I considered having a tarantula as a pet. I have kept rats as pets. D has a pet snake.
Now hold on, I'm gonna press the right pedal harder. I expect us to accelerate.
Anya ,'Showtime'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
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Laga - May 28, 2008 6:29:18 pm PDT #747 of 26133
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
billytea - May 28, 2008 6:29:24 pm PDT #748 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
crickets are fine, spiders are fine, roaches are gross but I can still trap them with a glass and flush them. If I get a teeny tiny ant on me I have to blow it off because I don't want to touch it. Oh and I hate potato bugs because they look like giant mutant ants.
For me it's wasps. (Which are of course the closest living relatives to ants. Termites are related to roaches, which I find kind of cool.)
Oh! To pull it together, there's a wasp that likes to lay its eggs on a paralysed roach (this is common for wasps, to use a spider or caterpillar or some grub for the purpose.) The problem is, it's a small wasp, too small to drag a paralysed roach back to its nest. So instead, it stings the thing just enough to make it manageable, then bites off its antennae, rendering it effectively blind. Then it hops onto the roach's back, grabs one of the antennae stubs, and steers it back to the wasp's nest.
Laga - May 28, 2008 6:30:34 pm PDT #749 of 26133
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
holy cow that's freaky.
oddly enough a cricket just started chirping somewhere in my house.
billytea - May 28, 2008 6:33:43 pm PDT #750 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
SO NOT FINE.
Spiders are superfine.
Actually, I'm not keen on them in person either. (Have you seen our spiders? [link] I get over it, because they're just so cool. But arachnophobia is quite comprehensible to me. (I trust it's obvious that arachnophobes should not be clicking on my link.)
OTOH, I have pretty much zero fear of snakes, who are actually more dangerous.
Sean K - May 28, 2008 6:33:51 pm PDT #751 of 26133
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I considered having a tarantula as a pet.
::shudder::
Pete, Husband of Jilli - May 28, 2008 6:34:31 pm PDT #752 of 26133
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Happy Birthday, Sean!
That's all I got.
omnis_audis - May 28, 2008 6:35:45 pm PDT #753 of 26133
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
um. I thought i was in the GAMING thread. When did it become NON WHITE FONTED CREEPY BUG THREAD.
:: shivers ::
Sean K - May 28, 2008 6:37:06 pm PDT #754 of 26133
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Have you seen our spiders?
Wasn't it the funnel web spider that Peter Jackson used as one of the main inspirations for Shelob?
Wow, this turned into the anti-Jilli thread fast.
OTOH, I have pretty much zero fear of snakes, who are actually more dangerous.
Heh. I don't really have a snake fear either, but I give them a healthy respect (and as much distance or interposing glass as I can muster).
amych - May 28, 2008 6:38:38 pm PDT #755 of 26133
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
See, I like spiders when they DON'T COME FROM THE FREAKY CONTINENT OF FREAKY FREAKASSED FREAK SPIDERS. But that funnel-web thingie? It's allowed to be 5 cm long or deadly poisonous. But its insistence being both at once is just showing off.
Laga - May 28, 2008 6:40:03 pm PDT #756 of 26133
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
she sure looks like Shelob