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apocrypha
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I'm British, it's how we spell it :)
Plus, I know analogue's probably not the right word, I just couldn't think of what the right word actually was. Still can't. Um... traditional? Physical? Non-digital? Having a brain-fart.
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Trippy
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"Optical".
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Margalis
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"Practical effects" is the term you're looking for. (As opposed to visual effects)
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« Last Edit: August 01, 2013, 12:50:43 AM by Margalis »
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Yeah., those both sound better than analogue, thanks That spider has, since I photographed it, caught and eaten at least 3 Daddy Longlegs (Crane flies) so I'm fully expecting it to be roughly the size of a pigeon before too long...
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Signe
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I hate the word "sausage".
Just sayin'....
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Pennilenko
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I hate the word "sausage".
Just sayin'....
This is why some people respond to your posts in a creepy manor. But really, some people should just have more self control.
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Signe
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Maybe... but I LIKE sausages, I just hate the word. It sounds nasty.
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Pennilenko
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Maybe... but I LIKE sausages, I just hate the word. It sounds nasty.
Then just use the term meat cylinder...
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Paelos
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Encased meats.
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TheWalrus
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This is why some people respond to your posts in a creepy manor.
Who is posting from a haunted house? I demand to know!
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Signe
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Yeah, because asking friends and family over to barbecue Italian hot meat cylinders would sound so much better!
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Paelos
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Hot links?
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Signe
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No. I'll just grit my teeth and say "sausage". If I stopped saying all the words I don't like, there would be huge gaps in my conversations. I'm sure everyone has words they dislike. I bet some hate the word "spider" and, yet, they still peek in this thread. Speaking of which: Just weird, no?
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TheWalrus
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What is that one? Never seen anything like it.
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Ghambit
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Damned crappy camera-phone focus (had it right on the spidey yet it still focused to the pole). Anyways, garden variety Florida female banana spider (largest spider in n. america that's not a tarantula) I saw on campus. Fully grown, the size of my hand... guarding an egg sac w/food stores. Beautiful arachnid, but they do indeed bite. Albeit the bite is pretty weak. Kind of a repeat in this thread; so what.
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IainC
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Sequin spider. More pics from the same photographer here.
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01101010
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What campus is that out of curiosity?
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angry.bob
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Sequin spider. It's very pretty, but I don't see having a disco ball for an abdomen coupled with fitting perfectly into a bird beak being good survival traits.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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This is the same spider as I posted before, but taken with a mobile phone. Nexus 4 has a decent lens (good macro!) but a totally crappy sensor :/
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Sir T
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That's a lovely photo Apoc.
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apocrypha
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Cheers. I should have got a proper camera out but the framing only worked if Horace (that's it's name, might be a girl spider, doesn't matter) was in that exact spot and s/he was kinda active. Besides, it's shot through 2 layers of old, dirty window pane, mobile phone was good enough :p
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Yegolev
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RhyssaFireheart
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you do realize fire is an option, right? I mean, it's a pool filter, the water will keep the flames from spreading too far.
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Ingmar
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Those fat crickets are way grosser.
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Yegolev
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There was probably a dead mouse in there as well. There is at least one inferior spider in the background as well. Sorry about the quality, I used my phone.
The creepiest part was regarding the beetle that you can barely see the rear of, underneath Mommy Wolf. It had been on the handle in front of her and she was sort of stroking it with a foreleg.
I have a can of spider spray that the manufacturer HELPFULLY decided to decorate with a large and super-realistic picture of a spider, which I have covered with masking tape because I ALWAYS think there's a big fucking spider on the can of spider spray. Anyway, I spray this into the skimmer. 45 seconds later everything except the beetles and Mommy are dead. SPRAY. More death. SPRAY. Mommy drops the sack and gives me the finger. SPRAY. I go in the house. Ten minutes later, she's STILL KICKING so SPRAY. I abandon the site for about an hour. When I come back... she's gone.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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01101010
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Merusk
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At that size there's just not going to be enough poison in those cans. They're meant for normal sized arachnids and insects. You're going to need fire or to man-up and squish it if you want it dead. Just understand you're going to HEAR its carapace crack when you squish it.
A .22 or air rifle is also an option.
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Yegolev
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I've popped several black widows around the same skimmer, since I'm too lazy efficient to run all the way into the house to get some spray, but the trick is getting them out. Guarding the handle makes it difficult. I'm not too excited about shooting anything toward a pool with a vinyl liner, either.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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proudft
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I'm guessing you don't own a baseball bat?
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Kitsune
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I try to make allowances for peoples' personal squicks and all, but man, you killed a completely harmless spider who couldn't have gotten that big if she hadn't been totally cleaning house for you. That one spider probably accounted for pounds of roaches and other vermin around your place that actually were a threat to your health. I can get behind squishing widows and other dangerously venomous spiders, but killing a wolf spider is just a waste of nature's perfect anti-bug machine.
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Yegolev
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I have a few baseball bats but they are tactically unsuited to that particular application. Much like the air rifle.
Also, please believe me that there is absolutely no shortage of spiders of any variant around my house. I let most of them live, even the enormous one I saw today that must have eaten a literal half pound of leafhoppers this summer. However I had to clean out the skimmer and I wasn't going be able to do it with that thing in there.
If you don't live where I do, you probably think you know what I mean when I say there are a lot of spiders, but you don't.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Signe
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I think growing up in the woods has made me spider-proof, bug-proof and small rodent-proof. I'm not scared of loads of things. I'm afraid of serial killers except maybe the really sexy ones like Dexter. Thanks in advance for not starting a Serial Killers are Awesome thread.
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Der Helm
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If someone had played that prank on me, it would result I would knock him out cold.
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Sir T
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It was a her and she was blonde. She's safe.
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