Author Topic: What the... ? (Read 521 times)

Hortlund · « **on:** November 29, 2002, 06:37:39 AM »

Truly weird. I mean weird on an X-files level-weird.

wtf?

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There were "in the order of tens of millions of spiders running frantically back and forth," but they weren't interacting with each other.

Since the spiders didn't seem to care if an occasional insect stumbled into their construction, Thair doesn't think it was built for trapping purposes.

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Saw at Work · « **Reply #1 on:** November 29, 2002, 08:37:35 AM »

I hate spiders.
why did I look at this ?

I hate you now...

Wlfgng · « **Reply #2 on:** November 29, 2002, 10:18:55 AM »

yeah, they don't care if insects enter the web because they want PEOPLE !!!!

it's pay back for all the spiders people accidentally eat

Saw at Work · « **Reply #3 on:** November 29, 2002, 10:24:56 AM »

accidentally eat a spider?

never !

hawk220 · « **Reply #4 on:** November 29, 2002, 10:34:43 AM »

rgr Saw...supposedly, we eat something like 10 or 20 spiders in our sleep during our lifetimes...

SOB · « **Reply #5 on:** November 29, 2002, 10:59:21 AM »

mmmm...I think Saw swallowed a furry one last night. Got a tickle in yer throat Saw?

SOB

Wlfgng · « **Reply #6 on:** November 29, 2002, 11:02:13 AM »

I just hate when their little twitching legs get caught in my teeth

Hortlund · « **Reply #7 on:** November 29, 2002, 02:11:58 PM »

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Originally posted by hawk220
rgr Saw...supposedly, we eat something like 10 or 20 spiders in our sleep during our lifetimes...

Yeah, right, because we all know how much spiders really strive to creep down the mouth of sleeping people.

That sounds like nonsense, but just out of curiosity, who made that statement, and what did he/she base it on? I mean they cant bloody well know how many spiders they have digested in their sleep now can they?

Wlfgng · « **Reply #8 on:** November 29, 2002, 02:21:11 PM »

I've seen this before from a number of places.
Most recently some report on TV...

mostly they're talking about those little tiny spiders.. but some larger ones too.
The thing is that they don't 'crawl' down there like they want to or anything.. but instead either get inhaled or munched in your sleep.. don't worry though. the protien is good for ya.

Curval · « **Reply #9 on:** November 29, 2002, 02:54:51 PM »

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Originally posted by Wlfgng
I've seen this before from a number of places.
Most recently some report on TV...

mostly they're talking about those little tiny spiders.. but some larger ones too.
The thing is that they don't 'crawl' down there like they want to or anything.. but instead either get inhaled or munched in your sleep.. don't worry though. the protien is good for ya.

assuming of course that it didn't just crawl through a big toejam pile prior to being inhaled or munched.

I hate spiders...the link sounds like a nightmare I had once.

Wlfgng · « **Reply #10 on:** November 29, 2002, 03:18:34 PM »

rofl.. I ate 'em.. er I mean.. I hate 'em too!

Hortlund · « **Reply #11 on:** November 29, 2002, 05:15:40 PM »

Well, I kinda guessed that they didnt mean bird spiders the size of a hand when they were talking about the spiders we apparently eat while we sleep.

But I still have a hard time believing that we eat spiders in our sleep. I mean, I live in a pretty spider-hostile country where the spiders are kept at bay by the severe weather. Its only in the summer months that we see spiders at all, but they rarely venture into our houses. A normal year I might encounter (I kill them all btw, I hate those critters) 5-6 spiders in my home ...but maybe that is because I eat most of them in my sleep?

Curval · « **Reply #12 on:** November 29, 2002, 05:38:54 PM »

Steve, about two years ago I was cleaning the fan blades on our overhead fan in the bedroom. I suddenly noticed that there were these "things" dangling from the spackle coating on the ceiling. My first thought was that they were egg sacks for spiders, because they were defiantely web-like from the look of the threads..turns out they were just discarded webs that the spider who wove it had abandoned. The web, when in active use, lies parallel to the roof, but once they leave the web it basically shrivels and one end falls off, leaving the dangly egg sack looking things.

There were thousands of the things.

I immediately declared war and went "Sadaam Hussain" on them by calling a pest control company. I moved out the family for a few days and chemical warefare commenced.

The spiders in question are tiny...I've probably eaten a bunch if this is a scientific fact that we as humans accidently ingest them. Not any more though.

Just thinking about it gives me the hebie jeebies.

Hortlund · « **Reply #13 on:** November 29, 2002, 06:07:11 PM »

Oh man, Im glad I live in a snow-dominated country. As I said, we dont get that many spiders here.

LOL, I just know Im gonna have a hard time to get to sleep tonight thinking about your thousands of tiny spiders under the ceiling *shudder*

Why dont you move to Sweden or something?

Curval · « **Reply #14 on:** November 29, 2002, 06:14:27 PM »

hehe

You haven't seen the cockroaches we have here. Big! They look like small land lobsters without claws...and the females fly!

But, you gotta take the good with the bad. We have no income tax here, for example.

Coincidentally that is also a good reason for not moving to Sweden.