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While I respect spiders, scorpions, centipedes and wasps for the awesome insects they are, if they invade my Inner Sanctum (my room) THEY ARE MARKED FOR DEATH.
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#2281 Posted 02 November 2010 - 12:49 AM
#2282 Posted 02 November 2010 - 05:55 AM
Insects and arachnids are awesome. Creatures awesomely perfected by natural selection. I always have a daddy long legs hanging in the corner of my room. She catches plenty of mosquito's and midges so I don't get stung by them. And she also eats other vermin like the rolypoly's etc crawling out of the basement. The best bioweapon you can have against those pests! 
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#2283 Posted 02 November 2010 - 07:34 AM
Daddies are fine, we have them lining the outside of the house constantly, on the siding, but spiders arent all rainbows and sunshine. They killed one of my best friends! ...
...I used to play with the perverbial swarm of caterpillars that would invade our pine tree at my old place. Back when I was a young young lad. I was a bit of a sadist, used to rip them open to see the em... different colors.
Poor caterpillars, cant get a break. They looked a bit like the one photographed here http://blogs.sundaymercury.net/weirdscienc...ly-power-t.html. Black and yellow fuzzies. Tigerpillars!
Anyway, one day I was messing around with a couple crawling along the cement wall outside the house when a spider crawls out of a crack vertically, leaps onto the caterpillar and bites into it. Rushing to the aid of my friend I jabbed the spider and it let go, crawling back to its nook. My poor CP laid on the ground, bleeding out, gushing from an open wound. It curled up, and died.
Spiders are viciously aggressive when it comes to food.
...I used to play with the perverbial swarm of caterpillars that would invade our pine tree at my old place. Back when I was a young young lad. I was a bit of a sadist, used to rip them open to see the em... different colors.
Poor caterpillars, cant get a break. They looked a bit like the one photographed here http://blogs.sundaymercury.net/weirdscienc...ly-power-t.html. Black and yellow fuzzies. Tigerpillars!
Anyway, one day I was messing around with a couple crawling along the cement wall outside the house when a spider crawls out of a crack vertically, leaps onto the caterpillar and bites into it. Rushing to the aid of my friend I jabbed the spider and it let go, crawling back to its nook. My poor CP laid on the ground, bleeding out, gushing from an open wound. It curled up, and died.
Spiders are viciously aggressive when it comes to food.
#2284 Posted 02 November 2010 - 07:59 AM
Hmm, when you say Daddy-long-legs I'm not sure on what you are reffering to, I know you don't mean crane flies, but there are two other things it could be.
One thing is the Cellar Spider, which is, of course, a spider, for some reason these don't seem to exist in my house.
But there is also the Harvestman which isn't technically a spider, I have a lot of these things around here.
My house seems to also lack house spiders, it has a large number (average of 15 per room) of hunting spiders such as the "Mouse Spider" and "Woodlouse hunting spider" though there are a number of Lace Webbed Spiders around too but I fail to identify most of the ones that live under the floor and I have no idea of the numbers of them under there.
I like them being there, I've only seen a single living fly in my house in an entire year, and by the time I got up in the morning there was what looked like the remains of a fly on the edge of the lace web near my living room door. I can tolerate most things living in my house, the only things I would be bothered by is Wasps and some beetles but my army of spiders seems to deal with them before they get too far.
As for them being ballsy, there was one downstairs a couple of days back on my chair so I blew some air at it to make it scuttle off, it meerly flicked it's front legs up as if to say "F you! This is MY chair!" there is another one that sits on the wall next to my armchair at about 11PM every day, I kept throwing it outside or under the stairs but it kept coming back to the same place at the same time and just sitting on that wall facing me, I just immagine it sat there laughing at me for some reason.
As for those catterpillars, when I was a kid I used to catch flies and pull their wings off before throwing them into a spider web, I would watch as the spider crawled out and bit into the fly before dragging it back into it's nest.
One thing is the Cellar Spider, which is, of course, a spider, for some reason these don't seem to exist in my house.
But there is also the Harvestman which isn't technically a spider, I have a lot of these things around here.
My house seems to also lack house spiders, it has a large number (average of 15 per room) of hunting spiders such as the "Mouse Spider" and "Woodlouse hunting spider" though there are a number of Lace Webbed Spiders around too but I fail to identify most of the ones that live under the floor and I have no idea of the numbers of them under there.
I like them being there, I've only seen a single living fly in my house in an entire year, and by the time I got up in the morning there was what looked like the remains of a fly on the edge of the lace web near my living room door. I can tolerate most things living in my house, the only things I would be bothered by is Wasps and some beetles but my army of spiders seems to deal with them before they get too far.
As for them being ballsy, there was one downstairs a couple of days back on my chair so I blew some air at it to make it scuttle off, it meerly flicked it's front legs up as if to say "F you! This is MY chair!" there is another one that sits on the wall next to my armchair at about 11PM every day, I kept throwing it outside or under the stairs but it kept coming back to the same place at the same time and just sitting on that wall facing me, I just immagine it sat there laughing at me for some reason.
As for those catterpillars, when I was a kid I used to catch flies and pull their wings off before throwing them into a spider web, I would watch as the spider crawled out and bit into the fly before dragging it back into it's nest.
This post has been edited by High Treason: 02 November 2010 - 08:02 AM
#2285 Posted 02 November 2010 - 07:59 AM
Daddies aren't spiders anyhow, but either way it's the smaller spiders you have to watch out for. The venom whitetails and brown recluses. Those little beasties can really wreck your shit if they bite you.
This post has been edited by EmericaSkater: 02 November 2010 - 08:00 AM
#2286 Posted 02 November 2010 - 08:17 AM
@ High Treason I meant the cellar spider. They are very, very common around my old and croaky student house and can be seen in almost all nooks and crannies.
@ EmericaSkater
yes they are, at least the cellar spiders I meant (Pholcus phalangioides) are, as they can weave a web and have eight legs, thus they are spiders. But most arachnids from the order 'Opiliones', like the 'harvestman' (the ones usually stuck flat to a wall in summer) are unable to make webs, do not have poison glands and have its cephalothorax fused to its opisthosoma. They are indeed not real spiders.
When I was young I used to catch wasps and release them in a spiders web, to see which one will win, usually the spiders's poison works fast enough to numb the wasp fairly quickly, making them an easy meal.
Around where I live the spiders don't get much larger then the domestic house spider (Tegenaria domestica) from which the female only grows to about 11mm (legs not included).
Anyway, I just thought, why hasn't anyone made a really cool 3d RTS based on real insects? There's so much potential awesomness... Think of it: hornets, dragonflies, spiders, armies of ants... it would make for a really cool game!
@ EmericaSkater
yes they are, at least the cellar spiders I meant (Pholcus phalangioides) are, as they can weave a web and have eight legs, thus they are spiders. But most arachnids from the order 'Opiliones', like the 'harvestman' (the ones usually stuck flat to a wall in summer) are unable to make webs, do not have poison glands and have its cephalothorax fused to its opisthosoma. They are indeed not real spiders.
When I was young I used to catch wasps and release them in a spiders web, to see which one will win, usually the spiders's poison works fast enough to numb the wasp fairly quickly, making them an easy meal.
Around where I live the spiders don't get much larger then the domestic house spider (Tegenaria domestica) from which the female only grows to about 11mm (legs not included).
Anyway, I just thought, why hasn't anyone made a really cool 3d RTS based on real insects? There's so much potential awesomness... Think of it: hornets, dragonflies, spiders, armies of ants... it would make for a really cool game!
This post has been edited by SkullHacker: 02 November 2010 - 08:40 AM
#2287 Posted 02 November 2010 - 08:17 AM
I don't know about you, but I'd hit it. Even if it's a guy.
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#2288 Posted 02 November 2010 - 10:52 AM
SkullHacker, on Nov 2 2010, 09:17 AM, said:
Anyway, I just thought, why hasn't anyone made a really cool 3d RTS based on real insects? There's so much potential awesomness... Think of it: hornets, dragonflies, spiders, armies of ants... it would make for a really cool game!
There have been a couple of RTS games based around Ants in the past. One on the SNES if I recall correctly. I swear I remember one where you could play as WASPS as well.
#2289 Posted 02 November 2010 - 12:05 PM
We have those wind-scorpion things in our house, here in Texas we call t
In Iraq they have a variant called the camel spider, it's a LOT bigger than the ones in Texas. Here's a soldier holding two of them (not one like everyone seems to think):
In Iraq they have a variant called the camel spider, it's a LOT bigger than the ones in Texas. Here's a soldier holding two of them (not one like everyone seems to think):
#2290 Posted 02 November 2010 - 01:34 PM
Pikachu, where in Texas do you live? Because I've lived about thirty minutes from Galveston for most of my life and have never seen a camel spider ever. Of course, I've only been living up here in North Texas for a few months and have never been out towards the panhandle, so there's a good chance I was never specifically in the right place to be around them.
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#2291 Posted 02 November 2010 - 03:52 PM
I respect spiders' craftiness, but like it was said, they have no sense of personal space. They invade and take over everything. You have to be vigilant with those scum of the earth. I don't mind the long legs, they eat a lot of vermin and are generally much slower creatures. I permit them to exist, but I don't like them in the house, they get thrown out. My ally in my war on the unterkreatur are praying mantises, they are awesome.
#2292 Posted 02 November 2010 - 05:37 PM
I've killed 3-4 mice. Because they liked to eat in my kitchen.
#2293 Posted 02 November 2010 - 05:53 PM
EmericaSkater, on Nov 2 2010, 02:34 PM, said:
Pikachu, where in Texas do you live? Because I've lived about thirty minutes from Galveston for most of my life and have never seen a camel spider ever. Of course, I've only been living up here in North Texas for a few months and have never been out towards the panhandle, so there's a good chance I was never specifically in the right place to be around them.
We don't have camel spiders, we have their little cousins, the windscorpion, also called "tweezers" or "children of the earth". I live about an hour away from Midland. I've been to Galveston once, and it ruled, but it's probably gone to shit now because of the hurricanes and the oil thing.
#2295 Posted 02 November 2010 - 07:18 PM
Captain Awesome, on Nov 2 2010, 07:52 PM, said:
My ally in my war on the unterkreatur are praying mantises, they are awesome.
The are indeed awesome, i caught one once and kept feeding it crickets just to watch it bite the crickets heads off.
This post has been edited by ReaperMan: 02 November 2010 - 07:19 PM
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#2296 Posted 02 November 2010 - 07:20 PM
ReaperMan, on Nov 2 2010, 08:18 PM, said:
The are indeed awesome, i caught one once and kept feeding it crickets just to watch it bite the crickets heads off.
Someone has a couple of videos on YouTube of their Praying Mantis "fishing." Snatching the goldfish out of the kiddie pool and just eating on it for five minutes... Starts chewing through its face at one point and the eye falls out !!! Talk about NAUM NAUM. Lol.
#2298 Posted 03 November 2010 - 03:24 AM
Micky C, on Nov 3 2010, 04:19 AM, said:
Omg those spider things are so UGLY!
You live in Australia, shouldn't you be used to big ugly spiders? From what I've heard, they're everywhere out there.
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#2299 Posted 03 November 2010 - 03:55 AM
my room is infested with daddy long legs, but it's not so much the spider i dislike, it's there fucking webs, i destroy them weekly and they just come back, but the room i sleep in is just shit. so spiders just let them selves in whenever they want, it frustrated me to no end, but i have come to just accept their presence. plus they eat alllll of the flies, they're gonna be really handy once summer get's here.
i have only been bitten by a white tail once, and that was just because i put on some black jeans i left in the corner of the room for like 2 weeks and put them on to go skating, luckily the infected area just blew up like a balloon full of puss and eventually went down and no doctor visit was necessary. Me, 1 || white tail, 0
i have only been bitten by a white tail once, and that was just because i put on some black jeans i left in the corner of the room for like 2 weeks and put them on to go skating, luckily the infected area just blew up like a balloon full of puss and eventually went down and no doctor visit was necessary. Me, 1 || white tail, 0
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#2300 Posted 03 November 2010 - 10:23 AM
"Hillary Clinton arrives in Wellington"
http://www.3news.co.nz/Hillary-Clinton-arr...53/Default.aspx
Oh for fuck sakes.
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Anti-war protesters have already signalled that they will picket outside Parliament when Clinton signs the Wellington Declaration co-operation treaty today.
Oh for fuck sakes.
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#2301 Posted 03 November 2010 - 11:42 AM
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US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has arrived in Wellington this morning for a visit described as "a public declaration of warmth" between the two countries.
Ugh, the only thing worse than treaties creating false friendships between countries (who honestly don't give a shit about each other) solely to build morale of the citizens and give positive PR to desperate politicians is when they make it sound COMPLETELY FUCKING GAY.
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#2302 Posted 03 November 2010 - 01:00 PM
EmericaSkater, on Nov 3 2010, 09:54 PM, said:
You live in Australia, shouldn't you be used to big ugly spiders? From what I've heard, they're everywhere out there.
I haven't seen anything special here lately but those spiders in the pics were really hairy and everything. I'd probably pay to see them in some kind of insect freakshow.
P.s for the first time in my lifetime the Australian Dollar is worth more than the U.S dollar!
This post has been edited by Micky C: 03 November 2010 - 01:09 PM
#2303 Posted 03 November 2010 - 08:14 PM
Commando Nukem, on Nov 2 2010, 11:20 PM, said:
Someone has a couple of videos on YouTube of their Praying Mantis "fishing." Snatching the goldfish out of the kiddie pool and just eating on it for five minutes... Starts chewing through its face at one point and the eye falls out !!! Talk about NAUM NAUM. Lol.
This one?
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=mf2Kpqf848w
I love this video
Also i love this quote from that article Commander.
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global killing escapade that they call the war on terrorism
So does that mean its OK to leave roadside bombs, crash planes into buildings, bomb trains and strap bombs to children?
BTW why is New Zealand getting involved in this anyway?
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#2304 Posted 04 November 2010 - 12:11 AM
They are just stupid peace activists who think that we shouldn't have our SAS troops over in Afghanistan etc.
I just see that Hillary being here can open the way for an open trade agreement with our two countries which can be of great value.
I just see that Hillary being here can open the way for an open trade agreement with our two countries which can be of great value.
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#2305 Posted 04 November 2010 - 02:30 PM
I hate peace activists. Pacifism just makes a person easier to kill.
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#2306 Posted 05 November 2010 - 07:42 AM
Mr.Flibble, on Nov 4 2010, 03:30 PM, said:
I hate peace activists. Pacifism just makes a person easier to kill.
Its unnatural!
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#2307 Posted 05 November 2010 - 07:47 AM
I'm pro-evolution because eugenics has a bad rep right now. If you can't fend for yourself, you shouldn't be allowed to reproduce. I'm thinking of the betterment of the human race!
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#2308 Posted 05 November 2010 - 01:13 PM
Whoa this is starting to go along the ethics road. I hate ethics, well I don't hate it, but at my school we have this compulsory ethics class and it's just so pointless! I wrote an essay on abortion, had lots of valid points and well written from a grammar viewpoint, but I got a D! (that's a literal fail.)
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#2309 Posted 05 November 2010 - 02:01 PM
Micky C, on Nov 5 2010, 05:13 PM, said:
had lots of valid points and well written from a grammar viewpoint, but I got a D
Obviously your teacher didn't think you made valid points or had any level of grammatical competency. Or your teacher is one of those people who fails you if you don't agree with them.
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#2310 Posted 05 November 2010 - 07:19 PM
Well I can't remember the exact term she used but she said I was very callous about it. I guess part of the assessment was to be able to empathize with people on both sides of the debate, and while I explained the points from everyone's perspective, I find trouble empathizing with people who object decisions like stem cells on a purely emotional/religious/unnecissarily and excessively moral basis, as these people are completely closed off to reasoning and logic. If people don't like stem cells so much because they can potentially become human beings, why don't they not eat fruit and vegetables? They could potentially become plants, god forbid.
