BS: Are Spiders Shite?

Subject: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: s6k
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 12:25 PM

all they do is eg. run around the house uninvited, etc, and put webs everywhere. and run across your carpit while youre watching the telly, or hide inside your socks doing nothing.

Shite

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 12:27 PM

spiders are rubbish! Not worth a bear mat - I hate it when I go in a curry ship and spiders are ther.

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: GUEST,legs eleven
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 12:30 PM

I like spiders me

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 12:37 PM

Sometimes they eat mosquitos and clothes moths.

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: Sooz
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 12:47 PM

Spiders are cool.

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 12:50 PM

Without them, there'd be more house flies.


Have you ever seen a house fly?

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: GUEST,Seaking
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 12:53 PM

They've got lots of legs - but they're armless

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 01:04 PM

I new a rigger who ate spiders

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: M.Ted
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 03:35 PM

This is not funny. It's sick.

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 03:44 PM

Whoo! When I first read that last post, I thought it said...well you know...

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For your information, "Anansi" {literally, "the spider"}, is an Akan {Ghana, West Africa} symbol of the trickster. Anansi is usually portrayed as a lazy, cunning character. Often he demonstrates the how one can use his or her mind to defeat {or 'get over on'}physically larger & more powerful foes.

On a higher level, in Ashanti and other Akan traditions, Anansi is the owner of the sky God's stories, and the spider web is a symbol of the interconnectedness of the web {circle} of life.

"Anansi" came to the new world with enslaved Africans and became "Aunt Nancy" and "Anancy". Particularly in the Caribbean some of these folktales {and the songs that accompanied those stories}still live on. Of course, Anansi is as even more a part of Ghanaian tradition than Mickey Mouse is a part of USA tradition.

BTW, Anansi was known as "the spider man" as sometimes he would be in spider form and other times he would take on the a man's form.
I suspect, but have no proof that Anansi greatly influenced the "Spider Man" comic book character.

I also believe that Anansi is the reason why people still think that spiders are good luck or bring good luck.

So, no. I don't think that spiders are 'shite'.


Azizi

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 03:46 PM

http://www.funnypictures.dk/funny-picture-257.htm

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 03:49 PM

Hmmm, you mean that 'rigger' post really meant what I thought it meant?

Well, my mother always told me to pray for those who are less fortunate than me. So I'll add Guest 01 Jul 05 - 01:04 PM to my prayer list.

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 03:51 PM

Here's that link

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 12:24 AM

I love spiders. Last year a huge one made a web just outside my front door on the porch light. I loved to watch her renew and repair her web. One day she dropped an "egg" full of hundreds of babies, This year I watch to see if any of them will come back and nest outside my door, but so far, no.

Arachne became a spider after she foolishly boasted that she could spin the finest cloth, even finer than any goddess's. Athena(?) or some other divine bitch challenged her to a contest and when the meer mortal won, turned her into a spider so that she would have to spin webs forever. Another black mark against organized religion.

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: John O'L
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 12:40 AM

I knew a spider who ate riggers

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: Kaleea
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 01:22 AM

I surely wish that all of you who love spiders would come here & round up all of them & take them away. There seem to be gazillions of them in this house-maybemore!--& they seem to find me rather tasty. I cannot use chemical spray as the stuff makes me go into a complete upper respiratory infection which takes weeks to get rid of. But there are even brown recluse nasties here, & I'd sure like to get rid of them. The sticky traps only get some of them. Arachna-hate-ia?

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 03:09 AM

First I expected this thread to be sarted from John ^ 6 i didn't read it all but I think spiders are intoxicating and cute. They are fluffy and I believe for every spider there is a spider.

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: dianavan
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 03:56 AM

My daughter used to have nightmares about a spider in her closet. When I expressed my concerns to my grandma, she said the spider was there to guide my daughter and that it meant that my daughter would be a designer.

When I told my daughter that, her nightmares ended. She is an environmental planner studying architecture and she loves spiders. So do I.

Don't spray them. Its easier to get a glass jar and trap them. Liberate them outside. They eat flying insects.

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: GUEST,ragdall
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 07:10 AM

Don't spray them. Its easier to get a glass jar and trap them. Liberate them outside.

dianavan,
I don't think that indoor spiders really fancy being put outdoors.

I have spiders that live in a basement bathroom. There are no flying insects in there, but they seem to survive. Maybe they are eating other critters that are too small for me to see? Whatever they live on, I'd prefer to have the spiders rather than their prey. They look very pretty -- round shiny black bodies with brown figure 8's on their undersurfaces.

The spiders only become a problem when house guests who may not share my live and let live attitude will be using that bathroom.   Usually, before vistors arrive, I try to capture the spiders in the manner which you described. I take them to the farthest corner of my back yard for an "outdoor vacation".

In less than a week, there are identical spiders in the same locations in that bathroom. I think that the poor little dears must be walking over 100 feet, back through all obstacles in the yard, on their tiny little legs.

One, whom I've nicknamed "Fast Freddy" seems to anticipate my intentions to relocate it and moves evasively, faster than any other spider I've seen. I haven't been able to catch it. I'm thinking that it is tired of fighting it's way back across the back yard and will do all in it's power to stay in the house.

I hope that Freddy will stay out of sight, next week. House guests can be deadly.

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 07:27 AM

I once had ants in my kitchen. Later, when I moved the cooker out to clean behind it, I found hundreds of ants neatly wrapped in spider's web - a spider's packed lunch.

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 08:17 AM

I have'nt read the thread, but,,spidders are NTO shite! Shite dosent ushally have leggs.

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 08:56 AM

Spiders are coool, they eat things that you don't want in your house.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: GUEST,bfdk
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 09:10 AM

Spiders are interesting critters with a keen sense of what's what.

Why, if the male isn't up to standard, the female'll just eat him and have done with it ;-))

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 01:50 PM

(f you wish to live and thrive , let the spider run alive !

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: GUEST,Guest Arnie
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 12:03 PM

I'm a big fan of spiders - if I see one running across the carpet I think, well, what the heck - it'll probably disappear under the sofa and that's the last I'll see of it. The only ones I shift to outdoors are the big ones that appear in the bath from time to time - not sure where they appear from however..... They don't harm us humans and catch an awful lot of flies in the summer.

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 01:06 PM

My cat used to eat spiders. I sometimes think that she may have died of spider poisoning.
Anyway, my house is now a spider habitat - I wonder if can get it declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest? Perhaps not because the Government could then ignore its special status and drive a motorway through it.

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 01:31 PM

Spiders do fine outside--where do you think they lived before people came along and built houses?

We have lots of interesting spiders here, but most of them are outside. I did capture a tarantula on the wall a couple of weeks ago, but that was my fault. I left the inner door open and the screen door doesn't quite reach the door jamb. Poor guy came in and managed to survive a day in a house with two cats. I captured him and released him in the side garden. We saw him again on the step this week.

There are several much larger tarantulas (body length over 3") around the property, a couple who live right next to the house. I've been told that if you want to repel spiders, use mint oil around the base of the house (or perhaps plant mint). And strong smelling cedar chips also are good. We have all of these various spider types, including one that builds an elaborate web from the porch to the garage every night and takes it down again before morning. With all of these, plus lizards, house geckos (I think the tarantulas eat some of those), toads, and snakes, we don't have many bugs (crickets, roaches) make it past that gauntlet to get into the house.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 03:17 PM

My garden seems to be a haven for Garden orb spiders here . I've counted over 30 webs (that's about one every foot) on autumnal mornings. One little bugger span her web across the back door so that if you stepped out into the garden, you got a face full of spiderweb... maybe she was extra hungry....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 03:26 PM

Stand on them and your problem will go away

Subject: RE: BS: Are Spiders Shite?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 07:55 PM

I would Guest, but they spin their webs at head height and I can't get my leg up that far without seriously damaging my chances.

LTS