alcazar

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Just been working to extend the car-parking space here. I moved a concrete slab (flagstone) that has been leant against the wall behind the house for three years, and there was a HUMUNGOUS spider on it. I just brushed it off, and the stupid thing ran AT me, then straight up my trouser leg

Now I'm not scared of spiders, but that was too much: I defo DON'T want one around my nads! Especially THAT size

My wife said she'd not seen me drop my kecks so quickly in years

Alcazar

Tidgy

haha pmsl quality story

Lee247

I would love to have seen that

Lydia72

Is the spider okay?

moses

i love spiders i had a tarantula a chilean rose

i gave it tae my mate steven coz my wife wouldnt let me in the house wae it lol

i kept him in the shop

supertouring

****! I would have died on the spot, I hate the little blighters.

Many years ago a guy I worked with picked up on my little phobia and decided to bring his tarantula into work in a glass box. I was bricking it all day but put on a brave face and went up close to look at it. He was unhappy not to get one over on me, but it did help my phobia quite a bit.

I now let my 10 year old daughter remove the bigger ones that appear in the house

Luminous

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Oh, to have been there with a camera

Maz

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Too many legs and move far too quick for my liking.

moses

bros their awesome u need tae hold a tarantula and see how it climbs and hands aff yer hand and shoulders, they have wee need pinks that come oot of their legs and feet tae hold on

its awesome mine woz called henrik larsson

David Lock

And was he able to understand you moses?

cw42

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Thats interesting to know!

Maz

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I'm shuddering at the very thought. I know spiders are harmless (well most of them) but they scare me! I blame Arachnophobia (the film as well as the condition).

moses

not all r harmless bros some have toxic stings as the black widow does


but the ones in the petshop r fine


i had a fascination aboot spiders since i woz a kid if u read the quran and the parable of how the enemies of muslims r like a spider and if u study it and how it traps it prey over webs and how everything is connected tae its web thats always attached tae its body, a lil bit of shudder it knows somethings came on the web etc

a bit like george w bushs star wars project and if u look at the UN symbol lol a spiders web all over the world

spiders r cool and also u know the story of how God inspired the spider tae create a barrier in the cave between the enemies of the prophet pbuh and aby bakr Allah swt bless him
so the enemies thought no one he can be in the cave, the web looks old and stuff


so spiders r awesome and dont forget spiderman, we luv him

moses

the spider, i dont know haha, but hey i loved him anyways and he know it , see when they cast their old body, its amazing how they come oot , fantastic and how they get bigger, beautiful

Rage!

I thought that was Robert the Bruce?

moses

lol i didnt know it happened tae him haha


it happened over 1400 yrs ago as well

spiders r awesome creatures if the prey is bigger its gonna gave it shock and awe but if its small it will just play and suck the insides dry first just like bush does wae others wealth and country

moses

see know one new whit a spider does till just the last 50 yrs or so


this woz over 1400 yrs ago and its amazing when u study it


41. The parable of those who take protectors other than Allah is that of the spider, who builds (to itself) a house; but truly the flimsiest of houses is the spider's house;- if they but knew.


taking protecters as in enemies tae protect u and whit dae they dae, they build their nests in yer country and bleed it dry and control yer country as in imperialism

Maz

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Didn't he burn the cakes or was that Alfred the Great?

B-B

Alcazar - thats funny when its not ME. Lol!!

I hate spiders - they bite me. It really stings at the time and itches for days after. So its NOT an irrational fear.

nathanb

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I'm sorry moses i cant understand a bloody thing you're saying!!

GeeDee

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Ditto.

Check this out:
UK spider bites - Natural History Museum

boxst

boxst

Those close ups give me the creeps. Yuck.



Steve

Dave1980

they have too many legs for my liking. i wont go out my way to get rid of one but if its in my bedroom i wont go too sleep until its gone.

Jerome

Not bothered about house spiders. I never kill them or remove them from the house because they kill more unpleasant creatures.

You can keep bloody great big tarantulas etc though. Having them as a pet is beyond my comprehension.

Gymbal

I like spiders, valuable source of spider energy, sprint, sprint, sprint pause, sprint, sprint, sprint pause etc.

Proportionately their 0-60 is awesome.

I am currently developing a spider energy farm (with secondary silk production).

Unfortunately they keep getting their legs stuck in the treadmills.......

miss*scoobygav555*

I really can not stand spiders at all. Gav thought he would be a funny bugger one time and tried to scare me and I ended up collapsing!!! I was in his room and didn't see it myself because I was facing the other way, anyway he said calmly 'Carla, just walk out of the room and don't turn around' so me being curious turned around and I saw the biggest spider I think I've ever seen!! So I freaked out and ran down the stairs, he then walks down the stairs with his hands cupped so I start screaming don't bring it near me so he thinks it would be funny to pretend to throw it at me, I hyperventilated(sp!?), had a panic attack and collapsed!! He felt so guilty don't think he'll be trying that one again!!!

alcazar

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Ah yes, play on the wife's fears. Been there, done that, paid the penalty.

When we'd only been married three months I crept along the corridor in the flat we had, towards the bathroom where she was brushing her teeth.
I laid on the floor with my head on the floor looking up at her. My body was in the relatively dark corridor.

She turned round, saw what she thought was my severed head, and literally had hysterics. Took me half an hour to get her calm. THEN she had two nightmares that night!

Never again.

Alcazar