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[Tamas]

The one hanging on my bathroom wall this Saturday morning was around this size:



The one I eliminated a couple of years ago was hardly any smaller.

[garbon]

Yep that is what I had.

[CountDeMoney]

Oh fuck that shit

[Tamas]

Oh fuck that shit

Also they are fast as fucking lightning, apparently doing 0.53m/s Luckily last weekend's was dormant or whatever. The first one I encountered was teleporting around my room.

[garbon]

Thankfully it was only the once. Also, thankfully I don't live there anymore.

[Tamas]

Thankfully it was only the once. Also, thankfully I don't live there anymore.

I have been thinking about an eventual property purchase on the countryside, due to trying to grab something resembling a living space yet withiin our modest budget, but if these fuckers are everyday occurrence closer to the wild, then I am quite inclined to reconsider.

[Valmy]

Living in a cottage in a cow pasture is the cherished English dream. I bet those things are expensive.

[Malthus]

The one hanging on my bathroom wall this Saturday morning was around this size:

The one I eliminated a couple of years ago was hardly any smaller.

Looks about the size of the Dock Spiders I've seen in Northern Quebec. Maybe a bit smaller.

http://www.cottagetips.com/tips/facts-about-dock-spiders/

Oh, and this:

http://www.cottagetips.com/2012/07/dock-spider-nest/

[CountDeMoney]

Reminds me of those damned wood spiders we have here; non-poisonous and great for bugs, but the fuckers can get mammoth and fast as balls.

[Admiral Yi]

I have gout! 

Probably from the kudu pate I ate last week.

But things feel sufficiently recovered that I don't have to scrub my trip tomorrow.

[Duque de Bragança]

I have gout! 

Typical "bourgeois" disease, for the 19th century disease that is. More democratic nowadays.

[Malthus]

I have gout! 

Your transformation into an 18th Century Aristocrat is nearly complete. 

But things feel sufficiently recovered that I don't have to scrub my trip tomorrow.

[mongers]

The one hanging on my bathroom wall this Saturday morning was around this size:



The one I eliminated a couple of years ago was hardly any smaller.

I have one of those living somewhere in the bedroom; it and it's friends keep the place free of flies or other flying insects. 

[Admiral Yi]

Article on Melungians in the current Economist.

Bottom line: black and white, the rest is a myth.

[The Larch]

So, my parents just came back from my mother's hometown, where they spent a few days. She has recently restored the house she was born at, and whenever we visit her hometown we now stay there instead of bothering my grandmother for accomodation. There's still some work left to do and there are tons of old documents and magazines stored in the attic (my mother's family NEVER throws away anything). Rummaging through the stuff these days they found quite the treasure trove, a box full of numbers of "Der Adler", the Luftwaffe's propaganda magazine, which had a Spanish edition. They brought one back to me and now I have it in my hands, from march 1942. The only thing missing is a Göring centerpiece.