I mean, they’re better than ticks or chiggers, but what the fuck? Just as I get all comfy into bed and start to doze, some big-ass spider that looks like it could chow down on a medium sized collie for a snack desides to crawl over my pillow THREE INCHES FROM MY FACE!! Now I gotta get up and hunt for the damn thing with a croquet mallet for hours on end and have a restless night afterward due to uncomfortable crawling sensations all over my balls. After waking up and slapping yourself in the nads twice see how much you like spiders. I rest my case. I HATE those little shits!!! Argg!!
Roaches are worse. Pretty awesome when a couple of nights ago I halfway awoke with the feeling that something was crawling on me. I was in a near comatose state and simply rolled over. Flash forward two days and I find a huge dead roach in my bed. That was just great.
I can top that. Imagine being woken from a nice snooze by a spider crawling ON your face.
Yeah, I hate the little bastards too. They’ve chosen to invade our house… I had to smash five of them yesterday. Three in the space of five minutes.
Awwww. C’mon. We have a nice little spider in our bathroom right now. He’s about 3/4 of an inch long and lives in the corner behind the toilet. I wave at him when I pee. He doesn’t bug us and we don’t bug him. He does a good job of keeping the ants down. Hmmm. Maybe I should sweep one of these days…
Depending upon how badly you hate spiders and how susceptible to insomnia you are, you might not want to go here:
Unknown Poisonous Spider Invades Bowels of Windsor Castle
As far as I know, this is for real. Gave me the willies, too, and I like spiders for the most part.
Why does this just make me think of the movie Aliens?
Y’know, Smeggy, if the damn things would succumb to the urge to climb all over my body (I know I’m irresistable, but that’s beside the point!) I wouldn’t care. Hell, we have a Daddy Longlegs (note: I feel utterly ridiculous typing that particular name for a spider) hangin’ out in the corner of our kitchen. He never leaves his damn web.
It’s the Guerrila Spiders that have me worried. Them’s the enemy… (and ever since I read that Black Widows like to hide in the sleeves of jackets/sweaters, I’ve been nervous when putting on clothing ever since).
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Spider woman, that’s a cute little Spider Smiley, but I gotta agree with the OP. I know they’re good for this and that and the other thing but GOD THEY GIVE ME THE CREEPS.
If I start to think about how many there are lurking in my house, yard, bathroom, bed, I’ll go stark raving mad. Which I why I am fleeing this thread quickly.
I hate spiders, the guy likes them. He is resisting his manly duty to kill them immediately when I see one.
(smeghead - 3/4 inch long spider?!? AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!)
::runs screaming out of this thread::
SPOOFE - what we call “daddy longlegs” in the UK are actually craneflies - six legged insects with wings that don’t build webs. Either you have a different definition or that isn’t a daddy longlegs.
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(Oh yeah - my take on the OP. Well spiders and I used to have an arrangement - they don’t come near me and I won’t go near them. However since the kabbess is terrified of the little buggers I now am on duty to slay mercilessly each one I come across in the house. Of course being a vegetarian, she always tells me off for not picking them up and putting them gently outside, but as I tells her: if that’s what she wants then she can bloody well do it herself.)
According to http://www.m-w.com daddy longlegs can refer to either crane flies or “harvestmen” (never heard of these before). The latter is an arachnid, apparently, but not a spider. Make of that what you will.
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Does any one else think its funny that the Dark Prince is afraid of spiders?
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I’m afraid of spiders, but I’m just a wuss by nature. But c’mon! the** Dark Prince** here.
(Sorry, I really am…just… I am the only one amused, aren’t I?)
[sub]You could do so much with that username. “The Dark Prince buys bunny slippers.” “The Dark Prince is forced to ice skate.” Okay, I’m done now.[/sub]
I must have been a fly in a previous life, because I absolutely DETEST spiders!
My home has been recenly invaded by Zebra spiders! Those rotten little things JUMP and then when you come near they spin those little bodies around to stare at you with those 8 little eyeballs!!
::uncontrollable shudder::
Basically, I smash the hell out of them with a fly swatter until they are dust, just to make sure they’re dead.
Sometimes I use Raid…depends on how large the spider is.
Murderers!!!
seeing as last night we killed a BIG ** Black Widow ** haging out behind the stereo.
I think spiders in general are a very good thing, and so long as they don’t crawl on me or near me, I am very supportive of their existances. ** Except ** for Black Widows. And now that I know they are IN my house as opposed to AROUND my house, I am very upset. I am telling Pump Action Gerbil that we have got to get exterminators out here… one false reach without looking, and one of us could end up writhing in agony for a week. Or worse yet, my dog could be killed.
The only tiny calming thought I have is that they are indeed very shy, and they don’t want to bite me, they want to get the fuck away from me. But still…
stoid
freaked out.
If you live in a large enough city, the yellow pages work nicely for this task. 
Personally, I can’t stand wolf spiders. They range in size from 1/4 of an inch to an inch long (leg-span included), and will actually chase you! Ick.
I like house spiders though, and I try to keep about 3 or 4 somewhere in my apartment at all times. As Smeghead mentioned, they do an excellent job of getting rid of ants, and they pretty much stay out of the way.
This is one of my favorite spiders. It’s very small, non-aggressive, and makes a nice patio decoration.
boomvark, that link you posted is terrifying! One of my best pals lives in sight of Windsor, so I had to email her the article. I’m sure I’ll get written out of her will for scaring her like that, but I just want to make sure she’s aware. Ugh - I’ve got the willies just thinking about giant red and black spiders swarming out of an underground tunnel.
::involuntary shudder::
I try to remember that Spiders Are Our Friends, but they just have an inhuman number of legs, and it makes me squirmy to be near one.
I really don’t mind spiders. I don’t love em either, so I wouldn’t let them crawl on me. I guess Black Widows give me the willies, but what spider scares the bejezus out of me is the Brown Recluse. Black Widow my butt, if it bites you, unless your a little toddler, you might get sick. Brown Recluse, on the other hand, will rot your skin and if it is not taken care of cause gangrene which can lead to death if not taken care of. (I heard treatement for a BR bite is pretty painful too)
I saw over 150 spiders at my former apartment in the one year I lived there, and every stinking single spider I saw there was a brown recluse. In my bathtub, in my dresser drawers, crawling across the floor, on my door handles, where ever I went, they were there. Death to brown recluse spiders!!
Talk about hating spiders. I don’t like em anyway and now one bit me under my eye and my eye is swollen shut. Nasty eight-legged motherfuckers.