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Oh gawd, basically getting a heart attack at seeing a spider?

Well any way an anecdote, when I was a kid we would catch flies, and throw them into a spider web, and watch the spider pounce on the fly.

Have fun its friday.

1 posted on 12/13/2024 10:14:59 AM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

I find spiders to be small easily killed critters.


2 posted on 12/13/2024 10:16:21 AM PST by riverrunner
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To: DallasBiff

Spiders are good critters, but belong outside in the gardens, not in a garage or house.


3 posted on 12/13/2024 10:23:38 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: DallasBiff

“when I was a kid we would catch flies, and throw them into a spider web....”

I still do. It never gets old.


4 posted on 12/13/2024 10:24:14 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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To: DallasBiff

5 posted on 12/13/2024 10:25:27 AM PST by DFG
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To: DallasBiff
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7 posted on 12/13/2024 10:29:50 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Now unburdened by the Biden/Harris administration that has been.)
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To: DallasBiff

I like my kitchen spider... a very large wolfspider type helper about the size of my hand who often hides in the fruit bowl and gets all the gnats the bananas attract when the windows are open.

Admittedly it can be a bit startling when one of them suddenly runs from room to room, always high up on the wall, like it is saying “Look at me!”


8 posted on 12/13/2024 10:34:09 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: DallasBiff
A very big nope ...

A-Very-Big-Nope

9 posted on 12/13/2024 10:34:39 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: DallasBiff

Read a great Sci Fi story one time - premise was that our instinctive horror of spiders is because they’re not from this planet. Turned out that it was we who weren’t from this planet. Now I feel like a planetary conqueror when I goosh ‘em.


13 posted on 12/13/2024 10:42:56 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: DallasBiff
Most spiders are harmless and don't bother people. They kill all the slimey critters lurking in
corners and under beds. I have a couple of wolf spiders that wander the house. Not a problem.

15 posted on 12/13/2024 10:53:32 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: DallasBiff

I simply could not restrain myself: “Smart Pig”

Charlotte’s Web is the story of an unlikely friendship between a runt of a pig named Wilbur and a spider named Charlotte. One day, Wilbur hears from one of the farm animals that he is destined to be Christmas dinner. However, one animal is determined to save him, Charlotte. She starts to weave messages into her web about how incredible Wilbur is. Will it be enough to save the pig?


17 posted on 12/13/2024 11:59:49 AM PST by kawhill (Did they say why Willard? Are my methods unsound?)
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To: DallasBiff

“Have fun its friday. “

OK.

The Itsy Bitsy Spider (Eight Legged Freaks):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDKscsIp_0Y

Priscilla Hernandez | The Itsy Bitsy Spider Creepy Scary Version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZW_XG-rqZY


18 posted on 12/13/2024 12:47:03 PM PST by KrisKrinkle (c)
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To: DallasBiff
Behavior therapies along with relaxation and breathing exercises are the main treatment options

No, total eradication of the spider with extreme prejudice is the only solution......

19 posted on 12/13/2024 12:50:06 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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