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Post by FeelsLikeKellyCrabtree on May 8, 2008 16:21:26 GMT
It's Spring/Summer time for crying out loud, and can I find someone with an unwanted kitten?!? Can I bollocks! The pesky rehoming centres want to speak to the home owner to make sure that it's ok, you'd think me just taking one of the little spider destroyers off their hands would be enough. I must say this though- pet insurance, very reasonable and I've found the most amazing cat bed in the world, it's a red washing machine style thing. My cat was shit for catching spiders. She was christened Barbarella in the hope that she'd grow up to be fierce and full of attitude. And she was. She'd disappear for days on end and then reappear unexpectedly and cut her eye at you before prowling off to sleep on the back of the settee. But she hated spiders almost as much as me. Bitch.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2008 16:27:17 GMT
It's Spring/Summer time for crying out loud, and can I find someone with an unwanted kitten?!? Can I bollocks! The pesky rehoming centres want to speak to the home owner to make sure that it's ok, you'd think me just taking one of the little spider destroyers off their hands would be enough. I must say this though- pet insurance, very reasonable and I've found the most amazing cat bed in the world, it's a red washing machine style thing. My cat was shit for catching spiders. She was christened Barbarella in the hope that she'd grow up to be fierce and full of attitude. And she was. She'd disappear for days on end and then reappear unexpectedly and cut her eye at you before prowling off to sleep on the back of the settee. But she hated spiders almost as much as me. Bitch. At least she doesn't bring you live, freshly caught spiders to you, like my friends cats do. Mice, birds, frogs etc I could cope with, but spiders, no. I've now resorted to finding a semi-feral farm cat, it may hate me, but it'll hunt and kill well. I've also slightly fallen in love with the picture of this cat- www.catchat.org/msrspca/cgibin/prview.cgi?id=2008050402 It needs a home, but he looks like he'd be shit at killing spiders. Although he would make an ace Zachary Binx.
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Post by Steven on May 8, 2008 16:30:50 GMT
D'awwww. That is one lovely kitty. Damn my stupid flatmate and his cat allergies.
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Post by boxedjoy on May 8, 2008 16:40:32 GMT
Couldn't resist:
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Post by Mike on May 8, 2008 22:34:40 GMT
I can tolerate spiders, and wasps are more of an irritant than anything else, but that cat is fucking terrifying.
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Post by somethingbiblical on May 8, 2008 23:02:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2008 11:42:56 GMT
I have a feeling that I may be pushing my parents to a last walk into the sea. My dad isn't giving in so easily so I've had to step up my attempts and threaten to live at home forever and commute to University, using his new car. I don't have a license yet, but I will get one to spite him. He's still wittering on about being allergic to them and generally hating most pets, but we used to have a cat and he had every possible conceivable pet when he was growing up.
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Post by Steven on May 12, 2008 9:07:10 GMT
I suffered an unprovoked attack from a big spider this morning. It was waiting on my towel while I was in the shower, and then when I got out and wrapped myself in the towel I looked over my shoulder and the spider was about an inch away from my face. I shan't go into detail about my reaction, but let's just say it was neither brave nor manly, and as a result of the bathroom now being a spider-infested no-go area, I am now at work unshaven, with messy hair, and with no contact lenses.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2008 19:48:30 GMT
It's got worse! My brother dropped a tub of crickets in the kitchen before so now there's 30 of them hopping round my house, and I've just spotted something in my bedroom and couldn't tell whether it was a cricket or spider so I've fled and daren't look.
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Post by audrey notwhatsheusedtobe on May 13, 2008 12:52:52 GMT
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck! A MASSIVE spider crept up on me from behind last night. It was so big, it took both a copy of the Guardian Guide being thrown at it and 2 beatings from my boyfriend's slipper to squish it and even then, there was a really horrible bit when there were 3 legs sticking out from under the slipper, twitching!
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Post by Imaginary Gary on May 15, 2008 16:39:32 GMT
ARGH! For lunch today I had salad. Or I was going to have salad but after a few mouthfuls something AWFUL happened. I picked up a particularly big nice crispy leaf but as I was putting it to my mouth I noticed a mark on it. No, not a mark, a spider. One of those creepy garden spiders with the fat bodies. I ALMOST PUT A SPIDER IN MY MOUTH. I'm now traumatised. I think I might have to stick to eating heavily processed foods for the time being. Chocolate won't have come into contact with spiders, right?
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Post by SBaholic on May 20, 2008 12:43:19 GMT
Has anyone heard about the tarantula crawling out of the Asda grapes?
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Post by skillex on May 22, 2008 22:26:58 GMT
I grew up in a house between the beach (which was - and still is - radioactive thanks to MOD waste) and some woods, which I think all contributed to massive spiders about the size of my hand. I think this is what caused my fear of spiders. the flat I currently live in only ever gets tiny wee spiders in so I may never move as a result. As a child/teenager I wasn't able to wear a dressing gown for years since the time I noticed a massive spider perched on my shoulder on it, I think it had made itself a home there. I also remember an enormous spider running across my pillow when I was up in the middle of the night and I realised with horror that it would have been my face!
I have to say that Moog and Gary's stories have been the most horrific stories by far. Whenever I read things like this or even see pictures of spiders I have to gather my t-shirt neck close in case spiders jump down it.
If anyone wants to be terrified, google "clock spider".
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2008 1:14:02 GMT
I have just been trapped in the utility room by a huge spider with massive legs and I'm pretty sure it had several fangs, glistening with venom. I had to run, jump and duck, all at the same time through a doorway to get out.
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Post by lowculture.co.uk on May 29, 2008 2:05:09 GMT
That's certainly as much as I ever want to read about spiders, don't know about anyone else...
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