[quote]Professor X wrote:
By the way, I find spiders fascinating because they are the only insect that seems to be trying to think of maneuvers while you try to kill it. [/quote]
That’s one of the main reasons I hate them. I swear they’re out to kill me.
Especially when they’re high up on a wall, and I try to reach up to smash them, and I’m jusssst about there, and they fall/jump/attack onto me and I don’t know where they went… I quickly run screaming out of the room like my hair’s on fire.
Luckily, my evolutionary tendencies have led me to start using one of those long-handled lighter thingys to just burn them. Now my walls are spotted with these scorch marks all over the place, kind of like spider gravestones…
I’m pretty sure spiders are satan incarnate, so I don’t feel bad about sending them to a fiery death.
Last year I went to India where people leave their shoes outside a house before they go in. So I developed the habit of shaking my shoes upside down hard before I put them on just incase something was inside. And several times centipede looking things fell out. Not nearly as big as the one in the video though. Even today here in the U.S. I still continue to shake my shoes upside down before putting them on.
Why is everybody so scared of spideers? The only spiders I don’t loke are those little meat-rotting bastard, the Brown Recluses. Little fuckers can burn in Spider-Hell for all I care. So can those nasty-ass giant centipedes. One of them bites you and you’re in for some shit. Make sure you stomp on their heads when you see them.
All insects are limited in size by the oxygen content of the atmostphere. In dinosaur times, there was more oxygen and insects were much bigger. (possibly, this also accounts for the big frikkin’ dinosaurs too - otherwise today we’d have mammals just as big).
In places with richer oxygen etc… you can get some big insects.
These creatures dominate the world, not us. We’re just big things taking the leftovers.
Thank god these things don’t have lungs or they’d be eating us.
[quote]Kratos wrote:
Why is everybody so scared of spideers? The only spiders I don’t loke are those little meat-rotting bastard, the Brown Recluses. Little fuckers can burn in Spider-Hell for all I care. So can those nasty-ass giant centipedes. One of them bites you and you’re in for some shit. Make sure you stomp on their heads when you see them.[/quote]
Come to Australia. They bite you, you die. In horrific agony.
Actually that is not always the case but people still lose chunks of flesh (which dies) and if you don’t get the antivenom, there are many of the bastards here that can kill.
[quote]Bauer97 wrote:
Firstly, I’m glad I’m not the only larger-than-average male who is reduced to a shrieking school girl at the sight of something I’m 5,000 times the size of…
However, just curious: Is anybody who is freaked out by the things on this thread, not at all freaked out by snakes?
Snakes don’t bother me at all, I actually really like them. Millipedes/centipedes/spiders however totally freak me out.
I think it’s the legs. The more legs the more I hate them. Hence me having no problem with the leg-less snake…[/quote]
Bauer, your a puss. Neither insects, spiders, or snakes bother me. In fact I usually capture and observe interesting ones.
Where I live the centipedes only grow a few inches long, but they are poisonous. If they sting you, you will be f*cked up. One of my co-workers was stung by one the other day. It was inside his shoe. My shoes were only a few inches away.
[quote]Bauer97 wrote:
Firstly, I’m glad I’m not the only larger-than-average male who is reduced to a shrieking school girl at the sight of something I’m 5,000 times the size of…
However, just curious: Is anybody who is freaked out by the things on this thread, not at all freaked out by snakes?
Snakes don’t bother me at all, I actually really like them. Millipedes/centipedes/spiders however totally freak me out.
I think it’s the legs. The more legs the more I hate them. Hence me having no problem with the leg-less snake…[/quote]
Personally, I’m more afraid of wasps and hornets. Wasp nests just LOOK evil – the sound of them buzzing just makes all the hair on my neck stand up. I never really had a problem until my summer job painting during the summer – you never know where you’re going to find a wasp nest on the outside of someone’s house.
[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
Bauer, your a puss. Neither insects, spiders, or snakes bother me. In fact I usually capture and observe interesting ones.
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I think I’d rather be a puss than a guy who collects “interesting” bugs…
[quote]Bauer97 wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
Bauer, your a puss. Neither insects, spiders, or snakes bother me. In fact I usually capture and observe interesting ones.
I think I’d rather be a puss than a guy who collects “interesting” bugs…[/quote]
It’s called entomology. You’ve heard of it right: Honestly, if it weren’t for people like us to observe and report the findings of such wierd organisms, then there would be nothing but unbased fear and eradication of these necessary creatures. Yes, some are “gross”, but fascinating all the same.
[quote]Bauer97 wrote:
Professor X wrote:
By the way, I find spiders fascinating because they are the only insect that seems to be trying to think of maneuvers while you try to kill it.
That’s one of the main reasons I hate them. I swear they’re out to kill me.
Especially when they’re high up on a wall, and I try to reach up to smash them, and I’m jusssst about there, and they fall/jump/attack onto me and I don’t know where they went… I quickly run screaming out of the room like my hair’s on fire.
Luckily, my evolutionary tendencies have led me to start using one of those long-handled lighter thingys to just burn them. Now my walls are spotted with these scorch marks all over the place, kind of like spider gravestones…
I’m pretty sure spiders are satan incarnate, so I don’t feel bad about sending them to a fiery death.[/quote]
Its funny how you swat at a bee and it gets pissed and comes dive bombing at you even of you run away. Its so funny watching grown men looking like the ultimate sissys when they’re afraid of bees.
[quote]PGA200X wrote:
Its funny how you swat at a bee and it gets pissed and comes dive bombing at you even of you run away. Its so funny watching grown men looking like the ultimate sissys when they’re afraid of bees.[/quote]
Hey, bees sting and wasps can sting multiple times. It’s ok to run from those when you piss them off.
[quote]Magarhe wrote:
All insects are limited in size by the oxygen content of the atmostphere. In dinosaur times, there was more oxygen and insects were much bigger. (possibly, this also accounts for the big frikkin’ dinosaurs too - otherwise today we’d have mammals just as big).
In places with richer oxygen etc… you can get some big insects.
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So you’re saying we should breathe pure oxygen to have bigger muskulls? =)
[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
PGA200X wrote:
Its funny how you swat at a bee and it gets pissed and comes dive bombing at you even of you run away. Its so funny watching grown men looking like the ultimate sissys when they’re afraid of bees.
Hey, bees sting and wasps can sting multiple times. It’s ok to run from those when you piss them off.[/quote]
When bees sting they die. Hornets can sting mutliple times. They are one mean spirited insect. I swear they enjoy terrorizing other animals knowing they are the money and nothing will fuck with them.
Honestly, if it weren’t for people like us to observe and report the findings of such wierd organisms, then there would be nothing but unbased fear and eradication of these necessary creatures. Yes, some are “gross”, but fascinating all the same.
