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...I think that's just enough dakka to purge the planet of the camel spider infestation

And there is currently 15 in service.

Lets use two....just to be safe. Arachnids always have some trick up their sleeves

helgrenze wrote:

sarpedons-right-hand wrote:I feel a little jealous (perversely), because living in the wilds of west Oxfordshire, the only creepy things I ever see are the common Garden Spider

Hope to fill my 'Creepy Creature' quotient when I go to the Philippines in March...

Or I could just spend a saturday night in Soho....

As I recall some of the creepiest things in P.I. are some of the "bar girls".....

Lol, yes that's more true than you know..... Having been to the Philippines 6 times already (I have family out there) and having spent some 'interesting' nights out in the Manila red light districts with my Brother in law, I can attest to that....

However, they were some of the best nights out I've ever had. Don't know what that says about me......

mega_bassist wrote:Lets use two....just to be safe. Arachnids always have some trick up their sleeves

Why not all 15. There is no such thing as overkill. As I recently posted on Facebook-

The Emperor's Will be done, or he will smite you with large guns and massive swords of awesomely massively massive awesome swords of Holy awesomely awesomeness, and laugh over your dead body while the poor imperial soldiers get pimp slapped into building him a statue.

...

...If they can take down Captain Kirk, they can take down anyone...

Anything that reproduces can take down Captain Kirk.

That is every living thing.

Nerivant wrote:Anything that reproduces can take down Captain Kirk.

...In all actuality, my initial post was meant to be taken very tongue in cheek...but...meh.

I never realized Capt. Kirk could have such an awesome "derp" face when fighting against spiders. Hmmmm.

Fitzz, what movie is that from?

mega_bassist wrote:I never realized Capt. Kirk could have such an awesome "derp" face when fighting against spiders. Hmmmm.

Fitzz, what movie is that from?

It's from a little gem called " Kingdom of the Spiders"

Is that the one where at the end this entire town is covered with spider webs and some people are trapped inside of their house? Cause it sounds pretty familiar...

I wonder if Mystery Science Theatre made fun of it...

mega_bassist wrote:Is that the one where at the end this entire town is covered with spider webs and some people are trapped inside of their house? Cause it sounds pretty familiar...

I wonder if Mystery Science Theatre made fun of it...

Yup, that's the one...
Haven't seen it on MST3K...but it sure would make excellent fodder for the show.

sarpedons-right-hand wrote:Careful? Careful?! I'd never leave my house and live in a full EVA suit. Even then I might not survive
Seriously, I know it's a stunning country and all that, but the Yorkshire dales are amazing and the plus side is you don't run the risk of an agonising spasming death every time you take your dog for walkies!!

Guess again.

Australian spiders live in houses and crawl into suits.




I remember an Oz government snake catcher with tag on film team documentary with this family calling about some huge brown, pissed off and very very toxic snake found nesting under their house for the second time in a week, and they had small kids playing nearby. To the snake catcher team this was routine work.

I guess growing up with, and respecting, creepy crawlies that can kill you is gonna keep you safer than a flat footed whinging pom who does not know the difference between a Black Widow and a hole in the ground!

sarpedons-right-hand wrote:I guess growing up with, and respecting, creepy crawlies that can kill you is gonna keep you safer than a flat footed whinging pom who does not know the difference between a Black Widow and a hole in the ground!

I know the difference, you can stick you fingers in holes in the ground.

er can you?

We get Stag Beetles about the size of a woman's fist in June and July around here. We also get the big a$$ hornets that were posted earlier in the thread. Now is the time of the giant black and yellow spiders that are everywhere. Japan goes Bug Free between December and February, but then the ticks are out in March. Cats are a necessity here if you don't like bugs. Especially for flying cockroaches. Bug spray does nothing. You pretty much have to light them on fire to kill them, or set the pussy on 'em.

Khornholio wrote:We get Stag Beetles about the size of a woman's fist in June and July around here. We also get the big a$$ hornets that were posted earlier in the thread. Now is the time of the giant black and yellow spiders that are everywhere. Japan goes Bug Free between December and February, but then the ticks are out in March. Cats are a necessity here if you don't like bugs. Especially for flying cockroaches. Bug spray does nothing. You pretty much have to light them on fire to kill them, or set the pussy on 'em.

Oh, boy. Don't forget about the cicadas over there. My mom lived there in her twenties, and said that kids used to poke them with sticks and it sounded like a dying cat on fire. YYEAAAANGGGGEAAAAAAA is pretty close. Saw one of those stag beetles a few years ago at my last visit. Those things are like frigging tank bugs from SST.

Karon wrote:

feth these things.

There is one on my door as I write this message.... Lucky I don't use the door

guyperson5 wrote:

Karon wrote:

feth these things.

There is one on my door as I write this message.... Lucky I don't use the door

Erm, wtf is that?!

Khornholio wrote:We get Stag Beetles about the size of a woman's fist in June and July around here. We also get the big a$$ hornets that were posted earlier in the thread. Now is the time of the giant black and yellow spiders that are everywhere. Japan goes Bug Free between December and February, but then the ticks are out in March. Cats are a necessity here if you don't like bugs. Especially for flying cockroaches. Bug spray does nothing. You pretty much have to light them on fire to kill them, or set the pussy on 'em.

Apparently cockroaches can survive nuclear weapons or something. I doubt that, but if it is terue we are all :blep:ed.

Deadshot wrote:

Khornholio wrote:We get Stag Beetles about the size of a woman's fist in June and July around here. We also get the big a$$ hornets that were posted earlier in the thread. Now is the time of the giant black and yellow spiders that are everywhere. Japan goes Bug Free between December and February, but then the ticks are out in March. Cats are a necessity here if you don't like bugs. Especially for flying cockroaches. Bug spray does nothing. You pretty much have to light them on fire to kill them, or set the pussy on 'em.

Apparently cockroaches can survive nuclear weapons or something. I doubt that, but if it is terue we are all :blep:ed.

I have no idea where this myth comes from, but it's just that; a myth.

A cockroach would not survive being in the blast radius of a nuclear weapon.

As far as radiation tolerance goes, they're actually pretty low on the totem pole.

Thank god I have a handgun and never plan to go to Japan... those wasps look like the descendents of Mothra, but bigger!

sarpedons-right-hand wrote:

guyperson5 wrote:

Karon wrote:

feth these things.

There is one on my door as I write this message.... Lucky I don't use the door

Erm, wtf is that?!

Popcorn Spider see them all the time here. They're pretty small actually. About the size of popcorn.

Sorry why are those popcorn spiders scary? they look harmless to me.

They deadly?

Google says no...

corpsesarefun wrote:Sorry why are those popcorn spiders scary? they look harmless to me.

Yeah, I don't understand either...

When i was stationed in egypt we used to have Camel spider fights, cut the bottom off a couple of two liters and put em together and shake. Instant fun, if only for a second or two.

corpsesarefun wrote:Google says no...

Cheesecat wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:Sorry why are those popcorn spiders scary? they look harmless to me.

Yeah, I don't understand either...

Well if its not dangerous then whats all the hub bub? I dont like the spiders in my house, and I kill them every chance I get. That doesnt mean Im scared of them. Now if the same spiders could bite me, and make my arm rot off....then ya....scared