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[riley]

The one guaranteed time I'll kill a spider is if it's in the bathroom, especially if I'm showering.
Back in college, I was almost half asleep when I had one crawl along my arm. I jumped up and freaked out. Couldn't sleep the rest of the night.

[Bulsajo]

Kermo,
Your bottom pic is a "camel spider". There was a thread on them in the off topic forum at one time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_spider

[kermo]

[Bulsajo]

Seeing that picture again hypnotized me so completely that I totally missed the link.
I'm pretty sure I was never a mongoose in a past life...

[krats1976]

[Rteacher]

I've always been leary of spiders since I saw the movie "Incredible Shrinking Man" as a kid (when he shrunk to a tiny size he had to battle a "giant" spider he killed by piercing its belly with a pin that he barely managed to lift, showering himself with spider guts and blood...)

My current apartment in Korea had/has a nest of some very large spiders right outside my (not very well sealed) window. At night, with the street lamp shining in, I would see the shadows of these big creepy things projected on my windowshade, and I'd have to get up and check if the spiders were really outside or had gotten in and were crawling on the back of the shade. During one stretch last summer I killed what seemed like a spider-a-day for about a week. The larger ones made no effort to be inconspicuous: they would cast a web from one end of my apartment to the other like they owned the place...

[mindmetoo]

My theory on spiders is they're an apex predator. Kill the spider and whatever that spider was living on now is unchecked. I'd rather have one spider than 10 million of whatever it was living on breeding out of control.

[SPINOZA]

How common are spiders in large officetel apartment buildings I wonder? I live on floor 7.

[Barking Mad Lord Snapcase]

I think people are evading the real issue here.

Why are spiders getting all the attention? Why not ants? I'll tell you why.

1: Spiders are big. Compared to ants, that is. Thus, whether loved or hated, they earn your attention via their very presence. Unlike the poor, hard-working ants. No matter how dilligent and committed to their duty the ants are, the spiders steal all the limelight just by sitting there idly looking BIG. Do you know what this is? Sympathy for power at the expense of the underdog. In other words, blatent Western Imperialism.

2: How often do you see spiders working together in large groups? Not very often. You know why? Because spiders are GREEDY INDIVIDUALISTS. That's right, they spend 5 minutes spinning a bloody great web, and spend the rest of the year sitting around waiting for a free meal. And when they do get one, they keep it to themselves - unlike ants, who share the spoils of hunting with the entire nest. Think about it - all that web space, broader than almost any ants' nest - and it's utilized just for the consumption of just one individual. Kinda reminds you of some countries, doesn't it? Thus, not only are spiders greedy capitalist b@stards in stark contrast to those diligent socialist ants, but also - by lazing around waiting for a meal - they exemplify the Western welfare mentality.

3: When you DO see more than one spider, then it's usually a male and a female, sometimes with an egg sac nearby. What does this remind you of? That's right - the WESTERN NUCLEAR FAMILY. Honestly, if you whiners are trying to slip under the radar by encoding your homesickness in terms of arthropod symbolism, then you haven't fooled me.

4: Have you noticed that female spiders are larger than males? This sort of implied female dominance in your selected imagery is deeply subversive in a Confucian society, and further evidence of your hidden Western Imperialist agenda.

In short, discussing greedy, lazy, power-hungry, flamboyant individualist spiders at the expense of diligent, conformist, selfless ants is an unforgivable slight against North Korea. Really, why don't you go to Japan if you love it so much?

If the entire board does not respond within 4 hours, I will assume that you are evasive and afraid to express your views. Because you are, aren't you? Fascist imperialist cowards.

[Barking Mad Lord Snapcase]

[pest2]