The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: tizaala on August 28, 2012, 07:41:43 am
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This was found in a Manchester house yesterday, the fire brigade called in a spider expert as they were too scared to swat the bloody thing,
It would have made a mess of the wall though, but in Manchester who would notice ? :raining:
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Ewwww :o I don't reckon to be scared of spiders, but I'll make an exception in that one's case! :o
Edited cos I can't punctuate pre caffeine fix :D
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thats cool
pictures not very clear but think its a chilean bird eater but i may be wrong...
i wouldn't swat it, i'd want to tickle it :-)
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Aaaw! its cute ;D
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Yuk, bloomer you are welcome to it as far as I am concerned
Sally
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oh dear god, that's the same as the one that was in my bedroom 2 nights ago!! ok, might be a bit bigger but had the same evil look in its eye and as many legs :o
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Good god! I wouldnt cope well with that :o
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It looks like the kids have had fun making a spider from pipe cleaners, and they say photos never lie, this looks like it is stting on the window and the photo taken at a side angle ;)
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Oh my dear gods, terrifying.
I am no wuss normally but I suspect I am the biggest arachnaphobe on here. I am nearly crying just looking at the pic :'(
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B####r me, that wouldn't fit in a jam jar and be put out of the window. :o :o
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I love spiders, lovely creatures.
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If that was in the bedroom I wouldn't be going to bed. Can't sleep if I can see one in the room. We have some whoppers here but that is one helluva beastie.
When we were renovating the house and sleeping in the touring caravan on the back doorstep my daughter (grown up I might add) decided she would sleep on a mattress on the floor in what was going to be her new bedroom. I was asleep in the caravan (minus OH as he was working away) and at about midnight my phone rang and it was her screaming to open the caravan door as a monster of a spider had just run across the screen of her laptop. We don't get quite so many now but the cellar is a creepy place to visit!
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Now I don't mind spiders, even in the bedroom.....but I would make a huge exception for that one....Yuck
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He's a whopper :o ,
there was some of a simular size when we were in the Australian tropical rainforrest earler this year.
Richard
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Now I'm wearing my specs but it still looks like an exploded power point with electricity cables sticking out, think I'll keep it at that and not attempt to click for a bigger image 8)
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Oh my dear gods, terrifying.
I am no wuss normally but I suspect I am the biggest arachnaphobe on here. I am nearly crying just looking at the pic :'(
I bet you're not. I couldn't enlarge the photo and I feel sick now. I can't even look at pictures of ordinary big ones.
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Give me an aggressive share pei any day!!
Evil, evil eight legged man eaters are spiders. they always head towards me!
This thing is..is..is. Aaaaaaahhhhhhh!!
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Oh my dear gods, terrifying.
I am no wuss normally but I suspect I am the biggest arachnaphobe on here. I am nearly crying just looking at the pic :'(
I bet you're not. I couldn't enlarge the photo and I feel sick now. I can't even look at pictures of ordinary big ones.
I find it easier to just not look at that pic....
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Oh my dear gods, terrifying.
I am no wuss normally but I suspect I am the biggest arachnaphobe on here. I am nearly crying just looking at the pic :'(
I'm terrified of them too CW - I'm sure it must relate to a childhood incident (being teased with one or something?) but each time we get a huge spider in the bedroom I go into meltdown because I cannot bear to think of sleeping with it 'on the loose'. My 9 year old picks them up, has a chat with them, names them and then sticks them out in the garden for me and has done since she was about 4!
Mini domestic the other night because OH told me I need to Man up and catch them myself after I sent him a FB message to come and get it because I couldnt' leave the bed and he couldn't hear me shouting!! ;D
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So, what happened to the spider? I hope you didn't swat him :( Did you get a "Spiderman" out to remove him?
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No, I couldn't kill one. I can't kill anything (apart from fleas and redmite, oh and bluebottles)
Well, he eventually came in the bedroom and said words along the lines of "oh for goodness sakes..." and informed me that Boris had been living in our bedroom for days and what was my problem. Then, he stuck a plastic cup over it and said "there you go, I've done the hard bit - YOU get it out". Oh my knees went wobbly at this point and I told him a few hometruths.
I tried to pick the cup up with a bit of paper but was shaking and muttering about how HE was actually too scared to do it and maybe I should pop next door to our good looking neighbour as I doubt he's scared of spiders.... Rather miraculously, hubby got back out the bed, lifted the cup and spider up and put it out the window. Result :thumbsup: [size=78%] [/size]
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but each time we get a huge spider in the bedroom I go into meltdown because I cannot bear to think of sleeping with it 'on the loose'. My 9 year old picks them up, has a chat with them, names them and then sticks them out in the garden for me
Same here Plums. And can I have your 9 year old on speed-dial for spider emergencies? I'll send a taxi for her!! (but not Tizzala's with the radioactive cat in it. lol) ;D ;D ;D
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Some of you may relate to my annoyance of the following 2 comment then!
'it's only a spider, it won't hurt you'
Thanks for that, I am well aware of the reason it is called an IRRATIONAL fear ::)
My all time favourite?
'it's far more scared of you than you are of it'
Well that's odd cos I have never seen a spider weep with fear in my life. If I'm so sodding scary why does it ALWAYS run towards me???
Fortunately for me Red-Dog is quite the spider hound and will do anything to get the crawly protein snacks :relief:
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Can definitely relate to those!! And no, I've never seen a spider that looks scared. Ever.
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Colliewoman, you wouldnt have to feed Red-Dog for a week if he got hold of that one!
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Tiz, I think you should have put a spider warning in your subject heading - you've probably set many arachnophobes back to square one in their therapy. :o ;D ;D
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Tiz, I think you should have put a spider warning in your subject heading - you've probably set many arachnophobes back to square one in their therapy. :o ;D ;D
:roflanim:
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Colliewoman, you wouldnt have to feed Red-Dog for a week if he got hold of that one!
True, I think that one is bigger than her :o
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If we have a spider on the bedroom ceiling, OH has to go and get the hoover. Can you imagine the scene? There I am, OUTSIDE the room and peering round the door, while he holds the hose up to the ceiling, and me saying, "left a bit, left a bit, ok now." If he misses and the spider runs, I scream and OH nearly falls off the bed with shock. It doesn't help when I have to say, "Not that left, the other one." (cos I'm dyslexic and have trouble with lefts and rights).
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well....there always used to be the rumour that these kind of things come with bananas? I wonder if it left some eggs in a corner :thinking: :thinking: :thinking: :&>
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That's hideous :o .
I hate the eight legged freaks, can't cope with them at all. Don't sleep if they're in the bedroom and HATE camping with the possibility of sharing the tent with one :-\
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well....there always used to be the rumour that these kind of things come with bananas? I wonder if it left some eggs in a corner :thinking: :thinking: :thinking: :&>
Don't. It doesn't bear thinking about.
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just to increase anxiety ;D
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/anti-venom-running-low-deadliest-spider-010003163.html (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/anti-venom-running-low-deadliest-spider-010003163.html)
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oh dear god, that's the same as the one that was in my bedroom 2 nights ago!! ok, might be a bit bigger but had the same evil look in its eye and as many legs :o
this made me laugh.!..i dont think id ever go in my bedroom again..where the hell did that come from..its awful..im scared stiff of spiders.yak.. :'(