Not Cool

[create_destiny]

The Mister found this spider in our bathroom. It's a Bold Jumping Spider.

As you can tell by the scale, the spider is approximately 600 meters long. (Ha! Actually, that's part of a topographical map in the background.)



According to a field guide we have, Bold Jumping Spiders have elaborate courtship rituals that you can stimulate by holding a mirror in front of one. Fucking narcissists! Too bad we didn't know this before the Mister shook him out in the yard. That would have been interesting to see.

If I had found that spider I'd be in a padded room right now.

Comments

[agaitis-byrjun.livejournal.com]

You don't know fear until you've had a Wolf Spider in your house. Everyone was freaking out and no one wanted to go near that monstrosity. We were terrified to go in the basement. Unfortunately, I was already in the basement. With it.

[createdestiny.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I'll have to have a lobotomy if I ever encounter one of those.

[derekfz.livejournal.com]

I saw more than one of those in my old house, but they were always fairly brief glimpses. Every time I locked an eye on it, it darted away. For whatever reason, it really never freaked me out. My girlfriend is more the type to think any spider of any size is "fucking huge", because she has a weird thing about crawly things (big baby.)

[agaitis-byrjun.livejournal.com]

I have a phobia of all insects, bugs, arachnids, etc. (though funny enough, there is a ranking when it comes to it all. I have a friend who has a complete phobia of scorpions, and they don't bug me as much as other things), so really, anything to me is terrifying, or causes me anxiety. Damn you childhood trauma!

[createdestiny.livejournal.com]

WORD!

[ygolonac.livejournal.com]

"Aside from occasional bites, this species does little more than frighten an occasional arachniphobe."



That spider had awesome big blue/green eyes.

Btw, no spiders were harmed in the making of this post. After photographing the wee beastie, I released him in the woodpile behind the shed in our backyard where he can catch all manner of insectoid vermin and frighten more arachniphobes.

[welfy.livejournal.com]

I found a black widow spider in my workplace this past week. Spiders usually don't scare me but I was pretty freaked out by this one. I should have killed it, but instead I trapped it in a cup and released it outside.

600 meters LONG?? HOW DID YOU GET OUT ALIVE??!

[lucieandco.livejournal.com]

That is the coolest spider I have seen lately. The fact that it is Bold and Jumping only adds to that. All the spiders in my house are Thin Crawling spiders and if you hold a mirror in front of them they spend half a day looking for themselves and when they do see themselves they think they're a pin stuck in someone else's web.

[createdestiny.livejournal.com]

Funny.

This spider is also called the "Daring Jumping Spider." Two verbs in one name, it's just unfathomable.

[lucieandco.livejournal.com]

That is amazing.

[superhappytime.livejournal.com]

The Mister? How strangely formal...I thought his pet name would be something like "bitch ass."

[createdestiny.livejournal.com]

I decided I'm getting to old to have a "boyfriend" and "life partner" sounds gay.

[superhappytime.livejournal.com]

what about "manfriend?" that ought to be good for a laugh or 2....

or you could just go with "This his my LUVER..."

[bug-311.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah!! I vote for manfriend, too. :)

[toodamnloud.livejournal.com]

You could always get married.

[createdestiny.livejournal.com]

That's hilarious!

[derekfz.livejournal.com]

This comment reminds me of me, and Grover's expression combined with this comment reminds me even more of me!

[createdestiny.livejournal.com]

I like Grover because he's nervous and always freaking out, like me.

[bug-311.livejournal.com]

I think those are the spiders that George plays with. If you like poke at them they get up on their back legs and wave their front arm pincer things in a "don't fuck with me" way. It's pretty col. She said they have a white marking on them that looks like a smiley face.

I think it's funny that she hates spiders, yet she'll play with those ones.

[toodamnloud.livejournal.com]

My husband is fucking terrified of spiders. He saw one of the ceiling, and I dismissed it as him being a pussy until he got dressed and decided he'd sleep in the car. I got it outside and then had to retrieve him from the car. If he'd seen that spider, I'd have had to revive him from a dead faint. He has a true phobia.

[cwmackowski.livejournal.com]

A 600-meter spider--ha ha ha--that was the funniest thing I read all day! :-)

WAY cool! :)

[dietcokehed.livejournal.com]

Shots of one in action!! http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/spiders/Paudax.htm


So cute and fuzzy...and how can ya hate a spider with a happy face tattooed on it's ass! ;)