Are we fair to animals?

[Jon Miller]

So I was going to do some laundery (am up any how). And right in the door way to the laundery building a huge (over an inch in diameter) spider had built a large web. The web was quite impressing looking, but I couldn't help but be saddened by the fact that it probably won't be there 24 hours from now.. and perhaps the spider might even be dead then.

I mean, should I maybe move the spider now, before someone who isn't as interested in it's well being kills it?

The web was large enough that if I went in in one course, I would have gotten some of it on me.

Jon Miller

[BeBro]

Don't move it! This would be ethnic cleansing!

You may only move it away if it agrees.

[VetLegion]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
I mean, should I maybe kill the spider now, before someone who isn't as interested in it's well being kills it?

That's a good question. Don't know, listen to your conscience.

[Gangerolf]

bring it back to your place

[Jon Miller]

I don't know if that it is a she spider.

JM

[BeBro]

Are animals fair to us? Spiders have eight legs, I have only two!

[Jon Miller]

Well, I am going back. I will probably just leave it be.

When I walked by before, it looked startled to see me.

JM

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by BeBro
Are animals fair to us? Spiders have eight legs, I have only two!

Soon we will be able to correct nature's mistakes.
"cover: How hard is it to build a replacement for the human hand? Currently the best prosthetic hands look like pincers and have limited functional capabilities. A research program by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to build smarter upper-limb prostheses may change that (see page 24). Proto 2, shown, has a mechanical frame with 22 joints controlled by 11 tendons, along with pressure-, vibration-, joint-, and heat-sensing capabilities that connect to the wearer's neural system. Proto 2 can pick up an egg without breaking it, or throw a ball. (Image courtesy of New World Associates, Inc.)"
From the current Physics Today

JM

[Winston]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
I don't know if that it is a she spider.

JM

Don't feel bad. Spiders who don't get their webs torn up probably just sit there, really bored, miserable. Pondering when they'll get a chance to make a new one. It's what they do!

[Jon Miller]

I think it would be readable with any two of these words:

if that it

Three is overkill.

Jon Miller

[Winston]

Agreed. But in all fairness, it was the remark in itself that got me laughing, not your generosity with words.

[Addled Platypus]

Originally posted by BeBro
Don't move it! This would be ethnic cleansing!

You may only move it away if it agrees.

LMOL


side note, insects ain't no animal

[Snotty]

yes, they are clearly vegetables

I say leave the spiders be unless they are in your house. Its daddy long legs season and theres good eating in them if youre a spider

[Japher]

An Ohio family is staying away from their front porch these days. A huge super spider has been spinning a web on the front porch of a home near Akron. Experts say the large golden silk spider is pretty harmless.

But his size is enough to freak someone out. The yellow spider measures nearly six inches long. It's pretty rare that spiders like this are seen up north.

The family happened to be in South Carolina earlier this year, so this spider may have been a hitchhiker. Varieties such as this have been known to hitch rides on cars, trucks and even luggage coming up from the south.

Right now, the family is just leaving the spider alone. They're hoping someone will adopt it and take it home before the cold weather comes and kills it.

Link

[Lorizael]

Fair to animals? Hell yes! If you reversed the size difference between your spider friend and yourself, you think it would give a second's thought before devouring you?

[Provost Harrison]

No, and thank goodness too...I wouldn't fancy being eaten by a cow

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Fair to animals? Hell yes! If you reversed the size difference between your spider friend and yourself, you think it would give a second's thought before devouring you?

President Bush uses the same reasoning for why torturing terrorists is OK

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by LordShiva
President Bush uses the same reasoning for why torturing terrorists is OK

I think we need an addendum to Godwin's law...

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Lorizael


I think we need an addendum to Godwin's law...

What are you, some sort of Godwin's Law nazi?

[Dis]

spiders aren't animals.

and no, I'm not fair to insects and spiders.

but I do let spiders live, because they kill other insects.

things like roaches deserve a painful death.

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Dis
spiders aren't animals.

Really? What kingdom do you think spiders are in?

[DRoseDARs]

Demon spawn.

[MRT144]

why arent animals fair to us?

[Dauphin]

It saddens me that the obvious link between 'animal' and 'animated' can be so easily missed. I have trouble convincing my sister that mammals are in fact animals too.

[Flip McWho]

Spiders I'll leave be unless they come within about a metre radius, and this applies for any insect.

They freak me out somewhat.

[LordShiva]

Spiders aren't insects

[General Ludd]

No, we generally are not fair to animals at all.

[Herra Gautason]

Okay, we aren´t fair to animals.

But who gives a f*ck about that, honestly?

[Dis]

mother nature is not fair.

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Herra Gautason
Okay, we aren´t fair to animals.

But who gives a f*ck about that, honestly?

I have an urge to respond to this statement with something alone the lines of, "Shutup, whale raper!" But I really don't care enough to.