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The NOPE Thread *Not for the Squeamish*

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    #1772
    Toots
    Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,920 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    ^^
    An aerosol and a lighter is needed there!


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    #1773
    Paigne
    Registered Users Posts: 101 ✭✭Paigne


    Anyone know what kind of spider that is?


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    #1774
    Major Lovechild
    Registered Users Posts: 492 ✭✭Major Lovechild


    Nuke it from space - It's the only way to sure.

    Wo ist die Gemütlichkeit?



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    #1775
    FatherLen
    Registered Users Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    Paigne wrote: »
    Anyone know what kind of spider that is?


    the kind that come from hell.


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    #1776
    dan1895
    Registered Users Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    Paigne wrote: »
    Anyone know what kind of spider that is?

    One that is surprisingly common in S.E Asia and Queensland although I believe they are relatively harmless. Can't remember whet they are called.


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    #1777
    weiland79
    Registered Users Posts: 3,307 ✭✭✭weiland79


    dan1895 wrote: »
    One that is surprisingly common in S.E Asia and Queensland although I believe they are relatively harmless. Can't remember whet they are called.

    Please tell me that is not real! I would actually crouch in the corner suck my thumb sh!t my pants and cry like a baby if that came within 4 miles of me.

    Edit: actually even just looking at the pic is freaking me out. It's like one of the bugs from starship troopers.


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    #1778
    dan1895
    Registered Users Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    weiland79 wrote: »
    Please tell me that is not real! I would actually crouch in the corner suck my thumb sh!t my pants and cry like a baby if that came within 4 miles of me.

    Edit: actually even just looking at the pic is freaking me out. It's like one of the bugs from starship troopers.

    I must have saw hundreds of them when I was there but very few that were as big as that chap.


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    #1779
    krudler
    Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    snake/spider demonic entanglement:

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    #1780
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users Posts: 9,190 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    dan1895 wrote: »
    One that is surprisingly common in S.E Asia and Queensland although I believe they are relatively harmless. Can't remember whet they are called.
    I think it's the Golden silk orb-weaver.

    Nephila_maculata_Lamma_Island.jpg

    There's a video of it taking on another snake on Australian Geographic. Arachnophobes be warned, the guy videoing it puts his hand close to them for scale.
    Females are often up to 4cm in length whereas as the comparatively small male is usually only 5-6mm in length. The leg span of a female can be up to 15cm wide.
    Not that big really, only half a ruler :p


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    #1781
    Paigne
    Registered Users Posts: 101 ✭✭Paigne


    dan1895 wrote: »
    One that is surprisingly common in S.E Asia and Queensland although I believe they are relatively harmless. Can't remember whet they are called.

    Yeah I was wondering because I seen one in the mountains in Bali while I was there a few weeks ago. Took this pic didn't know wtf it was. They're in Qld? **** I'm moving there from WA on Sat.... shouldn't have asked.....

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    #1782
    Daemos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭Daemos


    RobertFoster wrote: »
    I think it's the Golden silk orb-weaver
    Lol, who in their right mind would give such a nice name to such an abomination of a creature? :pac:

    If I saw one of those things in real life you wouldn't see me hanging around for long


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    #1783
    flutterflye
    Registered Users Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    Am I the only one who thinks that spider is beautiful?!
    Wouldn't be able to sleep knowing it was in my room though!


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    #1784
    PirateShampoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    Daemos wrote: »
    Lol, who in their right mind would give such a nice name to such an abomination of a creature? :pac:

    If I saw one of those things in real life you wouldn't see me hanging around for long

    Its because their web is golden, i came across a good few of these in Oz, their web is fracking massive, i mean the size of your house massive. It was a great barrel of laughs walking into one and freaking the f out.


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    #1785
    Daemos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭Daemos


    PirateShampoo wrote: »
    Its because their web is golden, i came across a good few of these in Oz, their web is fracking massive, i mean the size of your house massive. It was a great barrel of laughs walking into one and freaking the f out.
    Oh great, another thing to have nightmares about. Cheers for that :D


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    #1786
    RandolphEsq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,296 ✭✭✭RandolphEsq


    Took a dump and had a shower in my bathroom last night before I realised there was a spider the size of my hand (not a daddy-long legs, a spider :()on the wall, at head height, the entire time. Needless to say I burnt the house down today just to be sure it was gone.


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    #1787
    kmart6
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    #1788
    kleefarr
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    Should have just pulled that out and applied a bit of antiseptic cream. :)


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    #1789
    LizT
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    Who does something like that and immediately thinks "I must take a picture!"?


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    #1790
    Guill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,331 ✭✭✭Guill


    I would take a picture if i could.


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    #1791
    FatherLen
    Registered Users Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    LizT wrote: »
    Who does something like that and immediately thinks "I must take a picture!"?


    no where near as nope as the tweezers in the forehead but this is me.
    I ran down the stairs and cracked the top of my head off the bit of ceiling that comes down. I wasn't sure if I even hit my head until blood started trickling down my face.

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    #1792
    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Satisfying!
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    #1793
    Borderfox
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    For me this is the best Matador goring to date,

    Bullfighter-gored-_1641812e.jpg


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    #1794
    sparkthatbled
    Registered Users Posts: 629 ✭✭✭sparkthatbled


    I was trying on an old shirt the other day, seeing if it still fit ok. It did but as i took it off a spider crawled out that was clearly hiding in there the whole time. Not a huge spider but big for a house spider. I still feel really grossed out about it 3 days later and it makes me shudder to think about it.


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    #1795
    Mike Litoris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,185 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris


    RandolphEsq wrote: »
    Took a dump and had a shower in my bathroom last night before I realised there was a spider the size of my hand (not a daddy-long legs, a spider :()on the wall, at head height, the entire time. Needless to say I burnt the house down today just to be sure it was gone.

    I fell asleep on the sofa one night. There was a mantle piece which the phone sat on right at my sleeping head height. I always used to fall asleep there and wake up all cold in the early hours and then shamble up to bed. This night I awoke to the sound of a very faint tapping sound coming from the mantle piece. I froze solid as I thought it was a mouse or a rat. After about a minute I got up the courage to turn my head to see what it was. It was a f**king huge spider. It was that big I could hear it as it feckin walked! I deaded it with a towel after I calmed down.


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    #1796
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    ^^^
    Try driving a motorbike at 70mph on the motorway and have a large spider suddenly crawl down on the inside of the helmet visor.

    Spiders are evil bastards.


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    #1797
    Armadillo
    Registered Users Posts: 601 ✭✭✭Armadillo


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    Satisfying!
    83258235.gif

    And that's, kids, where pot noodles come from....


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    #1798
    Junco Partner
    Registered Users Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭Junco Partner


    Foot-Binding.jpg


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    #1799
    CardBordWindow
    Registered Users Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭CardBordWindow


    Some people grow a little too fond of their communion shoes!


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    #1800
    Yakuza
    Registered Users Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    It's foot-binding, an old tradition for women in China. Apparently, having small feet makes girls more attractive. One of the more savage old traditions that has more or less died out (and is banned).


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    #1801
    Guill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,331 ✭✭✭Guill


    Seemingly one of the Emperors had a dancer who had tiny feet which he loved so women used to start tying their kids feet up when they were babies until the ended up with feet like that. Horrible thing, broken bones and constant agony. Some still practice it today but as said above it is illegal. Watched a doc about it once. Women telling stories of their grandparents tightening the binds and hearing their own bone break. Boggles the mind.


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