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Well... that could have gone better...

Important point: Digit's a girl!

And, Amanda is missing an opportunity here. Why buy mass-produced hair nets, when you could have a friend weave you a custom bespoke model?

Spider-silk hair nets seem a tad bit... overkill... Don't you think?

Also, to be honest, I don't know why I assumed Digit was a male. It's a big spider (females tend to be bigger in the arthropod world), and it's Wapsi friggin Square. Grrl Power doesn't even have a more female-dominated cast.

GlytchMeister wrote:Spider-silk hair nets seem a tad bit... overkill... Don't you think?

Also, to be honest, I don't know why I assumed Digit was a male. It's a big spider (females tend to be bigger in the arthropod world), and it's Wapsi friggin Square. Grrl Power doesn't even have a more female-dominated cast.

Didn't somebody postulate 'girl' based on pedapalp position?

Gyrrakavian wrote:

GlytchMeister wrote:Spider-silk hair nets seem a tad bit... overkill... Don't you think?

Also, to be honest, I don't know why I assumed Digit was a male. It's a big spider (females tend to be bigger in the arthropod world), and it's Wapsi friggin Square. Grrl Power doesn't even have a more female-dominated cast.

Didn't somebody postulate 'girl' based on pedapalp position?

*blink blink*

If they did, I bow down to their superior entomological abilities. And I bow down to Paul's amazing research just so he could draw the spider right.

Personally, unless I am willing to spend a month on a drawing, the best spider I can do is two circles and eight lines in roughly the right position to be kinda-spider-shaped.

Gimme a month, though, and I can probably make something pretty ok.

I, for one, would like to welcome our new insect overlords...

lake_wrangler wrote:I, for one, would like to welcome our new insect overlords...

*clamps mouth shut*
*steam begins to whistle out of ears*

Arachnid not insect.

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

GlytchMeister wrote:

lake_wrangler wrote:I, for one, would like to welcome our new insect overlords...

*clamps mouth shut*
*steam begins to whistle out of ears*

Arachnid not insect.

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

The spiders are not insects
But in a war they will side with the insects...

Dave wrote:Arachnophobes overestimate spider sizes, say researchers

The other half informs me that they do not overestimate the size of spiders. The one she found in the kitchen the other day for instance was at lest the size of a dinner plate, the one outside the door was even bigger. Yes when they try to describe arachnophobia they use her as a reference.

oldmanmickey wrote:

Dave wrote:Arachnophobes overestimate spider sizes, say researchers

The other half informs me that they do not overestimate the size of spiders. The one she found in the kitchen the other day for instance was at lest the size of a dinner plate, the one outside the door was even bigger. Yes when they try to describe arachnophobia they use her as a reference.

Well, the Authorities are very clear that it's not a good idea to buy your kids baby chicks, or baby bunnies, as Easter-time pets. They aren't so much fun when they grow up.

Building on that advice, I'd recommend that you not acquire any baby camel spiders.

Dave wrote:

oldmanmickey wrote:

Dave wrote:Arachnophobes overestimate spider sizes, say researchers

The other half informs me that they do not overestimate the size of spiders. The one she found in the kitchen the other day for instance was at lest the size of a dinner plate, the one outside the door was even bigger. Yes when they try to describe arachnophobia they use her as a reference.

Well, the Authorities are very clear that it's not a good idea to buy your kids baby chicks, or baby bunnies, as Easter-time pets. They aren't so much fun when they grow up.

Building on that advice, I'd recommend that you not acquire any baby camel spiders.

Which aren't true spiders . . .

--FreeFlier

Lee M wrote:

GlytchMeister wrote:

lake_wrangler wrote:I, for one, would like to welcome our new insect overlords...

*clamps mouth shut*
*steam begins to whistle out of ears*

Arachnid not insect.

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

The spiders are not insects
But in a war they will side with the insects...

There's another short story where they side with us against the insect. I can't seem to find which sci-fi anthology it's in right now.

I remember that they refer to themselves as "eaters".

oldmanmickey wrote:

Dave wrote:Arachnophobes overestimate spider sizes, say researchers

The other half informs me that they do not overestimate the size of spiders. The one she found in the kitchen the other day for instance was at lest the size of a dinner plate, the one outside the door was even bigger. Yes when they try to describe arachnophobia they use her as a reference.

I've got one the size of a silvr dollar wintering in my kitchenette. I don't bug her, she don't bug me.

Spiders and I don't get along... I've been places with some pretty fucked up species of NOPE. Banana spiders in Korea, Tarantulas in Arizona, Black Widows and Brown Recluse and Scorpions in Louisiana, Camel Spiders in Iraq and Kuwait... as long as they stay out of my space, they may live. In my space? NOPE becomes no more.

Gyrrakavian wrote:There's another short story where they side with us against the insect. I can't seem to find which sci-fi anthology it's in right now.

I remember that they refer to themselves as "eaters".

isn't that the one where Humanity was actually the "primitive" descendants of some super high tech spacer's that when they landed on Earth it was already inhabited by mega-huge colonies of ANTS, and both species got into a war that left them and us as in the state of affairs we are in now and that we created the spiders to take them out and that this one guy somehow could hear them communicating?

scantrontb wrote:

Gyrrakavian wrote:There's another short story where they side with us against the insect. I can't seem to find which sci-fi anthology it's in right now.

I remember that they refer to themselves as "eaters".

isn't that the one where Humanity was actually the "primitive" descendants of some super high tech spacer's that when they landed on Earth it was already inhabited by mega-huge colonies of ANTS, and both species got into a war that left them and us as in the state of affairs we are in now and that we created the spiders to take them out and that this one guy somehow could hear them communicating?

You sure you didn't see that on an episode of "Ancient Aliens"?

Aaaaand then there's THIS...