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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 85.158.139.99
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 11:48 am: | |
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/1 0/22/easpider122.xml |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 12:01 pm: | |
Evil bastard! You know I hate spiders... |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 85.158.139.99
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 12:47 pm: | |
I think I hate them as well now having looked at that... |
Simon_b (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b
Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.182
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 02:29 pm: | |
I'm not generally bothered by spiders. Not until they get that bloody big. |
Albie (Albie)
Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 02:30 pm: | |
Zombie snail http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EWB_COSUXMw |
Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.234.94
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 03:51 pm: | |
How can one hate spiders? They're amazing creatures - if it weren't for them we would literally be choking in swarms of insects. Plus, unlike flies, they're clean and don't carry germs. I like 'em, the bigger the better. |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.122.154
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 04:00 pm: | |
Not too big but I still like them. It is usually me who picks them up and takes them outside to the grass. |
Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.234.94
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 04:04 pm: | |
Good! |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 04:23 pm: | |
>>>How can one hate spiders? Well, it generally involves a sequence of involuntary muscular spasms, followed by a shiver, and then a full-frontal assault with an adept knee-joint and a large shoe. Or half a toilet-roll bunched up to provide sufficient protection during le grande squash. A flush of the lavatory always completes the manoeuvre. Easy, really. |
Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 04:26 pm: | |
My cat eats spiders. Not sure how he'd fare with the bugger in this article though.... |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.33.78
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 04:57 pm: | |
I'm not even going to open that! Hubert, I don't hate spiders - I just have a terrible, irrational fear of them. The small ones don't bother me any more (I actually like the little ones), but anything more than a couple of inches in diameter is usually enough to reduce me to a shivering wreck of a man. The ones over here are big and nasty, and very fast-moving. My cats used to catch them sometimes. The most disgusting thing I've heard of, though, is when my old neighbors found their baby daughter munching on something, and on closer inspection realised there were long, spindly legs dangling from her mouth. |
Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 05:16 pm: | |
I can understand why you wouldn't want to open that link But my jobhunting is going badly and the countdown to redunancy is well underway so some schadenfreude is good for the soul. |
Craig (Craig) Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.8.146
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 05:24 pm: | |
Is that really real? Or just a faked-up photo? |
Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 05:28 pm: | |
golden orb spider, one of the more pleasant natives of Australia
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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 05:45 pm: | |
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/10/061027-tarantula-video.html |
Craig (Craig) Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.8.146
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 06:00 pm: | |
I think we're hard-wired to be repelled, revolted, disgusted, and afraid to boot, of living things that are smaller than us that can hurt us (usually through poison). We don't need to be hard-wired to be scared of things larger than us that are dangerous - bears, lions, tigers, etc. - because them roaring and chasing our asses is enough! |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 06:27 pm: | |
Yeah, it always felt like a glitch not to be scared of certain creatures. What gets me is the photographer should have saved the bird. The spider couldn't eat it, after all. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 06:29 pm: | |
STOP TALKING ABOUT SPIDERS!!!!!!!!! |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.122.154
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 06:55 pm: | |
http://www.flowers.vg/flowers/bug04.htm?gclid=CPSrhJaqwJYCFQuY1QodaWsSyQ |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 06:56 pm: | |
Evil, hideous, monstrous, unspeakable, nasty. The spiders are pretty horrid, too. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 06:58 pm: | |
But, but...! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?MLC=/earth/earth_news&xml=/earth/200 8/09/29/eaheron129.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 07:04 pm: | |
And - Fuck!!! Actually, this is bad, but listen to the conversation in the car. For some reason it's fascinating and horrible all at once. http://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?p=lion++giraffe&n=21&ei=utf-8&js=1&f r=bt-portal&tnr=20&vid=000166566380 |
Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.234.94
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 09:20 pm: | |
Weber: I used to own a male goliath, which is only marginally smaller than the female shown here. It would frequently try to pry open the lid of its terrarium - proof that arachnids are not as stupid as is generally thought. Tony: spiders don't chew their prey. The sole purpose of their fangs is to inject a paralyzing poison which also acts as a dissolving acid - the innards of whatever the spider catches are turned into a kind of 'soup' which is then sucked up. |
Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.234.94
| Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 - 09:30 pm: | |
The picture with the golden orb spider looks like a fake to me, though. My guess is that both animals are dead. |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.141.80
| Posted on Monday, October 27, 2008 - 11:34 pm: | |
The picture with the golden orb spider looks like a fake to me, though. My guess is that both animals are dead. I think you may be right - the spider appears to be in the same position in each photograph. |