To be waiting for the massive B******s?

[ladyjadey]

It's late August. This time every year as the nights start to get darker, giant, evil spiders of doom run at me across the living room carpet. They lurk next to my bed, in the hallway and climb the curtains. They barricade themselves in the downstairs loo waiting for me to inadvertently lock myself in a tiny space and spot them, mid terrified wee. I have been waiting for two weeks now and it hasn't happened yet. Has anyone else been afflicted with the influx of gigantic leggy knobs?

I am not normally a spider-killer but once when DH was away I squashed one long-distance by rolling decorative stone balls at it.

It took a while. It was like the end of Fatal Attraction. I'm not proud of it.

I was just reading this and one has just done exactly what you describe! Sitting about 2ft away from me now watching and thinking what to do next. Fortunately I quite like spiders (not enough to want a big one running about) as they eat flies which I HATE!

We've had some giant ones already. I'm absolutely petrified and am on constant, paranoid, high alert. I really struggle, dream about them all winter and have to examine every room/object before use. I have to hoover them up if DP not around (the tie a plastic bag over the nozzle until he empties the bag)

WoodBurningStove

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I am petrified that one day I will pick up the lol roll and one will be hiding inside the paper tube. Evil. Pure evil.

Loo roll. Not lol roll

This threads just reminded me of a thread last year where a spider would come out and sit on the op's husband's side of the bed every evening at the same time...and her husband was away at work.

I've seen one so far and it was at someone else's house. Ugly fat juicy one. We have loads of the thin spindly ones and apparently they eat the fat fuckers so I think we're OK.

Wusses, all of you ... I just got back from staying in a place in tarantula territory and actually saw one in the yard. I was totally thrilled, rushed off to get the camera and was pretty devastated that it had scuttled away when I got back. Apart from anything else I could have made all your days

cdtaylor that's amazing; obviously it's some type of lizard, but what exactly?

Argh I hate them!!! Especially horrible daddy long legs, that awful noise they make while they randomly bash themselves off walls/ceilings after you've turned the light off. One landed on my face the other night while I was playing on my phone in bed in the dark shuddderr

I'm like ghost busters at this time of year, Hoover the buggers up and stuff the end with loo roll so they can't come crawling back out until DP comes in and gets rid of them

It might be different this year. We didn't get the March spiders this year, I thought it was because it was so wet and had drowned the bastards [ really hopeful face]

Also

trigger warning for the squeamish

We had an incident with our food waste bin the other day all of a sudden being fucking alive with maggots. As in three days from clean and empty to two days' worth of waste in there and then on day three fucking maggoty carnage. My DP dealt with that but since then we have had bluebottles and flies in the house and it's shredding my nerves. It's honestly really horrible.

The giant spider in the bath (and the one that ran past my DD earlier and the one that is on the wall across from me right now and the one that I found on my flip flop yesterday) doesn't appear to be doing much to solve our fly problem.

So I am in a hellish limbo of on the one hand being shit scared of the big feckers yet also desperate for their help with the flies. What a state.

I can't remember where I was but recently I was at someone's house and they had a battery powered tennis racket thing that demolished flies

The fuckers kept climbing into my shower last year and waited. I climbed in all unsuspecting, pulled the curtain shut behind me. Then when I turned around to wet my hair the big hairy-legged shitsticks are sat there right in front of me and my shower turned into that scene from Psycho. . I've got so anxious about it I need to to a cautious poke about with the mop before I can get in the shower now.

My cat is a bastard, he likes to play with spiders rather than kill them and then, once he tires of them, he sort of curls his paw around them and flicks them at me 😱

I am not normally a spider-killer but once when DH was away I squashed one long-distance by rolling decorative stone balls at it.

A spider stupid enough to sit still while a giant ball comes at it several times, like Indiana Jones, deserves to be squished. Darwin would approve.

Haha at Darwin! I just told DH about this thread. despite being my hero he hates them too and says he won't sleep tonight!

BalloonSlayer I think it may have been my car she drove into. Woman once took out a wing and both doors of my car when a spider fell in her face.
A spider lives inside my driver's side wing mirror. Every morning there is a new web.
Had to deal with a spider in the sink today, using a vase, as a glass wouldn't have been big enough.

I love spiders but yesterday the massive fucker on my shoulder made me scream so much my husband thought I'd fallen over and broken something. Nope just huuuuuuge spider on my shoulder swept him onto the floor and popped him out the door.

LadyJadey those electric bats are part of poundlands summer range. I use them on flies and hunt them through the house. I love killing them with it. It fills me with glee but I let spiders live!

I can vouch for peppermint spray, not necissarily deterring them but it does kill them! Raid works too if you get a good spray. It's cruel I know but I'm terrified of them! Had one in my kitchen today.

Yanno those spiders you're seeing have been living in your house all year. They're just coming out to get laid. They'll hide away again.

I watched one last night that was quite small attempting to spin an impressive web from the light shade to the wardrobe door. Plucky little bugger.

Most of ours have learned that they get either my shoe, the Dyson, or the rolled up Sunday supplement, I think,

I'm afraid that I have a zero-tolerance for these things...their only hope is that my wife sees them first and puts them back outside without an apocalyptic ending.

I've just watched GBBO and I thought the bs in the thread title was a reference to that time they had a brief clip of a squirrel with massive nuts. Honestly, I thought this was going to be a thread about whether they'll show another massively-nutted animal this series.

I'll get my coat.

My cats do many things that piss me off, but it all faded away into insignificance the other day when I caught them systematically destroying a huge beast one leg at a time. They don't live long in my house.

I'm a spider lover, not a hater, DH on the other hand is terrified of them. (He got me to deal with one once and I cried because I accidentally killed it. ) I don't mind the big ones either, I reckon they're Goths or Punks and are therefore my brothers and sisters in rebellion.