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#1 2006-08-30 3:28 pm
- benightedbastard
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Spider! (he's our hero)
She just crawled up my kitchen wall. Since I moved house I haven't seen one of these little ones, it's almost like a touch of home. It's also a sign that winter is over.
The photo was taken with a camera phone, and you can still see the gleam in her eye.
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#2 2006-08-30 3:31 pm
- ame
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Re: Spider! (he's our hero)
OMG. WTF. Im never going to sleep again.
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#3 2006-08-30 3:34 pm
- Chickenhawk
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Re: Spider! (he's our hero)
wtf is that? You aussies make us all look like pussies.
The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition—thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not. -- Michael Shermer
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#4 2006-08-30 3:35 pm
- benightedbastard
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#5 2006-08-30 3:38 pm
Re: Spider! (he's our hero)
Cripes!!! And I thought the 3/4 wide spider stretched across my garage door was big. That thing is a freaking monster!!
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#6 2006-08-30 3:41 pm
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#7 2006-08-30 6:23 pm
- Connemara
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Re: Spider! (he's our hero)
benightedbastard wrote:
You can click to embiggen, by the way.
O.K., I did.
I'm sorry I did.
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#8 2006-08-30 6:34 pm
- KingFred
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Re: Spider! (he's our hero)
So just how big IS that puppy?
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#9 2006-08-30 7:25 pm
- Pariah
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Re: Spider! (he's our hero)
KingFred wrote:
So just how big IS that puppy?
I bet the embigened version is 1:1 
But now the sun beats down on the asphalt land
Like a hammer invoked from God's left hand
What little still grows cringes in the shadows till the night fall...
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#10 2006-08-30 7:49 pm
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You should get it a kitten for dinner.
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#11 2006-08-30 8:08 pm
- Pithecanthropus
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Re: Spider! (he's our hero)
Mein Gott in Himmel!
Why is it a good thing that this gigantic, hairy thing is in your house?!
Grandfatherly advice: You can drink 'em pretty, but you can't drink 'em smart.
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#12 2006-08-30 9:24 pm
- jhota
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#13 2006-08-30 9:35 pm
- MrJ in OZ
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Re: Spider! (he's our hero)
Not many people realize, but most spiders can jump a fair bit. Most large ones can jump like half a meter.
*Fallacy at its zenith kids.* "Who is this "we" you keep talking about? What price have "you" paid for this war? Blah, Blah. Its hardly a "we" proposition."
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#15 2006-08-30 11:14 pm
- Aqua OS X
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Re: Spider! (he's our hero)
damn, that's a big ol dracula tarantula
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#16 2006-08-31 12:55 am
- benightedbastard
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Re: Spider! (he's our hero)
KingFred wrote:
So just how big IS that puppy?
The body is around an inch long, so not really that big. Had to get in nice and close with the camera.
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#17 2006-08-31 1:40 am
- MrJ in OZ
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Re: Spider! (he's our hero)
It would have been funny if he jumped on your face while you take the pic.
*Fallacy at its zenith kids.* "Who is this "we" you keep talking about? What price have "you" paid for this war? Blah, Blah. Its hardly a "we" proposition."
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#21 2006-08-31 10:09 am
Re: Spider! (he's our hero)
As much as I can't stand spiders, I like how you slipped in a TMBG reference.
And that is one heck of a spider.
"Damn it! There's so many idiots whose asses I have to kick!" - Edward Elric
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#22 2006-08-31 10:26 am
- Pithecanthropus
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Re: Spider! (he's our hero)
jhota wrote:
mad props for the TMBG reference.
MrJinOz wrote:
Not many people realize, but most spiders can jump a fair bit. Most large ones can jump like half a meter.
Yes, spiders can jump, but they're far, far more likely to jump under your fridge than to jump straight at your face.
Don't get me wrong, I love spiders, but I have a size-tollerance. Anything bigger than the palm of my hand is getting into the "eeeeeeewwwwwwwww" category.
Grandfatherly advice: You can drink 'em pretty, but you can't drink 'em smart.
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#23 2006-08-31 12:01 pm
- ame
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Re: Spider! (he's our hero)
Pithecanthropus wrote:
EVERY SPIDER falls into the "eeeeeeewwwwwwwww" category.
There I fixed it.
I think this might have talked me out of ever going to Australia. Even a tiny spider the size of a dustmite is too much for me. But that thing...Id fall over dead of a heart attack.
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#24 2006-08-31 12:19 pm
- Big G
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Re: Spider! (he's our hero)
HOLY HELL!!
That thing is a monster, I glad we don't get spiders that big here in Maine ... if we did I don't think I would be able to sleep 
Last edited by Big G (2006-08-31 1:08 pm)
Where are we going and why am I in this hand-basket?
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#25 2006-08-31 12:36 pm
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I don´t get why people have such a fear of spiders. I think they`re cute little animals. I once held a tarantula and thought that was cool.
I just don`t like spiders like the brown recluse. Those things scare me because they are so small and deadly.
I`d rather have a big spider than a small spider. Big spiders are less dangerous.
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