# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![kh.4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8baadc/32.png) [@kh.4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kh.4)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/61 "2007-08-14T13:37:48Z")
There are often spiders in the bathroom at my house. Because I am a man, I pretend not to be bothered. In reality, I eye them warily and the second they scuttle towards me, scream like a little girl and run outside. Even the tiny ones. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/62 "2007-08-14T13:42:17Z")
::sigh:: My best joke all week, and nobody even notices. ---
**Author:** ![Lynne\_kilii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lynne\_kilii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynne_kilii)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/63 "2007-08-14T14:29:49Z")
I noticed, and pointed it out to my co-worker. We did an Inigo Montoya riff last week. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/64 "2007-08-14T15:10:56Z")
“The S.O.U.S.\*s? I don’t believe they exist.” _thud_ \*Spiders of Unusual Size Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/65 "2007-08-14T15:14:06Z")
Yay! I love Princess Bride. And spiders. I have a lovely banana-spider who’s made a lovely laddered web between my patio screen and eaves. I like to watch them. ---
**Author:** ![Wonderwall6129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Wonderwall6129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonderwall6129)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/66 "2007-08-14T22:00:04Z")
[QUOTE=Achren] I saw that happen in a hallway in my high school. Someone stepped on it, then many babies everywhere, with a couple dozen kids around suddenly freaking out and trying to kill them all. I’ve always wondered what that looked like to a distant observer. [/QUOTE] Ha ha ha, yeah! Because someone twenty, thirty feet or so from the mayhem wouldn’t see the spiders, they’d just see a bunch of people going completely ballistic. Though I must say, that image gives me the heebie jeebies like only Rosie O’Donnell can, which is saying something. What really creeps me out about spiders is the way they move, so graceful and yet so creepy. It’s odd how I can see something as elegant and freaky at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320/67 "2007-08-15T07:47:39Z")
I suppose I would be more wary of spiders if I lived in an area where they had fucked up flesh destroying venom, but here in California they’re mostly harmless. We have black widows in some parts but I’ve never seen one. Hell, I wish I had some spiders in my new apartment to eat the damn flies. I tend to find corpses of flies laying around that died of exhaustion because they couldn’t find the exit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-fight-to-the-death-against-these-new-overlords/415320.md?page=3)