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Major Isoor posted:Thanks Trent! It's good to see a true cultural connoisseur All the physical gifts are either here already or in transit. I still need to buy gift cards. We have three family birthdays in November so the occasions start running into one another if I'm not organised.
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Bake triple choc and chilli cookies. Cellophane gift bundle with 6 cookies and a fifty in each for all cousins. Sorted.
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Nov 14, 2023 03:45
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Non Compos Mentis posted:gently caress off trent, ya oval office
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Nov 14, 2023 04:22
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trent youre a scumbag and a flog and when your mum gave birth to you she wiped her arse anyway welcome to the thread
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Nov 14, 2023 05:30
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heeyyy trent, give me back my purse!
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Nov 14, 2023 06:34
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Trent posted:Hello everyone, I'm not an Aussie but I just wanted to say you guys seem to swear a lot and have funny accents so y'all are cool you wanna see what's fucken funny?
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Nov 14, 2023 07:08
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quote:The body of an elderly hiker missing since August in Colorado’s San Juan mountains was discovered by a hunter who also found the man’s dog alive at the scene, authorities said. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/13/colorado-missing-hiker-found What a good boy. quote:Sydney commuters were caught in a 26km traffic jam during peak hour on Tuesday morning after a routine test of fire sprinklers in the city’s M8 tunnel went awry. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/14/sydney-commuters-caught-in-26km-traffic-jam-after-sprinkler-test-goes-awry
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Nov 14, 2023 07:29
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Love to live in the countrys' largest,most populous city, and have major infrastructure crippled by single minuscule mistakes on a daily basis
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Nov 14, 2023 07:33
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Oh right while I'm here I did have one question about Australia, how common are huntsman spiders in houses? I had a penpal buddy once upon a time who said he sees them all the time and one fell on his head while he was sleeping. I get they're harmless but they're just so jesus christ loving big. Scarier than the drop bear.
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Nov 14, 2023 07:49
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Trent posted:Oh right while I'm here I did have one question about Australia, how common are huntsman spiders in houses? I had a penpal buddy once upon a time who said he sees them all the time and one fell on his head while he was sleeping. I get they're harmless but they're just so jesus christ loving big. Scarier than the drop bear. they’re common enough that everyone has a huntsman story. newer places with better sealing windows and doors, or higher apartment blocks have fewer bugs though. I grew up in a shack and huntsman were pretty common, less so than the dog sized cockroaches.
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Nov 14, 2023 07:51
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It's true, I remember playing in a caravan as a kid and one ran up my brother's leg onto his shoulder and was riding around unnoticed for a couple of seconds at least. Then there was lots of screaming. It's also super fun as an adult when they randomly appear inside your car while you're driving it.
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Nov 14, 2023 07:55
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Trent posted:Oh right while I'm here I did have one question about Australia, how common are huntsman spiders in houses? I had a penpal buddy once upon a time who said he sees them all the time and one fell on his head while he was sleeping. I get they're harmless but they're just so jesus christ loving big. Scarier than the drop bear. There was one in my house last night and I put him outside with a piece of cardboard and a plastic container. However he crawled under my amp at one point, and when I flipped it over he was seemingly gone, but had actually stuck himself to the base of an amp. They're cool guys.
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Nov 14, 2023 07:58
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I had one that lived on my car for a time. I called him gorgeous George and he finally crossed the line when he ended up inside the drivers side window. I tried to shoo him out but he ended up crushed in the window when I put it up because I thought I’d got him out.
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Nov 14, 2023 08:02
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Trent posted:Oh right while I'm here I did have one question about Australia, how common are huntsman spiders in houses? I had a penpal buddy once upon a time who said he sees them all the time and one fell on his head while he was sleeping. I get they're harmless but they're just so jesus christ loving big. Scarier than the drop bear. Pretty common, although I don't get nearly as many inside now as I used to. Almost everyone has a huntsman in the car story, too.
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Nov 14, 2023 08:18
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Trent posted:Oh right while I'm here I did have one question about Australia, how common are huntsman spiders in houses? I had a penpal buddy once upon a time who said he sees them all the time and one fell on his head while he was sleeping. I get they're harmless but they're just so jesus christ loving big. Scarier than the drop bear. gently caress me dead Trent, look what you've done now. Gonna be pages of huntsman story derails.
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Nov 14, 2023 08:19
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I fondly remember all my childhood huntsman experiences cos all I get inside now are redbacks and whitetails and they can both absolutely get hosed
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Nov 14, 2023 08:34
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one bit bob square on his penis
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Nov 14, 2023 08:39
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Humphreys posted:Gonna be pages of huntsman story derails. What is the thread meant for?
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Nov 14, 2023 08:39
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I found a light blue/grey coloured huntsman with orange bands on its joints in my chook pen once. thing looked cool as gently caress right before the chook pecked it into 3 different segments and ate it.
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Nov 14, 2023 08:41
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Bald Stalin posted:What is the thread meant for? Bluey ep discussion
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Nov 14, 2023 08:43
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No recent huntsmans/huntsmen, but have had a white face heron realise our yard is a great source of skinks. It's come back a couple of times to stuff it's face, to our cat's chagrin. He stares at it from the window and chitters.
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Nov 14, 2023 08:59
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I had a Huntsman in my shirt that was hanging up for me to put on after a shower. Crawled up my face as I was putting it on. 0/10 experience.
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Nov 14, 2023 09:13
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Shoutout to when I was a kid and my cat got on my chest when I was asleep and dropped a live huntsman on me.
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Nov 14, 2023 09:30
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usually the cat does that because they think you are a poo poo hunter but i think that might have been a straight up threat
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Trent posted:Oh right while I'm here I did have one question about Australia, how common are huntsman spiders in houses? I had a penpal buddy once upon a time who said he sees them all the time and one fell on his head while he was sleeping. I get they're harmless but they're just so jesus christ loving big. Scarier than the drop bear. Lived this place 5 years, current Animal Around/In The House Story quota: Huntsman: 3 Blue Tongues: 1 Peacocks: Fuckin' dozens, weekly Koala: 1 Snakes: 3 (All Carpet Python, thankfully) Praying Mantis: 24/7 Rats: 2 Water Dragons & Brush Turkeys: None In/Around the house, but in the neighbourhood, it'll take me less than 5 minutes to find you one.
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housemate of mine ate a huntsman in his sandwich once by accident, after the horror he said it was kind of like eating oats
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Developed very severe arachnophobia from having hunstmans gallop on me as a kid when I was living in Canberra over a year or so period, happened 3 times. Worst was when I opened an empty VHS case and it flew at my face like a facehugger. Cured the arachnophobia many years later when I lived in a very lovely rental and was so destitute I couldn't afford fly spray, the house was basically a huge black house spider colony. Never got bitten and named a few of the spiders, ended up enjoying how quickly they'd gently caress up any housefly that wandered in and inevitably found a web
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Nov 14, 2023 10:15
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SwissDonkey posted:Developed very severe arachnophobia from having hunstmans gallop on me as a kid when I was living in Canberra over a year or so period, happened 3 times. Worst was when I opened an empty VHS case and it flew at my face like a facehugger.  I had never thought about whether spider infestations could eventually result in Stockholm syndrome, but well, now we know it's true. Thanks Trent?
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Nov 14, 2023 11:00
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I had one crawl up my back as I was sitting on the edge of our old above ground pool. I didn't notice it with the water running down my back from my hair. It must have sat perched on my head for a good long while till I came inside and my mum saw it and freaked out.
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I did once have a huntsman come running across the rail holding the shower curtain while I was in the shower. That curtain got whipped back so fast that I never found the huntsman again but I hope he learnt his lesson. In the same place I had a male funnel web come under the screen door after work one night. In the process of jumping out of my chair I ripped my old af work pants and then the only shoe handy was a thong and let me tell you funnel webs don't go down for a thong slap. Managed to find one of my work boots after I stunned it enough and squished the gently caress out of it.
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Nov 14, 2023 11:23
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been years since i've seen a proper big one
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Had a heap at my old house, one day I put my hand in a shoebox full of guitar strings and felt a slight breeze rush up my wrist. I BIG, sandy-coloured lady huntsman was sitting about a foot away on a guitar headstock suddenly. Oh boy can they move! I generally leave them alone, I had one in my current place hang out on a wall in my bedroom for a week, then I never saw it again.
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Nov 14, 2023 12:15
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It probably crawled down your throat while you were asleep 
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Yeah having a huntsman around is a good thing, as long as they stick to their spots. They will kill off anything else in the house. Only when they start getting too cosy that it wanders into eeby jeebies. Also chiming in on huntsman to the face while driving a car doing 70k's. Sunshades are their favourite spot. Still not sure how I managed to not crash.
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saw a monster hunstman in the garage, he was on the ceiling, all g, popped the boot of the car open with one eye on it, no stress easy mate, then i closed the boot and the oval office dropped off the ceiling and floated towards me
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Nov 14, 2023 12:27
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Man, Australia must be a reptile-keeper's paradise, I hear blue tongue skinks are super accessible over there. In the US there's only so many breeders and they suck at reproducing so they're expensive as poo poo. The skinks, not the breeders. Anyways thanks gentlemen I'll leave y'all to talk about Bluey or kangaroos or barbies or sting rays or whatever it is Australians do all day.
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Nov 14, 2023 12:35
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I used to crudely shop them into people on Tinychats camera feed to 'warn them' theres a spider scooting up the wall. "See, I'm not lying! It was just coming up over the couch! Gone now, but can't be far"
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Trent posted:Man, Australia must be a reptile-keeper's paradise, I hear blue tongue skinks are super accessible over there. In the US there's only so many breeders and they suck at reproducing so they're expensive as poo poo. The skinks, not the breeders. Not really, you need a license to own native animals here. There is no industry for it or breeders, just nature.
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Besides, having a blue tongue living in a tank in your house is no good. You want them in your garden so they will eat up the snails for you.
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It's more accessible now in NSW due to the single keepers license where you are allowed one of a few general reptiles. They are still going for around 35 bucks a baby.
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