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Reply #140 on: December 18, 2008, 02:19:17 PM

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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Reply #141 on: December 18, 2008, 10:54:50 PM

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  DRILLING AND MANLINESS

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Reply #142 on: January 14, 2009, 03:50:34 PM


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Reply #143 on: January 14, 2009, 05:53:34 PM

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Reply #144 on: January 14, 2009, 07:19:21 PM

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Reply #145 on: January 15, 2009, 12:33:42 PM


I know! i was laying in my hammock all day watching him!

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Reply #146 on: April 19, 2009, 01:04:41 PM



They've just discovered this bad boy infesting hop farms in Ireland, apparently it's a previously unknown species.

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Reply #147 on: April 19, 2009, 01:15:44 PM

nonononononononononono

why do I continue looking at this thread?
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Reply #148 on: April 19, 2009, 03:49:12 PM

I think it just spontaneously appeared out of the ether. It is the precursor to an INVASION!

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Reply #149 on: April 19, 2009, 06:06:27 PM

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!
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Reply #150 on: April 20, 2009, 12:19:14 AM

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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Reply #151 on: April 20, 2009, 12:30:41 AM

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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Reply #152 on: April 20, 2009, 07:03:05 AM

The purple spikes on its front legs are awesome. Makes it all stabby!  Oh ho ho ho. Reallllly?

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Reply #153 on: April 20, 2009, 08:13:22 AM

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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Reply #154 on: April 25, 2009, 03:21:55 PM

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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Reply #155 on: April 26, 2009, 09:50:16 AM

Oh that's gorgeous. How big was it?

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Reply #156 on: April 26, 2009, 09:55:48 AM

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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Reply #157 on: April 27, 2009, 04:56:34 AM

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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Reply #158 on: April 27, 2009, 05:01:45 AM

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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Reply #159 on: April 27, 2009, 05:10:26 AM

That's the Australian definition of a big spider, isn't it?
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Reply #160 on: April 27, 2009, 06:05:25 AM

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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Reply #161 on: April 27, 2009, 08:05:51 AM

I thought all vehicles in Australia were 4WD!
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Reply #162 on: April 27, 2009, 08:12:41 AM

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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Reply #163 on: April 27, 2009, 08:19:18 AM

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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Reply #164 on: April 27, 2009, 08:29:34 AM

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Reply #165 on: April 27, 2009, 08:51:52 AM

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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Reply #166 on: April 27, 2009, 09:03:40 AM

Hrm. They inhabit south america.Time to follow Yukio Mishima.

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Reply #167 on: April 27, 2009, 09:20:59 AM

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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Reply #168 on: April 27, 2009, 09:23:54 AM


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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Reply #169 on: April 27, 2009, 05:07:13 PM



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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Reply #170 on: April 27, 2009, 05:36:13 PM

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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Reply #171 on: April 27, 2009, 06:06:34 PM

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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Reply #172 on: April 27, 2009, 11:01:52 PM

OK, I have to admit that my appreciation of spiders and other insect-like things is being stretched to the limit by this thread  swamp poop

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Reply #173 on: April 28, 2009, 08:34:53 AM

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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Reply #174 on: April 28, 2009, 08:44:59 AM

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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