spiders (whatever the fsck they are?), I was always told, never kill a money spider or you'll never have any money.
I guess I killed one at some stage.

anniehoo · 19-09-2010 03:10PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I half expect the doorbell to ring after throwing their hairy, 8 legged ass out!
Then hear a little thick dublin accent go "Do We Have A Problem?"

ahahahaha...that made me laugh so much!

Solution to all your problems is get a cat.Its like havin your very own insect bodyguard. Spiders,flies, any creepy crawlies regret the day they set foot in my place with my cat around. The mutilated bodies ive come home to lately is unreal. I feel sorry for butterflies though (i like them) and daddy long legs (cos you just know their IQ isnt in double digits) and probably diddled directly over to my cats mouth.

Mal-Adjusted · 19-09-2010 03:10PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

Bollox. Dirty houses attract insects & spiders.

Just clean it or quit whining.

no.

iv'e seen spiders in clean houses too.

the bastards can live for four years, but they control the insect population, so...i don't know. it all evens out in the end

Healium · 19-09-2010 04:33PM

Awww, how could you kill this cute little guy?

Oh yeah, like this! *kills*

Yuck, the big guys creep me out. I have no problem with little guys, or even with tarantulas (at least they're kinda slow and predictable). It's these hybrid feckers that I hate. I actually get afraid of killing them. I always spend 5 minute staring them down, concentrating. If I miss my shot, that fecker is gonna run towards me, and bite me in the face

A matter of life and death, really

previous user · 19-09-2010 04:44PM

How do they get so Big?
I found one or two in my room so far, fangs as big as their legs,
there's no insects in my room so I dunno how they're growing.

Coriolanus · 19-09-2010 05:01PM

previous user wrote: »

How do they get so Big?
I found one or two in my room so far, fangs as big as their legs,
there's no insects in my room so I dunno how they're growing.

That's pretty much the answer. There's no other insects because the spider is eating them all, growing super-sized on the yummy critters!

MarkY91 · 19-09-2010 05:15PM

i brought my duvet to the sofa and i unrolled it and a hugeeee spider fell from the duvet i almost had a heartattack:( last time i leave my window open all night

greenbicycle · 19-09-2010 05:48PM

oh god, arachnaphobia (sp) was on TV last night and now there is a thread about the things.....the spiders are out to get me in every way possible!!!

RonMexico · 19-09-2010 05:58PM

Video of the OP vs Spider

Voltex · 19-09-2010 08:00PM

I think most of the spiders people are finding in their houses and homes are male House Spiders. This time of the year they get a bit toey and start roaming around looking for a bit....during their wanders they invaribly end up entering our dwellings. Cant say theyd do too much to control insects within the home..theyre not geard for that sorta thing.

I have a huge garden spider with a web across our living room window...its amazing just how many flies, moths and midgies they actually catch.

magick · 19-09-2010 08:11PM

When I was in my parents house I used to be amazed about how they got into the place. I used to have my old room sealed tight and they still got in!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N4Apvh9tDI

Gannicus · 19-09-2010 08:31PM

Or the scariest spider of them all.:eek::eek::eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AB7IDw3PNI

me_right_one · 19-09-2010 08:39PM

Voltex wrote: »

I think most of the spiders people are finding in their houses and homes are male House Spiders. This time of the year they get a bit toey and start roaming around looking for a bit....during their wanders they invaribly end up entering our dwellings. Cant say theyd do too much to control insects within the home..theyre not geard for that sorta thing.

I see. So how do they, em, do it? Too many legs. 16 fcukin legs in the way

Stupid spiders!!

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