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There is a large spider on your desk.

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  • #32
    Paddysboys
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 49 ✭Paddysboys


    Hit f5 and hope it goes away


  • #33
    CajunPenguin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭CajunPenguin


    Funkfield wrote: »
    an feadán dearg

    better be real.


  • #34
    Funglegunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Funglegunk


    Is this testing whether I'm a replicant, or a spider-lover Ms. Omgitsthelazor?


  • #35
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    We call it Voight-Kampff for short.


  • #36
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    1. Kidnap it


    2. Write ransom note



    3. ......... I haven't really got around to thinking this far ahead yet


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  • #37
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    I deal with this dilemma on a daily basis, usually when I've been deprived of sleep, when I see two hairless, albino tarantulas dancing all over my keyboard. I usually figure out within a few hours that's it's just my hands.


  • #38
    Scioch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭Scioch


    Kill it dead before it has spider babies.


  • #39
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    I love spiders. I would be his friend :)


  • #40
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Descend into hysterics. Found one in my Dad's polytunnel today which had a body the side of a grape. The lack of predators and amazonian heat in there obviously had let this thing evolve to such a size you could have put a leash and chain on it and sicced it on people you didn't like.

    It will be some time before I'm myself again.

    It was HUGE!!!!! :eek:


  • #41
    Rastapitts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 187 ✭✭Rastapitts


    there arent any large spiders in Ireland so your making a fuss


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  • #42
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Rastapitts wrote: »
    there arent any large spiders in Ireland so your making a fuss

    Body LIKE A GRAPE!!!!!


  • #43
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    Body LIKE A GRAPE!!!!!

    The bigger it is, the easier it is to pick up and put outside. Or smush it with your shoe or whatever. The annoying ones are the little bastards who are too quick and you dunno if they've gone up your sleeve or into your ear or wherever else!?! :cool:

    I don't mind spiders so if I can't catch them I let them be. Little did I know... I've a large double bed but only use two of the four pillows on it. I hadn't moved one of the pillows that was leaning against the wall for a few days. Changing the bed clothes, I move the pillow and the bastard spider had made a little nest and about 40 mini spiders were all over the pillow. :mad:


  • #44
    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    I don't mind spiders! Only yesterday at work, a nurse squealed when she saw a spider in the corridor. She asked a doctor if he would remove it, but he nearly passed out too! So I stepped in, scooped him up in my hands and put him outside. I was made to feel like a superhero :D, but I told them I would have required their assistance had there been a slug present :eek: !


  • #45
    PK2008
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭PK2008


    Punch it in the tits!!


  • #46
    Owen_S
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Owen_S


    Blast it with piss.


  • #47
    Varied
    Closed Accounts Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Varied


    Spiders are great.

    They get rid of those bastid flies.


  • #48
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,161 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Cup + paper = spider out the window!!


  • #49
    languagenerd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    Poll needs to be multiple choice - first I'd squeal, then I'd evacuate the room, then I'd ask someone else to come throw it out for me, all in quick succession. :p

    I'm really bad with spiders, I don't even know why. I often jump quite violently when I see one near me (pulled a muscle once because of it!) and have been known to scream too :o. I'm making an effort to get over it, and have started getting the smaller ones out with a sweeping brush, a sheet of paper or the hoover... but I still run a mile from the bigger ones, and relocate to the spare room/couch in the middle of the night if I find one in my room!


  • #50
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    omgitsthelazor wrote: »
    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:

    Pretty sure that will kill them, might just be a slower death. Poor spideys :(


  • #51
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Owen_S wrote: »
    Blast it with piss.
    Oh wee oh wee ohhh weee! I'm telling on you!


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  • #52
    hairyprincess
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭hairyprincess


    I hoover up spideys :cool:

    Though there is one on my hallway ceiling for the last week or so and he hasn't moved, could he be dead? :confused:


  • #53
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Larianne wrote: »
    The bigger it is, the easier it is to pick up and put outside. Or smush it with your shoe or whatever. The annoying ones are the little bastards who are too quick and you dunno if they've gone up your sleeve or into your ear or wherever else!?! :cool:

    I don't mind spiders so if I can't catch them I let them be. Little did I know... I've a large double bed but only use two of the four pillows on it. I hadn't moved one of the pillows that was leaning against the wall for a few days. Changing the bed clothes, I move the pillow and the bastard spider had made a little nest and about 40 mini spiders were all over the pillow. :mad:

    The bigger they are the more likely they are to run at you, causing you to fling yourself off balconies, or wardrobes, in an attempt to evade it. And that could be lethal. Thus, even Irish spiders can easily kill you.

    I don't mind the little ones, it's the ones that are faster than me that give me the heebie jeebies.


  • #54
    rain on
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭rain on


    I'd do the first three options in the poll, all at the same time, very quickly and loudly and with swearing.

    This thread makes me feel like something is crawling on me.


  • #55
    KamiKazeKitten
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭KamiKazeKitten


    I don't do any of them!

    Catch it in something and let spidey loose outside the house, I hate killing them.

    This thread makes me sad. :P


  • #56
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!


  • #57
    yore
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭yore


    rain on wrote: »
    This thread makes me feel like something is crawling on me.

    Crab infestation possibly ??????.........


  • #58
    yore
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭yore


    You forgot the option

    "Buy it a pram"


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


  • #59
    lau1247
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,332 ✭✭✭lau1247


    I can't stand bugs/insects in my room.. Just the thought of it could be anywhere doesn't sit well with me if I don't kill them as I see them.. As someone had said, they could breed etc :eek:


    Electric Zapper is a godsend and is the only tool i need

    latest-technology-Amazing-Handheld-Electric-Bug-Zapper1.jpg


  • #60
    rain on
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭rain on


    yore wrote: »
    Crab infestation possibly ??????.........
    Definitely this thread.


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  • #61
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    i'd scoop it up into a jar then take it outside and release it


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