[Dazzler]

About three

[John B]

You guys in the UK would definitely not like our spiders in Australia then.


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[andsome]

My wife was the same as you with arachnophobia - until we went to visit - I think it was Longleat - where there was a small section aimed at kids to handle cuddly animals.

There was a tarantula spider - not quite as big as your hand - which you could have put on your hand or arm. I managed to persuade Libby to have a go which took some doing (and bribing) but she relented. She shut her eyes and they put the spider on her hand which proceeded to walk over to her wrist. She sat there rigid, opened one eye, then the other, shuddered a bit, but then went calm. After what seemed like 5 minutes she was holding her hand up to her face to get a better look at it. She then asked me to take a photo on her phone so she could sent it to friends and family who all knew about her phobia.

Since that day she can pick up a spider without a problem. 

Man up and try it.

I think I could manage that one.  It is the way the big house spiders run across the floor at about 50 miles an hour that bothers me.

Here are the photos

[CraigB]

My wife was the same as you with arachnophobia - until we went to visit - I think it was Longleat - where there was a small section aimed at kids to handle cuddly animals.

There was a tarantula spider - not quite as big as your hand - which you could have put on your hand or arm. I managed to persuade Libby to have a go which took some doing (and bribing) but she relented. She shut her eyes and they put the spider on her hand which proceeded to walk over to her wrist. She sat there rigid, opened one eye, then the other, shuddered a bit, but then went calm. After what seemed like 5 minutes she was holding her hand up to her face to get a better look at it. She then asked me to take a photo on her phone so she could sent it to friends and family who all knew about her phobia.

Since that day she can pick up a spider without a problem. 

Man up and try it.

Here are the photos

Cool I like creepy crawlies 

I had a good play with some snakes in Vietnam, it's only a small Python so not poisonous like some of the Vipers they had there or many of the snakes around where I live.

[andsome]

I have handled two snakes no found them to feel very pleasant and silky.

[AlanHo]

Serves you right for shaking hands with lawyers.   

[The Gonz]

 
Today on the radio someone said 'mischeevious'
Add to that:
'nucular'
'ahks'
'brushetta'
'upmost'
'hypurrbolee'
'cashay'
'sherbert'
'artic'
'febyooary'
'chooseday'
'whensday'
'barbituate'
'haitch'
'here comes the calvary'
'card shark'
'chomp at the bit'
'expresso'
'cappuchino'
'fillum'
'for all intensive purposes'
'irregardless'
'lawr and order'
'libary'
'masonary'
'minichur'
'nuptual'
'off-ten'
'ordinance'
'orientate'
'perculate'
'perogative'
'pronounciation'
'snuck'
'tenderhooks'
'verbage'
'zuology'
'could/should/must of'

[Shambles]

Could you be a bit more pacific?

[AlanHo]

Excessive verbage if you ask me. For all intensive purposes it should of been made more minichur.   

I'm with the last one though - I hate the word "of" being used instead of have.

[eye30]

You missed  the mandatory        err         at the end of each.....

[nzenigma]

Yeh no but Gonz got mostly all of it.

[andsome]

Today on the radio someone said 'mischeevious'
Add to that:
'nucular'
'ahks'
'brushetta'
'upmost'
'hypurrbolee'
'cashay'
'sherbert'
'artic'
'febyooary'
'chooseday'
'whensday'
'barbituate'
'haitch'
'here comes the calvary'
'card shark'
'chomp at the bit'
'expresso'
'cappuchino'
'fillum'
'for all intensive purposes'
'irregardless'
'lawr and order'
'libary'
'masonary'
'minichur'
'nuptual'
'off-ten'
'ordinance'
'orientate'
'perculate'
'perogative'
'pronounciation'
'snuck'
'tenderhooks'
'verbage'
'zuology'
'could/should/must of'

Bloody hell.

[andsome]

I hate a warm bedroom.  I much prefer a warm bed with a cool room.

[AlanHo]

I have switched my electric blanket onto auto now that the cold weather has arrived.

I too prefer a cold bedroom and we have a window open, if only on the first notch, all the time

[Dazzler]

I have switched my electric blanket onto auto now that the cold weather has arrived.

I too prefer a cold bedroom and we have a window open, if only on the first notch, all the time

You have an electric blanket with an auto setting? Gee you must be rich!!!  I didn't know there was such a thing!

I thought ours were fancy 9 temperature settings and a 4 way timer.

[andsome]

I have started to use mine just long enough to take the chill off the bed,but for the last two nights it has been on all night on number one setting.

[eye30]

It's not that cold yet up north......

[andsome]

I hate the way boxers stand and stare at each other at a weigh in. It is childish,how can anyone be impressed by such childishness?

[AlanHo]

I never watch boxing - it's a stupid and dangerous activity that I don't regard as sport.

If they were allowed to fight to the death - that would be another matter - because it would serve the useful purpose of culling some violence from the gene pool.

[andsome]

I never watch boxing - it's a stupid and dangerous activity that I don't regard as sport.

If they were allowed to fight to the death - that would be another matter - because it would serve the useful purpose of culling some violence from the gene pool.

 

[CraigB]

I hate the way boxers stand and stare at each other at a weigh in. It is childish,how can anyone be impressed by such childishness?

It's all part of the psych out theatrics, for 30 million just to step in the ring I'd go with it

[eye30]

I never watch boxing - it's a stupid and dangerous activity that I don't regard as sport.

If they were allowed to fight to the death - that would be another matter - because it would serve the useful purpose of culling some violence from the gene pool.

Cage fighting is barbaric.

Should be made illegal

[AlanHo]

Why is it barbaric - may one volunteering idiot kill the other, to rid the world of another violent idiot

It fits with Darwin's Theory.

[CraigB]

I don't see why they are violent idiots, they've obviously loved martial arts or boxing  their whole lives and have the capability to make money from it, good on them I reckon 👍

[Lakes]

only thing I hate is North Korean hair styles!!
I'm alway's seeing crazy Kim's hair style.

but I'll tell you what I liked, that was turning on the tv and the pensioners singing " when your smiling" . loved that!!

[andsome]

only thing I hate is North Korean hair styles!!
I'm alway's seeing crazy Kim's hair style.

but I'll tell you what I liked, that was turning on the tv and the pensioners singing " when your smiling" . loved that!!

I hate his mother for giving birth to him.

[The Gonz]

[eye30]

Refering to football players who score 3 goals but not consecutively, they have scored a hat trick.

[andsome]

I Hate Jeremy Corbyn.

[nzenigma]

I Hate Jeremy Corbyn.

but I liked...singing " when your smiling" . loved that!!

If this is the dementia ward, I think I hated it.