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General Discussion => General Discussion Boards => Other General Discussion => Topic started by: monokekie on February 01, 2010, 10:34:27 pm
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imagine, a spider dropped from the ceiling right on your keyboard and scared the crap out of you. you then ran to your parents' room asking for help, and you had to come back because your request has been totally ignored by the two people who were busy reading magazines and newspapers. back at your desk, the spider was nolonger on your keyboard, instead, it climbed onto your calculator which is around 50 cm away from your comp, and went idle/fell asleep.
when you kill it with your shoe you won't want to wear them anymore, nor will you be willing to touch your calculator again. if you leave it there you won't want to enter your room again.
how about trapping it? but then, how?
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errr what would you do next?
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id grab the calc, shake the spider off..... and then kill it with my slipper
yeah.... i show no mercy :P
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er, and you don't wanna see its intestine..
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Hide under my bed sheets and cry.
What type of spider is it (picture unnecessary)? Get a bucket or a cup and put it over your calculator? But make sure you'll definitely be able to trap it otherwise it'll start running around the place in which case you should go hide under your bed sheets and cry.
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Is it a big hairy spider?
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Vacuum cleaner= no mess; also you won't need to go near to it.
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Problem. I'm not brave enough to even kill it with a shoe. I'd probably weep and search for Mortein. But if it were a hairy one, I'd have to alert my parents. Definitely.
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Vacuum cleaner is the way!
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went to get the vacumm cleaner and its gone....can't find it anymore :-\
the big, long leg one..
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oh wells, a spider is good, it brings you luck, its better now to kill a spider. and my parents said its not gonna kill me anywayz...
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Interestingly I have some small ventilation slits on the wall above my desktop and often I get spiders crawling in from there. On two occasions I've had a spider descend down right in front of my face and freak me out. The worst part is sometimes part of their web will be stuck to me and when I react and lean backwards, it makes it look like the spider is flying right at me.
If it is a small spider I would just catch and squish it with a tissue. If it's a big fat one that looks like it would asplode in a gooey mess of spider guts if I squish it then I'll use an insect spray to kill it.
worst case scenario
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didn't dare to finish watching the first 3 seconds of that video
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it will kill you :)
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(http://static.open.salon.com/files/wolf1233844891.jpg)
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(http://memegenerator.net/Thumbnails/819/208x228_Courage-Wolf-FIGHT-TO-THE-DEATH-THEN-FIGHT-SOME-MORE.jpg)
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brb, sobbing.
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i love what my dad the pussy did one time. Long story short: Spider on the curtain. Grabs the whole curtain and takes it outside in his boxers. Tries to shake the spider off but just fails. Epic image, epic lulz.
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Oh shit that's so scary Edmund :(
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worst case scenario
This made me cry due to laughter, loved it.
Depending on the type of spider you might want to consider this. ;D
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I remember when I first saw a cockroach... so does everyone who was on IRC at the time... I was like WTF?!?... I climbed on my desk and used almost a whole can of bug spray.
I'm afraid to have my window open at night, because huge spiders always seem to get in through my window when I do.
Once I walked into my room, turned the light on and from the corner of my eye noticed a quick movement amongst the things on my bookshelf.
Huge spider.
I had seriously only been out of my room for 5mins... how it traveled that far all the way to my bookshelf I don't know.
A couple of weeks ago, I walked into my Dad's room in the middle of the night and woke him up thinking there was a snake or a spider in my room (obviously I'd just woken up from a vivid dream). A few nights later I wandered into my bedroom at about 8pm and found a large and hairy huntsman on the roof right above my bed. Dad got it in an ice-cream container and put it outside *far* away from my window. I walked into his bedroom at about 2am and told him the spider was back. He asked me if I was dreaming again. I told him that I couldn't have been dreaming because I hadn't slept yet (it was hot). He comes in my room, turns the light back on, and the spider I was sure was on the white timber frame of my window was no longer there. Dad was absolutely convinced I'd been dreaming again. There was no fking way I was sleeping in that room until the spider was found.... I was like "omfg-where-did-the-spider-go??". My curtains are kind of like this and open vertically... I had them half open and tentatively opened them the rest of the way. Sure enough, there's an absolutely gigantic huntsman on the inside of the window at the *very top* camouflaged against the black of the night. Never have I been so glad to see a spider... I would have been too afraid to sleep until it was found.
To top it all off Dad goes "Oh, that's huge... that's not the same spider as before though... this one's way bigger".
Me: 0.0 *Abruptly closed window after dearest father disposed of the spider outside*
I have a dozen of these stories... I'm not just being paranoid about spiders getting in my room... it keeps happening... just last night when I went outside I nearly walked straight into a very big grey spider with loooong legs that was likely poisonous... it was just hanging there right in front of my face.
I'm happy keeping a couple of daddy long legs in my room... but I *really* hate big spiders... snakes are worse though... my sister and I were nearly bitten by a snake while we were bushwalking in Tassie last year.
/Shamed by girlishness.
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imagine, a spider dropped from the ceiling right on your keyboard and scared the crap out of you. you then ran to your parents' room asking for help, and you had to come back because your request has been totally ignored by the two people who were busy reading magazines and newspapers. back at your desk, the spider was nolonger on your keyboard, instead, it climbed onto your calculator which is around 50 cm away from your comp, and went idle/fell asleep.
when you kill it with your shoe you won't want to wear them anymore, nor will you be willing to touch your calculator again. if you leave it there you won't want to enter your room again.
how about trapping it? but then, how?
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errr what would you do next?
This is actually something I would do
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I would wait for it to get off my computer and spray it to death with bug spray.
What I hate is when you see a spider on the wall (up high) and then it disappears, or when someone gets a spider on them and through instinct through it off them (9/10 times in my direction).
One time when I was four I saw a huntsman in my room, I wouldn't go back in there for over a week, until my dad through being annoyed killed it.
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worst case scenario
This had me checking everywhere in my room. Damn scary!
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i love what my dad the pussy did one time. Long story short: Spider on the curtain. Grabs the whole curtain and takes it outside in his boxers. Tries to shake the spider off but just fails. Epic image, epic lulz.
LOL hahahaah
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Omfg Edmund that pic scared the shit out of me
yes I hate spiders very much. I like vacuum cleaners.
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this thread is making me check my ceilings and walls every 10 secs XD
its even worse considering i actually had to deal with a relatively large spider just yesterday
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc
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One thing I hate worse than the big spiders is the white tail (at our old house I probably saw 20 in two years).
- One time I was wearing a hat and mum told me to take it off inside and when I did I saw a white tail crawling around on the inside.
- At the beach my sisters (jokingly) kept on telling me a stingray was behind me, but then after 5 times of doing this they did it again and I just stayed where I was until mum was like behind you. I never got out the water faster and the worst part was seeing a huge sting Ray only a foot away from where I was.
- I have also opened letters with various spiders in them (huntsman, white tail, etc) and my advice "never touch your mail after it's been raining.
Our dog will usually eat any bug/spider near it so if I see a spider and it disappears, then I keep the dog in my room to try and get some sleep.
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When I was about 4 I had this shit on me while I was asleep. Dad told me not to move and waited while it crawled off me onto the sheets and then smacked it dead with a shoe.
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Some fb quotes from a friend of mine:
There is a big ass spider somewhere in my room. When I went to get something to go catch the bastard it went into hiding. FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
What do I put to draw it in? I can't sleep knowing that it's patrolling trying to catch me sleeping with my mouth open.
You can't trust these spiders.
I didn't end up finding it. I couldn't sleep properly because I felt imaginary spiders crawling all over my body, violating me.
there are probably spiders lurking in your room without your knowledge right now. to make things worse you probably breathe in and eat (unintentionally? i hope) many insects everyday
they should be honoured to sustain my existence
;D
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leave the room and seal it off with concrete. it's dead to me now. as dead as the spider.
can you tell I'm arachnophobic? -_-
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I'm arachnophobic too. Petrified of spiders. I sometimes dream that I'm surrounded by huge spiders. :(
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Fun fact: Every year, you swallow one spider when you sleep. =S
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Fun fact: Every year, you swallow one spider when you sleep. =S
You didn't have to tell me :(
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This has got to be the coolest desktop:
(http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/8438/cooldesktop.jpg)
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Edmund, I was EATING. ugh
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What IS that? Not a spider...a millipede?
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Centipede
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Fun fact: Every year, you swallow one spider when you sleep. =S
This is just a myth. It isn't true! :)
It is true that people regularly eat insect fragments though. See here.
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It is true that people regularly eat insect fragments though. See here.
People in rice-eating regions, for example, typically ingest significant numbers of rice weevil (Sitophilus oryzae) larvae, and this has been suggested as an important source of vitamins.
.... oh my god. I'M GOING TO BE SICK. I EAT RICE EVERYDAY. HOLY CRAP.
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lol shit same here...
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I do too. But they're harmless, in fact, they have a decent amount of protein and probably add flavour to rice.
100 grams of cricket contains: 121 calories, 12.9 grams of protein, 5.5 g. of fat, 5.1 g. of carbohydrates, 75.8 mg. calcium, 185.3 mg. of phosphorous, 9.5 mg. of iron, 0.36 mg. of thiamin, 1.09 mg. of riboflavin, and 3.10 mg. of niacin
http://www.manataka.org/page160.html
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It is true that people regularly eat insect fragments though. See here.
People in rice-eating regions, for example, typically ingest significant numbers of rice weevil (Sitophilus oryzae) larvae, and this has been suggested as an important source of vitamins.
.... oh my god. I'M GOING TO BE SICK. I EAT RICE EVERYDAY. HOLY CRAP.
That's not so bad, you should know what can infest your guts if you don't cook beef patties properly. I hate the fact that some people cook their meat to rare or medium rare.
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vacuum cleaner/shoe!
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There's a very distinct trend with teh females on here and their adversity to creepy-crawlies...
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There's a very distinct trend with teh females on here and their adversity to creepy-crawlies...
bugs don't look cute and fluffy like dogs...maybe thats why...
if insects looked like tare panda and were crawling in my house i would keep and feed them all.
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I'm a girl and I'm not that scared of spiders. Unless it was HUGE and on me, then ugh. But sometimes I'll see a spider about the size of an eraser crawling on my walls and I'll just ignore it lol.
Can't say the same about birds though. Oh God, birds. :x
I'm more scared of spiders/insects crawling inside me (like into my mouth when I'm asleep) than actually biting me.
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I'm a girl and I'm not that scared of spiders. Unless it was HUGE and on me, then ugh. But sometimes I'll see a spider about the size of an eraser crawling on my walls and I'll just ignore it lol.
Can't say the same about birds though. Oh God, birds. :x
I'm more scared of spiders/insects crawling inside me (like into my mouth when I'm asleep) than actually biting me.
lol wut birds?
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^ I have a serious phobia of birds. I'm not kidding when I say I break out into a sweat and experience breathing difficulties when I'm near a bird, especially chickens, pigeons, turkeys, parrots, crows. It's the nasty looking feet, creepy ass eyes, feathers, disgusting noises and that awful little back-and-forth head movement that a lot of birds do.
My fear is so irrational that sometimes I think that if I had to make a choice between being locked in a cage with a bird or a lion/pack of rabid squirrels, I'd choose the lion/pack of rabid squirrels.
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Spiders are cute as long as they aren't too hairy
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^ I have a serious phobia of birds. I'm not kidding when I say I break out into a sweat and experience breathing difficulties when I'm near a bird, especially chickens, pigeons, turkeys, parrots, crows. It's the nasty looking feet, creepy ass eyes, feathers, disgusting noises and that awful little back-and-forth head movement that a lot of birds do.
My fear is so irrational that sometimes I think that if I had to make a choice between being locked in a cage with a bird or a lion/pack of rabid squirrels, I'd choose the lion/pack of rabid squirrels.
true++++1
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^ I have a serious phobia of birds. I'm not kidding when I say I break out into a sweat and experience breathing difficulties when I'm near a bird, especially chickens, pigeons, turkeys, parrots, crows. It's the nasty looking feet, creepy ass eyes, feathers, disgusting noises and that awful little back-and-forth head movement that a lot of birds do.
My fear is so irrational that sometimes I think that if I had to make a choice between being locked in a cage with a bird or a lion/pack of rabid squirrels, I'd choose the lion/pack of rabid squirrels.
My BIGGEST phobia is vomit!
If I could choose between being up high, have spiders crawl on me (or burst through my skin) or see vomit I would choose the other things. I have only started going to parties because I try to not worry about the possibility of someone throwing up and the phobia can sometimes consume me.
Rationally my phobia makes no sense, but if I feel slightly nauseous or hear someone go 'I feel like I'm going to be sick' I will literally flip out and start having severe anxiety attacks. I must wash my hands all the time (there was times that my skin would literally burn from overwashing), make sure the cooking environment is spotless, make sure my meats are well done and if there is a rumour of a restaurant having a food poisoning outbreak then I will refuse to eat there. Also my biggest fear of having children is the thought of them getting gastro.
Ahh I feel so crazy and I bet NOBODY can top this! If they can I will karma spam them.
Oh and btw teebagger*: Birds usually carry the Salmonella bacteria.
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LOL craziest thing I ever heard.
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^ I have a serious phobia of birds. I'm not kidding when I say I break out into a sweat and experience breathing difficulties when I'm near a bird, especially chickens, pigeons, turkeys, parrots, crows. It's the nasty looking feet, creepy ass eyes, feathers, disgusting noises and that awful little back-and-forth head movement that a lot of birds do.
My fear is so irrational that sometimes I think that if I had to make a choice between being locked in a cage with a bird or a lion/pack of rabid squirrels, I'd choose the lion/pack of rabid squirrels.
lol, birds move to the top of my phobia list around about spring :P
god i just hate when they fly just over ur head.....could swoop, crap, anything