[El_Diablo]

QUOTE (Captain VXR @ Sunday, May 13 2012, 23:01)

the problem solver is far worse than the problem.

no it's not.

spiders living in a house don't bother anyone and will almost never make their webs in a place that is visible to you.

[GTAvanja]

I don't have a problem with spiders. I like them, actually. I like to see how they make their webs and trap little insects in them.

I'm terrified of most flying insects though. Not the common ones like bees and flies. I love bees. I'm afraid of those big f*ckers with those awful noises they make with their huge f*ckin' wings. I freak out because they have the ultimate advantage.

[Robinski]

I've never really had a problem with spiders, they're just the same low-level annoyance as any creepy-crawly for me really. I do sympathise with people who are sh*t scared of them though, because I've got the same thing with frogs. Couple o' months back one somehow got in the kitchen and I had to pluck up the courage to throw a drinking glass over it and wait for someone to come home.

I'd never hurt one though. I'm the one with the problem, not them.

[GTAction99]

QUOTE (Jeeebuuus @ Monday, May 14 2012, 03:24)

I heard a story from an Iraq war veteran that there are spiders there that are the size of those face-huggers from Aliens. They bite at you while you're asleep and it makes your arm or leg numb so they can eat it off without you waking up to stop them. Yeah, f*ck that. Makes the common spider seem like a fly in comparison.

You ar talking about the camel spider aren't you?

Honestly, spiders do not really phase me unless they are floating in mid air, that scares the sh*t out of me.

What I am scared of, are those little green FLYING grasshoper looking insects, I swear that one time one of those f*ckers flew right next I nearly pissed myself, infact my reaction was more like this: When I saw it flying: When it flew on me:

[Craig]

I'd take the camel spider with a pinch of salt. They're real, but not as deadly as you think.

[Benzoboy]

QUOTE (AlexGTAGamer @ Monday, May 14 2012, 01:48)

Yes I admit that I too have arachnophobia pretty bad, I can't even look at a picture of a spider in the paper without having my heart jump into my throat and then throwing the paper halfway across the room. I've had my fair share of tangoing with spiders of all sizes. The small ones I can handle, I simply catch them with this little magnifying pot I have and then throw them outside, but it is the big ones that cause me to run to the other side of the room and have a panic attack whilst trying to grab a shoe or paper to swat the blighter with. The last time I had a spider in my room I freaked out terribly. I jump to my feet as the bugger crawled towards me when I was sat on the floor and I ran to the other end of my room. I was desperately trying to find something to squash him with but I couldn't find anything, my heart felt as if it was about to jump straight out of my chest and do a runner straight to the English Channel. I stared at the spider and I swear he (or she) was staring back at me in a smug manner. Eventually it crawled away behind my TV in the corner of the room, and I believe it has died underneath the floorboards now, I'll soon find it again when we get the new carpet fitted in the room. - EDIT - Dammit, I won't be able to sleep tonight because of this, heck I'm feeling itchy and very uncomfortable right now. I'm paranoid that one of those blighters are going to crawl out from under my desk. I'm sleeping with a slipper next to me tonight.

This x10000000000000000000, exactly how I feel around spiders. I can't even read this thread without getting horrible chills and feeling paranoid, like I'm expecting something to touch me from behind or something, matter of fact I don't even know why I came in here

[stinomontana]

I can't stand the bastards, yeah sure i understand they clean up all the insects so usually i let them go.
But when i see one crawling around in my bedroom i show no mercy!

Dont wanna wake up with a spider crawling around on your face.

[baptiste]

I've seen too many horror stories about spider laying eggs up nostrils and down ears and sh*t.

Those f*ckers are kill on sight, no mercy.

[finn4life]

Just 5 minutes ago, i saw a perfect example of why having a couple spiders around is good.
A daddy long legs (The very very small bodied spiders with very long spindly legs harmless to humans) was dangling from the roof hovering just above the floor with an Earwig (thing with a pincer on it's abdomen) just about to die and was getting wrapped up.

Once i had a spider on my face (Daddy Long Legs) when i woke up, hundreds of times i have had an earwig give me a little tickle in bed or crawl on my face.
Daddy long legs can stick around.

[Seddo]

I really hate spiders, i've got better with the smaller ones but the bigger ones sh*t me up real bad and i actually start shaking like a sh*tting dog. I have to get someone to get rid of them for me and if no one is around i'll break out the hoover.

I had a spider enter my room about 1.30 last night, they always seems to show up just when you're about to go to bed and then force you to spend ages trying to find it and dispose of it.

There's a big f*cking world out there, f*ck off out of my tiny house.

[AreXi]

Longlegs creep me the hell out. Small body and long goddamn legs, hrr....

I don't mind big hairy ones, tarantulas etc. IMHO they look pretty damn cool. Goliath birdeaters are badass.

[Dragonjack]

I hate spiders to be honest everytime i take a shower... i always look up Lol

[guib]

I only hate spiders when they have huge legs, I always picture them walking in my mouth while I am sleeping, and then there are all these huge legs everywhere in my mouth.

[jaysteels]

This one.

Actually not just that one, a sh*t ton of em: allow me to explain. (By the way OP had me pissing myself from laughing. you should become a cracked author)

I was with my family at our summer house on an island just 45 kilometers outta town. to get to my bedroom I have to step through my (12 yo) sister's room.
So I did, and as I was about to turn off the light one of those motherf*ckers ran with the speed of light and planted just hiding behind my shoes. Ridden with panic I go;
"J-j-joann-ne"
"There's a f*cking spider on the floor"
Ugh she goes and fins a glass to sweep it out. As she's doing it I notice another f*cking spider hanging in the roof! I jump! and tell her about it. After an agonizing 10 minutes they're both out of the house. Now I swoosh into my bed and as I put my quilt on I see there's ANOTHER F*CKING ONE ON IT!
I meep and get the f*ck outta there and step out the bedroom door and see in the living room there's TWO F*CKING MORE!
I get shaky and start to panic and see to my horror on the bedroom door frame:

I ended up sleeping in mom's bed
Yup. The 16 year old tough guy had to stay in his mom's room because there was a sh*tton of spiders

[Vercetti27]

next time you see a spider in your room stu, just shave your armpits in front of it. let it know your the alpha male and it shouldn't f*ck with you

[GTA_stu]

QUOTE (OdDsOcK @ Monday, May 14 2012, 04:28)

I find any kind of fear of spiders incredibly foolish and when people kill spiders, it makes me even more frustrated. ...Lots of nonsense about how spiders are more afraid of us and they're actually really great... Grow up please.

You can't help having a phobia. It's just something you have, you think we chose to have this? Who would choose this? I hate having such a fear of them, it's horrible. I'm the victim here, and how can you not be terrified of them?

You have the really stupid ones like daddy long legs who seen to be permanently drunk and can barely control their long messy legs. They just run at you, off their f*cking heads not knowing what they're doing. And they are stupid, they are so stupid that they don't fear you. They're like the dumb bumbling chubby private from full metal jacket, and in all likelyhood if you don't kill them they will probably kill themselves anyways.

Then you have the other non daddy long legs bigguns. These are much more terryfying than daddy long legs. First of all they are usually black or very dark, and a psychologist will tell you that black is a more intimidating colour. Evolutionists will tell you this is to help them hide in dark spaces and corners, WRONG. They purposefully choose a more intimidating colour knowing full well it will make people more afraid of them, that's just the kind of sick bastard we're dealing with here. And it's the fact that you can't easily tell which way they're facing, couple this with their goddamned unpredictable and erratic nature and you have a deadly mix. You just don't know what they're next move is, is it going to stay there and let you put it in a glass so you can throw it outside? Is it going to shoot off like a bullet into a hiding spot so it can get you later? Is it going to come at you right now? Is it going to leap at your face and chew your nose off? Who knows.

And they have such vile eating habits, they wrap their hideous spindly legs around some poor creature then sink their fangs into it and paralyse it so it can't move. Then they wrap it up in a horrible sticky substance and suck the fluids out of it whilst it's still alive. That's got to be like a war crime in the animal kingdom! Not only that, but they're cannibals and the females often eat the males after mating. They're bloody psychos! They have no feelings, they just act out of their pure evil insticts with a vague idea in their heads that they don't want to die. They have no fear, they don't know what fear is. They know only of killing, death and slaughter.

[ManDog]

QUOTE (Vanzant @ Monday, May 14 2012, 05:06)

That does remind me, they are helpful though. I had a problem with ladybugs infesting my room when I lived with my parents. I tried blocking them out from the windows, but the little bastards found a way in anyhow. Me and a friend found Four garden spiders (little green ones) and set them up in the window and they ate the ladybugs.

I have the same problem atm, there is like 9 ladybugs in my room, staying on the light, i killed all of them once, chucked them out the window, shut off the vent to outside and the windows, yet more came and with different colours and shapes too o.o

[Melchior]

I can't say I mind spiders. I hate how they look and how they slowly crawl ("creepy" doesn't do it justice) but they rarely touch you - they keep to themselves for the most part. What I can't stand are cockroaches; they run under your feet and they drop on you and they fly at you and they're just f*cking disgusting, at least they aren't as brazen as moths though.

[Vercetti27]

QUOTE (Melchior @ Monday, May 14 2012, 14:44)

I can't say I mind spiders. I hate how they look and how they slowly crawl ("creepy" doesn't do it justice) but they rarely touch you - they keep to themselves for the most part. What I can't stand are cockroaches; they run under your feet and they drop on you and they fly at you and they're just f*cking disgusting, at least they aren't as brazen as moths though.

true...

I remember when I was like fourteen , I had hardly any fear of insects at all, then I went on holiday to Italy, my family rented out this big old villa. At night, if you left the lights on all sorts of sh*t would fly through the windows . The worst was this spider, must have been about 2 inches across, and it made this weird hissing sound at night, every 15 minutes or so. I couldn't even sleep in my room and went downstairs ......

[Gareth Croke]

QUOTE (GTA_stu @ Monday, May 14 2012, 02:29)

...Tell tales of your encounters with spiders and your general opinion of them.

No tales, f*cking hate them and that's why we invented Vacuum Cleaners.