Would you rather be in a 10x10 room with 100 rats or 1000 black widow spiders

[PleasureMoose]

My bad. Point still stands though. I could stomp 1000 of those fuckers in no time at all.

by the time you managed to stomp all 1000 spiders atleast one would've reproduced and hatched a 1000 more

 

[shiv]

Don’t ever describe your nightmares to me. Please.

Not gonna lie it made me uncomfortable to think about

 

[TJHall1]

by the time you managed to stomp all 1000 spiders atleast one would've reproduced and hatched a 1000 more

In less than 60 seconds rats would turn your asshole into the front door of their new home.

 

[TheFiend]

Rats or Spiders

A 10×10 room wouldn't be a room though would it? It'd be 2D aye.
Also is that in feet? or some other obscure imperial measure?

10ft³ is around 3m³, which is a decent sized space for the impending massacre.

Assuming the room is completely secure, and devoid of furnishings, just blank walls, ceiling and floor.

Dunno what the motivation is, I'd rather just not be in this infested room then gas it from the outside, as opposed to being in this room for an unknown period for no reason other than the choosing of which intolerable infestation is preferable. But if we're going by Saw rules so we're locked in the room, it doesn't really matter which roommates we opt for.

Any physically capable adult could easily slaughter 100 rats in no time, it'd be fuckin' gory though..

1000 black widows isn't even comparable. Maybe it'll take a bit longer methodically squishin' 'em one by one.

However if you switched black widows with Aussie white tails....fuck that I'd rather battle a thousand cracked out rats than risk potentially being covered in searing necrotic boils.
White tails are unsettling little cunts, highly agile, fast af, stealthy, and depending on whatever venomous spiders/or perhaps combinations thereof, they've been eating, their bites can range from excruciatingly painful but non-life threatening & temporary, to requiring amputation or possibly death.

Spoiler

Scientists apparently now claim white tail bites ain't that serious and don't cause necrosis. Dunno where the fuck they're getting that shit from. A white tail bit one of my toes once, nekminnit the whole top part was almost rotting off, and holy fuck it was excruciating.... took weeks to eventually start healing and months to completely. (*there's no Brown Recluse spiders here either)

 

[shiv]

A 10×10 room wouldn't be a room though would it? It'd be 2D aye.
Also is that in feet? or some other obscure imperial measure?

10ft³ is around 3m³, which is a decent sized space for the impending massacre.

Assuming the room is completely secure, and devoid of furnishings, just blank walls, ceiling and floor.

Dunno what the motivation is, I'd rather just not be in this infested room then gas it from the outside, as opposed to being in this room for an unknown period for no reason other than the choosing of which intolerable infestation is preferable. But if we're going by Saw rules so we're locked in the room, it doesn't really matter which roommates we opt for.

Any physically capable adult could easily slaughter 100 rats in no time, it'd be fuckin' gory though..

1000 black widows isn't even comparable. Maybe it'll take a bit longer methodically squishin' 'em one by one.

However if you switched black widows with Aussie white tails....fuck that I'd rather battle a thousand cracked out rats than risk potentially being covered in searing necrotic boils.
White tails are unsettling little cunts, highly agile, fast af, stealthy, and depending on whatever venomous spiders/or perhaps combinations thereof, they've been eating, their bites can range from excruciatingly painful but non-life threatening & temporary, to requiring amputation or possibly death.

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Scientists apparently now claim white tail bites ain't that serious and don't cause necrosis. Dunno where the fuck they're getting that shit from. A white tail bit one of my toes once, nekminnit the whole top part was almost rotting off, and holy fuck it was excruciating.... took weeks to eventually start healing and months to completely. (*there's no Brown Recluse spiders here either)

10x10 room is 10 feet x 10 feet. It’s the common nomenclature for America houses: 10x10, 10x12,12x12, etc. standard ceilings are 8 ft

We’ve got Brown recluses here in Alabama. They can infest houses in the walls and you won’t even know they are there. Never been bitten by one, but I saw a guy that had his leg hit. A huge gash in his calf that looked like it was rotting off

The thing about black widows is that they look like spawns of Satan. They are supposed to be passive and avoid confrontation, but I’ve been charged by one of there fuckers before





I used to be terrified of all spiders, but as I got older I don’t care near as much, but black widows….

As for the rats, I’m not as confident as you that they could be slaughtered. Especially if they were hurting for a meal. You could stomp them, but if they were charging you from all sides it could get tough

 

[Rebarcock.]

Rats or Spiders

Easily the rats. In college my roommate had a pet rat like in Shawshank. It was actually pretty cool.
Spiders don't scare me but I don't wanna be anywhere near a 1000 black widows

 

[Rebarcock.]

It depends on the logistics of how each were introduced into the room. But, let's say they are dumped into a room that you already occupy.

• 100 rats would occupy at least a third of the floor in the room. 3 rats/SF
• 1,000 black widow spiders would occupy about 5 SF of the room.

100 rats will straight up kill you in no time and they are incredibly fast and very hard to kill. Spiders have absolutely no interest in biting you if they don't have to.

I'm going to go with the spiders.

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In the summer of 2020, I was bitten by a brown widow (what the dr thought) on my forehead while I slept. I woke up with a bump the size of a golf ball under my skin and had to lay out of work for 5 days on antibiotics. On about day 3, the swelling ran down my nose and cheeks, and I looked like Rocky Balboa until it went away. It was pretty shitty.

Pics?

 

[Alpha_Cock]

Pics?

 

[TheFiend]

10x10 room is 10 feet x 10 feet. It’s the common nomenclature for America houses: 10x10, 10x12,12x12, etc. standard ceilings are 8 ft

Ahh, I think I understand.
So the general rule of thumb in the context of US houses, if length & width are given and no height is otherwise specified, then the ceiling height should be 8ft?

Tbh I can't recall ever encountering a similar practice here, but there could be a standard for modern builds.
From memory, around 2.4 meters is prolly the most common modern NZ residential ceiling height I ever came across in my years replacing gib(*wall panels/drywall) or wallpapering, although I've worked on properties with ceilings ranging anywhere from 2.2m right up to 8m and quite often even a single house could even have several different ceiling heights throughout too.

Not meaning to be rude at all, I just struggle to grasp the old British imperial system, except for ounces & pounds....these make perfect sense.

Do you use the metric system at all?

We’ve got Brown recluses here in Alabama. They can infest houses in the walls and you won’t even know they are there. Never been bitten by one, but I saw a guy that had his leg hit. A huge gash in his calf that looked like it was rotting off

The thing about black widows is that they look like spawns of Satan. They are supposed to be passive and avoid confrontation, but I’ve been charged by one of there fuckers before

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I used to be terrified of all spiders, but as I got older I don’t care near as much, but black widows….

As for the rats, I’m not as confident as you that they could be slaughtered. Especially if they were hurting for a meal. You could stomp them, but if they were charging you from all sides it could get tough

Yeah the description of Brown Recluse bites is exactly the same as what I've experienced from a white tail. C'ept there's none here and I'm not aware of other NZ spiders with necrotic venom, so I haven't worked out why Aussie & NZ science hippies have recently begun claiming white tail bites don't cause necrosis when real world experiences seem to disprove this claim. The alternative possibility is necrotic white tail bites being the result of residual vemon from recently consumed venomous prey spiders.
One single bite from a small White Tail essentially melted the skin away in minutes and almost rotted my whole toe, whereas I think multiple bites could've easily rotted my whole foot.

Those pics in my last post are of a whitey I caught the other day creeping across the bedroom ceiling. Usually find & splatter at least one or two every day.

There are also two relatives of the American Black Widow here too. The Katipo and Aussie Redback.

They're both venomous of course, but aren't really a major concern since there's antivemon available and they behave like typical spiders.... I can't stress enough that White Tails absolutely do not behave like typical spiders. I don't know how to accurately describe it aye man. Luckily they only get to a little over an inch or so (including leg span)....any larger, like if they ever reached tarantula proportions... we'd have serious problems.