Oh, I thought that scene was absolutely hilarious!!! The song was pretty cute too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuckervill
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Oh, I thought that scene was absolutely hilarious!!! The song was pretty cute too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuckervill
You'd love "Joe's Apartment," then. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Tuckervill
Jolt, your college story reminds me of my college co-op kitchen. Every time someone turned the oven on, there would be this VERY LOUD scurrying noise as all the roaches evacuated for cooler quarters. :eek::p:D
:eek: Oakleaf eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww..yuuiuuuccckkk
Long post sorry...
Speaking of being eaten alive..Some of our company's scientists do varying field surveys in the NE of Western Australia and one of thier main safety issues is..crocs.. Yep..not the sun, not weird insects or jellyfish...crocs..
The small spiders that inhabit the dark areas of our fence are normally Redbacks or Whitetails.. Cool but not as freaky as a Huntsman spider..:eek: I've heard although 'huntsman''s aren't poisonous, they kill more people than other spiders each year..becuase of fright!!!
There's a "lake" (Herdsman lake)near our old neighbourhood(not in the boonies) and there are warning signs around the lake that say "beware of tiger snakes". Ian came accross one while biking around the lake one day & he moved out of it's way rather quickly..esp after he read more about them online!!! :eek:
Yes Australia has some rather poisonous creatures but you need some excitement in life right?
If you don't bother the creatures, they won't bother you..
*phew* long post over
Now THAT is disgusting!!! I don't think I'd want to do much cooking in that kitchen--yuck, yuck, yuck!Quote:
Originally Posted by OakLeaf
Hey, TH, we want pictures of your centipedes!
You do what you have to do. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jolt
Yep, I've lived in my share of cockroach-infested apartments when I was a student in Boston (and no BSG, I didn't cower in the corner like a baby :rolleyes:). You get used to things when you need to.
and I thought Millipede Madness was a BIKE RIDE!!!
That's true, but it's still yucky! :p Didn't anyone make any attempt to get rid of the roaches?Quote:
Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl
Oh, you know, it was the '70s, it was a vegetarian co-op. No poisons! Anything cooked got pretty well sterilized I suppose, anyway no one got food poisoning while I was there :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Jolt
Where I lived it would have been pretty much impossible, considering the surrounding apts - so I used lots of tupperware.
LOL - perhaps I could start one up. I squished enough riding the other day so the name would fit.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
SK - when Pete gets home I will get him to take a few.
Last night it did not seem to be as bad but maybe that is just wishful thinking. The buggers are still coming inside but not in as many numbers.
I would rather get mine in the form of wildlife found in pics on the Have We Done It Yet? thread. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
That said, just to stick up for myself, I will mention (but save you a long boring story) about my brave night alone in Texas in a bug/scorpion/mouse infested cabin.
YIKES!!:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Starfish
Scorpions freak me out - you are a very brave girl.
Or how about the time I woke up in a tent, in Maryland, literally blanketed by grandddaddy longlegs?
Karen
I was living on the Island of Maui for a short period in a cockroach and centipede infested dorm apartment. I felt something crawling up my leg while I was in the shower one night and it was a poisonous centipede that had come out of the drain.:eek::eek::eek:
Ever since then, centipedes and millipedes creep me out. Better you than me TH.
Oh, it looked like this and was about 6 inches long. That was a tinyone by Maui standards.
YUK!!!!:eek::eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wahine
That story and pic make me feel a little ill. Thank goodness the Millipedes are pretty small.....lots of them but small.
This grossed me out when I heard about them several years ago: Camel spiders in Iraq. They are not true spiders. Story is that they run after you screaming at you the whole time. I guess their bite contains a numbing effect and they chew on at night and you don't even know it! Till you wake up in the morning and you have large open wounds!
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...elspider01.jpg
The picture contains two of them. One biting onto the next one.
Now that is creepy! I can't even handle the small ones, I can't imagine trying to take a shoe to that!
UGH...normally spiders really don't bother me, but those look like some nasty critters--especially since they bite!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jen-Jen
Ok so yeah even I would run screaming from those babies! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jen-Jen
Very funny:p:pQuote:
Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl
I have the heebee jeebies now:(
It is almost cute....almost...
:p:p
Awwwwww....they're beautiful:) Your black and white one reminds me of one we were luck enough to share about 8 years with. The neighbors bought her for their kid, and let her run loose. We took her in - she wasn't a house bun, but the screened porch was converted for her pleasure (complete with a heated box). And she managed to come in a fair amount (like every time mom wasn't looking:p). They are truly sweet animals:)Quote:
Originally Posted by 7rider
more furry, less leggy :)
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k1...ster-bunny.jpg
My poor son grew up being terrified of spiders...but as he got older he kinda got over it. Then he went to Iraq, and I just had to warn him about the camel spiders! I think he was more afraid of that than getting shot! But he said he never saw one the whole time he was there.
Karen
But Wolf Spider eyes glow a beautiful emerald green if you shine a flashlight on them at night.Quote:
Originally Posted by CA_in_NC
don't ask how I know this tidbit...
OK I have to admit that at first glance I thought this was a picture of the BACK end of a bunny! :eek: :eek: :eek: :cool: :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by jobob
Well...the back end of a bunny IS veeeerrry cute.....Quote:
Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl
Oh those pictures are so cute.:)
You know I mean the bunnies right?
The others are just ICKY.
So, where're the pictures of your critters? Is Pete the only one who can operate a camera? Surely there are other volunteers in the house who could help.:)
"It was the best of threads, it was the worst of threads..."
OK - the tail end of that bunny mid-hop is one of the cutest things I have ever seen. Not to mention the 60's bunny.
On the other hand - There is not an "eek" emoticon big enough to convey how creeped out I am by those the camel spiders.
I keep thinking: OK that's it for me on this thread - no more huge furry spiders. Then I get suckered back in by the bunnies, only to be blindsided by the HUGE SCREAMING spiders that CHASE you. Why do I keep coming back? No one's forcing me to look at this thread. It's like I've signed myself up for some sort of weird psych experiment. :o How much can I take?
They have their own website!
http://www.camelspiders.net/
And their top speed is only 10 mph...
:eek:
AAGH! Finally got around to reading this thread. AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! :eek:
And to think I get mildly creeped out by the very small spiders that tend to swarm over our back patio, Harry Potter in the Forbidden Forest-like. And the single largish spider that I shook out of a curtain once that went audibly THUMP on the floor and scuttled away alarmingly fast. We don't have ANYTHING remotely as creepy as the bugs y'all have posted. One mildly poisonous snake, that's all, otherwise it's large furry non-creepy mammals out there.
OK DD - what the hell is that! :eek:
OK, there's training motivation.Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
OMG, I knew I should not have come here. I don't mind spiders so much, but all the other creepy crawlies freak me out. I ecspecially cannot stand june bugs and crickets and things that jump at you are fly into your head. I know they don't bite, but the feel of them on my skin or in my hair just gives me the hebee jebees. My skin is now crawling.
:eek:
It's a giant weta. Luckily for you they're quite rare. Here's one to scale...
http://www.geocities.co.jp/NatureLan...giant_weta.jpg
Did you know that granddaddy longlegs are VERY poisonous! I alway pick their little butts up and put them back out side!!!! Then my dad was watching a animal program and he learn this fact. However, my dad is a trickster and sometimes he lies to get you going, but I believe him on this. The reason no one dies from them and thankful for it is because their fangs are so hooked and too short that they can't straighten them enough to sink them into our flesh. Okay all one one....EEEEWWWWWW!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuckervill
By the way....I no long pick up daddy-long-legs anymore.
That sensation is called "formication". I am not kidding.Quote:
Originally Posted by DDH
I use that word in casual conversation ever chance I get.