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There is a large spider on your desk.

  • 23-05-2012 05:46PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭omgitsthelazor


    What do you do first?

    I'm not ashamed to admit I'd call my boyfriend or father (depending where I am) to deal with it. If they weren't around I'd quarantine the room until they got here.

    Large Spider... 140 votes

    Call for someone else to deal with it.
    0% 0 votes
    Evacuate the room
    9% 13 votes
    Squeal
    5% 7 votes
    Hit it frantically with something
    2% 4 votes
    Calmly hit it with something
    12% 18 votes
    Ignore it, doesn't bother you
    21% 30 votes
    Play with it by seeing what it'll crawl on to.
    32% 45 votes
    Search for a 2P Atari Jaguar game so it can join in.
    16% 23 votes


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Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Brush it off the desk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    I'd take a picture to be ready for anyone who'd say "pics or gtfo" when I post an inane thread on after hours.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,603 ✭✭✭Funkfield


    Close all my pórn tabs.

    All
    of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 356 ✭✭bambera


    Blow it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    BURN THEM !!!

    BURN THEM ALL !!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭omgitsthelazor


    Funkfield wrote: »
    Close all my pórn tabs


    porn as gaelige?


  • Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Ariadne Nervous Headgear


    Ignore it or pick it up with cup & paper and bring it outside


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭mysteries1984


    Ah, you couldn't kill it, that's not fair.

    I'd probably get one of the many men in the office to deal with it for me...but I'm not averse to getting a pint glass and a magazine and moving it myself. I wouldn't throw it out the window though, the wuss in me is afraid it'd come back in :o. I'd have to go down to the ground floor and release it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,331 ✭✭✭✭bronte


    Put a cup or glass over it.
    Beg someone else to put it outside.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I used to put them in a tissue and flush them down a toilet. I don't have the heart for that anymore so I'd just throw him out the window in the tissue instead.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,603 ✭✭✭Funkfield


    porn as gaelige?

    an feadán dearg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I'm pretty sure that's actually my boss.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    I like having a spider bro.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭omgitsthelazor


    For all my fear of them I don't like killing them either, the one and only method of eradicating them myself is the hoover. (so I can keep a safe distance)

    then quarantine the hoover for a few weeks in case it crawls back out. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Pick it up, put it outside.
    Why isn't this option in the poll?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Funglegunk


    I'm not ashamed to admit I'd call my boyfriend or father (depending where I am) to deal with it.

    That must get pretty annoying for them. And spiders are people too you know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭omgitsthelazor


    Funglegunk wrote: »
    That must get pretty annoying for them. And spiders are people too you know.

    awww :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    op sounds like Dennis Hopper describing the premise of Speed to Keanu Reeves. "whaddya do? whaddya do?!"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Spiders have tried to capture me (by the face) in their webs a number of times. Just because it's easy to escape their murder attempts, it doesn't make them cute.
    I usually flatten them with a CD case.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    I would scream and get someone to catch it and release it or kill it, I don't care just get it of my desk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,419 ✭✭✭✭jokettle


    Smush it with the biggest, heavist hardback book I can find. If spiders want to live indoors, they should evolve to build their own damn houses and stop trespassing in mine.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    It's only a fūcking spider :confused:


    If he's on the ceiling I let him go about his business, if he's somewhere that means I don't have to get a chair to get him, I'll catch him and let him out.

    Unless you're in a distribution centre for Fyffes you're laughing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    peacefully co-exist


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    How large is large?
    How fast can it run?
    These are vital things I need to know before deciding.

    If it was a horrible yolk however like a beetle, earwig, centipede etc... then I would run away screaming for help.


  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Have a total freak attack. Then leave the room. Then beg someone else to get rid of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭jimthemental


    Ah, you couldn't kill it, that's not fair.

    I'd probably get one of the many men in the office to deal with it for me...but I'm not averse to getting a pint glass and a magazine and moving it myself. I wouldn't throw it out the window though, the wuss in me is afraid it'd come back in :o. I'd have to go down to the ground floor and release it.

    What if it was this cute little guy 2RnmV.jpg? I left him alive after I took the photo. He could be anywhere :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,062 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    In college, I captured a massive spider and decided to keep it in a jar, dropping in any dead flies that we found on the windowsills.

    He died after 2 days :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    He's your new IT pet, harmless and playful. Let it make a webby home on your desk.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭Papa_Bear


    I just flush 'em down the toilet......

    Sorry if that upsets anyone but I refuse to share my property with anything that has more legs than I do.


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