Phobias

[sgporsche48]

So one of my worst phobias just came about and it got me to wondering what strange phobias the people of this fine establishment have?

For myself:
Spiders (the one that just came about...uuggghhhh)
Heights/Falling
Anything being too close to my eyes

These are all I can really think up right now but I'm sure there are more.

So, how about yourself?

[6hm]

i used to hate anything or anyone touching my wrists...
but i lost that somewhere along the lines

used to be afraid of heights but now i have a job where i'm up very high all the time and usually sleepy while i'm up there...hmmm i need to re asses my goings on i think (the harness does highlight my package well though)

[Uber]

Ahhh, the trials and tribbulations of a peeping tom, hey sixy?

My fear; sock puppets. Long story which i won't bore you with.

[riott007]

maggots, math, tall people with limps, hippies, wal-mart, big butts with wedgies, huggers and feelers.

[Norrie]

...tall people with limp...
Limp what?

[riott007]

sorry..I should have just said NORRIE. my bad.

[hippieking]

I've always hated spiders and people who ask to many questions...
weee :scooter:

[Jase180]

i'm a certified card carrying Arachnophobia havin fool.

yup, wanna see a grown man run like an 8 year old girl with a skinned knee, well then there ya go.

I loathe spiders

[Killian]

Chalk me up for Spidders as well... hate them with a passion beyond understanding...

Speaking of which, I had a titanic battle with one this very morning... bleedin house spiders; this one was the size of a mouse (no joke) :eek:.... <shudders>... doesn't help my missus is more scared of them than I am, so guess who gets the plum job of removing the blighters when they appear...?

[sgporsche48]

Thought up another one...HOUSE CENTIPEDES.

http://images.whatsthatbug.com/images/house_centipede_named_bob.jpg

Now tell me this wouldn't scare the crap out of you! They bite too.

[Killian]

Jesus...:scared:

[Norrie]

You weak willed cretins.

Nothing scares me but the gawping maw of infinity bearing down on me at a faster and faster rate, until oblivion.

Still, mustn't grumble.

[sisch]

Thought up another one...HOUSE CENTIPEDES.

http://images.whatsthatbug.com/images/house_centipede_named_bob.jpg

Now tell me this wouldn't scare the crap out of you! They bite too.

Urgh.... where does this thing live?

I have always been afraid of spiders - but it got much better we started selling Tarantulas in our shop. It really helps if you see something daily (and it helps too if it's behind glass walls). As I'm the one for analising everything, I know it's especially the long legs moving very fast which make me freeze in fear - as long as the spider doesn't move, it's halfway okay...

I really love these little critters (Dolomedes fimbriatus):

http://tmohost.com/espacePrive/sisch/MAK000037-gerandete-.jpg

They are the only spiders I can actually touch - and they hunt their prey not with nets, but by creeping on them and pouncing... I think they're cute!

What I'm really afraid of is suffocating, drowning... anything that has to do with not being able to breathe.
I'm allergic to pet rabbits (learned that the hard way when I had one at home) - it brings on asthma... and the fear of not being able to breathe properly.

[BenTuttle90]

http://www.ultimaterollercoaster.com/themeparks/new03/cp_dragster/img/cp_topthrill_photo.jpg

I'm scared of this ride, even though I never been to Cedar Point. I will face my fear someday and ride it.

Hey its over 400 feet tall....and 120 mph..

I'm scared of spiders too, but not that much...

[Killian]

You weak willed cretins.

Nothing scares me but the gawping maw of infinity bearing down on me at a faster and faster rate, until oblivion.

Still, mustn't grumble.


...so the thought of one of these...
http://www.spidatrap.com/content/images/big/Dangerous-Spiders-Mouse-Spider1.jpg


whizzing up the leg of your pants doesn't cause your bladder control to twitch, even ever so slightly?

[Norrie]

Nope. It's tiny and small.
I'm more concerned about tiny and small people being in control of my world.

Why would it want to harm me? Im not food.

[Dulci]

Bees. I knock on the top of car handles before I put my hand in them just in case a bee is lounging underneath. That's just one example of my bee eccentricities. I hate bees. When they fly past me I stop talking and close my mouth (yeah yeah yeah to all you who say too bad more bees don't fly past you then I say pfftt!). I shake my skirt constantly to make sure there are no bees flying up where no bee should EVER GO! If one flies into my car good god. Eep! Eep! Eep! If there's a bee or a bee nest/hive nearby I cannot stop staring at it. It's a morbid fascination at that point.

*shudder*

[sgporsche48]

Why would it want to harm me? Im not food.

They also attack when feeling provoked, don't they? I know they're probably more scared of us than we are of them...but why on earth is anything like that alive?

[Norrie]

They also attack when feeling provoked, don't they? I know they're probably more scared of us than we are of them...but why on earth is anything like that alive?

They have their place in the wonder of life. Unlike Republicans :)

[db4321]

I'm not sure any of these are actually phobias, but here I go ad nauseum

Wasps

If ever I find myself in the same room as a wasp, I usually run out screaming "Run for your lives, there's a wasp, arrrggh!"
I know they are supposed to form some useful purpose but to me they are the thugs of the insect world the way always seem to make a beeline (sorry, no pun intended) for you (well, me anyway). :sweatdrop:

Heights

I get all jittery just going on a step-ladder.

Theme Parks

I refuse to go on any theme park ride. Not today, not ever. I just don't believe that they are safe. I admit I can be quite annoying with my constant whingeing and moaning when I'm at a theme park:

"I'm not going on that! Look at them they're all upside down, for goodness sake. They could fall out!"

"It's supposed to go upside down. But nobody's falling out are they?"

"No, but if anybody does fall out, they'd better not land on my head."

"Oh, for goodness sake. Do you want me to buy you an ice cream to shut you up?"

"Ooh, yes, please."

"Your worse than a child."

Yes, I am that bad/annoying.

[Norrie]

Heights as a phobia:

As Terry Pratchett so wonderfully put it – height never killed anyone. The ground always does. Why is no one afraid of "Grounds"? :D

[sisch]

Heights as a phobia:

As Terry Pratchett so wonderfully put it – height never killed anyone. The ground always does. Why is no one afraid of "Grounds"? :D

Haha, I was thinking about the same thing - don't you love your Pratchett... :D

And on a totally unrelated note - why are those damn smilies constantly changing positions in the list? Can't they stay in place, for gods sakes? :hammer:

[Norrie]

Haha, I was thinking about the same thing - don't you love your Pratchett... :D

And on a totally unrelated note - why are those damn smilies constantly changing positions in the list? Can't they stay in place, for gods sakes? :hammer:

Yes Sisch. I do love Mr Pratchett :) A genius with language as a tool.

On the unrelated note – I think it's a most commonly used thing. If I was obsessively concerned with being proved right at all times, I could carry out multiple pointless tests and prove nothing...

but I'm not, so i shall remain a theory (or should that be theorem?)

Now, where's my smiley of choice

[db4321]

Heights as a phobia:

As Terry Pratchett so wonderfully put it – height never killed anyone. The ground always does. Why is no one afraid of "Grounds"? :D

I'd never thought of it like that. Thankyou.

Grounds

I get really jittery just having both feet placed firmly on the floor.

[Norrie]

I'd never thought of it like that. Thankyou.

Grounds

I get really jittery just having both feet placed firmly on the floor.

Quite right too.
I'm assuming you're aware that, due to polarity and other dull physics things, your feet are not actually on the floor?

A combination of attraction and repulsion keeps you fixed in space above a planet spinning through space towards inevitable nothingness.

Night night children... sleep tight :angel:

[db4321]

Quite right too.
I'm assuming you're aware that, due to polarity and other dull physics things, your feet are not actually on the floor?

A combination of attraction and repulsion keeps you fixed in space above a planet spinning through space towards inevitable nothingness.

Night night children... sleep tight :angel:

In that case, I'm completely up the creek!:eek:

[Killian]

...Norrie... purveyor of disturbing truths since 1866 :)

On the subject of fear of falling, there is of course the old adage "it's not the fall you should be afraid of... it's the sudden stop at the end that's the problem".

On topic, what's the most bizarre phobia you think of?

Here are a few examples:-

Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13 (kinda understandable from a cultural aspect, given the unlucky connertations of the number 13)
Geliophobia- Fear of laughter
Sesquipedalophobia or Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words (don't read that if you suffer from it, by the way...)
Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis (rough one if you work in the porn industry)
Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat (how obscure is that one?)
Hypno or Somniphobia- Fear of sleep (one for Dulci there :))
Apiphobia - Fear of bees (another one for Dulci)
Teutophobia- Fear of German or German things (one for Sisch :))
Ecclesiophobia - Fear of church
Hobophobia- Fear of bums (not to be confused with...)
Rectophobia - Fear of rectum or rectal diseases (which is fear of the other kind of bum)

[Elbow]

Novercaphobia: Fear of your step-mother. Mine buried three husbands and two of them were only sleeping.

[Roger]

I have an irrational fear of birds, especially dead ones.

I have got better as I have got older. But if a bird gets in the house, don't try talking to me, because I am already gone! :scooter:

[FredTheDuck]

I'm a phagocoprophobe... bonus points to anyone who knows what that means :smartass:

Other than that though, can't really think of any phobias I have... can get claustrophobic if I'm pressed too much, and am sometimes a little...almost scared by people I don't know (but I'd put that down to shyness and low levels of confidence), but other than that... not a lot really... unless there's a phobia for axe-wielding maniacs (although that would be a genuine reason for fear, as opposed to an irrational one, which would be a phobia... :p)

[ChatNoir]

I’m fine with spiders. Occasionally, I even have pleasure killing them.

I’m afraid of neither the height nor the ground (only of a fall and a crash).

What I’m the most afraid is people:
- a group of people in front of whom I have to talk (I once held jobs that required me to do just that. My life was a nightmare.)
- people whom I don’t know very well and who are friendlier than the normal people (This is the fear I don’t understand)
- people who don’t wash their hands after touching a toilet lever (This is the fear I furiously defend as being completely rational)

[tsunamidog]

you know what scares me?

the Burger King guy. seriously...thats pretty much the only phobia i got...BurgerKingaphobia

bees used to freak me out big time...but now i just find them annoying.

[FredTheDuck]

I’m fine with spiders. Occasionally, I even have pleasure killing them. You're not the only one, I used to catch them, put them in a jar (occasionally feed them, but rarely), and then watch them eat each other after several days of starvation :p