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# Yay!
My work here is done
(, Thu 1 Nov 2012, 15:19, archived)
# they really do make great pets
(, Thu 1 Nov 2012, 15:23, archived)
# A friend of my parents used to keep one and let me play with it when I was a kid.
Should it have been milked for venom to avoid being dangerous?
Seeing as they kept it in a lunch box and were smelly hippies I don't think they were doing that.
(, Thu 1 Nov 2012, 15:29, archived)
# if it was a mexican red-knee, then no
their fangs are too small for them to bite us, the only real danger they pose is from an allergic reaction to the hairs they shed on you to irritate you if they're frightened or angry.
(, Thu 1 Nov 2012, 15:35, archived)
# I thought they could bite, but no worse than a wasp or bee sting?
Our school used to have one. We were warned against rubbing our eyes after touching it because of the irritant hairs.
(, Thu 1 Nov 2012, 15:38, archived)
# not from what i've been told and read
(, Thu 1 Nov 2012, 15:46, archived)
# Ah that's ok then.
Tru-fax i've been bitten by a spider on the tube and didn't get super-powers.
I felt slightly cheated.
(, Thu 1 Nov 2012, 15:45, archived)
# as would i
(, Thu 1 Nov 2012, 15:47, archived)
# Bitten on the tube?
ooh nasty
(, Thu 1 Nov 2012, 16:08, archived)
# fnar!
(, Thu 1 Nov 2012, 16:23, archived)
# Yay
(, Thu 1 Nov 2012, 17:47, archived)
# Life must be hard for a spider on the Underground.
How do you avoid everyone's gaze when you have 8 eyes all pointing in slightly different directions? Must be a geometric nightmare.
(, Thu 1 Nov 2012, 16:12, archived)
# He was one of them foreign types that haven't learnt the social etiquette needed to avoid being stabbed on public transport.
(, Thu 1 Nov 2012, 16:59, archived)