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[–] nieceandtows 75 points 5 months ago

They don't scare you enough? Imagine them as Eldritch abominations.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago

While I know they're harmless that has not stopped from committing war crimes against one that found its way to my shower.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Limousine spider.

They also appear to be smart, aggressive, and territorial. I have been chased by several. And I have run away with great haste.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Well I guess sleep is optional tonight

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Odd, I've had several in my room in my last place, but they didn't seem territorial or aggressive to humans. Sometimes too close I'd worry I'd hurt it but other than that...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Limousine spider. Great! I'll never forget that anymore for life. Haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Steal it just like I did.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I would far rather the spiders in my house eat these things.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago

A house centipede is just 4 spiders in a trench coat.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Straight up I leave Wolf Spiders alive for this goal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think they can. Once a centipede is of decent size I think it's much stronger than the average house Spider. Australia notwithstanding.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can confirm that our house spiders are pretty tough. A car ran off the road and into the front wall of my house spider last year and it barely left a mark. We still live here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Im assuming the spider is your landlord.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I don't think house spider eat cockroaches. I would worship them if they could.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Why not both?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago

I doubt this will help my deep discomfort but it did make me happy :)

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I think these bois, much like “spider crickets”, get a lot of flack because their legs are TOO DAMN LONG! They’re cool dudes, but something about those weirdly long legs…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Hey, they are the fluffiest critters ever among those that ran over me. They don't even tickle, just a smooth touch.

Developes feelings for the house centipedes

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's their suddenness that freaks me out. I had been sitting on my couch for two hours the other night when one scuttled out from beneath my feet!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

this is why i respect web spinning spiders and jumping spiders (despite the name).

web spinners just spin their webs and sit there, they're in their lane and flourishing.

jumping spiders are smart enough to recognize that we are gods compared to them, and that we probably won't appreciate them making sudden fast movements.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

nope doesnt help, imma get my flame thrower nevertheless

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I was in college before I saw one. I grew up with giant 8" long centipedes, but this guy freaked me out more than I can say. Couldn't even tell it was a centipede. Might as well have been an alien.

Gag.

Freaky motherfookers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

it's the legs and speed that do it, normal centipedes are plenty freaky but the fact that the legs are stubbier makes them much more managable, they're more like seeing a wild rat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I didn't even know they existed until I had one in my apartment around 5 years ago. Now that I've bought a house I see them regularly in my basement.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

all they need to do is stop being so scary and we can be chillin

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'm not really scared of them, but I do have a visceral reaction to them. Something about them makes me want to vomit. Or, maybe it's a level of fear I don't recognize because I go from 0 to vomit and wanting to claw my eyes out real quick.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

it's wild because humans are supposed to have this sort of reaction programmed into us for snakes, but i'm absolutely fine with snakes and even find some of them quite cute!

but anything with long thin legs? incinerate it in nuclear hellfire

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I feel ya. When I find them in the garden, where one expects to find a multitude of bugs, it gives me the heebie jeebies soo bad. It's def the zillions of legs going mach 9 for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Texbook phobia.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Centipedes with legs? Believe it or not, straight to Dark Souls

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I caught one trying to be in my bathroom and decided to be "nice" by tossing it into my basement.

Down there the entire floor had been sprayed with insect repellent from signs of fleas and roaches, there has been signs of mice and lord knows what else down there too.

2 days later I found it dead having made it all the way to the staircase. Definitely one of the strongest showings in the Gauntlet but not strong enough.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

what the fuck are you gonna do the first time something makes it up the stairs? I hope you have a flamethrower ready.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

That's so mean :'(

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They are not 100% harmless than can and have bitten humans.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Side note, do not stomp AT them in bare feet (in an attempt to scare them off). They will attack your toes

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

While centipedes are fine, I've always been much more of a milipede fan.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

ngl, I think millipede is kinda cute. I'm thinking about building a terrarium tank and keep a few of them as pet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's weird how when they have even more legs somehow they become less creepy. I guess it's because they have to pack them in so tight and it starts to almost become cute.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You know, until you posted this comic I never really put it together that millipedes are generally not predators. I guess that also explains why I've always instinctively found them less scary than centipedes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yep, millipedes are chill and mostly munch on dead plant material. Centipedes, on the other hand, are carnivorous little demons straight from a nightmare.

Case in point

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I'll say it: milipedes are cute.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A few of these lithe fellows and Moria would still be the crowning jewel of the misty mountains

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

When you're a centipede, EVERY day is Leg Day!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I like them just the way they are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] derpgon 2 points 5 months ago

Look at the cute rollerblades!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Silverfish. They eat silverfish, and that is why I am on Team Silverware.

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