Fruit Machine Chat

Lets hear the creepy storys......


I HATE spiders / Daddy Long Legs etc.....
This huge DL/Legs came in with wme into the house (it was Massive), I saw it. Then we had the task of killing it, it dissappeared, I was hiding in the other room and right on the wall next to where I stood It was there........ Saw it, and AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (run!!) Properly s**t myself there!


still shaking now, bloody girl I am

snakes do it for me...

after I nearly stood on a King Brown in Australia while working in the bush...you have about 30 mins to get medical help I believe before things start to look pretty dire...:S

Suppose you wont be watching that new snakes on plane movie then!


Its getting beyond funny now, just walked into the kitchen and ANOTHER daddy long legs flying around. i think the one from earlier was a different one.

Terrified really, I hate them, scared stiff of them, im going to bed and hiding under the covers!!

I once shot a daddy long legs with a bb gun, as I'm not all that keen on them either. Felt really guilty afterwards - all that remained was a small dent where the ball had hit the wall and a leg - the bloody thing exploded.

I do the same with spiders, too. I get all caught up in the thrill of the chase and pretending to be Rambo or whoever then have a crisis of conscience straight afterwards.

It's mad. You get all excited about 'being a big man' shooting things up but at the end of the day, you're shooting insects with a toy gun and you're doing it because you're actually scared of them

Demmerz wrote:It's mad. You get all excited about 'being a big man' shooting things up but at the end of the day, you're shooting insects with a toy gun and you're doing it because you're actually scared of them

And you also have to watch out for ricochets, otherwise you'll have a very embarrassing obituary.

I just use a mothbat/mothracket or a dyson to get rid of moths and spiders...

Can't stand them.

I wouldn't like to empty the waste bag after youve sucked up spiders and stuff! eek.

Doom 3's main way of scaring me senseless was the trites and the ticks.

Was going to post a pic, but looking on google images was freaking me out!

I feel for you, mjd. I also absolutely HATE daddy-long-legs.

I think I detest them most because they're so clumsy and unpredictable. You know that things like dragonflies will nimbly avoid you, whereas fecking craneflies are quite happy to blunder into your face. Horrible.

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I heard a tale once that a daddy long-leg's venom was more poisonous than that of a black widow, but because they've got crap jaws, they just can't inject it into anything worthwhile.

Gospel or bollocks?

Im pretty sure its true, if they could bite you they have the most deadly venom.

It's not true i'm afraid. Another urban legend....

'There is an urban legend stating that Daddy long-legs spiders have the most potent venom of any spider, but that their chelicera (fangs) are either too small or too weak to puncture human skin'

'In 2004 the Discovery Channel show MythBusters set out to test the daddy long-legs myth (season 1, episode 13 "Buried in Concrete"). After measuring the spider's fangs at approximately 0.25 mm (average human skin thickness is about 0.10 mm) the show's host was apparently bitten, although the bite produced little more than a mild short-lived burning sensation. [3] This appears to confirm the suspicion that pholcids can penetrate human skin, but that their venom is practically harmless to humans. Additionally, recent research has shown that pholcid venom is actually relatively weak in its effects on insects as well'

Matt

It's got a snopes page too : http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.htm

Matt

Damn. I'll have to stop scaring people with that story.

Oh well.

Did you know that duck's quacks don't echo, and nobody knows why?

At least when a Spider is in the room its its on the wall/floor/ceiling, and when you distance yourself your safe.

DLLegs fly fast, all over the place, they are hiddeous things. What was god thinking when he created those!