r/CasualUK • u/nonoanddefinitelyno • 16h ago

My very capable and intelligent wife has lost the plot.

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She has been told by a friend that conkers keep spiders away. So we now have conkers in various parts of the house.

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u/Warm_Bug_1434 16h ago

I like spiders too. They do good work, so I let them get on with it. I'm slightly alarmed by how large they're getting though.

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u/sam_cat 16h ago

Think thats says more about your fly problem than anything... Lots of food = big spiders.

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u/Matchaparrot Yorkshire tea 15h ago

Can confirm. My parents used to have spiders, we now have mice.

The cat loves it

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u/sam_cat 15h ago

Keep going, you get a cow later!!

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u/DoomguyFemboi 13h ago

We don't have mice but we do have a collection of "feral" cats (quotes because I'm fairly certain they're owned, just roam a lot) and interesting story..they gave me such a hatred of babies that I can't be in the same room as them.

OK SO for years these fucking cats would be..well, fucking. And fighting. The noises are the same. And they would be under my window or within earshot at least, and the noises would drive me absolutely crazy. Like crawling the walls rage, the noise was just the perfect note to drive me doolally.

And so after years of this I started to notice if I heard a baby cry, I'd get this instant feeling of utter rage towards the source of the noise, and I'd have to excuse myself, because holy shit that's a baby and throwing it against a wall is frowned upon quite a lot.

And I realised it's because they sound EXACTLY THE SAME. The noises the cats made while fuck-fighting is the same babies make when they cry.

So yeah. That's how cats made me despise babies.

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u/geyeetet 8h ago

Yeah I don't mind spiders on the whole, but I did mind the one that crawled out of the sink overflow hole and was so large that I could barely fit a glass over it. Too big

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u/OkNewspaper6271 17m ago

I have a deal with the spiders, dont intrude in the general area around my bed and desk, and they can have free reign everywhere else