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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.

markfiend wrote:

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.

markfiend wrote:

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.

Now this is a sight to see men scared of *harmless* daddy-long-legs....I used to play with them as a child.....seriously...

MB daddy-long-legs will come and get you.....

MadameButterfly wrote: Now this is a sight to see men scared of *harmless* daddy-long-legs....I used to play with them as a child.....seriously...

MB daddy-long-legs will come and get you.....

I used to play with them as a child too, happily pulling thier legs off and what have you. They were smaller then though, they've evolved....

I know they're harmless, it's just... the legs

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

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....

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.

London..


my mates garden was full of the feckers on Saturday afternoon whilst I was out sitting in the sun trying to drink beer!

dammit!

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

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

MadameButterfly wrote:Now this is a sight to see men scared of *harmless* daddy-long-legs....I used to play with them as a child.....seriously...

Harmless? You do realize that they have the most lethal poison known to man...but no means with which to deliver it?

Yes, I have seen Ricky Gervais' Animals

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...

DerekR wrote:

MadameButterfly wrote:Now this is a sight to see men scared of *harmless* daddy-long-legs....I used to play with them as a child.....seriously...

Harmless? You do realize that they have the most lethal poison known to man...but no means with which to deliver it?

Yes, I have seen Ricky Gervais' Animals

I think we are talking about another kind of *daddy-long-legs*

MB

MadameButterfly wrote:Good for YOU Mark...always good to overcome a phobia...

Well, a picture's one thing, the real deal is another...

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.

markfiend wrote:

MadameButterfly wrote:Good for YOU Mark...always good to overcome a phobia...

Well, a picture's one thing, the real deal is another...

Promise me to wait with the phobia in real life until I can see it with my own eyes. PLEASE.....

MB

I've got a dead one currently on my windowsill, I can take a picture if you think it will help with your phobia mark

I'll leave it ta

canon docre wrote:

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.

I'm obviously in the other 30%...

However, is such research done on Heartlanders ?

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.

smiscandlon wrote:

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.

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!

MadameButterfly wrote:

DerekR wrote:

MadameButterfly wrote:Now this is a sight to see men scared of *harmless* daddy-long-legs....I used to play with them as a child.....seriously...

Harmless? You do realize that they have the most lethal poison known to man...but no means with which to deliver it?

Yes, I have seen Ricky Gervais' Animals

I think we are talking about another kind of *daddy-long-legs*

MB

Possibly. But as usual Snopes has the full story...

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.

I'm done with this summer thing now.