Creepy spider!

We have a basket of books and magazines in the bathroom. The basement bathroom. I idly picked up a book, as one does, and opened it at random:

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Katy wrote:

We have a basket of books and magazines in the bathroom. The basement bathroom. I idly picked up a book, as one does, and opened it at random:

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Katy wrote:

We have a basket of books and magazines in the bathroom. The basement bathroom. I idly picked up a book, as one does, and opened it at random:

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That would have been awesome had the story been The Valley of Spiders instead of My First Aeroplane.

aw, so cute!

it sads me.
sad spider
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My dental hygienist yesterday had a spider tattoo on her neck.

Just in time for Halloween:

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katy wrote:

The basement bathroom.

OK, see, this. This is inviting trouble.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

My dental hygienist yesterday had a spider tattoo on her neck.

Glad to see your going back to your prison "hygienist" for your oral "hygiene".

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LobsterMobster wrote:
katy wrote:

The basement bathroom.

OK, see, this. This is inviting trouble.

Pretty much, yeah. I like to live dangerously.

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Speaking of cats and spiders:
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(SMBC)

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Thanks. Thanks so much.

WipEout wrote:

Thanks. Thanks so much.

No problem.

According to the internets, it's most likely a mermithid worm

NO

Wow, that was both awesome and disgusting.

Mostly disgusting.

I will add in formatting when I get home.

If you are only mildly scared of spiders, this may tip it right over into arachnophobia.

What in the holy hell is also appropriate, as is "Gahhhhh!!! Kill it with fire!"

I'm impressed, that actually grossed me out. Giant parasites and mind-control fungus are really cool conceptually, but the reality of them on video is pretty awful.

Kraint wrote:

I'm impressed, that actually grossed me out. Giant parasites and mind-control fungus are really cool conceptually, but the reality of them on video is pretty awful.

I'm glad that Radiolab episode about parasites was audio only.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I'm glad that Radiolab episode about parasites was audio only.

I managed to miss that one, I need to dig it out of their archives.

Stengah wrote:

According to the internets, it's most likely a mermithid worm

Huzzah! My initial thought when watching the video was that it was a parasitic worm.

And yeah, it's a little disturbing. But hey, I'm not an insect.

:O

You Waited So Long To Heed Us, Earthdeirdre, Almost We Pruned You, As We May Yet Prune Your Branches.

So.... The dude sprays this giant spider with bug spray... Then the living spaghetti monster crawls out of the carcass?...

mudbunny wrote:

"Gahhhhh!!! Kill it with fire!"

I believe that is the ONLY correct response.

m0nk3yboy wrote:

So.... The dude sprays this giant spider with bug spray... Then the living spaghetti monster crawls out of the carcass?...

mudbunny wrote:

"Gahhhhh!!! Kill it with fire!"

I believe that is the ONLY correct response.

I am pretty sure that this was filmed in Australia, aka the land that wants to kill you.

Also known as the cocaine spider
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New spider, named the "Atomic Penn Jillette spider":
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Penn Jillette's ticket to immortality could be a small, rust-colored spider native to Nevada's nuclear proving ground.

The new species of trapdoor spider recently was named for him by Jason Bond, an arachnologist and professor at Auburn University in Alabama.

The Aptostichus pennjillettei, or Atomic Penn Jillette spider, hides in a burrow and spins webs across the entrance to catch prey and keep out predators. It grows to roughly the size of a quarter and makes its home near the test site outpost of Mercury, lurking in a swath of desert bathed repeatedly by the light of nuclear blasts.

They are evolving and getting smarter.

Spiders rule! The bigger the better

Years later, when we are losing the spider wars, humanity will look back on these men and demand to know why they didn't end the war before it began. So many dead...