Whats with the irrational fear of spiders and snakes around here?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Whats with the irrational fear of spiders and snakes around here?

Posted: 3/29/2009 4:12:25 AM EDT

I mean come on. They are only spiders and snakes. You sissies would never make it here in Florida. Grow some balls guys. We eat Black widows and water moccasins for breakfast here.

Posted: 3/29/2009 4:14:05 AM EDT

[#1]

Good for you. I will have no part in such nonsense.

Posted: 3/29/2009 4:16:39 AM EDT

[#2]

I dont fear them, but I respect them.

Besides, you would never make it here in Australia

. Our snakes and spiders eat black widows and water moccasins for a snack

Posted: 3/29/2009 4:19:01 AM EDT

[#3]

I know where my Dads came from.................Me.

He shouldn't have opened up my snake box and looked in while I was off to camp, that way the water moccasin wouldn't have lunged at him.....................

And well, the big ass turtle you met in the pool at 6AM? In my defense I figured the pool was big enough to share. Obviously you disagreed.

Posted: 3/29/2009 4:19:27 AM EDT

[#4]

They dont bother me except when I felt something crawling on me one night. I brushed it off turned on the light. It was a huge fiddle back. We have a shit load of them here in the warmer months. I just worry about my kids getting bit. Snakes dont scare me at all.

Posted: 3/29/2009 4:20:18 AM EDT

[#5]

It's caused by upbringing and too much TV.

Posted: 3/29/2009 4:26:03 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:

I dont fear them, but I respect them.
Besides, you would never make it here in Australia

. Our snakes and spiders eat black widows and water moccasins for a snack

In Texas we keep black mambas and camel spiders as pets and feed them mexican drug runners for snacks.

Posted: 3/29/2009 4:30:54 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

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I dont fear them, but I respect them.

Besides, you would never make it here in Australia

. Our snakes and spiders eat black widows and water moccasins for a snack

In Texas we keep black mambas and camel spiders as pets and feed them mexican drug runners for snacks.

Camel spiders arent venomous

That and we have something like 7 of the top 10 most deadly snakes in the world

We even have a deadly bird

Drug runners usually come to Aus from asia. They have to get past the great whites, salt water crocodiles and snakes in order to do so.

Posted: 3/29/2009 4:32:52 AM EDT

[#8]

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Camel spiders arent venomous

They don't have to be venomous when they can gnaw your head off.

Posted: 3/29/2009 4:35:12 AM EDT

[#9]

Who could be afraid of something this cute?

Posted: 3/29/2009 4:36:03 AM EDT

[#10]

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Who could be afraid of something this cute?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v500/scooterhd69/jumperdarkcropmail.jpg

A girl.

Posted: 3/29/2009 4:37:49 AM EDT

[#11]

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Camel spiders arent venomous

They don't have to be venomous when they can gnaw your head off.

Apologies, i meant they arent deadly.

How are camel spiders meant to gnaw your head off anyway?

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Btw, funnelweb spiders, which are the same as the one in a thread I made a few days ago, are one of the most deadly in the world. They also chase you and they have been known to bite through shoes and toenails

Posted: 3/29/2009 4:38:32 AM EDT

[#12]

They are harder to shoot.

Posted: 3/29/2009 4:43:06 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:

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Camel spiders arent venomous

They don't have to be venomous when they can gnaw your head off.

Apologies, i meant they arent deadly.

How are camel spiders meant to gnaw your head off anyway?

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I was being facetious. Also, most of us don't really have black mambas or camel spiders and if we do then we don't usually feed them mexican drug runners except on special occasions.

Posted: 3/29/2009 6:09:31 AM EDT

[#14]

Chuck Norris wears a live diamondback when he wants a snakeskin belt.

Posted: 3/29/2009 6:11:42 AM EDT

[#15]

The irrational fear of snakes and spiders is no different than the Liberals irrational fear of guns.

Posted: 3/29/2009 6:14:32 AM EDT

[#16]

150,000 years of evolution ingraining in us the biological imperative to avoid things with fangs....

Posted: 3/29/2009 6:15:19 AM EDT

[#17]

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It's caused by upbringing and too much TV.

No, it's caused by waking up in the middle of the night with a fucking tarantula on your face.

Posted: 3/29/2009 6:20:25 AM EDT

[#18]

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Chuck Norris wears a live diamondback when he wants a snakeskin belt.

No, Chuck uses live rattlesnakes for condoms.

Posted: 3/29/2009 6:22:04 AM EDT

[#19]

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I mean come on. They are only spiders and snakes. You sissies would never make it here in Florida. Grow some balls guys. We eat Black widows and water moccasins for breakfast here.

We have bacon, eggs, pancakes, and hashbrowns around here. It's funny how a relatively short geographical distance changes the eating habits of those who inhabit this earth.

Posted: 3/29/2009 6:24:47 AM EDT

[#20]

Snakes are the devil

It's says so in the Bible.

Speed

Posted: 3/29/2009 6:28:36 AM EDT

[#21]

Spiders bother me, Its roaches that get me. I was pest control about 10yrs ago. Ive see things man....bad things. Roaches so thick it was like walking on potato chips. I can smell the damn things.

Posted: 3/29/2009 6:35:27 AM EDT

[#22]

You ever been bit by one of those SOB"S in the night and wake up to a really bad burning sensation and a hot red spot on yer body where you were bit? And not knowing what it was that bit you?? Fuck spiders. Outside they are ok inside my house definately not. Give me a snake anyday Oh and you can keep the damn scorpions too.

Posted: 3/29/2009 6:51:03 AM EDT

[#23]

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Spiders bother me, Its roaches that get me. I was pest control about 10yrs ago. Ive see things man....bad things. Roaches so thick it was like walking on potato chips. I can smell the damn things.

If you are from Jersey city..... I understand why just like across the river. Whole city blocks piled 2 stories high with garbage, You should also have rats as big as farm cats.. I was there and saw it with my own eyes so this is not someone elses tale. It was in the middle 1970's . I haven't been back I couldn't understand how a bunch of people could live in a shit hole like that. Buildings falling down or being torn down condemnation signs nailed on doors etc.. The water markets out there are really great also. I've seen bag ladys walking down the street picking lettuce leaves out of the trash and gutters sniffing the leaf and putting it in a paper bag to take home? and eat. Very sad to say the least. So Yeah I understand yer vermin,insect,spider fears... My fear is having to live in a place like that....... Third world countries right in the U.S. inner city Ghetto

Posted: 3/29/2009 7:42:50 PM EDT

[#24]

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Spiders bother me, Its roaches that get me. I was pest control about 10yrs ago. Ive see things man....bad things. Roaches so thick it was like walking on potato chips. I can smell the damn things.

If you are from Jersey city..... I understand why just like across the river. Whole city blocks piled 2 stories high with garbage, You should also have rats as big as farm cats.. I was there and saw it with my own eyes so this is not someone elses tale. It was in the middle 1970's . I haven't been back I couldn't understand how a bunch of people could live in a shit hole like that. Buildings falling down or being torn down condemnation signs nailed on doors etc.. The water markets out there are really great also. I've seen bag ladys walking down the street picking lettuce leaves out of the trash and gutters sniffing the leaf and putting it in a paper bag to take home? and eat. Very sad to say the least. So Yeah I understand yer vermin,insect,spider fears... My fear is having to live in a place like that....... Third world countries right in the U.S. inner city Ghetto

Thats why I gtfo of NYC 32 years ago.

Posted: 3/29/2009 7:44:05 PM EDT

[#25]

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I mean come on. They are only spiders and snakes. You sissies would never make it here in Florida. Grow some balls guys. We eat Black widows and water moccasins for breakfast here.

No I would not. Thats why I like the cold northern states.

Posted: 3/29/2009 7:45:16 PM EDT

[#26]

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Posted: 3/29/2009 7:47:48 PM EDT

[#27]

I have an irrational fear of centipedes. Am I alone?

Posted: 3/29/2009 7:51:46 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
I mean come on. They are only spiders and snakes. You sissies would never make it here in Florida. Grow some balls guys. We eat Black widows and water moccasins for breakfast here.

What's this "we" shit? I hate snakes and spiders. Mostly because every time I come across one I'm barefoot.

I found a big ass spider in the garage yesterday and it started coming towards me. So I killed it with fire.

Posted: 3/29/2009 7:54:51 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:

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It's caused by upbringing and too much TV.

No, it's caused by waking up in the middle of the night with a fucking tarantula on your face.

C'mon. Spill it. When, where, and how with the tarantula?

Posted: 3/29/2009 7:55:44 PM EDT

[#30]

When you have a big ass spider drop off of the roof over your front door and proceed to climb down your shirt, not knowing what the fuck it is, you'll know.

Ughjrldfgkjlfdjglfd.

Fuck spiders. Snakes, on the other hand, don't bother me.

Posted: 3/29/2009 7:57:19 PM EDT

[#31]

I have absolutely no fear of snakes. I would even catch one of those 10 foot long King Cobra by hand like those crazy guys do on the Nature channel if I had to, and honestly think I could.

A three year old little girl could walk up to me holding a spider in her hand and I would freak.

Posted: 3/29/2009 7:57:54 PM EDT

[#32]

I routinely catch venomous snakes, and generally do not like spiders one single bit. So I understand the guys that don't like snakes.

Posted: 3/29/2009 7:59:22 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:

Quoted:
It's caused by upbringing and too much TV.

No, it's caused by waking up in the middle of the night with a fucking tarantula on your face.

Posted: 3/29/2009 7:59:39 PM EDT

[#34]

All snakes should die in a coiled writhing mass of severed heads/tails.

Posted: 3/29/2009 8:00:27 PM EDT

[#35]

Snakes don't bother me..Spiders do. I've had some pretty bad bites from them in the past and know to steer clear from spiders. I lived in Florida for years by the way and the spiders up here are worse... My area is infested with spiders and ticks