Gah! Cthulhu spider! Run!
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Posted on: 2012-08-26 24:08 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
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The only thing I won't try to usher out is a mosquito. I just flatten those. Blood sucking parasites.
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Originally Posted by Tenzhi
All manner of arthropod creep me out (especially centipedes - in one apartment I lived in there was a centipede that would come out of nowhere and do a couple of laps around my wall at the same time every night), but I'm generally happy to avoid them rather than destroy them when possible. Despite the fact that they (particularly spiders) seem to want to make my home their home. As long as they keep out of my personal space, I don't mind them, but some of them seem *determined* to invade my personal space. Even then, if I can orchestra a way to transport them outside that's my preference.
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It's hard to do so. A lot of brown recluse bites result from rolling over on one in your sleep, and it bites in self-defense. You probably practically squished it and it was all "NO U" and bit.
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Originally Posted by Paladiamors
My usual policy. Don't tick it off, and it won't try to kill you. Don't make it feel threatened, don't invade its home, and you'll be fine. This has served me when encountering copperheads, rattlesnakes, bears, bobcats. No idea what I ever did to tick of recluses, come to think of it...
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That wouldn't surprise me, to be honest. And that made me laugh for some reason.
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Originally Posted by BellaStrega
It's hard to do so. A lot of brown recluse bites result from rolling over on one in your sleep, and it bites in self-defense. You probably practically squished it and it was all "NO U" and bit.
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Darn our attractive warm-bloodedness and enticing habits of sleeping within dark caverns of insulative cloth.
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Originally Posted by BellaStrega
It's hard to do so. A lot of brown recluse bites result from rolling over on one in your sleep, and it bites in self-defense. You probably practically squished it and it was all "NO U" and bit.
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Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
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And there you'll always be
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Originally Posted by Tenzhi
All manner of arthropod creep me out (especially centipedes - in one apartment I lived in there was a centipede that would come out of nowhere and do a couple of laps around my wall at the same time every night), but I'm generally happy to avoid them rather than destroy them when possible. Despite the fact that they (particularly spiders) seem to want to make my home their home. As long as they keep out of my personal space, I don't mind them, but some of them seem *determined* to invade my personal space. Even then, if I can orchestra a way to transport them outside that's my preference.
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They are the one invertebrate I want no part of. Spiders, scorpions, tailless whipscorpions (look em up, they're kinda cool), and bugs in general don't bother me.
Until I get to centipedes. I kill centipedes with extreme prejudice.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
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Originally Posted by Traegus
FIRST! ALL spiders are venomous, whether or not they are deadly to humans has no bearing on that, the venom is how they hunt. you can't trick us into coming to your deathrap of a country just to be eaten by your horrifying spider overlords.
SECOND! so much disinformation in this thread.... the spiders are EVIL, i know it, you know it, if you are saying otherwise you are on their side and just trying to get us killed! how's it feel to have sold your soul to the evil spider overlords???? traitors! i'm gettin all heebie jeebie like.... creepy crawlies all up and down my spine.... better get the shotgun and huddle in the bathtub till this thread blows over and the spiders go away |
So you don't play Arachnos, then....
I have a pretty bad fear of spiders, though not arachnaphobia-based...I had it told to me later on, but my father played a trick on my mother when I was a baby and he put a fake rubber tarantula in my crib and my mother, who was doing dishes at the time, came in and saw me and used the one thing she had in hand to dispatch the spider.
It happened to be a huge kitchen knife. And I was awake. So my fear is associated with a bloody great knife coming at me and somehow I remember the fake spider.
I have a lot less issue with spiders now; I even have a very harmless little one up in the corner of my bedroom that is very timid and wouldn't be larger than half a thumbnail. Where possible I'll scoot them on their way and let them be.
ClawsandEffect is right on the money with his advice about tarantulas. The tree spiders down here often come indoors only to seek water or a quiet spot where they don't want to interact with humans at all, and they'll put on a threat display to warn you off, but give them half a chance and they'll run for it. I don't have a problem with that, and I make a point of not providing spaces for them to set up, which is pretty easy to do.
And yeah, Australia does have a large number of venomous creatures, but we're still kicking.....
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On the way back from South Africa one of our party members was bitten by a spider. No idea if it was a recluse or what, but after a couple days the bite site had gone from an irritated bump to an irregular area about the size of a small dinner plate and it looked NASTY, as if she'd had acid poured onto her skin. Only Google recluse bite if you have a strong stomach.
When she started screaming in pain one night I simply forced her into the car and took her to the hospital. Took them a long time to figure out what it was. Once they said "spider bite" she remembered a pinch while on the plane, but just thought it was the seatbelt or something.
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ok, **** this, and **** NCsoft, a POX on your ******* house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i need me a crate of about a million of these Cthulhu spiders, and a helicopter so's i can air drop 'em into the ******* NCsoft HQ building!!!!!
**** i'll hand deliver each one individually.......
******* stupid *** sonsofbitches
Oh yeah, that was the time that girl got her whatchamacallit stuck in that guys dooblickitz and then what his name did that thing with the lizards and it cleared right up.
screw your joke, i want "FREEM"
Any chance ClawsandEffect that you could mail a couple hundred baby tarantulas to NCSoft's offices in Seattle. I'm sure someone could come up with a package that'll open up in their mail room at night to disperse them.
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Apparently Cracked reads these forums: 6 Terrifying Spiders That Will Haunt Your Dreams.
A parting gift to Claws and Effect, and an apology to Traegus.
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ARE. YOU. *******. KIDDING. ME????????|
Originally Posted by Ironik
Apparently Cracked reads these forums: 6 Terrifying Spiders That Will Haunt Your Dreams.
A parting gift to Claws and Effect, and an apology to Traegus. |
of course i clicked on the link, so i can't ***** much, but...
the last one is pure evil, fake ladybug spider? i blame NCSoft for that too!
Oh yeah, that was the time that girl got her whatchamacallit stuck in that guys dooblickitz and then what his name did that thing with the lizards and it cleared right up.
screw your joke, i want "FREEM"
Hey, y'all should be grateful. Back in the old old days there was brontoscorpio and later on, megarachne.
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Originally Posted by Traegus
ARE. YOU. *******. KIDDING. ME????????
of course i clicked on the link, so i can't ***** much, but... the last one is pure evil, fake ladybug spider? i blame NCSoft for that too! |
Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
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Originally Posted by Traegus
ARE. YOU. *******. KIDDING. ME????????
of course i clicked on the link, so i can't ***** much, but... the last one is pure evil, fake ladybug spider? i blame NCSoft for that too! |
Those with first hand experience will back me 100%.
Ladybugs bite. They bite hard. In a side by side with red (not fire) ants, I'd rather be bitten by the ant. Spring is a bad time of year to be around them. They get snotty and mean.
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I hate you. And I hate Cracked. I also used to love ladybugs but am now deathly scared of them on the off change it might actually be a mother<pancaking> spider.|
Originally Posted by Ironik
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I now have goosebumps on my hair, thank you very much for that.
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Originally Posted by Tog
No one without first hand experience ever accepts this as true.
Those with first hand experience will back me 100%. Ladybugs bite. They bite hard. In a side by side with red (not fire) ants, I'd rather be bitten by the ant. Spring is a bad time of year to be around them. They get snotty and mean. |
I've never been bitten by one, but I have been bitten by ants.
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Some of them do, but many of them have mouth parts that are too small to bite humans. Apparently, there's an Asian variety that's prone to biting people which has been introduced as a "bio-friendly" sort of pest control in relatively recent years that is becoming a household nuisance. But when I was a kid, the ladybugs didn't bite they just flew away home.
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Originally Posted by Tog
No one without first hand experience ever accepts this as true.
Those with first hand experience will back me 100%. Ladybugs bite. They bite hard. In a side by side with red (not fire) ants, I'd rather be bitten by the ant. Spring is a bad time of year to be around them. They get snotty and mean. |
Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound
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Only Mormon ladybugs bite.
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Originally Posted by Tog
No one without first hand experience ever accepts this as true.
Those with first hand experience will back me 100%. Ladybugs bite. They bite hard. In a side by side with red (not fire) ants, I'd rather be bitten by the ant. Spring is a bad time of year to be around them. They get snotty and mean. |
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You sure you're not confusing them with Japanese beetles? |
Originally Posted by Tog
Ladybugs bite. They bite hard. In a side by side with red (not fire) ants, I'd rather be bitten by the ant. Spring is a bad time of year to be around them. They get snotty and mean.
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They look almost identical and hang out in the same places. Easy to confuse them.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
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No, there really are ladybugs that can bite. Tenzhi pointed out it's an Asian variety.
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Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
You sure you're not confusing them with Japanese beetles?
They look almost identical and hang out in the same places. Easy to confuse them. |
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Technically, though, ladybugs *are* beetles.
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Originally Posted by BellaStrega
No, there really are ladybugs that can bite. Tenzhi pointed out it's an Asian variety.
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Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound
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Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound