Angry Steve goes out to pasture

nsn said :

My comment wasn’t directed at the substance of what you said.

I was referring to… on second thoughts, never mind.

Originally I mist what you were eluding too. I thought that perhap’s you were using heroine so I was reluctant to brooch the subject. In fact it made me feel feint.

But then I sore threw it..and buoy did I grown.

Your such a boar.

460cixy said :

nsn said :

460cixy said :

Should of dumped that thing at my house there awesome

Oh come on! Surely ‘your’ taking the piss.

Not at all I had one livening inside for about six months sadly it pegged it while I was os for a couple of weeks bob was a great spider

My comment wasn’t directed at the substance of what you said.

I was referring to… on second thoughts, never mind.

I wonder if these things are ‘homing’ and will make its way back.

I ask because we once had a ‘homing frog’. Years ago in Townsville there was a frog that used to appear in our ensuite toilet bowl regularly. My wife made me take it outside once, so I took it to a palm tree in the back yard. The next night it was back.

Next time I took it to a park with a swampy pond about a kilometer away. 4 nights later it was back. I knew it was the same one because of some scarring it had on its back.

Honestly I would not have believed it unless I had seen it myself.

We just gave up after that. He disappeared about six months later, coincidentally about the same time a carpet python decided to take up residence in the eaves of our verandah.

smeeagain said :

Seeing a spider isn’t a problem. It only becomes a problem when they disappear

Not if you get two mirrors so you can see your back. Then it’s not a problem again.

Seeing a spider isn’t a problem. It only becomes a problem when they disappear

Is this the “extremely poisonous” giant huntsman that terrorised the Poms last year?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216691/Waitresss-terror-sees-Huntsman-spider-big-tennis-ball-customers-brought-Australia-coat.html

nsn said :

460cixy said :

Should of dumped that thing at my house there awesome

Oh come on! Surely ‘your’ taking the piss.

Not at all I had one livening inside for about six months sadly it pegged it while I was os for a couple of weeks bob was a great spider

Ahhh, Riot Act. I’ve missed this place.

I took the photo above (here’s another one: http://www.fnaah.com/angry_steve.jpg), and while I am well aware of the benefits of having a housemate like Angry Steve (and I use Steve as a non-gender-specific name, arachnids are much more urbane in this respect than us – mate-eating notwithstanding), I was also made acutely aware that if Angry Steve hadn’t been gently relocated, (s)he would have suffered the wrath of the Swift and Vengeful Splattering Shoe of My Significant Other. Her perch (er… steve’s, not my partner’s) right above the inside of the front door was causing much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Relocation was the preferable option, I’m sure you’ll all agree. Steve sure was a bigg’un – I hope she’s ok.

have a huge one like this lass in our house at the moment – had to shoo it away behind the furnishings before astress saw it this morning or it would be sentenced to a fate not nice. i let boris (always boris for me) be – thanks that extra ammo, skid – but am not always backed up.

however, if this was sydney and we were talking funnelwebs…

bigfeet said :

Madam Cholet said :

Huntsman spiders do pose a problem sometimes in that they are sometimes big and fast. if it comes down to it or me, I’ll choose me. If it’s being uncooperative, it may have to go permanently..

The thing is, with huntsman, it never ‘comes down to it or me’

Yeah it pretty much does if you’re the sort that gets a ‘fight or flight’ response to one of these guys deciding to display themselves on an internal door at eye level.
I’m well aware they’re not dangerous, but that doesn’t make it pleasant to have them around.