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[–] Ibaudia 68 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Don't worry, they're only 5-9 mm big and are generally chill

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

That's about 5-9 mm too much.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Mangos for scale

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When you encounter things like this, God has abandoned you.

Fire hasn't, though. Fire has no fickle loyalties. All can burn.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

Praise Prometheus!

[–] gofsckyourself 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] gofsckyourself 34 points 1 month ago

And here's more pixels of the joke, if that's your thing

[–] ekZepp 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hundrends of documented parasites who can literally eat us from the inside, but no ...spiders are the fucking problem.

[–] TheLowestStone 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think spiders are cool. I also have a completely irrational fear of them. I don't understand it, I don't have any clue where it came from, but spiders cause me to feel fear in a way unlike anything else in this world. I took it completely in stride when a doctor told me I "might not be ok" while looking at my xrays after a car accident in if I see a spider crawling across the bathroom floor while I'm pooping I'll break out in cold sweats. I like to think that I'm a pretty rational person so this drives me crazy.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago
[–] psycho_driver 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

At least one person will come away from reading this post with a new sexual fetish.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it's me hello i want to pretend to be a stick

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

wraps around stick

[–] HappycamperNZ 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No fetish, but I wanna pat it.

Do you think it likes chin scratches? Does it have a chin? Can I stack them for convenience?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A 2 second Google search of "so spiders have chins?" has revealed that sadly they do not

[–] idiomaddict 9 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately, we’re the only ones with true chins, but I still scratch my cat’s undermouth area and call it a chin.

[–] Prox 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Australia

Should've guessed

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I really hope these things live in a different hemisphere than I do

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't worry, it lives in Australia (because of course it would)

[–] Buddahriffic 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh is that why some trees hurt so much?

Or just another reason why a tree might hurt so much?

Are they even trees or just more spiders?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It's spiders all the way down

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Poisonous trees. And trees that want to eat you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Funnily enough, the most "fuck you" tree is actually from America:

Standing beneath the tree during rain will cause blistering of the skin from mere contact with this liquid: even a small drop of rain with the sap in it will cause the skin to blister. Burning the tree may cause ocular injuries if the smoke reaches the eyes.

Although the fruit is potentially fatal if eaten, no such occurrences have been reported in the modern literature. Ingestion can produce severe gastroenteritis with bleeding, shock, and bacterial superinfection, as well as the potential for airway compromise due to edema.

[–] FlashZordon 17 points 1 month ago

Reach Around Spider was rejected as a possible name.

[–] iAvicenna 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This spider has found one trick that makes humans very angry

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Clickbait spider! Enragement tracking functions, activate!

[–] HowManyNimons 13 points 1 month ago

Unacceptable.

[–] JackFrostNCola 8 points 1 month ago

Oh cool, like a slap-braclet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Imagine you're climbing a tree and you get to the top and grab this mfer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Hopefully at that point it continues its charade as a stick! :-P

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

God never picks up, call Samus Aran!

[–] AgentGrimstone 5 points 1 month ago

This shit needs to stay in movies

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This shit is the consequence of sin yo.

[–] Bobmighty 5 points 1 month ago

Amazing powers of camouflage and body manipulation are the consequences of sin? I best get sinning like a mother fucker then!

[–] brucethemoose 4 points 1 month ago

I'm so glad I'm not a tiny bug.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Nature’s Rizla.

[–] werefreeatlast 3 points 1 month ago

Is it ribbed for her pleasure?

[–] TheLowestStone 2 points 1 month ago

BRB, burning down every tree within 50 miles.

[–] DragonsInARoom 2 points 1 month ago

Satan has worked his magic during creation when god had his back turned, and now we suffer from it

[–] Plagiatus 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are we gonna talk about the "tree limbs"?

[–] Hobbes_Dent 1 points 1 month ago

What about it? Except the surprise sentient bark of course.