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bigtree

(85,977 posts) Sat Mar 5, 2022, 01:17 AM Mar 2022

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Big invasive parachuting spiders, or how I learned to stop worrying about the bomb

Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff 4h
I know a lot of things are bad right now, but at least big invasive parachuting spiders aren’t beginning to cover the entire East Coast.

Now, a quick check of the headlines before the weekend

Big, Invasive Parachuting Spiders Will Begin To Cover Entire East Coast, Experts Say
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2022/03/04/big-invasive-parachuting-spiders-will-begin-to-cover-entire-east-coast-experts-say/

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...not now, big invasive parachuting spiders.

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Big invasive parachuting spiders, or how I learned to stop worrying about the bomb (Original Post) bigtree Mar 2022 OP

Can't we just have a plague of locusts instead? n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2022 #1

Just wait for the flying monkees. CentralMass Mar 2022 #2

Geezus Maru Kitteh Mar 2022 #3

But they're pretty! Solly Mack Mar 2022 #4

They eat mosquitos and their fangs are too small to break human skin so... hlthe2b Mar 2022 #5

""Oh lord Jesus," said Gregory Lightfoot." NickB79 Mar 2022 #6

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

1. Can't we just have a plague of locusts instead? n/t

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Sat Mar 5, 2022, 01:21 AM

Mar 2022

CentralMass

(15,265 posts)

2. Just wait for the flying monkees.

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Sat Mar 5, 2022, 01:27 AM

Mar 2022

Maru Kitteh

(28,323 posts)

3. Geezus

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Sat Mar 5, 2022, 05:41 AM

Mar 2022

😱

Solly Mack

(90,758 posts)

4. But they're pretty!

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Sat Mar 5, 2022, 05:58 AM

Mar 2022

hlthe2b

(102,138 posts)

5. They eat mosquitos and their fangs are too small to break human skin so...

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Sat Mar 5, 2022, 08:36 AM

Mar 2022

The good with the bad. Better learn to live with them...

NickB79

(19,224 posts)

6. ""Oh lord Jesus," said Gregory Lightfoot."

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Sat Mar 5, 2022, 08:42 AM

Mar 2022

Gregory gets it.

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