Spiders- Friend or Foe?

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  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    If there's one creeping around on my turf it gets squashed, but I have enjoyed finding a nice big web with a hungry spider and tossing other bugs into it and watching the spider work it's magic.
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    spiders are good to goin my book. i don't kill stuff. i don't kill flies, that's the spiders job. spiders are like snakes, they get a bad rap. snakes eat rats and mice, those are rodents taken care of by snakes. spiders eat insects that bother me, like mosquitoes and flies.

    i was just over at my brother's house the other day. his oldest drug a spider off the fence with a twig or something and smashed it into the earth. i told her that was dumb as shit and mean. she said she hates them.

    i thought to myself, you are bullshit and your dad hasn't taught you a fucking thing.

    it is all connected, folks. even dumb as shit humans.
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  • loveontwolegs
    loveontwolegs Posts: 501
    I am a lover, not a fighter. Spiders get a free ride back outside when I find them in my house.
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    i'd rather punch a person in the fudd than smash a spider. some people deserve to be treated badly, a spider does not.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    chadwick wrote:
    i'd rather punch a person in the fudd than smash a spider. some people deserve to be treated badly, a spider does not.

    I'd smash a strange dangerous looking person that came in my house much the same way I would a spider.
  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    I like Spiders, i don't kill them unless my wife spots one, then i have to.
  • EmBleve
    EmBleve Posts: 3,019
    chadwick wrote:
    i'd rather punch a person in the fudd than smash a spider. some people deserve to be treated badly, a spider does not.
    your posts make a good point... if they're in the house, I try to chase them outside (they don't take direction well). They just move too fast for me to try to catch them. If it jumps on my body, I end up essentially beating myself black and blue. :?
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    DewieCox wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    i'd rather punch a person in the fudd than smash a spider. some people deserve to be treated badly, a spider does not.

    I'd smash a strange dangerous looking person that came in my house much the same way I would a spider.
    the spider is your friend, dudeman.

    you should live with mosquitoes :mrgreen:
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    EmBleve wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    i'd rather punch a person in the fudd than smash a spider. some people deserve to be treated badly, a spider does not.
    your posts make a good point... if they're in the house, I try to chase them outside (they don't take direction well). They just move too fast for me to try to catch them. If it jumps on my body, I end up essentially beating myself black and blue. :?

    im a clumsy ox like bastard with almost zero steath like skill or balance and i can catch a spider without killing myself with my own beatings. you must be 19 feet tall and have several heads or something. ;) :shock:
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • EmBleve
    EmBleve Posts: 3,019
    chadwick wrote:
    EmBleve wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    i'd rather punch a person in the fudd than smash a spider. some people deserve to be treated badly, a spider does not.
    your posts make a good point... if they're in the house, I try to chase them outside (they don't take direction well). They just move too fast for me to try to catch them. If it jumps on my body, I end up essentially beating myself black and blue. :?

    im a clumsy ox like bastard with almost zero steath like skill or balance and i can catch a spider without killing myself with my own beatings. you must be 19 feet tall and have several heads or something. ;) :shock:
    :lol: I might appear that way to the spider. The proximity is what gets me...they can get to me in a millisecond if I try to catch them. Hey..maybe I should try a cup or a glass instead of a newspaper to catch them. ;)
  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    Did you ever walk into a spider web, and get it in your face?

    I scream and immediately drop anything I may be holding.
    If I'm in kind of a public place, like last week at Best Buy parking lot,
    then I just do a stop, drop & roll to get the web off myself
    It beats the alternative ;)
    (try not to ask)

    my son one time while in the batter's box, began swinging & hitting his own legs because a "love-bug"(s?) landed on him.

    I wonder where he gets that behavior from. :?
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    EmBleve wrote:
    :lol: I might appear that way to the spider. The proximity is what gets me...they can get to me in a millisecond if I try to catch them. Hey..maybe I should try a cup or a glass instead of a newspaper to catch them. ;)
    guess how you catch flies and whatnot to feed your treefrog? use a glass. i use a shotglass and a card.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    for some odd reason, we are always getting spiders in the house.

    i find em, they get a smashing....
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  • EmBleve
    EmBleve Posts: 3,019
    chadwick wrote:
    EmBleve wrote:
    :lol: I might appear that way to the spider. The proximity is what gets me...they can get to me in a millisecond if I try to catch them. Hey..maybe I should try a cup or a glass instead of a newspaper to catch them. ;)
    guess how you catch flies and whatnot to feed your treefrog? use a glass. i use a shotglass and a card.
    shotglass too small... but, yeah..I'll try a big gulp cup and a magazine. :lol:






    I wish I had a treefrog.
  • Sonja_S
    Sonja_S Vienna Posts: 444
    conman wrote:
    Sonja_S wrote:
    I'm a sister actually, not a brother 8-)
    She's been an awesome sister to me too, so it was my turn. Not that she didn't hear about it a few hours later when I was dead tired at work for wandering around town on a killing mission at 3am. I'm afraid I'm not a lot of fun when getting dragged out of bed :lol:
    :oops: well don't i feel like an idiot

    :lol: no need for that, maybe I just shouldn't have changed my icon ;)
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  • he.who.forgets
    he.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    Rollings wrote:
    Did you ever walk into a spider web, and get it in your face?

    I scream and immediately drop anything I may be holding.
    If I'm in kind of a public place, like last week at Best Buy parking lot,
    then I just do a stop, drop & roll to get the web off myself
    It beats the alternative ;)
    (try not to ask)

    my son one time while in the batter's box, began swinging & hitting his own legs because a "love-bug"(s?) landed on him.

    I wonder where he gets that behavior from. :?
    :lol: Too funny
    I am pretty petrified of larger spiders, but I dont mind little tiny ones. I do, however consider them friends as they help to curb the insect population. Have you ever watched a spider spin it's web in time lapse? One of the coolest phenomena in the animal kingdom in my opinion. I've learned over the years to respect EVERY living thing so I never kill spiders or other insects. I'll catch them and toss them outside but very rarely kill them. Even cockroaches or houseflies.
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  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    I don't mind them. I refuse to kill anything so I just let them run around and live in the house or gently put them outside with a cup.

    I'd rather not have them on me but I certainly won't hurt them, they're amazing :D

    My hubby-to-be HATES them. He's terrified and used to kill them before I theatened to never speak to him again if he killed another one. He now puts them outside with a cup... He tells each and every one how disgusting it is and then swears at them when he throws them in the hedge :roll: :lol:
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,663
    Great spider stories everyone! I never imagined so many replies in such a short time!

    My wife isn't as fond of spiders as I am so every now and then I have to take one outside (but it's like, "It's ok Sam, you can come back in when she's not looking!"). Same thing with preying mantises... and I must say,
    I love preying mantises!!
    They are one of the coolest of natures creation. Maybe we'll have a preying mantis thread sometime. :D
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    -Roberto Benigni

  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    I don't like spiders.

    Speaking of praying mantises, there was one sitting on the inside of my screen door this morning. had to open the door and flick him/her off!
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    SatansFuton wrote:
    catefrances wrote:


    thats a shame. but remember your living space encroaches on their nature.

    Like I said, I don't go out in nature hunting them, but I keep them out of my personal space due to my bad experience. We aren't talking about deer or something where they need room and I built a house right in the middle of their stomping ground. I know a spider doesn't really know any better, so it's not personal, but they don't have to come in my house, and they have plenty of room to live outside of my house. If a poisonous snake were to come in my house, or a skunk, I wouldn't let them have freedom to chill out just because my house is some unnatural abomination destroying the beauty of the land.

    I live in a house so I don't have to sleep with spiders.

    By the way brian, I love Ladies and Gentlemen... The Rolling Stones. It's mind blowing. It's a shame, I live so close to the place in Ft. Worth where much of that was filmed, it was just before I was born. I did see them in '97 at the Texas Motor Speedway though, but it was nothing like the 2 Texas shows from that DVD. The Exile On Main Street Tour was crazy.
    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!!

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