Crap phobias

Northwind
Northwind Posts: 14,675
edited August 2009 in The Crudcatcher
Has anyone else here got a rubbish phobia? My fear of heights makes perfect sense, that's not rubbish at all. But mottephobia, now that's just weak. Can anyone beat my bloodcurdling horror in the face of tiny moths?
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  • lawman
    lawman Posts: 6,868
    i have a phobia of sharks .... but then they can like eat you :shock:

    mind you they is something triscidecaphobia, if thats how you spell it. fear of the number 13 :lol:
  • llamafarmer
    llamafarmer Posts: 1,848
    I'm scared of heights too, it sucks!
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,716
    Heights is annoying, I'm overcoming it though.

    Spiders is the annoying one. I'm getting a lot better, I can now handle spiders up to around a centimetre in diameter, still give me shivers though. Larger ones just freak me out completely. I know they can't hurt me, but I'm still terrified.

    Thing is, I can happily catch things like wasps and bees that I know can hurt me in pots or something, i don't mind much if they land on me. Spiders though...
  • llamafarmer
    llamafarmer Posts: 1,848
    I don't like spiders either, but 6 months living in Oz helped to desensitise me to the puny ones we have in this country :lol:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    Went to a theme park last week, and a friend of mine said she was scared of heights, an that the "apocalypse" at drayton manor would scare the crap out of her. I thought, meh, everyone says stuff like that before going on, and this girl ain't scared of ANYTHING!

    I noticed she was quiet on the way up in the ride, so I looked across and saw a ghost-white face, dripping sweat, hyperventilating, and gripping the hand thing so tight her knuckles were about to pop.
    I was genuinely worried, I've never seen anyone so scared in my life, I kept shouting "hold my hand!" but she was comatose!

    I felt really bad for a while for making her go on it - although she says she did enjoy it after the ride finished :lol:

    I have a sort of fear of heights, but I love the adrenaline rush, so I actually enjoy being high up!
  • Surf-Matt
    Surf-Matt Posts: 5,952
    Any man made object underwater.

    Locks, weirs, pipes, the underside of boats, ships, etc.

    The sink hole in Ladybower reservoir is the epitome of that fear...

    Strange as I love all sorts of water activities and have no fear of anything natural (apart from sharks!) like reefs.
  • paul.skibum
    paul.skibum Posts: 4,068
    I dont have any particular phobias - not keen on spiders or heights but not to a phobic level.

    IN Canada used to watch this series called Mantracker - two people attempt to get from point a to point b whilst being pursued by old style tracker dude on a horse - one slightly nancy city lad and his team mate are camped in tent overnight - girl goes off to pee in woods and nancy boy is terrified on the "prey cam" saying he has blahblahblahaphobia which is apparently "the fear of being alone in the dark at night in the woods". Doesn't everyone have that fear? Especially in the wilds of Canada with bears, wolves, big cats etc

    I also have a friend who has fear of dinosaurs - even a poster makes her cringe in fear.
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  • myopic
    myopic Posts: 692
    WHen I saw the title I thought you had a phobia about crap :D
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  • adb1006
    adb1006 Posts: 938
    Apparently i'm hippophobic - not scared of hippo's (although they are fcuking scary), but HORSES - i hate them! Often come across them in the woods and i basically shat myself, hyperventilate, and whatever riding buddy i can as a human shield.
  • schmako
    schmako Posts: 1,982
    Northwind wrote:
    Has anyone else here got a rubbish phobia? My fear of heights makes perfect sense, that's not rubbish at all. But mottephobia, now that's just weak. Can anyone beat my bloodcurdling horror in the face of tiny moths?

    Man, I hate those dusty little bastards too!
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    im terrified of enclosed spaces, the thought of being back in one makes me very uncomfortable.

    i did a working in confined spaces course about a year ago and i didnt know until the first test that i was claustrophobic. we were in blacked out masks so we were blind and wearing breathing apparatus and 5 of us were sent into this obstacle course from one direction, t'other 5 were sent in from another so at some point we woul have to cross each other.

    i had a very hard time, completed it, but needed talking round. the space was a network of tunnels made out of metall cages joined together so you can be watched by the instructors but obviously your are blind.

    it took me about 15 minutes to get round and that was about 9 minutes sitting in a corner of the course telling the instructor that i wanted to take my mask off and stop. what a baby. luckily im a PIC now so never have to go back into a tunnel again.
  • Mastineo
    Mastineo Posts: 182
    Worms, absolutely terrified of them!
    Odd thing is, we've got 15 snakes as pets.
  • Fish. I couldn't touch them if I wanted to. it's those beady little eyes. eww.
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  • Mrs Toast
    Mrs Toast Posts: 636
    Daddy long legs, as in the cranefly. Absolutely bloody terrified of 'em, couldn't go outside during 2006.
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Centipedes. Can't stand them.
  • blister pus
    blister pus Posts: 5,610
    Slugs, can't abide the things
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Face the fear...

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    Really do want to puke.
  • Chaz.Harding
    Chaz.Harding Posts: 3,144
    supersonic wrote:
    Face the fear...

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    Really do want to puke.
    Except... That's not a crap fear. Those big buggers can give you one hell of a bite / sting... They ain't friendly!

    :evil:

    Me personally, am NOT keen on heights. I spose I'm afraid, but I'll do my best to do whatever it is. Did the 'Tough Guy' event a few weeks ago, and did all the height obstacles :D

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  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    lawman wrote:
    i have a phobia of sharks .... but then they can like eat you :shock:
    If it is a rational fear then it's not a phobia.
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  • Im not phobic of anything, but dont enjoy heights. It wont stop me doing stuff, and have peered over the highest valley crossing in Africa, but refused the bungy-jump :wink:
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  • Heights.
    The weird thing is that as a kid I never had the fear. I used to run over a 30m long, 1m wide sewage pipe that was about 20m over a river EVERY DAY after school to go home.
    Now if I come close to a drop or even just watch one on TV I get crazy pins and needles in my feet and my legs turn to jelly. WTF?!?!?!

    And anything with more than 4 legs has no business living on this planet and if they come near me will suffer my wrath!
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    heights - a bit
    snakes - a bit

    I've overcome my fear of worms by handling them lots - bought a few for my compost heap and they had hundreds of babies :D - so no problem now

    slugs - if i look at one i feel like vomiting - it's not good.

    blood - sight of blood in larger than usual amounts can cause me to pass out. Had to be helped out of a screening of Reservoir Dogs once. I believe this stems from a trauma when I was kid - saw a woman run over by a bus - and all I cna remember was the huge pool of blood.

    Last time I saw a dead body on the road - a bloke who'd been run over by a lorry by Woolwich Common - there was a similar huge pool of blood - i didn't pass out - but I ended up having a really bad day....not as bad as the bloke who died though. :(
  • Rich9
    Rich9 Posts: 1,635
    Cant stand large expanses of water. I can just about manage to have a shower without going weak at the knees :shock: its a real $hitter on holiday when the kids are bombing around in the sea and I darent go near!
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  • I think I may win this one, most of the other fears mentioned are things that can hurt you (even heights, you're probably more scared of falling from that height).
    I suffer from Bambakomallophobia. Sounds cool? Google it and see what it is :oops:
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  • ramemtbers
    ramemtbers Posts: 1,562
    i am terrified of snakes :oops:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    I think I may win this one, most of the other fears mentioned are things that can hurt you (even heights, you're probably more scared of falling from that height).
    I suffer from Bambakomallophobia. Sounds cool? Google it and see what it is :oops:
    Fear of Orlando Bloom? :?:
    :lol:
    that can't be right, surely!
  • lol err pretty sure that's not right, I don't like him, but not scared of him :lol:
    Try googlin it again lol
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  • adb1006
    adb1006 Posts: 938
    Do clouds and sheep scare you too???
  • haha nope. It's not the sight of it as such, it's the noise of it, just thinkin about it now makes me shudder
    It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
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