Spiders dying in the cold

[NerdGirl]

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/68863/

You should probably see this before you decide that you want your spiders to die (there might be a few swear words here): http://www.quickmeme.com/Misunderstood-Spider/

[Yog in Neverland]

:*(
That poor spider.

This is why I save spiders.

[yayfulness]

I don't like killing spiders. Except brown recluses. Brown recluses must die.

[NerdGirl]

They only want to hug you with all 8 of their arms.

[Zedability]

If I see a spider, it's getting squished. Preferably, someone else is doing the squishing, too. Although if someone wants to pick it up and carry it far away, I'm ok with that route too.

[yayfulness]

They only want to hug you with all 8 of their arms.

Yeah. But I don't want any brown recluse kisses.

[NerdGirl]

I probably should mention that in real life I hate spiders almost as much as I hate centipedes before I jinx myself with this thread and wake up to find some spiders giving me hugs with their poisonous hairy arms.

[yayfulness]

I'll take centipedes over brown recluses any day. Bugs in general don't bug me (har har) unless they're actually dangerous. Normally I won't do a thing to spiders, or I'll move them outdoors if I can, but brown recluses rank pretty high on the Nasty Things Will Happen To You scale, and they're fast, and they were ALL OVER THE PLACE on my mission, so extermination was pretty much the only option.

Bonus points to anyone who read that in a Dalek accent.

[Portia]

Bonus points to anyone who read that in a Dalek accent.

So you're saying that Benedict Cumberbatch was your mission companion, basically.

[Yarjka]

Yeah, pretty much any bug is better than a spider. I'll kill the bugs too, but they're generally easier to kill than spiders (who are generally quite fast).

House centipedes are the worst, though, but luckily I've only seen two in my life (but in terrible places--on my forehead when I woke up and in my bathtowel when I went to dry my head--these two experiences have left me quite traumatized).

[Marduk]

Pretty much any bug is worse than a spider. I never kill them (on purpose.)

[bobtheenchantedone]

Sorry, spiders, but you FREAK ME OUT. If you would just stop doing that, I would stop squishing you. *shudder*

Speaking of bugs in terrible places, I once found an earwig on my bath sponge. Just after I finished washing myself with it.

[Portia]

I love how poetic this thread title is. Can we make all our threads have Wordworthian bon mot titles?

spiders dying in the cold
eater of insects
sorry but you freak me out

[Craig Jessop]

I didn't use to be afraid of spiders, but now they freak me out. There have been several to meet their untimely deaths by my heavy and swift hand recently.

[Emiliana]

I don't mind small spiders, or small bugs of most kinds. But rain spiders (do not click this if you don't want to look at a very nasty photo of a spider) that I ran into in Zambia and Uganda FREAKED THE HELL OUT OF ME. Seriously, those things get so big you can actually hear their feet rat-tat-tatting across the floor. Ugh.

[Zedability]

I don't mind small spiders, or small bugs of most kinds. But rain spiders (do not click this if you don't want to look at a very nasty photo of a spider) that I ran into in Zambia and Uganda FREAKED THE HELL OUT OF ME. Seriously, those things get so big you can actually hear their feet rat-tat-tatting across the floor. Ugh.

I know what I'm having nightmares about tonight.

[Yarjka]

Yeah, but giant cockroaches and beetles don't freak me out the same way even medium-sized spiders do. It's not that they're soft, because I'm not freaked out by caterpillars or moths. There's just something about spiders....

[Marduk]

Yeah, but giant cockroaches and beetles don't freak me out the same way even medium-sized spiders do. It's not that they're soft, because I'm not freaked out by caterpillars or moths. There's just something about spiders....

Give me a hundred spiders over a single roach. Those things are DISGUSTING. And I don't have hard numbers, but I'd put money on them being responsible for far more human death than spiders. Creeping Crawling Disease Magnets, that's what they are.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

Story about cockroaches:

I had a mission companion who was really squeamish about the littlest cockroach. He had no problem squishing them, but he HAD to have a kleenex to kill it with, or else he could NOT do it. This was a problem, though, because by the time that he usually got a kleenex, that sucker was long gone. I, on the other hand, had discovered that the little ones do not present a huge problem to a human thumb, as long as you wash it in a timely manner. Eventually, I convince this young man (Elder Squints) that he can, in fact, actually kill a cockroach. (Note: the cockroaches that we were killing, I reiterate, were all less than a centimeter long. I think we had like two that were up to 1.5 cm the whole time that I was with him, and by the time he left, we were cockroach free).

Fast forward: I get a new companion, and Elder Squints moves up with Elder Tall (who is one of my good friends, now, etc. etc.). Then Elder Tall and I both train, so Elder Squints gets moved.

After we finish training, I move up and replace Elder Tall, while he goes on to become my zone leader in that same zone. One day, we go on exchanges and are telling stories about Elder Squints (He was somewhat notorious in the mission for being totally lovable because of [or perhaps, in spite of] some serious social... idiosyncrasies).

Anyway, Elder Tall comes on exchanges with me, and he's telling me about the time that he and Elder Squints came in to their apartment (now my apartment) at night, and there was one of those giant sewer cockroaches on the floor. Like, the big ones. 3 cm across, and 8 cm long. Scarier than all get out if they start flying. Yeah. One of those. So they turn on the apartment light, and this beast starts scuttling across the floor away from them to get under the refrigerator. Elder Tall moves to pick up his shoe, but Elder Squints beats him.

He calmly walks to the Beast, lifts up his hand, AND SMASHES THE THING WITH HIS PALM. Guts everywhere, Elder Tall disgusted, and Elder Squints trying to play it off like it was no big deal.

So Elder Tall tells me this story, and I'm like "OH MY GOSH. I DID THAT TO HIM. I INADVERTENTLY MADE HIM KILL A GIANT SEWER COCKROACH WITH HIS BARE HAND." And it was only by the greatest providence of Fate and the Move Call Fairies that made this whole scandal come to complete and utter light.

[Craig Jessop]

I would never EVER EVER EVER kill a cockroach with my bare thumb. EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER.