If Mr. Loomy is home, jillifonts are catch-and-release, because he can get close enough to trap them in a glass without hyperventilating and nearly fainting.
If he isn't home, jillifonts are beaten to death with shoes.
Kaylee: So how many fell madly in love with you and wanted to take you away from all this? Inara: Just the one. I think I'm slipping.
'Serenity'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Atropa - Sep 12, 2018 12:30:32 pm PDT #29528 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Steph L. - Sep 12, 2018 12:32:41 pm PDT #29529 of 30002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
In the house, anything with more legs than a spider gets squished. Friendly spiders and stinkbugs and other bugs generally get transported outside if I can get them. A spider in the bathroom might get flushed, though.
I try to ignore bugs outside. But that fucking spider on our back porch is getting bigger, ISTG. I just checked on it earlier, because I went to take trash out, automatically went to the back door, caught sight of Shelob before I even put my hand on the doorknob, and turned right back around. Oh my god, it's HUGE.
Scrappy - Sep 12, 2018 12:41:35 pm PDT #29530 of 30002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
It is my personally and deeply held belief that spiders should not be allowed to get larger than, say, a small pea. Anything over that is just being a show-off and too big for their (eight-legged) britches and should result in instant death.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 12, 2018 12:42:35 pm PDT #29531 of 30002
What is even happening?
Tep, I think I would have had dh relocate Shelob. I don't do well with big bugs. Thankfully, we don't usually have a lot of them in New England.
I also keep a can of bug killer handy (usually). Flying bugs in my house get that if I can't get them with a flyswatter or newspaper. If I don't have bug spray, I do employ hairspray, I just don't also employ flame. Hi Atropa.
Most spray products (Lysol, cleaners) will kill bugs, when you're in a fix. Smooshable bugs I smoosh, but I've hair-sprayed yellow jackets to death.
Sheryl - Sep 12, 2018 12:59:01 pm PDT #29532 of 30002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
We went to Gary's car yesterday to bring Mr. S to daycare, and go to services ourselves, and found a sizable web between our cars. I broke the part that was attached to Gary's car, but otherwise left the spider alone. It was gone when I went to my car this morning.
Atropa - Sep 12, 2018 1:26:56 pm PDT #29533 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
If I don't have bug spray, I do employ hairspray, I just don't also employ flame. Hi Atropa.
I've been told I'm not allowed to do that anymore. Something about some dude in West Seattle burning his house down doing that, blah blah blah.
P.M. Marc - Sep 12, 2018 1:27:02 pm PDT #29534 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I must have delurked much later, because you were a fixture, Plei, by the time I was posting.
Not much later. I was talky meat and unemployed when I delurked, so I had a lot of time to be talky meat.
-t - Sep 12, 2018 1:27:59 pm PDT #29535 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Tep, didn't you have Shelob on your back porch last summer? I feel certain I remember you mentioning her keeping you from opening that door before. Maybe you need to build a giant spider habitat somewhere more remote.
Atropa - Sep 12, 2018 1:33:53 pm PDT #29536 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Not much later. I was talky meat and unemployed when I delurked, so I had a lot of time to be talky meat.
It was after one of the infamous SeaGoth shopping trips, right?
Steph L. - Sep 12, 2018 1:40:52 pm PDT #29537 of 30002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Tep, didn't you have Shelob on your back porch last summer? I feel certain I remember you mentioning her keeping you from opening that door before. Maybe you need to build a giant spider habitat somewhere more remote.
We did, but I feel like it was a different-looking Shelob. Maybe she had a makeover.