What's with all the assuming???

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!! I DO see the resemblance!

What the hell is it with you foreigners and arachnophobia?! The spiders in "Bugs" are so totally obviously FAKE, too! They almost look like those plastic ones you can buy by the bagsful at Halloween! You're such wusses!

Spiders are amazing creatures. They are awesome, artistic architects and they catch bugs that are harmful (like flies and mosquitoes). Most aren't poisonous and most will never harm you as long as you don't bother them. You people would DIE here. I nick-name my home Spider Grove because it's full of spiders come late summer/fall. I never bother them. They set up housekeeping all over, including the front porch. While other people buy fake spider decorations for Halloween, I've got the real, live thing. When some slip into the house, I'm grateful, as they catch a bunch of annoying nasty bugs that also sneak in. Some spiders, like Globe spiders and black widows, are quite beautiful, too. Bah. Wussies, the lot of ya.

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!! I DO see the resemblance!

See, I knew you would.... A Godly glowing Headlice.... wonderful!!!

What the hell is it with you foreigners and arachnophobia?! The spiders in "Bugs" are so totally obviously FAKE, too! They almost look like those plastic ones you can buy by the bagsful at Halloween
! You're such wusses!

Did you ever have a pile of them crawl all over you when you were two years old and be bitten by the bigger ones??? Did you step out of your shower one day two years ago and get bitten on the thigh, drawing blood... by a spider who decided to wrap himself up in your towel??? Did you ever wake up some morning and find that you had a spider nesting in your ear? Did you ever suffer the indignity of ever been taken to see the Doctor cause your mum thought you were going deaf in one ear only to find out that there was a spider happily living in there for a while... and then have to 'stay brave, and extremely quiet' as the doctor pulled the thing out in little bits with a sharp tweezers and put it in a dish in front of you? .... Did you ever date a really nice guy who thought he would surprise you by taking you on a date to the cinema to watch Arachnophobia??? No??? Didn't think so.... Hmmmm when you have even one of these happen to you... then come back to me and say the above comment again....

Spiders may be the nicest of creatures but when one of them is coming at you across a floor in your own home... and speeding up more as it nears... then well... AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH..... I just can't take them.... hate killing them too.... I have this really neat system going in my home now to get rid of them... one crawls across the floor... I get the 'spider trapping pint glass' out and put it quickly on top of it... then leave it there til... [a] it runs out of air... [b] it disappears in a puff of invisible smoke.. [never happened but I still wish for it]... or [c] a neighbour/friend/family member/complete stranger/house robber etc visits or gets called in from street to take it away.... Sometime a big yellow pages phone book sits on top oif the glass just in case it's some spider with robotic super powers that can break thru glass.... I also surround it with books etc... on all sides so I don't have to look at it.... I never hoover them up cause they breed in the hoover bag and can actually survive for long periods in it... Occasionally, I give it a damn good spray with WD-40, car spray... that seems to ummm... stun it for a while... I haven't yet tried Dean's method of spray and burn but... one day....

Oh God.... WTF is the matter with Sam Winchester... Why willingly pick up a stray tarantula??? That's just stupid!!! I hoped he scrubbed those hands clean for a full hour after that ordeal... at least....

Hmmmm... I don't mind any other creatures, I just don't like spiders... for the record though, I also have an intense fear of 'wobbly teeth', 'escalators' and .... wait for it.... 'Beetroot'!!! I hate even the very mention of the word... it makes me want to wretch....

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OK, granted, you've had some unusually bad luck with spiders! Maybe you send out bad vibes to them or something? Your experiences are NOT the norm! Hm, or maybe I give good vibes? I am ridiculously respectful of life, as best I can be. Sadly, I'm not a vegetarian. People can be so condescending and judgmental about that. I honestly think that most vegetarians were either raised that way or were cool with vegetables to start with. Then, right under that, you have those with the money and the right situation and advantages and wherewithal to manage to overcome their hatred of vegetables and learn to depend on the food they hate the most and ditch all the food they love the most. It's a gigantic, overwhelmingly huge thing to do for a person who was raised on the standard American diet and who HATES most vegetables. AND does NOT have the money and other advantages & wherewithal to totally, radically reprogram their lives like that. But if I could, I would.

Anyway, I find beauty in almost any living thing (except roaches. How I loathe them! But with good reason, the filthy, germy, nasty things!). I try to understand all of them I can. I even save drowning bugs. (I saved a baby bunny from the jaws of a dog a month or 2 ago! To this day, there's a lone bunny seen by the driveway in the evenings that wasn't there before. I think it's "my" bun bun!) I've been around many spiders and stinging insects and had them on me many a time. How many times have I been spider bitten or otherwise harmed by one? NONE. How many times stung? ONE. Because I STEPPED on a poor honeybee. Can't blame it.

I don't know. It is interesting how some have such oddly bad luck with insects and/or animals. And/or some have such oddly (?) good luck with them. I'm pretty sure such spider horrors as the ones you've endured are NOT the norm, though. Esp. not for those who keep their cool around them.

Gosh, spiders run AWAY from me, if they run at all. Usually, they either freeze or just go on about their business.

Oh, and I let wasps make nests in my windows, too. As long as something isn't causing some clear and present danger, it's allowed to live unmolested here. There was a black snake curled up by my sidewalk & porch one day. I let it be. It was gone next day. They are great, too, they eat rodents, etc.

Of course I'd kill a poisonous spider in my house or too close to it (I've never encountered one, though). A poisonous snake I'd probably let be, as long as no one else was around to blunder into its path.

Oops, I did it again! Ramble attack!

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Anyway, I find beauty in almost any living thing (except roaches. How I loathe them! But with good reason, the filthy, germy, nasty things!).

LOL... That's a contradiction in itself... Roaches are living creatures too... For the record, I love the things... I have had gigantic ones all the way from Bristol Zoo here in UK, crawl all over my hands on many occasions! I can manage that for the school kids... They don't bother me in the slightest at all... in fact if anything, I actually love studying their shell like bodies... but spiders, I honestly would rather live in a house infested with flies etc... then have even the littliest one sit in a corner of my room!

Stingy bees etc... I don't mind either... I tend to let them all go regardless... unless they are already dying due to having stung something else... then I just put them out of their misery...

(I saved a baby bunny from the jaws of a dog a month or 2 ago! To this day, there's a lone bunny seen by the driveway in the evenings that wasn't there before. I think it's "my" bun bun!)

Ahhh a fellow bunny lover... I have been a bunny saver for quite a few years now, I tend to take in rescue rabbits who have been badly abused by their former owners... my present one, a 2 1/2 year old New Zealand White one called Whistler was just days away from being bagged up and drowned when I saved her in Dec 2007... She was in such bad health, she's in great shape now. Rabbits before her were from a home who used to use them as footballs around the kids back garden... They lived for 6 more years after I saved them from there. Dogs are different, in a sense because that is a nature thing... even though majority of dogs in this day and age shouldn't need to hunt rabbit as they get regular food... at least in one sense you can understand it as being nature ... but with humans, some are just cruel, nonstop to creatures... As a family, we used to take in stray dogs all the time when I was a kid... we could have 7-10 of them at a time... My dad used to retrain them and then when they were in good shape used to give them away to good homes so they could see out their days... As a person who loves animals, I honestly can't take cruelty to animals... It makes me sick...

Spiders are different though.... ROFL.... I know I already posted this spider related story somewhere on these threads already... but one evening, all the way back in 1996... when me and my now ex husband lived in Plymouth, UK... I went out to put some stuff in my recycling bin and saw a newly hatched nest of yellow & black spiders on the lid of my bin... so I went into our kitchen and shed and got out every spray we had and doused the things in them.... killing them all.... It took me just a minute to wipe them all out, then I left them there stuck to the lid, so the sun would bake them all, just to make sure!!! I then went back into house and sat down in lounge, glancing thru local paper and read an article on these very spiders and how they were a newly arrived spider species to the UK... harmless by nature and a number was with article to ring if anyone came across them .... Hmmm... So I call my EX and we went out with paper to study bin lid and then figured out that I wiped out the lot of them in one go.... needless to sday, we didn't bother calling the number.... I think they were called 'Tiger Spiders' or 'wasp spiders' or something similar due to the colours on them.... On the plus side, I actually honestly haven't come across very many of them since then!!! So there.... one by one, I'll soon wipe the species out.... :kill:

Sadly, I'm not a vegetarian. People can be so condescending and judgmental about that. I honestly think that most vegetarians were either raised that way or were cool with vegetables to start with. Then, right under that, you have those with the money and the right situation and advantages and wherewithal to manage to overcome their hatred of vegetables and learn to depend on the food they hate the most and ditch all the food they love the most. It's a gigantic, overwhelmingly huge thing to do for a person who was raised on the standard American diet and who HATES most vegetables. AND does NOT have the money and other advantages & wherewithal to totally, radically reprogram their lives like that. But if I could, I would.

I was a veggie for many years... from aged about 8 til maybe mid 20's.... all I ate was fish ... no meat or chicken... I did this simply because I was taken out hunting by my father aged 8... [we all had to learn how to shoot the gun on our farm as my father worked away some of each week and we had trouble from time to time with either wild dogs packs or foxes killing our herds... also we needed to know how to put an animal down when it got injured etc.... anyway, I learned how to shoot game... ie Pheasant and snipe, hare & rabbit.... etc... anyway... very first try... aimed at sky and shot a passing pheasant dead... he was plucked and cooked for dinner that very evening... honestly, it turned my stomach... I refused to eat the thing out of protest and it then later became a habit... I love veg so I did ok... I only started eating chicken again when I was pregnant with Mini Me... I was on holiday in Tenerife with my ex hub and we went for dinner in some restaurant and I just craved chicken... practically ate a whole one all to myself at that one sitting....it was smothered in garlic which made it even more tasty.... So then for some more years, still no meat, just chicken & fish... until, I was invited out to dinner by my Dad, when he was over here on a visit... and he ordered wrong thing by mistake... some beef dish came out , so I ate it out of respect to my dad... that was July 2005.... again a mistake out for dinner at my friends house... March 2007...ended up working my way thru a plate of lamb... I don't like lamb... it's stringy ... as is pork, that I also had a go eating some time back.... but beef is ok.... I can just about eat it willingly now... that saying, a steak is what I have currently cooking here as I post.... I find I need to top up my proteins etc from somewhere as I have a bad allergy to most fruits and really odd veg... I can also go a whole month or two at a time without putting a bit of meat to my lips... by just hoovering up the lentils and pulses etc...

Talking of wasps etc... I swallowed a whole one alive once... it was in a drink that I was drinking from and it stung the inside of my mouth, more my lip, and out of some daft reflex, instead of spitting the thing out, I actually swallowed it.... It didn't do any more further damage to my insides.... and left me via my rear end later... My gran made it all the worse, by making me gurgle a load of vinegar to neutrilise the sting pain... I looked like I had a shot of botox on my lips for ages after cause of the allergy I have to vinegar things...

Oops, I did it again! Ramble attack!

And to think... all this ramble attack came from .... Dean's amulet, that is shaped like a Headlice.... Good job it weren't shaped like a body part....