The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Mar 21st 2005, 1:21 pm
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Oh My God!!!!!
Mar 21st 2005, 1:21 pm
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by hooperhome
Pollyanna
Whereabout in Oz are you living ?
Whereabout in Oz are you living ?
Their favourite trick.......hiding behind the sunvisor in the car; you pull the visor down, spider lands in your lap. I had a mate in Hobart who after 20 years still checked the visor every time he got in the car
First one I saw.......lying in a backpackers bunk in Tas, looked up at the base of the bunk above me....and there it was, saucer size. I remember thinking "Oh F***, I've seen my first one, get me outta here!!!!"
Mar 21st 2005, 1:23 pm
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by threlly
hi DollyDaydream,
please tell me that your picture is a plastic spider, or i wont sleep for weeks-months-years
please put me out of my misery-its not real surely?
OMG
please tell me that your picture is a plastic spider, or i wont sleep for weeks-months-years
please put me out of my misery-its not real surely?
OMG
It's real, just think of it as a mouse or something.
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Mar 21st 2005, 1:23 pm
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Someone did tell me once that the spiders in Arachnophobia were Huntsmen; and I'm sure the Harry Potter ones are digitally-enlarged ones.
Mar 21st 2005, 1:23 pm
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by gdcollectables
Hi
when we got the keys to our rental, we thought we'd clean prior to moving in!
We walked through the front door and I went straight to open the sitting room blinds and let in some daylight, I opened the 1st blind - stood back and saw something wrapped in the muslin curtains like a shroud! :scared: :scared: I screamed, laughed, cried, screamed, shook, cried - then my husband appeared with a broom and bucket and took the dear 'little' spider out to the back of the garden.
Ten minutes later I was walking through the hall with a brand new bathroom cleaner spray, when there was a strange, strangled, high pitch scream - my husband had picked up a couple of buckets left in the hall and had been bitten on a finger (he must have squashed the Huntsmans head or something), the buckets went flying, the air turned Blue and I jumped so much that I the cleaner top flew off and the liquid squirted up the hall walls!!
when we got the keys to our rental, we thought we'd clean prior to moving in!
We walked through the front door and I went straight to open the sitting room blinds and let in some daylight, I opened the 1st blind - stood back and saw something wrapped in the muslin curtains like a shroud! :scared: :scared: I screamed, laughed, cried, screamed, shook, cried - then my husband appeared with a broom and bucket and took the dear 'little' spider out to the back of the garden.
Ten minutes later I was walking through the hall with a brand new bathroom cleaner spray, when there was a strange, strangled, high pitch scream - my husband had picked up a couple of buckets left in the hall and had been bitten on a finger (he must have squashed the Huntsmans head or something), the buckets went flying, the air turned Blue and I jumped so much that I the cleaner top flew off and the liquid squirted up the hall walls!!
tears of laughter rolling down my cheeks and im also having asthma attack!!!! help *gasp*
Mar 21st 2005, 1:24 pm
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by Rooksie
An extract:
"Huntsman Spider
A full-grown huntsman spider 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. Huntsmen are known to bite and may cause mild local pain. etc etc etc"
well F**K THAT!!!!!
I purchased the above book from Sandown at the weekend. I read the above extract and nearly crapped my pants!!!!
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
A full-grown huntsman spider 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. Huntsmen are known to bite and may cause mild local pain. etc etc etc"
well F**K THAT!!!!!
I purchased the above book from Sandown at the weekend. I read the above extract and nearly crapped my pants!!!!
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
I ran to my room and locked the door and had great difficulty sleeping that night, I can tell you. True story.
Mar 21st 2005, 1:24 pm
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by Pollyana
Someone did tell me once that the spiders in Arachnophobia were Huntsmen; and I'm sure the Harry Potter ones are digitally-enlarged ones.
defo harry potter spiders. our daughters freaked at that part of the film - how on earth am i going to explain........
Mar 21st 2005, 1:25 pm
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Must admit I am not a spider fan, and I will ALWAYS be checking my sun visor before I get in the car!
You must get used to them after a while though surely?
You must get used to them after a while though surely?
Mar 21st 2005, 1:25 pm
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by JayDeee
Same with red backs, loads in my garden but they are so dopey that they wouldn't know how to bite if they tried, they also look realy really good.
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Redbacks
RedbackSpider
Bite
Nip and run. Effects highly variable, mild to severe (death without antivenom). Typically intense local pain. Early medical attention required (but no tourniquet).
Bite
Nip and run. Effects highly variable, mild to severe (death without antivenom). Typically intense local pain. Early medical attention required (but no tourniquet).
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Mar 21st 2005, 1:26 pm
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by Pollyana
Someone did tell me once that the spiders in Arachnophobia were Huntsmen; and I'm sure the Harry Potter ones are digitally-enlarged ones.
The thing that stops you from being scared is that they are sooo big they look more like mammals then insects, I really wouldnt be able to kill one even if I was still scared.
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Mar 21st 2005, 1:27 pm
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by Pollyana
I'm in Brisbane, you get them in all the eastern states, and as far as I know in WA and SA as well. The first ones I saw were in Tassie - just as big.
Their favourite trick.......hiding behind the sunvisor in the car; you pull the visor down, spider lands in your lap. I had a mate in Hobart who after 20 years still checked the visor every time he got in the car
First one I saw.......lying in a backpackers bunk in Tas, looked up at the base of the bunk above me....and there it was, saucer size. I remember thinking "Oh F***, I've seen my first one, get me outta here!!!!"
Their favourite trick.......hiding behind the sunvisor in the car; you pull the visor down, spider lands in your lap. I had a mate in Hobart who after 20 years still checked the visor every time he got in the car
First one I saw.......lying in a backpackers bunk in Tas, looked up at the base of the bunk above me....and there it was, saucer size. I remember thinking "Oh F***, I've seen my first one, get me outta here!!!!"
oh my god - that is it - NO F**KING WAY!!!
Mar 21st 2005, 1:28 pm
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
threlly
'Fraid not. It's the real thing. And just to let you know, I had my first session with a behavioural therapist yesterday to help me cope with them. I am utterly terrified (as a lot on here are). I trapped a spider for the first time yesterday (which is a big deal for me). It was only a small one, but it's a start. Only problem is that the beaker I used on it wouldn't come close to covering a huntsman - perhaps a bucket would be better - but I really doubt whether I could get that close to it!!!! (You cant squish them coz they make such a mess!).
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'Fraid not. It's the real thing. And just to let you know, I had my first session with a behavioural therapist yesterday to help me cope with them. I am utterly terrified (as a lot on here are). I trapped a spider for the first time yesterday (which is a big deal for me). It was only a small one, but it's a start. Only problem is that the beaker I used on it wouldn't come close to covering a huntsman - perhaps a bucket would be better
- but I really doubt whether I could get that close to it!!!! (You cant squish them coz they make such a mess!).D D
Mar 21st 2005, 1:28 pm
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
They're probably too big to squish under foot anyway!!!!!!!
Mar 21st 2005, 1:29 pm
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
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I am so glad I have just had my lunch, otherwise I would have been well put off, actually, I think I may bring it back!!!
I have a huge fear of spiders, I do not know how I will cope if we do make the big move! I have been to oz twice now, I was not as paranoid on visit 2. I did see a huntsman on my first visit, but none to my knowledge on the second trip!
For our first couple of nights in Oz, I could not sleep, the house we stayed in had polished floorboards and I used to dream at night the spiders were coming up through the floorboards, sometimes I would lie there in the dark waiting for dawn to come so I could escape the darkness and room full of spiders I had imagined were surrounding me!!!!
As I scrolled down I caught the top bit of your photo, I could not bring myself to continue to move down and look at the whole photo, eventually after much muttering to myself I have looked.......I am just off to find a toilet roll to actually see in reality how big it was.
Please tell me toilet rolls in Oz are 10 times the size of the ones we get in the UK!!!!
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I am so glad I have just had my lunch, otherwise I would have been well put off, actually, I think I may bring it back!!!
I have a huge fear of spiders, I do not know how I will cope if we do make the big move! I have been to oz twice now, I was not as paranoid on visit 2. I did see a huntsman on my first visit, but none to my knowledge on the second trip!
For our first couple of nights in Oz, I could not sleep, the house we stayed in had polished floorboards and I used to dream at night the spiders were coming up through the floorboards, sometimes I would lie there in the dark waiting for dawn to come so I could escape the darkness and room full of spiders I had imagined were surrounding me!!!!
As I scrolled down I caught the top bit of your photo, I could not bring myself to continue to move down and look at the whole photo, eventually after much muttering to myself I have looked.......I am just off to find a toilet roll to actually see in reality how big it was.
Please tell me toilet rolls in Oz are 10 times the size of the ones we get in the UK!!!!
Regards
Nikki
P.S. What are Gekhos (will I be sorry I asked....??)
Mar 21st 2005, 1:31 pm
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Re: The Migrants Guide to Emigrating and Settling in Australia
Originally Posted by JackTheLad
Well, if its all the same to you, I'll still kill the redbacks, I don't care how 'dopey' or attractive you think they are
Redbacks
No thanks, if wasps deserve to die, then redbacks deserves to die 10 times over.
Cheers,
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Redbacks
No thanks, if wasps deserve to die, then redbacks deserves to die 10 times over.
Cheers,
JTL
Dont get me wrong they can kill you so once I have had a good look I squish it good and propper but they aren't fast moving, I poke them off the fence all the time to show the backpackers and they dont move an inch once down, I also never see one just goin for a wander they just sit in there little hidey hole all the time.
My Father in law picks them up and then squishes them, bloody mad farmer bloke, he also chases king browns with a shovel :scared:
:scared: :scared: Kala