Going to Sydney, home of the funnel-web spider.

[Antarctic Termite]

Leaving for the airport early tomorrow morning. Probably not going to post anything here for a week. My prediction is that you won't miss me at all.

Adieu.

[guster746]

You'll be in my heart.

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"I just shortened your lifespan by whatever amount of time you took to open all these."

Nevermind you're an ass.




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[Sherlock Holmes]

Going to Australia, yes.

Dealing with that spider, no. So much no.

[Antarctic Termite]

You'll be in my heart.

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Nevermind you're an ass.

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I should sig this.

Going to Australia, yes.

Dealing with that spider, no. So much no.

I already live in Australia :P And have spiders that I'm sure are big enough to eat birds in my backyard. I'm just going interstate.

And I'm actually looking forward to the spider

[IMG]Ewww...[/IMG]

Early symptoms of systemic envenomation include goose bumps, sweating, tingling around the mouth and tongue, twitching (initially facial and intercostal), salivation, watery eyes, elevated heart rate and elevated blood pressure. As systemic envenomation progresses symptoms include nausea, vomiting, shortness of breath (caused by airway obstruction), agitation, confusion, writhing, grimacing, muscle spasms, pulmonary oedema (of neurogenic or hypertensive origin), metabolic acidosis and extreme hypertension. The final stages of severe envenomation include dilation of the pupils (often fixed), uncontrolled generalised muscle twitching, unconsciousness, elevated intracranial pressure and death. When death occurs it is generally as a result of progressive hypotension or possibly elevated intracranial pressure consequent on cerebral oedema.

The onset of severe envenomation can be rapid. In one prospective study, the median time to onset of envenomation was 28 minutes, with only two cases having onset after 2 hours (both had pressure immobilisation bandages applied). Death may occur within a period ranging from 15 minutes (this occurred when a small child was bitten) to three days.

And fun fact, it's actually only terribly deadly to primates, of which there are none except humans in Australia. So nature designed these to be perfectly innocent and normal spiders, except to us. Which may be taken as proof that God has a sadistic sense of humour.

[aMARIKanIshtar]

Leaving for the airport early tomorrow morning. Probably not going to post anything here for a week. My prediction is that you won't miss me at all.

Adieu.

Fuck this thread. I know there are spider pictures in here, I've seen the edges! I'm not scrolling down to look at them damn it.

I'm too much of a pussy to live in Australia. If I see an insect the size of a quarter I flip the fuck out. Are all of you Australians just so badass that you can stare in all those beady eyes of death and not break a sweat?

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Fuck this thread. I know there are spider pictures in here, I've seen the edges! I'm not scrolling down to look at them damn it.

I'm too much of a pussy to live in Australia. If I see an insect the size of a quarter I flip the fuck out. Are all of you Australians just so badass that you can stare in all those beady eyes of death and not break a sweat?

Now I have to scroll back up...

[Antarctic Termite]

Fuck this thread. I know there are spider pictures in here, I've seen the edges! I'm not scrolling down to look at them damn it.

I'm too much of a pussy to live in Australia. If I see an insect the size of a quarter I flip the fuck out. Are all of you Australians just so badass that you can stare in all those beady eyes of death and not break a sweat?

Off the top of my memory, I've had in my garden...

-Swarms of bees (multiple, every summer)
-Large webs of nocturnal garden spiders, made after sunset and gone by morning (nightly)
-Slugs four to five inches long
-Orb-weaver spider webs I reckon are big and strong enough to catch birds (multiple every summer, they eat the swarms of bees)
-Huge cockroaches (invasive species from America, I blame you guys)

And I live in a really tame part of Australia. So yes.

[Christiefries]

You'll be in my heart.

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Nevermind you're an ass.




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I had no idea what you were talking about.

Then I did.

LOL

[AwsonRew]

Termite's biggest thread ever... is about him going away.

Kidding~

You're alright.

[TP]

Oh, you're going to the place where everything dangerous lives. Have fun dying.

[Rilla]

Everything dangerous?

I know the NCBS lived there. ;D