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04-15-2004, 07:30 PM
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Junkie
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Camel spiders!
I'm not particularly fond of spiders, especially the ones that can kill you (literally) that are found in Australia, but I'm no arachnophobe.
Having said that, these feckers give me the willies http://www.gophergas.com/funstuff/camelspider.htm Mr Mephisto |
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04-15-2004, 07:34 PM
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I'm a family man - I run a family business.
Location: Wilson, NC
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I saw this a short while back. An interesting disclaimer: those spiders aren't NEARLY as big as that first picture makes them look. They are about as big as a stick of deodorant. Still scary though. They can haul ass.
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04-15-2004, 08:15 PM
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Baltimoron
Location: Beeeeeautiful Bel Air, MD
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http://snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp
Those things scare the shit out of me, and I'm 10,000 miles from anywhere they may be. *shivers*
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04-15-2004, 08:59 PM
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Happy as a hippo
Location: Southern California
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I think they're kinda cool. Now that I know they're not venemous, I'll prolly get the courage to pet one (if for some God forsaken reason I ever end up in Iraq)
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04-15-2004, 09:48 PM
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WoW or Class...
Location: UWW
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I'm gonna be scared for a week now, thanks a lot.
BTW, there are spiders in the USA that can kill you too. Black Widows.
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04-15-2004, 10:00 PM
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WoW or Class...
Location: UWW
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Probably in your house and your yard right now.
Don't worry, the odds of being killed by one are less than winning the lottery (as in a handful per year, those killed are either the very young or elderly.) Hell you probably won't even see one unless you're an eagle eye. http://www.desertusa.com/july97/du_bwindow.html
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One day an Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman walked into a pub together. They each bought a pint of Guinness. Just as they were about to enjoy their creamy beverage, three flies landed in each of their pints. The Englishman pushed his beer away in disgust. The Scotsman fished the fly out of his beer and continued drinking it, as if nothing had happened. The Irishman, too, picked the fly out of his drink but then held it out over the beer and yelled "SPIT IT OUT, SPIT IT OUT, YOU BASTARD!" |
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04-15-2004, 10:12 PM
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Femme Fatale
Location: Elysium
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that looks more like a freeking alien!
 I'm so glad that I live in a Spider-free zone 
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04-15-2004, 10:13 PM
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Comment or else!!
Location: Home sweet home
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I saw a Black Widow in my garage last year..damn I was so freaked I killed it right away. Immediately after that, I regreted not putting it in a jar and umm....do what little stupid curious kids do......
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04-15-2004, 10:24 PM
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hovering in the distance
Location: the land of milk and honey
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ok, i will admit a few things here,
one. i don't like spiders. two. i kill spiders if i find them in my house or encroaching on my doorstep. three. i would't mind owning a tarantula, I've held them twice and it didn't bother me. four. I do what little stupid curious kids do. i once trapped a rather sizeable spider in a glass jar, slid a piece of paper under neath, lit the paper on fire, and watched the spider have a massive panic about its' impending doom.
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04-15-2004, 11:21 PM
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don't ignore this-->
Location: CA
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i wouldn't want to be anywhwere near a solifugae, they prefer to hunt at night (their venom is anaesthetic so they like to feast on the flesh of sleeping mammals), but they are very territorial and those 4-way mandibles can produce a pretty powerful bite.
where's my raid, i'm not sleeping without it tonight...
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04-16-2004, 01:40 AM
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Insane
Location: Beijing, China
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I also don't like spiders, but only if they are in my space. Outta sight, outta mind...
However, I rarely ever kill any bugs, except mosquitos because those f*ckers exist only to piss me off and I don't think they'll ever be in danger of extinction.
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04-16-2004, 05:16 AM
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Junkie
Location: The True North Strong and Free!
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If I ever saw a spider like that I would probably start shrieking like a little girl.
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04-16-2004, 05:25 AM
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I aim to misbehave!
Location: SW Oklahoma
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Now that was interesting, especially the video. I have Wolf spiders in my shop that get a little bigger than a silver dollar and they are agressive but I haven't seen one take on any of the scorpions or centipedes wandering around the place.
I also get large Black Widows in the shop. They are kind of beautiful in their own way. Other than my occasional killing sprees, we all sort of just respect each others space.
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04-16-2004, 05:47 AM
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I'm a family man - I run a family business.
Location: Wilson, NC
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my kindergarten teacher got bit by a black widow and almost died. she was asleep when she got bit and her husband tried to wake her up in the morning and she didn't. emergency room and all that good stuff. we had a substitute for about a month and a half.
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04-16-2004, 05:52 AM
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The one that got away
Location: Over the hill and far away
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I saw this a couple of days ago. Damn they look so HUGE! It's a good thing that the angle makes them look bigger, because those things looked like the kind of spider who would crawl up your leg and bite you in the face... eek.
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04-16-2004, 08:35 AM
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Fly em straight!
Location: Above and Beyond
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That's nuthin......
I see huge spiders all the time where I live. I witnessed a black widow (huge one) take down a preying mantis on the first day I moved up here. It was beautiful to watch the battle between the two of them. We also have Brown Recluse spiders here which are much worse than the black widow.
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04-16-2004, 08:37 AM
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Insane
Location: Flying over your house
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I saw that pic last week on snopes. I cant even stand little spiders....
My dad thought my mom was playing a trick on him once with a tarantula. We walked in the garage and it was just sitting there, he said haha, 'cause she was teasing about spiders b4, and he went over and picked it up....damn its hard to finish this....he totally freaked out. Spiders give me the willies.
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04-16-2004, 09:32 AM
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Tilted
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My wife is definitely anti-spider. I'm the designated spider killer of the household.
When I was going through some military training in Florida, I noticed almost all of the "nasty bugs" (spiders, roaches, etc) were so much bigger than I was used to seeing in Virginia. |
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04-16-2004, 10:45 AM
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"Afternoon everybody." "NORM!"
Location: Poland, Ohio // Clarion University of PA.
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TONS of BLACK WIDOW SPIDERS live all the time?!?!?! If I even ever saw one, even remotely close to my house, let alone inside of it, I'd move as far into Northeastern Canada as I possibly could.
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04-16-2004, 12:44 PM
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Black Widows are scary, but they leave you alone if you leave them alone. |
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04-16-2004, 01:14 PM
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lonely rolling star
Location: Seattle.
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I love spiders.
What's a Solifugids? "Solifugids are a relative of spiders and are sometimes referred to as sun spiders, wind spiders and wind scorpions. They have 4 powerful chewing fangs, they lack venom but some species will regurgitate digestive fluid on their prey, the 2 front arms have suction cups witch are used to help them climb and to pull themselves or there prey into there fangs in the same fashion as a squid or octopus grabing prey with there tentacles, some of the larger species of solifugids feed on lizards, small birds, frogs and rodents but most feed on insects, they have 2 eyes and the daytime hunters have better eyesight than the nocternal ones. "
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04-16-2004, 02:19 PM
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04-16-2004, 02:31 PM
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Cosmically Curious
Location: Chicago, IL
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I'm very rarely bothered by insects of things at all like them, but those Camel Spiders...*shudder*.
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04-16-2004, 03:40 PM
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Tired
Location: Florida
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Holy shit...
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