nixy Posted September 9, 2007 Posted September 9, 2007 Got up this morning to find I'd been sharing my bed with this monster - just to put it into perspective - the quilt cover button is about 1/2 of an inch across! and it left one of it's hairly legs behind on my bed Quote
Digsy Posted September 9, 2007 Posted September 9, 2007 Whoa!!! I don't like them when they get that big! September's spider time though, Nixy, so I doubt its the last beastie you'll be seeing..... Quote
Removed Posted September 9, 2007 Posted September 9, 2007 they say during one person's life, one eats quite a lof of spiders while asleep Quote
nixy Posted September 9, 2007 Author Posted September 9, 2007 No! Don't say that! I don't want to know. Quote
H5 Posted September 9, 2007 Posted September 9, 2007 they say during one person's life, one eats quite a lof of spiders while asleep I think you'd wake up not needing breakfast if you ate that thing! Quote
Digsy Posted September 9, 2007 Posted September 9, 2007 they say during one person's life, one eats quite a lof of spiders while asleep Bloody hell, Val! I'm not going to sleep tonight now! Quote
Zzzz... Posted September 9, 2007 Posted September 9, 2007 did you have any insect bites when you woke up? it could be worth checking.... A young woman was sunbathing on the beach and was just about to drop off to sleep, when she felt an insect running along her jawbone and then down her neck. She brushed it away, and thought nothing more of it. After about a week, she noticed what she thought was a pimple growing and growing. The skin was inflamed and it looked like a blister. Then, one day, she was blow-drying her hair and hit the inflamed spot with her hair dryer. The blistered skin broke open and hundreds of tiny white baby spiders and pus came pouring out of the wound! It seems that while she was sunbathing, her pores had enlarged enough that a mama spider could deposit her egg sac in one. They incubated under her skin until she smacked herself in the jaw with the hair dryer! good night all.... Quote
Digsy Posted September 9, 2007 Posted September 9, 2007 did you have any insect bites when you woke up? it could be worth checking.... A young woman was sunbathing on the beach and was just about to drop off to sleep, when she felt an insect running along her jawbone and then down her neck. She brushed it away, and thought nothing more of it. After about a week, she noticed what she thought was a pimple growing and growing. The skin was inflamed and it looked like a blister. Then, one day, she was blow-drying her hair and hit the inflamed spot with her hair dryer. The blistered skin broke open and hundreds of tiny white baby spiders and pus came pouring out of the wound! It seems that while she was sunbathing, her pores had enlarged enough that a mama spider could deposit her egg sac in one. They incubated under her skin until she smacked herself in the jaw with the hair dryer! good night all.... Quote
bronzee Posted September 9, 2007 Posted September 9, 2007 Got up this morning to find I'd been sharing my bed with this monster - just to put it into perspective - the quilt cover button is about 1/2 of an inch across! and it left one of it's hairly legs behind on my bed What, it didn't wax it's legs first?! Quote
Sarnie Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 did you have any insect bites when you woke up? it could be worth checking.... A young woman was sunbathing on the beach and was just about to drop off to sleep, when she felt an insect running along her jawbone and then down her neck. She brushed it away, and thought nothing more of it. After about a week, she noticed what she thought was a pimple growing and growing. The skin was inflamed and it looked like a blister. Then, one day, she was blow-drying her hair and hit the inflamed spot with her hair dryer. The blistered skin broke open and hundreds of tiny white baby spiders and pus came pouring out of the wound! It seems that while she was sunbathing, her pores had enlarged enough that a mama spider could deposit her egg sac in one. They incubated under her skin until she smacked herself in the jaw with the hair dryer! good night all.... Thanks for that Quote
sl114 Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Nice! Its an urban myth that you eat spiders in your sleep though. Thank God! Nixy - Id move house!!!!! Quote
nixy Posted September 10, 2007 Author Posted September 10, 2007 Digsy you jinxed me! September certainly is the month for Spiders. This is the third day in a row a monster spider has been waiting for me - this time in the bath tonight! I daren't go to bed now! Quote
Zzzz... Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 oh dear that looks like the The hobo spider (Tegenaria agrestis) It is a member of the genus of spiders known colloquially as funnel web spiders. Individuals construct a funnel-shaped structure of silk sheeting and lie in wait at the small end of the funnel for prey insects to blunder onto their webs. Hobo spiders sometimes build their webs in or around human habitations. Although this species of spider has a reputation for aggressiveness, they will normally avoid contact with humans. Most bites occur when the spider is accidentally crushed or squeezed by a human. The spider's venom is strong enough to cause considerable local pain and has been reported to sometimes cause tissue death (necrosis) at and near the bite GOOD NIGHT , SLEEP WELL Quote
GC350z Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 You're some bollox Check round the toilet seat people. Quote
nixy Posted September 11, 2007 Author Posted September 11, 2007 you swine! I'll let you know if there's another monster at bedtime tonight! And by the way, the sign of a real man is one that can pick up a spider and throw it out, therefore rescuing the damsel in distress! Quote
Digsy Posted September 11, 2007 Posted September 11, 2007 you swine! I'll let you know if there's another monster at bedtime tonight! And by the way, the sign of a real man is one that can pick up a spider and throw it out, therefore rescuing the damsel in distress! ....so it can crawl back in again and scare the lady. No way! Death is the only fate coming to these monsters. Quote
Chesterfield Posted September 12, 2007 Posted September 12, 2007 We had this little fella on holiday: Quote
Sarnie Posted September 12, 2007 Posted September 12, 2007 Where the hell was you?????????????? Quote
nixy Posted September 12, 2007 Author Posted September 12, 2007 and surely that is a stunt hand cos you wouldn't be that bonkers! Quote
AndyC Posted September 12, 2007 Posted September 12, 2007 I don't mind spiders - they get rid of the flies and horrible midges. I'd much rather give one another chance than kill it. That said, its probably more that I know there aren't any venomous ones in this country - it'd be a different kettle of fish if we had some of them from Oz or the US. Mind, if I saw one the size of Chris' I don't know if I'd be so brave. Quote
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