Got myself a guest with spidey sense!! KILL IT

Hey All,

I was just sitting here, minding my own business, and this huntsmen just ran down the wall, slowly but surely, and then plonked its pudgy ass on my sub box, I`m hoping it climbs in there, to give him a bit of a lesson in professional sound devices of the human kind!

Girlfriend wants to kill it, she hates spiders, I do too, but its a damn huntsmen, they're basically in every household in australia, it could be the cousin of a cousin of a cousin, in spider generations, his got big beedy eyes though that seem to be looking at me with the "Do anything and I`m gonna jump at you and teach you a lesson beotch!" type of look!

Anyway, is it in humane to kill a spider, well since its not a matter of life or death, maybe a heart attack from fright at most, to the not so quesy... but I dunno, I`m afraid to leave him be while my girlfriends around, he`ll be as flat as a slice of A4 as soon as I turn my back if I don't move his sorry ass....

 

Awh crikey mate put another shrimp on the barby for him and his mates, better yet give him some Aussy Beer that will teach him

 

i say get him outside some how or take him out before your girlfriend does, think of it as doing him a favor compared to your g/f getting to him.

 

You double-posted in the Interesting Website Links forum.....


I say get the vacuum and take the sucker out!

 

nah, step on it...get it over with.

 

You'd never get me THAT close. I need all 3 vacuum attachments!

 

I was playing on battlefield 2 when a big black one dropped from the cieling onto my face I knocked him off,he then jumped back on my shoulder twice after I knocked him off,startled me at first being so engrossed in the game but I didnt wanna get killed so just let him carry on with what he was doing crawling all over me,its enough to contend with lag let alone rampant spiders

 

Gonna set my vacuum on you, TimW!!!!!

 

Nearly trod on a black blob with bare feet on the carpet this morning. Turns out - lucky I didn't, 'cos it was a Red Back (A.K.A. Black Widow!). I just bashed it with a dustpan brush, heh, heh.

I love living in this country!

 

OK...you asked for it......someone has to de-spider this forum!

 

So, you're a big sucker huh?

Actually, I prefer the Miele Cat & Dog Plus...they are so awesome, especially if you have allergies


Haha...I just read my own post and had typed "Cat and God".......that would be such a heavenly hoover

 

*Ahem*.......never known a guy to be so fussy about what kinda vacuum he sucks up spiders with......

Can just see you in an apron and curlers

 

Well, you'll need a BIG one for these critters!!!..

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g309/Zobor/eight_legged_freaks-2.jpg

 

Phantom --- THAT is the precise reason I will probably never visit Australia

@TimW...behave! Family viewing forum

 

*Adds TimW to her Ignore List*........

 

Ahhhhhhh....NOW you decide to act your age.....

 

Ahem, back to the spiders, I like to let them live. In this area though, they only get as bad as the Hobo, Brown Recluse, and Black Widow (the relatively harmless variety). I've only seen Hobos dead in my pool. Don't see any big spiders in the house, we have cats, they eat 'em up. If I lived in Australia, I'd have cats.

 

You guys just don't get it. It has NOTHING to do with how poisonous or deadly the spider can be. It's about looks.

I've checked out pictures of all the ones you've listed sibeer, and to be honest, the darn crawling cartoon one Tim posted scares me more than any of those real pictures of deadlier ones.

In England there are LARGE black and brown house spiders - totally harmless - but big and fast and freaky. To me they might as well be the South African baboon spider.

It's a phobia, that's all I can say. If you are scared witless (I said WITless) of anything, then you'll understand

 

I`ve got a cat, the fat pudgy bastige only moves to claw me in the face when he wants food, jumps on the desk, plonks his butt right in front of me, doesn't care if the keyboards there, and will just puuurrrrrrr away, to the point where I cannot move my arms because he falls asleep while they`re under him so I can type!!!!!

Trust me when I say, PUSSY cat, literally!

Actually, he used to play with spiders when he slept in the bed with me at my folks place, my parents place is full of tree's n what not, and there was a redback running around the window behind the curtains, but to high for socksy to get, so he waited 2 hours, carefully locked onto this spider, when it got halfway down the side of the curtain, it was like the matrix I tell ya, he bolted across the room, ran up the wall, hooked onto the curtains with his claws, then whacked the pisser out of this spider, was the funniest thing I`ve ever seen!

@Lev, I am not keen on spiders myself, but I don't fear them, although you`d never catch me near a tarantula, that is one ugly mudder fuddgin fat spider, the look of them creep me out! but the sub coffee mug size don't phase me too much, they come near me, depending on its danger factor, I`ll just let it pass, Kylie however freaks out, I`ll have to film it one day, she jumped 10 feet one day, we were sitting on the lounge, I put my arm behind her and brushed lightly on her neck, while we were watching 8 legged freaks actually, she screamed, stripped, whacking everywhere, funny stuff!

Oh, and I haven't moved him yet, he crawled into the sub woofer hole, he better not make a damn web in there, I`ll kill the bastige and make him listen to 17 tracks of Celine Dion!!!

Then to top it off, a full play of Sinead O'Connor, nothing compares to you!

 

http://www.ivory.org/spiders/araneus.diadematus-7.jpg

 

ROFL...

WTF was that all about!

 

TimW, Your nasty

 

As much as I hate spiders too. I'd say just trap him in the box then go let him outside and THIS TIME make sure there isn't any way he can get back inside. By that I mean shut your window when your not in the room.

 

Small error in that thinking. Spiders don't know what windows are and really don't care if you have them or not

 

Hehe...due to a rather difficult situation at work, I'm currently not opening boxes

 

I love spiders and I do allow them to live in my house. However, having been stung by a Northern Black Widow, ( insert your own joke here ) I will kill it if I see it. While hiking, I was bitten on the left shin, just above the bootline. I reacted by smacking it dead. Later, I was told, I should have left it, because you get less venom. It wasn't too bad to start, but by the time we arrived at camp, I could feel a cramp in my leg. Later that night, I was awakened by a massive knot in my calf muscle. Colloquially, we call that a "charley horse". It was "bite a stick" kind of pain. I massaged it, she massaged it, but there was no relief. I just couldn't believe how hard it was. ( minds out of the gutter - please!) . By morning, I couldn't straighten my leg. I couldn't really walk and we were about 5 km from the nearest help. My GF, grabbed the compass, a water bottle and an energy bar and took off at a run. Before help arrived, I started to get heart beat irregularities and my breathing rate changed involuntarily. I was actually scared. I made some deals with the almighty - (I've pretty much adhered to all of them) because I believed it was my time to go. Well help arrived on ATVs. Two rescue Rangers and my GF. One of the dudes, laughing his ass off, shot some muscle relaxant into my arm. He couldn't get over the fact, that I thought I was going to die. Well, two minutes later my leg uncurled, and by thirty minutes I could stand. I thanked everbody so many times, they were all sick of it. So LEV, don't feel bad about your spider phobia - I believe it's pure survivalism at work there. By the way - I married that girl. She gave excellent massage.

 

Thanks prometheos

I don't feel bad about my phobia at all. I would feel a heck of a lot worse trying to overcome it, so I don't. The part where you mentioned heart beat irregularities and breathing difficulties after being bitten is what I get bad just thinking about confrontation with the suckers, so I don't go there