[Thanks to Trillian for the (spider) web address!]
Whatever happened to just flushing it down the toilet?
DANG!
That’s pretty hillarious. That could be me, but at least I’m actually a girl!
Your neck of the woods.
Phobias can do strange things. Guy I know, black belt in Ju Jitsu, got into fights to defend women being threatened and assaulted by their boyfriends. Can’t stand the sight of scorpions and he literally runs away screaming at even a picture of a scorpion.
Obviously this fellow’s name is not Sam Gamgee and the spider is not Shelob.
He needs to seek professional help.
I would suggest a gynecologist.
Wait a minute guys- it’s Australia. It might actually be as menacing as all that, it might be the size of my coffee table and pack enough venom to kill the population of an entire small country.
I hate the damn things too, and I have nothing to prove to anybody where physical courage is concerned. I do deal with them, I don’t scream and yell and run away, but I have the same psycho-physical reaction as I would dealing with a mortal threat like a home-invasion.
This guy is plainly phobic. Phobias do not answer to reason, and they don’t mean that the person with them is ball-less. You could sit down with people like that and they’d tell you that they know perfectly well intellectually that it’s just a spider. Their rational mind has the perspective. They’re not lying to cover up being a pussy or anything. But show them one and things change real fast.
Phobias are weird. I’ve seen people who are mortally fearful of butterflies, even though in their rational mind they understand that they’re perfectly harmless. I’ve read that Napoleon Bonaparte, who conquered much of Europe, was afraid of cats.
probably has killer laser eyes and two step venom, hovers like a quad-copter, and eats dingos and babies for breakfast...Shelob's baby.
The former might be excusable, although I'd say the chap needs to get out more and socialize a little.
The latter? Cut up the man-card.
*ping of interest*
I was thinking about PTSD, don’t have it, but the stigma could be lessened if related to your worst fears. Whatever that is, imagine facing it many times during the day, sometimes all day, and then having repeated nightmares at night. Would you want to sleep? Wouldn’t you be hypervigilant? Now imagine that that fear is an IED or an intersection, or a stranger.
For those of you afraid of spiders (I just hate them in my house but take pictures of the big ones outside), check out the pics of camel spiders.
Britain once had an EMPIRE where the sun never set. Now this and being flooded with ‘refugees’ (or at least will be, once they ‘take their share’). The guy’s lucky, if he killed the spider (or a criminal in his own house) he likely would have been brought up on charges.
Spiders generally won’t hurt you unless you start it.
Out here in the boonies; we have lots of snakes. Did
have more rattlers; but husband has dispatched a lot of
them. The WILL rattle a warning; but copperheads are
sneaky. One night, Dub kept barking at something.
When I first looked out back, it looked like a little
bunny rabbit lying on the porch. When I put the flashlight
on it; it was a copperhead all coiled up. Husband
whacked it. I moved the dog food dish off that porch.
AUSTRALIAN spider.
Understandable.
I use Hedge Apples to deter spiders. I know scientists dispute any effect but I swear they work for me. I order them off Amazon.