"But how they got a vacuum cleaner, I’ll never know."

[theweaselking]

The Year Of The Ninja Spiders:

For a period of eight months, I held off an invasion of giant spiders with a vacuum cleaner.

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[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

[leighdb.livejournal.com]

I second that emotion.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

I would almost agree with one of the commenters---"It's a funny story until you see the picture"---except I know better than to click on the link that goes to the picture of anything called "huntsman," [1] so it will just remain a funny story to me.

Also, list of places never to go to just got a new item: wherever in Japan that was.

[1] metaquotes and its Australian members have taught me well.

[cacahuate.livejournal.com]

Fucking clock spiders!

[affreca.livejournal.com]

Yep. I only had one giant spider in my house. I'm usually a live and live type, but I saw it the week after I had a bite lanced. I had to use a hard cover, the attempt at squashing it with a paperback failed.

[siouxsyn.livejournal.com]

I had a huntsman in my pyjamas once. It had crawled into the leg, and I rolled on it in my sleep. It bit me, but it was all mangled and we couldn't get a really good ID for it, but I didn't die so we assumed that it was just a huntsman.

They only bite if you hurt or scare them. I carry them out of the house in my hands, but that's partly for my flatmates who want to kill them (and partly coz they is cute).

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Whereas I think anything arachnidal needs to die, and any spider THAT SIZE needs to die *now*.

I understand that my arachnophobia is irrational. That doesn't make it less real.

[siouxsyn.livejournal.com]

I was one of those children who touch everything to see what it does. So my Mum taught me what the venomous and poisonous things are and to keep away from them.

I remember running across the backyard from a redback. If I ever meet a Sydney Funnel-web I'm moving further north. Those things suck my will to exist.

*shrugs* Some people are frightened of cats or dogs. In the end I suppose anything can hurt you if it wants to, and nothing will if you handle it correctly.

For some reason I am thinking of sting-rays...... Which are also adorable and cute and I've petted them.