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[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago

Buncha wimps. Spiders are not out to get you. In fact, they're out to get far more annoying insects like mosquitoes and houseflies. Do you know how many diseases those two spread? Do you know how many spiders spread? Spiders are your friends!

r/spiderbro is one of my most missed subreddits.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately, like 99% of niche subreddits that moved here, it's practically dead.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's not my fault my brain decided that spiders are extremely dangerous and I have to be scared of them 😭

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I used to knee-jerk-reaction freak out over spiders, too. I'd probably still freak out if I turned my head and a big old wolf spider were on my shoulder or something. I have gotten over a significant amount of the fear, though. Enough to handle them occasionally if one needs rescuing from the tub or something. It helps we don't have any actually dangerous ones where I live. I'd probably have a different attitude in Australia.

Fuck centipedes though. Bitey assholes.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Where do you live that there are no venomous spiders? Even in North America, we have to worry about Black Widows, Brown Recluses, and Red(Brown) Widows.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Jeju Do, South Korea. We've got venomous snakes, though.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

Spider infestations are a very binary problem: they are resolved (0 living spiders) or they are not resolved (>0 spiders). Which one is it? So there is greater zero spiders? Then it's not resolved, Dave! Go take that sign down!

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Tbf, that depends on how you define "infestation".

Maybe to them, it's a matter of numbers and behaviour, and just one or two spiders chilling in the corner is no big deal.

Maybe it doesn't become an infestation until there's 10+ spiders, crawling at various points on and suspended from the ceiling, on the walls, under desks, behind your phone as you read this...

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks Satan

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

As an Australian, I'd also argue that an infestation depends on the species of spider, and how far out of the city you are.

10 daddy long legs (cellar spiders) is a bad time if you have to walk through them, but it's not an infestation, I think I'd need 20 daddy long legs and a few hundred little babies before I say something is infested.

1 red back and an unhatched egg web would count as an infestation for me because I'm currently living in the city, but growing up in a regional town, you'd need 5+ before it's infested.

I've got about 8 chubby bum garden spiders living under the capping of the colorbond, but the fence isn't infested because they're just garden spiders and they're in the garden. That's just where they live. I feel like I'd need 50+ spiders on the fence before I consider breaking out the mortein.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

See, I'm German. So there are two modes:

  1. No spiders
  2. HANS! GET ZE FLAMMENWERFER!

The phrase "kill it with fire" can be extended in German:

Kill it with fire, before it lays Eier!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Never realised Rammstein started as spider exterminators.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck you <3

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

You can't prove something doesn't exist.

This is the problem with when scientists declare a think extinct. They can't prove it's gone. They can sample and say "we haven't seen one in a while, we think they're gone".

It's the same with spider infestation. I'd you have seen one for a while, you can declare it's resolved, but you're never really sure.

PS spiders are better than bedbugs. A former employer I was at had a bedbug problem. That sucked for people in that office.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

So what you're saying is that we should just burn it all to the ground? Got it. Let me get my napalm real quick.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's the only way to know for sure.

If you want to live in absolutes. Yes, but then you'll want to irradiate the area to get any surviving spiders that were hidden underground.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

You want giant radioactive spiders? 'Cause that's how you get giant radioactive spiders.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ooh, good idea! Now where did I put my Plutonium?

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

Ok but like this is what pranks should look like.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

When you work at Oscorp.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

I’m putting this on the door into my office suite next week.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Some hairy leg tips poking out from under the sign too, I hope

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

The spiders are the ones resolving the actual problems

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Brought to you by Spiders™

[-] ininewcrow 7 points 2 weeks ago

Googles immediately: .... how ... to ... make ... napalm

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Surprisingly straight forward

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There are just 1 or two left Mostly

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Why do I hear dark souls music?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Edit: Forgive me, your highness, for my momentary lapse in memory. It shan't ever happen again, my liege.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

At least get the quote right holy shit

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Go in. You'll be fine. Just don't breathe through your mouth.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I could swear that this is my highschool

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Did your high school have an almost-solved spider infestation problem?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

No but it was a 140 year old building so I wouldn't be surprised if it happened since I left

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

They mostly come at night… mostly

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

They just need Spiders Georg to eat the rest.

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