I thought they were noisy.....

[SWH]

....and now I know why:


I'm assuming it was a Cricket, but hadn't realised they grew to this size in the UK!

[Smashed]

JIMMINY!

[hornetrider]

Was this picture taken in 2003? What kind of phone do you call that?!

[RobM77]

I had one of these bad boys on my bedroom ceiling the other day and took a similar photo. Great, aren't they?

[Smashed]

hornetrider said:

Was this picture taken in 2003? What kind of phone do you call that?!

He's obviously using his old phone to scale and taking the picture using his brand new iphone 4 durrrrrr

I can't talk I'm currently using a 3510i that I found in the back of my cupboard because I lost my iphone being a drunken pleb.

Edited by Smashed on Thursday 29th July 14:23

[SWH]

hornetrider said:

Was this picture taken in 2003? What kind of phone do you call that?!

Ha ha - a work phone!

[Mexic0]

Was ? did you eat it

[SWH]

Mexic0 said:

Was ? did you eat it

Nah, I've put it in the fridge for a BBQ at the weekend.... !

[Jonny671]

WTF is it doing in your house, man?

[Meoricin]

hornetrider said:

Was this picture taken in 2003? What kind of phone do you call that?!

I use a Nokia 6301. I like it.

[Podie]

Ah, the killer death beetle that will lead to a slow painful death if you get near it...

[SWH]

Podie said:

Ah, the killer death beetle that will lead to a slow painful death if you get near it...

It was pretty docile TBH... swiftly transferred to the fence outside, fully intact.

ETA: So no, not saved for the BBQ(!)

Edited by SWH on Thursday 29th July 15:19

[Original Poster]

I would, without a doubt, experience a nervous breakdown if I came across one of those of that size.

[gazchap]

Stick it in the post to me, the larger of my tarantulas would love that bugger.

[TonyRPH]

hornetrider said:

Was this picture taken in 2003? What kind of phone do you call that?!

Nokia 6301 - it's a current model.

[KB_S1]

So is that a cricket?

We have loads in our garden just now, much smaller than the OP's one though.
NEver noticed them here before. They make some amount of noise.

[Chilli]

Count yourself lucky mate, I have one stuck in my air con vent in the bedroom. Thing starts making noise at about 10 and cracks on all night.

[SWH]

KB_S1 said:

So is that a cricket?

We have loads in our garden just now, much smaller than the OP's one though.
NEver noticed them here before. They make some amount of noise.

I think so, although the last one I saw was about the size of 10p and somewhat quieter... these guys have been loudly chirping away for the past few weeks, first one I've found in the house though.

Happy to be corrected if it isn't a cricket and turns out to be a large grasshopper of course.

[OnTheOverrun]

Meoricin said:

hornetrider said:

Was this picture taken in 2003? What kind of phone do you call that?!

I use a Nokia 6301. I like it.

I could tell you hadn't taken the pic with an i-phone because you can tell what it's a picture of. . . . . .

[SWH]

OnTheOverrun said:

Meoricin said:

hornetrider said:

Was this picture taken in 2003? What kind of phone do you call that?!

I use a Nokia 6301. I like it.

I could tell you hadn't taken the pic with an i-phone because you can tell what it's a picture of. . . . . .

Yep, Sony Cybershot's finest effort... good, that answers Mrs SWH's iPhone question as well, cheers!