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[News of the Weird] Australia cancels Drink, Interrupted by SPIDERS

Warning: The following post contains SPIDERS.

Reuters Article

BBC Slideshow (WARNING: HOLEEFUCKSPIDERSEVERYWHERE

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Originally Posted by Reuters

Thousands of spiders have cast eerie webs over vast areas of flood-hit Australia after being forced to seek shelter by the rising waters.

Experts said the spiders may be spinning the sticky webs to help them survive the deluge, which has forced thousands of people to leave their homes over the past week.

The spider webs were seen near the inland city of Wagga Wagga in New South Wales, where 8,000 people were forced from their homes before the flood waters receded on Wednesday.

The Australian Museum's entomology collections manager Graham Milledge said the spiders' behavior was known as ballooning, and was typical after spiders are forced to flee from floods.

"They often do it as a way of dispersing and getting into a new area," Milledge told the news.com.au website. "In an event like this, they are just trying to escape the floods.

I'm too terrified to say anything logical in response, so have a Spider Man .gif

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/c...acnoir/aba.gif

I't like christmas over there! Except that the snow is formed by spiderwebs. And that dog is totally going to be the spiders' dinner.

HAHAHAH.
NOPE.
NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE.

Since they're Australian Spiders, I assume that a single one has the venom potency 100 times that of the most venomous spider anywhere else.

Huh.

Note to self: Sink Australia.

You're assuming that Australian spiders have not learned how to swim.

And that they have evolved beyond the capacity for vengeance.

This is only a slight exaggeration of the actual spider population of Australia.

Is it just me who wants to dose the spiders with LSD and see if they will cooperate to build a supercomputer out of webs or something?

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Originally Posted by Amake (Post 1187844)

Is it just me who wants to dose the spiders with LSD and see if they will cooperate to build a supercomputer out of webs or something?

Yes.

I know that this sounds like somewhere in the rainforest somewhere, just illustrating that spiders could probably hang out in your bath water.

Also, I was wondering what "Drink" is. Is it the Australian Oktoberfest?

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Is it just me who wants to dose the spiders with LSD and see if they will cooperate to build a supercomputer out of webs or something?