Spiders

[Vincent, Thunder God]

Today we sat down to supper (pasta and garlic bread) and just as I'm sating my appetite, what do I see among the romano crumbs but a smurfing SPIDER trying to scavenge a meal. Ballsy move, spider. Ballsy move. But sadly he was soon squashed in a Kleenex and his bravery was forgotten.

I mention this only because my sister has a genuine phobia of spiders. In fact, she's been known to search her room for them before she goes to sleep so they don't "fall" on her face. And woe betide any spider she finds, because rather than let them be, she enlists my help to get rid of them. She rarely will squash one herself if anyone is available to do it for her.

Post your thoughts on spiders, and whether or not you have a fear of them.

[G13]

I find anything with more than four legs to be disgusting, but mainly spiders, centipedes, and octopi. Ask Shorty about the octopi. I'll probably never see one in my life, but just the fact that they exist worries me.

[escobert]

Spiders kill bugs which makes me happy durring the summer time!

[Sephex]

I don't mind spiders, but I know people that have a crippling fear of them. I don't see the big deal since the majority of spiders mind their own business.

[Pike]

I don't think spiders are as terrifying as moths but they're pretty close.

[Mittopotahis]

I'm fine with spiders. Well, not fine as in pick-a-huntsman-up-with-my-bare-hands-and-take-it-outside fine, but freeze-up-for-a-second-due-to-initial-shock-find-spray-and-kill-it fine. But fine compared to my friend who will download a mod which edits them out of a game, or my girlfriend who cowers in fear at anything remotely similar to one. Even if the spider is sitting peacefully in it's web outside. But she is also kinda scared of geckos, and they're just plain cute.

[Chris]

I really dig spiders. I had a pet tarantula as a kid, and I really do miss it. Hmm! I've been meaning to get another one.

[Tigmafuzz]

I don't think spiders are as terrifying as moths but they're pretty close.

You're afraid of moths? I love moths. They feel fuzzy

I like spiders, to an extent. I was thinking of getting a tarantula to play with.

[Pike]

But she is also kinda scared of geckos, and they're just plain cute.

I'm not scared of geckos, but I do think they're evil little buggers who do nothing but bite.

(That feel when working at a pet store for three years has made you denounce about half of everything as evil.)

I don't think spiders are as terrifying as moths but they're pretty close.

You're afraid of moths? I love moths. They feel fuzzy

IT'S THOSE BIG FLAPPY WINGS AND AUGH

[Old Manus]

They always jump out and spit their poisonous globules at me when I'm trying to find the source of power in caves.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

They do not bother me. I'm the guy that picks them up and takes them outside.

[Peegee]

I lub spiders but if they get big enough to be eating animals...

you no kill my pests! too big!

[Vincent, Thunder God]

They do not bother me. I'm the guy that picks them up and takes them outside.

Yeah, I used to do the same. But in the winter the poor little bastards will freeze to death, and if you drop 'em from the window, they'll probably fall to their deaths. As my father says, "Too much bother," or "TMB" as it were. So I usually kill them - at least I try to give them a quick and hopefully not too painful death.

[Tigmafuzz]

But she is also kinda scared of geckos, and they're just plain cute.

I'm not scared of geckos, but I do think they're evil little buggers who do nothing but bite.

(That feel when working at a pet store for three years has made you denounce about half of everything as evil.)

I don't think spiders are as terrifying as moths but they're pretty close.

You're afraid of moths? I love moths. They feel fuzzy

IT'S THOSE BIG FLAPPY WINGS AND AUGH

They're like two inches at the most. Don't be such a human.

[Slothy]

Yeah, I used to do the same. But in the winter the poor little bastards will freeze to death, and if you drop 'em from the window, they'll probably fall to their deaths. As my father says, "Too much bother," or "TMB" as it were. So I usually kill them - at least I try to give them a quick and hopefully not to painful death.

I've often wondered how quickly they die when I squish them or if they suffer much as I squeeze their gooey innards out through their exo-skeletons. My hope is that the answer to those questions is "not quickly at all" and "a whole hell of a lot" respectively.

smurf Spiders.