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Leonberger are also very tasty. Specially when they are very young.
Yumy yumy yumy <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/XmasJump.gif" alt="" />

Good food <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shhh.gif" alt="" />

Barta

Maybe i´d think twice about it, if i where an corean.
But i´d prefer a chow chow, what means yum yum in corea an din german Lecker Lecker ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

So dogs weren´t on my menue this time.
But everybody loves chicken, with what you called "pomme de terre". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Yep "la pomme de terre" is the favourite food of the forum members.
Search for "potatoe" and you will discover how the great potatoe is popular in this forum.

[color:"orange"] Potatoe for ever [/color]

Barta

There are plenty of edible things that don't have a name; at that level they're unrecogniseable and not very attractive, though. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

And yes, vive la patate! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/XmasJump.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

I don't dislike them...
but still.
I prefer pasta's, rice and bread.

"Pataten" are good to make puppets of. Mr Potato head. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

I could never eat an animal that I nursed and cared for. I don't wanna have that kind of power over a living creature, I don't wanna decide about life or dead. I cannot even kill a mouse. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shhh.gif" alt="" /> At my place, the animals drop dead from old age only. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/kitty.gif" alt="" />

I cannot kill spiders. I just put them outside of the house.

Barta

And if you name them they don't get eaten.
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I don't kill spiders and don't put them outside, I just leave them be. Wich annoys the femaies in this house a lot.

> Kill it!
- no!
> KILL IT!
- why?
> JUST KILL IT!
- no!

many probably know the situation <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

I put my daughter a fat spider in her bed, was a3 -4 cm one, she was so scared, i enjoyed it ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" />

I do the same; except when they're becoming too big or make lots of webs (or that I can't reach them). <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> I think that if they knew all the stuff spiders get us rid of in a house, they'd like them more. Or they'd compulsively disinfect and clean every corner of the house. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

But I heard that in Europe you have very big "common" spiders. Is it really so? I'd be very interested in seeing that. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

No, we haven´t.

Yep. Only very big uncommon spiders. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

In Belgium there was some years ago panic about redbacks who "hitched a ride" (boat or plane) to end up here.
But even those aren't big really.

When I said I can't kill any living animal, I don't speak about spiders, since they are under the category of insects. So, yes I kill spiders. I hate them and I'm very afraid of them.

And Lafille, we do have very big spiders here. But I guess the guys aren't afraid of them, so they are not big in their eyes. But believe me, that spider in my hall a few days ago, WAS big. I don't know the name of it, but they are mostly between 5 and 10 cm, black or darkbrown, very fat body and long hairy legs. Of course the legs are what they make them soo big, but for me they are a nightmare. Usually they live in sewers and can even climb out of the sink. This time of the year it's their favo time and they are mostly in pairs. If you see one, you can bet you will see the other one the same day or the next day. The females are also a lot bigger then the males. First I have found a smaller one in my hall at the frontdoor, and later the other one, she was almost double his size. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Shame on you ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" />
The spiders are living creatures.
These animals are invertebrate but they are not insects.
The insects have only 6 legs.

Specially for Lynx who likes to eat our beloved pets i am making a spider soup in my cauldron.

Barta


About spiders

Yep. A spider is no insect.
To many legs... not enough wings.
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Don't be mad at me, Barta! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" /> I can't help it that I'm an arachnophobiac?
A spider is soo creepy to me, I get cold and warm like I have a fever running. I completly loose myself when I see a beast like this. I'm very animal friendly, if I can save a ladybug by putting it on some leaves, I do it, I don't touch a butterfly's wings because that can causes an early dead for them, because they can't fly anymore. I saved numerous birds from the street, got in a fight with a streetcat for saving a little babyrabbit, but don't make me like or even tolerate a spider. I'm soo sorry, <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shame.gif" alt="" /> but I rather have a snake in the house then a spider. Even when I know that spiders wont hurt me and snakes do.

And thanks for all the explanation about spiders, but I still don't know how the big brown/black ones are called that we have here. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

next time take a broom and guide the spider outside, they won't hurt you why hurt them?

The only reason you're afraid of them is because you think they could hurt you, once you agree they won't hurt you unless you hurt them you'll overcome that fear.

Fear is only imagination.

yeah that's right! don't fear them, kill them! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

[color:"pink"] turn to the dark side, Gal. show the spiders u have the power! [/color] <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

Aparently most people aren't afraid of spiders becouse they think spiders can hurt them (not anymore anyway).
It has to do with a lot of things. Even passed on in our genes. Spiders are seen as dangerous and evil creatures throughout the ages. Probably ancestors had problems with (poisenous) spiders and humans developed a kind of "warning system" that makes them back away from spiders. That makes them feel spiders are repulsive.
It has to do with the way they look - the hairy body fi and the 8 legs. Aparently humans can handle up to 6 legs but find 8 legs really freaky (see also scorpions). <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> There's only a relatively small family of 8 legged creatures and they're all "dangerous". It even has to do with the way spiders move. Some people have no problems when a spider is sitting still or playing dead (some kinds do that to fool predators and humans <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />). But those same people freak out as soon as that spider starts to wonder around. And it has to do with the way they feed. Building a web and sucking other creatures dry... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> Humans don't like that. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
Not all spiders build webs. Some just jump on prey, some ambush, some even use a lasso. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

There's nothing wrong with being afraid of spiders. It's a natural reaction. A normal reaction. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> It's in human nature. Maybe it's slowly disapearing from our system now that there are less and less dangerous spiders (in the western world) but everybody is different. And everybody handles it differently. Even people who say they leave spiders alone or put them outside still have a <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />-reaction. But just control it better.
And killing or removing spiders in/from your home will only make room for more spiders. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> It will leave a "gap" that will be filled by other spiders.
I'm not sure about the figures anymore but I think the average human home in West Europe and USA and South Canada is also home to about 2,000,000 spiders. Or was it 200,000?
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I like to read about things like that. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />