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[RRockman]

nope.

Mood music

 

[wesleyshark]

nope.

The whole country must burn.

 

[Maximo]

The whole country must burn.

You really want shit in Australia to be radioactive? Nukes will only make us stronger.

 

[RocknRola]

nope.

Nukes were made for this exact reason!

 

[TheKeyPit]

Huntsman Spiders aren't usually ever aggressive, that being said they can bite, my brother found that out the hard way when one smaller one dropped from the ceiling on to him while he was in bed and bit him on the leg, he said it felt like a wasp sting. They aren't venomous so they're not much of a worry they just creep you out.

Also one time when I was a teen staying at my Grandma's with my Uncle & Aunty they woke up one morning and went to get my cousin out of the cot (toddler at the time) and after picking up my cousin they saw a Huntsman slightly smaller than the one in the OP laying on the mattress, My cousin was fine with no bites and the spider was apparently pretty chill but it had been sleeping underneath my cousin for probably at least half the night.

Holy moly.

 

[Busty]

This has happened to me in the past.

However as a fully paid up member of GAF Gold I simply alerted a Mod to my situation and they sent someone over in a wood panelled station wagon to deal with the issue.

Thanks GAF Gold.

 

[Theonik]

nukes wouldn't be enough. a hail of comets need to follow.

Gundam ZZ did it right.

 

[dosh]

I've used this at least a dozen times since you posted it.

Thank. You.

It's missing a lifebar.

 

[The Hermit]

That Second vídeo. I though that gif was fake... Wtf

 

[Nohar]

So, watching giant spiders do nothing, but somehow that freaking .gif set me off.

 

[Sabercrusader]

Well clicking on this thread was a mistake.

I honestly have no idea what I would've done there. That's insane.

 

[SliceSabre]

I'm not scared of spiders but damn one that size would make me pause before risking my life trying to kill it.

Their cat is probably pissed though.

"Oh shit gets crazy and the ya'll try to sacrifice me? Thanks for nothing."

 

[Soyongdori]

Jesus fuck, that thing is big enough to eat a small puppy.

 

[SkywardBeam]

Sadly such spiders don't exist in Central Europe :/ What a boring place to live.
Also I'd gladly take a colony of those cute little fellows over a single mosquito every day.
Can you have them as pets?

 

[GSG Flash]

I wish I saw one of these when I was in Australia last year, I only saw one spider during my time there and it was smaller than the ones we have up here in Canada

 

[CookedChocobo]

Fuck you lol

 

[Jkmetal]

Would an airhorn be enough to scare it away? I'd bring out the metal baseball bat but only as a last resort. Clean up would be messy.

 

[Bluenoser]

I asked my wife where she would want to go if we could travel anywhere in the world and money was no object. She said Australia. Shit like this OP was my immediate thought. Needless to say, the divorce papers have been filed.

Spoiler

Not really, but seriously fuck that goddamn death island.

 

[Apoc29]

We are alive today because our pussy ancestors ran the fuck away from these things while their foolhardy companions stood their ground and got eaten alive.

 

[PandaShake]

someone grab a mattress and a lighter!

 

[Subpar Scrub]

When you live near brown snakes, tiger snakes, red belly black snakes and red back spiders the huntsman is harmless lol.

Edit: and that's just near where I live. Poor bastards near Sydney with the funnel Web :|

But yeah you actually rarely come across these things fortunately.

I live in Queensland and there's plenty of funnel webs up here lmao, I've never seen a huntsman this size but definitely ones close to it. I'd be more worried about redbacks though, because they're small and common as fuck.

Growing up on acreage meant removing snakes (amongst other wildlife) from the property almost monthly. Fuck spiders because they're dangerous and creepy, but double fuck snakes that aren't easy to deal with, which is basically anything that's not a green tree snake or python.

Its not the spiders that kills you, its the slow internet.

The gifs in this thread will load one day. One day.

 

[Hilbert]

Bitten by a fly? Wtf kind of flies do you have in your country?

Man I love living in the UK, scariest things we have are the lower classes, and they can be easily avoided or distracted with massive sofas and sportswear.

Those big horseflies will bite you. And I believe they are in the UK.