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irrationally are usually one’s whose mode of movement is either invisible or worryingly unlike our own, or a combination of the two.
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thus…snakes = no legs
spiders = legs tend to move to fast to see them
rats/small rodents = scuttle on tiny little legs (explains why bounding squirrels don’t bother usalso maybe this is why lions and hippos are much more dangerous (in broad terms), but we kind of don’t mind the idea of them, at least outside of a real-life one-on-one encounter…
Well I am petrified of rats and I speak as one who scuttles about on little legs
. I don’t like mice either. There was some footage of a major mouse infestation in the States on Paul O’Grady’s show this evening and I couldn’t even look at the screen.Spiders don’t bother me. I tend to be the spider remover in our house. However, there’s a lot of Daddy Longlegs around at the moment and I really can’t handle them
. They fly about with seemingly no purpose or direction. They make me shiver.I can pick up Daddy Long Legs with no problem but am petrified of spiders. Seven Towers Towers is also home to 21 snakes (half of them babies I’ve bred this year,) as well as me and the wife, I’ve kept them on and off for 17 years. I love snakes to bits but can’t be bothered with the huge ones, my largest is a civilised 5ft long. People can’t understand how I can keep snakes yet throw a blue fit seeing a spider the size of a £2 coin running around. It’s the running that does it, I can cope when they stay still.
Thanks Kt something that I will try anyway anything to stop them coming near me.
AND THAT PICTURE OF THAT SPIDER MADE ME JUMP OUT MY CHAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
daddy long legs aren’t scary just so annoying lol, beetles are nice i like them butterflys more so too, and moths
Spiders, Bees, Wasps, cockroaches…anything like that and i’m off, sends me into a panic lol never been stung i run away too fast for them, as soon as I see one it’s flight time…the switch is off
That’s quite an interesting point the welsh wizard made, how the animals we are most scared of have small or no legs, although with spiders the darker in colour they are the more scared i am of them, but the legs also play a huge part in that.Seven Towers Towers is also home to 21 snakes (half of them babies I’ve bred this year,)
WTF?!?!? You live in the same county as me and you have a whole agglomeration of adders, asps, anacondas and aaaaaarrghboaconstrictors going about their heinous, excrable, slithery business in your Barratt home?!?!?
You could be one of the weird couple next door for all I know!
What if there is an escape?
(Of the snakes, not you and your other half).
There I’ll be, peacably sitting at the PC, trying to unpick a particularly fine John Wade Selling Handicap Hurdle (qualifier) at Sedgy the following day, when I’ll look up and think, "Funny, I don’t remember my PC’s monitor having an orange cable".
And I’d be right! Because on closer inspection that orange lead will be something long, thin, reptillian, African and very, very poisonous. And despite meeting most of these criteria, it won’t be Robert Mugabe.
And lo! That lead will uncoil itself from around said PC to reveal its true snakey form, and it will sail clean over my head with a single tail-propelled leap as if a coiled spring, and it will land in Mrs Column’s cleavage.
And as I protest as it bites my bird right in the boobs, he’ll look up and cruelly, dismissively, maliciously smile at me, and retort…
"Fangs for the mammary!"
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
spiders, snakes, rats love ’em
but big black/red/white slugs…yuk, the stuff of nightmares
snails are okay
My friends consider me abnormal because I love spiders, and I love snakes, and all creepy-crawlies
Whenever there’s a spider in the house, if it needs removing because of some phobic wimp, I pick it up and put it in my room…it’s a bit cruel to put house spiders outside.
I’m not sure how to get rid of them. The conker theory is pretty interesting…haven’t heard of it before but why not give it a try?
There’s something quite comforting about having a spider on the wall of my room. They’re very harmless and it’s always good to have company.
My friends consider me abnormal because I love spiders, and I love snakes, and all creepy-crawlies
Making a quick dig here about the voluminous snakes, maggots and other slimy, unpleasant creatures in the Conservative party at this stage would just be soooooooooooo easy.
So I won’t.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
My friends consider me abnormal because I love spiders, and I love snakes, and all creepy-crawlies
Whenever there’s a spider in the house, if it needs removing because of some phobic wimp, I pick it up and put it in my room…it’s a bit cruel to put house spiders outside.
I’m not sure how to get rid of them. The conker theory is pretty interesting…haven’t heard of it before but why not give it a try?
There’s something quite comforting about having a spider on the wall of my room. They’re very harmless and it’s always good to have company.
Can I hire you please
Wish I was like that, they seem to pop in my bed for a snuggle, shouldn’t have the bed by the window should I lolWould quite like to have a snake, they sound fun slithering about all innocent, or a lizard awwww a little lizard! Would call the snake Trixy and the lizard Topaz haha
My mam was passing through a park today so I asked her to get me some conkers. She came home with a bag full of acorns
Oh well, instead of getting rid of the spiders I have a house full of Squirrels.
Don’t you just love nature.
Talking about spiders and creepy crawlies, does anyone else go all itchy, like scratch your head, and your arms, and your legs go all itchy etc – just when you talk about them that is.
Mike
My mam was passing through a park today so I asked her to get me some conkers. She came home with a bag full of acorns
Oh well, instead of getting rid of the spiders I have a house full of Squirrels. One night a few weeks before now, Zoz walks into her house after night out with ‘that gang’ she works with (note: jewellers can out-do rugby players at being loud when they’ve had a few – who knew?!).
Zoz’s two greyhounds promptly go mental, and barge around barking "where the merry hell do you think you’ve been all night?"
Zoz (stage whispers as Mother Zoz is upstairs asleep): "Ssssh! Sssssssssh!!!!!!!! Would you shut the bloomin hell up!!!!"
Greyhounds blatantly ignore Zoz, who wades past them towards the kitchen to get a glass of water, still trying desperately, and without making noise, to get the greyhounds to be quiet.
Zoz sees a spider the size of a rat on the kitchen floor in the middle of the doorway.
Zoz forgets all about Mother Zoz’s beauty sleep, and the neighbour’s for that matter, and yells HOLY BLOODY CRAP!!!! (and the rest) at the top of her lungs whilst in fear for her very life.
This all later descends into a wonderful comedy sketch in which Zoz can’t be brave enough to walk past / jump over said spider and instead decides to throw a shoe at it, which just pissed it off, because Zoz has crap aim, so she had to throw another shoe at it, and then……
It was a long night.
I bet you sobered up pretty quick!I went to the letter box one day (in Australia, they are outside) and it was at the time when (god knows why
) the ‘in’ jewelry of the season was models of red back spiders. You could get them for earrings and bangles and necklaces……….. They’re a strange lot the Aussies….. anyway the reason they make realistic jewelry is because they look like shiny hard plastic……….. anyway I lifted the lid on the letter box and there in the corner was what I thought was a piece of jewelry and I thought, ‘oh that’s nice, a freebie’ . 
…………….. so, all for a freebie, I put my hand in to pick it up – I was soooooo lucky because before I managed to get a finger on it it moved………. I was classified as a UFO that day I jumped so high. ……………hmmmm! a post where one refers to oneself in the third person……….very revealing that!
Colin
. I don’t like mice either. There was some footage of a major mouse infestation in the States on Paul O’Grady’s show this evening and I couldn’t even look at the screen.
. They fly about with seemingly no purpose or direction. They make me shiver.
butterflys more so too, and moths
Wish I was like that, they seem to pop in my bed for a snuggle, shouldn’t have the bed by the window should I lol
…………….. so, all for a freebie, I put my hand in to pick it up – I was soooooo lucky because before I managed to get a finger on it it moved………. I was classified as a UFO that day I jumped so high. 
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