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a minority group that must DIE

111 replies

TakeMeDrunkImHome · 29/08/2011 22:53

why do they wait until your are dieing for a wee and then just hiiiiiide at the top of the stairs with their 8 legs? You try to be kind, thinking NO NO, I will NOT kill the spider, but it is so gigantic it will not fit in the pint glass. It moves faster than concorde. It is possibly the size of a small country (give or take).

WHY!!!!!!

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Hatesponge · 29/08/2011 23:41

It's the scuttling that gets me.

And the size.

TheFantasticFixit · 29/08/2011 23:43

Oh lord, we have had two of these HUGE buggers in the last week - they are UNBELIEVABLY big!

shudders

StealthPolarBear · 29/08/2011 23:43

You know we once cancelled the window cleaner because we assumed they hadn't done a very good job - on the evening of the day they'd been there was a HUGE web in the bottom corner of our kitchen window.

Then we had our windows replaced. On the day our window had been wrenched out and replaced with lots of disturbance etc, yes you guessed it. They must put those things up in no time.

Lunabelly · 29/08/2011 23:44

Minority ?

Bwahahahaha

I hear tell that there are more spiders per square mile than there are humans in the world. Or something equally disgustingly vile. Far too many, anyway.

coff33pot · 29/08/2011 23:46

There is one on my landing at the moment..............he wont move..............he is under 1 sprayed can of quick dry hairspray, 1 of shaving foam and 1 of hair moose. DH will shovel him up later I dont think he will dig himself out in a hurry Grin

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TakeMeDrunkImHome · 29/08/2011 23:50

For the very scared of spiders people - the two biggest you can get in your house are a "giant house spider" - which is the one that is big body big legs and black in colour, moves like a bullet. They are males that seek warmth and come in for females. They are totally harmless. They CAN bite but their bite is not strong enough to break a humans skin. The others are "minor wolf spiders". They are the ones that appear so fast that they look like they are jumping. They don't spin a web so they are built to be quick to catch their prety (flys). They cannot bite and are very shy.

Does that make anyone feel better? No? Me NEITHER!!!

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AfternoonDelight · 29/08/2011 23:50

Aha, another thread to talk about my insane fear of the terrifying abominations.

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TakeMeDrunkImHome · 29/08/2011 23:52

I try to tell myself ALL the time, look at how big I am compared to IT. Doesn't help of course.

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TakeMeDrunkImHome · 29/08/2011 23:54

Pick up a wolf spider, I did the other night when I had himselfs boys over. I almost threw up and had to have a big glass of wine afterwards but I live to tell the tale!

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maighdlin · 29/08/2011 23:56

at home i hate them with a passion and will be in tears over them but on holiday they don't annoy me so much even though the ones on holiday may actually kill you, which is weird. i think its the look of the UK ones that freaks me out. they are grey or brown and some how look old iyswim. i can't kill them as i can't get close enough to kill them. if im on my own the dog is set upon them or if DH is there he has to pick them up and bring them up the street, how far depends on how big/evil looking they are. some one got me one of those spider sucker uppers but i can't use it as when you have sucked up the spider its within two inches of your hand, far to close for me, plus you then have to put a top on it and take it off to set it free. it really doesn't make sense as the people who are scared of spiders like me can't use it and people who are not can use the pint glass trick.

Birdsgottafly · 29/08/2011 23:57

They aren't the minority. For every human in your house there will be at least three spiders all waiting for you to go to sleep (evil) Grin

Lunabelly · 29/08/2011 23:57

Sorry but I don't buy the "More scared of you than you are of them" bollocks.

It's bollocks.

They know they are scaring you and they love it.

Am almost tempted to go back on the anti-ds in order to lose the phobia again.

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TakeMeDrunkImHome · 30/08/2011 00:00

Grin at Lunabelly.

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blackeyedsusan · 30/08/2011 00:07

hoover, extended hose/pipe. you can stay about 4 foot away then, which gives you a head start to rrun like buggery if you miss. smaller ones get hit on the head with a flip flop/ other shoe the rreally thin fine ones are allowed to live.

remember finding one on the lampshade in the living room. half the world could hear the blood curdling scream....

Whatmeworry · 30/08/2011 00:16

There are more of them out there.....and they are coming

Saggyoldclothcatpuss · 30/08/2011 00:17

If spiders are more scared of me than I am of them, how come the great big hairy fuckers run towards me as I scream??!!
We are surrounded by farmland and get loads of them! Sad
As for the bit about them not being able to bite, My friends DH was bitten on the foot whilst in bed! He had to go to the doctors! The doctor told him that spider bites are on the increase.
In my house there is only 1 antidote to a fucking great spider, and that is A-C (volume 1) of the encyclopedia Britannica!

Saggyoldclothcatpuss · 30/08/2011 00:19

P.S. I live near Harwich and Felixtowe. Apparently there are colonies of Black Widows in this area that have come off the boats and are breeding with the local spider population!! Shock
and scorpions too apparently

HerHissyness · 30/08/2011 00:23

Noo, spiders are not all that bad..

at least they do something.... eat flies/wasps etc... Oh yeah baby, my bastard spiders here kick wasp ARSE!

You know more people world wide are killed by mosquitoes than by anything else?... (i think)

Mosquitos... WTF do they do? huh? Discuss....

Lunabelly · 30/08/2011 00:26

Saggyoldclothcatpuss. FUUUUUCK! Shock

Had one in the bath the other night, it was so big his mama done fights with David Arquette.

Whatmeworry · 30/08/2011 00:26

look who'se crawling crawling up my wall......black and hairy, very small :o

MapofTassie · 30/08/2011 00:29

I've had 2 scorpions in the house!! Shock
We live in Australia so could be expected especially if we lived in the hotter, drier areas. We live in Tasmania, it is cold and wet at the moment. Confused Apparently they come in on the wood for the fire.
Gave me quite a shock the first time I saw the scorpion - feisty little bugger it was too!

snippywoo2 · 30/08/2011 00:39

If spiders are more scared of me than I am of them, how come the great big hairy fuckers run towards me as I scream??!!

I wonder why as well. In every situation that I have come across the spider in question has run towards me not away scaring the shit out of me, they must have a death wish. Thank god for kitchen roll/newspapers/ shoes lol

garlicnutter · 30/08/2011 00:52

What??? We've got black widows???!!! Shock

All of a sudden I'm glad I moved to the cold, damp, arse end of nowhere ...

I have held a tarantula in my hand, though. It didn't make me love spiders.

OnEdge · 30/08/2011 01:00

I am fucked up now. Its spider season, its turned cold, and I havn't seen one yet. I'm just waiting for one of the bastards to emerge

Is there anything we can do ? I hate the fact I have to act all calm in front of the kids when they too shit themselves. I have to say they are are our friends cos they eat eat baddie flies Hmm

fuckers

madhattershouse · 30/08/2011 01:02

Ooh saggy my dad worked near Parkeston Quay..glad he never brought those things home from work!! We do, however, have a great line in massive 8-legged beasties.the worst was bigger than a mixing bowl!! We've had them all mice, rats, grass snakes and the odd vist from ferral guinea pigs courtesy of a person a few roads down!