Gigantic Spider

What IS THAT????

from JoeUser Forums

*note* I know that this is not "Internet" related, but I wanted it to cross post with WC....that, and I'm too lazy to post on both sites.

I've been at Stardock for a billion years.  With that, I have been able to score a windowed office.  This particular office overlooks the pond at the back of the building.

I have seen some weird things out there, like groundhogs climbing trees, birds that look like aliens (see: https://forums.joeuser.com/156307) and stuff like that. 

So, the other day, I was wandering out of my office to go get coffee (which is across the hall- the coffee maker deserves its own article because it's just too cool) and saw this out of the corner of my eye:

My brain thought: Damn, that is one freakin' huge spider!.  Then my brain thought: WHAT THE HELL IS THAT???!!!!

I stood staring at it in horror until it moved.  Here's a link to a closer look:

http://files.joeuser.com/angie/whatISit.jpg

ducks
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I was there, it really was a "holy crap" moment. Then the cute little head poked up and all was well in the universe again.

Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
:LOL:

Had me going for a minute there.
Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
duckies.....spider food :)
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
 :LOL: 
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I should have known,fowl play was involved :LOL:
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Awwww!

I suspected radioactive bees at first.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You had me too! :SURPRISED: Lol
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I should have known,fowl play was involved

har har

I suspected radioactive bees at first.

Now, THAT would be cool!

You had me too!

Kinda' freaky, isn't it?  I guess you can't always believe what you think you see!

Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Don't be fooled! Yog-Sothoth wants you to think it is just a harmless duckling huddle! Yog-Sothoth lulls you into a false sense of security! Then Yog-Sothoth takes over your world!

Yog-Sothoth is amongst us! Run! Run!!! RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top

Looks like lunch to me!

Either way you look at it:  EWWWWWWWW

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
tricky little feathered suckers :LOL:
Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top

wow...I saw the spider illusion too.  The close up cracked me up.  From venom dripping death to cute lil fuzzly wuzzlings.  Good stuff.

Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top

I was completely grossed out a spider could be that big....and thinking I wouldn't want to come out to my car and see it waiting for me in the parking lot, ready to rumble.

Then when I saw what it really is, I sighed in relief and got a little warm fuzzy.

Two different reactions to the same thing....makes me wonder if the Lochness monster was really just a stick in the water.

Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top

makes me wonder if the Lochness monster was really just a stick in the water.

Or if what people think is just a stick in the water is really Loch Ness ;)

Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top

Don't forget that we still have Nessy. She is our turtle the size of a spare tire.


So very very not kidding.

Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
Spiders of a feather???? ;)

It does look like one though. Big sucker!
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hmmm, we get some pretty big spiders here in Queensland Australia... was thinking for a while there I might have to get the one we have out in the shed to come eat yours... so's Stardockers with important jobs (coding/support/dev, etc) wouldn't turn around in the car park and go right home again. Now we couldn't have that, now could we!!!

Fortunately it turned out to be a bunch of quackers... cos honestly, I'd have had a hard time explaining to immigration (both ends) why an excess luggage toting huntsman needed a passport/visa. ;p

*** will see if I can snap a piccy of it (hopefully it's still there), cos fairdinkum, legs n' all it'd easily be the size of a sandwich plate. :SURPRISED: ***
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Haw! The Impersonating Duckling Troupe strikes again. :LOL:

@starkers:
Yeah, them huntsmen can get pretty big.
Had a friend grab a huge one and stick it in his cap to scare his girlfriend and her friend. Gutsy fool that one.
He coaxed into his hat, put it on his head, then went inside to where the girls were sitting and made small-talk for a while, then took his hat off.
You can just imagine what happened then... :P

Suffice it to say the girls weren't pleased and needed a change of pants. :LOL:

I personally like the ones with big long orange legs and huge bulbous butts that would really mess up your shoes if you stepped on 'em. They're scary looking. :p
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The Impersonating Duckling Troupe strikes again.

They had this idea that impersonating a spider would make them safer from predatory birds....

 

OK....so we've all heard the phrase 'bird-brained' ...;)

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
wow that really looks like a spider from a distance. shocked to see what it really is! whoah!
Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top
Being arachnophobic, I have no idea why I chose to read the article, but you had me there for a minute. The hyperventilation began, and when I clicked on the enlargement, my poor little mind took a minute to see the ducks; it still was in "oh-no-spiders-freak-out" mode.

Nice one, KarmaGirl.

That's...awesomely scary.
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top


hehehe good one KarmaGirl, I would have sworn it was a tarantula!!! :LOL:
Reply #23 from Stardock Forums Top

That was great!  It took me a while to sort out the close up.  At first I was thinking that was a pretty soft and  fuzzy spider.  Kinda cuddly in a not get too close to me kinda way.

Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I personally like the ones with big long orange legs and huge bulbous butts that would really mess up your shoes if you stepped on 'em.


Hehe, no stepping on this one out in the shed (tho I haven't seen it today)... well put it this way, it's big a enough beast to throw a saddle over, tho it'd have a four leg advantage in *say* the Melbourne Cup. ;)

Me! Well the huntsman spider doesn't bother/worry/frighten me, but the whitetail is a whole different story, being that anti-venom does nothing for the subsequent flesh eating after being bitten. Been there and it took well over 18 months before the wound even began to heal... and I still have issues with it still breaking out almost 20 years later... NASTY!

Read on Yahoo 7 yesterday that more people in Oz are hospitalised by spider bites than through snake, croc and/or shark bites, so they're nasty critter orright.
Reply #25 from JoeUser Forums Top

 

hehehe good one KarmaGirl, I would have sworn it was a tarantula!!!

Yeah, that was what my brain associated it with.  Your brain is funny that way- if you don't know what it is, your brain decides on what it is based on previous experiences.  If there is ever a tarantula that big in Michigan- I'm moving!

Me! Well the huntsman spider doesn't bother/worry/frighten me, but the whitetail is a whole different story, being that anti-venom does nothing for the subsequent flesh eating after being bitten. Been there and it took well over 18 months before the wound even began to heal... and I still have issues with it still breaking out almost 20 years later... NASTY!

I'm never going to visit you....ever.