So I just went into my living room to watch some TV and between the couch and the wall I noticed a spider with a red hourglass on it's body. Knowing damn well what it was I found the first heavy book I could get and just dropped it on the web crushing and killing the spider instantly.
Later I went into the bathroom and found another black widow between the toilet and the wall. So again, I found a book and smashed her. Then AFTER THAT, I went into the kitchen to get a drink and found ANOTHER black widow near the sink. I disposed of that one in the same manner, but now I'm fucking scared shitless about this invasion of black widows...I know their bites are deadly...but they're not very aggressive are they?
I mean if I were to fall asleep, what would my chances be of a black widow biting me (I'm generally fairly still while I sleep).
On April 19 2009 13:00 Falcynn wrote: So I just went into my living room to watch some TV and between the couch and the wall I noticed a spider with a red hourglass on it's body. Knowing damn well what it was I found the first heavy book I could get and just dropped it on the web crushing and killing the spider instantly.
Later I went into the bathroom and found another black widow between the toilet and the wall. So again, I found a book and smashed her. Then AFTER THAT, I went into the kitchen to get a drink and found ANOTHER black widow near the sink. I disposed of that one in the same manner, but now I'm fucking scared shitless about this invasion of black widows...I know their bites are deadly...but they're not very aggressive are they?
I mean if I were to fall asleep, what would my chances be of a black widow biting me (I'm generally fairly still while I sleep).
They're not exactly "deadly" odds are if you were bit you'd survive.
If you see one of the fuckers bite you, bite that bitch back, then punch its shitty string house.
A black widow won't come get you, but it's entirely possible to be bitten if say, you accidentally step on one barefoot. Or accidentally brush your hand against one.
But if you live remotely near a hospital / poison control center just deal with it right away if you do get bit. You will be totally fine. So no real reason to be scared (though I agree they are quite scary).
they are gonna bite you no matter what, not because you move or because you are still, i remember reading some artical of a girl who got bit b/c it was in her track pants
if you keep finding them maybe you got a whole fucking infestatoin and should get it looked at?
On April 19 2009 13:06 Red.Cloud wrote: they are gonna bite you no matter what, not because you move or because you are still, i remember reading some artical of a girl who got bit b/c it was in her track pants
if you keep finding them maybe you got a whole fucking infestatoin and should get it looked at?
I've never seen a black widow in my life and I just saw three of them within a half hour (I live in Vallejo, CA btw. It's about 30 miles from San Francisco) so I'm not sure if this is just a freak accident or if it really is an infestation.
If they're mostly harmless then I guess I can rest a little easy. After doing some research it seems they're only incredibly deadly when biting children or the elderly, so I guess I should be fine (6'0" and 250 lbs.) Hopefully these were the only ones I have to worry about, but if I see more maybe I should see about getting a bug man or w/e they're called to take some precautions.
On April 19 2009 13:10 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: Christ dude, call a exterminator.
edits: hope you don't have pets, would they be in danger?
Don't have any pets thankfully
I know that spiders like dark/messy areas, but I found those three in areas I would consider better lit and open than some other areas in my house...so I dunno.
dude a few years ago I lived in this shitty trailer/house thing, shared it with a buddy. and spiders were fucking everywhere in it. scared the crap out of me regularly.
one time I got up in the morning, went to take a shower, grabbed my luffa thing and started cleaning myself.... and it feels weird and i look down, and there is a gigantic spider in it that im rubbing against my bare chest. freaked me out SO BAD.
luckily it was dead, all bloated and gross from the water. but still it was scary wtf was it doing in there.
Must live in the heat lol i remember when i used to live in Tracy i used to get a ton of black-widows capture them in a jar and watch them make a cobweb. Their bite is is deadly if left untreated and in small people ie like children or just tiny body people to a fullsized adult who is healthy it very unlikely to kill, it's not something you want to go though even with help from the hospital it would be a week of hell for your body if you get bit.
There were times last summer when I was seeing 5 or six spiders a week either in my bathroom ( I too had the dead bloated spider in the shower thing) or running along the floor next to my computer. Startled me regularly. I finally had enough and bug bombed the place when I was out of town for a couple days. I've only seen one since.
I'm highly in favor of the delete^H^H^H^H gas fucking everything method.
On April 19 2009 13:16 travis wrote: dude a few years ago I lived in this shitty trailer/house thing, shared it with a buddy. and spiders were fucking everywhere in it. scared the crap out of me regularly.
one time I got up in the morning, went to take a shower, grabbed my luffa thing and started cleaning myself.... and it feels weird and i look down, and there is a gigantic spider in it that im rubbing against my bare chest. freaked me out SO BAD.
luckily it was dead, all bloated and gross from the water. but still it was scary wtf was it doing in there.
On April 19 2009 13:28 Raithed wrote: how come you have so many black widows...?
some guys will take any action he can get.
btw, are u sure they're black widows? there's another spider that looks exactly like the black widow, with the red hourglass, but i hear it's harmless.
If you are truly scared about sleeping assuming you keep your room tidy just put a towel at the bottom of the door and it should deter any bugs from entering.
On April 19 2009 13:53 d(O.o)a wrote: If you are truly scared about sleeping assuming you keep your room tidy just put a towel at the bottom of the door and it should deter any bugs from entering.
I've seen horror movies where the woman did the same thing and that didn't help her in the slightest.
backspace typed into some terminals would do ^H instead of deleting a character. So the joke is that you typed something, and deleted it to correct it to something else. I don't know why people are using this in 2009 though
this reminds me of that one movie about spiders where they started killing everyone and there was a huge fucking spider that came from venezuela or some shit that made a nest inside a barn protip: vs infestations hairspray and lighter = win
On April 19 2009 13:16 travis wrote: dude a few years ago I lived in this shitty trailer/house thing, shared it with a buddy. and spiders were fucking everywhere in it. scared the crap out of me regularly.
one time I got up in the morning, went to take a shower, grabbed my luffa thing and started cleaning myself.... and it feels weird and i look down, and there is a gigantic spider in it that im rubbing against my bare chest. freaked me out SO BAD.
luckily it was dead, all bloated and gross from the water. but still it was scary wtf was it doing in there.
god i hate spiders and just reading that made me all paranoid now....
On April 19 2009 14:00 HeavOnEarth wrote: this reminds me of that one movie about spiders where they started killing everyone and there was a huge fucking spider that came from venezuela or some shit that made a nest inside a barn protip: vs infestations hairspray and lighter = win
i saw the making of of arachnophobia and they used blowdriers to manipulate which direction the spiders went for the scenes because spiders dont like heat.
protip: crank your thermostat to 100 (or stop being a pussy)
one time I got up in the morning, went to take a shower, grabbed my luffa thing and started cleaning myself.... and it feels weird and i look down, and there is a gigantic spider in it that im rubbing against my bare chest. freaked me out SO BAD.
luckily it was dead, all bloated and gross from the water. but still it was scary wtf was it doing in there.
what the hell. that's fucking scary TT
be careful man! can't have you missing for the altitude league~
WTF. For every spider you see, there are probably a thousand you don't see. Sounds like you have a full blown infestation of black widows. I would have a hard time sleeping in that house.
On April 19 2009 14:19 Gray[FH wrote: establish dominance over the black widows by killing one of them infront of another. then call pest control
ROFLMAOFOAML.
On topic:
I used to live in a housing project back when I came to America and every single day when I would try to take a shower a deadly scorpion would be there waiting, it was fucked up because I would go to school smelling like shit.
Black Widows are not an aggressive spider. They will not seek you out to bite you, most will flee when in contact with humans. But if aggravated or cornered, they will bite.
On April 19 2009 14:38 boesthius wrote: either kill em and be like bitch this is my domain or start fucking them to make bwidow/human hybrids and rule the earth.
your call.
How would you fuck a spider? XD The proper way is to get bitten and get radioactive powers. With great power comes great responsibility.
On April 19 2009 14:00 HeavOnEarth wrote: this reminds me of that one movie about spiders where they started killing everyone and there was a huge fucking spider that came from venezuela or some shit that made a nest inside a barn protip: vs infestations hairspray and lighter = win
I couldn't sleep after I watched that as a kid. That queen spider or w/e grossed the fuck out of me..
On April 19 2009 14:38 boesthius wrote: either kill em and be like bitch this is my domain or start fucking them to make bwidow/human hybrids and rule the earth.
On April 19 2009 16:10 Elvin_vn wrote: be careful before u put ur feet inside them shoes
I so hate you right now.
I once woke up facing the wall and there was a huge (because i was like 1cm away) spider starring at me. Had to move to another town. These things freak me out big time.
That shower incident is scary shit O.o I would have had a heart attack. Either that or I would have ran out of the bathroom nekkid, slid on my wet feet and banged my head against something. Either way death would have been inevitable. I just hate bugs overall. I don't kill them unless I have to, but I'm dead scared of them... Anyway I wanted to learn more about BW spiders so I went to youtube. As always I ended up watching bug fights -.- for 30 minutes >.>
On April 19 2009 16:10 Elvin_vn wrote: be careful before u put ur feet inside them shoes
I so hate you right now.
I once woke up facing the wall and there was a huge (because i was like 1cm away) spider starring at me. Had to move to another town. These things freak me out big time.
This very widespread urban legend has no basis in fact. It exists in various forms; another common version is that you swallow an average of 20 in your lifetime. (At 4 per year, that would make a very short lifetime of 5 years...) A correspondent in Pennsylvania had heard a version that involved swallowing a pound of spiders (while sleeping) in one's lifetime. (That would be over 20,000 average spiders, for a lifetime of 5,000 years at the 4 per year rate).
For a sleeping person to swallow even one live spider would involve so many highly unlikely circumstances that for practical purposes we can rule out the possibility. No such case is on formal record anywhere in scientific or medical literature.
and thats one of many sources on the great internetz
On April 19 2009 19:58 Loanshark wrote: Come to Beijing Hardly any spiders here. Unless you go up north into the mountains then there are these huge green/yellow ones.
Come to Australia Where we have all the deadliest spiders. I like to pet the ones in my house before I go to sleep.
Oh Australia, where spiders are so big they have life bars.
In our country there's hardly any of them because it's hot here, they won't survive. But there are like crocodiles eating people in their sleep in some remote areas. And in the urban cities, 6+ foot long snakes make their way everywhere. Have a nice day.
On April 19 2009 19:58 Loanshark wrote: Come to Beijing Hardly any spiders here. Unless you go up north into the mountains then there are these huge green/yellow ones.
cockroaches are annoying though
i woke up one morning and went to take a piss and there was a huge cockroach chilling on the floor
On April 19 2009 13:16 travis wrote: dude a few years ago I lived in this shitty trailer/house thing, shared it with a buddy. and spiders were fucking everywhere in it. scared the crap out of me regularly.
one time I got up in the morning, went to take a shower, grabbed my luffa thing and started cleaning myself.... and it feels weird and i look down, and there is a gigantic spider in it that im rubbing against my bare chest. freaked me out SO BAD.
luckily it was dead, all bloated and gross from the water. but still it was scary wtf was it doing in there.
wtf..that's freaking scary..how can you hold a huge spider and realise only after you have rubbed yourself with it..?
I hope I never get bitten by a black widow because I'm reminded of this video. It's possibly NSFW, I don't know, since the result of his bite is fairly disgusting.
Well, if anyone cares, I went to sleep for about 7 hours now and I'm still alive
I'm heading out today, but when I get back I'm gonna do a thorough cleaning/searching of my house. I haven't noticed any egg sacks around when I was killing those spiders, but I doubt I'd find them since if there was one it would've hatched a while ago since those three were fully grown. The main thing I was freaked out about was how quickly they came. I was home all day yesterday and didn't notice anything at all in those areas, but after going to play altitude for an hour I come back and notice them making new webs (I'm pretty sure they were new since the webs seemed invisible and were only composed of a few threads)
No sight of any black widows though, I searched pretty hard as soon as I woke up. Maybe my plan of sticking one of the spiders on a tooth pick and planting it outside in my backyard worked
Many people don't know that black widows are found basically everywhere in North America. For some reason I guess people always assume it's 'Somewhere else. Exotic?'
I found one outside a few years back. It met the hose.
On April 20 2009 00:41 miseiler wrote: This thread is amazing.
Many people don't know that black widows are found basically everywhere in North America. For some reason I guess people always assume it's 'Somewhere else. Exotic?'
I found one outside a few years back. It met the hose.
nah, I know that they're a lot more common than they seem, but it just freaked me out going from never seeing a black widow ever in my life, to seeing 3 within a half hour.
On April 19 2009 13:16 travis wrote: dude a few years ago I lived in this shitty trailer/house thing, shared it with a buddy. and spiders were fucking everywhere in it. scared the crap out of me regularly.
one time I got up in the morning, went to take a shower, grabbed my luffa thing and started cleaning myself.... and it feels weird and i look down, and there is a gigantic spider in it that im rubbing against my bare chest. freaked me out SO BAD.
luckily it was dead, all bloated and gross from the water. but still it was scary wtf was it doing in there.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
shit like this story fucks with me
I found a HUGE white spider... outside... on my lawn hose. As I was carrying it in my arms. Its body was ~3 inches big with about 80% of that length being that big fat part of their body. Legs were at least 3 inches long each too. I freaked the fuck out and went apeshit on it with my feet. Fucker's gonna bleed, yea I have that mentality.
On April 20 2009 00:04 Falcynn wrote: Well, if anyone cares, I went to sleep for about 7 hours now and I'm still alive
I'm heading out today, but when I get back I'm gonna do a thorough cleaning/searching of my house. I haven't noticed any egg sacks around when I was killing those spiders, but I doubt I'd find them since if there was one it would've hatched a while ago since those three were fully grown. The main thing I was freaked out about was how quickly they came. I was home all day yesterday and didn't notice anything at all in those areas, but after going to play altitude for an hour I come back and notice them making new webs (I'm pretty sure they were new since the webs seemed invisible and were only composed of a few threads)
No sight of any black widows though, I searched pretty hard as soon as I woke up. Maybe my plan of sticking one of the spiders on a tooth pick and planting it outside in my backyard worked
On April 19 2009 13:16 travis wrote: dude a few years ago I lived in this shitty trailer/house thing, shared it with a buddy. and spiders were fucking everywhere in it. scared the crap out of me regularly.
one time I got up in the morning, went to take a shower, grabbed my luffa thing and started cleaning myself.... and it feels weird and i look down, and there is a gigantic spider in it that im rubbing against my bare chest. freaked me out SO BAD.
luckily it was dead, all bloated and gross from the water. but still it was scary wtf was it doing in there.
holy fuck. im TERRIFIED of spiders. i actually scream when i see a big one.
have you seen the movie Arachnophobia? fucking christ.
at least you'd already be on the toilet if it scared the shit out of you
Isn't this like an afghani spider? Spiders and other bugs creep me out in general but never scare me much. More like just grab ur foot or anything in reach to kill the damn bug is easy for me. Reading this blog through the 5 pages made me get goosebumps like 10x. I haven't seen any black widow around in North Texas(which im not doubting there isnt) but brown recluses are more notorious here.
at least you'd already be on the toilet if it scared the shit out of you
Isn't this like an afghani spider? Spiders and other bugs creep me out in general but never scare me much. More like just grab ur foot or anything in reach to kill the damn bug is easy for me. Reading this blog through the 5 pages made me get goosebumps like 10x. I haven't seen any black widow around in North Texas(which im not doubting there isnt) but brown recluses are more notorious here.
I'm pretty sure its the Camel spider.
this pic made them famous because they look like those two spiders are as long as the guys leg/
If you eat the spider you will take its powers, leaving you immune to spider bites. Although you won't be quite human anymore, your friends might shun you. So it's a risk either way, the choice is up to you.
I just read this in fmylife.com and I couldn't remember where I read about black widows until I saw this thread again.
"Today, I saw a spider crawling on the floor but had nothing to kill it with and it hid somewhere. So, I got dressed and went out and come home for a shower, and as i'm taking off my undies something crushed and black falls out. It was the spider and he had been in my underwear the entire day. FML"
On April 19 2009 23:16 Milton Friedman wrote: I hope I never get bitten by a black widow because I'm reminded of this video. It's possibly NSFW, I don't know, since the result of his bite is fairly disgusting.
On April 21 2009 03:20 ghostWriter wrote: I just read this in fmylife.com and I couldn't remember where I read about black widows until I saw this thread again.
"Today, I saw a spider crawling on the floor but had nothing to kill it with and it hid somewhere. So, I got dressed and went out and come home for a shower, and as i'm taking off my undies something crushed and black falls out. It was the spider and he had been in my underwear the entire day. FML"
On April 19 2009 13:16 travis wrote: dude a few years ago I lived in this shitty trailer/house thing, shared it with a buddy. and spiders were fucking everywhere in it. scared the crap out of me regularly.
one time I got up in the morning, went to take a shower, grabbed my luffa thing and started cleaning myself.... and it feels weird and i look down, and there is a gigantic spider in it that im rubbing against my bare chest. freaked me out SO BAD.
luckily it was dead, all bloated and gross from the water. but still it was scary wtf was it doing in there.
holy fuck. im TERRIFIED of spiders. i actually scream when i see a big one.
have you seen the movie Arachnophobia? fucking christ.
That movie was so boring that I stopped watching it and had sex midway through. And I was on shrooms so that is saying something about how boring it was.
On April 19 2009 13:55 errol1001 wrote:^H is a nerd joke from the 90's. ..I don't know why people are using this in 2009 though
Because it works. ^H means backspace. Pounding out a few caret-Hs is easier than doing [s]strikethrough[/s]. You also seem to miss the point. The ^Hs themselves are not a joke. They are simply a way to modify the term Delete Fucking Everything to relate to bug bombs while still leaving it (more) obvious what the original phrase is, much the same way as you might see someone use strikethrough today. No one expects people to look at strikethrough and say "lolol strikethrough" and nerds from the 90s don't expect people to say 'hahaha lookit that fucken ^H'. It's not a joke, it's a notation.
I'm not too ashamed of having used computers in the 90s, or 80s either. I'm old. Not punch card old though. But I wouldn't feel the need to be a dick about someone saying "Do not fold, spindle or mutilate".
On April 19 2009 13:16 travis wrote: dude a few years ago I lived in this shitty trailer/house thing, shared it with a buddy. and spiders were fucking everywhere in it. scared the crap out of me regularly.
one time I got up in the morning, went to take a shower, grabbed my luffa thing and started cleaning myself.... and it feels weird and i look down, and there is a gigantic spider in it that im rubbing against my bare chest. freaked me out SO BAD.
luckily it was dead, all bloated and gross from the water. but still it was scary wtf was it doing in there.
holy fuck. im TERRIFIED of spiders. i actually scream when i see a big one.
have you seen the movie Arachnophobia? fucking christ.
That movie was so boring that I stopped watching it and had sex midway through. And I was on shrooms so that is saying something about how boring it was.
Yeah it was pretty boring... but man... those fucking spiders...
Spiders.... *shudder* The worst nightmares I have ever had where when I was dreaming about the spiders on me in my bad but then I like half woke up so I still saw them briefly which caused me to get the fuck out of bed and run out of the room for like 10 min.
Oversensitive much MamiyaOtaru? And christ, mincing words over saying it was a nerd joke rather than saying it is a nerdy means of making a joke. I already explained what it was to people who didn't know what it was. But you can already see how this means of making a joke is failing when many people don't even understand it anymore. If you don't like the strikethrough, I suggest the slash, as it can serve the same purpose. You can slash\\\\\BUGBOMB spiders too. Whatever.
dude a few years ago I lived in this shitty trailer/house thing, shared it with a buddy. and spiders were fucking everywhere in it. scared the crap out of me regularly.
one time I got up in the morning, went to take a shower, grabbed my luffa thing and started cleaning myself.... and it feels weird and i look down, and there is a gigantic spider in it that im rubbing against my bare chest. freaked me out SO BAD.
luckily it was dead, all bloated and gross from the water. but still it was scary wtf was it doing in there.
Reading this makes remember the time when I saw a freaking giant grasshopper sitting on my towel after i took a shower. I screamed like a girl and ran out from the bathroom. Bugs and spiders freak me out so much.
Another "bug incident" was when I was playing SSBM on my Gamecube. I look down and on my chests sits a fat black spider. Just remembering this makes me sweat and my heart race.
I have large grasshopper/crickets that are pretty much see through in my bathroom all the time. The thing that sucks about them is that they are much harder to kill than a spider. Spiders don't see you coming from above. Grasshoppers though, must have eyes on their head. Best way I've found of killing them is dropping a tissue box from 4 feet or so onto them. If they react fast enough, they jump, and it's pretty unpredictable where they're going to jump.
Then just recently, I sat down at the toilet, and one jumped right into my pants (around my ankles). Bit freaky. At least they aren't deadly..
dude a few years ago I lived in this shitty trailer/house thing, shared it with a buddy. and spiders were fucking everywhere in it. scared the crap out of me regularly.
one time I got up in the morning, went to take a shower, grabbed my luffa thing and started cleaning myself.... and it feels weird and i look down, and there is a gigantic spider in it that im rubbing against my bare chest. freaked me out SO BAD.
luckily it was dead, all bloated and gross from the water. but still it was scary wtf was it doing in there.
Reading this makes remember the time when I saw a freaking giant grasshopper sitting on my towel after i took a shower. I screamed like a girl and ran out from the bathroom. Bugs and spiders freak me out so much.
Another "bug incident" was when I was playing SSBM on my Gamecube. I look down and on my chests sits a fat black spider. Just remembering this makes me sweat and my heart race.
I grabbed one of those it was a bit longer than 5 inches (cricket), it bit the fuck out of me so I threw it down then jumped on it. Righteous.
OmgIRok's Silent Kill Method. Get a napkin/tissue, place it 2ft directly above spider, drop it, and when it covers the spider, you go apeshit tap dancing on the fucking piece of paper. You can also try placing your DDR pad over the tissue and playing until you get tired, then get your phone book and place it over the napkin and leave it there.
It's always fun to do this, I still have a phonebook in the center of my living room, I guess I should check on it sometime.
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