Seriously, who thought they were poisonous? When we were growing up, we were taught they were the most gentle of all spiders, and it was bad luck to kill them. We used to let them crawl on our hands. To this day, I'm inordinately fond of them.
All the other animal myths, I laughed. Esp. the frog in boiling water. Lobotomy FTW!
The video won't play as it says it is "private" :(
ReplyDeleteThanks Q...try it now
ReplyDeleteDADDY LONGLEGS AREN'T EVEN SPIDERS! WOT!
ReplyDeleteSeriously, who thought they were poisonous? When we were growing up, we were taught they were the most gentle of all spiders, and it was bad luck to kill them. We used to let them crawl on our hands. To this day, I'm inordinately fond of them.
All the other animal myths, I laughed. Esp. the frog in boiling water. Lobotomy FTW!
RS, I'm totally confused. Here, a daddy longlegs is a crane fly
ReplyDeletehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/08/daddylonglegs-climate-change
The daddy longlegs from the video, I know as a harvestman :)
Whoa! That's wrong! So wrong! And horribly... not cute.
ReplyDeleteAlso, a harvestman sounds like some of urban myth psycho serial killer.
Our two nations. Parted by more than an ocean -- insect naming, too.
I have to go buy my dog a blue toy now.
ReplyDeleteMy dog finds her toys by sight and smell. So, it doesn't really matter what color her toys are, she'll still find her red ball in the green grass.
R.S...there will never be peace in the world when we can't agree on our insect names :)
ReplyDeleteH, my friends dog can find his toys by shape recognition. She'll ask him for a certain colour and he finds it :)
I have another misconception that I hear a lot. People think that humans aren't animals. This is wrong.
ReplyDeleteBen some animals are more human than humans, too.
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