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Reply #385 on: May 05, 2011, 07:22:08 PM

Spiders I can handle, but roaches are not cool.

With all your talk of hunting I figure you'd just blast the little fuckers into oblivion, regardless of insect genre.


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Reply #386 on: May 05, 2011, 07:28:27 PM

Yea, there ain't no cracks in my house that big, those would let the winter in!

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Reply #387 on: May 05, 2011, 07:33:14 PM

Heh. Sure.

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Reply #388 on: September 30, 2011, 11:44:25 AM

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Reply #389 on: September 30, 2011, 12:41:50 PM


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Reply #390 on: September 30, 2011, 11:00:12 PM

 ACK!

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Reply #391 on: October 01, 2011, 01:08:10 AM

What ever country that gif is from, we need to NUKE IT IMMEDIATELY.

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Reply #392 on: October 01, 2011, 01:36:18 AM

That makes me think of Fallout 3 for some reason. I like spiders, but I have limits. That pic is over those limits.

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Reply #393 on: October 01, 2011, 04:37:24 AM

*note to self: always lift the lid first before sitting down   ACK!

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Reply #394 on: October 01, 2011, 05:21:19 AM

Australia, I'm guessing.

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Reply #395 on: October 01, 2011, 03:09:35 PM

Wtf are those, I was hoping Recluse spiders, but they don't look the part.  ACK!

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Reply #396 on: October 02, 2011, 09:15:02 PM

Recluses are like 1/100 the size of those spiders. They're tiny.

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Reply #397 on: October 03, 2011, 03:57:44 AM

I'd wager Huntsman spiders.

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Reply #398 on: October 03, 2011, 04:18:12 AM


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Reply #399 on: October 03, 2011, 02:58:07 PM

I'd wager Huntsman spiders.
That's what I actually meant.  ACK!

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Reply #400 on: October 03, 2011, 03:05:45 PM


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Reply #401 on: October 03, 2011, 03:50:45 PM

A cutie I stumbled upon around Gjesvær, Norway:





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Reply #402 on: October 03, 2011, 06:02:46 PM



I... I am good with most spiders but these things need to go extinct IMHO.

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Reply #403 on: October 03, 2011, 06:27:14 PM

Thats not a spider. Thats the scout for an alien invasion force.  ACK!
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Reply #404 on: October 04, 2011, 12:05:23 AM

Thats not a spider. Thats the scout for an alien invasion force.  ACK!

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This is my spider theory. It has so far withstood significant peer review.

Spiders are actually the remnants of a prehistoric alien invasion force which is why they so often elicit revulsion and even fear - deep down our lizard brain knows they don't belong here. They came from another, much larger planet where creatures were much smaller, through some reconnaissance errors they ended up invading the Earth where they found that the dominant life forms were too large to eat/subjugate. Since then they have been reduced to a life of scuttling around and pretending they don't care.

Other members of the family arachnidae also arrived with the main invasion fleet. Scorpions for example are not creatures at all but are armoured fighting suits for spiders. If it were possible to cut one open without triggering the self-destruct systems, you'd find a spider in the central cockpit operating it like a machine.

Every so often you'll be walking down a street with fallen leaves being blown around and you'll see the occasional leaf moving in the opposite direction to the others, this is no leaf but a scout craft from the mothership trying to make contact with the beachhead.

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Reply #405 on: October 04, 2011, 12:12:55 AM

You're right in that it isn't a spider. It's a solifugid, like the camel 'spiders' in Iraq. They're their own category of arachnid.

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Reply #406 on: October 04, 2011, 12:32:45 AM

You're right in that it isn't a spider. It's a solifugid, like the camel 'spiders' in Iraq. They're their own category of arachnid.
And it will eat your brains:


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Reply #407 on: October 04, 2011, 03:25:24 AM

I thought the toilet gif was kinda cool. I will keep it handy on my phone in case I ever need to render my GF unconscious.
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Reply #408 on: October 04, 2011, 06:07:58 AM


"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."

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Reply #409 on: October 06, 2011, 01:44:47 PM


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Reply #410 on: October 06, 2011, 02:45:57 PM

That freaking cat was scarier than the spider in that video.

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Reply #411 on: October 09, 2011, 08:30:08 AM



While a bit somber, the end is amusing.

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Reply #412 on: November 03, 2011, 05:50:24 PM

Why not just let the cat eat it?

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Reply #413 on: November 03, 2011, 08:23:11 PM

I'm generally of the live and let live school when it comes to spiders.  Surprising considering the year I spent in Sydney where the Redback (a variant of the Black Widow) in the stairwell wasn't even in the ballpark of dangerous compared to the Funnel Web in the garden.  I even followed with interest the approximately monthly newspaper articles about yet another poor soul who'd been bitten by yet another unknown-to-science spider sometime in the months prior to the report who had just died/was about to die/had just lost an entire limb to the poison and had little hope of surviving in the long run.  But here in Kentucky they are much tamer than that, with Black Widows and an extremely rare Brown Recluse being the only dangerous ones I'm aware of.

But the Countess has a zero-tolerance policy towards spiders of any stripe in the house and I'm the lucky one that gets to be the enforcer.  And we sadly have lots of the little (or not so little) trespassers. Mostly of the varieties we call "wolf" (little black hairy jumpers, legspan maybe an inch if they spread them but they always keep them curled under them) and "garden" (nondescript two-tone brown guys that commonly run one to two inches across). One of my proudest moments happened one weekend morning a while back when she woke me from a deep sleep shrieking about a HUGE spider I had to kill RIGHT NOW.  I was tickled to actually wake up fast enough that the first words out of my mouth were "how big?  Do I need a baseball bat or will a shoe do?"  and horribly disappointed that she didn't then and still doesn't appreciate the humor or sheer intellectual brilliance it took to come up with that so quickly after being woken up.  As it turns out, the shoe was overkill as it was just a 2-inch garden spider, not even the largest I'd evicted that week.  But by golly I was ready to take on whatever monster it was that had my fair damsel in such distress!  awesome, for real

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Reply #414 on: November 05, 2011, 12:26:24 AM

I love how that mouse's paw pop up at the last second, like a drowning man.  Oh ho ho ho. Reallllly?



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Reply #415 on: November 15, 2011, 05:20:55 AM

Surprising considering the year I spent in Sydney where the Redback (a variant of the Black Widow) in the stairwell wasn't even in the ballpark of dangerous compared to the Funnel Web in the garden.  

I had to swat one off my forearm, a redback that is, when I was in Byron Bay, Time stood still for about 10 seconds.

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Reply #416 on: November 15, 2011, 05:51:05 AM

Surprising considering the year I spent in Sydney where the Redback (a variant of the Black Widow) in the stairwell wasn't even in the ballpark of dangerous compared to the Funnel Web in the garden.  

I had to swat one off my forearm, a redback that is, when I was in Byron Bay, Time stood still for about 10 seconds.

If they are the same temperament as widows, you probably could have lifted it gently off your arm and placed it somewhere. They tend to be the least aggressive of the spiders that can fuck you up. That said, the 10 sec thing I think is standard fare for encounters like this.  Oh ho ho ho. Reallllly?

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Reply #417 on: November 15, 2011, 10:16:49 AM

Ha possibly, I remember it being very small a lot smaller than I would have expected. I don't think I could have picked it up without pissing it off so I flicked him off & it attached a web to my arm and came flying back  Eek!

This made everyone I was with, inlcuding me, jump around like panicked idiots. Some conversation stopper that was.


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Reply #418 on: November 23, 2011, 07:56:56 PM

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Reply #419 on: November 23, 2011, 10:29:02 PM

Okay FUCK THAT.

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