Creepy spider!

So are we more creeped out by spindly-legged spiders?
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Hairy Spiders?
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Close-ups?
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Or maybe by just quantity?
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Spindly, I think.

Hello, Children!

It's time for BEST OF CREEPY SPIDER THREAD!

Stengah wrote:

If it looked like this:
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I almost just posted that as a link, but I figure, if you click on a thread entitled "Creepy Spider" you should be expecting pictures.

LiquidMantis wrote:

Creepy spiders? Yes, please!

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LobsterMobster wrote:

YAY! IT'S SPIDURDAY!

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One of these days I need to find a picture of a tarantula rearing up and make a LOLspiders of it.

Sinatar wrote:

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PurEvil wrote:

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BadJuju wrote:

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NSMike wrote:

It's been a little while, so here's more.

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tanstaafl wrote:

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I vote for myself, because it inspired OG's plea that was so malevolently ignored.

edited They didn't like it when I linked the picture. Here's a link instead:

http://www.lolwow.com/picture/3d_tat...

(From Reality Carnival via Dubious Quality).

Crossing Australia off my list of places to visit.

farley3k wrote:

Crossing Australia off my list of places to visit.

This thread seems to have done that to a lot of people. It's not so bad, really.

...of course, just last week I had to get a huntsman out from under my computer desk using a rubbish bin because it was too big to fit under a glass. But they're not dangerous, just big and ugly-looking.

Sonicator wrote:
farley3k wrote:

Crossing Australia off my list of places to visit.

This thread seems to have done that to a lot of people. It's not so bad, really.

...of course, just last week I had to get a huntsman out from under my computer desk using a rubbish bin because it was too big to fit under a glass. But they're not dangerous, just big and ugly-looking.

[Shutters]

Sonicator wrote:
farley3k wrote:

Crossing Australia off my list of places to visit.

This thread seems to have done that to a lot of people. It's not so bad, really.

...of course, just last week I had to get a huntsman out from under my computer desk using a rubbish bin because it was too big to fit under a glass. But they're not dangerous, just big and ugly-looking.

Not to mention they smell of deer urine and reside in tree stands.

Grubber788 wrote:
Sonicator wrote:
farley3k wrote:

Crossing Australia off my list of places to visit.

This thread seems to have done that to a lot of people. It's not so bad, really.

...of course, just last week I had to get a huntsman out from under my computer desk using a rubbish bin because it was too big to fit under a glass. But they're not dangerous, just big and ugly-looking.

[Shutters]

The term *shudder* does not describe the feeling I have in my stomach after reading that little anecdote.

Sonicator wrote:
farley3k wrote:

Crossing Australia off my list of places to visit.

This thread seems to have done that to a lot of people. It's not so bad, really.

...of course, just last week I had to get a huntsman out from under my computer desk using a rubbish bin because it was too big to fit under a glass. But they're not dangerous, just big and ugly-looking.

Um, no thank you.
I freak out if a normal size spider is anywhere near me. My heart stops for a few seconds and I have a mini panic attack.
I think I would have a complete heart attack if I saw this spider you are talking about.

I recently had to tell my wife that the correct response when seeing a spider is not to drop whatever she's holding and scream, becuase that makes me think she's done herself a serious mischief.

The correct response is calmly say "Spider help please", then I know that while she's not in mortal danger, she needs my help.

Ah yes. Huntsman spiders. Make sure there was only one...

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Jonman wrote:

I recently had to tell my wife that the correct response when seeing a spider is not to drop whatever she's holding and scream, becuase that makes me think she's done herself a serious mischief.

The correct response is calmly say "Spider help please", then I know that while she's not in mortal danger, she needs my help.

Amen. Nothing like jumping out the shower with shampoo in your eyes, leaping down the stairs in half a towel, and racing to your wife who MUST have at least cut off a finger, if not surprised a knife-wielding maniac in the kitchen, and finding her pointing frantically towards a small spot on the ceiling that might be moving (and might not), but she's too scared to get close enough to see if it really is a spider...

Hypothetically, I mean.

(Happily, having a 2-year-old boy who really digs spiders has forced my wife to at least pretend interest. /nelson )

St.Hillary wrote:

Um, no thank you.
I freak out if a normal size spider is anywhere near me. My heart stops for a few seconds and I have a mini panic attack.
I think I would have a complete heart attack if I saw this spider you are talking about.

And yet you continue to read this thread? Masochist.

Given the reaction to that minor story, remind me never to tell you about the huntsman that was hiding in the roll of toilet paper at 3am. I'm not a big fan of spiders, but the harmless ones really aren't any worse than mice...

Sonicator wrote:

Given the reaction to that minor story, remind me never to tell you about the huntsman that was hiding in the roll of toilet paper at 3am. I'm not a big fan of spiders, but the harmless ones really aren't any worse than mice...

Put eight legs on a mouse and take another look.

Sonicator wrote:

Given the reaction to that minor story, remind me never to tell you about the huntsman that was hiding in the roll of toilet paper at 3am. ;-)

Oh Jesus. I'm such a pansy haha.
Spiders actually do fascinate me, as long as it is impossible for them to physically touch me.
I'm very jumpy, but I won't scream bloody murder because I saw a spider. Unless it's abnormally huge, because then I'd be the first one out of there.
I'm afraid of everything.

Speaking of giant spiders...

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Scientists studying northeastern Greenland’s hairy, meat-eating wolf spiders have discovered every arachnophobe’s worst nightmare.
It appears that as the Earth has been warming and summers have been getting longer, the 8-legged hunters have been steadily growing larger and more numerous.

Also: zombie spiders! And Spider vs. Bat (video).

Katy wrote:
Scientists studying northeastern Greenland’s hairy, meat-eating wolf spiders have discovered every arachnophobe’s worst nightmare.
It appears that as the Earth has been warming and summers have been getting longer, the 8-legged hunters have been steadily growing larger and more
numerous.

To be fair, they do say that the spiders are what? 2% bigger than a couple of decades ago? Not exactly Planet of the Arachnids there.

NSMike wrote:
Sonicator wrote:

Given the reaction to that minor story, remind me never to tell you about the huntsman that was hiding in the roll of toilet paper at 3am. I'm not a big fan of spiders, but the harmless ones really aren't any worse than mice...

Put eight legs on a mouse and take another look.

He did. It was hiding him the roll of toilet paper at 3am.

Courtesy of Digg:

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That's some maxed out hemorrhoids....

Who's eating whom there?

Am I looking at a spider or a chicken McNugget with legs?

AmazingZoidberg wrote:

Am I looking at a spider or a chicken McNugget with legs?

In McDonalds' eye they're exactly the same thing.

We've got a new neighbor! Quick, tell me what kind he is.
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Why won't this thread die?! The nightmares!

Welcome back spider thread! I've missed you.