Fucking hate spiders.

[James]

The little really REALLY tiny ones are OK. You know the ones you can crush with the force of your breath. Even the slightler larger ones that are thin and brownish-yellow.

But these little nickel-sized furry black fuckers are pissing me off. I don't see them very often, but I fucking hate them. They're chunky little shits, and I don't like feeling them get smooshed when I take the tissue to them. ESPECIALLY when they're still alive. It's a little better when you know they're dead. But getting down near them and grabbing them while alive is just NO.

Next time I see one, I'm calling Re to bring over her vaccuum and/or cups.

[Jeanette X]

I usually drop a book on them...then I press down on the book to make sure that it's really dead. :(

[AChimp]

Or, you know, you could just ignore them.

[Cap'n Crunch]

An average person eats about 8 spiders while they sleep. :/

[Daphne]

that's not true, actually (http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.htm)

[Cap'n Crunch]

The Snapple cap lied. :(

[Rongi]

I hate spiders more then anyone else on the entire fucking planet. I am not even kidding.

Did you know that most people are more afraid of spiders then they are afraid of death?

[AChimp]

SPIDERS ARE DEATH! >:

[Rongi]

OMG I wish these peices of shit would be on the brink of extinction instead of mosquitos >:

I don't give half a flying fuck what they do for the environment, I hate them >:

[Esuohlim]

UHHHHH, THEY EAT MOSQUITOS. :rolleyes

[Anonymous]

I don't kill bugs unless it's 'necessary'. If I can trap it till Rog can let it run free in the wild I will, or if he's home he can just come catch it and then let it go. I'll only kill it if I have no way to trap it and if it's a really bad bud - like a bee or a wasp, or a cockroach or those damned centipedes. I don't really bother with spiders, unless it is some mega scary death spider or something. Anyway, if I have to kill them I won't squash them. I spray windex or something similar on them. It's pretty rare that I ever have to do that.

Anyway this thread reminded me that I tried to take a photo of one of the most recent centipedes we had. It is hard to photograph something through tupperware

http://www.strangepuppets.com/misc/bug1.jpg
http://www.strangepuppets.com/misc/bug2.jpg
http://www.strangepuppets.com/misc/bug3.jpg

[FS]

Christ, that thing has some long legs :chatter

Big spiders drive me out of rooms and onto the furniture. Especially when they're obviously not web-spinners, but the kind that runs down its prey and POUNCES at them.

I once saw this ingenious device advertized, it was like a tupperware box on a stick. You put it over a spider or other creepy crawly, then pull some lever that causes the box to close under the creature. Then you just toss him out. I would've bought it, but I figure I'd need to hide it more deviously than any kind of elaborate electro-magnetic anal masturbation device if I ever want to be in a relationship.

[Sethomas]

I dislike spiders on the grounds that I associate them with uncleanliness and the many bites they've given me. But one time I was stuck in cave surrounded by crazy-looking spiders that covered literally every inch of the walls, so that purged out any irrational fear of them I might have had. All the same, I'm still more afraid of spiders than death because I'm a stoic schizoaffective like that.

[mew barios]

i've always kinda identified with spiders o.o and have grown up with an equally irrational feeling towards them. i can't believe that they'd ever do anything to hurt me even though they're totally capable of it. actually i feel that way about most everything, except yellow jackets. i know for a fact that they're all a bunch of hateful jerks. >:

oh :o there were centipede-like creatures that looked jus like that thinger that wandered about this apartment when i first moved here. after a couple months they mysteriously vanished though. o.o

[Vibecrewangel]

I actually really like them. My boyfriend hates them, so he makes me catch them and put htme outside. He won't even let me keep a tarantula. :(

And I really want one too.

[FeuerAffe]

I got followed in from the garage by a fucking huge, furry, spider of death the other day. After beating it with a broom and feeling confident that it was broken and dead, I went ahead with my plans, calling a friend to come over, etc. He got there and I asked him to throw the thing away and it was gone...we found it a few minutes later crawling towards us on the floor. Frigging thing rose from the dead...so I gave him a magazine with those stupid Charlie's Angels girls on the cover to smoosh it. Now they have spider guts on their faces. :)

Usually I'm nice to bugs and try to free them, but if you're a furry uber spider scuttling in from the garage, I get mean. :(

[kahljorn]

I hate spider's, but I refuse to kill them. They scare the shit out of me but i carry them outside. I guess I like being scared to death :( This thread made me think things were crawling on my feet. I hate you.

[Sethomas]

FA, sounds like a wolf spider. Indiana is crazy full of them, one time I uncovered a nest of literally hundreds of them on the side of our barn once. Most of them were dime-sized, but one of them had the leg span of an average plate. Damn dirty spiders.

[James]

If something creeps me out, I kill it. That's why there are NO HOBOS IN CT. >:

Seriously, my house had become infested with critters. I had to deal with a spider, the uber-spider, a mosquito, 2 gnats, and a little flying buggy thing that I don't know what.

I'm just thankful that I haven't had any bees/hornets to deal with. Spiders, I hate. Stingy bad bugs, I fear.

One time, I woke up to the sound of buzzing. Turned the light on, saw a bee, and bolted out of my room. I called my mommy to come home and kill it. :(

She couldn't come home. :(

So I put on snow boots with the cuffs of my pants (thrown over my PJs) tucked into them, put on some gloves, put a jacket on and tucked that in, and pulled the hood up tight around my head, and had my pajama shirt's collar up over my mouth and nose.

I was the bee-killing ninja. And I shoed [sic] that fucker.

[punkgrrrlie10]

:lol @ bee-killing ninja

The other day I was working on someone else's computer and a big death spider crawled out of the monitor. I called a so-called male over to kill it but he just blew it behind the desk, so now it's out there plotting its revenge against me....I just know it.

[AChimp]

I personally find it hilarious when girls start freaking out at bugs and rodents and demanding guys kill things for them.

Then they all talk about how violent men are. :(

[The_voice_of_reason]

I caught the most bad ass spider the other day, actually it was a wind-scorpion. It was about and inch and a half long.

http://www.projectexploration.org/niger2000/photographs/9_15/solifuge_mh_91600.jpg


I can't stand it when a spider crawls across the floor and everyone freaks out

One time at my work i was called into a room to get some spiders out, I went in and the lady was screaming and stuff. There were five or six wolf spiders that were about the size of a silver dollar. I caught them all in a bucket and was going to talk them outside when the lady said "What are you going to do with them?" I told her i was going to release them and she said "I won't be able to sleep knowing they are alive." So i promised to drown them. I then took them out side and let them go.

[Ninjavenom]

Spiders give me the man-shrieks.

Once there was this big fugly one in my bathroom, near the doorway. It took me fifteen minutes to muster up the guts to get a shoe and some raid. I raided it until it was coated in white and looked like a big, nasty, putrid snowflake OF DEATH. Then i threw my shoe at it, and guts went everywhere. :(

[kahljorn]

One time I killed a Snake. I've felt guilty about it ever since... that poor snake..

[Cap'n Crunch]

I don't really have anything against spiders. If they are near me, I just pick them up, and put them near the window. They just crawl out.

[soundtest]

This thread has made me desire 2 things:

1. A minimock with Rog tearfully setting an insect free because he knows it's for the best (and Protoclown dying somehow).

2. Misinformation Man
3. sex

[Sethomas]

The reason I don't pick up spiders and set them outside is that THOSE FUCKERS BITE. So they're better off dead.

[Esuohlim]

Yeah, I just kill those little motherfuckers without mercy. If they want to spin webs, they can do it outside where they actually catch food, and not in the middle of my fucking sink. >:

[James]

2. Misinformation Man

I miss him. :(

And I think you should be able to forgive someone for freaking out over wolf spiders. I mean geez.

The only insects I don't kill, are the ones bigger than me, and ladybugs. Although, one time I picked up a ladybug to put it out the window, and it suffocated in my hand. I'm going to burn in hell forever now. :(

[AChimp]

http://a1360.g.akamaitech.net/7/1360/34/abc79e1e564d0c/animal.discovery.com/convergence/spidermania/photogallery/gallery/goliath_lg_h.jpg

Goliath "Bird Eating" Tarantula
The Goliath Tarantula lives in South America and can reach a body length of 5 inches with a leg span of up to 12 inches. When threatened, this trantula is capable of making a loud hissing noise by rubbing the hairs on its legs together.

:chatter

[Mockery]

This thread has made me desire 2 things:

1. A minimock with Rog tearfully setting an insect free because he knows it's for the best (and Protoclown dying somehow).

Proto always has to die in minimocks. It's tradition. But yeah, I'm always catching a bug of some sort every week to that Re won't stay up all night wondering if a bug will drop onto her from the ceiling during her slumber. Those long-legged centipede mofos can be pretty speedy, I'm the king of catching bugs now.

As for spiders, I love 'em. They've never bothered me and I think they eat all the annoying bugs that would normally be in my house. So I gladly welcome them to stay in our home. I used to catch spiders all the time... especially black widows. When I was a kid I always wanted to be an entomologist because all I ever did was catch bugs, put them in giant aquariums and see how they could live together... or kill each other. I had like every bug book on earth.

"I'm very paaaaaassionate" ;)

-RoG-

[punkgrrrlie10]

I have no problem killing them when they are on the ground. That's easy. It's when they are dangling or somewhere where my leverage won't be good and as soon as I take the shoe or whatever away, they will spring their attack on me. And I'm short.

[Mockery]

And just in case some of you never saw these photos, here's what someone found behind their clock. o.O

http://www.xs4all.nl/~rpronk/pictures/spider1.jpg

http://www.xs4all.nl/~rpronk/pictures/spider2.jpg

[AChimp]

:lol

It's my turn to admit fears. :(

I'm okay with most insects, because most insects are small and easily avoided if they are gross or dangerous, but I seriously loose my shit if there are BIG insects running loose. Fortunately, Canada's climate is too cold to support big insects. :)

[UP_SHUT]

Holy shit. :chatter If I ever found a spider of that size behind a clock I would burn all of my belongings, just to make sure I'd never find one of those fuckers hiding again.

I hate any type of bug that I magically "find" somewhere. One time I was sorting through a bunch of old crap in my basement (which consisted of mostly old paper) and I saw a millipede crawl out from under the paper I was holding. I was done cleaning for a long, long time. Even worse, somehow a demonic beetle thing (I'm talking one with praying mantis claws and all) got stuck in a screwhole in my light socket before. I'm guessing it was trying to crawl out of the wall and got stuck. I went to plug something in, and this...THING! hisses and tries to bite me. I spared no mercy.

I will kill anything that scares me.

[Misinformation Man]

DID YOU KNOW:

Spider webs are a more potent source of venom than an actal bite. You would have to create a liquid solution out of the webs, of course.

By the by, the fellow who hosted my image has apparently chosen not to do so anymore. Could anyone direct me to an alternative?

[Jixby Phillips]

Bugs totally freak me out (except flies pretty much), and I have to kill them when I see them. But after that I feel really bad :(

[Spectre X]

Spiders don't do anyhting to me, if see them, I just get annoyed by them, or fascinated. When they fascinate me, I watch them crawl around for a while, and then I try to remove them without any hurting and stuff. When they annoy me, I pick them up in a paper and crush them slowly.


I'm a mean bastard :(

[Daphne]

Anyway this thread reminded me that I tried to take a photo of one of the most recent centipedes we had. It is hard to photograph something through tupperware
:chatter OMG that's a silver fish and I fucking hate them, I found one 3 inches long at my friends house and all night I had the willies like it had crawled up my bum!

I fucking hate bugs, I scream and run like a bitch when I see wasps and I make Declan take all spiders and put them outside whilst I hide in the tub.

One time, I lived in a basement apartment at Carlaw and Eastern (shout out to my Toronto buddies :lol ) and this crackhead moved in upstairs and brought a SHIT LOAD of roaches with her. My apartment turned into that Creepshow 'They're Creeping Up On You' bit. I'd turn on a hair dryer and it'd crunch and they'd come flying out all broken up, I put a cat dish in the sink to clean, and when I turned around for 2 seconds it'd be filled with a swarm of them. But the worst was when I went in the back room and pulled a 6ftx5ft Sid Vicious poster down, and the ENTIRE surface behind it was crawling with them, and they started to fall down on my bare feet and ankles. All the while I'm BEGGING my landlord to fumigate, and he refused (this happened over the course of a week). After 7 days of this I hightailed it to a new place.

That was a low ;)

[Helm]

The other day I was staring at my computer screen while running my mantra "I MUST BE A ROBOT DESTROY ALL EMOTION BURN WITH THE FIRE OF DETERMINATION" over and over again in my mind when a bigass bee sorta crashed on the back of my head (it came from the window) and then buzzed in front of my face and I screamed like a little girl and did a jumping dodge from my chair to the bed and then jumped about for 20 goosebump-filled seconds. Then I threw my shoes at it until I got it.

It was funny :(

[Anonymous]

oh shit silverfish!!! I HATE those things too. Those are definitely on the 'do not let get away' list. Those photos are actually of a centipede but I can kinda see how it looks like a silverfish.

exhibit A - a silverfish:

http://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/silverfish.jpg

exhibit B - a centipede (house variety):

http://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/centiphouse.jpg

My parents house always has silverfish. Those little pincher things are scary.

My first apartment had a lot of cockroaches and fleas, nothing like what you described at that apartment you were in. I couldn't have stayed for 5 minutes, I would have died if there were that many roaches.


One last thing... flies are not scary but they are disgusting. I love that part in the High Strung movie when he talks about flies

[Daphne]

oh weird, if I saw a centipede like that I'd barf!

Yeah it was awful in my apartment, I took my dog and went to a friends house until I could find a new place, but I had to go back every day to feed/take care of my cats. I kept them in the bedroom which was the only room devoid of bugs, and I through out 80% of my furniture when I moved.

I was a nightmare, honest to god.

[kahljorn]

Hmm
My house has quite a bit of roaches right now because it's old, they live mostly in the garage but i see one in th ebathroom occasionally and one in the kitches. I just nod and say high, and we go ouor seperate ways. I just don't like when they watch me pee, homosexual roaches :(

Aren't centipedes "Poisonous" or something? I thought I remembered hearing that in like 3rd grade or something. And what do the silver thingis do?

[Jeanette X]

Even worse, somehow a demonic beetle thing (I'm talking one with praying mantis claws and all) got stuck in a screwhole in my light socket before. I'm guessing it was trying to crawl out of the wall and got stuck. I went to plug something in, and this...THING! hisses and tries to bite me. I spared no mercy.

I will kill anything that scares me.
Oh I know what that is. That's just a male stag beetle. They hiss only to frighten off potential predators. They are harmless, but their their jaws can give you a little pinch if you annoy them.
If you find one in your house you should probably get the wood inspected. They live in dead wood.

[sadie]

Spiders, I hate. Stingy bad bugs, I fear.
hate is based in fear.

fear-purging: :love

[kahljorn]

>:

[FeuerAffe]

This thread made my house full of bugs. :(

Little pseudoscorpions keep turning up...they're cool though when they crawl backwards.

[Wiffles]

Spiders creep me out, maybe its because they have many eyes and its like they can see you ALL the time >_<;;

[MLE]

a spider will most likely have no more than 8 eyes, but it's actually been found in some species of tarantulas, like cave dewlling species, that they have less, like 6, 4, 2, or even none!

and i'll admit... the only type of insect that really freaks me out is a centipede... but spiders? :love

http://popndeth.chambergates.com/imock/070803-spideyglass.jpg

[sadie]

my (ex) best friend has been deathly afraid of spiders ever since she was a kid. her dad killed this humongous one in their garage and thousands of baby spiders crawled out everywhere. she wouldn't even watch the movie arachnaphobia yet i saw her grab hold of a SNAKE as it was trying to flee under the refrigerator of our friends' lake house. a SNAKE. when one tiny baby spider makes her heart stop. wtf?

[KILLADEUCE]

JAHEESUS CHRIST, If i saw a spider like the one in the clock pic i would fucking Spaz out and sleep with a gat.

I have to admit... I am not too thrilled with spiders, normally if i see em i ignore em, or grab some tissue , scoop em up and put em outside? Why would i pull some PETA Bullshit like that you may ask? I dunno... Mostly cause when i was in my teens I killed anything that walked, flew or crawled w/ bbguns, gasoline or a fine mixture of the 2. So now i figure time to give alittle back... Besides for all i know, the hell that i end up going to will be all those little bastard critters getting me back in violent maniacal ways...

Spiders Scary.... ASPS? Don't get me started ;)

[Jeanette X]

JAHEESUS CHRIST, If i saw a spider like the one in the clock pic i would fucking Spaz out and sleep with a gat.

A "gat"? :confused

[KILLADEUCE]

The term "Gat" is basic street slang bullshit rhetoric nonsense.
I think it stems from the word "Gatling", basically means a VERY large Handgun, prefferably in a Big Caliber.

If i caught a spider like that in my house, i'd prolly sleep with 2 of em'

[pissed off salesman]

Whats really fun is to catch a spider or bug with really long legs, and burn its legs off, then set it free (if your going to kill it burn all of 'em off if not leave one and watch it wriggle arround.).

[Mike]

eeugh..that reminds me of stuff I did to grasshoppers when I was a little kid. I feel so guilty :(

[KILLADEUCE]

I too feel that guilt- Damn looking back, i was a fucking Pyscho.... Now i'm just a shmoe....

[O71394658]

First off, I'd like to thank Mock for giving me nightmares for the next 3 fucking days. In the 5 minutes since seeing those photos, I've inspected my entire house and looked over my shoulder approximately 37 times.

Spiders scare the living fvck out of me.