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spiders for Jayne
Jayne, these are the australian spiders I was referring to in my other post. Couldn’t post pictures so I put them here instead.
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Yuck they are horrendous……….Ive just sat here for 5 mins looking at them with my hand over my mouth and covered in goose bumps. I couldnt suck those up with my dyson, they’d probably fight back. 😮
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😮 Steve would need the washing up bowl to catch those instead of the usual glass he uses!! Those are huge …. I think my heart would be close to stopping if I was sat on the toilet and saw that lurking on the toilet roll next to me :yikes:
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OMG! They look as if they’re wearing Doc Martins too! Scary beasties!
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And this is what the tough hardy scottish spiders did to my car last night
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quote Jayne Marsh:Yuck they are horrendous……….Ive just sat here for 5 mins looking at them with my hand over my mouth and covered in goose bumps. I couldnt suck those up with my dyson, they’d probably fight back. 😮The wife and I woke up with one above our heads in bed one night. The really big ones actually make a noise when they walk. We turned the light on to see what the noise was and he was 6 inches above our pillow.
The wife sleeps with a can of fly spray beside our bed, and emptied it on the fella that stunned him just enough for me to squash him with a book.
Had one in the shower with me this morning, under my face cloth. Gives your heart a start!
We have a lot of bush around our house, which is why they are so common. I think it is breeding time too. When they hatch in our office, 100’s of baby spiders go everywhere. The gecko’s usually kill them, but one or two get away. My dad trys to catch them to put them outside, but I kill them at any opportunity much to dads dismay.
Not as big as some american spiders tho. 😮
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But dont they make an awful mess when you squash them? 😮
I have various splat marks on my bedroom wall ( really should decorate :lol1: ) and our spiders arn’t quite as big and juicy as yours.
I was wondering why the spiders feel the need to walk around the bedroom at night, why cant they do it downstairs when we are all asleep.
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Had a run in with one of those a couple of weeks ago.
I heard my nine year old son yell “Dad there’s a BIG spider on the fly screen” so I thought. right I’ll show him how tough his old man is.
This thing was as big as the palm of my hand but I had seen people handle them before and they seem fairly non aggressive so with the wife and kids looking on from inside the screen I attempted to put it onto my hand.
As I started to lift it off the flyscreen the whole family screamed at once which scared the hell out of me and I ended up throwing the spider on the ground, in a split second it ran over to my bare foot and sunk it’s fangs into my big toe. Now I screamed and kicked the thing off straight back onto the fly screen inches from the kids faces who let out another even louder scream. It was like a scene from a Three Stooges movie.I’m not sure my son was all that impressed but later in the week one of the parents from school asked me about my spider bite, the little bugger had told it for news.
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he he, very funny !! i’m not overly woried by spiders, i often pick up those real big house spiders that wander across the room while you watch tv, ya know…. the ones that appear to freeze once you look in their direction, and then leg it again as soon as you look away ! have had one in the palm of my hand before and it decided to leg it up my arm into my t-shirt sleeve though, that made me move some !!
only been biten by a spider once, unloaded a truck load of pallets which had come from italy, when i’d finished taking them into the warehouse i noticed a strange looking spider with an egg sack under it…. making for the door, only about 2 inches across at most, but due to its odd orangy colour i decided to pick it up on some card board, rather than by hand…. held the card to the floor and went to nudge it on with my fingers, jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezus…. the thing leapt… egg sack n all about five inches onto my bare hand, held on for dear life with its weird feeling feet and bit me, not hard but enough for me to try and shake it off, damn thing wouldnt let go so i flicked it off, then as it started to scarper for the pallet pile outside, i figured i’d accidentally step on it ! didnt want some sack load of aggressive spiders going free range anytime soon !!!
btw, i was always told it was bad luck to kill a spider !
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Damm i killed 2 big spiders in the past 3 years.
Ummm bad luck to kill a spider??
Nancy
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i remember eating a bag of grapes for my lunch from marks & sparks…..looked at the stalk in the bag……… 😮 a big yukkie spider was staring at me….i went right back to the store, hands shaking like mad (arm out full stretch walking along the road, watching whether the spider would come out of the bag) 🙄 …got my money back and they sent a £15 gift voucher in the post 😀 so they were lucky for me that time 😉
nik
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those pictures have minged me out…
hate spiders… they give me the heebie-jeebiez. im squirming thinking about them now. yeck….
yip… im that hard! 😉 😳
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Hugh, Frog Man, you are both braver them me 😳
As for the kids, mine have done the same 🙁
Show and Tell must be very interesting from the teachers perspective 🙂
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quote Nicola McIntosh:i remember eating a bag of grapes for my lunch from marks & sparks…..looked at the stalk in the bag……… 😮 a big yukkie spider was staring at me….i went right back to the store, hands shaking like mad (arm out full stretch walking along the road, watching whether the spider would come out of the bag) 🙄 …got my money back and they sent a £15 gift voucher in the post 😀 so they were lucky for me that time 😉
nik
I was out having a meal at a local hotel and after munching through my food, found a slug in the side salad……..! The waitress asked me if I wanted her to take my food away!!!!! eh…. YES!
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whats worse than finding a snail in your food?
finding half a snail in your food. 😮
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quote Robert Lambie:whats worse than finding a snail in your food?
finding half a snail in your food. 😮im being thick nik tonight………….but i dont get that one rob 😮
nik
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you couldn’t resist that one Rob could you! :vomit:
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quote Nicola McIntosh:quote Robert Lambie:whats worse than finding a snail in your food?
finding half a snail in your food. 😮im being thick nik tonight………….but i dont get that one rob 😮
nik
:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: Oh Nik…….!
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quote Nicola McIntosh:quote Robert Lambie:whats worse than finding a snail in your food?
finding half a snail in your food. 😮im being thick nik tonight………….but i dont get that one rob 😮
nik
Same as seeing half a maggot when you bite an apple Nik!
Go to the back of the class! 😀
Peter
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quote Marcella::lol1: :lol1: :lol1: Oh Nik…….!
is it to do with a toe nail………….i cant type this for laughin my head offf…………………..is it? :giggle: :giggle: come on put me out of my misery…………..weepy eyes here :lol1: :lol1:
nik
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:lol1: :lol1: oh nik… thats from “jokes by singh” book i got last christmas 😉
ok,
heard the one about the guy sitting having a meal in a chinese restaurant?he shouts…
“waiter, this chicken is rubbery!”waiter…
“ahhhh tank you vevvy much sir”.
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Ohhhhh no bugs in food
please no nooooo :shake:
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sorry guys my eyes are still laughing away with it …………….im just beginning to wonder why folk laugh at my jokes………………… :pray: :pray: :pray: :uksbrules: just ignore me im mad 😉
nik
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Nik lost it .
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quote wannousnancy:Nik lost it .
lollooks like it nancy…………… 😀 me i lost it years ago 😉
nik
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Did u fall on ur head when your a babe lol
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Nik toe nail ?????? where did that come from 🙄
Lynn
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From someones toe 😕
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Ohhhh u guys are funny
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quote wannousnancy:Did u fall on ur head when your a babe lol
now thats spooky nancy…………. 😮 my auntie silvie dropped me on a solid floor when i was just 9 months old on my head…………… 🙄 and then she sat on me on a sofa when i was 14 months old…..so there you go all true…. 😉
nik
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Ohhh bad Auntie.
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so did your auntie break your toe nail Nik ??? :lol1:
Lynn
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quote Lynn:so did your auntie break your toe nail Nik ??? :lol1:
Lynn:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: i wish she had lynn 😉
nik
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quote Lynn:Nik toe nail ?????? where did that come from 🙄
Lynn
I think nik read ‘nail’ instead of ‘snail’ maybe? Lost me 😮
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quote Robert Lambie:“waiter, this chicken is rubbery!”
waiter…
“ahhhh tank you vevvy much sir”.
man I’m thick! I read this a dozen times and didn’t get it. :banghead: Then today I had a chinese meal for lunch and it came to me in a flash. Waiter must of thought I was totally ‘tropo’ sitting there smiling to myself 😕
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