Why are people scared of spiders?

[X-ray]

Lol @ T-Bone shaped cutout!

Ha ha, I can guarantee you that I would be sleeping in the bungalow only if I could have full chainmail armour and a motorcycle helmet with the visor TAPED shut.

Imagine the sound as the spider hits the visor....Thok!!
and then the feverish scrabble of spiny legs across the helmet as he scurries away, no doubt going back up to the rafters for more fun...

[PMC]

Cyberus wrote:

PMC wrote:

I've dated worse.

Hmm, what if you *aren't* dating them though? Ever been preyed on by a face-hugger?

Only due to very bad nightclub lighting.

[PMC]

X-ray wrote:
We get those spiders in South Africa too, we call them Red Romans.

A friend of mine went out on a field trip and they had to spend a few nights in a thatched bungalow. All night he could hear the tapping of spider legs on the rafters above and every now and then there would be a hard thump as one landed on him on his bed. They apparently jump off the rafters trying to get moths.

There's NO WAY you'd get me to sleep in the same room as one of those.  Not unless I was either very innebriated or there was substantial amounts of cash in it for me.

They seem like they're harmless enough though, I am quite amused by the thought of them jumping off rafters trying to catch insects.  

Thinking about it they're kind of cute in an eight legged pointy fanged kind of a way...

[KennyR]

Interesting article on the BBC, especially with respect to b00tdisk's story.