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[Black Abyss Babe]

Can you tell me where my country lies?
Knights of the green shield stamp and shout

Surely they've moved on to loyalty cards by now ...

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

Now I have a temptation to open the spoiler, but I won't.

Fuck spoilers.

 

[Brigantium]

Erm, Cried, I think Saap has more your average spider phobia

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

Erm, Cried, I think Saap has more your average spider phobia

Oops! I have removed it...

 

[Brigantium]

Cheers!

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

Well, arachnophobia probably makes sense from an evolutionary point of view. Spiders are venomous, and throughout the evolutionary history of man it has probably been wise to avoid them.

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

No, stupid to avoid them. Flies have killed more people, by spreading disease. Spiders eat flies. Therefore spiders are our friends.

Sorry Saap, if you saw that.

 

[Saapanael]

Fortunately, I didn't . I would've, if I had checked this page like 2 minutes earlier.

 

[Black Wizard]

I'm not a massive spider fan but I can deal with them. However, when I was a child I was about to walk upstairs one time but saw a spider the size of my fist and jumped six feet in the air!

 

[Brigantium]

It's like horses with their fear of snakes, (plus hosepipes and and anything that might possibly resemble a snake). If they got a bite in the leg it could be enough to make them lame and stop them being able to escape a predator.

 

[Perun]

Fuck spoilers.

This is the second time today that you prompt me to say "what the fuck?"

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

No, stupid to avoid them. Flies have killed more people, by spreading disease. Spiders eat flies. Therefore spiders are our friends.

Sorry Saap, if you saw that.

Avoid, as in stay away from them. Not avoid as in remove them.

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

This is the second time today that you prompt me to say "what the fuck?"

It's a picture of a cat in a spiderman costume. Originally it was the picture BW had posted in spoilers.

 

[Moon Child]

That's not what I saw....

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

What did you see?

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

What did you see?

Could you believe?

 

[Saapanael]

It's like horses with their fear of snakes, (plus hosepipes and and anything that might possibly resemble a snake). If they got a bite in the leg it could be enough to make them lame and stop them being able to escape a predator.

Smart guys.

As for the phobia, I do think it's more prominent than anyone's arachnophobia I've come across. Most people just don't like spiders. For example, one time when I was just about to go to sleep, a spider appeared. I was too scared to go to the other end of the room to switch off the light, sharing the floor with the legged devil, because then I wouldn't know where he's headed. So I just went and slept on the couch.
The biggest ones - not huge in an international context but pretty much as large as they come here - I can barely even bear to look at. Summer is coming, hibernation is ending...

 

[Brigantium]

I've had a pretty colourful phobia before, to the extent that I couldn't read words that were close to the name of the thing I was scared of without getting intense fear. That's not one for an open forum, though, chat only!

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

I've had a pretty colourful phobia before,!

Fear of rainbows?

 

[Brigantium]

Argh! The indigo! The violet!

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