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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 2, 2017 22:35:08 GMT
THERE WAS A SPIDER IN MY BED! MY BED/ FFS!! -Ralph And a giant spider is currently molting in the house of M. It'll soon be bigger! I win. |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 21, 2017 15:12:13 GMT
Fuck sakes.
Opened up bag at work and there was a fucking spider running about inside!
-Ralph
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Post by browny87 on Nov 21, 2017 15:18:01 GMT
a bag of what tho?
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Nov 21, 2017 16:16:34 GMT
I too am having spider frustrations today. Three months since we sent asked for revisions into a journal for a paper on spider cardiac MRI. Not a sausage back yet.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Nov 21, 2017 16:17:37 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Nov 21, 2017 16:44:22 GMT
Fuck sakes. Opened up bag at work and there was a fucking spider running about inside! -Ralph A bag of what? Crisps?  |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 21, 2017 21:32:38 GMT
My work bag so general work materials inside (backpack). I DID NOT EXPECT A FUCKING SPIDER TO LEAP OUT AT ME FROM WITHIN. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 21, 2017 21:33:19 GMT
I too am having spider frustrations today. Three months since we sent asked for revisions into a journal for a paper on spider cardiac MRI. Not a sausage back yet. Journals don't pay in sausages, chum. -Ralph |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Nov 21, 2017 22:34:29 GMT
Journals don't pay authors full stop. Quite the reverse in fact!
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Post by browny87 on Nov 22, 2017 11:41:55 GMT
My work bag so general work materials inside (backpack). I DID NOT EXPECT A FUCKING SPIDER TO LEAP OUT AT ME FROM WITHIN. -Ralph they are plotting against you |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Nov 22, 2017 12:40:45 GMT
They are just preparing Ralph for this weekend when he visits my Girls again. Spiders are considerate like that.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 5, 2018 8:12:35 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 16, 2018 22:20:10 GMT
Tarantulas on QI tonight!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 10, 2018 8:16:38 GMT
Agh! Post fear-filled enounters with beasties here! -Ralph Until this morning I had only ever heard Ralph refer to Spiders as Beasties. Yet on Scrambled this morning fellow Scot Arielle Free also called them Beasties (and demonstrated a fair bit of Burns like arachnophobia) So is it a Scottish term? |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Mar 10, 2018 8:47:31 GMT
Less about Scottish more about irrational fear. Another friend of mine can't cope with calling them by their actual name either and calls them something else to semi-manage her fear.
Unlike Burns however she is less.. anal about her fear.
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Post by blueshift on Mar 10, 2018 9:00:44 GMT
This is why Planet of the Spiders is the best Doctor Who story
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 10, 2018 10:45:09 GMT
Doesn't have their secret toilet base in it though!
I had an arachnophobic friend who refused to have the VHS of Spiders even in her car!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 11, 2018 21:36:54 GMT
Spiders and other fiends which invade houses are called beasties, Phil.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 11, 2018 21:39:45 GMT
This is why Planet of the Spiders is the best Doctor Who story One of the joys of my life was watching the serial with Andu (his first time seeing it). He screamed a lot during episode 3 about how pointless it was (the one with is Pertwee chasing a chap in various vehicles). As the episode ended he stated: "At least there is only one more episode". I informed him there were actually three more episodes to go. He was unhappy. So unhappy. His pain brought me joy. -Ralph |
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Post by legios on Mar 12, 2018 21:34:40 GMT
Until this morning I had only ever heard Ralph refer to Spiders as Beasties. Yet on Scrambled this morning fellow Scot Arielle Free also called them Beasties (and demonstrated a fair bit of Burns like arachnophobia) So is it a Scottish term? Yep, beasties is a very Scottish turn of phrase. I am saddened that I don't tend to hear it now that I have moved down here. (In some quarters midges can also be beasties, but often stronger epithets are deployed for them. Which, if you've been in the Highlands in summer is most understandable.) Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 25, 2018 19:28:03 GMT
FUCK!
I was drawing the bedroom blinds to a close when suddenly a spider on the ledge came running at me. I ran to get the spider catcher glass but as I caught it a much bigger bastard came out from behind it and ran at me at top speed. I may have screamed. I did not have a second spider glass so I threw my headphones at it in panic. Then -and without a word of a lie- IT LEAPED OFF OF THE SHELF AT ME!!! Actually jumped towards me. I screamed (possibly) and ran away to get a second spider catcher glass but on my return it has gone to ground.
Fuck! I hate it when I know there is one on the loose in the slumber chamber!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Mar 25, 2018 20:24:03 GMT
I know where it is! Don't put your headphones on your ears!!
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Post by Stomski on Apr 8, 2018 20:26:37 GMT
I'm not normally one to fear our 8 legged friends*, but when I find an oversized abdomen with 3 triangles in a line, I get the jibblies. After some research - Cupboard Spider* I'm not sure this is the right thread to call them that. |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Apr 8, 2018 20:37:17 GMT
Spiders are vital to global agriculture. They are our friends.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Apr 8, 2018 20:38:52 GMT
Also it's a UK spider. Nought to fear.
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 8, 2018 22:15:44 GMT
There's a man who voted leave.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Apr 8, 2018 22:16:47 GMT
Not here.
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Post by Stomski on Apr 9, 2018 7:59:11 GMT
Indeed, she seemed to have been doing a fine job of keeping the woodlouse population under control.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 25, 2018 22:12:36 GMT
THE BASTARD IN THE BATHROOM AT NIGHT UNDER THE SINK!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 18, 2018 10:38:44 GMT
Super fast spider running about on the loo roll in the toilet at work!!! That caused some difficulties while Ruling In Power!!!
-Ralph
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