To say this is the biggest spider in the world WARNING spiders TRIGGER spiders

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Well, in the U.K. anyway, and not in a zoo or anything. But it is IN MY BATH

But, a spider in the bath, a spider in the bath!
A creepy crawly, creepy crawly spider in the bath!
I know he's only there because he wants to have a laugh!
With hairy legs and beady eyes that terrify and tantalize!
But, a spider in the bath, a spider in the bath!
A creepy crawly, creepy crawly spider in the bath!
I know he's only there because he wants to have a laugh!
I thought I'd put it down the drain but now he's climbing up the chain!
Spider in the bath!

YANBU. Will a kind neighbour let you use their bathroom?

@NoNoCharie I used to love that programme.
Sorry OP I have seen bigger in the UK and I don't mean at the zoo, in my old flat.

Sorry we've got bigger.... One is currently hiding behind our house alarm sensor in the corner of our lounge.... obviously waiting to crawl out mid Corrie and absail down onto our heads!!!

They are huge this year!!!

Can only sympathise and give the usual Mumsnet advice of burn the house down immediately. For all our sakes.

Nope. There was one bigger than that in my kitchen sink the other day when I lifted the basin out.

I had a heart attack and died and am posting this from beyond the grave.

Pppht. it's a iddy biddy baby.

Come down under if you want to see a real spider 😜

A good sized one though I've seen bigger. Still, the name giant house spider is fitting.

I had a bigger one than that crawl across the back of my neck when I was in bed once. I still have nightmares about it. That was in SW in early summer!

It's not actually as big as I was expecting. I've seen bigger too. Sorry, this is probably just the baby

One bigger than that ran across my floor last night, bloody fast it was! Then it ran back and stopped in the middle, so I managed to trap it under a pint glass and chuck it out. I was impressed with myself because I can't usually do that but the alternative was to have it free-ranging around the house!

I had an enormous one in my old flat and it moved at a ridiculous speed going from room to room and it even went inside my handbag at one point. I stood on top of the dining table having a breakdown until DP could come home and deal with it

I think he's related to the one I had to remove from my daughter's blind last night. He looked just like that. I had to be brave mummy and remove it while a 3 & 6 year old bellowed at me 'get him out mummy and generally got under my feet whilst I tried to evict him through the window. It was fun

Leave a toilet paper ladder draped over the bath onto the floor.

Leave the house for a couple of hours.

When you return, spider will be gone and have hidden away.

Out of sight is out of mind.

Unless you have a teeny-tiny bath then YABU. That spider is not particularly massive.

We had an enormous one on the bathroom ceiling. Had to use a large glass bowl plus two of us to trap it with the god awful fear we would drop the spider on our heads (shudders).

“He’s only scary, because he’s hairy!”

I’m going to make a big assumption here and guess you’re not from the countryside, op? Because that’s a tiddler in my eyes!

You need a cat OP.

We had one this week about three times that size, I swear I could hear it stomping down the stairs - it had a face and everything! I don't mind the little ones but DH had to deal with that one.

You don't live in the country do you OP

We used to have a huge one living under the tiles below the bathroom sink. We called her Matilda.

NoNo arrh, thank you for reminding me of that lovely programme, DDs and I used to love it, think it’s probably what started DD1 off on loving all creepy crawlies! But especially spiders.!

It's big, OP, but when I lived in an older house (only just over a century old, though) my spiders were much bigger.
Now, in an fifty-year old house, I (usually) only have cellar spiders. But what they lack in bulk they make up in number.

I am in the country! And if that's the baby,what's the daddy like