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Ba babababa! I'm lovin it.
But one day I was on my bed and a huge one (i'm talking about 2 inches in diameter) managed to fall onto my naked torso and run around.
I was scared to death (because I don't know what spiders are posionous etc) and I've hated anything bigger than about 1/3 of an inch in diamter dince.
The others I can squish under my thumb (but only if they're making a web in my room, otherwise I just leave them, I don't care).
I'm absolutely amazed by webs though, and I try to avoid destroying them when I can.
Once a spider started making a HUGE web across my garden (about 15 yards across), it was the most amazing thing ever.
I destoryed that though, becuase I didn't want it to end up a big massive thing that I'd get stuck in.
:|.
But when it gets to the big ones, I do tend to flinch.
I've been socially-conditioned to hate wasps, moths and spiders :~(
Why would you be more afraid of a spider than any other insect. You may view them as a pest (although they help you in ways ecologically), but the extremes of fearing them, jumping away from them, etc?
I don't particularly like spiders, I certainly wouldn't let them crawl on me like some people, but that's not to say I run away or smash them into the floor.
> a phobia is precisely that, it's an irrational fear.
> complaining about people who suffer from one won't change that, and
> it won't make life any easier for them either.
I don't buy it. It's a form a mass hysteria, and a cliche. Anyone who's got a spider phobia should ask themselves why they feel the need to demonize them. I could understand if every spider was like the Brazillian bird-eating spider with a dangerous venom.
Furthermore, people with phobias seem to indulge in them - they almost celebrate them - instead of overcoming them with a little rational thought.
> I held a big, long snake too.
>
> Though, I have had plenty of experience in that department.
Were you taken advantage of at work experience too?
"Hey ma! Black, ripped open, severely swolen, pus-weeping and mutated means it's getting better, right!?"
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It looks like his hand is giving birth to another one.
Though, I have had plenty of experience in that department.
i had one of those in my hand in florida once at a disney show thing - it was like
'GOOD DAY Y'ALL... who wants to hold a GIANNNNT SPIDER today!'
as he scans audience with his eyes the little ginger neon haired girl whos like two foot tall must of stood out.. and the fact my brother was mad at me and was saying 'HER HERRRR!'
They are all tickly, not mean.
Mum wouldnt hold my hand all day after :(
I held a spider like that once at those greenhouse/zoo things. I'm still shiit-scared of them... with their hairy little faces.
I love ants though, they had these massive ones at the same place on ropes above your head carrying leaves. I play with them on holiday too... like a big ant god.
YEAH