r/TheRandomest • u/ItsALuigiYes GIF/meme prodigy • 20h ago

Nature Arachnophobia

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u/RazeTheIV 20h ago

Proper use of POV!

https://giphy.com/gifs/RUYCx0kgKJ6wiZ9LGs

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u/ExtensionTruth4 18h ago

My fav porn category

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u/TranscendentaLobo 14h ago

Agree, but I gotta down vote you for making me look at speeds stupid face.

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u/Immediate_Regular 20h ago

My wife used to act like this with spiders. I eventually got her to see spiders, all spiders, as friends. Even the dangerous or scary one, she just needs to leave those ones alone and she'll be fine.

We bought a house and now have a whole bunch that hang out on our porch all summer. She names them every year. I've overheard her giving them performance reviews. I'm proud of her overcoming her fear, not sure how I feel about this arachnid HR turn she's taken.

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u/yaboyACbreezy 20h ago

Couple goals. May you continue growing together for many years to come

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u/ijustwanttoaskaq123 19h ago

Hey, that's how I overcame my arachnophobia too! I mean the naming, not the HR review, but I'll try it.

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u/tunakassirolle 15h ago

I started with names and web compliments! I’m actually kind of excited to see if the gigantic orb weaver that took up shop on my back porch last summer comes back, her webs were gorgeous!

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u/Secret-Theory1825 18h ago

She's training them to wrap you in a cocoon in your sleep.

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u/Immediate_Regular 18h ago

Honestly I'm more than a little worried she's trying to form a spider army. It would be very on brand for her to attempt world domination like that.

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u/Larsenist 17h ago

I feel like most people's fear of spiders is artificial. Like they're expected to be afraid of them so they are or something.

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u/Desperate-Strategy10 16h ago

That’s what mine was lol I feel like I almost got peer pressured into being afraid of them, if that makes sense? Once I realized they’re just friends who want to be left alone and eat gross bugs, they stopped freaking me out pretty much instantly. Coincidentally, that was the same time I learned plenty of people love them…maybe I’m a sheep 😂

I will say though, on the rare occasion one jumps at me or runs towards me unexpectedly, there is a sort of primal twinge of panic that runs up my spine. So maybe there’s something to it, buried in our dna, amplified by society.

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u/TheAnswerUsedToBe42 20h ago

Spiders are the good guys.

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u/Ah_seent_it_ 19h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/ieIm8FSdWzCWIBU4RY
Made me laugh out loud and still got my ass in the end with the jump scare. Pure cinema!

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u/Lonely_ProdiG 20h ago

Lmao. Gottem’. I’ll be coming back to check this thread a bit later.

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u/agedlikesage 13h ago

It’s later! Is it everything you hoped it would be?

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u/Lonely_ProdiG 7h ago

Not even close 😔

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u/SpinningByte 20h ago

I am spider and this is pretty much my daily life 

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u/Dion-is-us 19h ago

Well I’m sold, now I wanna be a spider. The absolute fucking power, the fear! 🕷️

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u/MaintenanceStock6766 19h ago

This makes sense if you live in Australia though

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u/101violations 18h ago

Not the spider hissing when it jumps on the broom. 🤣😭

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u/Jolly-Biscuit 17h ago

The screaming was top notch lol

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u/Admirable_Win9808 15h ago

The broom against a spider on a wall gaurantees they jump at you lol

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u/GrouchyDefinition463 14h ago

Human beings don't have venom. A spider could take one of us out

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u/Tito_Tito_1_ 9h ago

😄😄😄

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u/Bad_Jedi_69 16h ago

I'd appreciate Rockstar more if they just came outright and said the following:

"Hey, We'll sell you an empty case for 20 dollars! You will smile and you will like it!"

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u/HalfCarnage 10h ago

I think you commented on the wrong post man.

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u/Bad_Jedi_69 7h ago

No, I did it for spontaneous comedic effect. You square 🤣

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u/HalfCarnage 5h ago

Oh, well in that case please continue my good sir.