The delights of living in the USA

[branflakes]

Just found a Black Widow spider in my bathroom.

[Horse_Apple]

branflakes said:

Just found a Black Widow spider in my bathroom.

Look on the bright side, it could have been a crack addict with a pistol and a penchant for men.

Edited by Horse_Apple on Friday 12th September 15:34

[minimax]

Horse_Apple said:

branflakes said:

Just found a Black Widow spider in my bathroom.

Look on the bright side, it could have been a crack addict with a pistol and a penchant for men.

Edited by Horse_Apple on Friday 12th September 15:34

but if the above was also female, and hot, would that be such a bad thing?

[Mars]

branflakes said:

Just found a Black Widow spider in my bathroom.

Yuk. How big is it and what did you do to rid yourself of it?

When in Cyprus 3 years ago, I found a "tarantula" type of spider in the downstairs loo in our apartment. It was probably about 4 inches across (legs) and was properly thick in both the body and legs. Scared me half to death. I'm not normally scared of spiders - I'll pick them up and chuck them out of the house - but whereas I feel entirely comfortable about living through an exchange with a British spider, I didn't know what to expect by the way of an early death from this one.

In the end I subdued it with a half can of ant-spray, sprayed into the loo, then battered it with a dustpan. I took pictures of it beforehand... from a reasonable distance of course. No need to be too brave.

[Horse_Apple]

minimax said:

Horse_Apple said:

branflakes said:

Just found a Black Widow spider in my bathroom.

Look on the bright side, it could have been a crack addict with a pistol and a penchant for men.

Edited by Horse_Apple on Friday 12th September 15:34

but if the above was also female, and hot, would that be such a bad thing?

Still want to run with that chain of thought?

[branflakes]

I'm just glad I was sat down at the time.

[Geronimo]

branflakes said:

Just found a Black Widow spider in my bathroom.

I think they prefer to be called African American Widow spiders.

[minimax]

Horse_Apple said:

minimax said:

Horse_Apple said:

branflakes said:

Just found a Black Widow spider in my bathroom.

Look on the bright side, it could have been a crack addict with a pistol and a penchant for men.

Edited by Horse_Apple on Friday 12th September 15:34

but if the above was also female, and hot, would that be such a bad thing?

Still want to run with that chain of thought?

[Flintstone]

Meh.

Try living in Australia where there are funnel webs, redbacks, whitetails.... Tis no big thing.

[SpydieNut]

you want this thread

[Timmy35]

Flintstone said:

Meh.

Try living in Australia where there are funnel webs, redbacks, whitetails.... Tis no big thing.

I'll stick to England thanks, we have bumblebees. That's about as bad as it gets.

[Steameh]

Flintstone said:

Meh.

Try living in Australia where there are funnel webs, redbacks, whitetails.... Tis no big thing.

Dont you get the last two in Magaluf as well?

[g4ry13]

You living in Vegas?

[jeff m]

This didn't happen in the States but I'm sure we have them here.

I was shirtless and a small flourescent green frog jumped and attatched itself to my chest with its sucker type feet.

I'm really glad it wasn't videod

[Saddle bum]

Timmy35 said:

Flintstone said:

Meh.

Try living in Australia where there are funnel webs, redbacks, whitetails.... Tis no big thing.

I'll stick to England thanks, we have bumblebees. That's about as bad as it gets.

What about Gordy Broon and his swarm of pests?

[Matt Harper]

Black Widow, you say? Pah - girly spider.

The Brown Recluse is the one you need to worry about.