The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by Lynn W
another question about spiders !
If you have a dog, will spiders bite the dog, and if a dog was to eat / get bitten by a -
redback / huntsman
what harm will it do to the dog????
If you have a dog, will spiders bite the dog, and if a dog was to eat / get bitten by a -
redback / huntsman
what harm will it do to the dog????
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by Rooksie
i dont give a sh** mate - big as a human hand!!!! (and i forgot to mention they are hairy). after i read it i sat all night looking at the size of my husbands hands and nearly started to cry!!!! and they can sprint!!! not as bloody fast as me they cant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :scared:
LMAO :scared:
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by fraser
LMAO :scared:
I have got OFF insect repelent (i found this to be the best so far) all over me and on all the clothes I am wearing and I have one of them buzzing things that are suposed to keep them 2 meters away and an insect zapper blue light thing in the room.
Biting things (like mossies) are def what you should be afraid of, they are evil :scared: do not worry about spiders
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by fraser
LMAO :scared:
i hadnt really paid much attention to the spider thing - i know there are red backs and funnel web thingies and basically they want to kill you - but JESUS - have you seen the size of these huntsmen fu**ers!!! Christ Alive!!!
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by Rooksie
i hadnt really paid much attention to the spider thing - i know there are red backs and funnel web thingies and basically they want to kill you - but JESUS - have you seen the size of these huntsmen fu**ers!!! Christ Alive!!!
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by DollyDaydream
Sorry Possoms
If you really are scared of spiders the I strongly suggest you try hypnotherapy/therapy of any kind(!) to help you. I know that if I don't do something about it I'm literally going to be living in fear and I'm not going to let the buggers win. I'm not going to let it spoil our Oz life.
London Zoo do an afternoon course called 'friendly spider course' (yeah I know, they're having a larf!!!) and at the end of it you catch one and then have one on your hand. If works for a lot of people, but I need something that'll be more longer lasting. (can't find details on zoo website so have left message with the zoo to call me back with dates/times/how much etc. I'll post the details when I get them (or someone else beats me to it!!)).
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PS apologies if someone has already mentioned London Zoo's course on this thread....it's getting pretty long!!!
If you really are scared of spiders the I strongly suggest you try hypnotherapy/therapy of any kind(!) to help you. I know that if I don't do something about it I'm literally going to be living in fear and I'm not going to let the buggers win. I'm not going to let it spoil our Oz life.
London Zoo do an afternoon course called 'friendly spider course' (yeah I know, they're having a larf!!!) and at the end of it you catch one and then have one on your hand. If works for a lot of people, but I need something that'll be more longer lasting. (can't find details on zoo website so have left message with the zoo to call me back with dates/times/how much etc. I'll post the details when I get them (or someone else beats me to it!!)).
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PS apologies if someone has already mentioned London Zoo's course on this thread....it's getting pretty long!!!
id be interested to know about that as im seriously starting to have second thoughts - i havent quite been the same since i started this thread - im unusually quiet!!!
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by marco121068
That's one mother of a spider! Anyone know a good hypnotist?
or anyone have a licence for a double barrelled sawnoff??
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by Rooksie
or anyone have a licence for a double barrelled sawnoff??
We haven't come across to much on our visits to Oz just a few cane toads and a golden orb spider. Although we were in ko phan gan in Thailand a few years a go sitting in a restaurant when there was a power cut, when the lights came back on there was a massive spider near us Rachel started shouting at the thai waiter to kill it. Not the best thing to say to a bhuddist :scared:
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by fraser
We haven't come across to much on our visits to Oz just a few cane toads and a golden orb spider. Although we were in ko phan gan in Thailand a few years a go sitting in a restaurant when there was a power cut, when the lights came back on there was a massive spider near us Rachel started shouting at the thai waiter to kill it. Not the best thing to say to a bhuddist :scared:
LOL!!!
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Dare I ask? Has anyone got a picture of those flying cockroaches? :scared: How big are they? :scared:
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by DollyDaydream
Sorry Possoms
If you really are scared of spiders the I strongly suggest you try hypnotherapy/therapy of any kind(!) to help you. I know that if I don't do something about it I'm literally going to be living in fear and I'm not going to let the buggers win. I'm not going to let it spoil our Oz
If you really are scared of spiders the I strongly suggest you try hypnotherapy/therapy of any kind(!) to help you. I know that if I don't do something about it I'm literally going to be living in fear and I'm not going to let the buggers win. I'm not going to let it spoil our Oz
5 foot tiger snake with a nest of lovely little baby snakes. The huge mother protective of the babies leaped up in the air and tried to bite her in the face but missed when she jumped back. After that she was terrified of snakes but no longer affraid of spiders, they now seemed harmless in comparison. :scared: :scared:
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by wombat42
You will soon lose your fear of spiders in OZ when you stumble across something much worse. l knew someone who was affraid of spiders, one day she lifted up an old piece of corrigated iron and underneath was a massive
5 foot tiger snake with a nest of lovely little baby snakes. The huge mother protective of the babies leaped up in the air and tried to bite her in the face but missed when she jumped back. After that she was terrified of snakes but no longer affraid of spiders, they now seemed harmless in comparison. :scared: :scared:
5 foot tiger snake with a nest of lovely little baby snakes. The huge mother protective of the babies leaped up in the air and tried to bite her in the face but missed when she jumped back. After that she was terrified of snakes but no longer affraid of spiders, they now seemed harmless in comparison. :scared: :scared:
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by Rooksie
An extract:
"Huntsman Spider
Just to recap "can be as big as an adult hand. The spider typically has a crab-like set of legs and can sprint up walls and across ceilings with surprising speed"
HOLY S**T
"Huntsman Spider
Just to recap "can be as big as an adult hand. The spider typically has a crab-like set of legs and can sprint up walls and across ceilings with surprising speed"
HOLY S**T
BTW She can laugh about it now
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
I have ended up buying quite a few books on Ozzie nasties (incidentally also coiincided with a number of sleepless nights!)...far scarier i thought were the paralysis ticks...at least you cant miss the Huntsman. I here some people actively encourage the Huntsman as it kills other more venemous creepy crawlies!
Obviously I am a dead butch blokey with no fears...but would honestly crap myself and scream like a girl if I saw a huntsman running at me!...and how the hell are you supposed to get them out...couldnt squish em as would leave a right mess!
Obviously I am a dead butch blokey with no fears...but would honestly crap myself and scream like a girl if I saw a huntsman running at me!...and how the hell are you supposed to get them out...couldnt squish em as would leave a right mess!
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Oh dear god, that's the scariest thing I have ever read/seen. I was eating a piece of pizza when I started this thread, and not I can't finish.
Perhaps someone should post this in the Dieter's for Oz thread.
Perhaps someone should post this in the Dieter's for Oz thread.