ARACHNAPHOBICS DO NOT LOOK
Discussion
Some of you may have looked at my recent thread regarding the import of the De Tomaso from Australia over on ‘Yesterdays Hero’s’ forum.
Australia, a country full of poisonous snake’s spiders and larger and home to the Red Back.
Picture the scene if you will of a group of Fred Dibnah style mechanics (from the old school who can make things to make your car go) who whilst working in the boot to make a fog light work came across one of these Bar Stewards
Fret not as she was a dead as the proverbial Dodo but there was a marked reticence to delve to deep into the recesses of the Deauville. I pity the trimming company who get to change the Shag Pile carpeting!!!
Still I motivated the team with
“It could have been worse boys, it could have been a Funnel Web”
I am scared of spiders, but only certain types.
Your average house spider over here is of no concern and i trap them and throw them out, Black widows and the like are a different matter.
When working in california I once had to go under a house that was infested with Black Widows
I put on a plastic suit and sealed up any gaps in the cuffs and collars and then went in. I could see the webs going from the earth up into the floor insulation and as i swung my broom stick infront of me I could see lots of activity as spiders retreated into the insulation so that i could crawl underneath them...to the other end of the house and then back again (running wires).
Probably the most dangerous and scary thing i have ever done
>> Edited by hedders on Thursday 21st April 13:23
Your average house spider over here is of no concern and i trap them and throw them out, Black widows and the like are a different matter.
When working in california I once had to go under a house that was infested with Black Widows
I put on a plastic suit and sealed up any gaps in the cuffs and collars and then went in. I could see the webs going from the earth up into the floor insulation and as i swung my broom stick infront of me I could see lots of activity as spiders retreated into the insulation so that i could crawl underneath them...to the other end of the house and then back again (running wires).
Probably the most dangerous and scary thing i have ever done
>> Edited by hedders on Thursday 21st April 13:23
Ah the good old redback, known for it's love of hiding under the rims of things, including toilet seats on outdoor dunnies. Hence people bitten in the privates and the good old joke "say Doc, can you take away the pain but leave the swelling?"
A colleague who went to work in Oz told me of a story that he heard on local radio. A woman was sitting at the traffic lights when a particularly large, hairy and nasty spider fell on her windscreen from the trees above. The quick-thinking bird turned on her wipers, and then watched in horror as the spider was flicked off her car through the open window of the car next to her, straight into the driver's lap!
In this regard we're certainly spoilt in Europe - a complete lack of nasty beasties.
A colleague who went to work in Oz told me of a story that he heard on local radio. A woman was sitting at the traffic lights when a particularly large, hairy and nasty spider fell on her windscreen from the trees above. The quick-thinking bird turned on her wipers, and then watched in horror as the spider was flicked off her car through the open window of the car next to her, straight into the driver's lap!
In this regard we're certainly spoilt in Europe - a complete lack of nasty beasties.
Plotloss said:
Anything with more than 4 legs that cant be eaten can right off as far as I am concerned.
Damn right! Spiders have a rather limited life once I clap my eyes on them - many have been Dysonated at my hands. A bloke at work once put a spider on my desk for a joke and seemed rather surprised when I stamped on the little fecker - they nearly both received a stomping
lotuslad said:
Plotloss said:
Anything with more than 4 legs that cant be eaten can
Certain residents of the Amazon rainforest do eat the giant tarantula, tastes like shrimp apparently.
Is that a euphemism?
No euphemisms are smaller
the giant tarantula is about the size of a small terrier, but with longer legs.GasBlaster said:
Was in Amazon a few months ago, bought back a (dead) tarantula, 12 inch leg span (not stretched out) and fangs an inch long.
It has cured me of fear of UK spiders!
Thats the giant Tarantula...quite a big fecker is it not??
I'm scared of spiders too but also I have a slightly strange fascination of them...I can & do watch ANY programme on telly that is about Spiders but I couldnt do anything if the were on the floor in front of me, well except maybe fill my pants & run for the nearest hill
Oh & if you think that beast was scary check this one out...
Its a camel spider as found by our boys in Iraq!!!!
Be thankfull we WILL never see them here
Well apparently their called Camel Spiders but arent actually of the spider family...
www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/myths/camelspider.html
Neil
www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/myths/camelspider.html
Neil
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