My relationship with spiders.

I got in this argument one weather or not it is wrong to kill spiders if they are in your house. For me it's the simple justification, they would try to kill me if I was in their house. Think of it like this: Some guy comes in your house without permission, sets up a tent in your livingroom, and then bites you in the middle of the night while looking for water. Now that being said, I have a great respect/fascination for spiders. I obsess over spider documentaries, like I am uncontrolably compelled to watch them. I don't touch spiders if they are outside, infact I feel bad if I accidentally kill them outside, but if they come into my house THEY FUCKING DIE. I just find it oddly compelling that something so creepy and inherently evil can be so undeniably necessary. Am I wrong here?

i say kill them. they would do the same to you. spiders are such fucking assholes

you arent wrong
i smack the hell out of them if they are in my domain.
if im in theirs i live them alone, unless they are on the way in to the house, then i scoot them out. except that one time i sprayed one with hairspray
to watch it freeze like a wasp will.
but i like to pour salt on slugs too

oh the inhumanity.


the way i see it, im just helping them along their way on the karmic wheel...course im setting myself back....

*edited because i cant spell any more

[Edited on Nov 05, 2003 by sakita]

Sharks are even bigger assholes.

Ive done the hairspray thing too.

Unless they are near my bed. I let them live. They kill all the other nasty bugs in the house. There is nothing more satisifing than watching a roach struggle in a web...HAHAHAHA

It may be wrong for some guy to set up a tent in the middle of your house, but isn't that a small price to pay for him eating all the other freeloaders that vomit in your food and lay eggs in your face?

i fought a wolf spider the size of my fist in a no-holds-barred match of hand-to-hairy legged combat.. he went down like a ton of bricks when i shot it in the face with upholstery cleaner.

This made me laugh

As for myself, if they are in my domain, I'll kill them. Esp, if they are huge.

im sorry but anything that lays its eggs in bubble-yum automaticly becomes the biggest asshole

It's bad luck to kill spiders in your house bring them outside and than kill them

Everyone of you see spiders as terrifying monsters. But maybe, just maybe it is YOU who are the true monsters!

I let them live. I am OK w/ spiders. Have you witnessed the horror that is a "Silverfish"?
They will be smashed, no questions asked.
http://www.state.ma.us/dfa/pesticides/pestfacts/silverfish.gif

what about earwigs and centipedes!!!

this asshole tried to jump on my camera

Even the smallest spec of a spider makes me scream hysterically and bounce across the room like a 3 year old with no rydolin and a 4 foot pixy stick. Ok I have to go shower now .. I feel them crawling all over me .. damn you all

I had a non-violent relationship with a spider inside my house once. She stayed up in the sky light mostly and caught flys and stuff. I liked her and I felt she respected my space at the same time. I thought of her as maybe an exception to the rule, but one morning I woke up, and there was a spider bite on my leg, and I saw a spider on the wall next to my bed and I killed it. I later noticed the one spider was no longer in my skylight, and I feel that a part of me died.

Earwigs tunnel into your brain and control your mind, but indoor centipedes are just dandy. They eat cockroaches, and anything that eats cockroaches always has a seat in my VIP lounge.

My sweetie catches them for me, and then he takes them outside. I am too terrified to even try to squish them. Crawly critters are fine outside, but inside is just wrong, wrong, wrong.

[Edited on Nov 05, 2003 by starisea]

I leave 'em for my cats to eat.

Hee! My cat likes to eat them too. It's kinda cute in a sadistic way.

for a while I just left them in the corner, thinking they'd eat small flies, but usually they just die for hunger, so I take them with some piece of paper and throw them outside.

I kill only flies and green bugs.

anyway, spiders here are small and not dangerous, they can be quite useful. one year we had an abundance of an esotic gray fly really annoying, and I saw a spider out my balcony had 20+ empty bodies of those in the web, so quite a nice spider

I don't know why, but I just like spiders a lot and I don't have the heart to kill them. I always bring them outside or let them be if I can't catch them.