To be a bit freaked out by this banana ....

[SunshineHQ]

.... was just about to peel it, and then saw this weird cocoon thing growing on it.

Wider family all here, and opinions vary as to what it is ....

Lots of baby spiders? (100s)
Just one big spider?
Something else?

And what should we do? Dad (who lived for a year in Africa) thinks they will very likely be poisonous, and microwave or boiling water?

I can't stop laughing at this thread, especially the spider related erection confusion. If a man gets bitten, he either:
A) has a four hour erection then snuffs it;
Or:
B) never has an erection again.

Talk about opposite ends of the spectrum 😂.

I love the dark stores... such a sinister name!

Can't stop laughing at "how stupidly the banana was dealt with" - hahaha!

wonders if OP was eaten alive during the night ?

I like them as they eat flies and flies are disgusting and spread disease. We would be stuffed without spiders
Would we? I mean there would be no 4 hour erections so how ?

Hahaha this thread is hilarious! Burst out laughing and made my sleeping cat jump out of his skin

Why are you still in the house? Why aren't you on the nope train to fuckthatsville?

Over reaction is pretty much the theme of this thread

I am alive, and have survived the night .... but there is a weird bite thing on my left arm ....

Ok, I found this thread quite funny.

I live in Africa. There are far worse things than a spiders nest I can assure you. Although if there were babies in there, they are probably long dead as those bananas you buy in Waitrose are not just picked, bagged and off they go. Pretty sure they go through stringent testing.

The worst spider here is quite common, they just roam around, its a sac spider. All fine and well, unless you take a glass of water to bed in the night and it went in there before you. You are going to know about it by the increasing hole the bite makes, friend of mine just bitten before Christmas, lost half his hand. But, I still wouldn't even boil a sac spider.

My neighbour found a fully shedded skin of a puff adder snake in her garden. That's when you start shitting yourself as to something's whereabouts.....

Heat does kill insects yet. So we like to iron. It does kill off any odd character that may have laid something while your washing is happily blowing in the wind. But to boil it. Nah, it just isn't right.

I admit to not rtft before my previous post.

Now I am really laughing.

4 hour erection

Laiste

OP, that bite mark......that mosquito got you, as you killed the spiders that would have eaten it if you left them alone......

VanillaSugarGlider - that's aliens. Move to another planet immediately.

I know we can all have more than one problem at once, and that some disaster somewhere doesn't mean we can't grumble about the broken washing machine or get stressed about how much the MOT is going to cost, or get anxious about a job interview or even something that seem small and mundane to someone else, BUT the anger at "how stupidly this banana was dealt with" and the sadistic death of a blob of possible cotton wool, seems very out of proportion to me. I had no idea people felt so passionately about preserving the lives of baby fluff spiders, even when it means a decent family has to move to another county as their house is now infested with Viagara Spiders who will be rubbing their willies on washing, be it darked on or not.

My neighbour found a fully shedded skin of a puff adder snake in her garden. That's when you start shitting yourself as to something's whereabouts.....

dang. I have to admit spiders don't bother me, but snakes scare the bejeebies out of me, those and scorpians. I live in Brazil and we have some choice nasties too. One insect I saw that I swear looked like a fly but was the size of a large muffin and bright green, I asked DH what it was (grew up here), he said he had no idea and then felt the need to say "...but don't touch it"....... no really DH? And that was going to be my very next move. Turns out it's something called an Insect hunter.

Are they out looking for you OP?

BUT the anger at "how stupidly this banana was dealt with" and the sadistic death of a blob of possible cotton wool, seems very out of proportion to me.

The 'stupidly' comment was me but it definitely wasn't anger that fueled it

"the size of a large muffin and was bright green"
What the actual fuck?

Nanna50

hahaha! That made me laugh so much! 😂

and then felt the need to say "...but don't touch it

Oh lawd, I really really had a good giggle Lino.

We get some odd things in the pool... no idea what they are, a bit scorpion looking, but uglier. They shoot some type of acid out of their arse, and it stings like a bugger. But, try telling a one year old Labrador that. I must have sounded just like your dh whilst shouting at the dog whilst fishing this angry, squirty THING out of the pool. I was brave. It got netted and flung over the wall. (Note, just a grassed area over the wall). It will probably come back, but then again, maybe the puff adder ate that instead of coming to visit me.

Well it’s about time there was a spider woman movie, OP. I’m not sure it would someone “stupidly” boiling a banana and then getting slated online for it before discovering a bite. It might need a rewrite. Just boil the banana and it crawls up your hand to survive and bites you or something...

Murphy - was it a Blast Ended Skrewt??!

harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Blast-Ended_Skrewt

Ohhh Mama spider be big mad at you now 🕷

@ronniescue still laughing about the banana being dealt with stupidly comment. Don’t know why I’m finding it so hilarious