just venting, airing out, talking shit, personal beefs, problems, anger management, and etc thread

[eastofeden]

I think it has more to do with my entire body itching like crazy when I'm trying to sleep or study. The worst is hearing the buzz when you're in bed trying to sleep though, because you just know that if you don't get up and kill it, you're going to wake up with at least two bites somewhere on your body. Most pointless and infuriating insect ever.

Speaking of others though, during the past week as the temperature has risen, huntsman spiders have been seeking refuge in my house. They're harmless, but they always sit in places that scare the shit out of you when you see them. A few days ago, one was waiting on the wall in the hallway just outside of my bedroom door. It was right in front of me when I stepped out in the morning. Coffee was not required that day. More recently though, one was waiting for me on the inside of the pantry, one of their favourite places it seems. A gigantic hairy spider is not something you want to encounter when you get up for a midnight snack.

Australian Summer; do not recommend.

Crap...those pics are frightening. I would not want to see them in my house. Me and my lover feed the daddy long legs in the corner semi live flies so they won't leave ...they kill all the other spiders...they are deadly to black widows.

We have coyotes and mountain lions and wild boar where I live.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

But if the mouse traps were to actually catch a mouse, it would only attract more huntsmans to feed upon the corpse.

I'd move... no questions asked. No way I could deal with spiders that big.

 

[bankside]

Just moose, grizzlies, and polar bears, right?

Moose are only dangerous if you hit them with your car. Or if you get out of your car to take a photo of a magical wilderness encounter and they charge you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_bear_attacks_in_North_America
vs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_attack
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodile_attack



Actually here is the full list more or less for my part of the country:
http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/ab/jasper/natcul/natcul3.aspx

The cougars will come in to the city rarely. Once a decade or so. That could be a fatality if they come at you the wrong way. But four hour's driving through farmers fields between us and the mountains kind of cuts down on the wildlife quotient.

 

[glasvegas]

I think it has more to do with my entire body itching like crazy when I'm trying to sleep or study. The worst is hearing the buzz when you're in bed trying to sleep though, because you just know that if you don't get up and kill it, you're going to wake up with at least two bites somewhere on your body. Most pointless and infuriating insect ever.

Speaking of others though, during the past week as the temperature has risen, huntsman spiders have been seeking refuge in my house. They're harmless, but they always sit in places that scare the shit out of you when you see them. A few days ago, one was waiting on the wall in the hallway just outside of my bedroom door. It was right in front of me when I stepped out in the morning. Coffee was not required that day. More recently though, one was waiting for me on the inside of the pantry, one of their favourite places it seems. A gigantic hairy spider is not something you want to encounter when you get up for a midnight snack.

Australian Summer; do not recommend.

I guess I am lucky because I still have yet encounter the spiders, snakes and the crocs. The closet thing I ever faced is blue jellyfish

 

[Anders123]

I guess I am lucky because I still have yet encounter the spiders, snakes and the crocs. The closet thing I ever faced is blue jellyfish

Redbacks and whitetails I see pretty much all year round, but mostly out in the shed, on the outside of window frames, or in shoes left unattended outside. Snakes are incredibly rare in my area, and in most suburban or city areas I would imagine. Huntsmans are frequent visitors during Summer, but are pretty rare to see in any other months. I've never seen a croc outside of a zoo.

I'm genuinely surprised you've never seen a huntsman before though. I think I need to move to wherever you're staying.


And bankside, I will readily admit that Australia is pretty deadly when it comes to wildlife, but if you avoid bodies of water, there's really nothing on the land that can compare to how terrifying bears are.

Example:

 

[dereperez]

Redbacks and whitetails I see pretty much all year round, but mostly out in the shed, on the outside of window frames, or in shoes left unattended outside. Snakes are incredibly rare in my area, and in most suburban or city areas I would imagine. Huntsmans are frequent visitors during Summer, but are pretty rare to see in any other months. I've never seen a croc outside of a zoo.

I'm genuinely surprised you've never seen a huntsman before though. I think I need to move to wherever you're staying.


And bankside, I will readily admit that Australia is pretty deadly when it comes to wildlife, but if you avoid bodies of water, there's really nothing on the land that can compare to how terrifying bears are.

Example:

Holy shit...that's scary as hell. If you run, you're a goner, but it's so hard to resist the urge to do so. That bear got REALLY close.

 

[glasvegas]

I'm genuinely surprised you've never seen a huntsman before though. I think I need to move to wherever you're staying.

Just my luck. Although there is a nest of some sort of water spiders living under my bed in Gold Coast. What about the spider that can create a water bubble to live in the water? it is poisonous as well.

 

[Lefty]

Anders by boy,

If they don't hurt people or their stuff, but get rid of pesty things,
they are your friends. Respect them. I have 2 spiders sharing my
office space They Live on my overhead light/paddle fan and visit
various parts of the room including my plants. Good neighbors. Quiet.

 

[bankside]

And bankside, I will readily admit that Australia is pretty deadly when it comes to wildlife, but if you avoid bodies of water, there's really nothing on the land that can compare to how terrifying bears are.

True. If I were about to be attacked by a shark, I'd think "Shit. I did it to myself. I put myself in their habitat. Mind you, if I can just make it to shore…home free!!!"

But a bear is happy to swim after you. That was a little brown bear. My family have run across those camping and were able to make a good retreat. As you can see, you can reason with one of those species if you have a stick and a nasty shout. But a grizzly would not be so easily persuaded. And a polar bear would just eat you. Then the stick. Then spit you out. Then eat the little bits of you he spit out. Kind of a furry, land-borne shark. Cute as cubs though! I've never seen them outside the zoo but could have easily enough in northern Manitoba when I was younger.

 

[Anders123]

Anders by boy,

If they don't hurt people or their stuff, but get rid of pesty things,
they are your friends.

I'm sure you wouldn't be saying this if you went into the kitchen at night and felt something fuzzy dart away from underneath your hand when you tried to turn the light on. I can deal with having a prankster for a friend, especially one who enjoys killing other bugs and spiders, but waiting on my light switch in pitch black darkness is just taking it too far.

The huntsmans have got to go.

 

[bankside]

I'm sure you wouldn't be saying this if you went into the kitchen at night and felt something fuzzy dart away from underneath your hand when you tried to turn the light on. I can deal with having a prankster for a friend, especially one who enjoys killing other bugs and spiders, but waiting on my light switch in pitch black darkness is just taking it too far.

The huntsmans have got to go.

Ughhhhh...

 

[dereperez]

Just my luck. Although there is a nest of some sort of water spiders living under my bed in Gold Coast. What about the spider that can create a water bubble to live in the water? it is poisonous as well.

Do you have water under your bed?

 

[Anders123]

True. If I were about to be attacked by a shark, I'd think "Shit. I did it to myself. I put myself in their habitat. Mind you, if I can just make it to shore…home free!!!"

Three severed limbs later...

But a bear is happy to swim after you.

And to run after you. And to climb after you. All of which it can do faster than you can. There are effective anti-venoms for any of the snakes and spiders I'll encounter in my life, but there is no anti-venom for a bear mauling.

 

[xbuzzerx]

True. If I were about to be attacked by a shark, I'd think "Shit. I did it to myself. I put myself in their habitat. Mind you, if I can just make it to shore…home free!!!"

This is the appropriate mindset. Two fins up.

 

[glasvegas]

Do you have water under your bed?

No, but they're capable of living in land. But I am really sure. There are so many species.

 

[Axxess]

SPIDERS
Link to nasty ass spiders
Spiders spiders spiders
Spiders ambushing me as I leave my room
Spiders spiders spiders
Spiders throwing parties in my pantry
Spiders spiders spiders

This is why I'm never visiting Australia.

 

[Scealle]

I hate mosquitoes I was bitten so often. Last year I go a bad fever due to it and was sent to the hospital.
Fleas are a bitch to deal with. I am still fighting them now God I hope my cousins send me those foggers soon. I just came back from holiday and I found some half dead fleas half leaping in my table

 

[borg69unimatrix]

Redbacks and whitetails I see pretty much all year round, but mostly out in the shed, on the outside of window frames, or in shoes left unattended outside. Snakes are incredibly rare in my area, and in most suburban or city areas I would imagine. Huntsmans are frequent visitors during Summer, but are pretty rare to see in any other months. I've never seen a croc outside of a zoo.

I'm genuinely surprised you've never seen a huntsman before though. I think I need to move to wherever you're staying.


And bankside, I will readily admit that Australia is pretty deadly when it comes to wildlife, but if you avoid bodies of water, there's really nothing on the land that can compare to how terrifying bears are.

Example:

The camera stopped. How did it turn out? Was he eaten? The worst things I have run into at work so far are Mountain Lions and Coyotes. Nothing like the video's encounter though.

 

[xbuzzerx]

There are some things that in my mind simply shouldn't exist.

Like spiders big enough to pass for small dogs and actually MAKING SOUNDS. ARGH.

 

[refujiunderground]

had a weird dream last night. right around the route 280, garden state parkway overpass in east orange too, it got all flooded like it was a river or something. there were a bunch of people and their cars all floating, swimming around wondering what to do. the water was all dirty. i swam from the route 280 garden state parkway connector ramp all the way past the toll to the garden state parkway. i was the only person swimming around there too while everybody was figuring out what to do. it was almost like that maxwell "woman's work" video where he was swimming in the street except there was actually water and i was swimming for real. i saw my brother's car on the garden state parkway all flooded and i saw him about to swim over there to his car. i told him not to go over there because it was too deep and he didn't even brother. the funny part about the whole thing is that i can't swim in real life so me swimming in a dream is like .