aaarggh! ....

Buggi

... i'm not scared of 'em or anything under normal circumstances, but when you're lying on the settee browsing through the cycle forums... it gives you a bit of shock when a BIG FAT HAIRY SPIDER runs up your arm! you know the type, the ones with their eyes on the end of stalks and huge long legs! gave me a right fecking shock!

i've seen 4 in my flat in the last few days (hope the money spider brings me some luck ... maybe i should buy a lottery ticket). seem to remember this time last year i had a bit of an infestation too.

are the males all on the prowl for some lurrve or something at this time of year?

trailtrash

Oh, great, thanks for that, now all I can feel is spiders crawling up my back!! :shock:

I'm getting braver with the smaller ones (I'm only a six foot tall 36 year old bloke!) but I can't deal with the big hairy b*****ds - but I've found they come apart nicely if you hit them in the right place with an airsoft pellet. Still feel guilty afterwards though.

Buggi

that's cruel! i don't kill spiders because they eat the nasty stuff. in fact there was a rather dodgy blood sucking mosquito looking thing in here the other night (my fella didn't believe me until two great big lumps came up on him ha ha) and i'm sure mr big hairy spider has eaten him.

so spiders welcome in my house.

but i know how you feel. since the "incident" 10 mins ago, i keep feeling spiders on me.

Garybee

You always get them this time of year, as soon as it starts to get colder outside they tend to make their way into the houses. But as you say, at least spiders do something useful, just don't look now as there's a BIG ONE ON YOUR LEG.

overmars

Did you know that, in a lifetime, the average person eats eight spiders while sleeping? :shock:

Don't be that perosn... squish 'em.

It's the circle of life
(HA! I knew watching the Lion King would pay off one day!! )

John Stevenson

Since you're almost certainly talking about larger examples of the bog standard British house spider, it's beholden on me as the bloke who lives in Australia hereabouts to say, "that's not a spider. This is a spider:"

jibi

I was sat eating lunch on a trail half way up a volcano in Chile when a Tarantula wandered by,

Now that was a spider. Even John, an Aussie guy I was riding with, was impressed at the size of it.

<shivers just thinking about it>

george

on the road

john_stevenson wrote:

Since you're almost certainly talking about larger examples of the bog standard British house spider, it's beholden on me as the bloke who lives in Australia hereabouts to say, "that's not a spider. This is a spider:"

Is that the bloke who says, "That's not a knife, this is a knife"

Buggi

on the road wrote:

john_stevenson wrote:

Since you're almost certainly talking about larger examples of the bog standard British house spider, it's beholden on me as the bloke who lives in Australia hereabouts to say, "that's not a spider. This is a spider:"

Is that the bloke who says, "That's not a knife, this is a knife"

i swear it was that BIG! honest

on the road

Buggi wrote:

on the road wrote:

john_stevenson wrote:

Since you're almost certainly talking about larger examples of the bog standard British house spider, it's beholden on me as the bloke who lives in Australia hereabouts to say, "that's not a spider. This is a spider:"

Is that the bloke who says, "That's not a knife, this is a knife"

i swear it was that BIG! honest

That's like the fisherman who says "it was this big"