Spider love

selfobsessednewguy

to celebrate the unified force of living things i would like to outline something very important in an age of spider hate and repression. 
spiders just want love just like any other weird life form. weeks ago i saw a dead spider in my tub and i felt something special.

this is something often overlooked... perhaps too often

yes, even the most dangerous or ugly looking spiders just want love. they were born terrifying, and they have to be terrifying for the rest of their lives, warranting a deathly cycle of spider self-hate and depression due to their ultimate lack of connection and love so they continue to murder and terrify others because what else can they do?

please keep your spider-hating beliefs far away from this thread. what do YOU love about spiders?

Nikko

You on crack?

Sporky

I like the brightly coloured ones, as long as they aren't too near to me. They have some very jolly colour schemes.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8679/16305423656_32eb272f37_b.jpg

Bridgehouse

Nikko said:

You on crack?

Clearly Arachnocrack I'd say.

selfobsessednewguy

wow so beautiful Sporky

i like the webs they spend their time making, sometimes they resemble fractal geometry and have very beautiful architectural properties. also ever notice that spiders spend a lot of time not moving? they are pioneers of meditation and enlightenment. spiders don't need phones or music.

Sporky

Oooh - these are pretty cool:

https://i.cbc.ca/1.3618055.1465222946!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/australia-spider.JPG

Ravenous

Jumping spiders like these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratus_volans

Absolutely gorgeous things, even though they have too many legs & eyes.

Ravenous

Some spiders eat other spiders. Keeps the numbers down!

The black & white ones common here in the UK are cute too (they look really funny when you go right up to one and it raises itself up on its back legs and raises its fists at you):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_spider

dogload

Bah! Fuck spiders!

selfobsessednewguy

wow so beautiful well done spider bro

Bidley

Spiders terrify the shit out of me, but I like that they eat shitty flys and the other annoying crap. As long as they stay out of my way, we cool.

quarky

Bidley said:

Spiders terrify the shit out of me, but I like that they eat shitty flys and the other annoying crap. As long as they stay out of my way, we cool.

Amen to that. I lived in Sydney as a kid and remember my Mum trying to kill a funnel web with furniture polish. They never scared me then, but back in Blighty, I can't stand the buggers. I do try not to hate them though, and at least put them outside rather than just swat them with a newspaper.

Paul_C

http://imgur.com/gallery/qolno

TheBlueWolf

Vile eight legged spawn of Trump!

Hootsmon

selfobsessednewguy said:

to celebrate the unified force of living things i would like to outline something very important in an age of spider hate and repression. 
spiders just want love just like any other weird life form. weeks ago i saw a dead spider in my tub and i felt something special.

this is something often overlooked... perhaps too often

yes, even the most dangerous or ugly looking spiders just want love. they were born terrifying, and they have to be terrifying for the rest of their lives, warranting a deathly cycle of spider self-hate and depression due to their ultimate lack of connection and love so they continue to murder and terrify others because what else can they do?

please keep your spider-hating beliefs far away from this thread. what do YOU love about spiders?

Removing their little legs

thomasross20

Ewwww those pics made me shiver

Sambostar

I've said it before, but I love all British Spiders, they keep you company and keep themselves to themselves, kind of like a demented Siamese cat, but equally well I have no love for those Cellar/Vibrating Spiders that have falsely acquired the cute name 'Daddy Long Legs' when they are in fact foreign imposters, have only shown up around these parts in the last 20 odd years and outbreed and eat all other British house spiders.

I've totally draft excluded the place now, down to the micrometre and all I see now are money spiders and the occasional gurt hunting Cardinal spider.  I've also committed mass Phocidae genocide and it's like a 1980's utopian natural order has been restored.

Those Cellar spiders, or Daddy Long Legs or Phocidae genus for want of a better term are not Daddy Long Legs, Daddy Long Legs are Craneflies or Harvestman Spiders.  Cellar Spiders come from the Tropics and never, ever stop breeding their 1000 strong tiny sporn and they make a hell of a mess as well.  They don't even look like a proper spider.

I don't crush spiders but if I see one of those Phocidae it's smashed.  Being burnt alive is too good a fate for them.

Them female false widow makes are pretty scary as well, but only because of their armour, they are also foreign I gather. 

Does spider hate and extreme spider racism exist?

Pass the WD40 and I'II show you it's real.

starwarsnosebleed

You spiderist bastards.....spiderism everywhere!

Strangefan

We either have a new Sambo star or randomhandclaps on our hands,.... This is a great thread! 

Dominic

I used to eat spiders when iI was a little kid ,and worms but earwigs were my favourite -I remember one afternoon lifting a wooden log and seizing on about 20 of them -ate the lot .......my mother came running down the garden screaming when she saw what I was doing ......I remember that spiders were quite "salty " 

stimpsonslostson

I love em. Used to keep several different species as part of my old job. Feeding time was always entertaining.
The most "interesting" of which were Sandy horned baboon spiders- big: about as big as the palm of my hand- not that I could handle them as they're very fast and REALLY aggressive.
They'd often attack the feeding forceps as I dropped in a cricket. One of them once got my finger as I cleaned the tank out-  it felt like having a red hot drawing pin driven into my hand combined with about 10 bee stings. The H&S report and subsequent inspection were also "interesting". 
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Lt8xqwFYTQA/TaPHuLBOMVI/AAAAAAAAAE4/_ngApN4_mp8/s1600/brachycephalus.jpg