FabSwingers.com forum: The higher the scream, the bigger the spider

By *ofusplus OP Couple
over a year ago

Limerick

Himself can tell the size of the spider by the pitch of my scream around the house (as they are directly proportional). I can handle the tiny ones but by Autumn, they have grown to be massive.

I hate that I have this irrational fear. Anyone else have Arachnophobia? Mrs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh fuck yes im petrified of them.

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By *ofusplus OP Couple
over a year ago

Limerick

"Oh fuck yes im petrified of them.

At the risk of being sexist, it seems to affect women more than men but I have no idea why

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

I've seen grown men twice my size terrified by needles and suffering white coat syndrome and others petrified by mice and spiders.

I've never had a fear of anything that I'm aware of.

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm the one who intervenes to rescue spiders being terrorised by screaming women.

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

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I feel you pain OP, but when they’re so big you can’t even scream then your in trouble.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dee does. Ive managed to not tell her about the huntsman spiders I encountered in Australia. Now that's a big spider.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Himself can tell the size of the spider by the pitch of my scream around the house (as they are directly proportional). I can handle the tiny ones but by Autumn, they have grown to be massive.

I hate that I have this irrational fear. Anyone else have Arachnophobia? Mrs

Since encountering cockroaches abroad, I've grown a bit fonder of spiders!

Balloons on the other hand....

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By *ofusplus OP Couple
over a year ago

Limerick

"I'm the one who intervenes to rescue spiders being terrorised by screaming women.

Extremely important to know if this is Casey or Lee commenting?

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By *ofusplus OP Couple
over a year ago

Limerick

"I feel you pain OP, but when they’re so big you can’t even scream then your in trouble. "

Well the scream has always found its voice

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm the one who intervenes to rescue spiders being terrorised by screaming women.

Extremely important to know if this is Casey or Lee commenting?

Casey

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By *ofusplus OP Couple
over a year ago

Limerick

"I'm the one who intervenes to rescue spiders being terrorised by screaming women.

Extremely important to know if this is Casey or Lee commenting?

Casey

Well respect to you then

Luckily the spiders in my house don't have ears, but I'm sure the vibrations ain't pleasant

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Confront your fears OP. It actually works, a bit.

I've a fear of spiders but unfortunately so did all my girlfriends and also being the guy I was still expected to be the one to deal with them.

damn bitches.

so my opinion has changed on them a lot over the years. Once they aren't to close, I just ignore them and let then do their own thing and I avoid killing them as best as possible. I've also developed a similar attitude towards the spiders as well.

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By *ofusplus OP Couple
over a year ago

Limerick

I lived with those huntsman spiders and cockroaches in Australia, you become acclimatised. But it's only temporary, you have to keep in close proximity or the fear returns

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I just ignore them usually but im the remover-in-chief for the house scaredy cats

Lived happily with a massive one in Thailand that ate cockroaches, we named her Rachel, until she got in under the mozzie net onto the bed with me. I screamed then alright

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In another life I'd like to come back as a spider to be fair!

That way I'd finally hear "Oh my God, it's huge!"

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By *r NovemberMan
over a year ago

Closer than you think

I honestly thought the title of this thread was a euphemism for something else

Tbh I don't mind spiders at all once I see where they run off to if I cant catch them.

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

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5 people in my house and I'm the only one that's asked the kill the little feckers.

I could be asleep in bed and someone would wake me up anytime of the night to kill one ffs

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By *oserMan
over a year ago

where the wild roses grow

"Himself can tell the size of the spider by the pitch of my scream around the house (as they are directly proportional). I can handle the tiny ones but by Autumn, they have grown to be massive.

I hate that I have this irrational fear. Anyone else have Arachnophobia? Mrs

Since encountering cockroaches abroad, I've grown a bit fonder of spiders!

Balloons on the other hand...."

Jokers on the right, here I am stuck in the middle with you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not much point in being afraid of something you can step on.

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By *oserMan
over a year ago

where the wild roses grow

"Not much point in being afraid of something you can step on.

Unless its a nail

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ah guys ... Dont kill them. They are just doing their thing in the wrong place. Just put a glass or something over them slide a sheet between surface and glass and bring them outside. (or leave til the remover-in-chief comes to put them out

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I ended up in hospital for 2 nights because of a spider bite, got blood poison and was out of work for a week

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By *ofusplus OP Couple
over a year ago

Limerick

"Ah guys ... Dont kill them. They are just doing their thing in the wrong place. Just put a glass or something over them slide a sheet between surface and glass and bring them outside. (or leave til the remover-in-chief comes to put them out

Agreed

I'd never kill a spider, they're good to keep the flies in check. We just relocate them to die a slow, painful death outside in Winter time

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By *ofusplus OP Couple
over a year ago

Limerick

"I ended up in hospital for 2 nights because of a spider bite, got blood poison and was out of work for a week "

Maybe the fear isn't so irrational afterall

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By *ofusplus OP Couple
over a year ago

Limerick

"In another life I'd like to come back as a spider to be fair!

That way I'd finally hear "Oh my God, it's huge!"

Thing is you'd probably hear "get that thing away from me" instead

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

"I ended up in hospital for 2 nights because of a spider bite, got blood poison and was out of work for a week "

Hows the spider

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I ended up in hospital for 2 nights because of a spider bite, got blood poison and was out of work for a week

Maybe the fear isn't so irrational afterall

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nope the doctor told me i could have lost my leg if i had left it go any longer without being checked, i was being the typical man saying it will be grand in a few days by god was i wrong i wouldn't wish that pain on my worst enemy

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By *asual777Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

Can’t be killing Alive things in front of kids

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Can you imagine how many spiders you're sitting on in your profile picture

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Himself can tell the size of the spider by the pitch of my scream around the house (as they are directly proportional). I can handle the tiny ones but by Autumn, they have grown to be massive.

I hate that I have this irrational fear. Anyone else have Arachnophobia? Mrs

I whack them with my shoe. Its either them or me that staying in the house.

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By *adyandthetramp20Couple
over a year ago

carry on camping

"Himself can tell the size of the spider by the pitch of my scream around the house (as they are directly proportional). I can handle the tiny ones but by Autumn, they have grown to be massive.

I hate that I have this irrational fear. Anyone else have Arachnophobia? Mrs

I hate them, I tell my husband that they're truly evil and only some of us can tell which is where our fear comes from.

In our old house one day and I walked out to the kitchen which was in the back of the house: I spotted two youths in the back yard robbing us... I let out a deathly scream because I got such a fright and my husband didn't budge because he though I had seen a spider

Also on occasion I have made him come home from work to kill a spider

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Himself can tell the size of the spider by the pitch of my scream around the house (as they are directly proportional). I can handle the tiny ones but by Autumn, they have grown to be massive.

I hate that I have this irrational fear. Anyone else have Arachnophobia? Mrs

Since encountering cockroaches abroad, I've grown a bit fonder of spiders!

Balloons on the other hand....

Jokers on the right, here I am stuck in the middle with you

I'm terrified of them and their squeakiness and their smell and their potential to burst!

There are dozens of us... DOZENS

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By *hett and scarlettCouple
over a year ago

Dublin

"Dee does. Ive managed to not tell her about the huntsman spiders I encountered in Australia. Now that's a big spider. "

Man, I don’t miss those sneaky bastards. I had a spring action airsoft pistol in the house so I could deal with them at a reasonably safe distance (having to occasionally patch plaster was worth it).

I remember driving one day and the ex said in a very controlled and flat tone that I should slow down and pull off the road.

The way she said it was enough to alarm me, but when she added that I shouldn’t look up, I swiftly puller over and jumped from the car.

I didn’t look at it until I was out, but a big hairy fat fucking huntsman was clinging to the roof liner above where my head had been.

Of came the shoe and I beat that bugger with a combination of cold fear and anger.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Dee does. Ive managed to not tell her about the huntsman spiders I encountered in Australia. Now that's a big spider.

I remember driving one day and the ex said in a very controlled and flat tone that I should slow down and pull off the road.

The way she said it was enough to alarm me, but when she added that I shouldn’t look up, I swiftly puller over and jumped from the car.

I didn’t look at it until I was out, but a big hairy fat fucking huntsman was clinging to the roof liner above where my head had been.

Of came the shoe and I beat that bugger with a combination of cold fear and anger.

Now that’s scary

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Dee does. Ive managed to not tell her about the huntsman spiders I encountered in Australia. Now that's a big spider.

I remember driving one day and the ex said in a very controlled and flat tone that I should slow down and pull off the road.

The way she said it was enough to alarm me, but when she added that I shouldn’t look up, I swiftly puller over and jumped from the car.

I didn’t look at it until I was out, but a big hairy fat fucking huntsman was clinging to the roof liner above where my head had been.

Of came the shoe and I beat that bugger with a combination of cold fear and anger.

Now that’s scary

Even reading that gives me the heebie jeebies

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm the one who intervenes to rescue spiders being terrorised by screaming women.

Extremely important to know if this is Casey or Lee commenting?

Casey

I knew it!! Ha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was actually driving along yesterday minding my own business a you do and I felt this little tingle on my neck so I went to investigate and quickly realised a big dirty bee was crawly on me. Trying not to crash while freaking out I brushed it away but then it landed down at my feet. Anyway I swiftly pulled over and let the bee of on his/her merry way. #savethebees

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Actually it wasn't that dirty. Smelt like roses funnily enough

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By *aint_or_SinnerWoman
over a year ago

South County Dublin

Single mum... plenty of middle of the night spider hunts!

Coloured plastic cup (no, I don't want to see the feckin critter through the glass as if he's going to touch me!!!), slide paper underneath, out the back garden and shake like f**k!!!

Problem sorted

Hasn't come back to bite me - yet

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The origins of the fear is a tricky one..

I used to handle them with no fear..(The big house spiders).. Then something happened and now if one went across close to me when I am not expecting it, I get that literal shiver deep in my spine.

But then I can gather them up and throw them out.

Then I've also witnessed my 4 year old Nephew do the same thing when I pointed out one in the bath, seems like he was born with it.

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