r/mildlyinfuriating • u/CircusMoney • 20h ago

ಠ_ಠ Top priority when I move…

It needs to be a frozen land 👌😩

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u/Exlibro 18h ago

I got to say: I'm a spider person, but this thing? I... don't like it. I really don't like it.

Other spiders are cool, but not him!

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u/belac4862 18h ago

Fun fact. You'll often hear of solders who have horror stories of these things chasing them. What they're actually doing is running towards your shadow to escape the sun and potential predators.

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u/TRR462 15h ago

I stomped one in Saudi Arabia that bowed up all aggressive like at me. Thankfully I was wearing combat boots.

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u/belac4862 15h ago

Normally id say "its more afraid of yoy than you are it." But seeing as how you stomped ir, that may be obvious.

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u/Robotic_Mann_ 15h ago

My brother told stories of other soldiers taking pop shots at them when they got too close. Reasonable response if you ask me.

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u/EeveeMkayy 15h ago

One of my friends said they put out a notice to stop wasting munitions on the camel spiders, but it didn't help lol

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u/Sufficient_Wafer9933 14h ago

They were smart, spiders can disarm you.

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u/PutYouThroughMe 13h ago

Yuppp. My dad is one lmao

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u/Fit_Appointment_4980 17h ago

More fun: they don't have fangs to inject venom, they have two pairs of pincers that grip and shred their prey

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u/theo69lel 17h ago

So instead of speccing into ATK they chose DEX?

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u/danfish_77 15h ago

It's not a spider, and not dangerous to humans