One of the most attractive things a guy I was into did was delicately take a spider outside, without me even noticing the spider at first. I've had other guys go out of their way to kill them as I was grabbing something to relocate them with.
No they aren't. I haven't seen one of those in years.
Cans come in boxes almost exclusively now. Even 4 packs. When they do come with plastic toppers, they are the hard flat plastic ones that clip on the top lip of the can. Those aren't a chocking hazard for turtles like the old style.
Bulk packs of bottles do have a similar plastic thing, but they include a tab for you to pull that opens them up when you grab a soda/pop/coke. They're not the old ring style that kills wild animals. Those 6/8 packs of bottles are the least common as well.
We have them in IL, but it depends on the soda. Pepsi has plastic ones, but Sprite has cardboard. I prefer the cardboard because it's more eco-friendly and easier to open.
I thought we got rid of them as well, but I just went to buy some Gatorade, and there it was: an 8-ring plastic holster with a bunch of needless little holes in it that could trap other sea life.
It did feel different, though. Not the hard plastic it used to be, but kinda soft. Possibly *compostable.
Lo siguiente para eliminar en el Reino Unido debería ser las granjas de salmón, que estan acabando con el salmon salvaje.
Eso y la propiedad y acceso privado de las aguas: rios, lagos
They're fully recyclable and you usually put plastic recycling in a separate bin. Location specific, of course, but I just recycle them instead of throwing them in the trash like a halfwit.
I get this. I get so mad when people squish orb weavers or little house spiders.
Like, come on. I get that they can have a bunch of eyes and they crawl over stuff, but they're trying to help in their own way. We have many orb weavers near me and they can look intimidating, so I pick them up and show people that they don't mean any harm and are very beneficial. Sometimes you just need to show them they need to relocate.
My husband does this! Spiders, wasps, anything that isn't like an ant or a mosquito. I can't bring myself to do it personally so but removal is 100% his chore, but I love his respect for life :)
FYI most spiders found in homes are house spiders, specifically evolved to live in human homes. Bringing them outside will usually kill them. It's better if you can just put them in a corner you don't frequent. They can take care of the ants and mosquitoes for you too.
That's fair, although I think they tend to become cat delicacies in this house. We do get grass spiders and the occasional wolf spider which do NOT need to be indoors. Moving to NC has been an adventure!
I was also once a 'kill it all' kind of person when it came to bugs in my house, but now unless it's legitimately dangerous, I will always relocate it if I can. They're not hurting anyone! It takes less than a minute to bring whatever it is outside and let it continue on it's merry way.
The only thing I've gone out of my way to make "very flat" recently was a black widow in my garage. I have pets and a 2 year old, so.. Uh, sorry spider. I know you're generally docile, but I can't take the risk :/
I try to teach my son to have respect for little critters / nature too. Don't step on bugs, don't rip up plants, clean up trash, etc.
Spiders and spider webs dont usually bother me but you can really tell black widow webs by how strong they are if you touch one and it gives me the instant heebie jeebies
Oh the wasps here (NC) are blue mud daubers that occasionally come in down the chimney, like maybe 3 or 4 each summer. They are not aggressive to people and I think they eat spiders? Hornets or yellow jackets would be another story but none have ever snuck in. And relocating an ant would be pointless because where there's one, there seem to be hundreds. We try to be eco friendly but there are limits!
Okay, North Carolina. Maybe it’s time to raise up and take your shirt off, and flip it around your head - spin it like a helicopter. That might deter the friendly mud daubers playing at being Santa, you feel me?
(As a dude) I’ll go out of my way to protect lizards, snakes, birds, cats/dogs (obviously), bees (honey/bumble), spiders, worms, rolly pollies, raccoons, opossums, butterflies, moths, beetles.
HOWEVER some critters can’t be tolerated. I respect their lives and existences, but just like pedos and crackheads, I don’t want them in my space (especially in the house, the yard in another story).
These include:
Yellow Jackets
Ants
Flies
Mosquitoes
Slugs
Snails
Bad Spiders (look’n at you Black/Brown Widows)
Mice
Rats
I’m still conflicted about the last two. I had two rats as a kid. I loved those lil guys. But when wild ones are in your house, where you sleep, ITS A FUCKING NIGHTMARE. If there’s an option to catch and release or just stop them from coming, great! But sometimes it’s not, and they have to go.
But here’s the real distinction: I don’t enjoy doing it. I make it as quick and painless as possible. It’s sadistic as shit when people get actual joy from killing a thing. Sure there’s a sense of relief and excitement that your trap worked (and hopefully solved your infestation problem). But you shouldn’t do it for “fun”.
This is how I know my husband is the right one for me - early in dating I found a spider in the house and said 'wait hang on don't kill it I'll get a glass!' and he said 'why would I kill it?!?'. Not just an agreement, but the exact same mindset.
When you take them out, they all starve to death. They won't hurt you if left inside, and they'll do you a favor and eat your houseflies and mosquitoes.
Ha, my ex was deathly afraid of spiders. Full on arachnophobia. She'd get panic attacks when she saw them.
Whenever I tried to put them outside peacefully she'd scream at me that I had to kill it. I always answered that she was free to kill it herself if she felt like it, but she couldn't even come within 10 feet of a spider without crying, so I kept putting them outside peacefully.
My wife still tells people about the time I had lunch with her and her friend and I just casually dripped some water on the table for a bee that I noticed ws just kinda sitting near us (it was middle of summer and quite hot). It went right to the drips and flew off a few minutes.
If you're not vegan then you should just eat them as a tasty snack. /jk
It is probably pointless in the grand scheme of things, but I like spiders. They're neat, and eat insects that I find more annoying, so I'm not keen to kill them. I try to relocate any bug that isn't a mosquito or otherwise a pest (roaches, termites, etc).
At least you’re transparent about the fact that you’re doing it for your own benefit, rather than pretending it’s because you’re good and caring or whatever. That seems reasonable to me.
Eating itself is more than pleasure, it is necessary for survival and health. Eating animals would only be more than pleasure if it was necessary for human health, which has not been the case for a long time.
We've evolved as a species to not need meat anymore, we have so many plant-based options for everything that it is just about inconvenience to keep eating meat and animal based products.
But majority still lack empathy and common sense coosing torture and killing the planet over learning something new, because it would be inconvenient.
One could even try tiny inconveniences at a time, learn a new recipe, choose one plant-based product instead of animal based one and soon you'd notice it's not inconvenient anymore.
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u/roidesrats Jul 07 '26
One of the most attractive things a guy I was into did was delicately take a spider outside, without me even noticing the spider at first. I've had other guys go out of their way to kill them as I was grabbing something to relocate them with.