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Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
#21
RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
Humans are afraid of what they are ignorant of. I was afraid of spiders and sharks before I became educated. No offense intended. Read-up; spiders and sharks kick ass!

BTW: The Human species is more destructive than both of them combined Wink
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#22
RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
(September 5, 2014 at 7:20 pm)Tobie Wrote:
(September 5, 2014 at 7:19 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote: Ever seen the more grisly results from a Brown Recluse spider bite?!? People have lost limbs to those little fuckers. Not to mention spiders whose bite is or can be lethal. Add in the fact that they're small, creepy looking, 8-legged, can (and even like to) hide in small places and you're never more than 5 feet from one.

These are the reasons many people consider them scarier than sharks.

And you can't accidentally swallow sharks in your sleep. If you could, then I'd be scared of sharks


Yes, but sharks can accidentally swallow you in its sleep.

Should digesting something mildly disgusting scare you more than being digested by something toothy?

(September 5, 2014 at 7:43 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(September 5, 2014 at 7:23 pm)lifesagift Wrote: With the greatest respect that is rubbish... people are not scared of spiders because of the results from a brown recluse spider bite... people are scared of spiders because of their legs..

But lobsters have more legs than spiders, and fear of lobsters is pretty rare, I think.

Boru


If you take the rubber bands off of the pinchers of a big lobster, Then I bet what's left of your hand will come to fear lobster more than any spider.
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#23
RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
(September 5, 2014 at 7:45 pm)Chuck Wrote:
(September 5, 2014 at 7:20 pm)Tobie Wrote: And you can't accidentally swallow sharks in your sleep. If you could, then I'd be scared of sharks


Yes, but sharks can accidentally swallow you in its sleep.

Should digesting something mildly disgusting scare you more than being digested by something toothy?

It's more that sharks are significantly bigger than spiders. Apart from the brazilian wandering spider. That thing would send most people scarpering Tongue
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#24
RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
(September 5, 2014 at 7:45 pm)Chuck Wrote: Should digesting something mildly disgusting scare you more than being digested by something toothy?
Since I live hundreds of miles from the nearest free-ranging shark, no. Especially considering I live in one of the few places where I can have both Brown Recluse and Black Widows living in my fire wood pile.

(September 5, 2014 at 7:45 pm)Chuck Wrote: If you take the rubber bands off of the pinchers of a big lobster, Then I bet what's left of your hand will come to fear lobster more than any spider.
I'll take the lobster's pincers over Brown Recluse or Black Widow venom any day!
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#25
RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
(September 5, 2014 at 7:56 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote: I'll take the lobster's pincers over Brown Recluse or Black Widow venom any day!

I'll take any widow venom (Black, brown or red) over Brown Recluse venom. The neurological pain from widow venom is something that can be managed quickly, as long as you're a healthy adult.

But that necrotic shit the Brown Recluse releases into you, no thanks. I like my skin the way it is.
(Maybe that's my vanity speaking though...)
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#26
RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
Sharks I can avoid.

They are not hiding in every crack and crevice of my home and yard, like the ebil - ebil spiders are!

I do not have to worry that a shark will suddenly skitter across the floor, right in front of me, sending me straight to the ceiling. Confusedhock:

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#27
RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
(September 5, 2014 at 7:39 pm)ShaMan Wrote:
(September 5, 2014 at 7:22 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Besides, people seem to be instinctually afraid of poisonous things.
Such as other people? Thinking

I see what you did there.
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#28
RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
(September 5, 2014 at 8:00 pm)Keri Wrote:
(September 5, 2014 at 7:56 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote: I'll take the lobster's pincers over Brown Recluse or Black Widow venom any day!

I'll take any widow venom (Black, brown or red) over Brown Recluse venom. The neurological pain from widow venom is something that can be managed quickly, as long as you're a healthy adult.

But that necrotic shit the Brown Recluse releases into you, no thanks. I like my skin the way it is.
(Maybe that's my vanity speaking though...)


Except brown recluse spiders are really hard to provoke, have really short fangs, and you have to press one up against your skin to elicit a bite. Even then, majority of the bites have so little effect that they go unnoticed, and a small percentage cause serious problems.

Great white, on the other hand, need no provocation, have really long teeth, will hunt you down, and will usually bleed you out.
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#29
RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
Spiders are scarier than sharks because I don't have to regularly deal with sharks. They're off in the ocean doing sharky things, where as I'm sitting at home in my spare room absolutely sure that a spider is in my floor vent 10 feet away and I don't know if it's poisonous or not. And that's scary.

Plus I'm an arachnophobic. But I'm working on it, I swear! I've trapped, transported and released into the wild at least four big, black, super scary spiders I've found in my house since I moved in, something I was completely incapable of accomplishing a year ago.

Oh, and update on my spider-in-my-floor-register situation: I still haven't dealt with it. Undecided
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#30
RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
(September 5, 2014 at 6:51 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Spiders are NOT more scary than sharks. Spiders, if treated properly, are our friends. Sharks are utterly terrifying.

Boru

I am going to google it now, but I think spiders kill more people per year than sharks.
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