SPIDERS!!!! ARGGGG

[Claw75]

At my mum's house the other day there was a 5-legged spider hanging down over my seat - was having a bugger of a time spinning it's web because it was lopsided - never seen anything like it before!

[Girgy85]

OMG!!! i was put on life tilt yesterday! Whilst driving to the local for the poker i was confronted by a big juicy Huntsman that came out of between my window and door and proceded to crawl accross my windscreen. Im driving down a busy duel carrageway and im shit scared of tiny spiders nevermind one the size bottom of a pint glass! I managed to grab something to splat the living daylights out of it, and its remains are now smeered all over my windscreen! Almost crashed the car and was physically shaking until i squished it! Went on to win $260 total at poker finishing 1st and 2nd in the two games i played.

[Laxie]

It's bad luck to kill a spider.  Don't say you haven't been warned.

[Girgy85]

It's bad luck to kill a spider.  Don't say you haven't been warned.

It cant of been that bad luck!

If u had seen the size of it im pretty sure u would of done the same as i did!!

[Laxie]

We never kill them.  Ever.  There's a very large one living here somewhere in our house and we have an understanding.  He stays out of our way and he's left indoors.  When he shows himself, he's picked up and taken outside.  Only for the lil darling to find his way back in again.  We had a couple living on the windowsill in our back yard and they were HUGE.  They hid behind a window box full of flowers.  I always took care when watering that window box so I wouldn't disturb them.  Not sure what happened to them, but they aren't there any more.  Pity, because they kept flies out of our kitchen in the summer.

[Suited_Jock]

imo

[Laxie]

Actually, that's huge compared to ours.     We wouldn't be too thrilled to see something that size!  Still, it would be put outside without killing.  Call me superstitious, but it's considered very bad luck to kill em. 

[kinboshi]

I love spiders - the missus isn't so keen, although she gets less hysterical when she sees one now.

When we were in Japan, a Giant Wood Spider set up home at the end of our house.  Bloody big spiders, and the web was enormous!  I'm going to have to see if I can find any of the photos I took of it.  In the meantime, here are a few someone else prepared earlier.

http://richard-seaman.com/Insects/Japan/Spiders/GiantWood/index.html




The spider who moved in next-door to us fed primarily on cicada.  They're pretty much very big flies, several inches in length, and they sit together in trees and make a very distinctive noise.  The sound is as though it's being made by something electrical.  If you watch any Japanese film, they have the noise of the cicada in the background.



You can see why the spider is so big if it's eating them all the time.

[WarBwastard]

imo

Heavens to Mergatroid, please tell me that clock and those curtains are in a tiny dolls house.

[Claw75]

imo

Heavens to Mergatroid, please tell me that clock and those curtains are in a tiny dolls house.

I had a spider about the size scurry over my bedroom wall and behind the wardrobe once.  I never did find it, so convinced myself it was a hallucination

[EvilPie]

Get a Rottweiler with a fascination for anything that scurries quickly across the floor.

No more spiders.

Lot's of toppled furniture.

[bolt pp]

imo

Heavens to Mergatroid, please tell me that clock and those curtains are in a tiny dolls house.

I had a spider about the size scurry over my bedroom wall and behind the wardrobe once.  I never did find it, so convinced myself it was a hallucination

were you taking drugs?

[kinboshi]

imo

Heavens to Mergatroid, please tell me that clock and those curtains are in a tiny dolls house.

I had a spider about the size scurry over my bedroom wall and behind the wardrobe once.  I never did find it, so convinced myself it was a hallucination

were you taking drugs?

No, but the spider was on nandrolone. 

[Claw75]

were you taking drugs?

I was actually (prescription drugs that is), hence it made it easier to justify the possibility I had imagined it

[sovietsong]

I think I would have to move if that spider under the clock was at my house!