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Why am i so pathetic when it comes to bugs/spiders :<

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Originally posted by: Quiksilver
I hate small spiders so I just smash them to bits. I don't mind the creepy big ones that most people don't like; tarantulas for example, I have no problem with. It's weird.
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same. small spiders freak me out, though I've gotten a helluva lot better in the past few years by mainly telling myself... well, shit happens, can't live in fear. Still freak me out, and when I have to lay down in the forest, I'm looking everywhere for anything I don't like. I gotta train myself to get out of that habbit for sure.

but big spiders, big as in tarantula big? At that point they're nothing to me, not an inkling of fear. Those things aren't small enough to creep up on you, and none of the deadly spiders are big.
I think a fear of spiders, the more rational fear versus the irrational, is due to an instinct that small things can be shockingly harmful, while the big things are mostly brutes/a farce.
 
Originally posted by: Nik
Screw your nutsack on. Once, just once, build up the courage and rage to mash the spider against the wall with your bare hand. If you can do that just once, the rest is all down hill. You'll be king of your castle in no time.
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Yeah but what if you
see
this
guy?

😛
 
Originally posted by: datalink7
Originally posted by: Nik
Screw your nutsack on. Once, just once, build up the courage and rage to mash the spider against the wall with your bare hand. If you can do that just once, the rest is all down hill. You'll be king of your castle in no time.
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Yeah but what if you
see
this
guy?

😛
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I've got spiders in my house bigger than a quarter, but I've never seen something like that in person so I don't know how I'd react. When I see any kind of spider, I have an unwavering, unbelievably strong, aggressive need to kill them. I'm not afraid of them, I dunno what it is, but I'd like to think that I'd go flying-side-kick mode and then mop the wall afterwards. I like to think I'm not so big of a wuss that I'd go screaming with arms flailing down the block, but it's certainly a possibility 😱
 
Originally posted by: datalink7
Originally posted by: Nik
Screw your nutsack on. Once, just once, build up the courage and rage to mash the spider against the wall with your bare hand. If you can do that just once, the rest is all down hill. You'll be king of your castle in no time.
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Yeah but what if you
see
this
guy?

😛
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I've only seen spiders that size when I was like 5 or 6. But now if I saw one like that I'd probably want to shoot it or catch it and microwave it.
 
Meh...unless it's a black widow, I don't bother spiders much. If the wife sees one however, I am duty bound by my mancard to immediately jump up and kill the poor creature. :roll:

We have lots of harvestmen around here. Much like some of the daddy long-legs in other parts of the country, an arachnid, but not a spider...However, some daddy long-legs ARE true spiders... :roll:
The harvestmen are prodigious web builders...and in a week, will have huge webs all over my back patio...which drives my wife crazy.

In the yard & garden, I don't kill any spider except the black widow...even if my wife happens to see it. 😛
 
Originally posted by: CZroe
Originally posted by: daw123
Originally posted by: Dorkenstein
Hah, I remember when I was in Georgia cleaning the pool filter by hand once. Pulled out the usual detritus, lawn clippings etc. And ravelled up in the center of this crazy mess were the bodies of a few black widow spiders.
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I used to be scared of spiders. Its not so bad now; I generally just kill them (exspecially the small ones).

I would be scared shitless if I came across Black Widow spiders, whether they were alive or dead.
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Originally posted by: daw123
That link is hilarious - exspecially the bloody letter from a resident of the opt out village.
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http://forums.anandtech.com/me...d=38&threadid=2328947&

Stop saying it like that and you'll stop spelling it like that... exspecially if it's a word you use so often.
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Okay. For the spelling police: Exspecialy, especialie, exspeciallie, escpecaillie ... especially.

Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: datalink7
Originally posted by: Nik
Screw your nutsack on. Once, just once, build up the courage and rage to mash the spider against the wall with your bare hand. If you can do that just once, the rest is all down hill. You'll be king of your castle in no time.
Click to expand...

Yeah but what if you
see
this
guy?

😛
Click to expand...

I've got spiders in my house bigger than a quarter, but I've never seen something like that in person so I don't know how I'd react. When I see any kind of spider, I have an unwavering, unbelievably strong, aggressive need to kill them. I'm not afraid of them, I dunno what it is, but I'd like to think that I'd go flying-side-kick mode and then mop the wall afterwards. I like to think I'm not so big of a wuss that I'd go screaming with arms flailing down the block, but it's certainly a possibility 😱
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If I saw that monster in my house, I would run (leaving a brown streak behind me).

How did you get rid of it, datalink7?

You would need a very big slipper to squish it and it would leave one hell of a gooey mess on the wall.
 
Originally posted by: astroidea
Originally posted by: datalink7
Originally posted by: Nik
Screw your nutsack on. Once, just once, build up the courage and rage to mash the spider against the wall with your bare hand. If you can do that just once, the rest is all down hill. You'll be king of your castle in no time.
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Yeah but what if you
see
this
guy?

😛
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that i would get a huge jar for and keep it as a pet
this i'd nuke it from orbit
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Is that molding on the left a 1x6?! :shocked:

Holy F. I can't imagine hundreds of them that size.

...is it bad if I have my feet up on my chair right now? :Q
 
Originally posted by: daw123
Holy shit that is one big momma with hundred of her little kiddies. Time to call pest control.
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Damn that is scary to even imagine something like in my home. Pest control does not have powerful enough chemicals. Sarin gas filling your house would be the only solution here.
 
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Originally posted by: daw123
Holy shit that is one big momma with hundred of her little kiddies. Time to call pest control.
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Damn that is scary to even imagine something like in my home. Pest control does not have powerful enough chemicals. Sarin gas filling your house would be the only solution here.
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So pest control with a large slipper wouldn't work? 😀

Kill momma first then go to town on the kiddies.
 
Originally posted by: datalink7
Originally posted by: Nik
Screw your nutsack on. Once, just once, build up the courage and rage to mash the spider against the wall with your bare hand. If you can do that just once, the rest is all down hill. You'll be king of your castle in no time.
Click to expand...

Yeah but what if you
see
this
guy?

😛
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ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i would die. holy crap. im freaking out just looking at the pic
 
I don't mind them as long as I don't see them where I eat or sleep which is not an issue at all in my current situation.

I was once on a tour riding a donkey and an iguana jumped on me but it jumped off as fast as I turned around to say GDWTF is that? :laugh: Its claws surprised me more than anything.

I don't like seeing jellyfish while swimming either. The worst thing I've encountered in the reef was a poisonous urchin. I mistakenly held it and got stung and it was excruciatingly painful. Those are on my DNTTMF list.
 
Originally posted by: daw123
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Originally posted by: daw123
Holy shit that is one big momma with hundred of her little kiddies. Time to call pest control.
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Damn that is scary to even imagine something like in my home. Pest control does not have powerful enough chemicals. Sarin gas filling your house would be the only solution here.
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So pest control with a large slipper wouldn't work? 😀

Kill momma first then go to town on the kiddies.
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It'd take you quite a while to clean all the smashed guts off the wall...with something that big & nasty...they'd probably eat a hole in the wall...thus needing a larger clock to cover the hole.
 
Originally posted by: Nik

Awesome video. Then I found this!
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I did that once by accident years ago with a pop tart. Forgot to take it out of the wrapper and nuked it! :laugh:

You can also use these foil lined bags for a static bag for a cpu, etc. if you're in a bind too.
 
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