# I will fight to the death against these new overlords. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 12, 2007, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320 "2007-08-12T05:10:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/21 "2007-08-12T17:54:09Z")
For some unknown reason, some of he spiders in my home desire to become government workers. I’ll be sitting at my workstation here and _doodeedoo_ here comes a tiny spider on her web right down in front of me onto the keyboard. I keep telling her the pay is crap and she’s too industrious to be a government worker, but yet she does this daily. In the basement I don’t mind them. On me while I’m sleeping? I mind terribly. Then they get smushed. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/22 "2007-08-13T04:35:50Z")
[QUOTE=MerryMagdalen] I still get slugs. They get picked up in toilet paper and either thrown out the front window or flushed down the toilet. (I have found slug trails near my bed. Ewww.) [/QUOTE] Slugs? Slugs in your house? Slugs in your \*\* bedroom?!!???\*\* :eek: :eek: :eek: Salt them, I say. Let them dissolve in gooey agony. _horripilates_ Slugs. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Superfreaknduper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Superfreaknduper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfreaknduper)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/23 "2007-08-13T04:54:58Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] Yes, they are cute. They are not, however, spiders. [/QUOTE] you may just have shattered my existence..please explain further. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/24 "2007-08-13T06:50:34Z")
All bugs must die. Spiders are the grossest, so they must go first. Their only hope for survival is to _stay out of my house_!!! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/25 "2007-08-13T06:58:50Z")
[QUOTE=spooje] All bugs must die. Spiders are the grossest, so they must go first. Their only hope for survival is to _stay out of my house_!!! [/QUOTE] Finding the flaw in this plan will be left as an exercise for the reader. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/26 "2007-08-13T07:10:51Z")
If you kill all the spiders, the bugs will have nothing to eat? ---
**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/27 "2007-08-13T10:10:00Z")
The things I call ‘Daddy Longlegs’ are also known as crane flies. Certainly not spiders. I hate them. I squish them and spray toxic stuff at them. Spiders I like. I’ve got a garden spider in both my bathrooms at the moment and running around the house somewhere is a sizable wolf spider. Nothing better than watching a crane fly being caught, injected and wrapped up by a spider a third of it’s size! mwhahaha. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/28 "2007-08-13T10:32:28Z")
[QUOTE=Uvula Donor] Meet clockspider. Let’s [take the clock down and say hello,](http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/02_sotrudnik.thumbnail.jpg) shall we? [/QUOTE] _Jesus_. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/29 "2007-08-13T11:09:22Z")
[QUOTE=Creaky] _Jesus_. [/QUOTE] You’ll have a fuck of a time crucifying him if it is. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/30 "2007-08-13T11:20:03Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] If you kill all the spiders, the bugs will have nothing to eat? [/QUOTE] Spiders are not bugs. bete “the reader” noir But you probably knew that. And that spooje will have to live with millions of flys etc. once he get’s rid of our friend the spider. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/31 "2007-08-13T11:24:52Z")
[QUOTE=Scissorjack] You’ll have a fuck of a time crucifying him if it is. [/QUOTE] Heh, heh, heh. And just imagine how handy he’d have been for family-style eatin’ at the Last Supper. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/32 "2007-08-13T12:37:42Z")
[vocabulary geek hijack] [QUOTE=Morgyn] _horripilates_ [/QUOTE] Wow. That’s a \*fantastic \*word. It’s now my official word of the day, and I plan to work it into conversation at least 6 times before breakfast. Thanks! [/vocabulary geek hijack] ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/33 "2007-08-13T13:01:16Z")
If ever there was a case for justified genocide, spiders are it. Not that there’s many invertebrates I’m on good terms with, but spiders are the worst of the lot. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/34 "2007-08-13T13:09:24Z")
I cannot fathom you dopers who are pro-spider. If I read this correctly, some of you have spiders in your bathrooms and roaming around willy-nilly? And you are okay with this?!? If I had a spider in my bathroom either a.) it would die from blunt-force trauma caused by objects that I threw at it from across the room or b.) I’d be defecating outdoors, never ever to return to the bathroom again. Sweet Jebus, I hate spiders and MeanJoe becomes ScreamingHissyFitRunningAway-Joe when I find a spider in my house, on my porch(s), or exterior windows. At my last house, I had one OUTSIDE my bedroom window who made a large web whose center was near the middle of the window. I could see him, knew mentally that he was outside, and I didn’t sleep for 2 days. I hate, hate, hate spiders. MeanJoe ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/35 "2007-08-13T13:21:17Z")
I don’t mind spiders or bugs in general, unless there are a multitude, or very large. I ran across some spiders while fishing on creeks like this, and wasn’t too pleased. [http://www.pbase.com/mnrovers/image/57663108](http://www.pbase.com/mnrovers/image/57663108) But, I too, cannot grasp how you let spiders live in the house. Even if you just grab them and throw them outside, no biggie, but cohabiting with misc bugs is just wrong, especially in the bedroom. I’d think I was really slacking in cleaning the place up. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/36 "2007-08-13T13:25:24Z")
My neighbor used to have a giant garden spider web in her yard. Pretty much every day after I discovered it, I’d catch some moths from the yard, grab their wings and launch them into the web. Then I’d watch the ensuing struggle and capture. That spider had so many moths on his web, it’s a wonder it didn’t fall apart from the weight. I like spiders. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/37 "2007-08-13T13:32:47Z")
[QUOTE=fisha] I don’t mind spiders or bugs in general, unless there are a multitude, or very large. I ran across some spiders while fishing on creeks like this, and wasn’t too pleased. > **[PBase.com](https://www.pbase.com/mnrovers/image/57663108)** But, I too, cannot grasp how you let spiders live in the house. Even if you just grab them and throw them outside, no biggie, but cohabiting with misc bugs is just wrong, especially in the bedroom. I’d think I was really slacking in cleaning the place up. [/QUOTE] _don’t click that link_ _do NOT click that link_ _don’t do it_ - click - OH SWEET MOTHER F-CKING CHRIST!!! _huddling in the corner sucking thumb_ What the hell is wrong with you people!!! MeanJoe ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/38 "2007-08-13T13:35:14Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] Yes, they are cute. They are not, however, spiders. [/QUOTE] It might be a case of different usage for different countries, but in this part of the world the term Daddy Long Legs most commonly refers to spiders in the _Pholcidae_ family (we have three genera in the family of _Pholcidae_) [http://www.museums.org.za/bio/spiderweb/pholicid.htm](http://www.museums.org.za/bio/spiderweb/pholicid.htm) Opiliones, however, are not spiders. They look a lot like DLL spiders, and to confuse matters, are sometimes are called DLLs. [http://www.museums.org.za/bio/arachnids/opiliones.htm](http://www.museums.org.za/bio/arachnids/opiliones.htm) ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/39 "2007-08-13T13:47:56Z")
Then you for sure don’t want to click on this one. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIml7cPow0E) ftr I was totally creeped out. There’s not enough money in the world for that. ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/40 "2007-08-13T13:52:10Z")
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