Well ... There I am, innocent as always, typing away at new code for a project; Blissfully unaware of the horror that lurks just above my head. I finish my code, lift up my arms and lay them behind my head to rest. I am happy. The code works, it runs. I look around and take a breather. There's nothing like stale air to cool you off after a session at the PC. My eyes float upwards, upwards to the infernal being that rests its weary soul on my wall, and I fall out my chair; Yes, fall out my chair.
If you have any sort of phobia or have ever had any sort of phobia then you can understand the extreme terror that wells up inside as you gaze at a beast such as this. Yes, I know there are some spider pacifists out there who permanently tell you and anyone who'll listen (and even if they don't listen, they talk anyway) about the peaceful nature of the arachnid, but that's not the point! The fact is, I have a phobia and to some that may be a sign of weakness, but I can't help it. It's not like I have control over the fact that I'm scared shitless of a humoungous demon that has arrived straight out of the fiery depths of hell. Anyway, back to the story:
So there I am, gazing up my fiendish fiend, for what else a fiend but fiendish? It's a war of wills - my heart pounding my ribcage out, my short, staccatoed breaths readying my lungs for popping - while my adversary, ignorant of my personal vendetta, retains his cool. This is part where I start to freak out, I mean like, I totally lose it. I sprint for the door, slam it open and ram it shut behind me. I think. I breath. I think clearer. I breath again. I think of it's legs; it's horrific pole-legs. I think of it's head; those razor-sharp pincers. I think of it's ability to move; swift like the wind, and I freak out again.
"What if it moves? What if there's more of them? WHAT IF IT MOVES, MAN???" I think, nearly hysterical. Inquisitive, but by no means intending to get too close, I edge open the door. Sweat is dripping from my forehead now, and I see the beast again, perched in it's roost on my wall.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, that's essentially how I stay for the rest of my afternoon: Entranced by my own predator.
Here's a picture I managed to snap of the beast:
(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/IMG_1840.JPG)
(it's bad res because I took it from very far away!)
Oh god... I know exactly what you went through. I'm phobic of just about any kind of bug, spiders included. I also happen to have a Dad that is fascinated by them. He loves showing off the newest bug he's found, completely forgetting that I'll be scared out of my wits.
The most recent time he came to see me perform at the local renaissance faire and found a tree full of cicadas (eeeeeew...) and picked one off to show whoever would look. I was the first person he found. I ended up having to run through the faire to hide backstage and have hysterics.
To me it's not just spiders... It's almost all insects. I know they're not going to eat me, I know they're the ones who should be scared of me, but I just can't help it. I'm even scared to step on them sometimes.
I'm also scared of heights. But I love mice, I think they're cute.
I dont like to handle the things but they dont bother me if they're minding there own business up a wall or something. However, my wife inisists on me coming and removing them if she sees one. But then thats what dustbusters were invented for.
I'm not afraid of spiders, spiders are afraid of me. Try waving your hand above a spider and it will run away.
The other day I wanted to walk up the stairs to my room when I saw this huge spider on the wall. I didn't saw it when I walked down, but it might have moved. I wanted to leave it alone and pass it, but my manly hunter instinct kicked in and killed it with a large towel.
SSH, I'm not sure that one would fit in a DustBuster. (Some scale, Zor?)
You could probably club the spider to death with it though.
Yeah scale is about 17 centimetres high (work it into inches yourselves, you lazy americans! :D)
I'm totally cool with all other insects though (I actually make a habit of looking for them when we go camping) and I'm totally cool with scorpions and crabs etc. It's just these spider things scare the living heck outta me!
I'm starting to worry because I found a much smaller one in my kitchen -- I hope the thing hasn't bred or anything!
Agenda:
1. Fumigate house.
2. Do it again.
3. Third time lucky
Heh.
Quote from: Guybrush Peepwood on Thu 01/09/2005 14:04:55
To me it's not just spiders... It's almost all insects. I know they're not going to eat me, I know they're the ones who should be scared of me, but I just can't help it.
Just like me. Most of all bugs I'm afraid of wasps. Actually all flying bugs that have a sting. So I really understand what you might have felt at the moment, Zor.
Hehe. I live in SYMBIOSIS with the spiders.They've spun a net infront of my window, so I can keep it open in the warm summer days, without worrying about flies. I let them have all the food they want and not kill them or destroy their web, and they don't come inside my room. We have reached an agreement.
spiders, bugs they are all living creatures.Don't be scared of them cause only then they will atack.
friendship with nature that is our way of life.
Quote from: LJUBI on Thu 01/09/2005 16:22:25
spiders, bugs they are all living creatures.Don't be scared of them cause only then they will atack.
friendship with nature that is our way of life.
Quote from: Zor on Thu 01/09/2005 13:48:22
Yes, I know there are some spider pacifists out there who permanently tell you and anyone who'll listen (and even if they don't listen, they talk anyway) about the peaceful nature of the arachnid, but that's not the point!
It's not like I can help being arachnaphobic ...
I'm not a huge fan of spiders ... but I wouldn't say it's a phobia. Just a general dislike. I don't like anything that can so easily sneak up on me unawares.
I have an absolute phobia of ANYthing going near my eyes. It's completely instinctual and uncontrollable.
I can go near my eyes (rubbing, eye drops, etc) but that's it.
I had to go to the eye doctor one time and they had to physically strap me to the exam chair because I was totally unable to let them near my eyes. I hate it ... I feel like a weakling, but it's a fact either way!
Oh and Zor ... most of us "lazy" Americans are quite familiar with centimeters ;)
(I happen to be an advocate of the metric system)
I have an uncontrollable phobia of losing my breath when there's a lot of blood coming out of my body. It sucks because I don't care, but I totally lose control of my breathing and I have a hard time healing myself.
Also, I hate bees. I'm not afraid of them, but I don't like being near them.
Spiders are cool, though.
Damn you Straight Dope, for busting the old swallowing spiders in sleep myth!
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mspidereat.html
I'm not afraid of spiders, since they're quite tiny where I live, and also considered as lucky things to have living near home (sort of "bringing home and family luck" or similar), and only spider that really scared the shit out of me was in King's Quest III. The scariest AGI dying animation I've ever seen!
But I do have overall disgust and fear if it comes to all kind of bugs, especially wasps and other ones with potential to harm people.
I also have similar experience where terror crossed all limits: At my grandma's house, when it's autumn and rainy season, specific bugs totally conquer whole house. I don't know their name in english, but in latin, they're called Forficula auriculata, and Estonian name translates to something like "earfork". Sucker looks like this:
(http://www.increator.pri.ee/hark.jpg)
These bugs have been feared by people through ages, and people say that they drill into human's ear while it's sleeping, damaging inner ear and even brain. How much is it true, I'm not sure. But they do make little scratchy sound with their forks at their bottom. About 16mm long too, much like average european cockroach.
Anyway, they attack house when everything's getting wet, and gave me most horrid bug experience ever. Right, I was lying in bed, in dark room and watching TV.
TV was only light in room. Then I heard their sound, coming from upwards, looked at the ceiling and... ceiling was full of them, and they started falling into bed, right onto my pillow and blanket.
One fell into my face and I totally panicked. Next moment I was beating them off the bed with towel, and they grasped on towel, one running on it towards my arm. Then I ran into bathroom, threw the towel into bathtub, improvised a flamethrower, using lighter and air conditioner and burnt the towel... Then collapsed and had some trouble to get my breathing back... Needless to say, this night I didn't sleep at all, and walked all night around the town.
I... hate bugs.
InCreator - where I'm from, we called those nasty suckers "Ear Whigs"
They used to be in my friend's pool when we would swim and they would pinch you (and it packs a wallop!).
I seriously dislike spiders, and I can't help it. If I see a spider from a distance, I can walk near it, but if it suddenly attacks me, then that's ... well ... scary! I remember when I was in kindergarten, it was time for our nap, and I noticed a spider in the ceiling, just above my head. I knew it was going to fall down, so I was up the whole 3 hours.
But rest of the bugs are cool, especially ones that could possibly be a good photo model. Then I usually go and get my camera.
But yeah, "Ear Whigs" suck major! They are always in tent in summer, when I decide to camp somewhere. Die!
-Eigen
Yikes, I would have really freaked the hell out.
Luckily, we don't have any sort of spiders like that around here.
I once had a huge one in my bathtub, though. That severely traumatized me and I couldn't go out there for so long, even though I sprayed the whole room thick with delicious poison.
That'll teach them spiders to exist.
I hate cockroaches, it's a real phobia, not just that they annoy me. And my oculist has a lot of problems with putting things in my eyes, aswell. Twin souls, Dartie.
I'm arachnaphobic ever since an incident 2 years ago. It was while I was sleeping. I woke up because something fell on my face, and into my mouth, 2 legs were pulling something out of my open mouth.
That was the worst experience of my life.
Scared the hell out of me when i woke up.
I hate Spiders...I hate them with a fiery passion and I refuse to listen to anyone who says they're harmless because those people are going to be the first to have their insides sucked out when the spiders evolve.
They are cold, calculating killing machines with no emotions or thought. Just cold calculating killing. And the way they kill their prey is horrendous.
Irrational fear my arse, it's irrational to NOT be scared of those octo-legged bastards! Arachnophobes are the one's who'll survive the spider apocolypse...It's us alone who can see the truth. And it's us who's to have to fight to take the planet back...
One day, someone like me is gonna kill you AND YOUR WHOLE FUCKING SPECIES!!!
I like Harvestmen, though. They're silly.
I'm glad I'm not saddled with arachnophobia. Sitting here at night, I often see the odd largish spider scuttle across the room, and if that caused me fear, I imagine I'd have a problem...
Quote from: Zor on Thu 01/09/2005 16:25:33It's not like I can help being arachnaphobic ...
Well, actually phobias can be treated... but it's certainly not at all as simple to get rid of them as some people tend to think. "They're not dangerous, especially if you leave them in peace" won't do the trick.
On earwigs... the "they crawl into your ear and EAT YOUR BRAIN!!" story is, of course, bunk (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/insects/bugear.htm). Not that they wouldn't be unnerving in large quantities - especially inside a building. I remember one rainy evening a few years ago when there were hundreds of green lacewings on the outside of every single window in the house; that was interesting and kind of surreal, but not disturbing.
We like insects we love nature but this creature is one meanÃ, M****RÃ, F****R
So we made this crapy animation just for revange(cause it scares us).
(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/buba.gif)
Real true is that this bug don't want to eat you inner ear.It just want to find place for it's nest(eggs).And hole in human ear is perfect place for such thing(cosily and with right temperature).
BUT STILL IT IS UGLY AS DEVIL HIMSELF
why exactly does the scissor have that green fluid running from it?
Quote from: Guybrush Peepwood on Thu 01/09/2005 23:47:22
why exactly does the scissor have that green fluid running from it?
It's not from the scissors it is blood form bug.
We know that blood from this insect isn't green but :P
Quote from: Darth Mandarb on Thu 01/09/2005 16:48:33
I have an absolute phobia of ANYthing going near my eyes. It's completely instinctual and uncontrollable.
I can go near my eyes (rubbing, eye drops, etc) but that's it.
I had to go to the eye doctor one time and they had to physically strap me to the exam chair because I was totally unable to let them near my eyes. I hate it ... I feel like a weakling, but it's a fact either way!
That's me all the way. Can't stand anything in my eyes; contacts, eye drops, what have you. It's uncontrollable. I can't keep my eye open and I start wiggling all over. They need to force me down at the eye doctor as well.
I think it has more to do with my eye surgeries, though. Not sure. I'm also afraid of most heights, though I find airplanes cool. Spiders only creep me out when they get agressive or of a beastly size. But I like catching lizards.
Mum gets annoyed that I let the huntsman spiders build their webs in my room, but they catch the flies and they don't bother me.
However they do have a funny habit of hanging on the roof above my bed, and on the roof of the shower where they get knocked down by steam and fall on you. I also caught one in my towell when I was drying myself once.
Anything that dumb can't harm you.
[this is a huntsman](http://patrick.wattle.id.au/cameron/photos/insectish/huntsman.jpeg)
There's also the red backs and some strange spiders with a massive fat abdomen that absolutely carpet our front lawn with webs [think Shelob's lair] but I'm cool with them as well.
Quote from: LJUBI on Thu 01/09/2005 23:50:56
Quote from: Guybrush Peepwood on Thu 01/09/2005 23:47:22
why exactly does the scissor have that green fluid running from it?
It's not from the scissors it is blood form bug.
We know that blood from this insect isn't green but :P
I knew that's what you want it to be, but it looks like the green fluid comes from the scissor... And insect blood doesn't have bubbles
But anyway, incect blood is transparent, so the color you see depends what it has eaten.
Las Naranjas: I don't know about you, but I prefer to have flies in my room instead of that demon :-X
I am a complete and total arachnophobic sissy. If I see a small one, I have to kill it. If I see a big one, I have to run away screaming.
Living on a sub-tropical islands presents a large number of times when I need to walk down a narrow jungle path with high trees on both sides. In the mountains surrounding my town, these paths are littered with giant freaking spiders. They keep their webs up high above these paths, but at 6'4" (188ish centimeters) I tower above all the other people who walk along these paths and I'm terrified that if I'm not careful (though I'm usually ducking in fear behind my very short wife) I'm going to get one of these ominous fist-sized beasts in my hair.
Oh I hate how they just sit there... watching me... as I cower in fear under them...
Quote from: Edmundo on Thu 01/09/2005 17:33:57
I have an uncontrollable phobia of losing my breath when there's a lot of blood coming out of my body.
Best. Phobia. Ever.
I have that too.
I had HIDEOUS arachnophobia before coming to Japan. I'd freak out like crazy if I saw a spider and I had to get my boyfriend to kill them. Now, I live in a little village with spiders EVERYWHERE so I've sort of been forced to get over it. None are in my apartment which suits me fine. If they're outside and they keep to themselves, fair enough.
Mind you, the spiders around my place here are nowhere near as scary as the huntsmen back in Australia.
Kinoko-
Seen a mukade yet?
(http://web-box.jp/zooty/centipede1/s_multidens1/yleg/mukade_up6.JPG)
I don't really mind spiders and junk, just try and stay away from em...
I did have a crappy experince the other day though, walking in my yard a flying insect managed to fly right into my left ear. I mean all the way up there. It made such an awful noise abd it felt like it was burrowing into my brain....Fucking horrible. I kept playing that scene from that start trek movie wrath of khan...
Anyway, my wife was sleeping, I woke her up and begged her to get the bug out, only she couldn't see it. She told me I was crazy and laid back down. Long story short She eventually wised up and tweezed the thing outta my ear...
Vince: Nope, I have zero bugs inside my apartment. I'm -always- looking but I haven't seen more than a little slug on my bathroom wall (which I put outside after taking a photo of it to mark the occasion).
I've already talked to other ALTs who have had mukade on their ceilings and freaked out. I'm just glad it isn't me. I honestly think I giant huntsman would scare me more though. I look at mukade and they just don't scare me (in photos). BTW, is that -your- hand?
By the way, if you have an LJ account, let me know and I'll add you to my friends list so you can read about my crazy wacky adventures in Japan.
Quote from: Kinoko on Fri 02/09/2005 04:07:50
BTW, is that -your- hand?
Hell no! That hand comes to you courtesy of a google image search. ;) Again, I'm a big sissy. Too many legs freaks me out. I did see one Mukade, but it was outside while I was walking to the grocery store. Thankfully, my apartment is also quite bug free.
No, no LiveJournal. I got bored of blogging about my adventures in Japan a long time ago.
Well, with me it's a convenient way of telling things to my friends and only having to write it once. It only became LJ yesterday though. I hate LJ, but I was out of the loop with all my other LJ using friends so much like the reason the weight of the world eventually necessitated me to get a mobile phone, I was forced to start an LJ.
Wow, I said LJ a lot.
As for mukade, I havent even seen one outside yet. I'm almost disappointed because I got the impression they were everywhere.
Alright - Here's something else: (how's this for a weird phobia!)
Alright, I'm not entirely sure what this is called (or even if its called!), but I also have the phobia of man-made objects that are underwater. Yes, I know it souunds ridiculous, but I'll be swimming or something, and I'll see maybe a rusted pipe underneath me or something and I'll freak out and swim away as fast as possible.
This phobia isn't as bad as my arachnophobia though -- I can get over this one easier. For instance I used to crap my pants everytime the creepy-crawly came close to me, but I'm kinda over it now.
Well, if we're talking about weird phobias, I have 2.
One is anything touching the back of my knees. I think of something possibly damaging the tendons back there and it drives me insane.
Moreso than that is non-laquered wooden objects scraping on things. I don't know where it came from but particularly the thought of popsicle sticks on my teeth just ... it's the most awful torture I can imagine. Even when washing wooden spoons or something, I have to really wash them carefully so I don't rub them or anything.
Ok,
I have a weird phobia as well: the edge of a door on the hinged side. I ALWAYS picture myself getting my fingers trapped there. The feeling is especially strong when I see those big glass doors in department stores, airports etc. closing.
Just describing it makes me tuck away my toes and fingers.
I have an aversion to submerged objects as well Zor, although I wouldn't term it a phobia.
Never heard of that before, interesting. What about big sharks and octopussies?
In mittens we discussed scary stuff one of the nights around the campfire. We all managed to freak Adam out by talking about the men from the sea; we imagined seeing human shapes walking up from the water, slowly coming towards us. (And he's supposed to call himself DarkStalkey?)
Eventually, all of us were more or less worked up, except for AGA, who is the epithome of a rational sceptic.
Quote
(http://www.increator.pri.ee/hark.jpg)
These things are called "Tvestjärt" in Sweden, which roughly translates to "Split-Butt".
Really.
There are tons of them living in my mailbox for some reason.
Quote from: Andail on Fri 02/09/2005 11:21:24
In mittens we discussed scary stuff one of the nights around the campfire. We all managed to freak Adam out by talking about the men from the sea; we imagined seeing human shapes walking up from the water, slowly coming towards us. (And he's supposed to call himself DarkStalkey?)
Eventually, all of us were more or less worked up, except for AGA, who is the epithome of a rational sceptic.
And when sun was rising, the sea people went back into the depths of the sea: http://www.americangirlscouts.org/chrille/petteri/IMG_6981.html
I live in an old house and there are pipes going inside of the walls. And when darkness falls, the pipes start making creepy noises... well, not creepy per se, but when being home alone I easily get nervous when I hear something going clink or clank. It doesn't bother me at day when it's light, I guess I'm a little bit afraid of the dark.
Also, I don't like bugs and insects. Like I told at Mittens, we have lots of mosquitos in Finland. I'm not scared of them, only annoyed. Same goes for wasps. But creepy bugs make me easily go eek, especially if I found them crawling on myself.
I forgot to mention I have agoraphobia.
But speaking of weird phobias, I can't stand any kind of jewelry. It's not exactly a phobia, it's more like weirdness. And I wish people would stop wearing them because it only makes them ugly.
Ugh. I never used to fear spiders. In my area, the bug problem isn't bad, but when seasonal rains come (particularly just after the warm season) ants and flies tend to collect indoors. As a kid, I always just let them be, figuring the spiders would trap the flies and the ants would get bored after having nicely scavenged all my discarded crumbs.
When I was 19, that all changed when I was bitten by a brown recluse while sleeping. There's still a strange dent in my leg from the tissue being carved out by a Navy corpsman. Now I can't stand any arachnid. I'll still leave 'em alone if they're outside but once they cross my threshold, they're reduced to a smear - friendliness with nature be damned.
That submerged object discomfort is shared. I love the water; lakes, oceans, and pools, but swimming near large submerged objects creeps me out, especially if I haven't got a quick escape route from the water. Videogames and some movies will cause the same rapid-pulsed chest-tightening feeling, particularly if it's underwater objects (like a sunken ship) with multi-harmonic metal creakings. *shiver*
I have an irrational fear of someone touching my hands, at the place people slit their wrists wrong, and where you measure the pulse sometimes. If anyone touches there I'll be likely to hit them in the face, as a reaction.
Big things in water creep me out, be they manmade, living things or just big rocks.
I hate this game so: http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=5004
Now I've got to try the game. I'll likely be unable to play it for long. I'm masochistic so dark room with 5.1 system ought to twist my intestines nicely. The only part that creeped me out (and not too much at that) in the first Resident Evil game was that damned shark's POV coming at your avatar's legs in the water.. made my spine squirm.
spiders are cute....as long as they arent dangeres :D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/EggHeadCheesyBird/socute.gif
Wrong. ALL bugs are cute (http://www.uglybug.org/)
I hate those spinning doors like you see at hotels. I'm not sure what you call them. We've always called them "revolving doors".
When I was a kid I got my left arm and my left leg crunched in one of them and ever since then, whenever I have to use one of them, I tense up a bit. (if there's an actual NORMAL door next to it I'll always use that instead, even if it requires a slight wait)
I also cannot get comfortable in any building unless there are at least two ways to exit the building AND I know where they are. The first thing I do, when entering a building (or any structure) is find the way out. Not sure why I do that.
Lastly, I am incapable of relaxing if I have my back to a door. Actually it's uncomfortable for me to have my back to any area where people can walk up behind me.
Paranoia perhaps? I don't know ... but there it is.
Yeah, I can totally relate to that paranoia thing ... I'm permantly throwing glances behind my back and up at the ceiling just in case, and If I have to stand somewhere, I'd rather stand with my back against the wall (after checking crevices inbetween bricks and stuff!).
Spiders are my friends, I come across hundreds everyday, I don't pick them up, but quite often I see them hanging from my hat climbing up the web.
I walk through webs all day long, sometimes big spiders end up on my clothes, I just brush them off and continue on my way.
I also live in an area with quite venomous spiders and snakes, but it's actually quite hard to even find them unless you know where to look. (and when you know where to look they're quite numerous)
The Huntsman that Las mentioned is quite numerous and often found in the house, they look more scary than they are and are harmless, I've had them in my car while I've been driving crawl across my head and fall in my lap which can be freaky but lucky I don't have arachnophobia, the trick is just to stay calm.
I remember once that I was riding my bike at night and I rode through a web and I felt the spider riding up my arm, so I shook it off.
500 metres or so later I felt it again. It had snagged me with webbing and used spider strength to pull itself up after flying behind me for a while.
hardcore
Wow, that thing is h00ge!
If theyre not bigger than 1 centimeter, i dont mind bugs. I've learned to live in 'harmony' with wasps, although I'm still wary. I once had one sit on my jacket while I was waiting for the bus. When it came up to my shoulder though I punched it in mid-air.
My house used to be shared with a bunch of bugs they call 'silverfish'(dont ask me why). We just call them 'Snellen' (snel is dutch for fast).
(http://www.museums.org.za/bio/images/enb1/enb01496.jpg)
They are incredibly fast, but when you pounche on them with a tissue you just about pulverize them. We have an electronic repellant device in the hall now, so I don't see them around very much. Although a while ago one crawled out from under my keyboard as I was typing...*shudder*.
Mosquitos though, they are #1 on my hitlist. I'm not afraid of them, but that godawful noise they make, especially when youre sleeping. ARGH. I've been up at 3 AM hunting mosquitos with my shoe often enough.
Something happened to me last night that reminded me of this whole earwig business.
I was sleeping and suddenly woke up because something was itching my ear and I had caught something between my fingers. So I turned on lights and...
(http://www.tampere.fi/ytoteto/yva/tehtava/luonto/sokerit.jpg)
...I had one of those in my hand. I don't know the correct English name for those, straight translation from Finnish would be sugar maggot/worm. Latin name is lepisma saccharina. I don't think it ever went inside of my ear because I caught it on my ear flap. I guess it fell on me from ceiling whilst I was asleep.
(note: those things are not very big, the biggest ones are about 1cm long and the one I found wasn't even that long. I wasn't even freaked out because I encounter those things every day in the bathroom.)
yea , small buggies aint that scary... the only thing i dont get about spiders is that they get there web that is like 6 times bigger then their selfs out of their ass.
Urgh! I can't stand any sort of creepy crawlies! I would just stand there frozen, and call for my brother to get rid of it. I'm not so bad lately, and can squish the smaller ones, but anything bigger than an inch and I run and hide. :o Thankfully we don't get particularly nasty bugs here in Northern Ireland.
As for weird phobias, I don't like sitting with my back to a door or window either. I also have this weird phobia about having my throat obstructed or constricted. I can't swallow pills of any size, because I'm convinced I'm going to choke on them (and usually do, because I get myself so worked up), and I don't like having tight jewellery or clothing round my neck, because I feel like I can't breathe. Its weird, and my GP always gives me funny looks when I say I can't take pills.
I`m not arachnophobic but I was really freaked out when I saw a weird spider that looked like it was a mutant or something. It was green, had uneven legs and even left a trace of slime or whatever. Otherwise I like spiders cause they are unique. They have fantastic hunting skills that are unlike any other. btw spiders are NOT bugs
I can't say that I have a phobia to spiders. I don't particularly like them and they do give me the creeps, but when someone has to get rid of a spider in the house (usually huntsmans) it's me or my brother who has the honours. My older brother has a problem with spiders due to an unfortunate incident of putting his hand on a light switch when he was younger and a spider was there. That freaked him out a bit. Dad also doesn't like huntsmans because when he was little the outdoor toilet had heaps of them.
I must say that this site (http://www.spiderzrule.com/) is really facinating. I spent many hours reading about spiders and looking at the cool pictures a while ago.