to consider that most threads on MN can be answered by the OP googling something, or just thinking it out for themselves?

[Pan]

It's not too much to suggest, is it? Instead of mithering all of cyberspace..just a thought.

YABU, and I am too tired and out of sorts to tell you why.

That's brill though HopeEternal....

Pan. For the first time I have to say: your ignorance shines out of your arse.

Take me for example. I asked for help with finding a uk online store selling Ecco childrens shoes. Why did I do that? It seems rather obvious that I can google, and find that myself. (like some posters on my thread enjoyed pointing out, sending me to that ha ha funny google it yerself)

Not. At. All.

I had been to my local shoeshop (in blardy friggin behind the arctic circle) and my son had tried a particular shoe. They only had the left foot. They did not have the right foot in stock! (this is life beyond the arctic circle in a nutshell, by the way. And Norwegian children are born with two left feet, obviously)

I turn to google. I think Google is My Friend.

I am non the wiser, because MY google, even if it is .co.uk, decides to interpret my IP address, and un helpfully only give me results in the US and Sweden.

So, not always lazyness.

I need the shoes for 6th september which is the first day of term. We arrive in the evening of the fith. And unless I can order the shoes to be delivered to a friend who lives nearby, my children will come to their new school, wearing summer uniform and CROCS. (black Crocs, i might add)

So there you go!

Thank you Hope. I just wish at times that such a place really exised!

Quint - yes but when it shines out of my arse it does so as an invigorating and optimistic sunrise.
btwI looked at your profile esp. re the artic circle bit. If that is your kitchen I am uber

What's googling?

Never mind the kitchen, you should see what we have outside! (pics no longer private)

I am just hoping those particular glorious rays of sunshine wont reach us up here....

Lemon, it's the first question you typed into the search engine box on your 'puter that led you here. Then you entered the Mumsnet vortex. The internet no longer exists for you. There is ONLY MUMSNET.

mmmmaaawhhhhhh!

Someone did a thread asking the same think not that long ago Pan , surely if you googled you would find it and have your answer without starting a new thread!!

but apparently I would have been denying the whole www of witticisms and and a chance to talk turkey - Iwould have not seen Quint's kitchen piccie and the land surrounding it, and I wouldn't have known about imprisoned jam in doughtnuts.

So I AM BU.

I have sometimes googled things - got very extreme answers, and at times quite scary (health related for example). Or found lot's of differeing viewpoints if parenting related.

I come here to ask advice - has anyone had similar, done similar, what worked for you.

Sometimes google has too many answers.

And if you google help my legs fallen off it will suggest medical care and therapy for a false leg.

If you mumsnet it you'll be told to sauté it, stick in the slow cooker. And to stop moaning.

Just on the off chance there's some lovely person who'll 'help' me out, would anybody be up to googling something for me please?

It's about the eight legged freaks, but I don't want all the associated info that googling the subject would bring up.

Whaddya want to know about the speeeiders, Agent?

I'll google if you like

I've often wondered how something so small, especially the really little ones, know you're looking at them.

I know they have 8 eyes and if they don't know you're acctually looking at them, they know they need to be worried about you, but how??

Surely there can't be enough brain capacity to make such cognitive connections can there?

I've probably overthought this one

Thanks for being big brave girls and looking for me

I'm pretty sure they have the survival instinct in spades though, Agent. I doubt they can differentiate between human-with-bug-whacker and predator-about-to-eat-me but they're going to be able to see that something that much bigger than them probably means Danger.

howzat? (And that was without googling)

I've thought about the survival instinct as well Thumb, but how do they know that 'Big Thing That's Randomly Moving Nearby' is something to be worried about?

I've tried to apply it to humans, something so huge that you can't make sense of what it is, it's so big you can't tell what it is, that is if the freaks could learn what to be scared of and what not to be scared of (eg a moving branch of a tree) like we do 'Eeek we've happened upon a dragon, move away slowly'

It must be innate because they don't learn from their parents, but how can they know??

I'm actually quite in awe of how clever they are, but can't fully appreciate them because of their revolting body shape/movement, sad really

So you don't want to know about the one that used to live in my living room then - it would cross the floor diagonally from the corner to the door, stopping halfway to turn and stare at the tv - then depending on what was on, it would either stay and watch awhile or carry on to the door. I don't mind the beasties so it never bothered me in the UK (would bother shit out of me here though - most of the spiders crossing the floor here are likely to be hunting spiders )

or..or..funnel web spiders......

agent - shall we do some links to really big, hairy and multi-eyed spider monsters in close up, but claim the link to be about something else??

Shut up Pan - you big girl

We used to live somewhere that had a canal at the bottom of the garden Thumb, the ones we used to get there (and there were tons more than normal) were fucking huge, and they'd fucking run at you, the bastards.

I loathed it all the more because I was pregnant with DD1 and thought they'd affect her being in there IYKWIM, thankfully we moved and the dog just covers any that dare approach in snot

Don't tend to get funnelwebs in the house, thankfully - although for some reason the feckers can take up residence in swimming pools - I mean, WTF?

Agent - yeah, I don't think I'd like them to run at me either. I had a huntsman on my shoulder in a shop a few weeks back - I didn't know it was there but the shop assistant saw it and when he went to knock it off it ran round the front of me - now that made me jump! Just glad I wasn't in the car at the time...

Eeek!

Friend of mine is from south France and she talks of having to check evry time you put your shoes on - in case there's a scorpion nestling in there. Usually baby ones.....esp in rains after a dry spell.

Spiders fine. Have been bit by a spider and am alive to tell the tale

Hate scorpians though. A water scorpion sneaked up on me at my parents once, my immediate reaction was to go

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh

grab a rock and repeatedly smash till their was no more scorpion

Spiders.....meh
Scorpions .....kill on sight
Snakes...... ------------->