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RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
September 7, 2014 at 8:09 am
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RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
September 7, 2014 at 9:31 am
It depends where you are, which spider it is, and which shark.
I live in England I don't think we have any poisonous spiders that can live here in the wild, but I am mildly scared of one landing on me in my sleep if it's large enough. If I was in brazil or australia and I saw something that looked like it might be poisonous id be terrified.
I don't swim in the ocean but if I did and I saw a shark of the smaller variety I might not be scared if it was a huge shark I'd be fucking terrified.
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RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
September 7, 2014 at 9:47 am
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RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
September 7, 2014 at 11:33 am
My garage is filled with spiders in precisely the same way that it is empty of sharks.
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RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
September 7, 2014 at 11:40 am
(September 7, 2014 at 11:33 am)vorlon13 Wrote: My garage is filled with spiders in precisely the same way that it is empty of sharks.
A garage filled with spiders can't be too bad since you aren't dead.
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RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
September 7, 2014 at 12:32 pm
Spiders are just scary. I don't think anyone legitimately believes that every one is a terrifying killing machine. We just hate them, because they're gross and creepy. And they crawl around with their spider legs in that awful way that spiders do. And the look at you with their spidery eyes. And they have no respect for personal space. Believe me, if a shark crawled up my leg as I was about to step into the shower I would be terrified. Completely horrified. Somehow even more traumatized than I was when a spider did that.
It's like saying "why even cry if your finger gets cut off, when having half your body run over by a train is so much worse?"
Well because having your finger cut off still hurts, and spiders are still scary.
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RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
September 7, 2014 at 4:53 pm
What if spiders were as big as sharks, and sharks as big as spiders?
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RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
September 7, 2014 at 4:59 pm
I don't mind spiders - except funnelwebs, which are complete bastards.
I don't run from them, though, I jump on them until I know they're dead.
I don't like sharks, though. But humans eat more sharks than they eat us.
Snakes, however. Loathe snakes.
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RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
September 7, 2014 at 9:21 pm
(September 5, 2014 at 7:43 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: . . . fear of lobsters is pretty rare, I think.
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RE: Why are spiders more scary than sharks?
September 7, 2014 at 9:37 pm
I actually like spiders, and I'll feed them if I see their webs around. How could anyone hate something which eats the abominable fly? Madness I say. So sharks would win in the fear department, even though I haven't seen one in real life that wasn't in a tank.
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