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Tinbasherdan
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Hate the things. Was rifling in my tool bag in the workshop earlier, looked down and I was just about to grab hold of an absolute monster that had taken up residence. Fairly sure it was waving a 3/8 ratchet at me
I have a grudging respect for spiders but I bloody well don't like them.
Stay in your little corner and catch flies, no problem.
When you start adventuring around the place and getting in my space as if you pay bills, we have a problem.
Not to mention the ones that are big enough that you can see what they're thinking!
Stay in your little corner and catch flies, no problem.
When you start adventuring around the place and getting in my space as if you pay bills, we have a problem.
Not to mention the ones that are big enough that you can see what they're thinking!
MattF
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I have a spider who lives in a knot hole in the bathroom skirting board. Been in the flat as long as I have, (either same one else its kin). Daft bugger got itself trapped in the bath, the other day. Was just setting off for work when I noticed it there, so placed a length of bog roll over the rim & down into the bath for it. It was back in the skirting when I got home.
This is it.
That's a penny it's straddling. The penny slipped off the cistern cover, the other day, & the spider shot out of the hole when it hit the floor.
This is it.
That's a penny it's straddling. The penny slipped off the cistern cover, the other day, & the spider shot out of the hole when it hit the floor.
Blue Chips
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Be glad it wasn't waving a .38 at you.
A large, black, and very fast spider is currently residing somewhere in my office and will frequently appear suddenly on my desk and stare at me until I make the slightest move in its direction, and then suddenly disappear. I've kind of gotten used to him/her or whatever pronoun it prefers. Mrs. Blue Chips isn't squeamish at all about spiders and just captures them in a bottle and transfers them outside. She'd have a hard time capturing this one, though. I'll try to get a picture of it next time it appears.
Pigeon_Droppings2
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Spiders don't bother me...we'll as long as they aren't the size of my hand!
I can't stand things that fly and sting though....i usually go nuts when they surprise me and end up injuring myself in the process!
I can't stand things that fly and sting though....i usually go nuts when they surprise me and end up injuring myself in the process!
There is a massive big black one in the detritus on my workbench - it's one I inherited, and a tad deep, so it tends to get a bit cluttered. When I start the grinder, out it runs, takes a look at me, then runs to hide..
I pulled a dead one out of the 'pool in Cyprus, it was big and fat, the size of my palm - you could see the thread hole in its belly clearly...
I pulled a dead one out of the 'pool in Cyprus, it was big and fat, the size of my palm - you could see the thread hole in its belly clearly...
Erie Fred
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I think his name is Steve.....
Why do you have a penny on your cistern cover?
I could do a spend a penny joke but that would be bad!
MattF
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Change I pick up whilst working, I take out of the pocket & pop it on the cistern when I go to get in the shower. It eventually gets moved from there to a tin, to stay permanently.
My late mother-in-law was superstitious, so every time I see coinage, I hear her voice in my head saying: Find a penny, pick it up, & all day you'll have good luck.
Hence why it all eventually ends up in a tin. Lucky coins. Not for spending. Besides, some are rusty as hell, they were on the ground for so long.
Dead pan humour even ?
Migmac
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We've got a few reappeared in the house just recently. Some a cm across others 4/5 cm’s across. Wife hates and gets me to catch them and put them outside, all the actions get done except letting them go. I just bring them back in and release in another room
Jasper the cat has given us lots of fun wrt spiders . the small paw sized ones he plays with them & eventually kills them . But the really big house spiders three inches across with 5p sized bodies are something else.
One day , one surprised him by running up behind him from under the settee. poor little Jasper must have been six inches of the floor as it ran out of cover , over his back & head . By the time he'd landed it was two foot away but it never managed to escape as Jasper took a flying leap , landing on it squatilizing it .
One day , one surprised him by running up behind him from under the settee. poor little Jasper must have been six inches of the floor as it ran out of cover , over his back & head . By the time he'd landed it was two foot away but it never managed to escape as Jasper took a flying leap , landing on it squatilizing it .
We've got a whole colony of tube web spiders that live under the workshop door frame, they sit with their legs just poking out from under the frame waiting for tea to wander past (possibly These).
I'm not a fan of spiders but the Mrs is petrified, yet strangely fascinated by them. I found her stood in the corner of the bedroom one day, because there was a spider in the doorway, and there was no way she was going near it. She'd been there about 30 minutes by the time I wondered where she was.
I'm not a fan of spiders but the Mrs is petrified, yet strangely fascinated by them. I found her stood in the corner of the bedroom one day, because there was a spider in the doorway, and there was no way she was going near it. She'd been there about 30 minutes by the time I wondered where she was.
E T
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I love spiders, they're my friends.
Got plenty of them in and around the house. The big ars*d lady's outside in their webs and the huntsman type inside and in the workshop.
Just like the bats under the roof they kill and eat the buzzing stinging b*stards so they are ok in my book.
Got plenty of them in and around the house. The big ars*d lady's outside in their webs and the huntsman type inside and in the workshop.
Just like the bats under the roof they kill and eat the buzzing stinging b*stards so they are ok in my book.
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We used to get some big buggars at the pallet place, I reckon I once found a black widow. I realised quickly not to show you were scared of them as the factory bully would stick them down your top or put them in your gloves/bate box. After that I started helping the ones stuck in the sink or bath. I quite like them now, I even persuaded the mrs to scoop one up.
