Wanna go to Australia but I fucking hate spiders. Is the spider thing just a meme or is it actually an issue you will come across in the country?
Wanna go to Australia but I fucking hate spiders.
Wanna go to Australia but I fucking hate spiders. Is the spider thing just a meme or is it actually an issue you will come across in the country?
It won't come up if you stay in a nice hotel and only visit urban areas.
If you visit nature spots or stay in any older buildings, be prepared to encounter a good amount of (mostly harmless) spiders.
You will not be in any actual danger (antivenom is readily available) but big MFs like in your picture are not uncommon and will be hell if you have a phobia.
Not OP, but do Australians have arachnophobia bred out of them, or do some of you poor sods have it regardless?
Everyone's at least a little afraid of spiders. But I guess people who are taught how to avoid black widows from age 5 might be a little less scared than most.
Spider in the pic is actually a good one (huntsman). They kill everything that causes problems for humans - vermin, pests, snakes, some large insects, etc.
They never harm humans (not even capable).
An Australian would never kill it, we put it in a big jar or something with a paper sheet and let it outside to hunt in the yard.
It's literally a FREE exterminator.
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I hate spiders so much I'd actually fire a gun inside my own house to kill it. That thing is the size of a dinner plate
I've done this twice. Got holes in my floor to the crawlspace
Anon, those holes are going to let More Spiders into your House
Forgot about this thread
Nah i used great stuff to fill the holes
I get that they are objectively helpful, and I understand that they can’t hurt you. But I just can’t get over every fiber of my being telling me to burn the entire house down if I see one of those. When I was a kid I saw a fuck huge spider in my shower so I ran naked down the street to the neighbor girls house to use her shower. I really really don’t like spiders.
Did it ever occur to you that the spider was trying to get you laid? Spiders are bro tier like that
> put it in a big jar and shut it in with paper
anon, that spider is bigger than any jar and can punch through flimsy paper like it's nothing
how the fuck do you even catch something that big??
Fucking hell, I'd run as fast I could!
>they do it for free
Yes, but don't they shit in your house?
>my house is full of spider shit!
>They kill (...) snakes
They fucking what?!
>AYOWJY
You need a big jar to catch it though. Gifrel.
stfu, spidey hands
how do they taste?
>do Australians have arachnophobia bred out of them
You can't just squash a phobia like that, but you can get a bit better. Since I moved right next to the bush, which is spider fucking city, 12 years ago I've been able to learn to handle spiders better and kill them in glorious battle instead of acting like a useless girl. But I still can't ignore them.
>right next to the bush
Yeah? How’s your new place in Liverpool?
>Is the spider thing just a meme
You'll be fine as a tourist. You'll only find dangerous/scary spiders if you go looking for them (like any dangerous wildlife).
>Do Australians have arachnophobia?
I'm Aussie and I'd say I do. You won't catch me 10ft near a huntsman. Those things are fucked. But little garden spiders and even the occasional white tail I'll take outside because they're quite common to find inside and I feel bad for the little fellas. Anything else that's big and poisonous like a redback is getting killed via bug spray unless it's just chilling in a corner in the shed or garage.
Daddy Long Legs are our bros though and always get to hang around (though they're technically not spiders). Wish I could have a hundred of them in my house.
What do you even do in the situation like in the OP pic?
Spray it with bug spray if you're a bitch, otherwise hit with a shoe. Don't be a sook
Shotgun
It's a meme.
They're here but it's not like you see them every day.
I live in Sydney and I see a huge huntsman maybe once a week. Not a big deal, but if one really hates spiders it could be a deal-breaker.
>once a week
Holy shit. I'm really afraid of those monsters. I think I'll wait a few years before I visit Australia.
Huntsman are harmless. They avoid humans and don't bite. I don't think they're venomous - mostly because I've never heard of them ever biting someone. Most people leave them be and they leave on their own time. Whiny girls get their boyfriends to kill them, which is easy enough with a shoe or something.
>once a week
Anon I don’t wanna have to confront a fucking huntsman in my Novotel
I don't know what to tell you. It's an extremely common animal that can climb walls and fit through crevices. If you're in the same country as them, you will see one eventually.
Because it's been raining so much. They usually come inside when it's wet out and then leave when things dry.
>it's not like you see them every day.
No but you see them every single night.
Go outside. Hold a torch near your face and shine it at the grass. Almost every shining spot you see is a spider looking back at you. There will be hundreds.
they show up more indoors in summer when it's way too fucken hot anyway, just visit during spring or autumn
go to new zealand instead
How are they up in FNQ? starting a backpacking trip there soon
Bugs are typically worse I'm tropical climates.
Fair enough, guess I could have thought of that for five seconds
From what I understand it's the cockroaches which will creep you out. Giant beasts that get into everything.
Im not too creeped out by cockroaches as long as they aren't physically on me. As long as they arent given enough time to make themselves at home and shit everywhere they're harmless, as far as I know
Make sure you close your tent zip
jesus
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-01-04/cockroach-crawls-into-campers-ear-what-to-do/101824778
Fucking hell why did evolutionary isolationism create just absolute monsters
Make sure you close your Trouser zip.
tie your foreskin shut too just to be safe
In southern Thailand right now and just saw one about this size in my hotel room. I killed with a shoe.
No one has died from a spiderbite in Australia for decades, it's a meme, if you get bitten just get to a hospital within 24 hours for some antivenom otherwise it can cause tissue damage.
Now go drunkenly swim in the harmless ocean you dumb fucking tourists.
I straight up don’t believe you, I think you are lying and i think you might in fact be a spider. Or a shark
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I'm completely honest. Australian spiders are fucking harmless even if you do get bitten, you don't even need to rush for the antivenom, the general advice is to see a doctor within 24 hours and get the shot as a precaution.
The real thing that kills tourists is the ocean, Australian beaches have brutal rips that will suck you out to sea and unless you know how to deal with being caught in one, people will usually start panic and overexert themselves.
The cunts who meme about dangerous Aussie animals are dying every single week thinking they are going for a quick dip at the beach.
drowning is probably not fun. also stingrays and sharks
I live in Melbourne and I have never seen a spider that size or even close to that size. Sydney you might but Melbourne is mostly large and poisonous spider free. I've only seen a few redbacks and they are tiny. We also don't have black widows in Melbourne.
lots of pro spider posts in this thread... hmmmm
Really gets the noggin' joggin'
What about snake encounters?
That's the real shit
Much rarer. I see a big spider maybe once a week, and a snake maybe once a year.
You'll never see a snake unless you live rural.
You'll be lucky to even find one walking around bush in summer. Most of the time you'll see them slithering across roads.
Depends where you are. As always the more north you are the more likely it is. I live in SE Queensland in semi rural suburbia and I see carpet pythons around my house a few times a year. Pretty harmless though
There is an abo tribe deep
In the outback of SA, that uses a spider to bite their cock.
The initial bite is agonising and you have about a 25% chance of dying.
However within the day your cock will swell like an eggplant.
It is important to not move the cock much during this phase, firstly it’s extremely painful and secondly the cock needs to ‘set’
After 3 months of eye watering pain, the pain will subside but the swelling stays and you end up with a fully working cock double the size.
Keep in mind a quarter of abo men who do this die.
Need more data on this
I did something similar masturbating on speed for almost 24 hours straight. Separated the layers of skin on my dick and it swelled up like a water balloon, full of blood. Noticed when I went to piss in the morning and it swung out and hit the doorframe, hurt like a bitch. I was terrified that it might just pop or something. Also my elbow really hurt lol
But 2-3 days later it healed up just fine, except slightly larger than before, both length and girth. Maybe a 1/2" to 1" gain in both areas. Perhaps slightly less sensitive, however.
Don't do drugs or porn kids or you will end up like this loser
We've all been there bro.
Edging on speed.. those were the days. Got so sikzed out that I thought some higher power was hiding the good porn from me.
It's 100% not an issue. You should definitely visit Australia. The spiders here are harmless and could never hurt a human even if we tried.
my fucking sides
I lived in the amazon for six months. regularly saw spiders slightly smaller than this. also a giant cave cockroach in my room at 2am when I turned on the lights
I hated it but tried to man up. I was living with locals at the time and it was second nature to them
Any aussies here ever give a spider a nice sticky glaze?
It is a huge meme, but the chance of encountering them is higher than 0
However, as an Australian of 30 years, I have seen an actual dangerous spider 1 (one) time
The main issue is the drop bears
Americans literally have scarier animals than we do. Unless you're a retard and pick up a blue ring octopus, go swimming in FNQ and get stung by a Man O war or carelessly think you can go into tropical bodies of water without getting chomped in half by a saltwater croc, you won't have any problems. Just look where you walk in the bush so you don't step on a brown snake and drop dead and you're fine.
America on the other hand has fucking black bears, giant board and wild cats. Fuck that.
Black bears are pussies. Brown bears are actual threats.
However, the most dangerous ones are Moose and Bison. They are really fucking moody and will fuck you up for getting too close. Most bears will just fuck off unless they have cubs around or are on a kill, but a Moose will charge you.
Big cats aren't that bad, they're pretty rare and it is more likely it kills your dog than you. Boar are basically a pest species at best, the biggest ones are cross-bred with domesticated pigs and at that point they're just feral hogs and are pretty stupid.
this anon speaks the truth, don't fuck with moose
t. Wyoming
for real. I always thought that moose were chill,so not only they are huge but also aggressive?
fuck that
several black bear maulings in AK last year.
Australian spiders are no joke and store employees will advertise which vacuum cleaner is best at sucking up spiders
Little off topic but does North America have any large spiders and where do the large insects live and what kinds of large insects live there?
large roaches and brown recluse, but they dont come close to OP's nightmare image.
Nah don't worry about it, there's way worst shit than spiders
Most dangerous animal in Australia is unironically the magpie
God magpies are dumb
I remember watching one attack the side window in my house over and over for hours because it could see it's own reflection
Spiders are definitely a thing but it depends a lot on where you're living and how clean you keep your house
The really big spiders aren't that common unless you're doing something like leaving your back door open all day for the dogs
had to look up videos of these things
I totally get that this monster is harmless to us, but literally doesn’t matter. Flight or fight activates in my brain just by watching this fucking cursed picture
This, lol. If I saw that nightmarish creature IRL and it started to move, I think I'd actually faint.
>UK only gets European house spiders
>only rarely grow especially big (saucer sized)
>completely harmless
However...
>one of the fastest species of spider on the planet
>extremely active in Autumn
>frequently see them dart across the floor during that time, often crawling over you
>often climb across your ceiling at night, only to drop onto you in bed
>constantly get trapped in bathtubs
One dropped on me when I was having a bath once. Fuck that shit.
>One dropped on me when I was having a bath once. Fuck that shit
Greentext that shit please, I want a horror laugh
Probably not too much to expand on
>relaxing in bath
>movement above catches my eye
>big house spider crawling on the ceiling
>about a second afterwards it drops onto my stomach
>spasms around on my wet skin
>NOPE
>swat it off, jump out the bath, pull the plug, grab a towel and leg it out the bathroom
We get false widows and brown recluses, both extremely common in England during the summer and they can make you swell like a mother fucker so it isn’t all harmless spiders
It's only recently they've become more common though. They're wasp sting tier. You're not going to even need to see a doctor unless it triggers an allergic reaction.
I backpacked for 3 months in Australia and the only big spiders that I saw were the golden orb weavers, I didn't see any huntsmen funnily enough but I was mostly in the urban areas
Arachnophobic here but golden orb weavers are amazing. They're stunning in appearence and above all they just chill in their nets all the time and mind their own business. Plus web-based spiders are slow and clunky, unlike active visual spiders like huntsmen/wolf spider/etc who can bolt and jump like crazy. I researched spiders a lot to fix my arachnophobia and huntsmen are still the scariest beast in the world (in terms of appearence, not danger) due to their sheer size, speed and likelihood of an undesired close encounter
Granted I like spiders , but Huntsmen aren't really aggressive, They are fast though. The one you would have to watch out for is the Funnel weaver. Those things are super aggressive
I have it so bad I can't even bring myself to look at the images in this thread for more then 2 seconds. I think the Australians reassuring us that they're harmless are missing the point, but I appreciate it
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