I need a man!
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Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
I don't usually engage them in conversation, they tend not to be terribly chatty most of the time, but I'm happy to live and let live. If I see one stuck in the bath then I'll help it out and I don't mind them spinning the odd web here and there as long as they don't try to eat me or anything.
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
Probably a Huntsman. They're not aggressive, more like house pets
I saw on TV a while back that Huntsmans kill about 10 people a year in Australia. They hide out in a car's heating / ventilation system and then jump out at an inconvenient moment, thus startling the driver into losing control of the vehicle and crashing.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
I can imagine being startled at that tbf.
Someone I knew woke up one morning to find that she had a terrible pain like a sting in her lip. Her lips swelled up and she went to the doctor saying that she thought she had been stung by a wasp or bee.
This turned out not to be the case. Apparently there is a spider that can do this. Her mouth remained swollen for several days and some people speculated that she had had a botox injection that had gone wrong.
Never underestimate the spider.
This turned out not to be the case. Apparently there is a spider that can do this. Her mouth remained swollen for several days and some people speculated that she had had a botox injection that had gone wrong.
Never underestimate the spider.
pigtails
putting the tit in titilate
I was just a complete girl.... picked up the cabbage grown by Mr Tail's dad and a bit of leaf flicked onto my chest, went to pick it off and it squished between my fingers..... it was a big green caterpillar!!............. so I screemed and threw the cabbage in the sink! 
twat!
twat!
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
Raid doesn't kills spiders, fewl!
However, a good blast with Febreeze sorts the fuckers out.
Psychonaut
Well-Known Member
the 'spider in the bath' phenomenon is at certain times of year, when the male goes round the house seeking a mate.
So ironically your spider is (was) in need of a woman
IIRC the bathtub spider is a very,very close relative of one of the poisonous N. american ones (hobo) except the UK version is actually bigger, but doesnt bite.
So ironically your spider is (was) in need of a woman
IIRC the bathtub spider is a very,very close relative of one of the poisonous N. american ones (hobo) except the UK version is actually bigger, but doesnt bite.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Urgh, earwigs. I can trace my revulsion down to the day I picked up a branch and started playing Sword with it. I stabbed a tree and the branch broke, out came a swarm of the evil fuckers and some of them ran up my hand
Homebreaker
Don't know if it's been suggested later but good reserve tactics are to place large glass over spider and slide piece of cardboard under it. Out the window, shake and wehey
Ruby_Slippers
Amanacledkisstwitmop
I've come home and found a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge spider in the bath.
I've tried to run the taps and wash it down the plug hole six times now. But it keeps coming back.
I need a brave spider-wrangling man to come and get rid of it.
Help!
I was gonna offer you my man when i saw your thread, but i'm afraid he's scared of spiders, sorry.
errr... yes it does. You'll find that it kills most household pests (although takes like 24 hours to kill slugs, weirdly.)
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
Raid is for flying things which are a differnt speices to spiders which are aracna...archnop....arac...Iraq....arachno....
They are just different all right!
Ruby_Slippers
Amanacledkisstwitmop
How do you know it takes 24 hrs to kill slugs? Seriously.. did you time it and keep checking the poor little slimer's pulse? that's a bit mean.. Salt does it much more quickly, tho I imagine it stings a little
Ruby_Slippers
Amanacledkisstwitmop
The largest spider (the raft spider) in the Uk measures upto a whopping 22mm, plus some spindly legs. And it's about as dangerous as a grape.
So grow some backbone you big wusses and stop exaggerating.
They do have fangs tho, don't they? My OH says they do..
Ruby_Slippers
Amanacledkisstwitmop
yeah happens to me all the time..
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
I've just been listening to a programme on Radio 4 and they were talking about some pre-historic period when the spiders had a 30 inch span. Omg. I've just worked that out, I was thinking 30cm, as big as a ruler. And that was bad enough. But it's about three rulers. OMG. 
How do I get that image out of my brain?
How do I get that image out of my brain?
Boycey
juvenile rave slut
reminds of the bit in transmet where one of the filthy assistants is describing what she reckons sex with the protagonist would be like.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I've just been listening to a programme on Radio 4 and they were talking about some pre-historic period when the spiders had a 30 inch span. Omg. I've just worked that out, I was thinking 30cm, as big as a ruler. And that was bad enough. But it's about three rulers. OMG.
How do I get that image out of my brain?
given the high oxygen content in the air of back in the day, all insects would have been fucking massive
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Did you just listen to the same programme?given the high oxygen content in the air of back in the day, all insects would have been fucking massive
That's *exactly* what they were saying. Well, about the high oxygen content, I mean, not about them being "fucking" massive, it was Radio 4 after all.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Another dilemma: I need to paint the window frames in the spare bedroom because it's gone all flaky. But there are big cobwebs. And it's giving me the creeps. I've been putting off the painting all week because I can't bring myself to deal with the cobwebs.
pigtails
putting the tit in titilate
This happened to my friend's cousin's sister-in-law once
It's totally my biggest fear!
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
i don 't mind spiders - might have to start dealing with them if we have kids, or i can imagine the kids eating them when they're doing that 'putting everything in their mouth' phase.
i am, however, disappointingly squeamish about the dead mice that are caught in the traps. grinder does that.
i am, however, disappointingly squeamish about the dead mice that are caught in the traps. grinder does that.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Another dilemma: I need to paint the window frames in the spare bedroom because it's gone all flaky. But there are big cobwebs. And it's giving me the creeps. I've been putting off the painting all week because I can't bring myself to deal with the cobwebs.
damp mop.
Raid is for flying things which are a differnt speices to spiders which are aracna...archnop....arac...Iraq....arachno....
They are just different all right!
errr... RAID comes in different varieties. I'm talking aboutu the RAID for crawling insects which kills cockroaches. It works on everything i've tried it on, including slugs and spiders and moths and aphids. Not that I go around murdering insects as a rule, but sometimes they're just taking the piss.
How do you know it takes 24 hrs to kill slugs? Seriously.. did you time it and keep checking the poor little slimer's pulse? that's a bit mean.. Salt does it much more quickly, tho I imagine it stings a little
It was crawling up my bathroom wall and it was the night of the roaches so I got a little carried away and raided it. It was still crawling around the next day and I thought "oh, obv didn't affect it" then it just dissolved really quickly later that day suddenly. was weird.
yeh it was mean, I feel mean, but seriously I had roaches in my bedroom and slug in my bathroom and I've spent my whole life with some borderline phobia of slugs so...
