Because they can never remember the words
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I hate spiders. Why did I watch this?
They’ve always spoken highly of you. 
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Yes, this is the common trope about living in Australia… always this!
However when I moved from the city to a rural area and found the local paper announcing in a casual way that we were entering “SNAKE SEASON”!!!.. FFS there is a season for snakes!?
Also had a huntsman spider drop off my wall onto a carpeted floor and heard a “thud”… so big I could see it’s face!!
They won’t kill you if you play by their rules and live in constant fear… all good here 
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At our house spiders are carefully relocated to the yard. Up until recently centipedes like that couldn’t be killed enough (smushed, then squished some more in toilet paper and with a ‘goodbye, Mr. Bond,’ flushed down the toilet) but I have learned that they are even better than spiders at preying on unwanted house insects. The current policy is ‘out of sight, out of mind.’
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I don’t live in Australia, but there were Huntsmans in Japan that were big enough that you could hear their footsteps as they ran along the wall. And count the eyes from the eyeshine as they stared back at you. In Florida, if you vacuum one, it sounds like a marble rattling up the hose (this is the easiest way to get rid of them, as they laugh at bug spray, and they’re too fast to smack).
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Oh that picture. Ngggh.
I have a very - and I cannot stress that word enough - tenuous detante with house centipedes. Provided they rigorously maintain ninja levels of stealthy I’m happy to pay them no mind while they go about their many-legged business. But if I see them something has gone tremendously wrong and I will bring down panicky wrath upon them, provided I stop shrieking.
While this arrangement may seem unfair I consider my day job as an I.T. professional a reasonable precedent for its viability.
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THIS.
Anyone in need of a good laugh or three… this statement is expanded ably and hilariously by Bill Bryson here:
At our house, we too try to escort all the spiders out, alive not dead.
I am definitely fond of our lovable shy Texas Brown Tarantulas, now increasingly rare due to hyper-rapid land development in Central Texas.
I found one under a tarp a coupla days ago. Female. L A R G E.
The Texas Giant Centipedes have left us alone so far. Yay that.
Around here it’s the dang scorpions and red wasps you have to look out for, because their stings are pretty nasty. If I can get to the wound in time, I try to pull the venom out through the same hole it went in on using this:
It works, if you can apply in the first few minutes. If there’s a stinger embedded in the skin, you can use that like a straw and the venom can be drawn out through it. Just pluck it out and rinse of the venom, which usually not more than a drop or two.
The Arizona bark scorpion, Centruroides sculpturatus, is the only deadly scorpion present in the U.S. and I’m glad we don’t have those here. I suppose any venomous critter that one has a serious-enough allergic reaction to can be deadly, though.
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Interesting fact: Most species of “house” are actually indoor spiders/adapted to the outdoors in climates that probably aren’t where you live, and do not do well outdoors.
Love your aranean and scutigeromorphean friends!
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