Scientist Finds World's Largest Spider During Night-time Stroll In Jungle

[Tytalus]

Spiders don't normall squick me out but holy shit I look at that and feel nauseated.

 

[kaotic]

That's bad ass !

Vicious, stealing your idea !:evil:

 

[Kingsley Davis]

Fuck Sting and conservation. Level the Amazon already.

 

[Mekorig]

Am I the only one that's not afraid of spiders or clowns, for that matter?

I dont like the known poisonous spiders like the Black Widow, but things like Tarantulas doesnt scare me. Neither clowns, i found them boring.

BTW, nice Fallout reference in your nick/avatar.

 

[kaotic]

I may or may not have sent this to a bunch of girls I'm banging or trying to bang:

I cropped the spider with the human hand.....got a reaction....then sent the picturing comparing the hand with the spider.

Best thing I've ever done.



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[britchard]

Why is it that even the most manly men are so scared of spiders? Maybe it's hard-wired.

 

[TheWastelander]

Why is it that even the most manly men are so scared of spiders? Maybe it's hard-wired.

I think it is, but part of being a man is overcoming irrational levels of fear about stuff.

When I was a kid I was afraid of roaches. Roaches are nasty. They spread disease and are fucking gross. I overcame that irrational fear by forcing myself to be around them and learning to channel that natural reaction into anger. I replaced the childish flight response with a fight response. This is gonna sound goofy as hell and kinda dark but I started pretending I was Saddam Hussein with a can of Raid.

I still dislike them intensely but I'm not afraid of them. They're tiny and disgusting, but what can they really do to you?

They're worthy only of death and it is satisfying to kill them.

A couple of years ago I came upon a blurb about G. Gordon Liddy (who is infamous for his role in Watergate) and how he overcame his fears as a kid. I can't find the exact article but here is one that contains some of it:

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20094363,00.html

As a boy, Liddy was terrified of the dirigibles that flew over his home, of heights, of moths, of the lashings his grandmother administered with a leather harness. "I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother," he says, "and I wasn't too sure about her." His father was a physically and intellectually powerful man who worked his way from a job on the docks to a partnership in a patent and trademark law firm. Liddy's task was clear: "to change myself from a puny, fearful boy to a strong, fearless man."

One by one, Liddy confronted and defeated his fears. He was afraid of fire, so he repeatedly held his hand over a candle until the flesh burned black. He was afraid of rats, so he roasted and ate one. What does he fear now? "I don't fear anything now," Liddy states flatly. Not even death? "You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence," Liddy explains. "You do that through will and reason."

Dude is hardcore.

 

[Sourcecode]

I don't understand the fear of Spiders...
The first thing that comes to my mind is...how would it taste with a peanut satay sauce...

All these men around here...scared of a spider...

 

[speakeasy]

I can only imagine the huge puddle of goo if you actually stomped on that thing.

 

[TheWastelander]

 

[LeBeau]

To the guys sending the hand and spider comparison pic to chicks, please post the screencaps of their reactions/replies for the benefit of your fellow forum members.

This could be a hilariously epic thread.

 

[kaotic]

To the guys sending the hand and spider comparison pic to chicks, please post the screencaps of their reactions/replies for the benefit of your fellow forum members.

This could be a hilariously epic thread.

I did on page 1, but they're rolling in. I'll post some later when I have time.

 

[Slim Shady]

I hate all kinds of bugs. Tiny bugs - I'm afraid they are going to get into my holes [mainly nose or ear] and wreck shit in there internally.

I do not understand how you guys can eat crabs and lobsters. Crabs are essentially just spiders, and spiders are freaks of nature.

 

[TheSlayer]

I don't understand the fear of Spiders...
The first thing that comes to my mind is...how would it taste with a peanut satay sauce...

All these men around here...scared of a spider...

Not sure if serious....

:barf:

 

[JWLZG]

I don't understand the fear of Spiders...
[...]
All these men around here...scared of a spider...

There's a theory about men being predisposed to fear spiders analogous to how women are as likely to fear mice.

Basically, it's an evolutionary throwback to their prehistoric societal roles, and the responses developed as a result of their encounters in their respective occupational habitats.

Which is a rather ironic explanation, because you'd think that each gender would've evolved to fear that opposite of what they'd be likely to encounter.

The first thing that comes to my mind is...how would it taste with a peanut satay sauce...

You'd be able to find out in Cambodia. Just make sure you don't take a bumpy bus ride in the hills straight after.

 

[Going strong]

I would adopt her, call her Serena, and walk her on a leash like a dog, in the street, to see people's faces

 

[urbannomad]

I saw some spiders in the Amazon. One day I recall t strolling around the lodge. I was walking toward the Forrest until this huge black tarantula start moving up a tree. I did about-face back to the lodge. Later that night my shaman starts showing me some the spiders in and around the lodge. I believe the creepiest was the tarantula. They come in through the roof and drop down like spiderman.. Here a video of a poisonous one in the lodge !

 

[Excelsior]

Why is it that even the most manly men are so scared of spiders? Maybe it's hard-wired.

I think it is, but part of being a man is overcoming irrational levels of fear about stuff.

When I was a kid I was afraid of roaches. Roaches are nasty. They spread disease and are fucking gross. I overcame that irrational fear by forcing myself to be around them and learning to channel that natural reaction into anger. I replaced the childish flight response with a fight response. This is gonna sound goofy as hell and kinda dark but I started pretending I was Saddam Hussein with a can of Raid.

This is actually exactly what I've done. I've always had serious roach-phobia, but have been fortunate enough to live in parts of the Northeast (relatively rural) where there simply didn't exist. This past summer I lived in NYC with my relatives. They've got a nice place but, it being NYC, roaches were a fact of life. They only appeared in the kitchen and only at night (almost never saw them anywhere else in the house at any other time), but they came in numbers when they did.

I made a habit of keeping a can of raid by the kitchen entrance and coming in later at night after the lights had been out for a while, just before bed time. I'd creep up to the door, grab the raid, flip on the light and go to town. Usually was able to catch about a dozen roaches at a time - after a while, they actually became less common when I came in I'd killed off so many. I even managed to kill a couple of them while they were mating.

Raid gives roaches a very painful death - once the spray hits them they pretty much go crazy, flipping about and flailing around wildly for a second or two before suddenly losing life. It is an immensely painful way to go, and I loved to watch it each and every time. I took immense pleasure in building up the roach body count every night.

I can't say that my fear of roaches is gone at all, but I took major steps this summer by taking the precise approach advocated here: morphing my fear into an anger, and using it to generate a more focused, organized response (essentially declaring war on the little bastards). Not only is this the more pragmatic approach, it is empowering - once you complete this process and undermine your fear of the things, you remove the control they have over you and also begin to realize how much control you have over them (they really can't hurt you, but you can send them all to miserable deaths). It feels good.

Still a long way to go, though. Those roaches in NYC were just little guys, of the tiny North American/European species' common to the region. A spider this size would give me serious issues, larger tropical cockroaches still bug me (especially when they fly around), and I still have a big problem with centipedes.

One fear at a time, I guess.

 

[Samseau]

Yeah, I'm not sure what guys experience with these nasty insects and bugs. For me, the fight instinct kicks in every time. I'll kill nasty shit for days.

However, I like these big spiders and I think they are cool. If they have friendly personalities I'd let them live, but if they are aggressive then of course they die.

 

[Billy Chubbs]

I freely admit I'm scared of spiders and snakes. Those fuckers are quiet as hell and even though I live in Canada, which has very few poisonous species of either, I'm paranoid as hell of being bite and poisoned. At least with wolves and bears you can usually hear or see them coming. Spiders and those other stealthy fuckers? You just accidentally step or sit or reach into the wrong place...BOOM! Suddenly half your arm is necrotized (I wouldn't recommend googling necrosis).

Fuck spiders. They just bite, poison you and scurry away. Spiders are the feminists of the animal kingdom.