What's your problem with spiders?

Plopsu · 15-11-2018 12:05pm

Raheem Euro wrote: »

Can i use google to become educated like you.

It could only be an improvement over the effort you're displaying here (where you seem to be claiming that a creature that thrives in a specific environment will be just fine when moved to a completely different environment).
IF you have issue with my lack of "scientific terms", do feel free to post a few links (to articles by people who know more than both of us on the subject), that refute what I said (y'know, once you work out how to use Google).

Raheem Euro · 15-11-2018 12:14pm

Plopsu wrote: »

It could only be an improvement over the effort you're displaying here (where you seem to be claiming that a creature that thrives in a specific environment will be just fine when moved to a completely different environment).
IF you have issue with my lack of "scientific terms", do feel free to post a few links (to articles by people who know more than both of us on the subject), that refute what I said (y'know, once you work out how to use Google).

I can use google enough to spot that you changed 'some' to 'most' from your google search on death of spiders. I also know that search engine results aren't a reference or source.

Species of arachnids found in domestic homes can live perfectly well outdoors. It's your contention most will die - site your research for this.

MarkY91 · 15-11-2018 12:17pm

murpho999 wrote: »

Don't get the fear of spiders.

Completely harmless creatures that stay out of your way and eat annoying house flies.

Think people don't like how they walk.

Peoplel always say how spiders eat flies. What if I simply prefer to have a fly in my room than a disgusting spider?

Plopsu · 15-11-2018 12:19pm

Raheem Euro wrote: »

I can use google enough to spot that you changed 'some' to 'most' from your google search on death of spiders. I also know that search engine results aren't a reference or source.

Species of arachnids found in domestic homes can live perfectly well outdoors. It's your contention most will die - site your research for this.

Wait, you're claiming to be able to see my Google search results? Bwahhaha :pac:
Go on then, what was the last thing, I searched? Just now.

Hector Savage · 15-11-2018 12:24pm

I once saw a wasp getting caught in a spiders web, jesus it was like a live David Attenborough show, the way the spider swooped down and wrapped him up - expertly avoiding the wasps spasming stinger .... wow ...

Raheem Euro · 15-11-2018 12:24pm

Plopsu wrote: »

Wait, you're claiming to be able to see my Google search results? Bwahhaha :pac:
Go on then, what was the last thing, I searched? Just now.

I googled what you quoted from your google search and the match i got had one word changed. Which reveals you as a spoofer.

Go on then - still waiting.....quote your source for 'most spiders die outside'

Lol see if you can deflect again

Plopsu · 15-11-2018 12:26pm

Raheem Euro wrote: »

I googled what you quoted from your google search and the match i got had one word changed. Which reveals you as a spoofer.

Go on then - still waiting.....quote your source for 'most spiders die outside'

Lol see if you can deflect again

I haven't quoted anything from a Google search. Did one of the voices in your head tell you that. LOL

Hector Savage · 15-11-2018 12:29pm

klaaaz wrote: »

Not in Ireland do they kill. Terrible that you commit murder on a defenceless creature, sounds like you do that to any living being, no empathy or conscience inside you.

Are you a vegan ?

Raheem Euro · 15-11-2018 12:33pm

Plopsu wrote: »

I haven't quoted anything from a Google search. Did one of the voices in your head tell you that. LOL

It's in your post up there. You can paste in your search engine results if you want to deny it.

Your still dodging you can't back up your incorrect claim with scientific sources.

Google. Lol. You dumb fukc.

Plopsu · 15-11-2018 12:43pm

Raheem Euro wrote: »

It's in your post up there. You can paste in your search engine results if you want to deny it.

Your still dodging you can't back up your incorrect claim with scientific sources.

Google. Lol. You dumb fukc.

So quote my post that you're referring to.

NickNickleby · 15-11-2018 12:45pm

Hector Savage wrote: »

I once saw a wasp getting caught in a spiders web, jesus it was like a live David Attenborough show, the way the spider swooped down and wrapped him up - expertly avoiding the wasps spasming stinger .... wow ...

That's nuttin' I once saw a young lad being attacked by a big spider, covered him in sticky stuff. Luckily Samwise came along

.

My shed is a mass of spider webs. One time I was sitting on a crate musing*, when a hairy spider, about the size of a 10cent piece, walked across the wall, and one leg caught in a strand of web. Quick as a flash, one of them skinny tiny-bodied spiders with the long spindly legs, ran over and attacked. It completely wrapped the furry spider in silk, really tightly so the victim was completely unable to move. Then he just left him dangling there - presumably for elevenses.

Another time a spider caught a bumble bee in my house. I could hear the buzzing but it took a while to find the poor critter, with the spider doing his best to completely cover the bee in silk. So I shooed away the spider and and took the semi wrapped bee into the garden, and using a dried stalk of grass picked all the silk off him. He just lay there till i was finished. Then after a bit of a rest, he flew away.

NickNickleby - saving the planet without recourse to carbon taxes, yay!!

edit to add : * translates as "I'm out here, love, tidying the shed"

Irish Guitarist · 15-11-2018 12:54pm

What's with men admitting to being terrified of spiders? Do they not feel remotely embarrassed?

The only time I've had a problem with a spider was when I found one in a punnet of strawberries I bought from Tesco. I wasn't afraid of the spider but I didn't like the idea of her laying eggs, assuming it was a female, all over my strawberries.

Other than that I have no problem with them. If you're in Australia there might be a reason to be afraid of them but the spiders we have here don't bother me. I'm looking forward to the Winter. Last year I saw loads of these lads. I got on really well with this one.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 15-11-2018 2:05pm

They just flick a switch in me. It’s their legs mostly. It’s a phobia. I don’t really feel the need to justify it. It’s probably some primitive part of my brain signalling danger as if it might be poisonous.

I especially don’t understand people with phobias of their own being unsympathetic towards my spider phobia.

MarkY91 wrote: »

Peoplel always say how spiders eat flies. What if I simply prefer to have a fly in my room than a disgusting spider?

Exactly. There are other ways to catch flies.

Alun · 15-11-2018 2:06pm

I don't mind them in the house, but the ones that move into my wing mirrors are toast.

Alun · 15-11-2018 2:08pm

NickNickleby wrote: »

Another time a spider caught a bumble bee in my house. I could hear the buzzing but it took a while to find the poor critter, with the spider doing his best to completely cover the bee in silk. So I shooed away the spider and and took the semi wrapped bee into the garden, and using a dried stalk of grass picked all the silk off him. He just lay there till i was finished. Then after a bit of a rest, he flew away.

I do that regularly too with bumble bees that fly into our conservatory and get tangled up in webs

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 15-11-2018 2:08pm

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

What's with men admitting to being terrified of spiders? Do they not feel remotely embarrassed?

Why would they feel embarrassed about a phobia?

Maybe they’re not bothered about conforming to meat-headed notions of masculinity?

Plopsu · 15-11-2018 2:20pm

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

What's with men admitting to being terrified of spiders? Do they not feel remotely embarrassed?

Yeah and don't even get me started on those so-called agoraphobics.

Irish Guitarist · 15-11-2018 3:50pm

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Why would they feel embarrassed about a phobia? Maybe they’re not bothered about conforming to meat-headed notions of masculinity?

You really have to be 'meat-headed' not to be terrified of a harmless spider alright.

15-11-2018 5:09pm

Doesn't matter if it's harmless or not, IG. Phobias aren't rational and the people who have them know that but it doesn't change how they react.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 16-11-2018 4:55am

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

You really have to be 'meat-headed' not to be terrified of a harmless spider alright.

Missing my point by a country mile. The ‘meat-headed’ part refers to you apparently not being able to wrap your head around why a man would admit to a spider phobia. Why do you think they should be embarrassed in any way? What’s your rationale? I’d be astounded if it amounted to anything more “derp, because it’s unmanly, derp!” Because apparently a woman admitting it is fine, seeing as you singled out men? I do feel for men a lot of the time for the expectations of what masculinity is that society heaps on them.

ToddyDoody · 16-11-2018 5:55am

I hate money spiders. They're only interested in one thing.

Graces7 · 16-11-2018 9:20am

Candie wrote: »

Doesn't matter if it's harmless or not, IG. Phobias aren't rational and the people who have them know that but it doesn't change how they react.

also bugs carry bugs. If they crawl and have legs they will contaminate food, surfaces etc.

I lived in one terrible rental that was infested with huge spiders after being empty years. One night as I was on the phone this 4 inch spider, heavy with eggs, lowered itself onto my arm... They heard the scream in Canada.....

Many phobias that need respect and sympathy, are worsened by mockery. My reaction to spiders is instant and automatic.

Daddy long legs are even worse!

Richard Hillman · 16-11-2018 11:36pm

We are designed to fear spiders. This stems from our origins in Africa and why we specifically get the shivers. The same applies with Snakes and Rats. Our brains are telling us "danger".

Amprodude · 17-11-2018 2:37am

Spleerbun wrote: »

What's the best catching technique ye all have found? The classic glass over it and slip a bit of paper underneath is it??

I find burning them catches them out all the time.

New Home · 22-11-2018 12:24am

Candie wrote: »

The amygdala in my brain

Doesn't the word amygdala have something to do with spiders, too, or am I getting mixed up?

EDIT: No, I was wrong, it means almond. Ah well.

BTW, spideys FTW. :cool:

Wibbs · 22-11-2018 1:12am

I like spiders myself. I figure if they're in my gaff then there's a load of other creepy crawlies that need eating.

Years ago I had one that lived behind the mirror in my bedroom. Large enough she was(going by the size I'd reckon "she"). I had a wasps nest close by and that summer she caught and ate a fair number of wasps, so kudos.

One night I awoke in the early hours. And what do I see on the second pillow in the leaba? Only Mirror Spider walking across. She froze stiff when she realised I saw her. Then slowly backed away from the huge ape giant.

Now that was a spider with personality. We got used to each other in the end.

bodice ripper · 22-11-2018 1:25am

I have always been terrified of spiders; and was told I was being irrational. I had recurring nightmares that they were all over the ceiling and in my hair.

And then, one day, I woke up and they *were* all over the ceiling and in my hair.

It doesn't matter if you don't believe me; that's the universe we live in. Twas cellar spiders (colloquially daddy long legs, but to me daddy long legs denotes crane flies...), and it was tough to distinguish what was hair and what was legs.

In truth, it improved my fear of spiders, because the worst thing I could imagine had actually happened. It also dramatically worsened my persecution complex.

Sephiroth_dude · 22-11-2018 5:23am

I'm in the land of the spiders (Aus) atm and have yet to meet any and hope I don't either

Graces7 · 22-11-2018 8:44am

Remembering the old song, " I know and old lady who swallowed a fly...she swallowed a spider to catch the fly...."

New Home · 22-11-2018 8:46am

She's dead, of course. But I think it was because of the horse.

Graces7 · 22-11-2018 9:07am

New Home wrote: »

She's dead, of course. But I think it was because of the horse.

Loved that song as a child... used to sing it nonstop.

and yep, the gee gee did it..

Bigbagofcans · 22-11-2018 9:59am

Wibbs wrote: »

I like spiders myself. I figure if they're in my gaff then there's a load of other creepy crawlies that need eating.

Years ago I had one that lived behind the mirror in my bedroom. Large enough she was(going by the size I'd reckon "she"). I had a wasps nest close by and that summer she caught and ate a fair number of wasps, so kudos.

One night I awoke in the early hours. And what do I see on the second pillow in the leaba? Only Mirror Spider walking across. She froze stiff when she realised I saw her. Then slowly backed away from the huge ape giant. Now that was a spider with personality. We got used to each other in the end.

That's one of the best spidey stories I've ever heard

Deebles McBeebles · 22-11-2018 10:03am

Wibbs wrote: »

I like spiders myself. I figure if they're in my gaff then there's a load of other creepy crawlies that need eating.

Years ago I had one that lived behind the mirror in my bedroom. Large enough she was(going by the size I'd reckon "she"). I had a wasps nest close by and that summer she caught and ate a fair number of wasps, so kudos.

One night I awoke in the early hours. And what do I see on the second pillow in the leaba? Only Mirror Spider walking across. She froze stiff when she realised I saw her. Then slowly backed away from the huge ape giant. Now that was a spider with personality. We got used to each other in the end.

I call all my spider friends Boris. Bathroom Boris was the last one, big old thing too. Beside the bed Boris lasted the longest but then one day, vanished. They are like little creepy angels who eat stuff that we don't like.

LithiumKid1976 · 22-11-2018 5:19pm

if they can stay in the darkness out of the way, Fine, but if i can hear your Traipsing across the hallway when your 8 spindly legs, when your supposed to be in the corner of the wall, then i;m sorry, its Dyson time.

Also, if they reach a certain Mass, like the size of your thumb, then your taking a spin in the dyson...

sorry

What's your problem with spiders?

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