The Batlord

Dude, either put those pics in spoilers or warn us in the title that there are pics of giant, hideous, nightmare-inducing spiders that will make me need to change my underwear.

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Scarlett O'Hara

I ****ing love spiders. Here are some pictures I put on instagram:



This one above was like, Mr Burns doing the "exceeelentttt" movement with his hands.



There is one on my new place that I need to take a photo of.

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Isbjørn

The thread's titled "Spiders and I". Of course there are spiders in it.

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Necromancer

I'll do a weeks worth of cardio after walking through a spider web.

Lord Larehip

"If you wish to live and thrive, let the spider run alive."--Proverb from the Middle Ages.

LoathsomePete

There's been a nest of black widows somewhere in the house. Normally I'd live and let live with them because they help keep down the flies, but I have cats and a dog and while they might not be deadly to me, they are to them so they meet a sad end with the vacuum.

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The Batlord

I see we both have trouble with the super spiders. If we find four more people we can be the Sinister Six.

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Lord Larehip

The dream catchers of American Indian lore are stylized spider webs. The original dream catcher was said to be woven by Iktomi, the trickster god of Sioux lore who takes the form of a spider.


Anansi is a trickster god of west African lore and thought to originate in Ghana. He is sometimes a spider, sometimes a spider with human traits and sometimes a human with spider traits. Anansi plays a huge role in the mythology of West Africa.


Jorogumo is a Japanese kind of predatory spirit, also a trickster, who takes the form of a beautiful woman to entice men to their deaths by devouring. The bizarre Japanese horror movie "Audition" depicted this.


The most important god of the fierce South American tribe, the Moche, was Ai Apaec, the Decapitator, whom they depicted as a spider. In his name, the Moche took the heads of their prisoners captured in battle. Here he holds a human head in his rear legs.


The Indians who made the amazing lines at Nazca thought highly enough of the spider to depict her.

The Batlord

Thank you for that. I've been meaning to see that movie and I was hoping someone would spoil the plot twist for me.

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Lord Larehip

I wouldn't assume they couldn't be deadly to you. That venom is 10 times more powerful than a rattlesnake's. You can't have those in your house. Same with the brown recluse. You just cannot afford to be bitten. I was talking about wolf spiders and the kind that spin a little web in the corner. They're harmless and keep down the vermin.

Spiders in the house are self-regulating. They go after the pests and, if they do too good of a job, will turn on each other so they won't overpopulate. I had a buddy who bought a house with so many spiders he began wiping them out. The walls were actually covered with silk. I knew his property needed to be condemned because you normally just can't get that many spiders because they'll devour each other. Since they weren't then it meant he had a bad insect infestation. Killing the spiders would only reveal that to him and it did. He moved out and let the bank foreclose on the house. It's still standing though and that was over a decade ago.