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Yah… the giant spiders in HP 2 are horrid!
Just the other day, I watched the 3rd Lord of the Rings… and there’s the giant spider in that one, too… “She’s always hungry!” (shudder!) Why do all the fantastical epic films have giant spiders?
Yah… the giant spiders in HP 2 are horrid!
Just the other day, I watched the 3rd Lord of the Rings… and there’s the giant spider in that one, too… “She’s always hungry!” (shudder!) Why do all the fantastical epic films have giant spiders?
I guess its because spiders are the creepiest insects in existence. Imagine waking up and finding a daddy long-legs walking across your face in the middle of the night (true story). Major factor about them is that they drink blood, wrap their victims in webbing and several types are poisonous, and I know at least one type that eat their mates after breeding with them. Try exciting the movie going audience with a fight between an axe welding dwarf and a giant grasshopper, it just doesn’t work.
I don’t know about spiders being the CREEPIEST… Silverfish for example creep me right the heck out.
Seems like this would be more of an occasion that Ryan would enjoy than Randie, shame he can’t come.
I dunno, have you seen the stingers on some of those grasshoppers???
Spiders are SO creepy…i think it’s a normal human fear. Most people I know at least don’t like them and most are afraid.
We used to live in an apartment that was CRAWLING with spiders. We found at least two a day. The worst was the one that dropped out of the ceiling in the bathroom and another one that was HUGE and FAST and took 20 minutes to kill.
Yeh, there are the poisonous varieties, black widows and brown recluses–a bite from the latter sent a big studly neighbor to the emergency room with a horrible reaction, but spiders also control the likes of ants, mosquitoes, moths and flies. Daddy long legs are supposed, in theory, to be real poisonous too, but their fangs are not big enough to harm people.
Mastrius… I believe the term used for those who “eat their mates after breeding with them” is either “alimony” or “patrimony.”
Personally, spiders have never bothered me, even a giant fuzzy tarantula crawling on my hand. Creatures that I have come across that have bothered me have included a rattlesnake (in the wild, not a zoo–their rattling sounds plenty loud in real life), mice &/or rats (a whole bunch of ’em–caught 6 over the course of a weekend), a scorpion (in the wild, not a zoo–I hate how those boogers like to crawl into socks and pants laid out over night while you’re camping), and loud, defiant and insistent street preachers.
Oops. I ment to say, the process used for eating mates after breeding is often called “alimony” or “palimony.” Hey, I was close on the second.
Brig,
Cheer up!
I sent you a “CARE” package via Amazone. I won’t tell you what it is.
Just be on the lookout for a package at your studio.
I had a near run in with a big spider today, in fact!!! I was minding my own business on the couch, when I saw movement on the arm rest. There are three cats in my house… I should not have to experience spiderness! Kill, Mouse, kill the spiders!
I am frightened of you house, Meem.
Mast: I am in agreement.
Stick… Yes, I suppose spiders keep the yucky insect population down. But I gatta tell ya, I’m cheering on the little sparrows when they fly around the house eaves looking for spiders and bugs. Kill, sparrows, kill the spiders!
A prezzie for me? Oh, Joe… you are too kind! I will anxiously wait at the Cartoonery for what you’ve sent me (all giggly).
;^)
Last to the party, as usual. Spiders do not as a rule freak me out at all. My daughter, however, is pathologically arachnophobic. She will call us, sobbing, to come to her apartment because there is a little house spider in her bathtub. I always just jar ’em and put ’em outdoors. Having lived in South America, I can handle spiders. Cockroaches, now…!!!
Spiders don’t bug me, I like them a bit. So I thought the huge spiders were cute! Man, I was a weird kid. But, when they found out why Harry could hear the snake….GUH! I won’t spoil it, but let’s just it made going to the washroom a lot scarier. I like snakes! Why do the ones in Potter movies have to be so darned creepy? Every movie there’s some creepy CGI snake waiting to jump out at you!
Uhhhh! Roaches and fleas … and spiders, oh my! Hate them, too, EofO!
Meg… HI HO! Yah… Nagini in the last HP film was noxious! She’ll be horrid in the last film for sure! Can’t wait… personally… I hold a grudge against Nagini… for Snape reasons.
Are there any other people out there who enjoyed Harry Potter and DIDN’T enjoy Lord of the Rings?
I feel so alone…
I have spiders in my house. They eat the pests, I leave them alone. The one in the corner above my computer has a 2″ leg spread. There’s a Palmetto Bug (sort of a supercharged cockroach) in her web.
Spiders are good.
Petercat… WHERE do you LIVE? Your house sounds scary!
I liked the “Lord of the Rings” but prefer Harry P. Both epic stories are rife with similarity… including spiders.
I actually have a friend, RJ, who wrote a field guide to spiders. He’s a spider expert. He tells me that the brown recluse spider couldn’t possibly be around California biting people. I keep my flame thrower at the ready anyhow.