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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-04 10:47 PM
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Spiders scare the shit out of me!!!!!! Who's with me?
Just the thought of spiders...
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Guy Fawkes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-04 10:48 PM
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1. Down with arachnids! Down with communism!
oh, wait...
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Don_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-04 10:49 PM
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2. Little Ones Don't Bother Me
I can't say the same for larger ones though.
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-04 10:49 PM
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3. Call me...I'll come scoop them up and get them out of your sight
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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-04 10:55 PM
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7. That's why I have cats...
they scoop up those scary spiders every time - especially my Calvin, he can't get enough of them - perhaps, that's why I don't see many. :-)

They still freak me out. :scared:

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daligirrl Donating Member (572 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 11:24 AM
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29. My kitties usually get 'em. . .
I once spent a night in a hotel after a big one got away from me. I just knew it was going to end up in my bed that night.
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-04 10:52 PM
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4. When we lived in CA
We had an above ground spa with wooden sides and a sliding door so it could be serviced. I opened it once, and the space between the wood frame and the fiberglass spa was teeming with giant black widows. I nearly puked.
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trag Donating Member (286 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-04 10:53 PM
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5. I hate bees!!
It's a childhood thing. Got attacked by a bunch of wasps when I was 5. Sometimes when I see one I freeze in my tracks.
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-04 11:21 PM
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9. Wasps - now those things scare me.
I just hate the look of a paper wasp nest. When I grew up in KS, we had huge ones everywhere. Ugh!
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 12:59 AM
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14. Or wolves...wolves are scary too
:-)
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indigobusiness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-04 10:53 PM
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6. Shit scares the spiders out of me......
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-04 11:20 PM
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8. Hate 'em.
But I'm protecting my karma so I don't squish 'em unless I have to.
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DemBones DemBones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-04 11:21 PM
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10. I have a deal with spiders: if they stay outside, they can live.

If they come in my house, and exceed what I consider acceptable size, they die a speedy death -- I beat the shit out of them with a broom.

Spiders have a right to exist but so do Republicans and I don't let them in my house, either.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 12:00 AM
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11. Deathly afraid of them.
I'm okay with bugs in general, but I have a full blown case of arachnophobia. I actually need to seek professional help, because it affacts my life.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 12:29 AM
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12. Well, there are TONS in this cabin
No matter how clean we keep it, the high ceiling and lack of someone always being here lets them breed. My friends and I killed 14 one night. Lucky for me though, it's at 6,500 feeet so the altitude keeps em really small (I figure).
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gold_bug Donating Member (485 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 12:55 AM
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13. I've got a mild arachnaphobia
if a spider gets on me I freeze in fright :scared: then I have to force myself to brush it off.
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afraid_of_the_dark Donating Member (724 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 08:27 AM
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19. My hubby's deathly afraid of them.
He'll run screaming to the other side of the house until I give him the "all clear."

Sometimes, I don't know how he ever managed as a bachelor.
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fujiyama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 03:37 AM
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15. I used to have
a terrible fear of spiders until I found a mouse in my basement...For some reason ever sinc, spiders don't scare me. I still don't like 'em though. All the little ones don't scare me, and I can finally take a napkin and pick them up and dispense of them somehow.

However, I've had the luck of never encountering a really big spider. Thank God. I'd probly freak out.
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Fear Donating Member (745 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 03:58 AM
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16. They CRUNCH when you step on it
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 08:22 AM
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17. I love spiders.
All of 'em.

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Guy_Montag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 08:31 AM
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20. So do I, very tasty with a sprinkling of salt
and barbequed.
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 07:25 PM
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30. heh heh
I'll pass, thanks. But your recipe might work for grilled conservative. ;-)
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Servo300 Donating Member (653 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 08:26 AM
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18. Read "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
It's good therapy.
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 08:32 AM
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21. I'm with you. Nothing should have that many legs. n/t
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SheWhoMustBeObeyed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 08:37 AM
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22. we have huge centipedes
I was going to say more, but I get so absolutely disgusted and creeped out even thinking about them that I will spare both you and me any more talk about them.
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Demonaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 08:50 AM
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23. spiders rarely bite but I've been stung by a centipede before
and they are more painful than a bee
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Lady Freedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 08:59 AM
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24. You had to bring up the "s" word!!!!
If you wanted to give everyone the hebegebies why not say that Bush will win the election!!!Gee-wiz!!!!!
:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:
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scarlet_owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 09:05 AM
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25. They are the only animal I am afraid of.
I have severe arachnaphobia. I completely lose control in the presence of spiders. Even things that remind me of spiders freak me out.
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Mandate My Ass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 09:09 AM
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27. Me too
Edited on Wed Jun-02-04 09:09 AM by Monica_L
I get that intense adrenaline rush at some of the pics of spiders posted here. x(

Outside spiders aren't that bad but when I have an encounter with one in my house :nuke:
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 09:08 AM
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26. Spiders are good!
I love 'em! Some of the best natural pest control around. Never kill a spider!

:)
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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-04 09:12 AM
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28. nope
I like spiders, they're kings of the insect world - even though they're not insects.

Bees and other flying, stinging insects freak me out though.
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