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ruffers wrote:The lack of wasps has been balanced out by a glut of daddy-long-legs it appears, although I don't mind them so much.
Ye gods! Daddy-long-legs freak me out. Their legs are way too long. I can feel my skin prickle just thinking about them.
Now I bet some cnut will post a picture of one and I'll be sick.
I know I said they weren't so bad but I'm going off them rapidly, I had one buzzing round my head all last night. Horrible creature. Heading for the list at this rate.
Yeah, daddy-long-legs is indeed a harmful spider and I think global too.....ones I used to pull apart....were not tiny...in South Africa daddy-long-legs are quite large and their legs are too.....now I like the feel of daddy-long-legs walking on my bare flesh....
it's all about circles and spirals
that ongoing eternity
This could get interesting. The one I'm talking about is an extremely harmless fly, more formally known as a cranefly. I'd post a pic but markfiend would get frightened.
ruffers wrote: This could get interesting. The one I'm talking about is an extremely harmless fly, more formally known as a cranefly. I'd post a pic but markfiend would get frightened.
Dare you!!!! let's scare...
MB
it's all about circles and spirals
that ongoing eternity
markfiend wrote:Craneflies (What me and Ruffers are talking about as "Daddy long legs")
Harvestmen (Arachnids also otherwise known as Daddy long legs)
*Phew*
See, I can overcome my phobia if I try
o.k. to clear up things....the Daddy-long-legs....are in this quote the Harvestmen....scroll down....last photo...by Jeff....indeed Daddy-long-legs.....they do not bite, therefore harmless.....
Good for YOU Mark...always good to overcome a phobia...
it's all about circles and spirals
that ongoing eternity
Obviousman wrote:I assume those are some sort of spiders?
I was bored a couple of years ago and started cutting off a spiders's legs one by one... Sadly he passed away after two
Recent studies suggest, that there'a a strong connection between animal torturing and deviant sexual sadism. In fact, 70% of all sexual offenders are animal torturers as well. On the other hand, animal torturers have a 5-times higher risk of eventually committing an act of violence.
We know the path you'll follow Obviousman.
Put their heads on f*cking pikes in front of the venue for all I care.
Obviousman wrote:I assume those are some sort of spiders?
I was bored a couple of years ago and started cutting off a spiders's legs one by one... Sadly he passed away after two
Recent studies suggest, that there'a a strong connection between animal torturing and deviant sexual sadism. In fact, 70% of all sexual offenders are animal torturers as well. On the other hand, animal torturers have a 5-times higher risk of eventually committing an act of violence.
markfiend wrote:Craneflies (What me and Ruffers are talking about as "Daddy long legs")
They tickle if you pick them up between cupped hands.
Well everyone's got to have a hobby.
I actually did that just the other night because one was in my room and I hadn't the heart to kill it. After spending about half an hour trying to usher it out with the sleeve booklet of Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Peepshow", I thought the poor little bastard might have himself a coronary from the stress of being chased around by a lady-giant, so I picked him up and popped him out on the landing.
I'm just a big softie.
There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets
ruffers wrote: This could get interesting. The one I'm talking about is an extremely harmless fly
It's also known in the West of Scotland as a jenny long legs, but the term's interchangeable with daddy long legs. Am I the only one here that actually likes them? I even freed one from a spider's web once. I like the way they dance and they make a great noise. And they really don't deserve having their legs pulled off. As for amputating spiders' legs one by one, Roy Batey did exactly that in Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? to test if spiders needed as many as 8 legs. Put me off Replicants a bit that did!
A wasp ruined an otherwise magnificent sesh at the pub, midway through my Endeavour Ale and Chicken Tikka. We weren't able to mount a reasonable defence - Ellie and Rich just sat there, Laura and Lauren ran like cowards, and I'd lost most of my hand-to-eye co-ordination and smacked everything but the buzzing b@stard.
men scared of *harmless* daddy-long-legs....I used to play with them as a child.....seriously... 
let's scare... 
You do realize that they have the most lethal poison known to man...but no means with which to deliver it?
