Scary Alert!! Arachnophobia ahead
 

Are they really this big "Down Under"?

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/03/13/massive-6-inch-hairy-spider-saved-from-mind-blowing-australian-flood.html

Fox News does actual science shows?

I will be in style with "American Grown" padded hips but those outfits are another story. LOL

When I click your link I get some very scary fashions but no spiders.

Those fashions could gag a maggot!

Chasing Hawk--The link is wrong but I can tell you from personal experience, that the Huntsman spider can be as big as a soup bowl. They usually travel in pairs and are completely harmless, sitting still on a floor or wall, until they see a bug, then boy can they move!! I guess I should amend the 'completely harmless' because the couple of times I came in contact with one I sure jumped!!

Yes, they get that big LOL ... and nothing that can scare the heck out of you is completely harmless hahahahaha ...

Fox News has many science and history documentary series. And they are good, must be as my grands like watching them and they are documentary snobs. LOL

There are big spiders here in the US too. I lived in the Southwest for awhile, they have tarantulas there. Did you know that tarantula spiders migrate? They do. Every year during migration they would cross a road I regularly drove on. I would see one from quite aways away, and usually was able to swerve to miss it. The first year this happened I remember thinking, " I can't believe the spiders are big enough to see them crossing the road", and then thinking, "I can't believe I live where the spiders are big enough to see them crossing the road!"

And traffic stops to let them pass. At least that is what happened when I lived in southwest many, many years ago. I have a friend in Australia that has a big huntsman spider in her garage from time to time. All she does is take a broom and sweep it outside. Blech!

Watch out for traveling spiders. We have a road in a local forest service area that is closed every spring for snake migration.

My husband is a science and history junkie and he says Fox News science shows are very good. But then Fox News is also good and accurate.

UNBELIEVEABLE!!!!!!!!!!! looks like they all fell out of Alice and Wonderland, only wearing extreme nightmarish clothing....all of these designers must be on drugs. who would clap for this hideous fashion show? Atrocious! One trick pony and your out, NO ONE WILL PURCHASE ANY OF THESE CLOTHES, LET ALONE WANT TO REPRODUCE THEM FOR THE PUBLIC.

I also got the "fashion" show - that was scary enough!

I did click on the link at the bottom for Valentino's show and was impressed with his fashions. I would actually wear them.

I got the gawdy fashion show too. Disgusting! Course those skinny, anorexic could use some 'meat' on their hips; even if fake. I don't like spiders either and geckos in my HOUSE; creep me out. It's bad enough they scare me outside but NOT IN MY HOUSE! Uck!

All I got from this link was a fashion show of some really scary fashions. Whole pages of them. Would prefer the spider.

There are some stunning dresses in this show, such imagination is wonderful, and the design details of embroidery, frills and frippery complements the white and grey palette to a T.
Loved the fun, futuristic and, colourful hair styles too.

Thanks for the laugh!

I didn't see any spiders, and it opened a Washington Post link that wanted me to subscribe before I could see it. Then I just googled "giant Australian spider" and got this, which oddly opened for me without the demand that I subscribe: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.54a2751261ea

Spiders have a role in the ecology and very few are harmful to people. They just want to be left alone. I'm on the side that says "heartwarming story."