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Tagra
Apr 7, 2006

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.


See I was thinking it was going to be a tiny little spider but then it said "huntsman" and I was like "Ahhh, I see."

How do they get in the cars in the first place to hang out in the sun visors?

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zakharov
Nov 30, 2002

:kimchi: Tater Love :kimchi:

lavaca posted:

Pamela Anderson and a rabbi published an article in the Wall Street Journal about the evils of pornography.. I am pretty sure this is not viral marketing for the next Coen Brothers movie.

Take the Pledge: No More Indulging Porn

Rabbi Boteach is a an author, TV host and public speaker. Ms. Anderson is a model, author and actress.

Ahh of course it's Shmuley Boteach, the most starfucking rabbbi in the universe

Buckets
Apr 10, 2009

...THE CHILD...

Tagra posted:

See I was thinking it was going to be a tiny little spider but then it said "huntsman" and I was like "Ahhh, I see."

How do they get in the cars in the first place to hang out in the sun visors?

They open the door like anyone else man.

Lime Tonics
Nov 7, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
Nearly half of British women cannot identify the vagina

https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/health/female-anatomy-identify-vagina-vulva-eve-appeal/

Might be :nws: if your work gets mad at diagrams of the body.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Henchman of Santa posted:

Are they the ones that hang out on the ceiling of the car, hidden by that thing you flip down to block sunlight?

They don't always fit properly but yes.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Lime Tonics posted:

Nearly half of British women cannot identify the vagina

https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/health/female-anatomy-identify-vagina-vulva-eve-appeal/

Might be :nws: if your work gets mad at diagrams of the body.

Only 7/10 women could correctly identify the penis, testes and foreskin? There's got to be some pretty major methodological flaws in this survey.

Bogmonster
Oct 17, 2007

The Bogey is a philosopher who knows

Lord Hydronium
Sep 25, 2007

Non, je ne regrette rien


I have a friend who's scared shitless of any kind of spider, to the extent that she freezes up and refuses to drive if one is in the car, so those spider stories weren't particularly surprising.

Then I googled huntsman spider. :stare:

LITERALLY A BIRD
Sep 27, 2008

I knew you were trouble
when you flew in

quote:

When one reads a physics paper in an esteemed journal, one does not generally wonder if it was written by a cat. But such was the case for an article in the 1970s credited to co-author F.D.C. Willard—the Cat Who Published.
In 1975, a Cat Co-Authored a Physics Paper

:refurb:

Tagra
Apr 7, 2006

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.


Lord Hydronium posted:

I have a friend who's scared shitless of any kind of spider, to the extent that she freezes up and refuses to drive if one is in the car, so those spider stories weren't particularly surprising.

Then I googled huntsman spider. :stare:

We had just hauled some yardwork scraps with branches and stuff in the back of our vehicle, and the next day I drove some people from work downtown for something. Suddenly there was all sorts of shrieking and flailing in the back seat because one of those dime-sized crab spiders was skittering along the ceiling. Someone finally worked up the nerve to squish it just as it was over the driver's seat.

The person in the front passenger seat was like "You were very calm!" and I was like "I'm driving. I'm not going to let a tiny spider kill four people..." but I did also think "BOY that would have sucked if it dropped on me..."

If it were a huntsman I would like to think I would at least pull over to the side of the road before bailing out the door...

Proteus Jones
Feb 28, 2013




I love that the picture of the kitten next to a microscope has the caption "THIS IS A DRAMATIZATION".

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011




Proof that arachnophobia is stronger than maternal instinct.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

.

This belongs in a museum.

Tracula
Mar 26, 2010

PLEASE LEAVE
Honestly I'm just impressed.

Detective Thompson
Nov 9, 2007

Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. is also in repose.
I like what looks to be a failed attempt along the green line. Dude didn't give up. He got his air dong.

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

I'm meat on the hoof

Florida Man is truly the superhero for tomorrow's America

Humerus
Jul 7, 2009

Rule of acquisition #111:
Treat people in your debt like family...exploit them.


Florida woman arrested after fight with twin sister over vibrator, boyfriend

quote:

A Bradenton woman was arrested Sunday afternoon after getting into a fight with her twin sister about a vibrator and her boyfriend, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.

Heidi Creamer started fighting with her twin at 1:38 p.m. in the 5500 block of 36th Court East over "Heidi's boyfriend and a sexual toy (vibrator)," and the verbal argument soon turned to blows, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Because why should Florida man have all the fun? It's 2016, people!

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

.

Humerus posted:

Florida woman arrested after fight with twin sister over vibrator, boyfriend


Because why should Florida man have all the fun? It's 2016, people!

I'm pissed off that even my most explicit sexual stories are nowhere near this level of crazy. And this is probably a fight they've had several times.

Prenton
Feb 17, 2011

Ner nerr-nerrr ner

Lady Disdain
Jan 14, 2013


are you yet living?

Lord Hydronium posted:

I have a friend who's scared shitless of any kind of spider, to the extent that she freezes up and refuses to drive if one is in the car, so those spider stories weren't particularly surprising.

Then I googled huntsman spider. :stare:

Huntsmans (huntsmen ?) look scary, and their bites are very painful, but they're certainly not deadly.

Many people in Australia (myself included) will let a huntsman live in their bathroom (they really like bathrooms for some reason. Humidity, maybe ?), because they're territorial, so having 1 huntsman generally means no other spiders. And the choice between huntsman and redbacks is a pretty easy one.

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008


Wasn't there an Internet legend that US nuclear submarine kept doing the same thing all over the Pacific at some point?

spudsbuckley
Aug 29, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

(and can't post for 5 years!)

Istari posted:

And the choice between huntsman and redbacks is a pretty easy one.

The obvious choice is to emigrate from spider-hell.

Choco1980
Feb 22, 2013

I fell in love with a Video Nasty

Detective Thompson posted:

I like what looks to be a failed attempt along the green line. Dude didn't give up. He got his air dong.

I think that the line is going the opposite way, he did a little extra dong as his finishing flair.

Mithra6
Jan 24, 2006

Elvis is dead, Sinatra is dead, and me I feel also not so good.

Humerus posted:

Florida woman arrested after fight with twin sister over vibrator, boyfriend


Because why should Florida man have all the fun? It's 2016, people!

Her name is Heidi Creamer.

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



Istari posted:

Many people in Australia (myself included) will let a huntsman live in their bathroom (they really like bathrooms for some reason. Humidity, maybe ?), because they're territorial, so having 1 huntsman generally means no other spiders. And the choice between huntsman and redbacks is a pretty easy one.

This is some kind of crazy rear end in a top hat spider.

quote:

Commonly, prey-stealing occurs where larger females take food items stored in other spiders' webs.[16] When they encounter other spiders of the same species, often including those of the opposite sex, they engage in battle, and the defeated spider is eaten.[2] If a male redback is accepted by a female, it is permitted to feed on the victims snared in the female's web.[2] Baby spiders also steal food from their mother, which she tries to prevent. They also consume sticky silk as well as small midges and flies. Spiderlings are cannibalistic, more active ones sometimes eating their less active siblings.[29]

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

spudsbuckley posted:

The obvious choice is to move somewhere where you can get geckos to take care of pest control

:3:

BoonyPC
Feb 19, 2007

I was standing at the urinal in a club the other day and one of these fuckers comes down from the roof and hangs right next to me.

Huntsman are pretty cool but they do give you a bit of a fright when driving along and popping out in front of you to say Hi.

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

I'm meat on the hoof

Not going to be selling any insurance any time soon, I guess.

Wheat Loaf
Feb 13, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Lady Disdain
Jan 14, 2013


are you yet living?

Phlegmish posted:

This is some kind of crazy rear end in a top hat spider.




Just as a complete aside, one of they ways they hunt is by stringing single threads of super sticky silk between 2 horizontal surfaces (the underside of a chair and the floor, for example) and stretching them really taut. When something touches the string, it detaches from the floor and springs up into the air, so the prey gets stuck in the sticky web, suspended in the air.
Which I think is neat.

ETA: found a David Attenborough clip about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQABY9H1h1Y

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

FairyNuff
Jan 22, 2012





Choco1980
Feb 22, 2013

I fell in love with a Video Nasty
Warner Bros reports its own website for DCMA violation

tl;dr The reporting service that WB uses went a little overboard with their lazy automatic robots and started reporting everything that had their ip in it, including official movie sites and dealers like Amazon.

This kind of thing is almost as sweet to me as when it's shown that rather than internet advertising being easy money (especially on youtube), the Emperor is, in fact, naked.

GEORGE W BUSHI
Jul 1, 2012

Brentwood residents angry that city is trying to plant trees in local park

When I read the title, I thought it was actually going to be a sensible complaint like the park being the only place local kids could play ball games or something but...

quote:

'If you give people more places to hide, more naughty things will be done,' said one tree opponent

thepopmonster
Feb 18, 2014


Baron Corbyn posted:

Brentwood residents angry that city is trying to plant trees in local park

When I read the title, I thought it was actually going to be a sensible complaint like the park being the only place local kids could play ball games or something but...

quote:

'If you give people more places to hide, more naughty things will be done,' said one tree opponent


So that's where Graham Chapman ended up.

FairyNuff
Jan 22, 2012

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Knormal
Nov 11, 2001



Sadly no one seems to have pictures of the dog.

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