Spiders need better PR

They are small, the vast majority are harmless and almost all provide a decent service as part of the machine that is nature. Yet, the sight of one can send some people into total panic and most of us fear them to some degree. So where did the Spider go wrong ?

I tend to think it's not so much what they did but how long they have been around. I mean if you consider your own average week, perhaps you'll annoy one or two people or perhaps really piss someone off (especially if you are a driver). Perhaps in our lifetime of say 80 years we might even upset one or two enough for them to want us dead. Well for the spider multiply that buy a million or so years and you see how they suffer for just being around so long. It's a bit like the Microsoft bad service idea were you might find one million people who have a gripe but that reflects less then one per cent of their customers.

But spiders have a number of other problems too. Firstly their looks, ugly buggers or what ? In history Ugly = Evil. It's common sense, if god is in everything beautifull & good then the devil is in everything ugly & bad. Their passion for sneaking up on people doesn't help either does it.

Myself I stopped killing spiders a long time ago so if you have more around you then you can blame me :-) I don't like them enough to invite them around for Sunday tea but I'm happy to share my space with them and even clean up after the buggers. Be nice to a spider today.

Fake people Fake world

Talking of America - We've turned into this nation of overfed clowns, riding around in clown cars, eating clown food, watching clown shows. We've become a nation of cringing, craven fuckups." --James Howard Kunstler, author of "The Long Emergency"

It's not just the states sorry, no I'm not going to join in the general knocking that goes on there. I would broaden this to most of the modern world. The virtual world of the internet is fast becoming what is real while life "as we knew it" is fast disappearing under a blanket of commercially generated vanity.

Do you know what the person you woke up with really looks like or started out looking like ?


People now are simply fake, fake in appearance, fake in opinion and even fake in smell. Even our homes now are filled with fake items, well they always was but the fake smell is there too. Whatever happened to getting back to nature ?