The biggest fucking spider in the WORLD...

Heineken Helen
Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
edited November 2012 in All Encompassing Trip
was in my house last night :eek:

Got a text from my housemate just when I was dropping off at about 12.30 saying 'huge spider come see'. I replied 'and why would I wanna do THAT?' and he said he needed help :eek:

so I went down the stairs saying 'this better be good' and my other annoying housemate thought he was missing out on something so came out to see... he's an arachnaphobe :D

It was fucking HUGE... I've never seen a spider so big. Eventually he trapped it in a fishtank he had... and added another big spider (what I would USUALLY call huge). Within a few minutes, the big one caught the littler big one and started EATING it. It had big fangs and hairy legs and a face with big eyes that actually follow you and everything. One of the creepiest things I've ever seen.

It was like national geographic in my own living room :)
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Heineken Helen wrote:

    It was like national geographic in my own living room :)




    you were all spearing fish with your tits out?
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • reeferchief
    reeferchief Posts: 3,569
    dunkman wrote:
    you were all spearing fish with your tits out?


    Oooo people pay good money to see that sort of thing.
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  • Shazanawoo
    Shazanawoo Posts: 7
    Ehhhh I hate spiders with a passion. But you could have atleast got photo's!
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Shazanawoo wrote:
    Ehhhh I hate spiders with a passion. But you could have atleast got photo's!
    I took some with my digital camera but I dunno how to upload them and they weren't coming out great either :o I don't think it's obvious how fucking big that thing WAS :eek:
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • ClimberInOz
    ClimberInOz Posts: 216
    We get some biggies around North Queensland...

    The Bird Eating Spider:

    http://www.bugman123.com/Bugs/Photos/BirdEatingSpider.jpg

    They are mostly quit mellow- just some mild local pain if you get bitten. And a small chance of cardiac arrest if you are an arachnaphobic...
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    ClimberInOz wrote:
    We get some biggies around North Queensland...

    The Bird Eating Spider:

    http://www.bugman123.com/Bugs/Photos/BirdEatingSpider.jpg

    They are mostly quit mellow- just some mild local pain if you get bitten. And a small chance of cardiac arrest if you are an arachnaphobic...
    :eek: that one's BIGGGGGGG... this one was skinnier and more menacing though... and almost as big as my hand.

    I'm gonna have to change the thread title now :(
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • ClimberInOz
    ClimberInOz Posts: 216
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    :eek: that one's BIGGGGGGG... this one was skinnier and more menacing though... and almost as big as my hand.

    I'm gonna have to change the thread title now :(

    No don't... I am sure that yours was more of a bastard than the bird eaters are.

    It's all relative isn't it- what we find scary. I have worked with dangerous animals for years, including 600kg crocs, all sorts of snakes, cassowaries etc, and when I was on my road trip through the US and Canada I was scared of dying in the snow.

    I kind of like spiders though.
  • surfanddestroy
    surfanddestroy Posts: 2,786
    Just thinking of spiders I get all paranoid and start feeling things crawling on me
    Astoria 20/04/06, Leeds 25/08/06, Prague 22/09/06, Wembley 18/06/07,
    Dusseldorf 21/06/07, Manchester 17/08/09, London 18/08/09, LA 06/10/09, LA 07/10/09.

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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    ClimberInOz wrote:
    No don't... I am sure that yours was more of a bastard than the bird eaters are.

    It's all relative isn't it- what we find scary. I have worked with dangerous animals for years, including 600kg crocs, all sorts of snakes, cassowaries etc, and when I was on my road trip through the US and Canada I was scared of dying in the snow.

    I kind of like spiders though.

    spiders are beautiful creatures. i have one that's spun the most fabulous web on my laundry window. takes up half the bottom pane.
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    http://static.flickr.com/63/219543347_37f2d32d43_o_d.jpg
    It looked quite similar to that one.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/37996646697@N01/219540685/
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    I took some with my digital camera but I dunno how to upload them

    :confused: its fucking easy.. put the cable in the camera and then put the other end of the cable into a computer.. and thats it.. plus you have a photobucket album.. bung it on there
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • ClimberInOz
    ClimberInOz Posts: 216
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    http://static.flickr.com/63/219543347_37f2d32d43_o_d.jpg
    It looked quite similar to that one.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/37996646697@N01/219540685/

    A quick search- I know very little about spiders outside of oz. Toward the bottom of the page- giant house spider. Could it be that one?

    http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/spider.htm
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    dunkman wrote:
    :confused: its fucking easy.. put the cable in the camera and then put the other end of the cable into a computer.. and thats it.. plus you have a photobucket album.. bung it on there
    Dunk, I have had 7 or 8 people I know, who KNOW stuff about computers try that and it didn't work so shove it up your arse :p

    Well it appears it is an American spider :eek: could i have brought that home with me??? Cos we were all wondering where the fuck it came from and how THAT coulda been in the house without us seeing. It's bigger than a fucking mouse... although I'm not sure cos on the website it says they grow up to 10mm... that's fucking tiny... it was DEFINITELY much bigger than that.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • eMMI
    eMMI Posts: 6,262
    euuuggghh.. I hate spiders.

    I had a moth-type-a-creature in my bedroom last night. :o :eek:

    fecking hate those things.

    and it's probably still in my room actually. there was no way I could've caught it or anything so I just had to go to sleep with that thing mucking around my lamp. :o
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    ClimberInOz wrote:
    A quick search- I know very little about spiders outside of oz. Toward the bottom of the page- giant house spider. Could it be that one?

    http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/spider.htm
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_house_spider

    JUST found this... and I'm pretty sure that's what it is :) PHEW... indigenous to NW Europe :) the thought of THAT thing having been in my suitcase was kinda freaking me out... apparently they come out looking for a mate around the end of the summer/early autumn and tend to freak people out then... that would also make sense. It can't hurt us either :)

    http://www.zoo.org/factsheets/spiders/giant.html

    'When they appear, most people describe them as huge!'

    :D
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • ClimberInOz
    ClimberInOz Posts: 216
    [quote="Heineken Helen
    'When they appear, most people describe them as huge!'

    :D[/quote"]

    I think that 'Biggest fucking spider in the WORLD' is a far more eloquent explanation that just plain old 'huge'...
  • Hitch-Hiker
    Hitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    Heineken Helen wrote:

    'When they appear, most people describe them as huge!'

    :D
    So much innuendo, so little time.
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  • PJ_Lukin
    PJ_Lukin Posts: 2,055
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_house_spider

    JUST found this... and I'm pretty sure that's what it is :) PHEW... indigenous to NW Europe :) the thought of THAT thing having been in my suitcase was kinda freaking me out... apparently they come out looking for a mate around the end of the summer/early autumn and tend to freak people out then... that would also make sense. It can't hurt us either :)

    http://www.zoo.org/factsheets/spiders/giant.html

    'When they appear, most people describe them as huge!'

    :D
    Funny thing is there indigenous to NW Europe and Seattle!

    Northwestern U.S., including Seattle area, indigenous to western Europe
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    ClimberInOz wrote:
    I think that 'Biggest fucking spider in the WORLD' is a far more eloquent explanation that just plain old 'huge'...
    well ya know me... I don't like to exaggerate :rolleyes: :D

    PJ_Lukin... what do ya mean? :confused:
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    You didn't kill it, did you?

    I'd keep it as a pet. Well, not exactly as a pet, but I'd keep it and feed it. And give it a cool name like Vincent.
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