turnbull Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Eek! http://youtu.be/JgoG5BjFE7w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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B94villa Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Don't really see what's so bad about it. Having said that the preview at the end of the video with the massive one on the toilet seat would make me think twice. Think twice and shit on the floor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted September 15, 2014 Moderator Share Posted September 15, 2014 Spiders are the reason I will never see australia. I worked in the outback for a while, this year and last, and there were all sorts of critters there that you wouldn't ideally want to mess with - not just spideys, but scorpions, deadly snakes etc. Anyway, one night I was lying on the floor (it was hot) in my flat, and looking through the doorway, to the outside. I heard these little footprints, and one significantly sized spidey appeared about 6 to 8 feet away, then stopped. We looked at each other for a while. Telepathically we communicated - I said "lets do a deal, here. You don't come in here and I'll not come out there till you've moved along." it worked. Spidey turned around and scurried off. Dunno what type it was. Not a huntsman, but similar size (they're harmless anyway). Much bigger than a redback (of which there were a number on the balcony) it was the ants and mossies that were the main menance, anyway. Specially the mossies. redback and scorpion pics I took. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozvillafan Posted September 15, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted September 15, 2014 Lived in Sydney my entire life. Can count on 1 hand the amount of times I've seen a funnelweb spider. Huntsman and Redbacks, though, are a dime a dozen. Walking home from the train station in the early evening during summer is always fun. You are nailed on to get some web in the face at some point..... ... which is a shame because it's mostly orb spider webs and they are just stunning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted September 15, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted September 15, 2014 Kept finding these little buggers outside my room when I was last in SA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 covered this before but since we now have a dedicated spider thread he is my entry ....... Was in my hotel in Chengdu the other year working on the laptop when I had that feeling i as being watched .. turned around and saw a bloody great spider on the wall first thought was to catch him and set him free ... he was bigger than the glass in my bathroom , and as it turned out he was also bigger than the ice bucket in my room At which point i whacked him with a newspaper and he sorta laughed at me and scurried off I then went to bed ... for about 30 seconds at which point i just had visions of him crawling over my face in the night .... so I sat up a bit and waited ..and sure enough he came back and i chased him around a bit before finally losing him under bed .... I moved the whole bed and couldn't find him , then i found him crawling over the bed side lamp level with my head , once he cleared it I hit him full on with a copy of the yellow pages ... needless to say he wasn't laughing any more chances are he was harmless , but **** me he was big and I wasn't taking any chances 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ismail-villa Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 I'll never go to Australia, simply because of these. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Heard many a story of unfortunate Australians being bitten on the arse by a rogue Black Widow living underneath their toilet seat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponky Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 I remember as a kid having nightmares about that episode of The Goodies with the bagpipe spiders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponky Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Heard many a story of unfortunate Australians being bitten on the arse by a rogue Black Widow living underneath their toilet seat That's a bit of an urban legend mate, inspired by a country song. It probably happened in the old days when people had outside toilets but these days you won't get them inside because they prefer dry, dark undisturbed spaces. I had a huge one in my barbecue when I took the cover off it at the start of summer last year. I cooked the **** up nice and crispy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 i will go out of my way to put a spider out of harms way, same with anything really but if the spider is to big i cant pick it up and have to catch it in a glass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 One of the size of a toddler's hand had fallen into my girlfriends tart burner candle thing last night, she blew the flame out and now it's stuck in the wax with just the tips of it's legs sticking out. It made me feel sick, put me off my coco pops. There you go, for anyone interested. It's like one of those lollies you buy in Selfridges. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B94villa Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 (edited) That's a decent size, horrible way to go though. Incidentally why did you take a bite out of it? Edited September 15, 2014 by B94villa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted September 15, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted September 15, 2014 The Han Solo of spiders. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 That's a decent size, horrible way to go though. Incidentally why did you take a bite out of it? Haha waste not, want not! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baselayers Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 I hate spiders. Going to Aus is always mildly terrifying for me. I appreacite what they do for an ecosystem..but let's face it they are just ugly and creepy as ****. Like most of you lot really! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Aw - Cute 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 So how is everybody else spending their Monday evening? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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