Spiders- Friend or Foe?

CAVSTARR313

Love em.. I actually find bugs and through them into the spider webs on my back porch and watch them eat.. Pretty cool to watch

SatansFuton

whispering hands wrote:

WHAT A SMALL WORLD I was AT that Speedway show in 97!!!How cool.. I grew up on The Rolling Stones.. so it was only natural I'd go see them live in my lifetime.. so cool!!

Was a hell of a show, I had really good seats too, like 10 rows back I think. I believe it was the only show on the tour they played "Star Star". I have a pretty decent bootleg of the show, if you don't have it and you're interested I can upload it somewhere. There are several on the internet with varying degrees of quality, this is the best one I think.

whispering hands

SatansFuton wrote:

whispering hands wrote:

WHAT A SMALL WORLD I was AT that Speedway show in 97!!!How cool.. I grew up on The Rolling Stones.. so it was only natural I'd go see them live in my lifetime.. so cool!!

Was a hell of a show, I had really good seats too, like 10 rows back I think. I believe it was the only show on the tour they played "Star Star". I have a pretty decent bootleg of the show, if you don't have it and you're interested I can upload it somewhere. There are several on the internet with varying degrees of quality, this is the best one I think.

well I would love that.. but It's not MY computer.. and the rules to my being allowed on it is..NO downloading, uploading or using it to peruse unsecured sites..I'm also not "allowed" to play PJ on it, which so makes me lmao.. oh well, my Dad is free to dislike whom ever he chooses.. is there a way to burn me a copy..?

Who Princess

SatansFuton wrote:

whispering hands wrote:

WHAT A SMALL WORLD I was AT that Speedway show in 97!!!How cool.. I grew up on The Rolling Stones.. so it was only natural I'd go see them live in my lifetime.. so cool!!

Was a hell of a show, I had really good seats too, like 10 rows back I think. I believe it was the only show on the tour they played "Star Star". I have a pretty decent bootleg of the show, if you don't have it and you're interested I can upload it somewhere. There are several on the internet with varying degrees of quality, this is the best one I think.

Speaking of small worlds, I'm from Ft. Worth and knew several people who were at the show in Ladies and Gentlemen. Not me though.
My teenage years.

Who Princess

All this talk about spiders reminds me of an oldie but goodie:
http://youtu.be/sHzdsFiBbFc

Brony

id love to see all these spider lovers reaction as they walk into a mess of webs in their backyard. what do you do.....smile, laugh, and give the spider the thumbs up like a Mentos commercial? is there anything worse than peeling spider webs off your face and being creeped out that it might be crawling on you??

Lizard

Brony wrote:

id love to see all these spider lovers reaction as they walk into a mess of webs in their backyard. what do you do.....smile, laugh, and give the spider the thumbs up like a Mentos commercial? is there anything worse than peeling spider webs off your face and being creeped out that it might be crawling on you??

AAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! you always feel a spider on you for afters after that.

brianlux

Who Princess wrote:

All this talk about spiders reminds me of an oldie but goodie:
http://youtu.be/sHzdsFiBbFc

Another O.B.G.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8dSBWysmnM

Poor Boris-- R.I.P. :geek:

stargirl69

I like spiders very much.I think they are fascinating,I have one that lives in my bathroom and another that lives in my bedroom window frame.
I leave them well alone and at times just sit and watch them spin and move around.Their webs are amazing

81

upon further review...i used to have one of these





feeding time was always fun when he/she caught the cricket and you would hear "crunch"

mikalina

81 wrote:

upon further review...i used to have one of these





feeding time was always fun when he/she caught the cricket and you would hear "crunch"

:shock: spiders scare the hell out of me....

thefixer9

81 wrote:

for some odd reason, we are always getting spiders in the house.

i find em, they get a smashing....

EXACTLY.....

Wilds

catefrances

stardust1976 wrote:

That's ok that you laughed...let me explain my logic to you.

So...I don't remember living in NSW (although I did for a couple of years, but that was when I was a baby), so I have no recollection of funnel web spiders - you don't get them in Perth and you don't get them in Victoria either. Redbacks surprisingly I CAN kill. I think it's because well, for one, it was necessity - being on my own with the kids in WA you kind of HAVE to kill them so no one gets sick from being bitten (I really don't like being the adult in that circumstance though), plus they don't move like huntsmen do. Yes, they're more poisonous but they're littler and they stay still so you can squish them in between a big pair of shoes. Also, wolf spiders freak me out ALMOST as much as huntsmen, but they again aren't as big. They're aggressive though so that kind of adds to the scariness of them. Oh, and also, huntsmen over in WA tend to be aggressive like wolf spiders (weird I know, but the huntsmen over there rear up like wolf spiders and jump at you, which is SCARY!). I don't like garden spiders, especially Orb spiders cause they get big, but again, they don't move across the damn walls like huntsmen do.

So that's my logic. Sorry for the rambling. It's the alcohol. It does that.

thats interesting that WA huntmans are aggressive. must be the heat.

orb spiders are just lovely. theyre like grapes with legs... hairy hairy legs.

i remember when we were young having no problem playing in close proximity to red backs. they were small and shiny and didnt seem like a threat. of course now i know better, but then again i dont play near the woodpile anymore.


what annoys me most about spiders is when youre walking along minding your own busines s and theyve thrown their web out across the path... and it stretches across your face... poor little guys probably think all their christmases have come at once... til theyre line breaks and they see a years supply of food walking away. generally though spiders with webs im ok with.. its the ones that hunt on the ground im weary of. or those ones that land on the ground with an audible thump. :shock:

stardust1976

catefrances wrote:

generally though spiders with webs im ok with.. its the ones that hunt on the ground im weary of. or those ones that land on the ground with an audible thump. :shock:

Yeah, you know you're in trouble when you can hear the spider land on the ground. That's when I start running.

pinkbutterfly

I don't mind spiders, as long as they are not crawling on me. (and I still wouldn't kill them) I am in awe of the beautiful webs/intricate works of art they create.

ZiggyStar

Not overly fond of them. Will only kill them if needed.

CorduroyGirl

Not into things that have more than 4 legs, but spiders aren't really the worse for me (I'll probably just scream a bit :P )... Now cockroaches... These actually leave me paralysed with panic...

eeriepadave

My friend has one and posted this picture on social media (it's her exoskeleton). It's pretty cool I thought.

Loujoe

Halloweeney. I like spiders. That big, I'd avoid! 
If you shine a flashlight in the grass at night you can see the reflective eyes of wolf spiders. 
My friend told me you are rarely less than 6 feet away from a spider.