God damn spiders

I woke up today and when I got out of bed I felt something on me and in my hair. I kinda just brushed it off. I figured it was lint or something. So then I realize a part of my back itches and I stratch it and theres this lump on it about twice the size of a pimple, and it hurts. So I go take a leak and come back in the room and as the sun is coming through the window I notice a spider web hanging down from the wall. As I go over to get my clothes I see this huge ass spider on the wall.

God damn, this thing was crawling on me all night and sank it's fangs into me. Also te crazy part about it was I had a dream about a spider last night too. Maybe it was trying to tell me a spider was crawling on me.

I don't hate spiders as much as a lot of people, but I took a shower the second I killed that bitch.

Anyone else have a similiar experience with bugs?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Ugh, that sounds...ew. My vocabulary isn't sophisticated enough to find a word for it, so I'll just saw 'ew'.
My deepest condolences to you.

I hate bugs. Muchly. Even the harmless ones. I have this thing about moths - I'm not sure what it is about moths, but they really unnerve me. They just sort of fly around just waiting to bump into you.
I can't sleep with a moth in my room. I have to shoo it out of the widow or something.
I know bug-fear is sort of irrational, but I can't help it. I'm such a wuss xD

Perhaps the worst experience (it wasn't to me, but I was present) was at meal time. We were eating (as one does at meal time) and my sister uncovered some kind of worm in a sugar snap (Click if you don't know what I mean). It was cooked, and probably more or less harmless, but still - yuck!
It's a good thing she has a weird habit of dissecting her vegetables before eating them. Still, it put me off anything which could conceal a bug for a while...

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I don't really mind them all that much, and since I've heard they kill roaches, they're definitely one of my favorite kinds of insects. My sister's afraid of anything even remotely insect/spider-like to the point that she almost passed out when a massive spidercrab woke up at the aquarium.

Good times.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Well, I have gotten bitten by a spider once or twice while I have slept but I dont mind them. I let them live anywhere they wish in my home. The headaches they prevent makes the small nuisance of bites or webs worth it.

They kill the flies, roaches, and other bugs that like to infest your household, especially during the summer months. Which is alot better than me setting up traps or constantly spraying the house down to stop some annoying bugs. Spiders are my fucking savior.

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Originally Posted by Metal Sphere

...one of my favorite kinds of insects.

Goddamnit spiders are not insects! They're arachnids!


Spiders are awesome. I love tarantulas and some of the other weird looking spiders out there.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by guyinrubbersuit

Goddamnit spiders are not insects! They're arachnids!

Yeah, yeah.. I know the whole 6 legs/8 legs deal. Still more insect-like than not, however incorrect that may be.

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Spiders are awesome. I love tarantulas and some of the other weird looking spiders out there.

I actually thought about getting one as a pet, but that kind of fizzled.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Eh, I just got rid of a spider infestation in my room, like, two weeks ago. So a single spider doesn't bother me. Who knows how many I swallowed in my sleep.

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Ugh... I hate spiders.. I realize some of them can't hurt me, but I always have a really bad outlook on bugs and other things... Always thinking of the worst case scenario. I mainly fear any type of bug in worry that something tragic would happen to me and I would die.

And after watching Arachnophobia (?) and They Nest, that seriously messed me up.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Fucking HATE spiders! Seriously, they're my biggest phobia. The ones that scare me shitless are Daddy Long Legs. Didn't mind them until one launched itself at my face.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Don't think a Daddy longlegs is really considered a spider. They have less legs, but they do look like spiders. The other night I pulled back my covers to go to sleep and a freakin earwig was crawling around in my bed. Well that pissed me off somthin' nasty so i mashed the bitch. earwig no more.

When I lived in Florida, I had roaches drop from the ceiling onto my head multiple times. I hate those bastards. I make a point to kill them and put thier dead bodies on display in front of my door as a warning. I have had a spider drop in my face while I was driving which caused me instinctivly to slam on the brakes. That made me really mad. Otherwise I usually don't mind spiders that much.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I often have spiders in my room as well. Last night, some spider ran around the corner before I could catch it. But I don't mind anymore. I mean, I feared them when I was a kid because I thought they did awful things (like jumping in my mouth when I'm asleep); but now I just don't care anymore. Spiders can live in my room, I don't care. My cat does care, though, he likes to catch them =^.^=

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Spiders scare me to death. I always have the constant fear of swallowing them / getting bitten while asleep.

Also, we had a little nest of cross spiders above our door last summer. Easily 25-30 cross spiders hanging out, dropping down on anyone below. Fucking leechers.

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Originally Posted by Syndrome

Also, we had a little nest of cross spiders above our door last summer. Easily 25-30 cross spiders hanging out, dropping down on anyone below. Fucking leechers.

You're rather lucky. A spider in the home is considered to be a good omen in some primitive cultures. An entire nest would be heralded as a blessing.
Dreaming of spiders is also considered to bring good fortune.

Cross spiders are pretty cool, as they belong to the argiope genus. You know the traditional "spiral" web designs you see in children's books? Only argiope spiders produce those.

I used to be terrified of spiders, mostly because the few hazardous ones give the entire family a bad name. I've seen some very small black widows and brown recluse spiders around here, so I'm always watchful.

But they don't bother me as they used to. A couple years ago, I noticed a small house spider crawling about my overhead lamp. As I grabbed a stool and slipper to smash the spider, I had an unexpected change of heart. It was just one spider, so tiny and so harmless to me. It wasn't attacking me. It was trying to find a home.

It's funny. When you personify small creatures it becomes extraordinarily more difficult to injure them. I thought about how the spider must instinctively fear something as huge as I, and just saw no reason to take its life. Man is the only animal that kills for no other reason than it can.

I let the spider build a small nest in a corner of my room. The summer passed, it died and I cleaned up the cobweb. Since then, I've found my peace with spiders. My refuse attracts the spider's prey; the spider keeps my room parasite-free.

Man and spiders have a symbiotic relationship, if you think about it.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Down south, where the sun don't shine, (j/k) we have mosqitoes ALL summer.
Course, I'm sure you all know that, but still thought I might make a point of it.
In addition to that, we also have there huge ass flies. Almost as big as your thumbnail. Sometimes bigger.

So I'm up reading this book for school (boring as hell, but I had to read it anyway) when this huge flies just flies right into the side of my head.

Yeah, it pissed me off. I spend about an hour trying to find the little fucker and kill it.

Few weeks later, same thing happens with a mosquito.

Fuck them!

How ya doing, buddy?

I really pity my best mate, she was having sex with her boyfriend and a spider decided to leap onto her back... >.<

Luckily my only bad experience with spiders was waking up to find one staring me in the face on my pillow. Not nice, but not as bad as it could have been.

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I don't mind spiders too much, however just last week I saw a red-back spider (only found in Australia; deadly) when I was out just walking to school. Scared me for a second but then I was fine. Maybe I'd be absolutely fine with spiders if it weren't for a family holiday that went array when I was younger. Spiders everywhere in the fucking house we stayed in; I couldn't sleep.

But the thing that really freaks me out? Cockroaches (roaches), but that's another story.

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My uncle was bit by a brown recluse.

He lives in Maine and is a forest ranger. One day he went out to tap some trees for syrup. He was trying to cross a brook and he fainted face down. Luckily his girlfriend was with him so she got him to the hospital. The doctors found the bitemark and his g/f checks their bed. A whole nest of brown recluse were in it. They bought the bed down south somewhere so thats how we think they got here.

I fucking hate spiders, but I have a pathological hatred of mosquitos. I mean I like to torture, maim, burn, suffocate, drown and poison them frequently. I like to go out at night with a can of axe and a lighter to torch the little fuckers out of mid-air. Till this day I cannot think of a possible purpose they serve on this planet.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I looked it up in a 1964 Encyclopedia (it's the only honest one there is these days) and it said it was only on the food chain and otherwise worthless.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I hate them. Hate them.

Hardcore arachnophobe right here. A spider, no matter how small, is enough to turn me into an 8 year old girl. I wont go more than 8 feet into a pet store unless I know exactly where they keep the little fuckers. Even a picture of one is enough to freak me out.

And thanks to reading this thread, I won't sleep well for a week.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I'm used to killing daddy long legs all day where I live, but if I see something different, I start flipping out...only a little bit though ^^;



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Let's post some pictures of spiders because they're so awesome!





I was speaking idiomatically.

Spiders are the bane of my household existence. I wouldn't go so far as to say that I have arachnophobia, but a spider of moderate size will pretty much cause me to stop doing any activity when I notice it. Some people channel their disgust of spiders into an ability to actually smash the thing and get on with their life, but I can't bring myself to do that. For some reason I imagine the thing squishing or crunching noticeably and that kills any desire to do it. Bleck.

I'm just glad I live in an area where the spiders are relatively small. If I lived somewhere with large spiders (like that infamous clock spider) I think I would go out of my mind.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I think I have a some form of arachnophobia. I don't little spiders or daddy long legs. But I hate the really big fat hairy ones. They make my skin itch.
Yesterday I was laid on the sofa reading when I felt something crwling up my arm, I brushed it off, looked down and there was the biggest hairiest mean looking spider I've ever seen in my life. My cat just sat there and looked at it like a nonce and didn't chase it or anything ( he normally does but yesterday he was mean.) So i got it in a box after swearing alot took it outside holding it an arms length away and chucked it over to the nextdoor neighbours garden and prayed it wouldn't come back.

FELIPE NO

Spiders haven't been huge problem for me, but I've had situations with other bugs. When I was in third grade, my family came home from church one Sunday to find several rooms of our house were filled with bees. We had to move out for a week while an exterminator dealt with the problem.

In high school, I moved my bedroom down into the basement, which was partially unfinished. The walls and ceiling were complete, but the floor was just concrete. There was a huge window behind my bed, and I learned quickly to always pull back the covers and check before going to sleep. I found spiders, ants, centipedes, etc. hiding under there.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

AHHHHH!!!!
What's with the pictures!!!

Mild case of Arachnaphobia here.
I don't kill them though. As much as I hate them, I hate mosquitoes more.

How ya doing, buddy?