Arachnophobics Recoil; Spider Storm in Brazil

[AnarchistFish]

Amazing

I love Brasil even more now

 

[JEBWrench]

What's wrong with me that made me click on this thread again?

Why do I hate myself so much?

Spoiler

I don't understand why arachnophobia is so prevelant. That video was actually pretty boring, once the initial wonder at such an awesomely large web passed.

I can explain quite simply why I'm afeared of the things - they have more than four legs, and the motion of things with more than four legs utterly terrifies me.

 

[Cry Wolf]

What's wrong with me that made me click on this thread again?

Why do I hate myself so much?

Spoiler

I don't understand why arachnophobia is so prevelant. That video was actually pretty boring, once the initial wonder at such an awesomely large web passed.

I can explain quite simply why I'm afeared of the things - they have more than four legs, and the motion of things with more than four legs utterly terrifies me.

Ahh, but why does movement with greater than four legs terrify you?

 

[Thaluikhain]

It's like The Birds... with spiders instead.

Just wait until birds notice that now their prey are all out in the open, free for the taking.

Well, presumably the spiders have fashioned themselves a big 3 dimensional web, though.

 

[JEBWrench]

Ahh, but why does movement with greater than four legs terrify you?

A fair question, and it's one I've tried to answer myself, and have never been able to come up with a decent answer for. It seems far too alien. When it comes to things like centipedes and millipedes, I think it was the sequence that threw me off, but then, that doesn't really apply to the 6 and 8 legged critters.

It's like The Birds... with spiders instead.

Just wait until birds notice that now their prey are all out in the open, free for the taking.

Well, presumably the spiders have fashioned themselves a big 3 dimensional web, though.

We're talking about space monsters from the pits of Hell; they're probably four or five dimensional.

 

[Thaluikhain]

It's like The Birds... with spiders instead.

Just wait until birds notice that now their prey are all out in the open, free for the taking.

Well, presumably the spiders have fashioned themselves a big 3 dimensional web, though.

We're talking about space monsters from the pits of Hell; they're probably four or five dimensional.

I look forwards to universities hiring spiders to teach their science classes then.

Preferably ones that wear suits, smoke pipes and explain things using short films.

 

[Lono Shrugged]

I so want to run around the streets with a violin playing that creepy rat sting from dishonoured

 

[JEBWrench]

It's like The Birds... with spiders instead.

Just wait until birds notice that now their prey are all out in the open, free for the taking.

Well, presumably the spiders have fashioned themselves a big 3 dimensional web, though.

We're talking about space monsters from the pits of Hell; they're probably four or five dimensional.

I look forwards to universities hiring spiders to teach their science classes then.

Preferably ones that wear suits, smoke pipes and explain things using short films.

Should that happen, my fear may be cured.

Scientists! Make this happen.

 

[Cheesepower5]

You'd think that amount spiders would result in one big cannibalistic orgy.

That'd be the least sexy orgy in the world ever.

For you, maybe.

This is why I live in the Northern hemisphere. I'd freeze my balls off any day to avoid that.

 

[Zantos]

Thankfully Osfvbnjefrv'evbojie the woodlouse king hasn't taught his subjects to spin webs, otherwise it could have been a whole lot worse.

 

[BoredAussieGamer]

Speaking as an Australian:

Shit...

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Well bad luck for the guy who has climb up the pole to fix the power line, he's done for.

It is pretty amazing how those spiders where able to build such a giant web across those power lines.

 

[Chemical Alia]

When I was 8 or 9, during the summer we had a really bad gypsy moth infestation in my area. They spun webs into all the trees and it looked like snow, and there were thousands of them falling off trees, roofs, everywhere. I remember eating an ice cream sundae while sitting on a park bench, and seeing people squish these little caterpillars everywhere as they walked because they were literally everywhere.

I still can't eat an ice cream sandwich without thinking of that, and I'm not even afraid of caterpillars! I can't even imagine if those had been spiders instead D:

 

[Rascarin]

Great. This is the last thing I needed while I'm in one of my nightmare phases.

 

[lechat]

U no liek me?

that right there is a portia spider. part from being my favorite arachnid and having a frankly adorable name it's also the spider equivalent of albert einstein.
cracked actually has a pretty good write up on the guy http://www.cracked.com/article/109_natures-6-most-diabolical-predators/

also a good read
http://www.dichotomistic.com/mind_readings_spider%20minds.html

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Eh?

It's just a bunch of spiders sitting in a web very far away from the camera.

What, did you expect the cameraman to get close to those things?!
HE WOULD HAVE SUFFERED A SPIDERY DEATH!!
A fate I wish upon no man...

 

[Mr Fixit]

When I was 8 or 9, during the summer we had a really bad gypsy moth infestation in my area. They spun webs into all the trees and it looked like snow, and there were thousands of them falling off trees, roofs, everywhere. I remember eating an ice cream sundae while sitting on a park bench, and seeing people squish these little caterpillars everywhere as they walked because they were literally everywhere.

I still can't eat an ice cream sandwich without thinking of that, and I'm not even afraid of caterpillars! I can't even imagine if those had been spiders instead D:

I was stung by a Buckmoth caterpillar once, I stepped on it, it has some type of venom in spines on its body. It felt like had broken my foot & hurt for about a week.

OT: Spiders have never bothered me, but that is quite disturbing.

 

[Atmos Duality]

I see Virani took her kids parachuting in Brazil again.

 

[Scarecrow]

I'm pretty sure I would be outside with a can of Axe (or equivalent) and a lighter, doing my duty to protect my airspace.

That or hiding in the basement and whimpering. Either one.

I think both of us, and everybody else, knows the basement whimpering option is far, far more likely. Then again, I would most likely be joining you.