spiders

[duffjr]

i'm sitting quietly at the computer while i notice this spider crawling across the wall.  i think everything's cool as long as it's still on the wall.   it gets to a picture, and then decides to skydive to the floor like spiderman.  now i have to worry if it's gonna crawl up ---my bottom---.  i hate when spiders invade your computer room.  i guess it's better than snakes.  how would they like it if i just walked into their dens, got on all fours, and started sticking my nose in things?  no respect.

this is what it looked like: 

[shmokes]

I once got bit over three hundred times in one night by a spider, or possibly a single-file line of spiders.  I was puffy.

[duffjr]

you cheapened out on the bed nets on your vacation, eh?

[missioncontrol]

---my bottom---

are they playing with the auto sensors again?

ass
---uvula---
---steaming pile of meadow muffin---
---fudgesicle---
---smurfette---
---daisies---
--- Drew ---


nope guess not you must have sensored yourself 

[Stingray]

Okay, which one produced "Drew"?

-S

[ChadTower]

I once got bit over three hundred times in one night by a spider, or possibly a single-file line of spiders.

[Goz]

I was bitten (on the back) by a brown recluse this past year and was hospitalized for 4 days after they had to surgically remove the necrotic flesh.

The spider looked like this



Wouldn't want one of these crawling up your ass.

-Goz

[ChadTower]

Yow.  One good thing about living in hard winter places is that you don't have things like that.  No venomous insects or snakes.

[Stingray]

Yeah, those are seriously nasty. We have a lot of those in OK. My father-in-law was hospitalized due to being bitten by one. Most people call them fiddlebacks here.

We also have black widows. Thankfully, I've never been bitten by either.



-S

[ChadTower]

 
Is that picture to scale?

[Goz]

The one that bit me was a little larger than a quarter

[Stingray]

The one that bit me was a little larger than a quarter

That would be a pretty big one for around here. Mostly they're the size of maybe a dime.

-S

[ChadTower]

How do you avoid something that small?

[RetroJames]

How do you avoid something that small?

Flame Throwing Robosapien

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=44672.0

[Goz]

How do you avoid something that small?

Have a pest company come out and spray 2 times a month and avoid dark places. These spiders like places such as shoes, piles of clothes, stacks of wood, etc.

When I was bit I was hanging out in the hot tub with the wifey. I leaned back and shouted holy ---fudgesicle--- and the next day I looked like a hunchback, the day after that it had to be cut out as the flesh began to die and spread. Funkiest crap about this is that once the flesh is removed they cannot stitch you up. They leave the wound open and have you pack it and flush it a couple times a day.

[ChadTower]

• Spider proximity sensors active
• Spider detected in proximity
• Target acquired
• Flamethrower primed
• Pursuit has begun
• Spider has been eradicated
• Spider proximity sensors active

[/i]

[Stingray]

How do you avoid something that small?

They mostly stay in dark places. If you go get something out of the shed, shake out out really well to make sure you get rid of any hitchhikers. Never reach into a dark place, especially outdoors. You're just asking for it. Of course many times it really is unavoidable.

-S

[ChadTower]

Kind of like ticks here, then, except ticks can give you a permanent disease.

[RetroJames]

• Spider proximity sensors active
• Spider detected in proximity
• Target acquired
• Flamethrower primed
• Pursuit has begun
• Spider has been eradicated
• Spider proximity sensors active

[/i]

• Detecting Collateral Ignition
• Detecting Rising Ambient Heat Levels
• Initiating CYA Subroutines
• Scan Left
• Scan Right
• Backing Away from Combat Area
• Scan Left
• Scan Right
• Closing Door
• Scan Left
• Scan Right
• Whistling

[Goz]

Not sure..I might prefer lime disease, etc over the bite.


Here's a pic of some poor bastard who got it checked on too late

[edit] pic removed.... it is complete reverse cheesecake.. sorry folks

[Stingray]

Kind of like ticks here, then, except ticks can give you a permanent disease.

Yeah, well we get the ticks too. Then we could start listing venemous snakes if you like.

edit: oh for the love of humanity, Goz! Take that frackin' pic down!!!

-S

[Goz]

Kind of like ticks here, then, except ticks can give you a permanent disease.

Yeah, well we get the ticks too. Then we could start listing venemous snakes if you like.

edit: oh for the love of humanity, Goz! Take that frackin' pic down!!!

-S

Sorry... and thanks for the new quote to put in my signature

[Stingray]

Sorry... and thanks for the new quote to put in my signature

Thank you, and you're welcome.

-S

[ChadTower]

Yeah, that guy with the hand problem... clearly he deserves it... damn, how you gonna sit there and watch your hand die.

I bet he's sitting there saying "no insurance, don't want to pay $500 ER bill, too much money" while his limb dies in front of him.

[Harry Potter]

About 5 years ago, during a particularly hot night, I was in my room watching Lord of the flies. Near the end of the movie, a tiny little spider began crawling down the TV. I let it be because I believe it's bad luck to kill spiders.

Movie's over and I go to hit the light. For some reason I decided to look up only to discover well over 200 of the little spider's brothers and sisters. At that moment they all decided to start descending down their webs.

5 minutes later and 1 can of bug spray, I had 200 dead spiders hanging from the ceiling. It was then that I remembered about the whole bad luck thing. 

[RetroJames]

A repost of the "gridbug" I found on my Tron boards a while back.

[Stingray]

We have a lot of non-venemous spiders around my place, a lot more than the venemous variety. I let one build a web in the bathroom window. He stays there and he eats any flies or mosquitos that get into the house. We have an agreement that works well for both of us.

-S

[Harry Potter]

We have a lot of non-venemous spiders around my place, a lot more than the venemous variety. I let one build a web in the bathroom window. He stays there and he eats any flies or mosquitos that get into the house. We have an agreement that works well for both of us.

-S

That is until Seph's mum mistakes the spider for candy.

[shmokes]

WTF?  So now she's not just fat and slutty, but mentally retarded?  You people hitting that should be put in jail.  It freezes here all winter (Southern Utah).  Nevertheless we have lots of rattlesnakes and there are black widows in pretty much ever garage and basement.  I think they get a bad rap, though.  I don't think they're really very poisonous.  We have brown recluses too, which are incredibly poisonous, but I've never seen one....or at least been aware that I was seeing one.  I can spot a black widow from 30 feet away, though.  Nothing else looks like that....all glassy and evil.  And those suckers are aggressive, and agile.  And good mothers (long story).

[ChadTower]

Wouldn't be a very good recluse if you could see it, now would it?

[Harry Potter]

WTF?  So now she's not just fat and slutty, but mentally retarded?

Just perpetually hungry.

[shmokes]

One of my favorite pages from one of my favorite books:

     "I don't even know what you think I asked for," said Francine.

     Dwayne mimicked her cruelly in a falsetto voice:  " 'I don't even know what you think I asked you for,' " he said.  He looked about as pleasant and relaxed as a coiled rattlesnake now.  It was his bad chemicals, of course, which were compelling him to look like that.  A real rattlesnake looked like this:

[drawing of rattlesnake]

     The Creator of the Universe had put a rattle on its tail.  The Creator had also given it front teeth which were hypodermic syringes filled with deadly poison.

    Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.

[Harry Potter]

 

[ChadTower]

The missing page from Shel Silverstein's last book.

[Harry Potter]

I was just wondering what it had to do with spiders?

[Goz]

Just a friendly reminder to hug your kids and tell them to say no to drugs.

[Stingray]

Are we talking about snakes now? I find four or five copperheads on my property every summer.



Lucky for me, they aren't very agressive. You just about have to step on one or try to pick it up before it will strike. Watch your step in the woods, they're next to impossible to see because of their coloration.

-S

[ChadTower]

Time to add a snake proximity sensor to the Robosapien.

[shmokes]

Blame Chad.  He started the snake branch.

...foolish Chad.  He should no better than to say snake in a spider thread.  Now look what he's done.

[shmokes]

I once got bit over 300 times in one night by a snake.  Or possibly a single file line of snakes.