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Massive, 6-inch hairy spider saved from mind-blowing Australian flood

I love the title of this article..."Why Are We Scared Of Spiders?........"
I'll tell you why....it's because spiders are sneaky, hideous, blood-sucking, horrific monsters......and the hairy ones are the worst.
Fortunately for me, the large hairy ones I've encountered were slow moving beasts.
Did I mention hideous?

We are fully aligned, my friend!! lolz
 
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Yikes, nothing like a 50's sci-fi flick to feed my fear.
Did you see "The Incredible Shrinking Man" ?.....ghastly battle with gigantic arachnid...the giant cat wasn't so good either.
What about "The Fly"...where the half-man/half-fly is about to be eaten by the spider as he cries out for help......horrific scene.
I've now decided that 1950's horror flicks are responsible for all my phobias.
Thanks for the memories........I think.
 
lmao...one more time, I'm not saying it's rational. I had a bad experience as a kid, and I never got over it. I mean, I'm a lot better now...moving to the country and enjoying the outdoors, you see spiders. You own a house, you're living with spiders. A house in the country, and you've got big (by Ontario standards) spiders. See the link I put to dock spiders...they don't just stay on the dock, we had them in the last house we lived in, and I had to sort them out. But there's always that "oh ****" moment when I first see them, and then the time it takes to work myself up to do something about them, before I am able to do it. It's 100% ridiculous, but I've kind of accepted it. I can deal with the ones we have here, and I wouldn't live where they get bigger. lol

Just be glad you don't have those nasty Brown Recluse spiders. My wife got bit by one on the cheek last year and it was pretty nasty. The first day, it didn't look like much, but the next day she went to the Immediate Care Center and they wouldn't even treat her and sent her across the street to the ER where she was IMMEDIATELY admitted. The Dr. was waiting in the exam room with a nurse and a bag of massive antibiotics. It took about 3 weeks for it to get better and she spent 3 days on her back, taking the strongest oral antibiotics they make. Still has a small brown spot on her cheek that they say will be with her for the rest of her life.
 
Just be glad you don't have those nasty Brown Recluse spiders. My wife got bit by one on the cheek last year and it was pretty nasty. The first day, it didn't look like much, but the next day she went to the Immediate Care Center and they wouldn't even treat her and sent her across the street to the ER where she was IMMEDIATELY admitted. The Dr. was waiting in the exam room with a nurse and a bag of massive antibiotics. It took about 3 weeks for it to get better and she spent 3 days on her back, taking the strongest oral antibiotics they make. Still has a small brown spot on her cheek that they say will be with her for the rest of her life.

I would move. I would not pass Go, I would not collect $200, I would go directly to where those are not. lolz...

Seriously, damn, man, that's awful. Glad she's ok, but what an ordeal!! I gotta ask, though, how did she get bit on the cheek?? Was she awake?
 
I would move. I would not pass Go, I would not collect $200, I would go directly to where those are not. lolz...
I'm fairly certain those brown recluse spiders are found everywhere......unfortunately.

Seriously, damn, man, that's awful. Glad she's ok, but what an ordeal!! I gotta ask, though, how did she get bit on the cheek?? Was she awake?
I'll tell you how she got bit........SPIDERS ARE SNEAKY WRETCHED CREATURES!!!
That is all.
 
I'm fairly certain those brown recluse spiders are found everywhere......unfortunately.


I'll tell you how she got bit........SPIDERS ARE SNEAKY WRETCHED CREATURES!!!
That is all.

Holy ****, I just made the mistake of google imaging them, and some of the wounds came up.

In other news, I have just (now) purchased a parcel of land in the arctic circle upon which to build a home, as apparently these things are in Ontario as well.
 
Yikes, nothing like a 50's sci-fi flick to feed my fear.
Did you see "The Incredible Shrinking Man" ?.....ghastly battle with gigantic arachnid...the giant cat wasn't so good either.
What about "The Fly"...where the half-man/half-fly is about to be eaten by the spider as he cries out for help......horrific scene.
I've now decided that 1950's horror flicks are responsible for all my phobias.
Thanks for the memories........I think.

And here is the youtube clip of that horrific scene.....



After watching this hideous clip, try telling me my arachnophobia is irrational.

PS: I love Vincent Price. He was the king of B-movie horror. Better than the great Christopher Lee.
 
I'm fairly certain those brown recluse spiders are found everywhere......unfortunately.


Oh yeah, they're everywhere here in OK. I bought a box of stuff at Lowe's last week and there was one inside the box when I opened it.

I'll tell you how she got bit........SPIDERS ARE SNEAKY WRETCHED CREATURES!!!

That is all.


Ever wonder why some mornings you wake up with a funny taste in your mouth? 😉
 
Holy ****, I just made the mistake of google imaging them, and some of the wounds came up.

In other news, I have just (now) purchased a parcel of land in the arctic circle upon which to build a home, as apparently these things are in Ontario as well.

Sorry to break the news to you, my friend, but forewarned is forearmed..... or something like that....
 
You are missing the point, my friend.
If you took off your shoe to smash this particular spider, this beast would likely snatch your shoe out of your hand and beat you with your own shoe.
Sometimes a dignified retreat is the best option.
By "dignified retreat" I mean, no screaming in terror.

It was only a mere 15 centimeters. In perth i was swatting flying cockroaches with a squash raquet. In darwin you need a shotgun to take out the mosquitoes.

Austarlia is the land of creepy crawlies , you get used to it.

I had a pet funnel web when a kid. Enjoyed teasing trap door spiders. Got into trouble with my teacher at school when i put a huntsman spider on the back of my neck and told the teacher my neck felt funny. The punishment was worth the scream.
 
I would move. I would not pass Go, I would not collect $200, I would go directly to where those are not. lolz...

Seriously, damn, man, that's awful. Glad she's ok, but what an ordeal!! I gotta ask, though, how did she get bit on the cheek?? Was she awake?

It happened in her sleep. I went to kiss her good-bye one morning and she had what looked like a pimple on her cheek. By the time I got home is was WAY past pimple. I checked the Mayo Clinic site for what to do for spider bite. It said treat with a topical antibiotic and if it develops any red streaks, get to an ER IMMEDIATELY. That was Monday. On Tuesday, she went to work (about 4 hours after I do) and they said "Oh hell no!! You get down to the Immediate Care NOW!" She's fine now, but that was some nasty stuff. The venom actually bubbles under your skin like hydrogen peroxide bubbles, only it's neon green. A couple of weird things were that they had seen a bunch of similar bites that year. They also said that while the bite on the face looks bad, it's actaully a good place to get bit because a lot of people get bit on the back of their body (back, legs, neck, etc.) and they often don't realize how bad it is until it's getting really ugly. So while she might have little brown spot on her cheek, at least she got treatment early on in the process.
 
Holy ****, I just made the mistake of google imaging them, and some of the wounds came up.

In other news, I have just (now) purchased a parcel of land in the arctic circle upon which to build a home, as apparently these things are in Ontario as well.

You don't need to go to that extreme, all you have to do is raise up a bunch of Black Widows and turn them loose. You either get Brown Recluses or Black Widows, but not both.
 
You don't need to go to that extreme, all you have to do is raise up a bunch of Black Widows and turn them loose. You either get Brown Recluses or Black Widows, but not both.

That's good to know. We have black widows, or at least used to until we hired a pest control guy. We also used to have long legged spiders that would build webs all over the house. Now, they're gone, and not missed. I hope that means we don't have brown recluses either.

Here's a little short video I took last fall of a California tarantula climbing a tree. Now, these are perfectly harmless, as has been demonstrated to me by other people letting them crawl on them (not on me!) They're smaller than my hand, but not by much. Would you let it crawl up your arm?

 
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