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     Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 85.158.139.99 |
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 |
Evil bastard! You know I hate spiders... | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 85.158.139.99 |
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 |
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 |
Zombie snail http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EWB_COSUXMw | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.234.94 |
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 |
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 |
Good!   | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
>>>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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
golden orb spider, one of the more pleasant natives of Australia  | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/10/061027-tarantula-video.html | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.8.146 |
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 |
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 |
STOP TALKING ABOUT SPIDERS!!!!!!!!! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.122.154 |
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 |
Evil, hideous, monstrous, unspeakable, nasty. The spiders are pretty horrid, too. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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. |