Spider whose bite causes dangerous erections in humans shuts down supermarket

Of course it does. It’s a valid field of research. Now if it prevented women from getting pregnant it’d be right out.

Sarcasm, obviously.

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If a man gets an erection which lasts too long, the blood pooled in the erectile tissue of the penis can become seriously deoxygenated, leading to ischaemic necrosis.

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Somewhere in this story, there’s a banana joke dying to be made. I won’t do it because I rarely go for the low-hanging fruit. Or high, for that matter. Too lazy.

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“All measures are for safety and are carried out meticulously so that the branch can be reopened,” the retailer added.

“Come Mr. Tallyman, tally the banana … spiders”?

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I’ll just leave this here.

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I would go in that supermarket only when they could display the dead body of that damn thing. I don’t do spiders very well.

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So the conversion rate is ~2.75 spiders per bunny? Is this that new math I keep hearing about?

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Yes. My daughter’s school says they’re moving away from the banana system…

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Other witnesses say it was at least six inches.

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The spider itself insists eight

ETA: The spider’s mate was unavailable for comment, as she was otherwise occupied rolling her many, many eyes

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Hey! We don’t kink-shame here.

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"All measures are for safety and are carried out meticulously…

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I’d be surprised if Joe Rogan wasn’t already shilling spider venom supplement pills.

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In the mid-90s I worked in the produce department of a grocery store for a couple of years in college. We’d go through about 200 crates of bananas a week of which I would probably stock 50. In all of those crates, I only remember seeing one animal: a dead banana spider. Creeps me out to this day. Even crumpled on it’s back and desiccated, it was still huge by my Midwestern standards.

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SPIDER: Hey it was cold in there

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“No, man, don’t sing about spiders, I mean, like I don’t dig spiders.”

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To be fair, it really does. The problem is not that it is unworthy as a pursuit, but that many even more worthy pursuits are neglected in comparison.

Die Gemeine Lattenspinne

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