Hello Fellow Travelers!
No kidding! It was on Animal Planet, too! Designed to attract the elusive MTV market? Go big or go home? Ratings grabber? Definitely. I just thought ""Big A__ Spiders" was a bold statement. Even for today's youth.
I've made no secret about my aversion to arachnids: me and the spiders of the world are in a USA/U.S.S.R. state of detente circa 1982: If I don't see them, I'm not forced to kill them. As with all unpleasant images, if they're in my line of vision I remove the image, turn off the TV, kill the spider (or complain until Patient Spouse dispatches it), close the computer. There, problem solved!
It's a pretty common phobia, as phobias go, and like so many other things in life, it just is. There is no logical explanation for a phobia they just are. I've dealt with mine over the years and managed to contain it, but occasionally PS still likes to test my "ick" response for fun. His fun. What does he do since I've condemned every visible arachnid in a ten mile radius to an "In Style" death?(An "In Style" death, by the way, is when you roll up an "In Style" and squash a bug with it. Nothing "stylish" about it!) He pulls up "VS" on the laptop. "VS", you know "Black Widow vs. Scorpion" (Black Widow), "Tarantula vs. Black Widow" (Black Widow, again) "Fire Ants vs. Black Widow" (Ants are relentless! And there's zillions of them!) Bugs fighting to the death! In jars! Online! It's just such a guy thing! Ick!
Of course I watched, I couldn't help myself! You would too! Nothing says "Christmas" like the British! And no food is as British as the plum. Think about it! Plum pudding, Little Jack Horner, The "Sugarplum Fairy". I used to be a foodie, what exactly is a "sugarplum" anyway? They sound good but has anyone actually seen one?
And pies. When the English don't know what to do with something they stick it in a pie crust! Kidneys, four and twenty blackbirds, plums and Lord knows what else. Who can forget "Sweeney Todd"? People pies! Talk about "repurposing"! Pie crust covers a lot but doesn't cover murder, for long anyway! Even if the killer is Johnny Depp and the piebaker in question is Helena Bonham-Carter. Sheesh! I like my pies fruity and non-mysterious! Like I like my gingerbread men! It always gets back to cookies! Merry Christmas, Travelers!
The British are renowned for many things cuisine not being among them
No kidding! It was on Animal Planet, too! Designed to attract the elusive MTV market? Go big or go home? Ratings grabber? Definitely. I just thought ""Big A__ Spiders" was a bold statement. Even for today's youth.
I've made no secret about my aversion to arachnids: me and the spiders of the world are in a USA/U.S.S.R. state of detente circa 1982: If I don't see them, I'm not forced to kill them. As with all unpleasant images, if they're in my line of vision I remove the image, turn off the TV, kill the spider (or complain until Patient Spouse dispatches it), close the computer. There, problem solved!
It's a pretty common phobia, as phobias go, and like so many other things in life, it just is. There is no logical explanation for a phobia they just are. I've dealt with mine over the years and managed to contain it, but occasionally PS still likes to test my "ick" response for fun. His fun. What does he do since I've condemned every visible arachnid in a ten mile radius to an "In Style" death?(An "In Style" death, by the way, is when you roll up an "In Style" and squash a bug with it. Nothing "stylish" about it!) He pulls up "VS" on the laptop. "VS", you know "Black Widow vs. Scorpion" (Black Widow), "Tarantula vs. Black Widow" (Black Widow, again) "Fire Ants vs. Black Widow" (Ants are relentless! And there's zillions of them!) Bugs fighting to the death! In jars! Online! It's just such a guy thing! Ick!
Of course I watched, I couldn't help myself! You would too! Nothing says "Christmas" like the British! And no food is as British as the plum. Think about it! Plum pudding, Little Jack Horner, The "Sugarplum Fairy". I used to be a foodie, what exactly is a "sugarplum" anyway? They sound good but has anyone actually seen one?
And pies. When the English don't know what to do with something they stick it in a pie crust! Kidneys, four and twenty blackbirds, plums and Lord knows what else. Who can forget "Sweeney Todd"? People pies! Talk about "repurposing"! Pie crust covers a lot but doesn't cover murder, for long anyway! Even if the killer is Johnny Depp and the piebaker in question is Helena Bonham-Carter. Sheesh! I like my pies fruity and non-mysterious! Like I like my gingerbread men! It always gets back to cookies! Merry Christmas, Travelers!
The British are renowned for many things cuisine not being among them
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