they look so fragile and "light"...and have almost no head/body.

Something weird: when I play my bass in the basement almost each time a spider comes out and stops 70cm-1m away from me and it kinda stands up (like when the supersmall spiders are ready to "jump"). When I stop playing, he "sits down", and if I get closer he just goes away. I think it has something to do with vibrations and whatnot, but the weird thing is that it faces ME and not the speaker, and he does not simply go away when I stop, just stays there. It's almost like having an aracnofan ha ha.

^^^shoot a picture of that!!!

it's a protein and not a neurotoxin is why. it necrotises yr flesh so that the spider can easily digest it.

I was bitten on the leg by one of these fuckers a few years back. never even felt it, until the next day. I got lucky. the black spot never got bigger than about the size of a pencil eraser.

Haha oh man, I couldn't deal with that. But it sounds hilarious.

right... i live in florida. i cant stand roaches or spiders... well actually.. i dont mind spiders unless they're really big. usually instead of killing them i just leave it alone if it doesnt come towards me though.

You know, that was the first thing that came to my mind when I read the title of this thread.

This is the reason I turned down the idea of travelling to Borneo island in 2005. I had the money, i had the company to go with, everythng was set, i was just like "what if I get to meet sone SPIDERS in the jungle?"

I remember living in Okinawa, running through the woods as I'd normally do whenever I'd get out of school. I was alone and ran into this giant spider, think they called 'em "banana spiders". Sucker was larger than my hand...huge. I recall staring at it almost in a trance, and walking back very slowly unable to take my eyes off of it. I was in his territory, + I knew it. Sucker scared the shit out of me...

But ya know...it was only the size of this creature that bothered me. I think I was ten years old.

After moving back to the United States I seriously "can't be bothered"...not after seeing that thing.

Snakes, however, are another story. Me and Indiana Jones feel the same exact way about those slithery things.

i absolutely hate snakes. i would probably run and scream if i saw one. yes im a pussy!!

ANYWAYS, i think when i was like 6 i was home alone and my grandma was taking care of me... and somehow a wasp found its way into my underwear and bit me in an area very close to my nuts... the biggest pain ive ever recieved in my life.

Are you sure that was a wasp and not yr grandma?

Just kidding.

That doesn't sound like much fun at all.

i wish.

ok what the fuck am i saying. yeah it definitely wasnt fun i fuckin hate wasps, i wish i could just line every wasp in the world in a straight line and shoot them all at the same time with the worlds largest gun ever invented (im too damn lazy to stand in one spot shooting a trillion wasps one by one!)

how old are you?

im as old as you want me to be.

Spiders really seldom do anything. Yr more likely to die from a car accident than by being bitten by a spider.

Spiders prey on the smaller/more annoying things. Kinda like some of you on this forum.

that probably means me.

It wasn't directed at anyone in particular. They gave you more shit when they thought you were me....

true, and for some reason i liked it!

Of course, I did too. Just reinforced things I already knew. Loved the fact that they WANTED you to be me. ha....

you happen to be related to Keeping it Simple in some way?

i dont even know what you're talking about now

you're a dick.

haha, whatever man.

I'm moving to his village and changing my name to Slavo. + I'll even buy a black baseball cap.

Slavo, you're alright.

Hey sway, long time no see. How's life? Been taking any good pictures in your bathtub recently?

Not lately, man. I can send the old ones to ya though if yr feeling a bit lonely.

They were quite good, weren't they?

No thanks I'm fine, I've already had a wank this morning. Yeah, they were good, that's why they're stuck in my mind.

thanks for another ruined thread, guys!

It was just a really small funny looking spider and I had no idea it was dangerous, plus I was wearing gloves. I was doing a stupid backpacker job at a firewood yard and when working at the chopping machine you'd find the strangest creatures crawling out of the logs, like huntsman spiders (much bigger than redbacks) and even little scorpions. Of course after I was told what kind of spider it was I stopped playing!

Generally I'm not fond of (big) spiders or any insect though. The idea of people eating insects really grosses me out.

sorry Nicfit.

I have nothing to add to this thread except to say that I quite like looking at spiders. I'm not really that bothered by spiders, but then I live in an area with a minimum of threatening animals. We've got more of these lately. But the BBC tells me not to worry.

I just killed one that was trying to build a web on my fucking bathroom door. I swear, they're plotting against me.

They eat the giant roaches or Palmetto bugs as we call them. Where you at in FL? Im in JAX but I actually live in the woods of a small town called Bryceville

i do not like snakes ESPECIALLY because the chances are very likely I will run into one at any given moment around the house. My dad killed a 6' water moccasin that was in his barn which is where my laundry room is (he lives next door) I had been back and forth through there all day washing clothes THANK GOD he was not hiding on my side of the barn. Dog Days are comin so you have to be extra cautious. The snakes are out and about and ready to bite.

I used to until the last time I saw one. It was a rat snake in the laundry room. I just stopped kind of stunned he looked me straight in the eyes. I went to get ryan and he was going to kill it as we usually do, but I felt sorry for it because it was not poisonous, so I let him slither on his way.


I have been stung by a bee on the nose and in the eye. One was in my canned coke one day the other wanted my ice cream this was when I was just a wee little girl

I like you both and you are very similiar in yr precence we can have 2 sways

Ft. Lauderdale

i still think im more illiterate than he is. OH and im a dick apparently.

I'm actually pretty terrified of most spiders. Little ones don't bother me so much, but we have these HUGE, nasty looking guys that build webs all over my apartment building. I now have like 3 of them living in my mailbox, so my roommate has to get the mail. It's weird, cause I know they're harmless and actually beneficial in some ways (I mean, they help keep all manner of other bugs from getting into my building) but I'm just scared to death of them.

I think I can trace my fear of spiders back to a time in my childhood. I picked up this toy truck off of the floor of my room and nearly hit the fucking ceiling when hundreds of baby spiders came spilling out the bottom. I remember dropping the truck and screaming. When it hit the ground, they started scattering all over the floor in my room. Man... that sucked.

They're the only pests that bother me really. Other bugs, snakes, mice, etc, don't scare me at all, but spiders... ugh...

I mean, seriously... look at this fucking thing!!!

Spider-Woman is hot!