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New Zealand and Australia are white countries.

The descendants of the primitives who were there before the white man arrived from Europe should be treated with dignity and respect. But that's the New Zealand fucken parliament
 

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New Zealand and Australia are white countries.

The descendants of the primitives who were there before the white man arrived from Europe should be treated with dignity and respect. But that's the New Zealand fucken parliament
Maoris haven't actually been in NZ particularly long, recent arrivals of about 200 years before Europeans. There's also quite a lot of evidence to suggest they genocided the original inhabitants, the Moriori, a more sophisticated and peaceable people.
 

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I own a rescue Maine Coon. He's an absolute bastard of a thing, and the dogs will not go near him. The one time I tried to brush him (to reduce the rate of hairballs) he fucking merked me, I was lucky to get out with both eyes. Blood all over my arms and on one side of my face. He was a street cat before I adopted him I suppose so I don't know what I was expecting. He can butter people up when he needs to though. Whenever I've had to take him to the vet, the staff have always said how 'lovely' he is.
 

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I own a rescue Maine Coon. He's an absolute bastard of a thing, and the dogs will not go near him. The one time I tried to brush him (to reduce the rate of hairballs) he fucking merked me, I was lucky to get out with both eyes. Blood all over my arms and on one side of my face. He was a street cat before I adopted him I suppose so I don't know what I was expecting. He can butter people up when he needs to though. Whenever I've had to take him to the vet, the staff have always said how 'lovely' he is.
I can be a little nervy around cats.. those needles they have for teeth and claws, and the fact that they can occasionally spaz out.

Of course, I love cats, I love all animals.. except for spiders.

Yes, I am an arachnophobe. Dunno why, neither of the females of my family were/are.

There are degrees of arachnophobia of course and I'm not the worst. Most spiders upon discovery in my home live to tell the tale, I don't harm any of God's creatures if I can help it. If they're too gross then I'll evict them, you know the technique, contain in container then slide a sheet underneath, then chuck out the window. If not too gross then I'll just leave them be.

But you can imagine what my spider story in Australia was like...

So one balmy Friday evening around dusk in Sydney I'm rushing out to catch a flick in the cinema and I run upstairs (two storey apartment) to take a pee and brush my teeth (you never know, I might get lucky :)) and after that I just peeked in my bedroom at the doorway, flicked the light switch and there it was. It was summer so all of the windows were open and about a foot from my bedroom window on the wall was a spider.

It was the last and only time I've ever screamed like a girl, literally.. I heard myself.

I didn't even bother to figure out what species it was afterwards but whatever it was, it was the biggest species of spider in Australia and this thing was a Goliath of that species.. It was the SIZE OF MY FUCKING HAND!

You can imagine what that experience was like for an Irish arachnophobe. The fight (to the death) that ensued afterwards was something else, too. I still have PTSD from it :)
 

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I can be a little nervy around cats.. those needles they have for teeth and claws, and the fact that they can occasionally spaz out.

Of course, I love cats, I love all animals.. except for spiders.

Yes, I am an arachnophobe. Dunno why, neither of the females of my family were/are.

There are degrees of arachnophobia of course and I'm not the worst. Most spiders upon discovery in my home live to tell the tale, I don't harm any of God's creatures if I can help it. If they're too gross then I'll evict them, you know the technique, contain in container then slide a sheet underneath, then chuck out the window. If not too gross then I'll just leave them be.

But you can imagine what my spider story in Australia was like...

So one balmy Friday evening around dusk in Sydney I'm rushing out to catch a flick in the cinema and I run upstairs (two storey apartment) to take a pee and brush my teeth (you never know, I might get lucky :)) and after that I just peeked in my bedroom at the doorway, flicked the light switch and there it was. It was summer so all of the windows were open and about a foot from my bedroom window on the wall was a spider.

It was the last and only time I've ever screamed like a girl, literally.. I heard myself.

I didn't even bother to figure out what species it was afterwards but whatever it was, it was the biggest species of spider in Australia and this thing was a Goliath of that species.. It was the SIZE OF MY FUCKING HAND!

You can imagine what that experience was like for an Irish arachnophobe. The fight (to the death) that ensued afterwards was something else, too. I still have PTSD from it :)
Probably some type of hunstman, they can get pretty big. Not very venomous and you won't die from one, but yeah, pretty terrifying, and I can confirm a bite doesn't tickle. It's a weird kind of pain. One bit me in the shower not too long ago, on the thigh and frighteningly close to my ballsack. It must have been hiding on the back of my bottle of shower gel. I nearly went through the fucking glass trying to scramble out of the shower. Not a very large one, maybe the size of 50C piece.

I'm no fan of spiders myself, or even insects in general for that matter and I do get quite a lot of mouse spiders on my property which can be fatal (they are more or less the same as the Sydney Funnelweb) but I generally only ever see them after periods of heavy rain, thank christ.

There is a subspecies of Funnelweb endemic to Fraser Island called a K'gari Funnelweb. Its bite is at least six times more potent than its cousin in Sydney, and its fangs are twice as long. Thankfully, it is relegated to a very remote place. A very beautiful place, too. It is stunning.

The one animal that seems to freak non-Australians out the most are the fruit bats, or flying foxes. I always forget that Europeans and Americans basically never experience megabats, because they have no distribution outside Asia and Australia. It's pretty funny when I've had to meet people at the airport who have just arrived in Aus, at dusk, just as they are flying out, and they look at them as though they're dinosaurs.
 

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Probably some type of hunstman, they can get pretty big. Not very venomous and you won't die from one, but yeah, pretty terrifying, and I can confirm a bite doesn't tickle. It's a weird kind of pain. One bit me in the shower not too long ago, on the thigh and frighteningly close to my ballsack. It must have been hiding on the back of my bottle of shower gel. I nearly went through the fucking glass trying to scramble out of the shower.
Yikes! 😂

Not a very large one, maybe the size of 50C piece.
Something the size of a 50c piece would be what I'd call a gross spider in Ireland but I swear to God, this thing was fucking huge. Sometimes I wonder if I killed someone's escaped pet tarantula :)

I'm no fan of spiders myself, or even insects in general for that matter and I do get quite a lot of mouse spiders on my property which can be fatal (they are more or less the same as the Sydney Funnelweb) but I generally only ever see them after periods of heavy rain, thank christ.

There is a subspecies of Funnelweb endemic to Fraser Island called a K'gari Funnelweb. Its bite is at least six times more potent than its cousin in Sydney, and its fangs are twice as long. Thankfully, it is relegated to a very remote place. A very beautiful place, too. It is stunning.

The one animal that seems to freak non-Australians out the most are the fruit bats, or flying foxes. I always forget that Europeans and Americans basically never experience megabats, because they have no distribution outside Asia and Australia. It's pretty funny when I've had to meet people at the airport who have just arrived in Aus, at dusk, just as they are flying out, and they look at them as though they're dinosaurs.
Venomosity should really be the reason to fear something like a spider but I don't think that that's how it works in the mind of an arachnophobe. Perhaps it's the lizard brain that informs, telling us that a spider bite can cause extreme pain and even death.

Other animals such as snakes don't bother me. Of course, Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland but I've handled them and it isn't an issue for me. Or even the spider-like daddy long legs, doesn't bother me in the slightest. Other than the fact that they're sort of annoying dopey cunts :)
 

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LOL @ @Mods vs Roc_ers outback story

@Fishalt, in case you don't know, roc has recounted similar stories about his trekking in Africa, getting to know the swarthy locals who he bonded with, yada, yada..

You've figured out that roc is a moron already but perhaps not that he's insane 😆
 

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