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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
Location: Metro area, Georgia
Posts: 7287
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| Blackout wrote: |
| Wasn't there a story of a dude with some kind of bug living in his belly button years back? I want to say it was a spider too, and that he fed it, but I can't remember. |
This sounds more like a comedy. |
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
Joined: Feb 01 2006
Location: Phyrexia
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One more time; Spiders, active, predatory hunters with no reason to live inside an animal they can't derive sustenance from nor that attracts prey to them WILL NOT LIVE ON SAID ANIMAL. EVER. FOR ANY REASON. Any story you hear about someone having a spider living in any cavity or orifice and it wasn't DEAD, is fake! Any story about spiders hatching out of a woman's hairdo, fake! Know what else? Black Widow bites are rarely fatal! You just THINK they are because that's what you've been told.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
Posts: 16135
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every party has a pooper....
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| I'll eat a turkey sandwich while blowing my load |
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24887
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| Black Zarak wrote: |
| Know what else? Black Widow bites are rarely fatal! |
In cases where medical attention was sought and administered properly.
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@om*d
Title: Dorakyura
Joined: Jul 10 2010
Location: Castlevania
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| Black Zarak wrote: |
| Know what else? Black Widow bites are rarely fatal! |
In cases where medical attention was sought and administered properly. |
I was bitten by a black widow when I was 16, and I never sought any medical attention. I was quite ill for about a week and one day I coughed up a small amount of blood, but then I started to get better the next day.
You really only have to worry about them if you are very young or old, or if you have a weak immune system.
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
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Not only are they rarely fatal to a normal adult, they don't always even need to be treated with anti-venin. Those are usually just for severe reactions. They can usually be treated like other poisonous spider bites that causes cramping and pain, with calcium and pain relievers via IV. There are a high amount of adults that are especially allergic to the venom, but still doesn't mean they are the most dangerous spider around.
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Drew Linky
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Joined: Jun 12 2009
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| There are a high amount of adults that are especially allergic to the venom, but still doesn't mean they are the most dangerous spider around. |
Yeah, I was brought up under the assumption that the title of Most Dangerous Spider belongs to the brown recluse.
At least, it does in the US. I'm sure Australia's got some fucking weird ass spider that trumps the others.
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
Joined: Feb 01 2006
Location: Phyrexia
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Australia does have that disproportionate amount of venomous, dangerous and otherwise deadly, deadly animals...
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Teralyx
Title: Master Exploder
Joined: Jun 04 2008
Location: Goldenrod City
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No, but they have funnel-web spiders, which /are/ super fucking deadly.
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Methid Man
Title: Spawn of Billy Mays
Joined: Nov 23 2010
Location: Hackensack, NJ
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Actually, even Sydney funnel-web spiders aren't that deadly so long as you get medical attention. No one has died from a funnel-web spider bite ever since they developed an anti-venom in 1981.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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Brazilian Wandering Spider for the win. And since large amounts of fruit are imported from South American, you be killed by it at your local supermarket at any given moment. Sleep tight!
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@om*d
Title: Dorakyura
Joined: Jul 10 2010
Location: Castlevania
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This thread makes me smile.
Sehk, send me a wandering spider, please!
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