Topic: Spiders....

[I've been a good boy]

Fuck living in Australia. Worst thing is those huge bastards can even hide under sun visors in cars. So if it's a sunny day and you decide you pull it down, chances are you might get a heart attack.

[El Lobo]

Genuinely, how do you kill that? Like what do you even look for. The only thing I can think of is a shotgun

[Chakan]

Genuinely, how do you kill that? Like what do you even look for. The only thing I can think of is a shotgun

And then probably the shotgun for good measure.

[rob1966]

Genuinely, how do you kill that? Like what do you even look for. The only thing I can think of is a shotgun

Its harmless, so you catch it in a box and release it outside.

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[Crosby Nick]

She is in Adelaide. She has been there 40 years but is still shit scared of the spiders.

When I lived in Sydney my bedroom window had the same sort of wire mesh “to keep the bugs out”, sadly it keeps big bastards like that in! Would be a struggle to chuck it out the door.

[Son of Spion]

My aunt in Australia just found this thing on her kitchen door.

That hits you with a rolled-up Echo. 

[Son of Spion]

When I lived in Sydney my bedroom window had the same sort of wire mesh “to keep the bugs out”, sadly it keeps big bastards like that in! Would be a struggle to chuck it out the door.

If that was in my bedroom I'd be tucking it in, making it a Horlicks then sleeping on the couch and hoping it got up and left early next morning.

[Chakan]

If that was in my bedroom I'd be tucking it in, making it a Horlicks then sleeping on the couch and hoping it got up and left early next morning.

You would sleep in the house with that thing in it?? Are you insane?

[Son of Spion]

You would sleep in the house with that thing in it?? Are you insane?

I'm not going to offend something that big. 

[Chakan]

I'm not going to offend something that big. 

You don't try to do anything but get as far away from it as possible, leave a burning trail if you need to.

[Son of Spion]

You don't try to do anything but get as far away from it as possible, leave a burning trail if you need to.

                 


 

[Chakan]

                 


 

Hahah exactly!

[boots]

I like them. Fascinating creatures. I once had a similar fear to many, but I learnt to overcome that fear by giving them names. So, I have Colin the spider, Alan the spider, Kevin the spider etc in most corners of my house. They are safe in my house, except from Beryl and Elsie the cats. They perform pest control and eat mozzies etc.

[Ziltoid]

My aunt in Australia just found this thing on her kitchen door. 

Honestly, do fuck off

[Crosby Nick]

In my time in Australia I never saw any spider like that in my flat. Thank fuck. But still, I’d still wake up in the night, or morning and not really want to look around my room because there ‘could’ be something like that big bastard there. And that was bad enough!

[Crosby Nick]

Its harmless, so you catch it in a box and release it outside.

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Just plucked up the courage to watch. Where did it even end up? So now they have an angry Huntsman in the house!

Quite funny the shot of him legging it with his foot in the container though.

[rob1966]

Just plucked up the courage to watch. Where did it even end up? So now they have an angry Huntsman in the house!

Quite funny the shot of him legging it with his foot in the container though.

Search for his other video where he makes a spider catcher out of the hoover

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Mates of my Ma emigrated to Melbourne in the 70's and then moved to QLand right by a big lake. They get pythons and stuff on their decking and found a huge huntsman, about 8 inch across, on the outside of their motorhome on one trip.

[Son of Spion]

I like them. Fascinating creatures. I once had a similar fear to many, but I learnt to overcome that fear by giving them names. So, I have Colin the spider, Alan the spider, Kevin the spider etc in most corners of my house. They are safe in my house, except from Beryl and Elsie the cats. They perform pest control and eat mozzies etc.

Despite my joking around, I'm ok with them these days too. I wouldn't hurt one now. I leave them alone, or if it's too intrusive to my personal space I move it and put it somewhere else. They are all called 'spidey' in Casa Spion though.

[Red Beret]

No.

No no no.

Just... no.

No end to the no.

Keep on no-ing

Then no some more.

No off the end of a pier.

Then no off even more.

[Crosby Nick]

I once went round to someone I worked witch’s house and they had a pet tarantula, and also a toilet seat with tarantulas painted all over. Very nearly shat myself.

[Red Beret]

I once went round to someone I worked witch’s house and they had a pet tarantula, and also a toilet seat with tarantulas painted all over. Very nearly shat myself.

Good place to do it at least.

[Boston always unofficial]

O.K wtf is going on with this!!!!!
https://www.livescience.com/joro-spider-invade-east-coast. We got enough problems with the Rats could do with out fuck off sized spiders as well.Apparently harmless to people but still.

[rob1966]

O.K wtf is going on with this!!!!!
https://www.livescience.com/joro-spider-invade-east-coast. We got enough problems with the Rats could do with out fuck off sized spiders as well.Apparently harmless to people but still.

The best bit is the hatchlings parachute in on webs, imagine them all falling from the sky.

[Boston always unofficial]

The best bit is the hatchlings parachute in on webs, imagine them all falling from the sky.

   
I work outside alot over the summer so being spider bombed when up a ladder and then 10 foot spiderwebs!

[Big Swifty]

Spiders are fascinating. I love watching the ones on my front porch when I'm out for a ciggy. We have Missing sector orb weavers (Zygiella x-notata) all over the wall lights, spinning their webs between the light fitting and the wall. Their common name comes from the fact they spin orb webs but there is a section missing, through which runs a strand of web which functions as a signal line. They tend to have a den somewhere at the edge of web and when something is caught the vibration runs through the signal line to alert them, at which point they scurry across the web and do their thing.

I also have pet tarantulas and it's fascinating and very satisfying to watch them web, eat, burrow and particularly how they grow and change with each moult, putting on size but also developing their adult colours. 

[Crosby Nick]

Psychopath alert!

[Big Swifty]

Oh, don't be such a scaredy pants.

[Red Beret]

Spiders are great swimmers.

[Crosby Nick]

Came home on Saturday night and there was a fucker the size of the palm of my hand on the kitchen wall (and my hands are perfectly adequately sized!). Couldn’t be arsed dealing with that so went to bed. Came down yesterday morning and of course is gone. Although we know it’s not gone, it’s just hiding...waiting.

[Trump's tiny tiny hands]

Took my kids to a spider exhibition recently, where they had all the biggest spiders in the world. They ask who wants to handle a tarantula, my kids run a mile and scream for me when they see the tiniest spider so I thought they wouldn't volunteer, but my eldest walks up bold as brass and lets this thing walk all up her arm. I can't work that out. I can handle dealing with spiders usually, but its the idea of them crawling on me that creeps me out.

This thing

[Slippers]

Came home on Saturday night and there was a fucker the size of the palm of my hand on the kitchen wall (and my hands are perfectly adequately sized!). Couldn’t be arsed dealing with that so went to bed. Came down yesterday morning and of course is gone. Although we know it’s not gone, it’s just hiding...waiting.

Waiting,watching,plotting....

[Son of Spion]

Came home on Saturday night and there was a fucker the size of the palm of my hand on the kitchen wall (and my hands are perfectly adequately sized!). Couldn’t be arsed dealing with that so went to bed. Came down yesterday morning and of course is gone. Although we know it’s not gone, it’s just hiding...waiting.

Yep, he's just holed up now, until September when he invites all his sex crazed mates around to party.

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[Jwils21]

That time of year again folks. Brace yourself for the Daily Mail to be drumming up stories of eight legged man eating foreign shag machines on ketamine coming to invade our homes and crawl all over our children.

Personally not that bothered by them, but having an arachnophobic wife means a pressure sprayer full of essential oils and a bedroom smelling like a pack of extra strong mints.

Roll on October…

[reddebs]

False widows have taken up squatters rights in many homes, sheds and greenhouses this week.

Unlucky all you spider scaredy pants 😂

[Crosby Nick]

False widows have taken up squatters rights in many homes, sheds and greenhouses this week.

Unlucky all you spider scaredy pants 😂

Don’t mind them as much as house spiders for some reason as long as they stick to their spaces. Often think I see them but how do you know? Don’t they look very much like a similar harmless species?

[reddebs]

Don’t mind them as much as house spiders for some reason as long as they stick to their spaces. Often think I see them but how do you know? Don’t they look very much like a similar harmless species?

I've no idea mate I don't take any notice of any of them.

[Crosby Nick]

I've no idea mate I don't take any notice of any of them.

Fair dos. I’m less brave. However these types (or the ones that look like them) seem to stick to themselves by window frames, so not too bothered by them.

[Son of Spion]

In the treehouse in Anglesey the other week there were a number of spiders pottering about. We just left them to it. But one night I went into the kitchen for a drink of water and there was an absolute monster on the wall by the stairs. 😲

It was one of those thick, dark brown/black hairy ones. Sorry Spidey, but you had to go. Just the idea of waking in the night with Alien on my face was enough. I managed to trap him in the biggest glass I could find and put him outside. He lives to find a lady spider another day.

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[liverbloke]

In the treehouse in Anglesey the other week there were a number of spiders pottering about. We just left them to it. But one night I went into the kitchen for a drink of water and there was an absolute monster on the wall by the stairs. 😲

It was one of those thick, dark brown/black hairy ones. Sorry Spidey, but you had to go. Just the idea of waking in the night with Alien on my face was enough. I managed to trap him in the biggest glass I could find and put him outside. He lives to find a lady spider another day.

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phew for a minute there i thought you'd whacked him with a rolled up copy of the echo!

ain't no spider has ever called me a scouse bastard (paraphrasing muhammad ali)

[Son of Spion]

phew for a minute there i thought you'd whacked him with a rolled up copy of the echo!

ain't no spider has ever called me a scouse bastard (paraphrasing muhammad ali)

I wouldn't hurt him. He was there first. I'm on his patch.

I operate a catch and release policy. 😀🕷️