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[–] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 70 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Don't worry, they're only 5-9 mm big and are generally chill

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 20 points 4 days ago

Mangos for scale

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 31 points 5 days ago

That's about 5-9 mm too much.

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 67 points 5 days ago (1 children)

When you encounter things like this, God has abandoned you.

Fire hasn't, though. Fire has no fickle loyalties. All can burn.

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 37 points 5 days ago

Praise Prometheus!

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 54 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago

And here's more pixels of the joke, if that's your thing

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Hundrends of documented parasites who can literally eat us from the inside, but no ...spiders are the fucking problem.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think spiders are cool. I also have a completely irrational fear of them. I don't understand it, I don't have any clue where it came from, but spiders cause me to feel fear in a way unlike anything else in this world. I took it completely in stride when a doctor told me I "might not be ok" while looking at my xrays after a car accident in if I see a spider crawling across the bathroom floor while I'm pooping I'll break out in cold sweats. I like to think that I'm a pretty rational person so this drives me crazy.

[–] RevengeOfTheFallen@reddthat.com 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I will always be at at your side in this journey of fear of spiders.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 32 points 5 days ago
[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I really hope these things live in a different hemisphere than I do

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Don't worry, it lives in Australia (because of course it would)

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Oh is that why some trees hurt so much?

Or just another reason why a tree might hurt so much?

Are they even trees or just more spiders?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Poisonous trees. And trees that want to eat you.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 4 days ago

Funnily enough, the most "fuck you" tree is actually from America:

Standing beneath the tree during rain will cause blistering of the skin from mere contact with this liquid: even a small drop of rain with the sap in it will cause the skin to blister. Burning the tree may cause ocular injuries if the smoke reaches the eyes.

Although the fruit is potentially fatal if eaten, no such occurrences have been reported in the modern literature. Ingestion can produce severe gastroenteritis with bleeding, shock, and bacterial superinfection, as well as the potential for airway compromise due to edema.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago

It's spiders all the way down

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (2 children)

At least one person will come away from reading this post with a new sexual fetish.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

it's me hello i want to pretend to be a stick

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 19 points 5 days ago

wraps around stick

[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No fetish, but I wanna pat it.

Do you think it likes chin scratches? Does it have a chin? Can I stack them for convenience?

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A 2 second Google search of "so spiders have chins?" has revealed that sadly they do not

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

Unfortunately, we’re the only ones with true chins, but I still scratch my cat’s undermouth area and call it a chin.

[–] Prox@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 20 points 5 days ago

Australia

Should've guessed

[–] JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

Oh cool, like a slap-braclet.

[–] FlashZordon@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

Reach Around Spider was rejected as a possible name.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This spider has found one trick that makes humans very angry

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 5 days ago

Clickbait spider! Enragement tracking functions, activate!

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Unacceptable.

[–] Solitaire20X6@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

God never picks up, call Samus Aran!

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Is it ribbed for her pleasure?

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Imagine you're climbing a tree and you get to the top and grab this mfer

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 5 days ago

Hopefully at that point it continues its charade as a stick! :-P

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This shit is the consequence of sin yo.

[–] Bobmighty@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Amazing powers of camouflage and body manipulation are the consequences of sin? I best get sinning like a mother fucker then!

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

This shit needs to stay in movies

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I'm so glad I'm not a tiny bug.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 4 points 5 days ago

Nature’s Rizla.

[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago
[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

BRB, burning down every tree within 50 miles.

[–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Satan has worked his magic during creation when god had his back turned, and now we suffer from it

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago

Cute little guy

[–] Plagiatus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Are we gonna talk about the "tree limbs"?

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

What about it? Except the surprise sentient bark of course.