Kitsune
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Good call, Ingmar. Googling around Araneus sp. brought forth a goodly number of pictures of spiders like the fellow I saw. So, orb weaver, harmless. Given that it wasn't a brown recluse or a black widow, I didn't figure that it was dangerous; the US is blessedly short in dangerous bugs. But my philosophy with bitey or stingy things is to avoid pissing them off, so you wouldn't see me poking a big spider, even one that I knew couldn't cause serious injury.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Unless it was one that had been hideously, but invisibly, mutated by exposure to radiation/oestrogens/Oprah/etc and you have yet to show the symptoms of impending development of superhuman abilities
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Fordel
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Trippy
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The "caffeine" one was hilarious.
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Mrbloodworth
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The "caffeine" one was hilarious. I know! i was laying in my hammock all day watching him!
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K9
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They've just discovered this bad boy infesting hop farms in Ireland, apparently it's a previously unknown species.
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I love the smell of facepalm in the morning
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ahoythematey
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why do I continue looking at this thread?
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FatuousTwat
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I think it just spontaneously appeared out of the ether. It is the precursor to an INVASION!
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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Lucas
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Greetings adventurer!
Our crops have recently been ruined by scary-looking spiders! I swear neither me or my wife Laureen have ever seen anything like that, and we have lived out here for our entire life!
Please, can you get rid of them? We are not rich, but I'm sure we'll be able to reward you with something! -----------
Kill Ethereal Spiders 0/15
Your Reward:
5 Carrots 10 Water Flasks 1 Farmer Leather Leggings 1 Farmer Cloth Shoes--- I know, I know...Bioware Austin needs me
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TheWalrus
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See that? ^ That thing up there? Fuck that. Spiders make me all Arthur Parker. You will never convince me those things actually belong on this planet. I'm fairly sure they arrived on the meteor that killed off the dinosaurs. (It was actually one of their space stations.)
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IainC
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See that? ^ That thing up there? Fuck that. Spiders make me all Arthur Parker. You will never convince me those things actually belong on this planet. I'm fairly sure they arrived on the meteor that killed off the dinosaurs. (It was actually one of their space stations.)
I refer you to my spider theory on page 1 of this thread.
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Broughden
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The purple spikes on its front legs are awesome. Makes it all stabby!
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Sky
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Yeah, he's cool! All armored looking, like it's all desert storm on your sorry unarmored ass and open up a whole can of purple spikey whupass.
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Merusk
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Got this guy while I was at the zoo today. Ed: hey I resized it to a decent forum size. yay me.
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apocrypha
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Oh that's gorgeous. How big was it?
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Merusk
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Not nearly as big as the picture makes it out to be. She was only about 4 inches across, leg tip to leg tip.
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Cyrrex
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She was only about 4 inches across, leg tip to leg tip.
Only? ONLY?? I think 4 inches doesn't mean what you think it means.
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IainC
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She was only about 4 inches across, leg tip to leg tip.
Only? ONLY?? I think 4 inches doesn't mean what you think it means. It only counts as a big spider if its legs would stick out of both sides of a sandwich.
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Jeff Kelly
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That's the Australian definition of a big spider, isn't it?
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NowhereMan
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For a spider to count as big in Australia you have to use a 4WD to run it over rather than a regular car.
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Sky
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I thought all vehicles in Australia were 4WD!
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Merusk
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She was only about 4 inches across, leg tip to leg tip.
Only? ONLY?? I think 4 inches doesn't mean what you think it means. Bahh, ya pansy. It's not much bigger than those black and yellow garden spiders that are common in the midwest. Although I may have misjudged the size. It might have only been 3 to 3 1/2 inches as the body was only about an inch to inch and a half long.
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Pennilenko
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Got this guy while I was at the zoo today. Ed: hey I resized it to a decent forum size. yay me. Oh my god! Kill it with Napalm. Jeebus. I didn't used to fear spiders. Then i was bit by a black widow while doing some plumbing work. As far as I'm concerned spiders can be wiped off the face of the planet. P.S. For some reason the purple spike thingy spider doesn't freak me out, probably some sort of psychic thing to lull me into a false sense of security before the invasion begins.
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Pennilenko
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"See? All of you are unique. And special. Like fucking snowflakes." -- Signe
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Cyrrex
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Why oh WHY do I keep coming back to this thread? Sitting here from the relative safety of my office cubicle, and I've got a case of the willies. Or perhaps I'm not safe at all, may there is some new kind of color-shifting chameleon-like spider crawling up my pant leg. If Satan were to take some sort of earthly form to devour our soles, surely he would be much like that sand spider thingy. God fucking damn.
And hey Mr. Grasshopper! When scary ass spider lunges at you at FTL speeds and you somehow get away? Don't be going back over to his ass you stupid fucking idiot!
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Hindenburg
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Hrm. They inhabit south america.Time to follow Yukio Mishima.
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Sky
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I found a cool spider in my ceiling tiles yesterday. Wish I had more time to check him out. At first I thought he was an old dead spider cocooned into a crevice between tiles, so I casually bumped him with the can I was holding and he dropped onto my hand. Not wanting to get bit, I flicked him onto the floor and he moved amazingly fast into another crevice I couldn't get to.
I cheered him on, those dudes eat ants and I've got carpenter ants coming in now. I cheer when I find a little ant cocoon, so awesome! Git 'em boys!
The fiancee noticed an attack spider (not web-based) in the living room. She pointed him out to me, I went over and checked him out, sat down again. "Aren't you going to kill him?" she asked. "You don't see any ants over there, do you?" I replied.
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K9
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The narrator in these two really irritated me. The video of the golden orb spider was definitely the most creepy, although the tarantula wasn't that bad. I have come to the conclusion that hairy spiders just aren't as frightening nor evil looking as the spindly, hairless ones.
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Ingmar
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They've just discovered this bad boy infesting hop farms in Ireland, apparently it's a previously unknown species. That's not a spider, its an amblypygid.
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT. Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Johny Cee
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I found a cool spider in my ceiling tiles yesterday. Wish I had more time to check him out. At first I thought he was an old dead spider cocooned into a crevice between tiles, so I casually bumped him with the can I was holding and he dropped onto my hand. Not wanting to get bit, I flicked him onto the floor and he moved amazingly fast into another crevice I couldn't get to.
I cheered him on, those dudes eat ants and I've got carpenter ants coming in now. I cheer when I find a little ant cocoon, so awesome! Git 'em boys!
The fiancee noticed an attack spider (not web-based) in the living room. She pointed him out to me, I went over and checked him out, sat down again. "Aren't you going to kill him?" she asked. "You don't see any ants over there, do you?" I replied.
Hmm. It's almost time for the fucking centipedes to start showing up. Those fuckers will die.
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FatuousTwat
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amblypygid.
I have no problem with spiders, in fact I feed them nuisance bugs all the time, but seriously... FUCK THOSE THINGS.
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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OK, I have to admit that my appreciation of spiders and other insect-like things is being stretched to the limit by this thread
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Sky
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It's almost time for the fucking centipedes to start showing up. Those fuckers will die. In theory I love them. They're awesome beasts, and fast as hell. But they are on the KOS rule, unfortunately. They do freak me out as spiders do not.
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K9
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It's a shame ants are on your KOS list, in general I think ants (along with the rest of the hymenoptera) are one of the most remarkable orders of animal in existence. Only humans, tardigrades and various extremophile bacteria can rival them in my view.
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I love the smell of facepalm in the morning
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