It seems that some tourists just can't help themselves
I was in Bangkok, getting ready to head off to the rain forest of Southern Thailand for a couple of weeks and decided to do the tourist thing for the day or so I had free. This was not something I would normally do, but it seemed fun at the time. The street hawkers are deeply irritating when you have to tell gangs of them to bugger off and that you do not want a tuktuk ride. The tourist mecca of Khaosan Road is a vile hell hole full of pissed up European travellers looking for hookers, poverty struck street sellers who will not stop until your purse is empty and rather strangely, a group of tattooists who want to cover every inch of your flesh in lurid body art. It was not for me. The final thing that got to me though was not the Thai people who are in fact very decent, it was the bus load of Chinese tourists who were stood outside the Royal Palace in Bangkok, one of whom was having a shit on the side of the road. Even the jaded Thai guides are fed up with that habit.

Thankfully, I got to spend two glorious weeks in the Thai Rain forest around Khao Sok, tracking spiders. The Golden Orb Spider is spectacularly beautiful and my one encounter with this charming animal more than made up for the horror of Bangkok.

TLDR: Bangkok is horrible and some tourists shit in the street.
( Rev. Jayneflakes Buy my book, I need the cash for drugs and hookers, Sat 11 Jul 2015, 21:16, 9 replies)

From one arachnophile
to another I'd love a pic if there was one.

I'll dig up what I can from the Orbs and St. Andrew's Cross's we've had in the garden and seen on our walks.


(shitposter from the anals of posteriority on, Sun 12 Jul 2015, 0:08, closed)

Piss off, Rob Fairholme.

(Go Man River everybody loves anal, Sun 12 Jul 2015, 0:45, closed)

You asked for pics, I hope that these work.
I have several photos of the of spiders I found, but the Golden Orbs were so special. Each animal was about five inches across and in such glorious colours. I was warned not to touch them because the bite although not overly dangerous, is alarmingly painful.
Anyway, here are some links to pictures.

Golden Orb Weaver

a tiny Huntsman Spider

A forest scorpion that sat on my shoulder

A mature Huntsman

A cave Whip Scorpion
( Rev. Jayneflakes Buy my book, I need the cash for drugs and hookers, Sun 12 Jul 2015, 16:20, closed)

there's no way that little spider needed all that loo roll

( vladimir, Thu 16 Jul 2015, 23:00, closed)

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( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Sun 12 Jul 2015, 0:39, closed)

Only 1 golden orb?
I'm an arachnophobe and I've seen about half a dozen. All in the gardens of a few houses in Florida.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Sun 12 Jul 2015, 21:53, closed)