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[–] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I had one of these roll over my hand when I picked up a bottle of water two weeks ago. Made a good thud when it landed on the ground.

Thank fuck it was really slow to walk away so I could get a glass to trap it in.

Released 100m from my house because I couldn’t bring it over me to let it starve over days or weeks.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

'murican here. Comfortable with the metric system, but not used to seeing number+m to represent meters, so at first I read that as "100 million" and was thinking you shouldn't just burn the house down, but the entire fucking city.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Also an American. I couldn't imagine how big that was so I went outside and measured. It's between 1000 and 1050 Big Macs away from his house for anyone wondering.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm in Tennessee, can you translate that into bullets per square child or bald eagle tail feathers, please?

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, but it's about 50 bald eagle wingspans.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

whistles whoo, doggy, that's a lot of cowboy boots!

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fair play though, that’s a monster of a house spider.

[–] urda@lebowski.social 20 points 2 weeks ago

*garage dog

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

NGL, that's actually a really good scale item. Only problem is you just gave that spider a melee weapon.

[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Wrenches come I a million different sizes though. My dads lab had a huge 10 pound wrench that looked just like that

[–] Threeme2189@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why would a Labrador Retriever need a bigass wrench?

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 weeks ago

To fuck shit up.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

He’s a garage dog, he needs tools

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, combination wrenches come in a million different sizes that are all clearly labeled as to what size they are, in standardized units, with either end of the wrench giving you a visual scale of the labeled size, making it easy to determine the scale of an object.

It would be pretty simple to resize that image so the opening of the wrench was 15mm on whatever screen you were viewing it on, and measure the spider accordingly. This is why it makes a good scale.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

This one is a 15mm

[–] JoShmoe@ani.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

Spider like nah dude I don’t work for you.