# Goddamnit I hate spiders!!!!!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [June 25, 2001, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060 "2001-06-25T07:13:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@DarkPrince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkPrince)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2001, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060/1 "2001-06-25T07:13:41Z")
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!!
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### Author:  [@TexasSpur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexasSpur)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2001, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060/2 "2001-06-25T07:25:51Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2001, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060/3 "2001-06-25T07:29:12Z")
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> 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!!
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.
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2001, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060/4 "2001-06-25T07:40:48Z")
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…
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### Author:  [@boomvark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boomvark)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2001, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060/5 "2001-06-25T07:42:21Z")
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](http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,509027,00.html)
As far as I know, this is for real. Gave me the willies, too, and I _like_ spiders for the most part.
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### Author:  [@DarkPrince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkPrince)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2001, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060/6 "2001-06-25T08:28:43Z")
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> A BT spokesman said yesterday: "They’re large and there are many of them.
Why does this just make me think of the movie _Aliens_?
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### Author:  [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2001, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060/7 "2001-06-25T09:28:59Z")
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> 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.
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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### Author:  [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2001, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060/8 "2001-06-25T11:25:45Z")
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### Author:  [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2001, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060/9 "2001-06-25T13:56:13Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2001, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060/10 "2001-06-25T14:04:44Z")
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::
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### Author:  [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2001, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060/11 "2001-06-25T14:51:43Z")
**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.
pan
(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.)
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### Author:  [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2001, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060/12 "2001-06-25T15:10:05Z")
According to [http://www.m-w.com](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.
pan
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### Author:  [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2001, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060/13 "2001-06-25T15:52:04Z")
Does any one else think its funny that the **Dark Prince** is afraid of spiders?
_snicker_
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]
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### Author:  [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2001, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060/14 "2001-06-25T16:22:29Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2001, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060/15 "2001-06-25T17:07:37Z")
Murderers!!!
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### Author:  [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2001, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060/16 "2001-06-25T18:37:51Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2001, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060/17 "2001-06-25T19:01:50Z")
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> \*Originally posted by DarkPrince \*
> \*\*Now I gotta get up and hunt for the damn thing with a croquet mallet for hours on end \*\*
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](http://www.cbl.umces.edu/~bonda/mngrv432.html) is one of my favorite spiders. It’s very small, non-aggressive, and makes a nice patio decoration.
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### Author:  [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2001, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060/18 "2001-06-25T20:17:44Z")
**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.
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### Author:  [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060/19 "2001-06-26T01:05:46Z")
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!!
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### Author:  [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2001, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goddamnit-i-hate-spiders/70060/20 "2001-06-26T04:50:53Z")
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.
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