Spiders

[Mike Lynkers]

Has anyone noticed spiders are getting bigger? I moved my tumble dryer earlier tonight and out charged the biggest meatiest beast I've ever seen, the thing had muscley legs and a body like a potato....ok, slight exaggeration on the body, but it were really big and I swear I thought I could make out fangs on it's big scary head.

Unluckily for Arnold Spidernegger, my dog also saw it bounding across the kitchen floor, ran over and ate it, but it's got me thinking......

If these things are marching up and down my house then its a good job my dog likes spiders cos I ain't lying when I say it were a good 3 inches long at least. and fat with it. I don't wanna go to sleep now cos of the thought of waking up with summat like THAT crawling on me face..

So, the reason I'm leavin a Q is in Body & Soul at midnight is, ain't it strange how a 28yr old bloke can suddenly develop a case of arachnophobia and insomnia?!?!? Anyone else had a similar experience? And do ya agree that spiders are gettin bigger?!?!

[Dollie]

Yup - sure is strange Mike - I saw one at my son's house the other day that was so big it could have gone to work if it had had a Union Card ! (Like a bl**dy big dinner plate it was !)

[Mike Lynkers]

Well I'm glad its not just me cos i've seen a few big ones over the years (spiders that is!) but the one tonight were huge, they do seem to be getting bigger.....wonder how big they'll be in another 1000 yeaars..... It'll be like them big bu88ers in War of the Worlds.......

[electricblue]

The one i had a while back was that big and scary,he had a gun and threatened me,so i took my dyson hose,sucked him up and the S.O.B kissed his ar$e goodbye,no match,for a dyson,however big and threatning they are!!!

[chiswickk]

No offence to you and nothing against you, but this question belongs on the Animal&nature or Home &Garden section.

[electricblue]

Spiders sure as hell,scare me out of body and soul so i say it stays!!

[Mike Lynkers]

lol electricblue.....this dude woulda probably have eaten my tatty old hoover from the inside and come back bigger and badder.....

And Chis, the reason I put the Q in B&S was 2-fold:

a) I asked "isnt it strange how a 28yr old bloke can suddenly develop a case of arachnophobia and insomnia" - not really a Q for Animals and Nature is it?

b) I knew I'd get a better response here cos this is where all the night-owl ABers skulk around!!!! Hi All :-)

[ELVIS68]

Any spiders I find go straight in the fish bowl,along with flies and daddy long legs

[Mike Lynkers]

Tellin ya, this spider woulda swallowed your fish whole and still of been hungry

[electricblue]

Suppose he could have shot himself out but its a dyson and the plastic is bulletproof,lol,

[Nummy]

i never get any small spiders like i remember in our house we i was little...they do seem to have prgressed some what!!!

One of these big long-legged freaks scuttled across my floor a couple of nights ago...my cat clocked it and immediately jumped and bopped it with a paw...but it just sprung back up again! it was like it was saying 'is that all you've got!?!" My cat was the eventual winner...but it put up a decent fight.

I do prefer to remove them (cardboard and jug method) ...but sometime my cat gets there first...in those cases i always hope its a quick and painless death.

[Slooow_Jo]

I once had a huge moth fly through my window, I thought it was a bat at first!! It was so big I couldn't even cover it with a pint glass!! As you said Mike I'm sure I could see its 'face'

Scared the ruddy kack outta me I tell ya never went back into my bedroom for 3 nights!!

[Mike Lynkers]

LOL Slooow Jo Yeah moths I forgot about them things they're getting bigger too, I had one fly in when I was having a shower, and all I could see was a silhouette thru the showercurtain.....I thought I were being axe murdered the shadow were huge! Dog to the rescue once more lol

[Goodsoulette]

I hate spiders. Really, really hate them. A quality I look for in man is not being scared of them. I cant kill them for some reason though either. I went out with a honking great big rugby player who I discovered was just as terrified as me of them, however I was smitten by this point and found it endearing, that has been the one and only time mind.

You need to find a woman happy to pick them up.

[Slooow_Jo]

Sounds like I need a dog like yours then lol I wont even leave a window open once the lights go on anyway no matter how warm it is, incase one flies by & sees it as an invite:-/

Ex use to insist on leaving the windows open when he stayed as he 'would protect me'...yeah right would loved to have seen his face if he had have encountered one LOL

[Mike Lynkers]

Thing is Goousoulette, until I saw this thing I wasn't bothered by them, not really. I was certainly man enough to do the old jug and cardboard trick, but now I find myself scouting the room for spiders as I type..... turns otu I cna tpye prtty goof wihout lokingg

[Mike Lynkers]

Ya rite Jo, they see the light thru ya open windown and in they come....... I'm gettin me one of them bug Zappers ya see in chippy's!!!

[Slooow_Jo]

Well if you get the bug zapper thingys can I have ya dog?? ;-)

[Mike Lynkers]

Hell No the dog stays with me - she exterminated the killer spidernator so its steak for her for dinner tomorrow!......I'll get you a bug zapper though lol

[Goodsoulette]

f**k it Mike, go get a flame thrower and then pop round here after you have done your place. At my Aunts one night I ended stranded on her sofa cause there was on the floor somewhere, in the end we both needed the loo so we called her son up to come round and get it.
My fear developed in my late teens I was alright till then. You want to hang out on the sofa like a big scaredy arsed cat with me and my aunt you are more than welcome.

[Slooow_Jo]

The dog has steak for dinner??? sod having the dog can I replace the dog?? I am house trained lol