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Somewhat OT - spiders
Well, okay then....grin...I hate spiders too and ants as well. But I don't
see any ladybugs here, Love, Kyla he does not discriminate between bugs, and honestly i am glad, i think its great tweed is dealing with a phobia but i am sorry, not warm blooded and no fur or feathers, not interested in what it lives like as long as its away from me, Lee What about a Ladybug? LOL Love, Kyla dh says if the bug of any kind is close enough to him to be sent off, then either it is stupid and needs to be helped along to keep the quality of the gene pool up, or it is expressing a death wish and as a good hoomin he should help it goe, Lee |
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"---MIKE---" Kyla asked: What about a Ladybug? I get occasional half-dead ladybugs in the house. I leave them alone. LOL, okay then. If they're half dead....well, never mind Kyla ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580') |
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"---MIKE---" wrote in message
... I have always been sort of creeped out by spiders. About 11 years ago, I worked at a water park. One day there was a huge spider at one of the slide splashdowns. It was about 4 or 5 inches across. I killed it. A few days later my tuxedo cat IKE disappeared. Karma? I never kill spiders any more. When I see one in the house, I carefully capture it in a jar and set it free outside. I don't know if they can survive outside in the winter but I give them the chance. ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580') Spiders are good! I don't want them in my house, of course. And walking through a really big spider web is creepy. You never feel like you get the web off. Ugh! But they eat things like mosquitos and other annoying flying insects, so they're good. Last year I had twin black and yellow argiope spiders with webs flanking my back patio. http://tinyurl.com/398n59x The webs were huge and the spiders were magnificent to watch. As long as they stayed outside they were fine with me and gorgeous to look at. I was sad to see they didn't come back this year. The thing that creeps me out is Palmetto bugs. Heh, I live in the Palmetto State so I should expect them. But they're gross. Giant cockroaches. Jill |
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"hopitus" wrote in message ... On Oct 16, 5:41 pm, "Joy" wrote: "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "Joy" wrote in message ... "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "hopitus" wrote in message ... On Oct 16, 10:54 am, "Christina Websell" wrote: wrote in message .. . Christina Websell wrote: I am proud of you for both your bravery under fire (the British way) and your kindness in throwing Old Hairy outside instead of smashing her just because we can. Well done, and a MileHigh Salute to you and Boyfie. thanks, hop. It took some courage and yes, I know it's ridiculous to be afraid of big spiders but I am. Imagine your worst fear and I did it, without hurting her. We Brits can do this ;-) Tweed Boyfie says hello I am also impressed by your bravery. My daughter also has arachnophobia, and I know that phobias are not easy to overcome. One can't reason them away, because they aren't reasonable. They just are, and they're very real. I try very hard with my arachnophobia, I can manage the small ones now but realistically, the huge ones are always going to give me a problem. No amount of studying them to try and find them interesting does any good, just cannot stop being afraid of big spiders. I have no idea why, it's just a fact. Tweed That's the problem with phobias. They don't have to make sense, but that doesn't make them any less real. I used to know a woman who had an extreme fear of heights. She once went to a conference in a large hotel. When she entered her room on the 20th floor, she saw that there were floor to ceiling windows, and the drapes were open. She literally had to crawl across the room to shut the drapes. Some people manage to get over phobias, usually with psychiatric help or through hypnotism, but some never do. Many people who don't have phobias don't understand, and think they can talk someone out of a phobia. It can't be done. I think you're doing amazingly well. Joy Here is something for you to ponder: years ago, when the MGM Grand had a major fire, I was in a nearby small town and there was great concern among some of us that rescue efforts include the old MGM mascot lion, whom we had heard had lost most of his teeth due to his age and got special food for that reason as well as had to be poked awake to do his roaring thing for the nightclub customers. He lived in the hotel's deep basement, but was well cared for by his vets, etc. They did succeed in getting him out of the basement but the hotel was a big loss from the fire's destruction. I do NOT have a phobia or fear of heights, but due to this experience plus many years later, the 9/11 televised saga, I will never tolerate being a guest in a hotel, etc. on a higher floor than 2 or 3. Accommodations are used to stranger mandates than mine from guests, by far, and have always got my way with this. Would you term this quirk of mine a "phobia"? Even though caused by two events similar only in that higher floor occupancy for any purpose resulted in doom for the involved Note: that old lion finally died f old age, and the one that recently attacked someone is not the same lion. ------ No, I would not class that as a phobia, it's more a learned experience of risk that has made you extra careful. As Joy says, phobias do not make sense. Even *I* cannot talk myself myself out of this one completely. Maybe they are primeval for some, in some sort of race memory from aeons ago. I really don't know. Tweed |
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"Judith Latham" wrote in message ... In article , Christina Websell wrote: wrote in message ... Christina Websell wrote: I have a spider that has set up home on my kitchen windowsill, she's been there for a couple of weeks and has built a typical house spider web between my spice jars. I know she's a girl by her thingies that poke out in front of her, boys have lumps on them. That does not help as she is a big girl, too big for me to deal with. I would guess so!! Any spider that's big enough for you to determine her gender is too big for me. I am proud to announce that I decided to gird my loins and evict her this morning. I'm a wuss about big hairy spiders, it makes no difference at all that I know they cannot harm me, for some reason they give me the horrors. I know it is not logical. I've been putting it off, of course. It seemed easier to leave her there than challenge myself to do it. Anyway, no spiders were harmed in the process and it's done. She ran when I moved the spice jars and hid and I thought, no, I have to find you and I did. She curled up in fright when she knew she was discovered but I scooped her up carefully with a wooden spoon and put her outside the window. She'll just have to find another house to be a house spider in. If you all knew how difficult it was for me to do that, you'd be proud of me too. It's very easy to kill insects & spiders because you *can* and you don't like the look of them, but it was not her fault that I have a problem with her appearance, is it? She deserves to live. (I'm beginning to think I'm turning into a Buddhist) Tweed Wow!!!! I'm really impressed. No, I don't think you're turning into a buddhist, you dealt with it in a brit. way. Terrified but still managed to sort it out with a wooden spoon. you did the right thing. Judith Also impressed that you know how to tell the sex of a spider. smile - part of my attempt to learn more about them in case it helped! The boys have a lump on each of those two probe things that stick out the front, called paps. It's their equivalent of testicles, apparently -) Tweed |
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Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
And then I saw the show about some horrible Australian species of ant. Name any kind of animal in the world, and I swear, Australia will have a species that's evil and terrifying. The Giant Brown Bulldog Ant? Not only one of the biggest ants in the world but it can also bite, sting and JUMP? Probably. I don't remember the name of it now - probably trauma-induced amnesia. These things *looked* mean. Joyce -- Whenever you feel anger, you should say, "May I be free of this anger!" This rarely works, but talking to yourself in public will encourage others to leave you alone. |
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