Okay. Now I'm curious.

[deird_lj]

(This is all beer_good_foamy's fault.)


[Poll #1526051]


Is it a regional thing? A generational thing? Why all the confusion?

Comments

[roccondilrinon.livejournal.com]

Australia isn't known for particularly big spiders — just particularly evil ones. The big ones, the huntsmans and daddy-long-legs-es, don't bite, they just (huntsmans at least) scare you. The funnel-webs, white-tails and redbacks are the dangerous ones, and they're all INCY-WINCY.

And you thought I wasn't going to be relevant.

[jl-in-the-lane.livejournal.com]

Huntsmen FREAK ME OUT.

As for funnelwebs, white-tails and redbacks - I refuse to admit they exist. They're too scary to contemplate.

DaddyLongLegs are interesting, though, because when I was staying in Britain, they also had DLLs, but they weren't spiders, they were gigantic flying mosquitoes. Kinda. DREADFUL things.

[neutralalienist.livejournal.com]

From what I recall of that Mythbusters episodes, DDLs can. It just doesn't hurt much. (And Adam had several crawling over his arm and it took a while for just one of them to do it, so maybe they just don't do it often.)

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

...I have no logical argument concerning this. Just.

ITSY BITSY.