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Title: What is it about spiders?
Post by: Vamps on 12 November 2008, 21:34:12
Just been called upstairs to remove a spider from 8 year old daughters bedroom ::) Upstairs are the 18 year old scroat, and my 16 year old stepsons and swmbo and not one of them would go anywhere near it, to remove it. It's tough being a Dad.... ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: amigov6 on 12 November 2008, 21:38:25
Scoop it up in your hand & tease/terrify them with it before luzzing it out the window. There's a statistic somewhere saying on average we eat 5 spiders in our sleep so you could let them know!!! ;D
Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: Vamps on 12 November 2008, 21:42:25
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Scoop it up in your hand & tease/terrify them with it before luzzing it out the window. There's a statistic somewhere saying on average we eat 5 spiders in our sleep so you could let them know!!! ;D

Iv'e done that in the past to the boys, they are wise and had their bedroom door well and truly shut............ ::) ::) ::) swmbo would go ape, so not worth it.. ::) ::) ::) I called them all 'Wimps' as I came back downstairs.... ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: Bandit127 on 12 November 2008, 21:53:22
It's in our DNA to be frightened.

The year 25,000BC's top Darwin Award winners were all people who were missing the gene for the fear of spiders and snakes. And wasps probably.

By being a good dad/husband/brother/mate you are establishing superiority over millions of years of evolution.

You deserve a whiskey and the adulation of your inferiors.  And you can tell them that from me :y ;D ;D
Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: Dusty on 12 November 2008, 21:57:38
Ohhh...Spiders  ..even the word gives me the shivers.

Most men Mr Dusty included not frightened of spiders though. :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: Elite Pete on 12 November 2008, 21:58:41
My first wife sat outside our house one night for 2 1/2 hours till I got home because there was a big spider in the hall ::)
Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: Richie London on 12 November 2008, 21:59:45
im not a lover of spiders, i swat them with a newspaper if there big ::) but i do find snakes fascinating, especially the black mamba
Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: Darth Loo-knee on 12 November 2008, 22:00:58
I aint sure I like the idea that Guy suggests that we eat them in our sleep.........
Also I aint sure i would want to shift a spider the size of that one in Harry Potter :-?
Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: Andy B on 12 November 2008, 22:03:52
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Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: Andy B on 12 November 2008, 22:05:00
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im not a lover of spiders, i swat them with a newspaper if there big ::) ......

Murderer!  ;D  :y :y
Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: Richie London on 12 November 2008, 22:10:44
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im not a lover of spiders, i swat them with a newspaper if there big ::) ......

Murderer!  ;D  :y :y

you wanna see me when i walk into a cobweb  ::) ::)

Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: Andy B on 12 November 2008, 22:11:19
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im not a lover of spiders, i swat them with a newspaper if there big ::) ......

Murderer!  ;D  :y :y

you wanna see me when i walk into a cobweb  ::) ::)


Wuss!  ;)  ;)  ;) :y :y
Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: Ken T on 12 November 2008, 23:29:14
Why not explain that spiders are helping us by killing nasty flies that spread disease. If you explain things people sometimes understand  :y

Ken
Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: amigov6 on 12 November 2008, 23:33:34
Agreed, rather have spiders than scummy flies anyday. :y
Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: amigov6 on 12 November 2008, 23:43:10
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Agreed, rather have spiders than scummy flies anyday. :y

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Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: Ken T on 13 November 2008, 00:08:57
Some more info on flies http://www.maricopa.gov/envsvc/vectorcontrol/fly/flyinfo.aspx
http://books.google.com/books?id=g2_St32S_5wC&pg=PA1242&lpg=PA1242&dq=fly+digesting+food&source=web&ots=EtQe2entmr&sig=lsFo19GJCcE8j-svMamQzypYggo&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result

I would rather have spiders who clean up th place than flies.

Ken
Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: Vamps on 13 November 2008, 00:08:56


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Agreed, rather have spiders than scummy flies anyday. :y

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6X9WLZ9vYII&feature=related
    Yummy!!!!!!!!!!



GROSS, feel sick now, where is my bottle.............. :o :o :o
Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: markey mark on 13 November 2008, 00:19:43
 i love think they are very bizzare things
Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: waspy on 13 November 2008, 10:13:08
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im not a lover of spiders, i swat them with a newspaper if there big ::) ......

Murderer!  ;D  :y :y

you wanna see me when i walk into a cobweb  ::) ::)


Wuss!  ;)  ;)  ;) :y :y

He is a southern softie ;D
Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: waspy on 13 November 2008, 10:36:49
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Scoop it up in your hand & tease/terrify them with it before luzzing it out the window. There's a statistic somewhere saying on average we eat 5 spiders in our sleep so you could let them know!!! ;D

When i was in my early teens, i picked up a big House Spider with my index finger & thumb & the bugger bit me, left me with a slight tingling & a very tiny puncture mark. So be carefull, because they can bite ;)
Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: bob.dent on 13 November 2008, 10:56:04
no, no, no..........don't kill spiders, they're goodies not baddies! ::)

According to a David Attenborough documentary on spiders I watched a couple of years ago, if every single spider on the planet were to die, mankind would not survive more than approx. 8 weeks. :o Apparently its all down to keeping insects and pests such as flies, mozzies etc. under control by feeding on them. Without the spiders to do this, we would be wiped out by plagues and illnesses spread by insects. :-?
Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 13 November 2008, 11:52:17
Caught a whopper running across our floor the other day.
So big in fact ...when I put a glass over the top of it to catch it.....two of it's legs got trapped under the rim.....poor little sod.....can only run in circles now. :D ;D :y :y :y
Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: LJay on 13 November 2008, 11:56:20
I used to be terrified of them, but worked really hard to get over such an irrational fear.
Don't think i will ever be able to handle a spider but i can remove them without screaming for help!
Find the hoover on its longest extension useful! ;D

Jimbob discovered a nest of HUGE spiders in our back garden. He sprayed them with GT85 and set fire to it! Yuck!
Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: Johnboy0811 on 13 November 2008, 18:03:25
My other half hates spider's but my 6 year old daughter is not. Example came in the house to find the wife screaming because the little one was holding a spider up to her to hold.

She wasn't impressed and yes I got it in the neck. :y

Title: Re: What is it about spiders?
Post by: LaserLance on 13 November 2008, 20:53:58
Spiders are great ,my brother's terrified of them  ;) ;) used to chase him round the house with one when i was a kid, usually ended up getting a clump of me mum for it  ;D ;D ;D oh happy days . Flys are ok ,only cos i like feeding their kids to fish  ::) ::) ::)