What's Your Phobia?

[jrs]

My fears are:

Arachnophobia (the fear of spiders) - depends on size.

The Fear of Heights . (Not everywhere).



Now what about you????

[FiLm Fr3aK]

Sankes man, defiantely snakes...

hahaha.. one time,
we were at the Columbus Zoo....(whoop whoop go Columbus.. anyway)

along the path thing where you walk at one point there is like this little over pass tunnell of love type archway thing you have to go under... anyway.. going in I see this woman standing there holding this huge fu**ing snake....HUGE.. wrapped around her waste over her shoulders ect... anyway.. so I get on the other side of the path thing as far over as I can right.... walking walking not lookig back.. then tap tap tap on my shoulder.. turn around thinking it was my boyfriend.... WRONG it was that woman holding that fu**er straight up in my face.... first reaction fight or flight man...I punched that bi**h and ran like there was no tomorrow..... havent been back to that zoo either....

:D

true story I swear.

[jrs]

Whoa! :eek:

[Gracie]

Cool! I hate:

Spiders
Zombies
The spooky pics Fez posted
small animals

[The Silver Bullet]

Funny thing with snakes.

When we were in Bali we went to this reptile park of sorts and there was a King Cobra behind this glass panel and it was doing is normal cobra-thing, the being coiled around, but it's head sticking straight up look and my Mum [who wears glasses] bent down to look it in the eyes. Well, the snake, no doubt, saw it's reflection in Mum's glasses and attacked the glass. No joke the single most sudden shock any of us have ever experienced in our lives. That thing was fast!

Well, that was it for Mum, but not for my three brothers who took to tapping at the cobra's glass with their fingers this little venture, I can tell you] and then when our Dad came along, they borrowed Mum's glasses from her, just so they could see the entire show again...

[LordSlaytan]

Alimony payments scare the s**t out of me, but my lawyer says, "Brian, you have to face your fears". What are you gonna do?

[sadesdrk]

Aw. Brian. :( Wanna talk about it? :)

Okay: Phobias: On a scale of scariest to the least scariest.

1. Being attacked by a shark

2. Being attackted by a serial killer. (That HAS to be a phobia)

3. Being tortured.

4. Being attackted by vicious dogs

5. Spiders.


it's a wonder I leave my bed. :(

[Jonny Goodboy]

Crocodiles - These miserable f***s have been around millions of years and have yet to make friends with anybody.

They`ll need a thousand dose`s of mega-prozac before they even think about not snapping your spine in two if you so much as squint in their direction.:eek:

Evil!-Pure Evil! :furious:

It doesn`t help either that I have this recurring Nightmare where a member of my family gets dragged from the river bank and shared out among a `Feast of Crocs` :bawling: (Just made that up-No idea what the technical term is).

:idea: Save my Family...Skin em all!...Before it`s too late damnit!

[sunfrog]

George w being re-elected.

[Yoda]

In that case, you'd better get yourself in a support group now, cuz Dubya ain't goin' nowheres. :p

I don't have any official phobias. I dislike spiders, but I'm not really "afraid" of them anymore. I take pleasure in killing them, more or less. Sharks, though, have and always will be my worst fear. My all-time worst nightmare involves a giant shark, and I had some bizarre shark-related dreams as a child. Very creepy stuff. Definitely my worst fear.

Scorpions freak me out like you wouldn't believe, too.

[Naisy]

im ***** scared of death, i know that people say you should accept death its a part nature, but i just fear the beyond, mainly because im not sure what is beyond. I dont really want to die, but i would still take risks, eg skydiving.

Also i fear losing all my friends, which is kinda embarrassing so keep this one to yourself SB :) . I just dont like to be alone forever

[patti]

i'm very sketchy about walking on ice.......lake ice. kkaaaaan't do it.

i don't like spiders but i don't freak, and i kill all ants that dare crawl on me.
small insects have no right to bite. neither do large insects for that matter.

:p

not any true phobias here. :nope:
i usually come to the rescue of the people freaked out by spiders, or snakes, or bats, or mice.....

i know someone with the real thing.....afraid of elevators, small spaces, crowds, and a whole lot more. she has panic attacks and wakes up in the middle of the night, every night, sick. poor thing.

there are some funny bizarro phobias out there. i used to have a list, maybe i can track it down.

[sadesdrk]

***Scary Story***

Okay, this happened to me tonight. I was driving home from a mini camping trip in Graeagle, Ca. It's about 2 hours from my house. I'm driving these woodsy back roads; it's about as dark as it gets...I'm low on gas. I figure there's going to be a gas station in this town I have to go through called Sierraville.
I get to the town. It's deserted, except for a small, dimly lit gas station. A ma and pa operation, not some fancy Shell or Exxon.
In the parking lot, there are two trucks. One with a guy sitting in the driver seat; the other truck has it's hood up and some guy poking around on the side of it with a couple of dogs. As I pull in, both men watch me. Intently.

I come to a stop and look in my rear view, and I swear to God, *shivers at the memory* the one guy makes hand gestures at his chest like he's squeezing breasts and the other one nods and smiles.

My heart lept and I pulled right the f*ck back out of there. There were red flags and all sorts of women's intuition warning bells going off.
I'm still a little shaken, but I made it to a nice gas station almost 30mi from that one. Thank you God. :)

[jrs]

Oooooooh I am very pissed.


Sades....... I wish I was with ya' to make you feel comfortable. I don't stand for anyone treating a female in that way.

Those a**holes need to be taught a MAJOR lesson!

[rubyblood]

This may sound weird, but my phobia is vomit, Emetophobia.

phobiaguide.com is the list of the scientific names, some are really weird, like fear of flowers.:laugh:

[Naisy]

I take back what i said before, my BIGGEST fear (not for the faint hearted)

My biggest fear is bald or muscly chicks, dont get me wrong im not sexist but when i saw the body builders in the commonwealth games i screamed like a baby, its just something i dont like to see :eek: this is serious too, it isnt a joke, i think its just me that feels this way so im thats why i call it a fear

[The Silver Bullet]

Sades....... I wish I was with ya' to make you feel comfortable. I don't stand for anyone treating a female in that way.

Technically, they didn't treat her badly as much as their behaviour was just in bad taste, vulgar and uncomfortable. I'm not saying what they did was right and I understand Sadie's fear [and she no doubt knows that in some backwards sort of way I agree with you, Jrs.] But still. Technically. And besides, I'd have to say that Jrs1013 trying to keep me comfortable is one of my own personal phobias.

Just kidding, man. Just having strange reoccuring images of a PM once read. Those truckers were real lady's men...


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Meanwhile, for those scared of crocodiles:

In 2000 when my family went on a long vacation up Australia's West Coast and up through the Northern Territory, we went to a place called the Daly River. Now, the Northern Territory is known for its Saltwater Crocodiles, the largest and most violent/dangerous crocodiles in the world [much more so than freshwater crocodiles which are considerably smaller and alligators who are far less powerful]. Anyhoo, one of the big thrills of the Daly River was the manner in which tourists would go down and shine a spotlight across the water. Now, during the day you could see maybe one crocodile on the opposite side of the river, lazing about. At night, you'd shine a light and hundreds of eyes would be reflected -- and that's a ghastly thing, especially when there are eyes in all sorts of places that you had been fishing that day. The second night we went down to spotlight the crocodiles I went down after the rest of my family. This was already scary. They had the torch and I was walking down a steep embarkment towards where I guessed they were. Daly River is in the middle of nowhere and the caravan park was basically empty. So I was already scared in a Deliverance sort of way [such events wouldn't suprise me; these places are remote]. When I reached my family I was already shaken, just because the caravan park wasn't a nice place, it was cold, and I had taken a risk walking towards them in the dark. When they shone the light across the water and there were no eyes staring back I lost it. I was convinced that the crocodiles were somehow behind us, and I was hearing wind and noises, and I began to scream, and this had a domino effect on my brothers and soon we were all screaming. But I tell you. You're standing in the dark in the place where no one can hear you scream knowing that you should be seeing crocodiles and aren't. That's scary.

On the same trip, on the Adelaide River, we went fishing in a little metal boat and we saw more crocodiles on that day than we did on any other. These boats had been fixed so that nothing could get through, which was a nice feeling, so watching the Saltwater Crocodiles was fine by us. But I still have an amusing story. I was sitting at the front of boat, looking towards the back and when I glanced to my side, no more than six meters away was the biggest saltwater crocodile we saw on the entire trip. In shock I stoof up and said, 'Holy sh*t!'

And then the crocodile slid itself back, like a truck reversing, turned itself a little and slowly swam towards the boat, submerging about half a meter away from it and under it. We didn't see it again, but that too was f*cking horrible.

Australia.
It's great!

:eek:

[Jonny Goodboy]

SB, ain`t it true that a lot of people in Aus go swimming with Freshies ?

Have you ever?
Would you ever?

[The Silver Bullet]

I doubt they go swimming deliberately as opposed to ignorantly.
The first crocodile we saw in the Northern Territory was a freshwater crocodile. How's that for Silver Bullet Trivia?

I haven't ever, and I probably wouldn't ever. I doubt a freshwater crocodile could kill me, but it'd definitely f*ck me up. I'm not taking the risk. I hate crocodiles.

[Naisy]

SB, ain`t it true that a lot of people in Aus go swimming with Freshies ?

:rotfl: unless your name is Steve Irwin OR you are oblivious to the fact that freshies are actually in the same water as you, NO ONE in their right minds goes swimming with Croc's and quite frankly never will

although i would consider it for a lot of money

[The Silver Bullet]

Like you've even had the chance to swim in crocodile infested waters...

[LordSlaytan]

When I was in the Army, I was stationed near Atlanta, GA. My wife and I had a home off base with a large pond on the backside of the property. There was a large croc that lived there, my friends and I used to get drunk and mess with the poor beast(never swam with it tho). When my 1st wife got pregnant, we had the pond drained and the croc removed.

I did however, have a water moccasin swim against my chest when we were out on bivwak...I turned the water a little yellow.:blush:

[The Silver Bullet]

Crocodile or aligator?

[Yoda]

It was a crocogator. :eek:

Another fear of mine: falling off of a cliff. It freaks me out more than most other methods of dying.

[Naisy]

Originally posted by The Silver Bullet
Like you've even had the chance to swim in crocodile infested waters...

Queensland actually and i was VERY brave!
mainly because they were in a zoo captivity

i actually think i would rather fall of a cliff than die of being eaten alive

[LordSlaytan]

Originally posted by The Silver Bullet
Crocodile or aligator?

oops, sorry...you're right...alligator, 5' long and old. We called him gummy:D

[Naisy]

:rotfl: Gummy? the poor thing

[Jonny Goodboy]

Originally posted by The Silver Bullet
I haven't ever, and I probably wouldn't ever. I doubt a freshwater crocodile could kill me, but it'd definitely f*ck me up. I'm not taking the risk. I hate crocodiles.

:eek: F****d up is definately a good enough reason not too.
There probably isn`t a wild Croc within 3,000 miles of my home, but still, I can`t help thinking twice whenever I step foot into a murky River bed here. :skeptical:

Naisy, I see you mention Steve Irwin , who is indeed one crazy cuckoo, but I`ve been watching another aussie on Discovery over the years, who I think is even madder :dizzy: .
His name (I think) is Rob Bredahl aka, The Barefoot Bushman .
I love watching him, but he makes me so friggin nervous at the same time.
Crazy, just damn Crazy! :yup:

[Naisy]

gotta love those Aussie icons.

I suffer from anuptaphobia (thats the real name for it). Dont pay me out for it!!!

[blibblobblib]

MOTHS

Big, dusty, fast bouncy moths......
(shudders) eeeeerrrhhhhhuuugg:sick: :eek: :sick:

[sisboombah]

moths and airplanes.

moths: they are like small miniture bats and they attack me in my sleep flying back and forth into my face each time getting closer to my mouth or my nose or my eyes and all i can do is wave my hands around frantically trying to attack this creature sent from hell! all this while its so dark i cant see a thing and ive been jumping around so long im disoriantated and havent a clue where the light switch went. the best thing i can do at a time like that is turn the light switch on to distract the creature from hell. finally i find the light switch and the moth flys towards the now blinding light, i try to let my eyes reajust and then search for a cup. once the cup is in my hand i have to catch the moth and then as a punishment for scary the living daylights out of me i keep it trapped under that cup till it dies there.

airplanes: especially big ones. i cant stand all that turbulence at such a great height. just one little thing to go wrong and it would all end. scared! screaming! heart attacks! stomach in mouth from the high speeds of dropping to the ground in screaming flames! not my cup of tea at all. yuk yuk yuk.

[rubyblood]

Mottephobia: fear of moths

[Sir Toose]

Nothing that makes my blood run icy...

I'm too old to have any real fears other than something untoward happening to my kids. You know, the Texas DPS has a website that lists child molesters by zip code... I have several in mine and one about 15 houses away from me. If anyone messed with my kids I would have no impulse control, none... nothing to stop me from getting seriously medieval.

I digress, my apologies.

Yes...so something bad happening to my kids is my worst fear/phobia.

I don't like spiders either. I bought a tarantula to combat my fear and the first time I got the courage up to hold it in my hand it RAN up my arm and down the back of my shirt and I FU**ING FREAKED OUT! Bear in mind that this spider was bigger than my hand and it had some SERIOUS fangs. I caught it after bouncing it around inside my shirt and really pissing it off... got rid of it the next day.

[CroweIsKing]

Wasps

Bees

Ants

Paper

Spiders

These are my only fears

[jrs]

paper?

[jrs]

Originally posted by Toose
You know, the Texas DPS has a website that lists child molesters by zip code... I have several in mine



I checked....there is about 6-7 within up to 10 miles from my house. Freaking scary. :eek:

[LordSlaytan]

Originally posted by Toose
Yes...so something bad happening to my kids is my worst fear/phobia.

I agree. I have two daughters, 4 and 11, when I see movies that depict child abuse, in any way, I always internalize it. I think about what I would do...

When my oldest daughter was seven, she went out bike riding with a local 11 year old girl. Now, the eleven year old was known to have some family problems, but she was a sweet kid when she was away from them. They had started riding their bikes,around one in the afternoon, by two, we were looking for them. At the time, my family and I were living on an island on the Columbia River, that seperated Washington and Oregon. It is about 5 square miles in size, with many stores, hotels, and restaraunts. Not to mention a main railroad line, which sported a great many transients. By five in the evening both of our families were in a panic. By seven in the evening the police were involved, plus a good number of our neighbors, yet there was no sign of the girls, or their bikes. I was looking by the train tracks in the brush. I can't describe how it felt, looking for my Angel's body, at the old quarry, or behind the train yards. I have been on the streets, been in jail, and fought in a war, but I had never known fear until then. Around nine that night, our neighbor went to a fast food place, Taco Bell, and he saw the bikes. they were hidden amongst some trees between the drive-in and the hotel next door.
Come to find out, the older girl wanted to go into the hotel, when she noticed some flyers for a convention advertising a free buffet. She was never fed very well, unless she came to our home. My daughter didn't know how to get back home, so she stayed with her friend. Maybe she was just caught up in the adventure of crashing a convention and stuffing her face, but when she saw all the police cars and all the family that came to give us their moral support, she broke down.
I kissed her and hugged her, and thanked doG that she was safe. Then I grounded her for two weeks.