Stick insects too.
Whole bunch of wrong.
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:12, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

i read somewhere that daddy long legs have really toxic venom
but no means of biting any predator to poison them with it. THAT is an animal that has failed to evolve.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:19, Reply)

If you are talking about the flying ones, that is bollocks. There is a 'proper' spider called daddy long legs too, of which this 'myth' is true.
It most people believe it of the flying bastards.
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:22, Reply)

Bollocks

( Peej, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:23, Reply)

Ace.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:24, Reply)

Source?

( Peej, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:26, Reply)

Ketchup with fish and chips.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:27, Reply)

Some fat northern ginger cock gobbler told me they put gravy on chips up there
Fucking wierdos
( Peej, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:28, Reply)

Gravy and chips sounds like a povvo meal.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:30, Reply)

All northerners are povvos with illusions of grandeur

( Peej, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:31, Reply)

My flat mate favours chips, gravy AND curry sauce, if you can fucking imagine that.

( Kroney, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:33, Reply)

They probably believe that the addition of gravy is haute cuisine. That can't pronounce it though.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:33, Reply)

Lunch the other day was 3 scallops, gravy, barm cake and bag of prawn crackers.
All good.
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:33, Reply)

Is a barm cake *just* a roll?

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:35, Reply)

I'm not even sure what language that was in

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:36, Reply)

Scallop is battered and deep fried potato.
Barm cake is a large round roll.
Gravy drips from YM.
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:38, Reply)

No, generally it's in glands in their mouths.

( Kroney, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:25, Reply)

TL:DR - It's not true
There is an urban legend stating that daddy long-legs spiders have the most potent venom of any spider, but that their chelicerae (fangs) are either too small or too weak to puncture human skin; the same legend is also repeated of the harvestman and crane fly, also called "daddy long-legs" in some locales. Indeed, pholcid spiders do have a short fang structure (called uncate). However, brown recluse spiders also have uncate fang structure, but are able to deliver medically significant bites. Either pholcid venom is not toxic to humans or there is a musculature difference between the two arachnids, with recluses, being hunting spiders, possessing stronger muscles for fang penetration.[5]
In 2004, the Discovery Channel show MythBusters set out to test the daddy long-legs myth episode 13 - "Buried in concrete".[6] Hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage first established that the spider's venom was not as toxic as other venoms, after being told about an experiment whereby mice were injected with venom from both a daddy long-legs and a black widow, with the black widow venom producing a much stronger reaction. After measuring the spider's fangs at approximately 0.25 mm (average human skin thickness varies from about 0.5mm to 4mm), Adam Savage allowed himself to be bitten, and reported that the bite produced little more than a mild short-lived burning sensation. This appears to confirm that, contrary to popular belief, pholcid bites can penetrate human skin but will deliver a harmless envenomation. Additionally, recent research by Alan Van Dyke has shown that pholcid venom is relatively weak in its effects on insects as well.[7]
According to Rick Vetter of the University of California at Riverside, the daddy long-legs spider has never harmed a human and there is no evidence that they are dangerous to humans.[8]
The urban legend ostensibly stems from the fact that the daddy long-legs spider is known to prey upon deadly venomous spiders, such as the redback, a member of the black widow genus Latrodectus.[9] By extrapolation, it was thought that if the daddy long-legs spider could regularly kill a spider capable of delivering fatal bites to humans, then it must be more venomous, and the uncate fangs were accused of prohibiting it from killing people.[10] In reality, it is merely quicker than the redback.
( Peej, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:26, Reply)

TL:DR
I'm going to assume this post backs up the Daddy Long Legs are deadly but stumpy toothed assertion.
( Kroney, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:28, Reply)

Feel free to assume that incorrect assumption
I was just trying to point out the stupidity of Swipey and Frog.
( Peej, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:29, Reply)

Does that really need to be pointed out?
Seems redundant.
( Kroney, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:30, Reply)

I'm just bitter

( Peej, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:30, Reply)

My point was that the flying ones aren't poisonous, the spider ones are, not the most poisonous or whaterever but zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:31, Reply)

Yeh and my point was that's bollocks as well.

( Peej, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:32, Reply)

You're just bitter.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:33, Reply)

Very

( Peej, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:36, Reply)

Pint of Marsdens please.

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:36, Reply)

If that was true then surely eating them would be bad

( Peej, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:22, Reply)

Thats the difference between
Venomous and Poisonous, if they were venomous and you ate the venom you wouldn't be affected, as it would be broken down by your stomach acids, venom needs to be injected to work
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:41, Reply)

Hahaha, I just found this gem of information on wikipedia, which could go part way to explaining your aversion
The larvae of crane flies are known commonly as leatherjackets
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:23, Reply)

yeah
I once walked through a field with bloody millions of the baby bastards in it. urrrrrrrgh, my ankles are itching just thinking about it.

but i'd rather roll in there in the nak than look at rory's link. I ent clicking that in a month of sundays.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 11 Nov 2013, 15:39, Reply)