OT: Woman sets house on fire while trying to kill a spider

[gremlin_95]

I'm speechless

[Nightjar]

Not surprising, after discovering there are other ways to kill a spider besides chasing after it with a flame thrower.

[Mike Barnes]

Why kill the spider at all, though?

[fred]

In article , Nightjar

[Nightjar]

You would be kept very busy if you tried to kill them all; there are, on average, 131 per square metre.

[GB]

131? You made that up?

[Andrew Gabriel]

I think she killed them all quite quickly...

[Mike Barnes]

27.64% of statistics are made up.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Mike Barnes escribió:

Quite. I rather like them, and they keep the insects down. If I find one stuck in the bath, I get it out carefully and gently put it outside.

[F Murtz]

In fact some say you are never more than a metre away from a spider.

[Nightjar]

That is the result of a survey carried out in the UK and Holland a few years ago. Another figure given is one million per acre but ICBA to work out whether those two match. Most spiders are, of course, quite small.

[Nightjar]

I have seen a claim that, globally, spiders eat around one third of a million tons of bugs every day. I have no idea how accurate that is though.

[Mike Barnes]

I simply drape a towel over the side of the bath, and leave the spider to find its own way out. It never fails (though repeat visits do occur).

[PeterC]

[Tim Streater]

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[Brian Gaff]

I'm speechless that we are still propelling aerosols with flammable gas.

Brian

[Tim Streater]

What should we use instead then?

[Jethro_uk]

[Jethro_uk]

I caught an episode of Mythbusters last week, where they tested a myth involving spray on suncream (no I didn't know either). They commented the propellant was likely butane or propane, since they don't need much pressure in the can, or some reason like that.

Being of the slighly thick persuasion, I never understood why they can't just use pressurised nitrogen ...

[The Natural Philosopher]

Inflammable gas.