I think I would s*** bricks if I saw something like this in the house

http://www.members.optushome.com.au/gpahl/spider.jpg

lol showed my gf this, she hates spiders - lol worthy response
I scald her for killing them because they eat mosquistos but shes petrified

yuckkkk i would molatov that c***, f*** the house.

I agree with d00b, apply fire immediatly.

that looks like a nice happy family of arachnids... aren't all thier little eyes cute!? :D

hahaha doob

yeah that's getting a bit big

i don't like killing them, usually try to get them outside if they are bigguns though i haven't seen a decent size one inside for years

smaller ones i don't mind

I hate spiders. I think I would be scared to death if I saw anything like that in my house. Used to s*** me whenever there'd be a spider and dad would just take it outside onto the verandah instead of killing the bastard

Nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

look at the pretty spider that will eat your children as they sleep

Fixed.

Im terrified of spiders, its my one real fear. If I saw that, I would smash through windows, doors, walls, whatever, to get away. and I would not be returning too the house until I pumped it with so much f***ing poison nothing, including myself , could not live there.......actually no, just burn it.

I love having big spiders in the house.

So long as it doesn't have poison, why the hell not.

f*** that spider and its million babies

lighter and deo ftw

we had a million babies like that in a place we were renting in holland park a few years ago, didn't see the mother but there was hundreds of the little buggers all over the ceiling.

i don't really have a problem with spiders... no more so than any poisonous insect. huntsmen like those it the pic wouldn't bother me at all. the only time spiders really s*** me is when big web building golden orbs build thier webs across my driveway or walkways.

a few years back i rode my suzuki dr600 around the back of my parents place & went through a huge web with my visor up. the huge spikey orb spider landed right on my face n proceeded to try n burrow in between my cheek & the helmet. it was a huge mental effort to put the bike on it's sidestand n remove my helmet calmly as this hairy spider the size of my fist tries to wrap my face in web. that was a really icky feeling... orb spiders have a really hard carapace n thier legs are spikey... still it didn't bite me! :D

I hate webs with a passion.

I'm one of those people that have an absolute spaz out, rip my shirt off, start running while flailing my arms around for the next 60 seconds.

^ I would have squealed and repeatedly bashed my head and helmet against the wall ^

demon holy s***!

yuckkkk i would molatov that c***, f*** the house.

Gold

HOLY CARP

farrrrk

is that for real?

I scald her for killing them

thats a pretty extreme reaction

It looks like it wants to kill too.

this thread needs more casa

yuckkkk i would molatov that c***, f*** the house.

+3

I would have reached for the camera first and the Mortein second.

demon, wow. Just wow. I'm not a crazy arachnophobe but that would freak me right out.

HAHAHA doob

This reminded me of workings from Joshua Hoffine

I also generally try to get them outside rather than killing them. I'm not sure what I'd do in that case though, because I'd certainly not want all of them staying inside, though I don't know how the hell one would evict all of them.

i would vac them up and dump them outside.

because I'd certainly not want all of them staying inside

Very few of them would survive to maturity.

If I saw this on the wall at my place, I would just leave and never come back.

I -hate- spiders.

f*** it's like that movie with Dumber in it.

http://myspace.roflposters.com/images/rofl/myspace/1238527652696.jpg.[roflposters.com].myspace.jpg

That's one big mother f***ing spider.... reminds me of aliens :(

I'm one of those people that have an absolute spaz out, rip my shirt off, start running while flailing my arms around for the next 60 seconds.

Haha, yeah I'd do the arachnileptic fit too.

spiders aren't all that bad... well huntsman aren't... my dads old place used to have a lot of them.. the only time i ever freaked out was when i got out of the shower and went to dry myself.. huntsman the size of my hand was on my towel about to be rubbed over my face, freaked the s*** out of me.

Is that a Huntsman? We've got a s*** load of them in an old shed but I've never seen any sort of web like that and their egg sacks are roundish.

I hate those spiders that build those huge webs at night over big open areas. Walking along a path you know there was no spider or web on earlier and all of a sudden you pull up short with a big solid looking spider about 3 inches from your eye ball.

Anything in the house that isn't human dies, that's my rule.

I give my thong a workout.

it's funny how even people they don't mind spiders etc

get freaked the f*** out by them when they unexpectedly run into them, myself included

i hate people that kill them just because they are on the ceiling or something like that

Oh, one of those - You should see the big ones...

I like those spiders that have their babies crawl all over them.

Having spider webs on your ceiling corners really cuts down on bugs in summer.

Meh, wouldn't bother me really, I would probley do what that dude did and sat there and took pictures of them, then make a thread about it on the interwebs and how they grow and post awesome recipes.

That said, spiders are awesome. Mate up the road has a few spiders, scorpions and a bearded dragon, they don't bother me at all.

Just remembered another story, woke up in the middle of the night one night, and turned my light on and saw a huge huntsman on my wall, thought "hey that's cool", took a picture of it and went back to sleep :)

Looking for the picture now

it's funny how even people they don't mind spiders etc

get freaked the f*** out by them when they unexpectedly run into them, myself included

i hate people that kill them just because they are on the ceiling or something like that

All of this.

I would hesitate to call that spider a Huntsman though, based on the web... but what the hell do I know? :S

There was a fun thread on SA about spiders in the last week, some pom carrying on about this little house spider in his room, Australians replied with their spider photos and won the thread...

I'm with those who will let huntsmen and wolfspiders alone but hate golden orbs. Face level webs and being hideously ugly will get you stomped. Huntsmen are fun.

I really don't like people who kill any and every spider on sight, especially if they use poison instead of being nice and killing them fast. Spray is for invincible creatures like flies, bees and roomfuls of mozzies.

Interesting fact; a lot of spiders are so well adapted to indoors life that they will die if put out in the garden.

This is a proper spider worthy of death by fire:

http://www.cairns.com.au/images/uploadedfiles/editorial/pictures/2008/10/23/birdy2usu.jpg

Story here.

Don't worry about the big spiders.. worry about the little ones!

That bird is so small! Barely bigger than a spider!

I hate webs with a passion.

I'm one of those people that have an absolute spaz out, rip my shirt off, start running while flailing my arms around for the next 60 seconds.

It's not the web for me it's the thought of "where is the spider that made this s***?". I walked through a web on sunday in the back yard, looked around for a spider, couldn't see it so brushed the web off me & went on with my business. Had the spider itself been on me, THEN I probably would have applied the "run and scream like a girl" technique.

Don't worry about the big spiders.. worry about the little ones!

But your children won't be in their beds the next morning thanks to the big ones!

That doesn't look like a huntsman, too dark.

Hate to see that thing flat, it's quite big.

how about this plant for your garden?
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00868/SNN1727AA-280_868191a.jpg

Link: Rat eating plant named after Attenborough

Apologies for The Sun source.

I hate webs with a passion.

I'm one of those people that have an absolute spaz out, rip my shirt off, start running while flailing my arms around for the next 60 seconds.

+1 for this. I am totally fine with spiders in general, grew up with a f***ton of huntsmen in the house, and I hate mozzies waaay more than spiders. However, if i run into a spiderweb, I s*** bricks. I have long hair, and seriously freak out when I get web in my hair - images of spiders setting up nests and eggs etc is just not cool. (Even just thinking about it is making my skin crawl!)

yeah i don't really think about them making nests as much as i do about getting f***in bitten

f***in redlands/victoria point area has a f***ing s***load of redbacks

i went down to an off maintenance inspection for a job we did down there which happens 1 year after it's finshed being built and the amount of redbacks in the gully pits in the roads was f***ing creepy

they are one spider that creeps me out pretty hardcore, just that reputation i think

Well f***, I think I'd leave the house and not return until I had a Hazmat and a f***load of chrome spray paint + bug spray for that bastard.

The chrome paint cause:

a) it sticks to their skin and once it dries up, they can't fkn move...
b) it poisons them (plus i think it stops them breathing?)
c) chrome spiders are cool.

...

Paveway - redbacks don't -usually- cause too much problem for adult humans, unless you're pretty unhealthy.
They'll make you quite sick but unlikely to kill you.

But THAT thing, would eat your face, it biting you would hurt enough for it to be destroyed imo, despite its poisonous (or lack of) properties

The bug spray, just to be doubly sure...
Then I'd probably shoot the f*** out of it with a .308, stuff the hole in the wall it leaves!

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fk funnel webs, fk black widows, rest of the spiders are ok as long as they don't web me.

s[oders ftw~

That spider looks like a funnel web to me and yeah their bites hurt :P

demons story reminds me of something that happened the other day.. i was scooting along when a good ol bee flew into my helmet.. i could work out what it really was but it was crawling all over between the helmet and my forehead.. i tried for a bit to get it blown out but it didnt work

anyway i pull up to a bridge which was up and some old codger is there beside me as i carefully take off my helmet..

then i say to him.. i think i got a bee in my bonnet

it then flew away.. poor dutch bastard didnt get my funny.. but saw the bee fly out of my helmet.. and gasped!

I scald her for killing them

like that mulim who threw boiling oil on his housemate for f***ing up his nandos order.

bird eating spiders need to be harpooned on sight.

yeah i don't really think about them making nests as much as i do about getting f***in bitten

cos u dont have any hair bro