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[–] 122 points 10 months ago (7 children)
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    [–] 97 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    The spiders have their corners in my house. Doesn't bother me. They eat the pesky flying insects that like to fly in my face.

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    Same here, although they're not catching much of the current infestation of Maple/Boxelder bugs.

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    I like their look and dopey panicked movements when they notice you watching them, but the cute looks get old when there's 20 sunbathing on the wrong side of the kitchen window.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The only spiders I’ve seen want to eat those are cellar spiders, and even that seems reluctant on their part lol. Guess they really taste horrible or something.

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    Wow, he deported the spider. Unbelievable.

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  • [–] 37 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    While I try to let them chill for the most part, the eight legged bastard that descended from the ceiling in the middle of the room to just eye level with me got clapped like a bitch.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    I had one plop off the ceiling onto my shoulder while I was working a few weeks ago. Took a pic and sent it to my daughters to remind them spiders are our friends and then took him off my shoulder and put him on the ground.

    My philosophy... if he's surviving in my house, he's eating bugs and providing a service.

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    [–] 30 points 10 months ago* (8 children)

    All the spiders in my house got names... The are all named Gunter!

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    So they got a name, not names.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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    [–] 29 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Killing spiders is a scam by big fly/mosquito/insert insect of choice.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago*

    People of Earth, your attention, please. As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system. And regrettably, your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition.

    The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    House-dwelling spiders are usually adapted to life inside the house (likely cave-dwelling species). Their survival rate outside is not very good.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    Maybe it depends on where you live, but I always find the same spiders living in gardens or on the side of a shed or something, so I've never been worried about that except in winter.

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    [–] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Also you do NOT want to face an all spider jury one day.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Jumping spiders are always welcome in my home.

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    [–] 12 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    That's really cute until you apply the "alive in wrong space at wrong time" philosophy to cockroaches and termites. Clean your house and keep the local wildlife outside.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago*

    Spiders eat those things. That guy up there called those eating meat hypocrites but they're a little off missing this fact.

    People who save spiders and eat meat do it because they're not hypocrites. They respect their own kind.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    I started releasing rather than killing spiders after reading "Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

    In that future, most animals have disappeared and people consider the sight of a spider as an extraordinary thing. Sparing a single spider might be vain, but it feels right knowing insect/spider population is quickly decreasing.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Except moskito and fly. And flies that suck blood get hunted.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    If they survive my cats, rather than kicking them out, I catch and dispatch them inside the house. They more than deserve it.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    I understand the metaphor, but I think we as men are the spiders.

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