Spiders

[Torquay Gunner]

I know it is illogical, but I really can't stand them.  My partner is scared stiff of them, so I have to deal.  Spotted this monster in the spare bedroom the other week and had to enlist the services of Hetty hoover.  Someone will no doubt say  it's cruel to hoover them up, but since they move like lightening I am not chancing swinging my boot at it and missing. 

 

 

[whoareyaaa]

5 minutes ago, Torquay Gunner said:

I know it is illogical, but I really can't stand them.  My partner is scared stiff of them, so I have to deal.  Spotted this monster in the spare bedroom the other week and had to enlist the services of Hetty hoover.  Someone will no doubt say  it's cruel to hoover them up, but since they move like lightening I am not chancing swinging my boot at it and missing. 

 

 

What happens when it crawls back out the hover at night 

[whoareyaaa]

We have a lot of them false widows down the side bit pretty good size as well and a couple have survived for a good year and half but don’t really bother you.

[whoareyaaa]

[jgtuk]

Monsters? Really… 

 

 

Dictators, war criminals, serial killers, 

Tory politicians* etc. 

They’re monsters 
 

*Not all

[Tinman]

[Free Falling Foxes]

I guess I'm in a minority - I've even apologised to them.

We had a spider that kept building a web next our back door and I kept accidently walking into it. Each time I would mutter, 'Sorry mate'.

I think it's because I've watched them building a Web and find it fascinating.

I might think differently if I was a fly however......

[jgtuk]

5 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

I guess I'm in a minority - I've even apologised to them.

We had a spider that kept building a web next our back door and I kept accidently walking into it. Each time I would mutter, 'Sorry mate'.

I think it's because I've watched them building a Web and find it fascinating.

I might think differently if I was a fly however......

I move spiders to suitable places, they gotta live somewhere. 
I’ve done a few spider surveys, they really are fascinating, especially at a macro level. 

[Torquay Gunner]

22 minutes ago, jgtuk said:

Monsters? Really… 

 

 

Dictators, war criminals, serial killers, 

Tory politicians* etc. 

They’re monsters 
 

*Not all

Yeah, monster was a reference to it's size,  not really trying to equate a spider with your list of deplorables 😂 

[Daggers]

17 minutes ago, jgtuk said:

I move spiders to suitable places, they gotta live somewhere. 

 

 

[StanSP]

3 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Without spiders, imagine all the flies constantly buzzing round you.

 

You're welcome.

Hmm. 

 

I haven't killed all the spiders and still have flies flying around sometimes. Spiders need to up their game!! 

[StanSP]

26 minutes ago, jgtuk said:

I move spiders to suitable places, they gotta live somewhere. 
I’ve done a few spider surveys, they really are fascinating, especially at a macro level. 

Bloody spiders, taking over all of our homes... 

[Tommy G]

No one in the U.K. should be scared of spiders 

[StanSP]

6 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

No one in the U.K. should be scared of spiders 

Why? 

[RoboFox]

I've caught the same fvcker three times in the same spot in the house having twice evicted it via the glass / paper technique. 

 

Thing was so big I was tempted to ask it for a few quid towards the leccy.  

 

Last year I woke up feeling something tickly in the middle of the night. Thinking it was the mrs getting the naughty feather out again, I got excited and turned on the lamp only to be slightly perturbed to find A FVCKING MASSIVE SPIDER INSIDE MY BED UNDER THE COVERS CRAWLING ON MY SKIN. 

 

I leave them alone generally provided they're not trying to violate me.

[Tommy G]

37 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Why? 

Because they pose zero threat compared to something in Australia or South America etc. 

[Tuna]

Sounds like some of you could do with one of these

 

[Fox92]

23 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Because they pose zero threat compared to something in Australia or South America etc. 

Just because they're less dangerous than other countries doesn't mean people shouldn't be scared of them.

[StanSP]

25 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Because they pose zero threat compared to something in Australia or South America etc. 

But my fear has nothing to do with spiders across the world. 

 

So just cos I'm in UK doesn't mean there can be no fear... 

[Tinman]

Its not the spiders,its getting a face full of web when i'm  going up the garden

[leicsmac]

6 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Just because they're less dangerous than other countries doesn't mean people shouldn't be scared of them.

 

6 minutes ago, StanSP said:

But my fear has nothing to do with spiders across the world. 

 

So just cos I'm in UK doesn't mean there can be no fear... 

Yeah, fears are often irrational, that doesn't mean they're not legit.

[Bellend Sebastian]

Have we really got this far in without mentioning this guy?

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-37481251.amp

 

My niece went to live in Australia for a few months recently and I wanted her to ask if this is constantly at the back of the mind of all Australians; I mean, I think about it a fair bit and I don't even live there. Naturally I forgot, so I'm none the wiser, but she did say on her return that she didn't see a single spider in all the time she was there

 

 

[Torquay Gunner]

41 minutes ago, Tuna said:

Sounds like some of you could do with one of these

 

Nah, it looks too short, don’t want to get that close to the critters. 🫣 jgtuk ok with that description?  😁

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

3 hours ago, Torquay Gunner said:

I know it is illogical, but I really can't stand them.  My partner is scared stiff of them, so I have to deal.  Spotted this monster in the spare bedroom the other week and had to enlist the services of Hetty hoover.  Someone will no doubt say  it's cruel to hoover them up, but since they move like lightening I am not chancing swinging my boot at it and missing. 

 

 

 

That's a stunner - excuse the picture quality because this is from over a decade ago in my uni house in Leeds, looks at this lad on the left, The Whopper of West Yorks I called it

 

 

[DennisNedry]

Can't get behind the "they kill other spiders and insects" argument.

 

I mean, keeping a grizzly bear in my garden would stop cats from shitting there but the cure is worse than the disease.