Overcoming Fear

[Raven]

I don't like those spiders esp the big black basts that come scuttling out at night wearing hob nailed boots but yesterday I actually held a Tarantula and it was very very cool, could not believe how light it was too.

[truewhite15]

I don't like those spiders esp the big black basts that come scuttling out at night wearing hob nailed boots but yesterday I actually held a Tarantula and it was very very cool, could not believe how light it was too.

As a fellow arachnophobe, I congratulate you on your achievement!!
Unfortunately, I'll never be able to join you in overcoming my fear of the beasties...they just really scare the heebeejeebees out of me.

[TANGODANCER]

Spiders never bothered me. Not a lover of frogs and fishy things; not fear exactly or I'd never go in the sea, just a big ugh.

[Montreal Wanderer]

I'm not really afraid of any fauna we find in our Northern temperate climes (although I did run like hell for the lake when my son knocked over a hornets' nest once). I suspect I would feel very different in tropical areas.

[Bruce Rioja]

My boss's daughter has just been on a course to overcome her fear of spiders. She's that bad that she runs out of a room screaming when she sees one. Anyway - it hasn't worked.

[Soldier_Of_The_White_Army]

My boss's daughter has just been on a course to overcome her fear of spiders. She's that bad that she runs out of a room screaming when she sees one. Anyway - it hasn't worked.

I spent 6 months in the African jungle and it did sod all for mine. I just looked like a big sissy with a gun!

[bobo the clown]

Fckg loathe the bastards. The old "they won't hurt you" bllx is pointless ... 2correct, they won't when I've flattened the fckr with my shoe, newspaper, large rock, wall of neighbours house, bazooka ....

I USED to be useless with heights ... & I mean useless. Couldn't go on foot over a road or rail bridge. Couldn't even walk up a railway stairway if it had open risers on the step.

I got a job at a Chemical factory & had to be able to walk up the metal stairways and the see-through chequer-plate floors. It was 'do it or get the piss ripped out of you by the scousers who worked there". I did learn to do it ... using the very same "it won't hurt you" logic that I rejected above. Can't claim to enjoy it & I'm not going on any big-dippers or ferris wheels, but I'm better.

[jaffka]

A couple of years ago on hols in Lanzarote, we had a ground level room that had the occasional cockroach come into.

One morning I awoke and saw one on the floor, swatted it with yesterdays paper and killed it.

The wife and child were watching so feeling brake I scooped it up bare handed to put it into the toilet, immediatly the little bugger reincarnated and started to thrash about. A scream of "yurrrrggghhhh" coupled with laughter from the wife saw me drop it and watch it scuttle away. She dealt with the roaches after that.

[William the White]

A couple of years ago on hols in Lanzarote, we had a ground level room that had the occasional cockroach come into.

One morning I awoke and saw one on the floor, swatted it with yesterdays paper and killed it.

The wife and child were watching so feeling brake I scooped it up bare handed to put it into the toilet, immediatly the little bugger reincarnated and started to thrash about. A scream of "yurrrrggghhhh" coupled with laughter from the wife saw me drop it and watch it scuttle away. She dealt with the roaches after that.

The giant African cockroach is one to really enjoy... Six, seven inches long... kinda shiny...

In Sudan, outside of the cities (in older houses, inside the cities), the loos are pits with a hole...

And they are the natural home for the cockroach only happy living in shit... So, when you go in, you stamp hard and drive them down the hole, squat and get going... Be quick, guys, they are curious creatures, just waiting to make their glistening way back up for a close inspection of the person making the latest donation...

Man, that is a weird feeling, as the tribe emerge from the pit you can smell but do not wish to envisage...

After this, spiders are your best friends...