The General Chat Thread (2025)

SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
We caused quite a commotion in the car park because I refused to close the tailgate until we had removed it - because if I had we would have squashed it and killed it which I was not happy about.
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I remember ticking my SIL off something awful. We were due to leave and meet my wife/her sister for lunch, and a hummingbird had gotten into the garage and, being that they’re not all that smart, kept focusing on the rather small, rectangular closed window as a potential exit instead of the wall-sized open garage door it came in through.

“Wait, I gotta get that hummingbird out before we leave.”
“Why? Will it mess up the garage or something?”
“No, but it’ll exhaust itself trying to get out, overheat and die.”
“So.”

🤨

I made her wait (my car, my rules) while I patiently waited for it to land on the end of a broom and then gently walked it out and let it go…took a good 20 minutes. She. Was. Pizzed!
 
We have these huge ones here. Web can go across the driveway. Walk into one of these when it's dark out... 😜
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She's good in the garden and harmless.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
OK - behind a spoiler just in case.

for reference that is a king sized bed! And whilst I allowed the one in the bathroom to remain where it was, I did not follow the same approach for the one on my side of the bed. It was escorted off to the woodshed.

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Yeah, that’s a nope from me. Australia is on my “do not visit” list, purely because the spiders are too scary.

If I was trying to go to bed and encountered something like this, I’m not sure if my first move would be to scream, pee my pants, or die. My second move would be to burn my house down and move to Antarctica, which sensibly doesn’t have any spiders.
 
TastyReuben said:
I remember ticking my SIL off something awful. We were due to leave and meet my wife/her sister for lunch, and a hummingbird had gotten into the garage and, being that they’re not all that smart, kept focusing on the rather small, rectangular closed window as a potential exit instead of the wall-sized open garage door it came in through.

“Wait, I gotta get that hummingbird out before we leave.”
“Why? Will it mess up the garage or something?”
“No, but it’ll exhaust itself trying to get out, overheat and die.”
“So.”

🤨

I made her wait (my car, my rules) while I patiently waited for it to land on the end of a broom and then gently walked it out and let it go…took a good 20 minutes. She. Was. Pizzed!
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love for waiting, not for your SILs reactions!
 
Herbaceous said:
Yeah, that’s a nope from me. Australia is on my “do not visit” list, purely because the spiders are too scary.

If I was trying to go to bed and encountered something like this, I’m not sure if my first move would be to scream, pee my pants, or die. My second move would be to burn my house down and move to Antarctica, which sensibly doesn’t have any spiders.
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Spiders, snakes, things that haven't evolved in a million years... I'll stay right here.
 
we have versions of our spider catching kit.

  • the usual size is a normal glass - the sort of thing that you'd have orange juice in. that and a postcard sized piece of paper or card.
  • then there is the large spider catching kit. a pint glass and A4 sheet of paper.
  • And then there is the "scratch head and consider the options" spider catching kit.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
we have versions of our spider catching kit.

  • the usual size is a normal glass - the sort of thing that you'd have orange juice in. that and a postcard sized piece of paper or card.
  • then there is the large spider catching kit. a pint glass and A4 sheet of paper.
  • And then there is the "scratch head and consider the options" spider catching kit.
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Are the roaches as outlandish as all else down there?
 
Barriehie said:
Are the roaches as outlandish as all else down there?
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not that I have yet met.

And certainly nothing like the Malaysian cockroach size that we used to have in the biology lab at school. and yes, I was the kid that held them on open day
 
badjak said:
Luckily I've never been scared of spiders. Cautious yes, scared no
I was very scared of snakes, but these days I can identify some, and know which ones are dangerous and which ones harmless. I still don't like them, but I'm no longer scared. Still cautious though.
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There was a large black wolf spider in my house a few years ago. We tried to catch him to put him outside with no success, he was too fast. He ended up biting me on my face while I was sleeping, right on the bridge of my nose in between my eyes. My eyes were swollen shut when I woke up. I took benadryl and used frozen tea bags on them and after about 14 hours the swelling subsided.

Edit: back in the 80s there was a series called "Beauty and the Beast" adapted from the fairytale. I looked like the beast. I had to call in spider from work that day. I looked similar to this:
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