Arachnophobia was less horrifying and more funny than I expected, too.
Says you!
I actually have to cover my eyes for the last part of the Land of the Lost trailer with the giant bugs. Despite the horrid CGI.
Willow: Something evil-crashed to earth in this. Then it broke out and slithered away to do badness.
Giles: Well, in all fairness, we don't really know about the "slithered" part. Anya: No, no, I'm sure it frisked about like a fluffy lamb.
'Never Leave Me'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Juliebird - Jun 09, 2009 5:49:20 pm PDT #23496 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
amych - Jun 09, 2009 5:49:40 pm PDT #23497 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'm fairly certain that when bt's waterbug eating a FROG link says "Napa County, California", it actually means the Napa Co, CA in AUSTRALIA.
sarameg - Jun 09, 2009 5:52:21 pm PDT #23498 of 30000
Aus has the truly scary uncrushables.
billytea - Jun 09, 2009 5:56:14 pm PDT #23499 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
it actually means the Napa Co, CA in AUSTRALIA.
I don't really see many waterbugs in Melbourne. We do have them in Australia, and apparently the Sydneysiders grow up to 7 cm long. I've still always thought of them as an American thing.
Oh, in South-East Asia some of them can reach 12 cm long. That's one impressive waterbug.
Atropa - Jun 09, 2009 6:02:48 pm PDT #23500 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Arachnophobia was less horrifying and more funny than I expected, too.
twitches violently
I was taken to that movie on a first date. There was no second date.
Juliebird - Jun 09, 2009 6:10:16 pm PDT #23501 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
![[link]](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.stat.duke.edu/~ervance/Greatphotos/WestafricaII/1994-myspiderphoto.jpg&imgrefurl=http://digg.com/pets_animals/Ladies_Gentlemen_give_a_warm_welcome_to_Ms_Scary_Spider&usg=__OVdhfps_CpFSvKP6ooCWDIsDmMw=&h=1600&w=1200&sz=816&hl=en&start=30&sig2=_z03817ARN75zfE5Ziir6w&tbnid=ISvWakRyttwE7M:&tbnh=150&tbnw=113&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dscary%2Bspider%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D18&ei=wiMvSpDpLIaxmAeS78n5Cg){kind=link}
Juliebird - Jun 09, 2009 6:15:39 pm PDT #23502 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
i'm gonna give myself nightmares: [link]
![[link]](http://ratsoverboard.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/image1724324831.jpg){kind=link}
(again: eight legs are involved. ten if you include the victims)
Zenkitty - Jun 09, 2009 6:19:18 pm PDT #23503 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Oh, good grief, why do I have this irrestible urge to click on these damn bug links?
I'm gonna need a drink to wash that last picture out of my mind before bedtime. nnnnnggghh
Bugs should not be large enough to look me in the eye. I met a giant praying mantis once at a gas station in Kentucky. The thing was easily as long as my forearm, sitting there on the gas pump, looking at me.
Atropa - Jun 09, 2009 6:20:32 pm PDT #23504 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
HELL NO I AM NOT CLICKING ANY OF THOSE LINKS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
Pete warned me about something on the BBC site the other day, something about "spider labs". It sounds like a nifty article, and nifty science. Not gonna go read it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 09, 2009 7:15:53 pm PDT #23505 of 30000
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
I have major squick due to three years working in kitchens in the South. When I was in training, we came back from Christmas leave and opened up the cooking classroom and flicked on the lights and thousands of baby roaches went scurrying under the stove.
I had one of those moments when I lived in a duplex with roommates and opened the clothes dryer one day to see scores of tiny roaches come spilling out of the rubber door seal. That's the only time I recall being conscious of my sanity lurching - luckily I opted for regular bug bombing with as much pesticide as I thought the cats could stand rather than the General Sherman approach, but it could have gone either way.