PICTURE POST II! - Page 87

WillsBabe · January 15 2013, 05:06 PM

Flying Spaghetti Monster wrote:

This pic stole my heart. Bless.

RoJoHen · January 16 2013, 04:50 AM

#swag

cooleddie74 · January 16 2013, 04:52 AM

It's like Paul Rudd and Zach Galifianakis had a son and gave him the gift of being in cool photographs.

RoJoHen · January 16 2013, 04:53 AM

That is one of the best compliments I've ever received. Thank you.

teacake · January 16 2013, 06:18 AM

This is my finger.

Also, native fauna.

Shanndee · January 16 2013, 06:51 AM

Ack! Teacake, that actually creeps me out a little! Please tell me that is not a horrible bite-y variety...and that it doesn't make its way indoors often!

teacake · January 16 2013, 07:00 AM

They come indoors all the time, especially at a change of seasons. Suddenly cold-- the come in. No rain and drought-- they come in. Pours with rain-- they come in. The last seems to be the worst invasions, I guess the rain drives them from wherever they've been living all summer.

They only bite if provoked and it's about as bad as a wasp sting. I've known several people including toddlers who were bitten in their sleep, didn't wake up and just had a big red swollen area for a few days. So I guess it can't be that painful. Though I did have a friend who used to feed them water from a teaspoon while they sat on her hand and she was finally bitten and said it hurt. But not as bad as a wasp.

They are called huntsman, in Hawaii they call them cane spiders. They mostly like to be up high on walls so you really have little direct contact unless you decide to catch it.

Shanndee · January 16 2013, 07:09 AM

Wow.

I seem to have grown into being a complete wimp. As a child this spider would have fascinated me. As an adult...I would be a little frightened if I found this guy on my wall. Isn't that supposed to work the other way around?

Oh well, at least they are not poisonous!

<involuntary shudder>

teacake · January 16 2013, 07:22 AM

There are smaller ones that are much more repulsive to me. Huge black shiny abdomens..

Huntsman are kind of too much like crabs to bother me. Still I don't leave them alone, they DO breed.. so I smash the big ones with a book. Yes it's quite a carcass and they are full of green goo. My problem is I can't bring myself to smash the baby ones which are light reddish brown and kind of cute. Yes I know they grow into the big ones.. but some will move outside, get eaten by birds and other spiders and australian wasps. My tolerance for what size I don't smash is getting bigger though, and then sometimes when there is a REALLY huge one (bigger than in the pic) I feel like it's to be admired for being such an alpha spider and I should respect it and not smash it. Yeah if my tolerance keeps growing I'm going to be 80 years old and living with a hundred spiders who I've named.

KimM · January 16 2013, 02:05 PM

^lol! "I dare you to go into the Spider Lady's house if you dare!"

cooleddie74 · January 16 2013, 02:46 PM

I'll never again complain about the size of Virginia spiders

bbailey861 · January 16 2013, 03:29 PM

That thing is freakin' huge!!

TheSeeker · January 16 2013, 03:31 PM

teacake wrote:

This is my finger.

Also, native fauna.

Very cool. I tried to click on your link but Flickr comes back saying it's a private page.

lurok · January 16 2013, 04:06 PM

Don't post that in Naira's Going Down Under thread

(edit: oops...see you've warned her already)

CorporalClegg · January 16 2013, 06:10 PM

teacake wrote:

This is my finger.

Also, native fauna.

It's not polite to point.

January 16 2013, 04:50 AM	#1292
RoJoHen Awesome Location: Wherever life takes me	Re: PICTURE POST II! #swag __________________ I am the Quintessential Admiral. Get ready to grow your EQUINOX BEARD!

January 16 2013, 04:52 AM	#1293
cooleddie74 Fleet Admiral Location: The Warped Sector of the Demented Quadrant	Re: PICTURE POST II! It's like Paul Rudd and Zach Galifianakis had a son and gave him the gift of being in cool photographs. __________________ This shirt is dry clean only. Which means it's dirty. -Mitch Hedberg

January 16 2013, 04:53 AM	#1294
RoJoHen Awesome Location: Wherever life takes me	Re: PICTURE POST II! That is one of the best compliments I've ever received. Thank you. __________________ I am the Quintessential Admiral. Get ready to grow your EQUINOX BEARD!

January 16 2013, 06:18 AM	#1295
teacake Admiral Location: Militant Janeway True Path Devotees Compound. With Sehlats.	Re: PICTURE POST II! This is my finger. Also, native fauna. __________________ Rider: I can't believe you'd kill me for a field of empty holes. J'onn: It's all I have. ■ ■ ■ Janeway does Melbourne

January 16 2013, 06:51 AM	#1296
Shanndee Fleet Captain Location: Canada	Re: PICTURE POST II! Ack! Teacake, that actually creeps me out a little! Please tell me that is not a horrible bite-y variety...and that it doesn't make its way indoors often! __________________ "Nolite te bastardes carborundorum" Margaret Atwood "Everything will be alright in the end; if it is not alright, it is not the end" Numerous sources

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January 16 2013, 07:00 AM	#1297
teacake Admiral Location: Militant Janeway True Path Devotees Compound. With Sehlats.	Re: PICTURE POST II! They come indoors all the time, especially at a change of seasons. Suddenly cold-- the come in. No rain and drought-- they come in. Pours with rain-- they come in. The last seems to be the worst invasions, I guess the rain drives them from wherever they've been living all summer. They only bite if provoked and it's about as bad as a wasp sting. I've known several people including toddlers who were bitten in their sleep, didn't wake up and just had a big red swollen area for a few days. So I guess it can't be that painful. Though I did have a friend who used to feed them water from a teaspoon while they sat on her hand and she was finally bitten and said it hurt. But not as bad as a wasp. They are called huntsman, in Hawaii they call them cane spiders. They mostly like to be up high on walls so you really have little direct contact unless you decide to catch it. __________________ Rider: I can't believe you'd kill me for a field of empty holes. J'onn: It's all I have. ■ ■ ■ Janeway does Melbourne

January 16 2013, 07:09 AM	#1298
Shanndee Fleet Captain Location: Canada	Re: PICTURE POST II! Wow. I seem to have grown into being a complete wimp. As a child this spider would have fascinated me. As an adult...I would be a little frightened if I found this guy on my wall. Isn't that supposed to work the other way around? Oh well, at least they are not poisonous! <involuntary shudder> __________________ "Nolite te bastardes carborundorum" Margaret Atwood "Everything will be alright in the end; if it is not alright, it is not the end" Numerous sources

January 16 2013, 07:22 AM	#1299
teacake Admiral Location: Militant Janeway True Path Devotees Compound. With Sehlats.	Re: PICTURE POST II! There are smaller ones that are much more repulsive to me. Huge black shiny abdomens.. Huntsman are kind of too much like crabs to bother me. Still I don't leave them alone, they DO breed.. so I smash the big ones with a book. Yes it's quite a carcass and they are full of green goo. My problem is I can't bring myself to smash the baby ones which are light reddish brown and kind of cute. Yes I know they grow into the big ones.. but some will move outside, get eaten by birds and other spiders and australian wasps. My tolerance for what size I don't smash is getting bigger though, and then sometimes when there is a REALLY huge one (bigger than in the pic) I feel like it's to be admired for being such an alpha spider and I should respect it and not smash it. Yeah if my tolerance keeps growing I'm going to be 80 years old and living with a hundred spiders who I've named. __________________ Rider: I can't believe you'd kill me for a field of empty holes. J'onn: It's all I have. ■ ■ ■ Janeway does Melbourne

January 16 2013, 02:05 PM	#1300
KimM Rear Admiral Location: The poster formerly known as ORSE	Re: PICTURE POST II! ^lol! "I dare you to go into the Spider Lady's house if you dare!" __________________ Just one woman; doing what I can, with what I've got, where I'm at!

January 16 2013, 02:46 PM	#1301
cooleddie74 Fleet Admiral Location: The Warped Sector of the Demented Quadrant	Re: PICTURE POST II! I'll never again complain about the size of Virginia spiders __________________ This shirt is dry clean only. Which means it's dirty. -Mitch Hedberg

January 16 2013, 03:29 PM	#1302
bbailey861 Vice Admiral Location: Kingston, ON	Re: PICTURE POST II! That thing is freakin' huge!!

January 16 2013, 04:06 PM	#1304
lurok Commodore Location: Lost In The EU Expanse	Re: PICTURE POST II! Don't post that in Naira's Going Down Under thread (edit: oops...see you've warned her already)