Fan since a Fetus Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Poor spiders. Everyone hates them. Tarantulas are not dangerous to humans, unless of course you have an allergic reaction, but you can have an allergic reaction to a lot of things. The article makes them sound worse than they are. Spiders really aren't that bad, they just look creepy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Poor spiders. Everyone hates them. Tarantulas are not dangerous to humans, unless of course you have an allergic reaction, but you can have an allergic reaction to a lot of things. The article makes them sound worse than they are. Spiders really aren't that bad, they just look creepy. yeah, I know. One of my illogical phobias, but it ain't gonna change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonOfWashington Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 I didn't need to sleep tonight anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan since a Fetus Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 If you really want to see something nasty google "brown recluse spider" They have gotten a bad rap also. Do you want to get bit by one...no. Most of the time it will turn into a big red itchy spot. Sometimes minor pain is involved. Sometimes you have to go to the doctor. My wife got bit by one on her ankle. It was red and itchy for about three months. The doctors wouldn't do anything about it unless it got worse. Some people do have to have the dead tissue cut out. However, there is a very small % of people that are affected the way the media portrays. Most of the time, the wounds heal on their own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dallsux Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 You guys like spiders, right?Giant spiders invade Australian Outback town To be honest, I thought that was kinda small for an Australian tarantula. I've heard some really disturbing numbers in size categories that would give my cats a run for their money. Stories about spiders reaching past the foot long body size. :ahhhhh: Yeah, I'm not ever going to Australia. I used to want to. Not anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califan007 The Constipated Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Poor spiders. Everyone hates them. Tarantulas are not dangerous to humans, unless of course you have an allergic reaction, but you can have an allergic reaction to a lot of things. The article makes them sound worse than they are. Spiders really aren't that bad, they just look creepy. Anything with eight legs that can crawl on the side of my wall or appear suddenly right in front of my face dangling from a web deserves all the hate it can get lol :mad:...I actually had a spider come down from the ceiling last week and land on my forearm while working at my computer. I suddenly felt something on my arm, thought it was the wire from my hedphones, then saw this spider sitting there...freaked the **** out...and swatted it off of me. I lost track of it until it started crawling on my monitor lol :mad:...I feel zero sympathy for those ****ers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dallsux Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Poor spiders. Everyone hates them. Tarantulas are not dangerous to humans, unless of course you have an allergic reaction, but you can have an allergic reaction to a lot of things. The article makes them sound worse than they are. Spiders really aren't that bad, they just look creepy. I feel the same about snakes. I love snakes, but my grandma was scared to death of them. I think they are downright beautiful. But many people have a phobia of them, even though most of the time, they are harmless to humans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Anything with eight legs that can crawl on the side of my wall or appear suddenly right in front of my face dangling from a web deserves all the hate it can get lol :mad:...I actually had a spider come down from the ceiling last week and land on my forearm while working at my computer. I suddenly felt something on my arm, thought it was the wire from my hedphones, then saw this spider sitting there...freaked the **** out...and swatted it off of me. I lost track of it until it started crawling on my monitor lol :mad:...I feel zero sympathy for those ****ers. I was playing Whiffle ball in my grandparents' backyard. As I was about to pitch the ball, a spider came down right in front of my face hanging from a couple strands of silk. Now this was in the middle of a field, so the damn thing must've had its web attached to two trees at opposite ends of the field so as to drop down on me in the open, middle of the field. Why the hell would a spider do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 I feel the same about snakes. I love snakes, but my grandma was scared to death of them. I think they are downright beautiful. But many people have a phobia of them, even though most of the time, they are harmless to humans. I wouldn't call myself afraid of snake just because, I just don't know which ones are venomous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dallsux Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Anything with eight legs that can crawl on the side of my wall or appear suddenly right in front of my face dangling from a web deserves all the hate it can get lol :mad:...I actually had a spider come down from the ceiling last week and land on my forearm while working at my computer. I suddenly felt something on my arm, thought it was the wire from my hedphones, then saw this spider sitting there...freaked the **** out...and swatted it off of me. I lost track of it until it started crawling on my monitor lol :mad:...I feel zero sympathy for those ****ers. :rotflmao: I used to have a serious phobia of spiders. I mean, I couldn't even look at them in a book. Now...? Meh, they really don't bother me nearly as much. I spent some time working on my phobia of them because I refused to allow something that much smaller then me run/ruin my life. Spiders are now phobic of me & my shoes. And for real, if I see a spider in my house, I'm ok with it, depending on it's size & location. If it's across the room on the wall or ceiling & small, I'm like, "You're ok over there. but don't come over here. You come over here, & it on." Once it becomes a size issue tho, there's no way I let it live. In your situation, life is no longer an option & I would seek it out & kill it too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dallsux Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 I wouldn't call myself afraid of snake just because, I just don't know which ones are venomous. First rule of thumb, stay away from bright colors. On ANYTHING. Bright black included. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCS Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Anything with eight legs that can crawl on the side of my wall or appear suddenly right in front of my face dangling from a web deserves all the hate it can get lol :mad:...I actually had a spider come down from the ceiling last week and land on my forearm while working at my computer. I suddenly felt something on my arm, thought it was the wire from my hedphones, then saw this spider sitting there...freaked the **** out...and swatted it off of me. I lost track of it until it started crawling on my monitor lol :mad:...I feel zero sympathy for those ****ers. Knew there would be no sympathy from you on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Why the hell would a spider do that? Because it can? Maybe it just wanted to see THAT look on your face:silly: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In Flames Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 If you really want to see something nasty google "brown recluse spider" They are extremely toxic (to humans at least) and their bite can basically cause human flesh to essentially rot away. They aren't scary looking but they are probably one of the worst spiders to be bitten by (from what little I know about them). story about those things. basic training in Ft Benning, a fellow soldier was droppin' a deuce in a cat hole while in the field, and got bit on the ass from one of those things, ate away almost the entire left cheek, he had to redo basic training cause he spent so many weeks in the hospital and missed so much training. He showed us pics when he was in there, and his cheek was rotting flesh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissU28 Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 spiders I can deal with. Centipedes, though!!?!??! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan since a Fetus Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 I feel the same about snakes. I love snakes, but my grandma was scared to death of them. I think they are downright beautiful. But many people have a phobia of them, even though most of the time, they are harmless to humans. My neighbor used to kill all the snakes, even the black snakes. I told him to stop or we would see more posinous snakes around our area. Sure enough, we started having a lot of copperheads around. Then one day he saw a black snake eating the copperhead and he said "I guess you were right." I like snakes also, 99.99% of the time, they won't bother you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 story about those things. basic training in Ft Benning, a fellow soldier was droppin' a deuce in a cat hole while in the field, and got bit on the ass from one of those things, ate away almost the entire left cheek, he had to redo basic training cause he spent so many weeks in the hospital and missed so much training. He showed us pics when he was in there, and his cheek was rotting flesh. Daughter has been bit at least 5 times by brown recluses,three in the military. Luckily she is too ornery to rot,but slow to heal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCS Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 On the same page as the main story. More than 50 new species of jumping spider discovered in Papua-New Guinea Whoa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyDave Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 If you really want to see something nasty google "brown recluse spider" They are extremely toxic (to humans at least) and their bite can basically cause human flesh to essentially rot away. They aren't scary looking but they are probably one of the worst spiders to be bitten by (from what little I know about them). When I was at Portsmouth Naval Hospital the guy next to me was enduring the doctor with a scalpel cutting open a wound on his shin to drain the infected recluse spider bite area. I couldn't hop away fast enough on my recently repaired ruptured achilles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCS Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 Took care of a guy on the surgical ward of HAFB hospital who had to have surgery because of a recluse bite. 4 days after the surgery,we read in article in the Miami Herald that Brown Recluses weren't in Florida. That was corrected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aszumilo Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 They are that big AND venomous?****, welcome to the middle of the food chain, human race. (vincent price speaks) Leaving lepidoptera...Please, don't touch the display, little boy, aha cute! Moving to the next aisle we have arachnida, the spiders, our...finest collection. This friendly little devil is the heptothilidi, unfortunately harmless. Next to him, the nasty licosa raptoria, his tiny fangs cause creeping ulcerations of the skin (laugh). And here, my prize, the Black Widow. Isn't she lovely?...And so deadly. Her kiss is fifteen times as poisonous as that of the rattlesnake. You see her venom is highly neurotoxic, which is to say that it attacks the central nervous system causing intense pain, profuse sweating, difficulty in breathing, loss of consciousness, violent convulsions and, finally...Death. You know what I think I love the most about her is her inborn need to dominate, possess. In fact, immediately after the consummation of her marriage to the smaller and weaker male of the species she kills and eats him...(laugh) oh, she is delicious...And I hope he was! Such power and dignity ...unhampered by sentiment. If I may put forward a slice of personal philosophy, I feel that man has ruled this world as a stumbling dimented child-king long enough! And as his empire crumbles, my precious Black Widow shall rise as his most fitting successor! These words he speaks are true We're all humanary stew if We don't pledge allegiance to The Eastern Tarantula Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCS Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 Ya know,there just may be some who read that who never heard Vincent Price. Lucky them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aszumilo Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 Vincent was the greatest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMike619 Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 im almost 10000 miles away and i am freaking out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinnedAussie Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 What a bunch of *******! You guys have certainly changed my perspective of Americans being tough! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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