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I keep tarantulas, scorpions, tailless whip scorpions, constrictor and venemous snakes, mantids and assassin bugs. Never once been attacked, hurt or scared. As long as you treat them well, they do the same to you.
Codex: Grey Knights touched me in the bad place...
Miraclefish wrote:I keep tarantulas, scorpions, tailless whip scorpions, constrictor and venemous snakes, mantids and assassin bugs. Never once been attacked, hurt or scared. As long as you treat them well, they do the same to you.
Miraclefish wrote:I keep tarantulas, scorpions, tailless whip scorpions, constrictor and venemous snakes, mantids and assassin bugs. Never once been attacked, hurt or scared. As long as you treat them well, they do the same to you.
It's more a case of knowing what your doing then treating them well though
How about those of you who are afraid of insects move to AUS and I can introduce you to some creatures that are worth being afraid of.
Spiders smaller than your fingernail that can kill you with one bite in under 20min.
Lizards that can measure over 20ft long and would eat Jaws for breakfast.
Taipans...
Box jellyfish, which keep more swimmers out of the water at the beach than any SyFy or Jaws film ever has.
MikZor wrote:
We can't help that american D&D is pretty much daily life for us (Aussies)
Walking to shops, "i'll take a short cut through this bush", random encounter! Lizard with no legs.....
I kid Since i avoid bushlands that is But we're not that bad... are we?
AvatarForm wrote:How about those of you who are afraid of insects move to AUS and I can introduce you to some creatures that are worth being afraid of.
Spiders smaller than your fingernail that can kill you with one bite in under 20min.
Lizards that can measure over 20ft long and would eat Jaws for breakfast.
Taipans...
Box jellyfish, which keep more swimmers out of the water at the beach than any SyFy or Jaws film ever has.
DOn't forget spiders that will actually chase you down, for no other reason then they hate you.
Oh and these guys
H.B.M.C. wrote:
"Balance, playtesting - a casual gamer craves not these things!" - Yoda, a casual gamer.
Three things matter in marksmanship -
location, location, location
MagickalMemories wrote:How about making another fist?
One can be, "Da Fist uv Mork" and the second can be, "Da Uvver Fist uv Mork."
Make a third, and it can be, "Da Uvver Uvver Fist uv Mork"
Eric
corpsesarefun wrote:Remind me why anyone lives in Aus?
Because we don't have Obama, or Republicans, or FOX NEWS, or CNN, or Bush Jr...
MikZor wrote:
We can't help that american D&D is pretty much daily life for us (Aussies)
Walking to shops, "i'll take a short cut through this bush", random encounter! Lizard with no legs.....
I kid Since i avoid bushlands that is But we're not that bad... are we?
corpsesarefun wrote:Remind me why anyone lives in Aus?
Because we don't have Obama, or Republicans, or FOX NEWS, or CNN, or Bush Jr...
And because they have incredible beaches and great weather for a lot of the year. Unfortunately EVERYTHING can kill you. Even their mammals can have venomous stings. Why, platypus, why?!
Codex: Grey Knights touched me in the bad place...
While not an arthropod, I used to keep these as pets when I was younger. I love them, they're fun to watch, but, sadly, you cant/shouldn't hold them in your hand, since they're moderately poisonous(but not a threat to humans, but lethal to most fish and other small pets). You can find them at most pet stores.
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halonachos wrote:Tarantula bites can cause muscle spasms, but they aren't fatal just very, very painful I read.
That depends, many old-world tatantulas do that, many new-world tarantulas cause slight necrosis, assuming you get it treated quickly, but, in the 4 years having and handling them, I've never been bitten. I have new-world tarantulas, one chilean rose hair, and a pink toed tarantula, both of them live alone though, because all spiders are cannibals.
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captain fantastic wrote: Seems like this thread is all that's left of Remilia Scarlet (the poster).
remilia_scarlet wrote:While not an arthropod, I used to keep these as pets when I was younger. I love them, they're fun to watch, but, sadly, you cant/shouldn't hold them in your hand, since they're moderately poisonous(but not a threat to humans, but lethal to most fish and other small pets). You can find them at most pet stores.
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halonachos wrote:Tarantula bites can cause muscle spasms, but they aren't fatal just very, very painful I read.
That depends, many old-world tatantulas do that, many new-world tarantulas cause slight necrosis, assuming you get it treated quickly, but, in the 4 years having and handling them, I've never been bitten. I have new-world tarantulas, one chilean rose hair, and a pink toed tarantula, both of them live alone though, because all spiders are cannibals.
Well as a rule, they are, yep. They're opportunists. But some Avicularas and Poecilotheria can and do happily live communally.
Old world Ts have the most potent venom, especially the pokies, but new world ones often get bigger and so cause more mechanically medically significant bites. I know someone bitten by a Goliath with 1.25 inch fangs. It went through his thumbnail...
Codex: Grey Knights touched me in the bad place...
corpsesarefun wrote:Logic by definition is irrelevant when it comes to deep seated fears and phobias.
My fear of murky water probably has a similar cause.
To be truthful, I have been pondering this over the weekend. Why is it that despite knowing that the moth fluttering around my lightbulb would be no match for my mighty foot, I still cannot enter the same room as it? I mean, I thought by now we would have instinctively evolved some sort of primitive behaviour where we automatically know that we are able to kill bugs in a heartbeat, and so being afraid of them is pointless, yet still we clamber on chairs to avoid a roach, and cower beneath the duvet at the first sign of a moth...
greenskin lynn wrote:relative of mine had preying mantises hatch from their christmas tree one year........
kill it... kill it with fire...
Cheesecat wrote:You think mantises are bad, I'll take them anyday over horseflies and wasps.
To be honest, wasps are another bane of mine, but I know that thankfully (excluding those wierd hyper-agressive tropical species) you can take them out with a can of RAID. However a mantis, well I don't see that going down without a fight...
Also, to all the comments about the daddy long legs/harvestman, apparently that's also a quite common nickname globally, so we have 3 things with the same nickname, none of them deadly to humans, and all very creepy
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And that is why you hear people yelling FOR THE EMPEROR rather than FOR LOGICAL AND QUANTIFIABLE BASED DECISIONS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE MAJORITY!
Phototoxin wrote:Kids go in , they waste tonnes of money on marnus calgar and his landraider, the slaneshi-like GW revel at this lust and short term profit margin pleasure. Meanwhile father time and cunning lord tzeentch whisper 'our games are better AND cheaper' and then players leave for mantic and warmahordes.
daveNYC wrote:The Craftworld guys, who are such stick-in-the-muds that they manage to make the Ultramarines look like an Ibiza nightclub that spiked its Red Bull with LSD.
And that is why you hear people yelling FOR THE EMPEROR rather than FOR LOGICAL AND QUANTIFIABLE BASED DECISIONS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE MAJORITY!
Phototoxin wrote:Kids go in , they waste tonnes of money on marnus calgar and his landraider, the slaneshi-like GW revel at this lust and short term profit margin pleasure. Meanwhile father time and cunning lord tzeentch whisper 'our games are better AND cheaper' and then players leave for mantic and warmahordes.
daveNYC wrote:The Craftworld guys, who are such stick-in-the-muds that they manage to make the Ultramarines look like an Ibiza nightclub that spiked its Red Bull with LSD.
May the the blessings of His Grace the Emperor tumble down upon you like a golden fog. (Only a VERY select few will get this reference. And it's not from 40k. )
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