Its Official: Spontaneous spiders in my toilet

[beli]

... So.... for some time now there has been a large daddy longlegs spider living near the bottom of the toilet door. And there was also a smaller one living higher up the tiles. I have grown quite fond of these two and my daughter and I (toileting is a family affair) quite often converse with the spiders. A couple of days ago the big one ate the little one! Just like that out of the blue. The very next day there was another spider! So now there is a new really big one, the big one and the little one is still hanging half eaten on the wall. So my question is how and why did the big one appear? It was like he knew something had happened. He (I say he cause Im hopless at desexing spiders so we just superimposed a gender on it) doesnt appear to be wanting the little spiders newly vacated spot on the wall. He is actually hanging around near the bottom of the door with the big spider. The two live spiders face each other and we pretend that they are having a 'see who blinks first contest' as they have been staring at each other for a day and a half now. Has the new spider come to steal the dead little spider? Has the new spider come to mate with the other live spider? Should we hold a joint funeral/wedding ceremony?

 

[ABEL]

i didn't know this but daddy long legs are not actually spiders! i just looked it up on google. i couldn't find anything about them 'eating' eachother tho?

sounds like you got a little soap opera going on there in the bathroom

 

[beli]

Wow. Learn something new everyday. Apparently theres two types. One that isnt a spider and doesnt produce a web. The other one is a spider and does produce a web but doesnt appear to eat its own. Im guessing the little spider must have been something else then.

PS Word of warning. When googling spiders dont wander into;
daddy-long-legs-spider.free-pantyhose-thumb-galleries.com

 

[Angela Harlem]

daddy longlegs are creepy.
my radio station had this fear factor challenge thing where you had to do this ridiculous stunt and if successful, you got given a plain unmarked envelope. The envelope could contain anything between $5 and $5000. A girl on one challenge day had to lie in a swimsuit in a tank and 1000 daddy longlegs were poured on top of her.



They're apparently more poisonous than Funnel Webs but can't bite cos their fangs are pissy little things which can't break human skin.

 

[Salome]

you have your own radio station ?

 

[Angela Harlem]

ja
ausstereonetwork

 

[Aralitia]

I found a spider on my book on the Spanish Civil War but he didn't stay there very long - he was huge

 

[Screaming Flower]

spiders freak me out.

 

[Sicy]

 

[Mr. BAW]

Sicy had a suck-fish in her toilet!!!!!!!!

 

[*BOOMCHAA!*]

Fuckin' Beautiful thread.

 

[beegee]

you got given

yes, and this was the best part.

 

[beli]

Oh man, have you noticed the ads at the top of this page! Google has customised the ads to this thread.

Update on my toilet.

Last night the new big black spider had 'obtained' the little dead spider from the old big spider, and was hanging on tight. The old big spider was watching from the left, and the new stupid little spider was watching from the right.

A few hours pass..... Both little spiders are gone.
The 2 big spiders, whom we refer to as Ridge and Brooke, have returned to having a stare off competion.

More hours pass. Now Ridge, the new big spider, is hanging upside down higher up the tiles and is staring down at Brooke who has defiantely turned her back so her butt is now facing Ridge. Whatever can this mean?????

 

[ABEL]

@ ridge & brooke!

ya know most people would have prolly just killed the spiders, but it is interesting watching/learning about them aint it?



i was going to post a picture of a bunch of daddy longlegs, but being as some might have been grossed out, i decided to post ridge and brooke instead

 

[beli]

Well thats not a recent photo. That must have been their first wedding...... or their second...... or their........

 

[ABEL]

yeah it looks like their first one, but i'm not sure, i just googled it. that used to be my favorite soap to watch lol. i don't really watch soaps any more tho. i remember, it was funny cuz my mom and brother and i started watching it cuz we loved to laugh at ridge's bad acting

 

[beli]

Ridges bad acting? - what about Thorn, Clark, Rick, The Bloke That Used To Be On Melrose Place, Sally, etc.

Just went to check on Ridge and Brooke and shes still got her butt in his face.

As for killing the spiders, have you seen the quality of Australian television?

One word - DONT.

 

[verte76]

Spiders scare me.

 

[beli]

Even harmless ones? (Harmless to humans that is, not little stupid spiders)

 

[ABEL]

lol beli, yeah they're all pretty bad @ acting, but ridge first caught our attention

sally spectra she was fun to watch.

 

[beli]

So you reckons Sally Spectras a female do you? We spent many drunken nights at Uni debating this very topic.

 

[beli]

Hey, I just turned into a 'War Child' - thats not very nice. I much prefered being an 'Acrobat'. Can we crank the odometer back please?

 

[ABEL]

yeah she's a female i was just looking her up on google...you really do learn something new every day...she (the actress who plays sally) is the daughter of irish immigrants...a u2ey connection to the bold and the beautiful?

 

[Angela Harlem]

yes, and this was the best part.

i never said nothin bout my english being good!




i saw 2 real live new zealand bird spiders today.
i said lots of extremely bad words mixed in with some awful blasphemy.
and they were only baby spiders too...the size of large funnel webs.


good god, i cannot put into words how horribly evil these things are.

much like the acting on bold and the beautiful.

 

[ABEL]

i don't even know what a new zealand bird spider is

 

[beli]

Sounds like a Huntsman spider to me. African bird eating spiders are one of the biggest spiders there is, but there not poisionious. They dont need to be, they friggin huge. Huntsmans are similar. If we were in Hollywood they would be called tarantulas. I think thats what Angies talking about. Huntsmans dont bother me, there harmless. Although one night I did have one drop down from a tree onto my head and this scared the living crap out of me but that was more from the fright of having something big and hairy touch me in the night.

Back to my toilet. Ridge is still hanging upside down above Brooke but hes spinning around and around like hes make a cylinder shaped web that would be big enough for Brooke to get stuck in.

Tune in later for further boring installments of .....

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me........

 

[ABEL]

beli, me thinks you're going to have a bunch of tiny little baby spiders crawling around in yer bathroom before long lol.


maybe you could try taking a pic of them to post? maybe you should even take a pic a day to document this whole thing...could be very educational

 

[Angela Harlem]

No no, seriously, these things are fucked.
They're NZ Bird Eating Spiders (I think I left of the 'eating' in the initial desc.) and they grow to the size of a dinner plate (leg span). We have huntsmans, and they're evil enough as it is, but these 2 little bastards were for sale in a pet shop for $95 each.
I'd heard rumours the pet shop was selling them and despite my deep rooted arachnophobia, had to go in and see. So being exceptionally brave, I ventured in and not seeing anything remotely resembling a spider, I wandered over to the Lorikeets etc and was cooing at how sweet they were when I looked across from their cages and there...sitting like the plotting evil fucks that they are, were 2 of the fattest ugliest spiders I have ever seen in my life. As I backed away getting more and more frantic, I saw a glimpse of some writing on the side of the glass case "NZ...Bird....spiders".
I then began my swearing and blashpheming trying to not knock anything over with the stroller whilst bacing away, when the owner walked past me and smiled and said "Ha! Guess you found our spiders eh?"

Yes I found the ****ers.


They were not fully grown.

Like it makes any kind of difference.
Why I did this today is still beyond me.

Ignorance is bliss.

 

[beli]

I didnt realise you were looking at the spiders in a pet shop. I thought you meant out in your garden. Why would anyone pay a hundred bucks for a spider. Theres plenty outside!

Back to my toilet:

After many hours of furiously spinning, Ridge has disppeared. Yes, DISAPPEARED

It does appear as if Ridge ate all the food, shagged the girl and then left ! (thats men for you)

Brooke sits cold and alone in the shadow of the toilet. Sobbing on to her used Chuckie Finster bandaid, waiting for Ridges return. Waiting...... waiting.....waiting....... (for at least the next ten episodes)

 

[vlasak]

Of course, I had to wander where Beli said not to wander because I'm worse than a cat. Now, I'm trying to stay one click ahead of all the porn pop ups!