Spider season already :( • Non-Gaming • General Non-gaming • Eurogamer.net

Deleted user 29 March 2008 01:57:03

Fuck fuck fuck, spiders are coming out at home. It's too fucking cold for spider season i'm sure! Can't stand the fuckers...hate them hate them hate them!

deem 29 Mar 2008 01:58:58 31,653 posts
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No no no.

Spiders are good.

Deleted user 29 March 2008 02:01:28

Ah, I love EG's annual spider threads.

IIRC, seemingly loads of the regs live in ancient houses prone to waves of giant arachnids, leading to all sorts of hilarious japes.

Deleted user 29 March 2008 02:02:47

deem wrote:
No no no.

Spiders are good.

But they like, scurry everywhere all menacingly. The one on the wall is totally staring at me, I can feel it.

/shudders

Aretak 29 Mar 2008 02:03:02 10,391 posts
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I just can't deal with spiders. One with a legspan of an inch is enough to send me running the opposite direction. Not sure why really, they've just always been a thing with me.

Deleted user 29 March 2008 02:07:19

Well they always pop up around the summer time, which is what I call spider season when they just take over. Don't see them around winter time usually...I think the heating brought them back early

Edit: So maybe they do take refuge in warm houses during the winter, but i've never seen them until it starts getting warmer. I know they don't reproduce or live outside in the wintertime.

elredeyegrande 29 Mar 2008 02:08:02 2,382 posts
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It's nice to see a huge spider in the bathtub when I take the morning shit.

Oh, stupid spider, can't you get out of the tub?

Deleted user 29 March 2008 02:08:52

elredeyegrande wrote:
It's nice to see a huge spider in the bathtub when I take the morning shit.

Oh, stupid spider, can't you get out of the tub?

That's about the time I turn on the shower and just happen to aim it full on at the fucker.

deem 29 Mar 2008 02:09:11 31,653 posts
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Lexx87 wrote:

deem wrote:
No no no.

Spiders are good.

But they like, scurry everywhere all menacingly. The one on the wall is totally staring at me, I can feel it.

/shudders

one in my garden especially for you.

daithi90 29 Mar 2008 02:10:40 3,275 posts
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elredeyegrande wrote:
It's nice to see a huge spider in the bathtub when I take the morning shit.

Oh, stupid spider, can't you get out of the tub?

We used to call my granddad Spiderman. Not cos he had super powers, he just had trouble getting out of the bath!

Where I live during the week has been full a huge spiders for about a month. Knowing the statistics, I'm really afraid of feeling one in my mouth if i wake up suddenly.

Deleted user 29 March 2008 02:10:46

Wow fuck that's a very nice shot...the thing is i'm impressed by spiders. They are quite fascinating creatures, but when one like moves around me something in my brain tells me to freak out.

Derblington 29 Mar 2008 02:16:25 30,651 posts
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In my total combined time of living in Sweden (Stockholm, about 14 months) I have seen 1 spider and it was a pretty small one (in Gotland, about 150km away)...

I don't miss them.

reddevil93 29 Mar 2008 02:25:35 14,279 posts
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I held one of these when I was younger. :-)

saysomething 29 Mar 2008 02:30:11 1,245 posts
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Derblington wrote:

I don't miss them.

I hate the creatures, makes my skin crawl.

Literally.

If they went extinct, I wouldn't mind.

Retroid Moderator 29 Mar 2008 02:32:08 45,444 posts
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Derblington wrote:
In my total combined time of living in Sweden (Stockholm, about 14 months) I have seen 1 spider and it was a pretty small one (in Gotland, about 150km away)...

I don't miss them.

/Moves to Sweden with immediate effect

saysomething 29 Mar 2008 02:36:13 1,245 posts
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Yeah, I just squashed one, sneaking about. A whole 3-4 centimeters across it was.

Derblington 29 Mar 2008 02:39:01 30,651 posts
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I have been informed that they are here, in the usual numbers, but if so I have no idea where and, quite frankly, I don't care! I shall leave them to there spidery business, not go looking for them, and live my life in spiderless bliss.

Deleted user 29 March 2008 09:35:14

deem wrote:

Lexx87 wrote:

deem wrote:
No no no.

Spiders are good.

But they like, scurry everywhere all menacingly. The one on the wall is totally staring at me, I can feel it.

/shudders

one in my garden especially for you.

Wow, that's beautiful.

Spiders COME IN during WINTER, by the way. That's when you're more likely to see them, particularly in drafty houses.

Deleted user 29 March 2008 09:35:50

saysomething wrote:
Yeah, I just squashed one, sneaking about. A whole 3-4 centimeters across it was.

Poor fucker! Save your ire for wasps, you bastard.

DaisyD 29 Mar 2008 09:38:18 11,816 posts
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reddevil93 wrote:
I held one of these when I was younger.

Ahhh, the red kneed tarantula. So did I.

Nick74 29 Mar 2008 09:39:31 33 posts
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Spiders ftl.

Although I don't almost crap myself quite so often when I see them nowadays.

DaisyD 29 Mar 2008 09:42:24 11,816 posts
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I can't believe the number of men I know who are scared of spiders! They're pretty harmless and are great at killing mosquitoes, daddy long legs and other nasty bugs that annoy me.

Bloodloss 29 Mar 2008 09:44:57 4,497 posts
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No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I hate them so much. Does anyone know of any actual, properly effective things to keep them away? Like spray, or one of those plug-in things that make noises.

Dougs 29 Mar 2008 09:47:23 85,184 posts
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BL - as I've said in many spider threads, conkers in all corners of every room work a treat. You cn get some "Spider-Gone" spray of some sort. Containing none other than horse chestnut oil.

BartonFink 29 Mar 2008 09:53:50 35,267 posts
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Cannot believe you guys are actually considering sprays to get rid of them.

You will pay I tells ya. Just wait until all the other little critters take over after you have annihilated all the spiders.

bauhaus 29 Mar 2008 10:02:35 3,518 posts
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Spiders taste like nutmeg

BartonFink 29 Mar 2008 10:03:05 35,267 posts
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Probably eviscerating the little bastard.

MrTomFTW Best Moderator, 2016 29 Mar 2008 10:05:12 47,491 posts
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Spiders are VERY much for the win.

Like this one I caught back in 2005.

Retroid Moderator 29 Mar 2008 10:28:10 45,444 posts
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Spiders?

My response