It is a hate piece, written in a major national paper in England, about spiders.
One quote:
‘To a committed arachnophobe like me, spider season is like a live-action version of the videogame Doom. My flat is briefly transformed into a sort of white-knuckle ghost house in which dropping your guard, even for a moment, can have terrible consequences. The other night, for instance, I awoke at 4am for a dozy late-night trip to the lavatory. As I sat there, blearily performing the necessaries, a spider the size of a small dog unexpectedly crawled out from behind the toilet and scampered across my bare right foot. I reacted like I’d been blasted in the coccyx with a taser gun. Blind panic took control of my body before the need to stop ‘going’ had registered in my brain. You can imagine the aftermath. It’s like a dirty protest in there. I may need to move house’.
It is a hate piece, written in a major national paper in England, about spiders.
One quote:
‘To a committed arachnophobe like me, spider season is like a live-action version of the videogame Doom. My flat is briefly transformed into a sort of white-knuckle ghost house in which dropping your guard, even for a moment, can have terrible consequences. The other night, for instance, I awoke at 4am for a dozy late-night trip to the lavatory. As I sat there, blearily performing the necessaries, a spider the size of a small dog unexpectedly crawled out from behind the toilet and scampered across my bare right foot. I reacted like I’d been blasted in the coccyx with a taser gun. Blind panic took control of my body before the need to stop ‘going’ had registered in my brain. You can imagine the aftermath. It’s like a dirty protest in there. I may need to move house’.[/quote]
So I came to the conclusion that I hate the movement of spiders but when they are still they aren’t that bad. Just all the legs and shit moving in unison is gross.
Yes, I believe that is a bird. Imagine how strong their webs must be to catch a birds and it starts flailing. Didn’t science say that if we where able to harvest spider webs and made them into cables they would be the strongest and lightest cables in the world?
[quote]polo77j wrote:
I love phobias … they can be hilarious at times :)[/quote]
Tell me about it.
I know a guy who is afraid of cheese.
It’s not that he won’t eat it, he actually recoils in fear at the sight of it.
If you put cheese near him he freaks out and runs away.
I can only imagine the living nightmare he must go through when he needs to buy milk.
He approaches from the ‘non-cheese’ side of the dairy isle.
Funny you should mention clowns. Stephen King’s Pennywise clown was actually a huge fucking spider. Send them both to hell, or to the Sun like C_C suggested.
[quote]Fuzzyapple wrote:
So I came to the conclusion that I hate the movement of spiders but when they are still they aren’t that bad. Just all the legs and shit moving in unison is gross.
Yes, I believe that is a bird. Imagine how strong their webs must be to catch a birds and it starts flailing. Didn’t science say that if we where able to harvest spider webs and made them into cables they would be the strongest and lightest cables in the world? [/quote]
