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Electricity meter[^]
Burn it down. Burn the whole house down. Now. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Firstly, it's in Stralia so no worries.
Secondly, what in the name of civilized society are you doing reading that site? Last I heard Max Mowsley described it as too right wing for his tastes.
veni bibi saltavi
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The image was emailed to me, and I did a google image search to find out more. That site was top of the list.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Interesting how the internet is employed to beat things up. This would attract minimal interest in Oz - in fact many people regard their resident Huntsman spider as good luck. As far as tourists go we are happy that arachnophobes, crocodyliphobes and herpetophobes stay at home.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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pwasser wrote: herpetophobes
I suggest any fear of STD's is not irrational.
veni bibi saltavi
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Considering that "Worldwide rates of either HSV-1 or HSV-2 are between 60% and 95% in adults" (Wikipedia) it may be.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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To quote the article "It is a wolf spider which is poisonous but not lethal".
Well that's a good thing I was not planning on eating it, however I think I will pet it.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Please do.
I shall watch from a safe distance. A different continent, probably.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If it is poisonous then that's fine, I'm not going to eat it.
Venomous would result in the liberal applications of the swatting shoe however.
Elephanting Journos - first to criticise other people's English, yet still get it wrong even though it's their job to write.
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Keith Barrow wrote: liberal applications of the swatting shoe
Flame thrower.
Those little buggers are going to all grow up to be that size. And they may remember what you did to their mum... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I miss good English so much! I live in the US. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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"an unknown location in the Sunshine State"
Is that just a really sh*tty state, or state full of sunshines? 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I thought it was where MM lived 
veni bibi saltavi
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Nah, he's in Rooty Hill or very close by (http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/5019536/Kevin-Bloody-Wilson.aspx[^]). In either case - he's in NSW.
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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Both, to be honest. Wouldn't go there for a holiday if you paid me.
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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Ugh... The video on the bottom isn't any better..
But why exactly did they blank out the names of the facebook screenshots but wrote the names wrote the names associated to the text right below (or above)? 
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The scientific term for this is a NOPE.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Burn it down
I'd rather burn the spider, I don't think setting the electricity meter on fire would help.
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That should take care of any fly problems they may be having. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Don't be silly. Want one! (UK arachnids are so dull!)
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I........hate.........spiders.
shiver
Marc
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Whack the bastard with a thong, that will discourage it from nesting in you electricity box, no not that thing the footwear thong[^].
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Damn! What a cruddy smart-meter. The ones we have here all use the ZigBee protocol to form a mesh network. A mate in the retail account division of one of power companies informs me that they've got a granularity of ~30 minutes on all readings so as to better perform load balancing.
Haven't seen a meter reader round these parts in several years now. It also means they can cut-off your power remotely, which netted someone I know a couple of grand after she was erroneously cut-off and the ombudsman hit the company with a big stick. :Laughs: You'd have thought she was going camping with all the battery powered LED lights she had to buy.
Unfortunately, our meters are still a bit crap and the power companies are too frightened to give us the key needed to perform a pull-request on the meter reading with a wireless unit, so we're stuck with counting LED flashes to get 'instantaneous' rate of consumption, or to walk out and look in the box to get a live reading.
The spiders? Meh. You haven't lived until you've dodged a snake on the way to the dunny, only to share the cubical with a red-back spider. Some loos have air-freshner in em, others just have a can (or assortment) of bug-spray.
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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