Spiders in Iraq

[Alex]

QUOTE (Phil rr @ Apr 16 2004, 18:07)

QUOTE (Alex @ Apr 16 2004, 15:30) QUOTE (LiquidEyes @ Apr 16 2004, 14:01) LOL, look how close the "spiders" are being held to the camera! (Compare the size of the shirt-sleeve on the right, to put them in perspective.) Still, I wouldn't fancy encountering one... http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp   Has a good look at that picture. not to turn these things into fluffy bunnies.....but if u read the page Alex put up, it reckons that picture is a "fake".   and apparently they aren't called camell spiders cos they eat camels, they are called that cos they live in the desert like camels. and they aren't that big.   and i hate spiders and they look fuckin horrible . I've seen camel spiders before, I'm sure the pic is legit. It's just out of proportion and with one spider eating the other, but it's always good to suspicious of pics like that.   My mate has caught a Camel Spider when he was stationed in Jordan, the pictures damn near the same pose, except he's holding a dead one. Ugly little fuckers.

[Phil rr]

QUOTE (HardHouseHelen @ Apr 16 2004, 18:09)

Doesnt it say that they jump onto camels and eat thier flesh tho??!

yeah i think that was the 'myth' tho

[HardHouseHelen]

QUOTE (HardHouseHelen @ Apr 16 2004, 18:09)

QUOTE (Phil rr @ Apr 16 2004, 18:07) QUOTE (Alex @ Apr 16 2004, 15:30) QUOTE (LiquidEyes @ Apr 16 2004, 14:01) LOL, look how close the "spiders" are being held to the camera! (Compare the size of the shirt-sleeve on the right, to put them in perspective.) Still, I wouldn't fancy encountering one... http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp   Has a good look at that picture. not to turn these things into fluffy bunnies.....but if u read the page Alex put up, it reckons that picture is a "fake".   and apparently they aren't called camell spiders cos they eat camels, they are called that cos they live in the desert like camels. and they aren't that big.   and i hate spiders and they look fuckin horrible . Doesnt it say that they jump onto camels and eat thier flesh tho??! Ooo no, i was reading the myths about em!   Thank fuk!

[Guest]

Imagine one of them Iraqi Spiders crawling into ya nickers eh !

 

SCRATCHY SCRATCHY !

 

[HardHouseHelen]

QUOTE (Maria @ Apr 16 2004, 18:20)

Imagine one of them Iraqi Spiders crawling into ya nickers eh ! SCRATCHY SCRATCHY !

 

How bout sharing a bath with one?! Couldnt get that bugger down the plughole

[Mark]

QUOTE (HardHouseHelen @ Apr 16 2004, 18:23)

QUOTE (Maria @ Apr 16 2004, 18:20) Imagine one of them Iraqi Spiders crawling into ya nickers eh ! SCRATCHY SCRATCHY !   How bout sharing a bath with one?! Couldnt get that bugger down the plughole haha - i member when me and u went to london zoo

[Bushy]

My brother in law has just returned from Iraq, and he didnt see any, although he had heard about them. He's gonna see if any of the other lads encountered any while they were out there.

 

Big fecking bastards!

[Pepsi]

Got this pic in an e-mail at work and there was a big discussion as to which spider was eating which? I can't work it out.

 

Is it the top eating bottom or bottom eating top?

 

 

[Ginge]

I think the bottom one is biting the top one.

[Alex]

QUOTE (Pepsi @ Apr 18 2004, 20:06)

Got this pic in an e-mail at work and there was a big discussion as to which spider was eating which? I can't work it out. Is it the top eating bottom or bottom eating top?

The one on the bottom has bitten the other one on the arse. The top one also appears to be dead.