to wonder what fresh hell this is

[brizzledrizzle]

Richard Hammond milking a spider.
Why is this stuff allowed on television?!

Say what??!!

I really can’t take him seriously with that moustache snuesy

*anyway’

He's visiting somebody who breeds spiders and they are milking it to get of what they need.
It's a new programme called Invisible Worlds he's doing for the BBC - it's fascinating except for the spiders.

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Whaaaa...?

Spider venom is a valuable resource, both for anti-venom but also is a veritable pharmacy of neurological protiens, potential anti-cancer drug components and target proteins. Im not a hammond fan but im rather sorry i missed that

LEM is is a good programme, it may well be on iplayer.

Ahhhh, it's fangs....like snakes? I honestly thought he was milking via little spidery teats but fangs would make more sense. I obviously need sleep 🤪

*its not it's

So is he milking it or wanking it? The breeding farm bit has me extra confused.

think I will pass...

Must be a tiny stool. (I'll get me coat)

Time he stopped dying his hair

Milking?
Extracting venom?
Wanking?

We need more details

I honestly thought he was milking via little spidery teats but fangs would make more sense.

Same here Kitty - I was wondering how he got the bucket underneath it.

Hammond is only short , he could get under a spider much easier than Clarkson

It was extracting the silk, I don't think milking is quite the right term

Richard Hammond and spiders on the same programme? Shit...is it Halloween or something?

Good point Angie

They said milking it, they were doing something to its abdomen before I looked away.

Possibly an emergency appendectomy.

Spiders are nearly all abdomen - I expect they suffer a lot of tummy troubles.

Milking it for its web was facinating

It was wasn't it? Hard to watch with my phobia but interesting, yes.