Wombat One - Spiders Nill

Shirley · Post: # 41498Post **Shirley** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:00 pm

ouch... I've just been doing the same Stonehead... although I used a sharp pointed knife to do the tatties so I'm blooming glad I didn't do what you did!!!!

baldowrie · Post: # 41504Post **baldowrie** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:30 pm

Oh no Stoney

is the fork ok?

HILLDREAMER90 · Sun Nov 19, 2006 2:24 am

Just reading about being bitten by spiders is making me feel anxious!! Never had spider bite, never wont 1. Glad u ok nev. & stoney b more carfull!! .A.

Wombat · Post: # 41552Post **Wombat** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:16 am

Thanks HD!

Nev

paradox · Post: # 41563Post **paradox** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:18 am

sorry wombat i completly forgot to post that im glad your ok

the.fee.fairy · Sun Nov 19, 2006 2:39 pm

hope both digits are ok now!!

zombiecazz · Sun Nov 19, 2006 2:48 pm

paradox wrote:Ive never been botherd by spiders untill i spent 4 months in the saudi arabian dessert.
They have a form of spider there called the camel spider and there quite large and to my eyes ressemble face huggers from the alien films.

Apparently when they bit you they inject an anesthetic so you dont feel them continue to eat you.

I spent many nights on the aircraft manouvering area running away from the buggers and sitting on top of the aircraft waiting for them to dissapear.

There the quickest moving spiders i have ever seen.

hmm.....I think you may have been victim of a urban legend. Not that these spider aren't big and fast, but.....the truth about camel spiders

paradox · Post: # 41594Post **paradox** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:43 pm

zombiecazz wrote:
paradox wrote:Ive never been botherd by spiders untill i spent 4 months in the saudi arabian dessert.
They have a form of spider there called the camel spider and there quite large and to my eyes ressemble face huggers from the alien films.

Apparently when they bit you they inject an anesthetic so you dont feel them continue to eat you.

I spent many nights on the aircraft manouvering area running away from the buggers and sitting on top of the aircraft waiting for them to dissapear.

There the quickest moving spiders i have ever seen.
hmm.....I think you may have been victim of a urban legend. Not that these spider aren't big and fast, but.....the truth about camel spiders

Well thanks for that info it seems i may have been mislead after all.

To be honest they do move at a fair speed and when somthing that looks like that doesnt shy away from you but runs after you im pretty sure the best thing to do is run away lol.

I remember checking my boots and sleeping bag all the time for any beasties that may have crawled in there.
One guy woke everyone in the tent up one night screaming that a spider had landed on his face which turned out to be a sock drying on a washing line that had landed on him.
for months after that he had all sorts thrown at him whilst shouting look out its a sock monster pmsl.

red · Post: # 41628Post **red** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:12 pm

first off - glad you guys are both ok,

but you had me laughing so hard here with your desciptions!

Millymollymandy · Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:09 am

Glad you are OK Nev!

I've been bitten three times by spiders since moving to Brittany - luckily they aren't lethal but it still isn't nice, especially as they always bite you on the face or neck whilst sleeping! Painful and, for us ladies, temporarily disfiguring. Note those wrinkles (mostly!) part of the spider bite!

Wombat · Post: # 42138Post **Wombat** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 12:46 am

Owwwch! M3,

Sure it wasn't a vampire? I've heard France is rotten with the things

Nev

Millymollymandy · Sat Nov 25, 2006 7:22 am

Hee hee, I posted it on one forum as "Help, I've been bitten by a vampire"!!!

Wombat · Post: # 42150Post **Wombat** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 7:43 am

Well you know what to do....................crosses and garlic all over the place!

Nev

DaisyDaisy · Sat Nov 25, 2006 8:50 am

Muddypause wrote:........ Surely it makes miserable, cold, overcrowded, rainsodden Britain a much more sensible option.....

Muddy, that's what I'd have said until last Sept when I got bitten by a British spider (ouch!) - or at least that's what I've assumed because I was trying to give it freedom from the car just after I'd come off the ferry in France - I thought it had come over from Pompey for a free ride, but maybe it was one of M3's vampires

wulf · Post: # 42167Post **wulf** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 9:27 am

I haven't yet suffered a bite by a UK spider - in fact, I've no qualms in gently picking them up and moving them outside (or, indeed, if it's really cold and I'm feeling generous, somewhere out of the way inside). I do have to remind myself when overseas that not all places enjoy Britain's relative lack of poisonous beasties!

I'd certainly rather have a few more (non-poisonous) spiders round the place than lots more flies!

Wulf