Amanda Secrets
Diamond Member
And he can do and say that as much as he likes Mr B - I shall not discourage his gallant prose!!
Those scary/icky but generally harmless moments
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And he can do and say that as much as he likes Mr B - I shall not discourage his gallant prose!!
Happy2
Legend Member
Don't be like that Amanda My veg garden is full of Ear wigs So what's so bad about Spider wigs
Amanda Secrets
Diamond Member
Yuk!! creepy crawlys gross
Driving over the nullabor, needing a wee, stopped on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere right ran down a little embankment and stood right on a coiled up snake.,,, I froze and thought hmmm what to do... I needed that wee right then and then
so I recalled that science class about snakes, well slowly but surely lifted one foot then the other then snake got angry...... now that feet stamping started just as well I loved science at school...
svengali
Foundation Member
Here is a closeup of one of my "pet" Golden Orb Weavers. The tiny spider on her back is her husband moving in for a bit of nooky, following which she may well have eaten him.
Ain't that romantic....
I actually got to know her well enough that she would let me stroke her back with my little finger. After growing her abdomen to the size of a grape as in this pic she disappeared for a few days to lay her eggs and hide them in a golden web coccoon. When she reappeared she had her "bikini body" back and soon afterwards she disappeared again, probably gone to that big spider web in the sky......
Ain't that romantic....
I actually got to know her well enough that she would let me stroke her back with my little finger. After growing her abdomen to the size of a grape as in this pic she disappeared for a few days to lay her eggs and hide them in a golden web coccoon. When she reappeared she had her "bikini body" back and soon afterwards she disappeared again, probably gone to that big spider web in the sky......
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Amanda Secrets
Diamond Member
that is gross my skin is crawling at the thought ugh of that spider and you actually touching itHere is a closeup of one of my "pet" Golden Orb Weavers. The tiny spider on her back is her husband moving in for a bit of nooky, following which she may well have eaten him.
Ain't that romantic....
I actually got to know her well enough that she would let me stroke her back with my little finger. After growing her abdomen to the size of a grape as in this pic she disappeared for a few days to lay her eggs and hide them in a golden web coccoon. When she reappeared she had her "bikini body" back and soon afterwards she disappeared again, probably gone to that big spider web in the sky......
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Amanda Secrets
Diamond Member
The pink horse one and the dinosaur one?? If that one its great!! Tho one that amused the hell out of me was the dog that got blamed for the accident on the floor - thats a great one? Im not much of a TV watcher so have a missed a better one??Amanda Please tell me you have seen the latest Allianz ad
Reviews would be appreciated
Happy2
Legend Member
Noooo ! The latest is a huntsman crawling across the windscreen on the inside When the naughty brat of a son lets it out of the jar
Thought of you straight away
Amanda Secrets
Diamond Member
Ahhhh I just found the 'lets stick together' one is that the one you are referring to lol!!!
Amanda Secrets
Diamond Member
OMG Im so glad that I havent seen that!! child should be locked up and never released!!
svengali
Foundation Member
I had a huntsman living in my work van for a while - I called him "Schnieder the Schpider". I remember one of my teenage daughter's friends freaking out when he scuttled out from behind the visor to say "hello". Poor girl was sitting in the middle seat and we were doing 100 along the freeway at the time so she had nowhere to go. After the initial shock she was quite fascinated by my little friend.
Seriously, Amanda, next time you see a spider have a closer look - they are fascinating creatures and actually very beneficial to us because they keep other insects under control.
Try this link for the lowdown on some of the more common ones:
http://ednieuw.home.xs4all.nl/australian/Spidaus.html
purplefixer
Silver Member
Oh... oh where to start...
I've lived *all over* the United States. California, Minnesota, Arizona, Mississippi, Florida, Boston Mass... I've seen some freaky things in all my years.
1. "Never stomp a spider": I'm serious, don't ever do it. Whilst living in Florida we used to have a spider problem. Wolf spiders and black widows were more common than meals in my house, and we were still eating three times a day. At one point we had a Banana Spider (which looks like a cross between a spider, a wasp, and a handful of knives) about eight centimeters long living outside our front door. We never walked into it, though, so it doesn't feature in our horror story... No, our culprit was a simple furry brown wolf spider, the relative of our familiar Australian Huntsman. They'd gotten common enough in our house that I started mashing them to keep them from building webs in the young kid's toys, the VCR, inside the oven... And one time a great big mother was scuttling across the floor and I whacked it with my boot. No wait... not it. *Her* was correct. Having just given birth to her brood, she was carrying a wriggling mass of pin-head sized baby spiders on her back. Upon smashing... they went... EVERYWHERE.
2. "Lethal Air Conditioner": In Tucson, Arizona, my dad was driving me and my two sisters along the highway when we drove through a cloud of dust or smog up on the elevated overpass over a grand wash (like a riverbed that fills up in seconds, literally, when the rain hits the mountains). Oh no wait! Not dust! Not smoke! BEES! With a sound like machine-gun fire they splattered against the windscreen, the hood, the front grill. The car was translucent at best within seconds, and growing quickly opaque. My quick thinking dad pulled on the hazard lights, turned on the wipers, and slowed down to a crawl immediately. While he was driving us down off the elevated section, bees began shooting out of the air vents! There were like two dozen in the car with us before we could push them closed, and you could see more trying to crawl in past the closed vents. My sisters bundled up with a blanket we had in the back seat, and the sun shield (that foil thing), and I got stung once. The only sting of the entire ordeal. We got down, pulled over, and got out of the car for about ten minutes, leaving all the doors open. Lucky I'm not allergic!
3. "Change of Scenery": I'm a gamer. In fact, sometimes when I see 'Roleplaying' in a WL's profile I get all excited before remembering she's not talking about D&D! We started and ran a Live Action Role Play of Werewolf when I was living in Arizona, and part of the game is the werewolf ability to travel 'into the spirit world'. As set dressing for the game we went up on top of Stargazer Hill just south of A-Mountain (so called because of the giant A painted on it, for the University of Arizona) and decorated with cotton fluff and green satin streamers. We put on some didgeridoo music and put up blacklights, and as we arrived at 4pm the whole deal took us about two hours. We sat and had picnic dinner before the game, and then unwrapped a carved up roast to be eaten with bare hands in-character during the game. The blacklights had been used to great effect in other venues to cause people's costumes and decorations to glow, and we were really looking forward to the changes of the 'natural atmosphere' for our first outdoor setting of the Umbra/Spirit World. Everyone came up and we got the lights turned on, and immediately people started screaming.
There were scorpions everywhere. Everywhere. 1~2cm wood scorpions. On people's costumes, in people's gear, in every crack and crevice in the stone pillars holding up the ramada roof, hiding in the nooks and crannies of the cement table and benches, -even in the roast-. They lit up like Christmas from the blacklights. We'd played there twice before in the day, but game was instantly off, and we all went home directly after that. We even left a lot of stuff behind. No one was ever stung.
4. "I'm Walkin Here!": Living in Gainesville Florida in the city was much better than living out in the bush. So many less spiders. I used to walk to and from my scaly mates houses, our game sites, and the university, because they were all only about 2k apart. Because I stubbornly refused to get with the program (this was only ~10yrs ago) I didn't carry an iPod or Cell Phone to distract me, but I was distracted: I used to read while I walked. I only twice ever had a hazard from it, once a street sign (yes, embarrassing and painful) and once when I TRIPPED ON AN ALLIGATOR.
Nothing else came of it. We agreed very civilly to go our separate ways.
I've lived *all over* the United States. California, Minnesota, Arizona, Mississippi, Florida, Boston Mass... I've seen some freaky things in all my years.
1. "Never stomp a spider": I'm serious, don't ever do it. Whilst living in Florida we used to have a spider problem. Wolf spiders and black widows were more common than meals in my house, and we were still eating three times a day. At one point we had a Banana Spider (which looks like a cross between a spider, a wasp, and a handful of knives) about eight centimeters long living outside our front door. We never walked into it, though, so it doesn't feature in our horror story... No, our culprit was a simple furry brown wolf spider, the relative of our familiar Australian Huntsman. They'd gotten common enough in our house that I started mashing them to keep them from building webs in the young kid's toys, the VCR, inside the oven... And one time a great big mother was scuttling across the floor and I whacked it with my boot. No wait... not it. *Her* was correct. Having just given birth to her brood, she was carrying a wriggling mass of pin-head sized baby spiders on her back. Upon smashing... they went... EVERYWHERE.
2. "Lethal Air Conditioner": In Tucson, Arizona, my dad was driving me and my two sisters along the highway when we drove through a cloud of dust or smog up on the elevated overpass over a grand wash (like a riverbed that fills up in seconds, literally, when the rain hits the mountains). Oh no wait! Not dust! Not smoke! BEES! With a sound like machine-gun fire they splattered against the windscreen, the hood, the front grill. The car was translucent at best within seconds, and growing quickly opaque. My quick thinking dad pulled on the hazard lights, turned on the wipers, and slowed down to a crawl immediately. While he was driving us down off the elevated section, bees began shooting out of the air vents! There were like two dozen in the car with us before we could push them closed, and you could see more trying to crawl in past the closed vents. My sisters bundled up with a blanket we had in the back seat, and the sun shield (that foil thing), and I got stung once. The only sting of the entire ordeal. We got down, pulled over, and got out of the car for about ten minutes, leaving all the doors open. Lucky I'm not allergic!
3. "Change of Scenery": I'm a gamer. In fact, sometimes when I see 'Roleplaying' in a WL's profile I get all excited before remembering she's not talking about D&D! We started and ran a Live Action Role Play of Werewolf when I was living in Arizona, and part of the game is the werewolf ability to travel 'into the spirit world'. As set dressing for the game we went up on top of Stargazer Hill just south of A-Mountain (so called because of the giant A painted on it, for the University of Arizona) and decorated with cotton fluff and green satin streamers. We put on some didgeridoo music and put up blacklights, and as we arrived at 4pm the whole deal took us about two hours. We sat and had picnic dinner before the game, and then unwrapped a carved up roast to be eaten with bare hands in-character during the game. The blacklights had been used to great effect in other venues to cause people's costumes and decorations to glow, and we were really looking forward to the changes of the 'natural atmosphere' for our first outdoor setting of the Umbra/Spirit World. Everyone came up and we got the lights turned on, and immediately people started screaming.
There were scorpions everywhere. Everywhere. 1~2cm wood scorpions. On people's costumes, in people's gear, in every crack and crevice in the stone pillars holding up the ramada roof, hiding in the nooks and crannies of the cement table and benches, -even in the roast-. They lit up like Christmas from the blacklights. We'd played there twice before in the day, but game was instantly off, and we all went home directly after that. We even left a lot of stuff behind. No one was ever stung.
4. "I'm Walkin Here!": Living in Gainesville Florida in the city was much better than living out in the bush. So many less spiders. I used to walk to and from my scaly mates houses, our game sites, and the university, because they were all only about 2k apart. Because I stubbornly refused to get with the program (this was only ~10yrs ago) I didn't carry an iPod or Cell Phone to distract me, but I was distracted: I used to read while I walked. I only twice ever had a hazard from it, once a street sign (yes, embarrassing and painful) and once when I TRIPPED ON AN ALLIGATOR.
Nothing else came of it. We agreed very civilly to go our separate ways.
Amanda Secrets
Diamond Member
I'd mark this dislike 'cept its not for the words but for anything about spiders!! Seriously I do believe you are correct however I have no intention getting within spitting distance or its attack radius lol ever!!
I know they are beneficial, its just one of dem phobias! My mother loves them too, she has pet ones ( matilda in her bedroom and Alfred in her laundry gross) I refuse to go inside her house - safer outside lol.
I prefer my coexistance rules - stay out of my house, no dropping in my face or occuppying my walk ways or trees I cannot avoid and in return I will stay away from their inhabitance. There are penalties for breaching our coexistance pact - usually in the shape of an aerosol can!!
Happy2
Legend Member
I found two spiders in my loo just now.
Did you find out before or after they bit your lilly white behind ?
And do LTs Canberra class sucking out the poison as an extra ?
Or are you high up enough at work to have underlings kiss your arse ?
Jeez I'm all questions tonight Aren't I ?
I felt something on my naked back earlier in the evening and brushed it off, thought no more of it. A few hours later I spy these black fellas on either side of my throne, lying in wait. Deployed the CW agent and neutralised the threats.
Maybe it was poetic justice for alarming the girls up in Darwin with those pictures of snakes in toilets.
Maybe it was poetic justice for alarming the girls up in Darwin with those pictures of snakes in toilets.
Happy2
Legend Member
Actually the reason I asked if they had bitten you or not was,I felt something on my naked back earlier in the evening and brushed it off, thought no more of it. A few hours later I spy these black fellas on either side of my throne, lying in wait. Deployed the CW agent and neutralised the threats.
Maybe it was poetic justice for alarming the girls up in Darwin with those pictures of snakes in toilets.
Are the poor beggars feeling ill or is there a XLNC antivenom for the poor blighters
But after the CW I guess we will never know
Amanda Secrets
Diamond Member
OOOO thank you I love that spider!! xxThere you go Amanda a spider just for you
Who said spiders were icky and scary
Amanda Secrets
Diamond Member
I had a funny experience the other day, I was working on my Camaro ( sigh my ongoing project) and was carrying a window glass over to the door and at the point of no return - half way to car and walking over the concrete - when I spied a spider walking up the glass to my hand - my revulsion wanted to drop the glass and run, but because it was my camaro window and I couldnt drop it - way to precious - I just walked really quickly, put it down carefully and then hosed the bugger of the glass, checked he had vacated the vacinity and then proceeded to fit the window!! See I can be brave if its critical lol
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Hayleymay
I hate spiders
Happy2
Legend Member
Brave girl Good for you
When you fall down stairs. Not to the point of actually falling down the whole flight (though I have done that once) but when you grab the bar.
That makes my heart skip a beat.
Or when someone cuts me off in traffic and I need to slam on the brakes.
That makes my heart skip a beat.
Or when someone cuts me off in traffic and I need to slam on the brakes.
