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[Wendo]

What the fuck?!

I've killed three spiders in my bathroom in the past 24 hours. And they've all been right next to the toilet, too. There's nothing creepier than being caught doing your thing when you see some movement out of the corner of your eye. Creepier still when you realize that it's a spider...and that it's running straight for you.

Yesterday I lifted up the toilet lid to find that a spider had already met his doom and had somehow fallen into the water. So that means that they're ON the toilet now. Freaky shit man. Now I do a thorough check of the toilet and surrounding areas whenever I have to go to the bathroom. It'd suck to have a spider bite you on the butt.

 

[Escape Goat]

Didn't that happen in Arachniphobia?

 

[pestul]

What the fuck?!

I've killed three spiders in my bathroom in the past 24 hours. And they've all been right next to the toilet, too. There's nothing creepier than being caught doing your thing when you see some movement out of the corner of your eye. Creepier still when you realize that it's a spider...and that it's running straight for you.

Yesterday I lifted up the toilet lid to find that a spider had already met his doom and had somehow fallen into the water. So that means that they're ON the toilet now. Freaky shit man. Now I do a thorough check of the toilet and surrounding areas whenever I have to go to the bathroom. It'd suck to have a spider bite you on the butt.

I think it would be much worse to have a spider bite you on the eyeball personally. Our house was full of these rather large domestic spiders last year.. but then we found the nest and nuked it.

 

[Finaika]

What the fuck?!

I've killed three spiders in my bathroom in the past 24 hours. And they've all been right next to the toilet, too. There's nothing creepier than being caught doing your thing when you see some movement out of the corner of your eye. Creepier still when you realize that it's a spider...and that it's running straight for you.

Yesterday I lifted up the toilet lid to find that a spider had already met his doom and had somehow fallen into the water. So that means that they're ON the toilet now. Freaky shit man. Now I do a thorough check of the toilet and surrounding areas whenever I have to go to the bathroom. It'd suck to have a spider bite you on the butt.

Are they huge tarantula-like?

 

[Wendo]

Are they huge tarantula-like?

BIGGER.














No, they're just the regular size.

 

[Boomer]

Back when people used outhouses, people would always get bit in the ass by either brown recluses or black widows, I don't remember which. But unless you have flies circling around your toilet, you probably don't need to worry. Probably.

 

[Wendo]

I just killed ANOTHER ONE!

What the fuck? My bathroom is clean too. Freaky shit, man. Freaky shit.

 

[AlphaSnake]

Dude, he's so crawling up your ass.

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

STOP KILLING SPIDERS!

They are your friend, and eliminate lesser nuisances like flies, mosquitos, and all that jazz. They're more useful and productive than a lot of people I know.

Spiders are okay in my book, and I'm an arachnophobe.

 

[karasu]

haha this is why I ALWAYS spray air freshner under and around the toilet before I sit down and take care of business. paranoid they say. HA!

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

Actually, it could be a colony of highly evolved trapdoor spiders trying to turn your shitter into a home. That would rock.

I endorse you let them move in, cultivate the colony, and I'll purchase it off of you for $500.

Then I'll install these trapdoor toilets in public restrooms and chaos will ensue. ROX!

 

[123rl]

STOP KILLING SPIDERS!

They are your friend, and eliminate lesser nuisances like flies, mosquitos, and all that jazz. They're more useful and productive than a lot of people I know.

Spiders are okay in my book, and I'm an arachnophobe.

True - I'd rather have spiders than be surrounded by flies, moths etc

Saying that though, I hate spiders! They scare the crap out of me...and I'm from the UK where our spiders hardly count as spiders :lol

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

True - I'd rather have spiders than be surrounded by flies, moths etc

Yeah, now that you mention it I suspect our state has two of the most poisonous spiders in this area to combat the larger menace of The Mothman! :O

 

[ocelittle]

We were shooting this documentary yesterday and were interviewing this guy in his basement, when our second camera op looks over to me (on the first cam) and she has this white look on her face. I decide to wonder over for a second and look at the ground and there is this MASSIVE spider inches from her foot.

It was HUGE...we were out in the country, so yeah, but we coudn't talk because the guy was rambling on about something.

 

[Tuvoc]

A few days ago I noticed a spider in my bathroom, right on my towel holder. I'm not big on just killing insects because they've crossed my path so I let him stay. Now every time I get out of the shower he is sitting right there on the towel holder, probably sucking the water off the towel. And he hasn't been there yet when I'm taking a dump. So we're cool right now. I named him Scott. :lol

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

My stupid cat ate my bathroom spider.

 

[Borys]

So I have to wipe my ass, where's the toilet paper?

HOLY SHIT!!! That's one big motherfucker! I'd better go post on GAF about it, stat!

Aww fuck not posting now, I'd better get some sleep, what's the time anyway?

Hey there's some dirt behind the clock, I better clean it...

Man, I fucking hate those dirty fuckers!

 

[btrboyev]

thats the best avatar ever

 

[Forsete]

I bring a newspaper every time I go to take a dump, just in case those bastards come charging.

We only have those 1-2 cm black ones though, and the "house spiders" which are a little bit bigger but I have only seen them indoors a few times (thank god).

Spiders freak me out.

 

[tetsuoxb]

Depending on what part of the world you live in, you should be quite careful about checking your toilet for spiders.

It is a well known fact that black widows will hide on the inside rim of an outdoor toilet because of the heat retention and humidity in that area. They have occasionally been found in home toilets as well.

 

[karasu]

die

 

[ocelittle]

The one under the clock and beside the curtains are fake.

 

[Ollie Pooch]

The one under the clock and beside the curtains are fake.

doesn't look it - we get huntsman spiders like that in the house all the time! their legs look always look completely munted like that

*gets out the vacuum cleaner*

 

[ocelittle]

Are you sure?
I remember someone posting that before, somewhere, and it turned out to be a fake.

I'm scared if it's not.

 

[SlickWilly223]

The one with the spider behind the clock is fake. I remember that thread.

 

[Red Scarlet]

omg gross

 

[Dragmire]

If you let one bite you, maybe you'll turn into Spiderman. Maybe it was your destiny to take a crap on a spider colony's toilet. You could die, too, but think! Spiderman!

 

[GhaleonEB]

 

[Alyssa Hu$tle]

Yeah, we get Huntsmans here too. Actually, we get all kinds of crazy spiders here in Australia, and most of them are poisonous.
I hate spiders. HATE them. But somewhere along the line I picked up that to kill a spider in your house is bad luck, so I always catch them in a glass and let them free outside.
Except for the Huntsmans. I don’t mind those. They hang around near the roof in plain view and don’t sneak and hide under stuff like the little ones. And they eat the little ones… the little poisonous ones. So I let them stay.
Snakes on the other hand ROCK!

 

[Wendo]

AHHHHHH! THIS FUCKER WILL NOT DIE!

He's been moving around in that lamp fixture for over four days now. Every time I look, he's changed positions. This is what I get for using "cool" environmentally friendly lightbulbs.

Besides that, a larger spider just ran up and stopped on my desk about an hour ago. Right as I was about to get him, he ran down the side of the desk and disappeared. That's the worst. Seeing a spider, knowing its there, and then not being able to find it.

 

[silver]

Definitely. I had that with a moth in my room. Not as bad as a spider, but still fucked up.

 

[Ford Prefect]

Gah, what is this GAF obsession with scary-as-hell spiders?

 

[demon]

Lately I've had bunches of those little, quick, jumping spiders around my window. What the fuck is up with those? Are they poisonous at all?

 

[GDJustin]

Clockspider is 100% real.

 

[ManDudeChild]

As long as the subject of spiders is here, I have a funny one.

About a year ago, I was sitting at my PC and reading about the effects of spider bites. Seeing all those NSFW shots of limbs and shit being messed up something fierce. So I stop reading and turn to take a sip of Sprite and out of nowhere comes this spider that comes down via one piece of web. After a "WTF" reaction, i put the thing in a cup and was going to check what kind of spider i captured (i'm in B.C., in the lower mainland), but forgot about it for a couple weeks. I go back to look in the cup, as I remembered about it, only to find it was not only STILL alive, but had turned the inside of the cup into a new web. I took the cup outside and let it keep it as a home. Figured i'd accidently starved it, and since it was still alive i might as well give it the cup. :lol

 

[Escape Goat]

 

[radios shipping overview]

I just killed a bathroom spider! Spindly, blackish-green, hairless thing, about an inch across. UGLY.

 

[Lil' Dice]

I get along with spiders. I have a black widow near my dryer's exaust hole outside my house, and every now and then i feed it bugs.
Spiders don't scare me at all.

 

[CrystalGemini]

:lol Good one. I didn't even notice that one.

 

[ImNotLikeThem]

"feedback ads by Google". they give ads based on text searches of the webpage.

 

[Dice]

One time I was taking a dump, and I grabbed the toilet paper only to find there was a huge roach on the side of it (the side I couldn't see). That wasn't fun.

 

[Lemurnator]

To those of you saying not to kill spiders and how spiders are more productive than most people.

You say that, but you'd be singing a different tune when you leave the spider be and 2 days later you see the same spider... except it's covered in thousands of baby killer spiders in training.

 

[bjork]

You were "doing your thing" and the spiders were watching?

:fapfap:

 

[Lil' Dice]

Holy shit, that sucks, they're going to bite your fucking balls off.

Never sit in a porta potty. Black Widow's will be in there and grab ur junk. My zoology teacher told me this, apparenlty he has experience.

Call the exterminator.

I think there are a lot of worse things than spiders festering in a porta potty, like gonnorhea and bacteria.

 

[Optimistic]

The other day I woke up after a big night out, and looked over at my jeans, which ina drunken haze had just chucked off beside my bed. So, I got out of bed and went to pick them up, only to find a fucking huge spider (not a huntsman I don't think, but something as big and as scary :lol ), fucking IN my jeans. That was some freaky fucking shit I can tell you. I mean, did I walk through a web when I came home, and pick up a freeloader? Or was the fucker already in my room!? In any case I fucking hate spiders. Jesus.

 

[WHOAguitarninja]

I'm pretty sure I've told this story here before, but these threads always remind me of my close call with almost certain not-cool-ness. I crashed at my friends place on night several years ago, and we were playing some twisted metal black until round abouts 2 in the morning. I start dozing off because I just couldn't stay awake anymore, but he was still playing, so he told me I could crash in his room if I wanted. I liked the idea, as it would certainly be more comfortable in the couch, but by the time I had just about convinced myself to get up and go crash in there, I was asleep.

So I wake up the next morning with him running towards me all like "HOLY SHIT! dude you gotta come check this out, this is crazy!" I'm wondering what the fuck is gong on at that point, and he brings me over to his room and grabs a flashlight. He says "look down here...behind my bed.

I look and don't see anything, so he turns on the light and the corner is absolutely COVERED in baby spiders. Probably 2 or 3 hundred of them easily. Worse than that, there was also some giant spider which I have no idea what it was, but it was about the size of my hand, maybe a bit bigger. All these behind his bed, the bad I almost slept in that night. I don't remember where he slept that night, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't in his room.

Needless to say (being one that doesn't really like spiders), I was freaked. I'd never seen that many spiders before in one place...not even in a zoo. There were, litterally, hundreds of them. The entire corner behind his bed was like a half inch deep with baby spiders with the big mama wading through the lot of them. And I almost slept in that bed. Good god. Scares me now just thinking about it.

 

[Evenball]

This was the scene in my bedroom closet 30 minutes ago. I sprayed it with some Raid, hopefully it's dead by now...........

I see these things all the time, I hate them, they're big. I was bitten by one about ten years ago, but there were no serious side effects aside from a little welt.

Oh well, time to bust out the vacuum cleaner.

 

[ChrisReid]

There's a big spider in my bath tub right now.

 

[Boogie9IGN]

Fuck you guys, I was looking at the big ass spider pics, and this fly hit my leg. I jerked so hard my knee hit the keyboard off the desk

 

[Gek54]

Everyone of you scared of spiders, you are a pussy. Only spiders in the US worth killing are black widows and fiddlebacks.