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Post by subject2 on Sept 25, 2013 11:06:41 GMT -5
I hate spiders myself and almost everyone I ask has got a slight fear of them. Ive met so many masculine guys who would run off at the sight of a spider. Unlike other animal phobias like frogs & mice, spiders seem to scare ALOT of men and women. I played a prank at a party where I got some black cotton and put it in a glass and put some paper over the glass so it looked like id caught a spider. I walked in an announced id caught a huge spider and and threw the cotton in the air... literally the whole party screamed and scattered!! I live in the UK so spiders here are harmless... yet no other harmless animal has that power! Its not a bug thing as nobody would react that way to a beetle...
So why are spiders considered so scary?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2013 11:11:03 GMT -5
Because nothing that has that many legs should exist?
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Post by ICBM on Sept 25, 2013 11:17:49 GMT -5
Because you touch yourself
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Post by StuntGranny® on Sept 25, 2013 11:30:30 GMT -5
Because some spider bites cause necrosis. Google that and let it haunt your dreams forever.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Sept 25, 2013 11:36:54 GMT -5
It's the way they move really. Something about that to human eyes looks 'wrong' somehow, and renders them creepy looking even if you aren't scared of them.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2013 11:47:42 GMT -5
Kinda off topic
f*** Arachnophobia.
f*** it so much.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Sept 25, 2013 11:49:18 GMT -5
Kinda off topic f*** Arachnophobia. f*** it so much. John Goodman was great in that though.
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Post by Zombie Mod on Sept 25, 2013 11:50:05 GMT -5
*bans the first person to post any spider photo/drawing/wood etching/sculpture/video*
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Post by Dave the Dave on Sept 25, 2013 11:59:04 GMT -5
For me, anything thing that can bite and kill me is scary.
I know not all spiders are able to, but I'd rather not take my chances.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2013 12:15:45 GMT -5
Because with great power comes great responsibility....or something like that.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2013 12:18:45 GMT -5
My theory is because they're the opposite of us and yet somehow seem better than us. We're a big tall stack of two things. Two legs, two arms, two eyes, two nostrils, two balls, two lungs. If you split us right up the middle we seem like a tall pile of evenly distributed things. Spiders on the other hand are a short pile of MANY things. A short smooshed out pile of a creature consisting entirely of hair, legs and eyes. It's like they have some of our same elements but they're put together so goddamn wrong that instinctively it creeps us out.
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Post by Perd on Sept 25, 2013 12:24:44 GMT -5
It's the way they move really. Something about that to human eyes looks 'wrong' somehow, and renders them creepy looking even if you aren't scared of them. Yeah, that's the main thing that freaks me out.
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Post by Starshine on Sept 25, 2013 12:26:30 GMT -5
They're a pair of wings away from being the most terrifying things that ever existed.
No seriously, when spiders fly, I'm done.
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Post by subject2 on Sept 25, 2013 12:30:20 GMT -5
They're a pair of wings away from being the most terrifying things that ever existed. No seriously, when spiders fly, I'm done. You know im surprised there hasn't been a movie about this lol...sounds like perfect B Movie material!
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Post by Zombie Mod on Sept 25, 2013 12:34:39 GMT -5
They're a pair of wings away from being the most terrifying things that ever existed. No seriously, when spiders fly, I'm done. You know im surprised there hasn't been a movie about this lol...sounds like perfect B Movie material! it'll be on sy-fy soon enouh
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Sept 25, 2013 12:48:31 GMT -5
Note to self: write Flyder screenplay.
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Post by The Ichi on Sept 25, 2013 12:51:24 GMT -5
They're a pair of wings away from being the most terrifying things that ever existed. No seriously, when spiders fly, I'm done. It's not quite flying, but a certain species of them do glide.
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Post by 67 more on Sept 25, 2013 13:02:38 GMT -5
They're really not.
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Post by Raskovnik on Sept 25, 2013 13:04:51 GMT -5
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Post by Heartbreaker on Sept 25, 2013 13:20:13 GMT -5
If you lived in Australia, you'd be terrified of spiders too.
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