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*Australian accent* Nah, that’s not an enormous spider. This is an enormous spider!

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neither can I.

[Australian accent]Cor, what a beaut. Let’s see what he does when I try to stick me thumb up his bum![/Australian accent]

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Big Spiders…Natures reminder that you are a little girl.

Good Lord, JuliaM! That monster makes our little Dolomedes tenebrosus(http: //img187.imageshack.us/img187/9459/dolomedes.jpg) look positively cuddly. Australia is upside down in more ways than one!

Oh, but I just read that there are no dangerous spiders in Britain? That makes up a little for the lack of tortoises! (But I would have given that one up there the right of way, too — legses. Too many legses!)

“Good Lord, JuliaM! .. Australia is upside down in more ways than one!”

Well, I was looking for the famous clock spider (it’s so much more scary when you have a frame of reference), but when I came across that pic, it really put the willies up me!

Well, there’s the Cardinal spider, but it isn’t venomous, though it can pierce human skin. And we’ve had a few false widows down south, surviving after being brought over in fruit consignments (global warmening!).

And there’s the great raft spider too (bites, non-venomous, really rare and protected), but it lives in fenland. And who wants to go there anyway?

Gawd. I don’t even watch “Arachnaphobia”, “8-Legged Freaks” or “Return of the King” because I despise spiders. If I had one of those things in my house, the birdshot would be spraying in EVERY direction……

Yeah, you’ve really got to wonder what was in the mind of the person that saw those legs and thought: “Hmm, I wonder what’s under there? Perhaps if I just lift off the….arrrrggggh!”

I for one welcome our new arachnid overlords.

Oh, and on the subject of imported arachnids surviving in the UK, the gold medal goes to this little chap.

“Officials at the hospital said the brazilian wandering spider was unlikely to pose a risk to public health since it “would have died very soon after being released” because of the cold.”

Are you sure? Because the little sod already survived freezer burn, boiling water and microwaves! It’s the Rasputin of the invertebrate world.

My SIL is so afraid of spiders that when she bought the three “Ring” DVDs I had to make an edited version of #3 with no spider so she could watch it.

Not to brag, but here in Texas we aren’t as impressed with your spiders down under.

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No turtles, but giant spiders?

Some one needs to talk to those zany limeys.

YIKES!!!1! Spider-thread on my favorite internet outpost????? Noooooooooo I’m not clickin’ ANY of those links …. *shudders / runs away*

We have natural division of labour here at Badger House. I do the spiders and her Ladyship attends to the s-animals, of which I am deeply terrified.

Worms, on the other hand are on a first come first served basis…

“s-animals”??

silly?-platypus and kiwi?
small?-mice and rats?
super?-elephants and rinos?
salty?-sharks and rays?
sniveling?- Liberals and Muslims?
slithering?-snakes and lizards?
slow?-snails and…..smaller snails?

Undulating legs,
Cold eyes and those long sharp fangs.
Keep that thing away!

That beautiful web,
at once a trap and restraint.
You struggle in vein.

Flesh is safe enough,
it’s your juices that she wants.
She’s coming for you.

“s-animals”??

Pretty sure he means those of the legless sort.

I love spiders. And snakes. I have a snake living under my patio, and I used to have a seriously kickass 7-legged garden spider in my backyard.

Nicholas the Slide has it.

…shudder…

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