Other than fire...

I've dived with hammerhead sharks, poisonous sea snakes and cage dived with great whites but spiders make me want to hide in the corner and cry!
 
Nod said:
Only if you leave out the conkers and add lemon juice. Fill a supersoaker type water gun with the mixture and squirt the little bleeders in the face.

:WARNING: The above may get you arrested so don't really do it (On the off chance that anyone would actually think I was being serious...)
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I assume they are rubbing their eyes because of the stinging so are unable to run away :shrug:
 
We live in an old house and have quite a lot of big spiders - the ones you can hear walking LOL

My wife picked this up the other day but it's a bit early to know whether it's making any difference..

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Honestly! you lot!
Its like a school girls convention in here!
:p
 
viv1969 said:
I find a baseball bat does the job quite nicely.

And Valium. :thumbs:
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Funnily enough i used to have a baseball bat........ it's gone missing hmmm:thinking: :lol:
Nod said:
Only if you leave out the conkers and add lemon juice. Fill a supersoaker type water gun with the mixture and squirt the little bleeders in the face.

:WARNING: The above may get you arrested so don't really do it (On the off chance that anyone would actually think I was being serious...)
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as if!.... tempting and made me chuckle tho:lol::lol:
 
I have a sonic pest repeller in the house and there seem to be fewer of the larger spiders around as a consequence so far. Only generally see the category 1s. I used to have the category 2 s and some of the ones that stomp audibly.

I generally just whack them with a shoe and leave the corpse as a gruesome warning. If you catch them they'll just come in again.

They hide in curtains so I have a pair of wooden spatulas handy so they get whacked between those if I see them scurrying up and down.
 
Just wait until you stay in a thatched cottage, not only will see plenty of spiders but also hear them scurrying through the straw above you .....

Fire definitely not an option in these circumstances
 
Years ago, I found the female T. duellica living behind the gas meter liked bits of cooked chicken roll. She got to be quite tame. :)
When I came back from two weeks holiday though, she'd left home. :(

I currently have one living behind the bathroom radiator pipe.
It noms all the woodlice/earwigs/etc. that get under the front door and wander down the hall to the bathroom. :thumbs:
 
neil_g said:
.. what's the best spider deterrent?

Just had to deal with possibly the biggest house spider I've seen and I think I vomited in my mouth slightly.

The other alternative was to charge it rent and let it have one of the bedrooms.
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cat - they love to chase and eat them.

however are you seriously telling me you are scared of spiders ya big poof lol
 
Ricardodaforce said:
Hey My Big Cojones I freely admit that I am scared witless by big spiders!! Even seeing them on National Geographic makes my sphincter pucker! So lucky that we don't get them out here :lol::lol::thumbs:
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Townie :D

We get jumping spiders here that launch themselves towards you and I've also pulled the corpses of some very meaty looking tarantula looking types from the pool :eek:
 
I too have a phobia with spiders !.
Just come back from a week in a converted barn in the North York Moors and had to deal with 3 of the biggest house spiders I have ever seen, one of them was about two ins across !! damn nearly gave me a heart attack!! I had one entombed in the vacuum cleaner one was stamped on and the other was whacked with the nearest thing at hand at the time, a newspaper.
Oh and the buggers can move fast!!

Normally at home I dispose of them with my BSA Airsporter air rifle using tissue pellets :D
 
Of all the true spiders, the european house spider is the fastest thing on eight legs.

I've known some folks to fasten a plastic bag over the vacuum nozzle with an elastic band, to prevent any vengeful sucked-up spiders from stomping back down the hose after it's switched off.

Have you thought about getting an airsoft gun?
I'm sure you'd get a lot of satisfaction from blasting them with plastic BBs on full auto. :D
 
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neil_g said:
Well out of all the options...

We pick up two kittehs next weekend :lol:
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Best of luck with the kittens

We have 4 cats 2 x 6 year old sisters and 2 x 5 month old kittenz (brother and sister) and they all walk around spiders preferring the fun factory of mice voles birds baby hares and even bats. As Milly (the biggest cat) clearly explains - "nothing more funny than watching she who drops cameras standing on the sofa screaming for us cats to eat the spiders"

I generally sit back on these occassions, turn off the TV and enjoy the show, as do the cats.

It's a spider - they eat all the nasties that carry disease. They weigh next to nothing and are benign.

So in the main I leave them alond. We have an agreement

They don't play loud music after 10pm and I will only hoover up their webs when unoccipied and over a certain size. In return I don't need to watvh X Factor or Britain's got talent when the wife spots a spider weighing billions of microgrammes less than my big toe.

We do have a sign that says No Salespeople No Circulars No exotic Spiders on the front door. Seems to work but doesn't stop the Mormons. Perhaps vinegar might?

So many wimps......

S
 
Hugh Jarse said:
. Seems to work but doesn't stop the Mormons. Perhaps vinegar might?
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What for Mormons?

There is a better way,
the last lot I had knock on the door, I invited in, sat them down
with a cup of tea and a couple of biscuits, and said
"right, what would you like to talk about"?

They looked at each other, shrugged their shoulders,
and said
"buggered if we know, we've never got this far before"

 
POAH said:
lives on the moon
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I like Moomies.... nice generic term for anyone not welcome at the front door.

With religious types we tend to ask if they want to help with our sacrificing a virgin, pausing to ask if they have one to offer up....

Steve
 
I had two of them turn up at my place once. Opened the door and let them do their thing without being rude to them. We have some good news they said, I said what is that then. They replied one of Jesus`s disciples has just landed on the east coast :thinking: I politely said, if you don`t F... off from my doorstep you might find yourselves down there with him.
 
u8myufo said:
I had two of them turn up at my place once. Opened the door and let them do their thing without being rude to them. We have some good news they said, I said what is that then. They replied one of Jesus`s disciples has just landed on the east coast :thinking: I politely said, if you don`t F... off from my doorstep you might find yourselves down there with him.
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What, spiders came to your door ?
 
u8myufo said:
I had two of them turn up at my place once. Opened the door and let them do their thing without being rude to them. We have some good news they said, I said what is that then. They replied one of Jesus`s disciples has just landed on the east coast :thinking: I politely said, if you don`t F... off from my doorstep you might find yourselves down there with him.
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Last time you get a lift home :-P

Steve
 
I had an ickle bit of a run in with a pair of JWs a couple of weeks ago.

I was on the garden path sticking the houndette on her leash for a walk when I heard a cough from behind me at the gate.

Cue houndette going into mega waggy tail mode...

(Bear in mind that this is about nine o'clock on a Saturday morning & the coffe hadn't quite kicked in yet.)

"Hello! We're Jevoha's Witnesses and we'd like to talk to you about the blessings of marriage."

I politely offered them a grunt at this stage, thinking that mentioning that I was living 'in sin' would only extend the conversation.

A couple of minutes of inane banter from them ensued whilst I wondered how to tell them to b****r off politely - village life being what it is.

Then the dappy female made a mistake...

"Oooh. Is that your doggie?"

(No ***** Sherlock. I'm standing in my garden with an over excited Cocker on a lead. Who's do you think it is?)

Blokey joins in

"I like doggies. I've got one as well!"

At this stage the red mists descends a bit.

"Look, I'm trying to take my bloody DOG for a walk.

She's not a doggie. She's a bloody working gundog and she can probably trace her pedigree back a few more generations than you can. Now would you mind awfully sodding off so that I can get on with my morning?"


The strange thing is, that when I got back, apparently my response was one of the politest that they'd had according to the neighbours!

Moral of the story - say what you want about me, but don't be rude about my darling, idiotic, canine!
 
Oh and seeing as this is meant to be a photo forum... cute pic of said beastie...

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I did NOT dress her like this btw!




and she hunts spiders...


and butterflies....


and snails...


Her name's Millie btw!
 
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Jayst84 said:
Do not travel to Australia. You'd probably pass out from fear. :help:
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I have a photo of a wolf spider being "killed" by a spider wasp. It was satisfying to watch. Hate, hate, hate spiders!
 
How about coming across this lot? Got sent pic yesterday.:eek:

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We have a few conkers near the windows and doors and don't get many in at all. The conkers do need replacing after a while as they lose the aroma deterrent after a while.

Another spider related tale, I was working through the night making furniture and we'd had a shipment of wood that had come in from abroad where it had been seasoned. I moved a long plank and there was 2 shorter ones underneath with what I thought was some bark in between. All of a sudden this 'bark' got up and started walking towards me and it was a spider,turned out it was a fully grown Goliath Bird Eating spider, with a legspan of around 8-9 inches across. I nearly S@#t myself and grabbed a big offcut and gave it a whack and it went flying, only to get up and come towards me again. I opened the main doors to the factory and whacked it outside into the cold. I never saw it again and I've always wondered what happened to it but I was never going to go searching for it again.

I never quite got over the feeling when I saw it, I went all cold and clammy, and even now I have to remove all spiders from the house either dead or alive as I get the feeling coming back.
 
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