Raining spiders in Australia

Well, um, they started it?

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Which makes us even more badass for not just surviving, but thriving there.

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Hey, don’t look at me. A spider crawling across the floor of my home inevitably results in the following from my spouse:

“Kill it. Kill it! Kill it quick! KILL IT! KILL IT NOW! NO, DON’T PICK IT UP WITH YOUR HANDS! I DON’T CARE WHAT KIND OF SPIDER IT IS! FINE, TAKE IT OUTSIDE! NO, DON’T BRING IT OVER HERE!!!”

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see, THIS is the kind of stuff i’ve grown to expect and appreciate from BB. weird and wonderful…

“suddenly standing babies” is just not really in the same realm.

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Wow, you guys are all wimps.

Down round these parts, we call this Tuesday.

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You see, someone really is having a worse day than you are.

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wait, you pick up spiders with the same hands you use to type in this forum?

#@jlw - CAN WE GET A PERMA-BAN HERE?

And if possible, make sure he doesn’t come within 5 IP addresses of any of the rest of us.

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Asking for a ban? Hmmm…

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Why take chances?

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Scientist says it is entirely possible. Oh really ? Apparently it is since they are there and there are authentic photos. Wonder if the scientist even bothered to get up and go there to see. A prime example of scientists’ attitude.

Are you saying this is all a hoax?

You’ve just quoted everyone in my house except for me! Yes, I am the designated spider-carrier-to-the-outside…as I remind everyone, spiders eat mosquitoes, so I for one am grateful to them.

However, raining spiders and pastures covered in spider webs elicit the biggest NOPE imaginable. There are some things up with which I will not put.

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That’s not all they eat.

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=8-O ­

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FWIW, this is a Golden silk orb-weaver spider. They live in large colonies of very messy web.
When you hear scientists talking about strength of spider-silk, this is the one they’re referring to.
I’ve had fishing rods snag and bend, rather than snap the silk.

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

No I am not. I just find it funny that a scientist states it being entirely possible. Obviously it must be since it has happened.
Thus the statement sounds rather amusing.

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Scientists are aware that sometimes observations are done wrong, and not everything you see is what you think you see.

That’s about it.

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