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Thanks to IceNine and SexLovely...I got to thinking, and decided to post this thread...

Anyone got a real FEAR of them?

Growing up in a sugar plantation camp...whenever they would burn the leaves of the cane (before harvest), the "cane" spiders (as we called them) would come out in droves...

Here is a close-up...


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Here is a full shot



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You could find these in the garden...




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What do the spiders where you live look like?

Gee thanx Lavish.

U just had to. Loads more lovely pictures of beautiful spiders...

U realise these underpants were clean on 5mins ago....
[This message was edited Thu Nov 14 11:24:17 PST 2002 by SexLovely]

SexLovely said:

What do spiders where I live look like???

They look like a combination of the Alien creature from the Alien movies, Predator from the predator films, Dracula, RawHead Rex, Satan, my avatar, various evil zombies and an insurance salesman.

IceNine said:

Take a pic and post it.

IceNine said:

An insurance salesman??? Holy shit...

None of us are safe..

runs and hides in underground bunker...

SexLovely said:

I shit you not... they are that frightening here in Texas!

:veryfuckingscared:

OMG...the spiders here look nothing like that and I am terrified of them anyway.
I saw some of those cane spiders in Hawaii and I almost had heart failure.

Ok. When I was a kid I never particularly liked the look of spiders.
I would've happily chased a giant praying mantis in2 a field of horny locusts during mating season, but pick up a spider... no way Kaiser Sosay.

My sister, being the lil bitch she was back then picked up on things like this and since she wasnt at all intimidated by spiders she once put an ugly female garden spider down my back. Since my shirt was tucked in a I couldnt get it out and I pegged around the garden 4 ages screaming my head off cuz I had a ickle spider suffocating just above my arse.

From then on spiders haunted me...

Obviously growing up and being a strapping 6'2" young man that I am has helped me conquer my fear of any spider under 2cm. Anything bigger and its brown trouser time...

Our British house spider are fairly small compared 2 any spider that lives in Australia (what isnt?). But even then its big enough 2 turn your turds in2 runny whiff juice.
The male ones are small, 5-6cm is their average. The females as U may exspect are alot larger. The largest Ive come accross was as big as my hand, and Im not kidding. I was 16 at the time (it was about 15cm in length) and it took me 3 vioent slams of my dads loafers 2 kill the rampent beast.

Any spider that dares enter my bedroom runs the risk of the wrath of those famous loafers...

This brother aint confused.

[This message was edited Thu Nov 14 11:49:04 PST 2002 by SexLovely]

SexLovely said:

Oh my gawd... that never happened to me, but they terrified me anyways!

Poor SexLovely
[This message was edited Thu Nov 14 11:52:46 PST 2002 by LaVisHh]

snatch said:

They moved with a quickness, lol...so I was up many a night with broom in hand - at least by killing the one I saw, I had a false peace of mind...

i fear spiders more than death. i think it's all those legs and eyes and the fact that they can just sneak up on a sista without warning.

i grew up in an old farm house that had them every where. there is nothing worse than sitting around minding your bizness and looking up to see a big brown recluse dangling from a web over your head. i still haven't recovered.

Lav, what the fuck does that thing have in its mouth?

TRON said:

Its a potato aint it?

[This message was edited Thu Nov 14 12:32:52 PST 2002 by SexLovely]

I don't fear them like I did when I was a kid.

I just remembered something that happened to my niece with a spider in the dark. It's gross.


Btw, Lavish, I skipped past the pictures once I knew they were spiders. I ain't scared of 'em, but I don't want to see them UP CLOSE en mi cara o!

sparxxxtresss said:[quote]i fear spiders more than death. i think it's all those legs and eyes and the fact that they can just sneak up on a sista without warning.


I fell ya...the damn things just come dropping down from the ceiling. I once had one drop in front of me while I was driving and I was so scared I put the car in park and jumped the hell out.

Looking at those pictures just fills me with dread and horror! they're bloody awful things.Yet further proof there is no God!

(and wasps too! what purpose do they serve? none apart from invoking fear and stinging people!)

TRON said:

That's its egg-sack...hundreds of tiny spiders...waiting to spawn... :O

SexLovely said:

IceNine said:

, your avatar is a beauty compared to Texas spiders.

The ones I really fear are called wolf spiders I think, whatever they are they nearly give me heart attack because they are massive and numerous. I'm sick of the brown recluse epidemic and the jumbo black widows, too. I really do have a severe phobia of spiders.

faints

I'm going to have to have my first therapy session from this thread.
[This message was edited Thu Nov 14 13:22:05 PST 2002 by Erendira]

Here's a Texas spider!!!

Actually, that is not true , but looks very similar to many of the creatures in Texas.




This thing above doesn't scare me, and I don't know why!
[This message was edited Thu Nov 14 13:23:36 PST 2002 by Erendira]

Thecherryloon said:

Actually there was this black and red wasp who would sting and carry off the cane spiders...imagine that!

Ok, here is a true story:

A cousin of mine was running (while still chewing bubble-gum) through an area with bushes and trees, he passed through a garden spiders web (the yellow and black one shown in my first post) - *crunch* went the spider, which ended up in his mouth!!!

He actually d...

I still have the image etched in my mind...

My OWN horror story would involve the centipede...

I had a habit of sleeping on the floor in my parents room growing up, the spoiled brat that I was, and one evening was startled awake by a strong sting in the back of my shoulder...I stood up and turned on the light...looking around the room...then...I felt something crawling down my arm!!! I gave a quick flick of my arm and off flew a centipede!!! He was like 6 inches long...

Here's what HE looked like:



Needless to say, I gave up sleeping on the floor.

I'm getting itchy, I can't read this shit anymore.

As I posted on Ice's thread, spiders really don't deserve the bad rep. While the brown recluse and the black widow are quite deadly, the majority of spiders are harmless to humans.

Without spiders, the insects of the world would consume our food supply in less than a day. they eat THAT MANY INSECTS!!! Now, you have mosquitoes, which ACTUALLY SUCK THE BLOOD RIGHT OUT OF YOU and they don't get near the bad press that spiders do. Personally, I'm really friggin' allergic to mosquitoes, so I hate them way worse. Spiders eat skeeters, so as far as I'm concerned, the arachnids are my friends!

TheGillman said:

No argument there. But, I would prefer a mosquito on my arm, rather than a spider...

I like spiders in principle (as a vegetarian and animal lover etc) however where I come from insects and arachnids are small and don't bother anyone. I don't like them creeping around my room (unfortunately my mother who is terrified of creepy crawlies has probably passed her irrational fear on to me when I was a child) so I pick them up in a glass and put them outside.

Spiders are kinda cute though, in a way. Sweet little things!

However I think if I was to live in a country with massive creepy crawlies with great flappy wings that bite, I would be a bit freaked out. The bloody massive cockroaches I saw when in Japan were mad, I'd never seen one before.

ian said:

LOL!!! Keep in mind that Hawaii is tropical, and therefore FILLED with insects like you just described...cockroaches too!

:O