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There is a large spider on your desk.

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  • #62
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    put it in the microwave for 30seconds at low power, make it angry, get it to bite me and then go home to bed and hopefully wake up with amazing superpowers


  • #63
    Jen Pigs Fly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    I play with them and take pictures of them next to objects just to prove how big they are! :D

    I love spiders!


  • #64
    westendgirlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    Ah leave the spiders alone they have many uses around the house.

    1. They kill the flies.

    2. Their webs have miracle powers. When I was 5 I cut myself badly and my mum used the web stem the blood and seal the cut. It worked, no scar.

    3. If you catch one. Put it in a matchbox and go to bingo. Guaranteed to win.


  • #65
    omgitsthelazor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭omgitsthelazor


    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    Pretty sure that will kill them, might just be a slower death. Poor spideys :(

    I'm told it doesn't that they can climb out again. And I'll continue believing that to save my conscience. o_o


  • #66
    omgitsthelazor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭omgitsthelazor


    xxxJennyxxx wrote: »
    I play with them and take pictures of them next to objects just to prove how big they are! :D

    I love spiders!

    ty Jenny, no sleep for me tonight. :(


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  • #67
    Jen Pigs Fly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    omgitsthelazor wrote: »
    ty Jenny, no sleep for me tonight. :(

    Tis only a spider, imagine the amount of flies in the house if it weren't for them to catch them


  • #68
    omgitsthelazor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭omgitsthelazor


    xxxJennyxxx wrote: »
    Tis only a spider, imagine the amount of flies in the house if it weren't for them to catch them

    But I can live with flies! Your reasoning to me is the equivalent of releasing a bear around your house to take care of mice.


  • #69
    Jen Pigs Fly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    omgitsthelazor wrote: »
    But I can live with flies! Your reasoning to me is the equivalent of releasing a bear around your house to take care of mice.

    Ah not really, they're only tiny spiders sure, that one was extra big!
    A bear would do bodily damage to a human, what can a spider do? :confused:


  • #70
    lau1247
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,332 ✭✭✭lau1247


    xxxJennyxxx wrote: »
    Tis only a spider, imagine the amount of flies in the house if it weren't for them to catch them

    how dirty is the house to have more than one fly at any one time??

    i don't let flies in the house either.. zap zap zap..


  • #71
    omgitsthelazor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭omgitsthelazor


    xxxJennyxxx wrote: »
    Ah not really, they're only tiny spiders sure, that one was extra big!
    A bear would do bodily damage to a human, what can a spider do? :confused:

    mental harm through terror! :eek:


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  • #72
    omgitsthelazor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭omgitsthelazor


    lau1247 wrote: »
    how dirty is the house to have more than one fly at any one time??

    i don't let flies in the house either.. zap zap zap..

    I think I equal parts admiration and horror at your insect genocide. Have a holster for your zappers? ;)


  • #73
    annieboo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭annieboo


    Long-time lurker but had to sign up for this one.

    Many years ago my bf (hubby now) was on the phone while I spotted a ginormous spider on my bed. White duvet and curtains so this guy stood out. One of those long-legged freaks that appeared around Dublin a few years ago.

    Well I screamed and legged it out the door while trying to track him. BF asks will I come over and get him (he was 5 min by cab/20 min walk) so of course I say yes please. He was shocked and said I was only being flippant.

    Cue devastated me fleeing to the couch for the night praying a spider epidemic has not followed me. 6 years later he still slags me.

    Now this was not my first run-in with the 8 legged monsters - as a kid I came back from summer camp after a week to my bunk bed being covered with spiders. 2 weeks later I threw on a pair of jeans from the washing line and next time that I sat on the toilet I had 2 of them on my leg.

    What can I say - they hate me.

    I've gotten better though - we had a regular spider living in our last place that I left alone and I can just about touch spiderwebs now.


  • #74
    Jen Pigs Fly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    lau1247 wrote: »
    how dirty is the house to have more than one fly at any one time??

    i don't let flies in the house either.. zap zap zap..

    I don't just mean in the house, sheds, stables, barns, etc they're great for fly control. :confused:


  • #75
    Out Of The Night
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭Out Of The Night


    Eeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I once spent a night on my friends couch because there was a massive spider the bedroom and she couldn't find it. God I hate them.


  • #76
    dave3004
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭dave3004


    Living in Oz so I just .......Run......Run quite fast !


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