I can tolerate the presence of most other spiders, so long as they don’t crawl on me or pose a danger to my dog. Tarantulas, though, I root for their extinction in my lifetime.
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Came across this little guy a year ago or so in a ghost town up in the mountains. (Near Jerome, AZ). Almost stepped on him too!
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Next, do me a favor and step on that fuck!
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I was staying in a shack in a rainforest country once, exhausted from the day, and as I was going to bed I could hear something walking. I look over and you guessed it, there’s a tarantula on the floor. I was so tired I couldn’t deal with it, so I went and grabbed a coffee mug (one of those thick ones that look like you made it in a pottery class) and covered the spider with it. That way I know where it is and can deal with it in the morning.
The next morning the mug was on its side.
This sounds like you have other miscellaneous creatures roaming the grounds 
Safe to say you won’t be travelling to Australia any time soon 
If it helps, they’re not venomous to humans (unless you’re allergic) and biting is their last resort. Normally they’ll rear up and ‘hiss’ - which is probably the most terrifying thing an anthropod can do - followed by trying to slap you with those long front legs they have. If you’re like me, that would usually do the trick to get you away from it/out the building/burning down the building. If you’re in the Americas, they may also turn their booty on you flick ‘hairs’ at you, which feel like stinging nettles (you may call them something else regionally). Only then, if there is no other place to run, will they do a sudden spin around and bite you. And even then it’s usually a dry bite, like a ‘get the Hell away from me’.
However, they do however look like a hairy hand crawling around and are large enough to jumpscare
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That would be my likely first reaction upon encountering one…
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I have to say it is weird to see how Yanks carry on about tarantulas which can barely do anything than skin irritation to 90 percent of all victims.
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Also I have been here so infrequently the past few months I forgot I was a Herald. Sorry, I was on a secret corporate espionage gig and by “secret corporate espionage gig” I mean my old job which became my old a week ago, tomorrow I have an digital seminar my employment provider wants me to attend. Not sure how to feel about it but an hour long information session isn’t the worst thing in the world and the job is work-from-home.
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It’s not about any danger they may pose, it’s how they look.
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Fair enough, I have had to make my parents remove a few huntsmans in my time because spiders just creep me out. I used to ask for them to be killed when I was younger but I am older now and I would probably try to have one removed or at least kept well away from my room now.
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Can’t believe Heisenberg is racist towards spiders. Wow
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They’re bringing in venom, they’re bringing in egg sacks! And some of them, I assume are good anthropods 
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Man shipping/mailing a package and figuring out how many stamps to use or how to get it all sorted is a confusing weird process.
How do people do this? 
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The postal service will tell you…
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Phobic, not racist. And only tarantulas.
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Some of us take the item to the post office or to FedEx or DHL and they do it for you. They will even pack it for you if you buy their cardboard box.
BC yes! It’s annoying. How do I know what it weights? Now I gotta go find my scale. Weigh myself with and without the box. Do math 
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My partner was doing this just the other day.
Science!
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“No, Space Jam was not based on a true story.”
^^ seeing this online has made me lose any shred of faith I had left in humanity.
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With the hype surrounding 007, it had me thinking of my first introduction to the character – in Spy Fox by Humongous Entertainment.
It was my favourite series of the HE games I owned. I should revisit it sometime. I still have the original game discs for the series (no idea where the heck I/my parents got them, but I’m so glad they did.)
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