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Having a chat about this in the office today and for me (rather stangely as i spend a lot of time on a bike in forests) its spiders

I know its daft im a grown adult, they are tiny and cant really do you any harm (well uk ones) but i just hate them they creep my out and i squash them as soon as i see one

so whats your phobia?


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 2:36 pm
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The touching of Fish, especially eels.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 2:38 pm
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Rodents. I can't even see a picture of a rat without a certain part my anatomy shrivelling up.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 2:39 pm
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Really steep trails. Even if I know I can ride them I still usually jey out at the top.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 2:39 pm
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tight confined spaces.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 2:41 pm
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Elevated woodwork, tyre-width ruts, ill-health


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 2:41 pm
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flying, although I am getting better.

A plane always seems to crash the day before I fly though


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 2:42 pm
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Spiral staincases. Tight ones like you find in castles.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 2:43 pm
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Same as Ton (i'm not as big as him tho!)


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 2:43 pm
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Obesity


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 2:46 pm
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Those pan scourers made of the really thin green metal strands with that pink soap embedded in. The way they feel in the hand when dry is ungodly. Just typing this has given me shivers.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 2:46 pm
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heights, sprouts and stinking blue cheese


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 2:46 pm
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Injections. So much so I actually punched a nurse who was trying to administer my measles jab at school (panic attack/fight or flight reaction - I apologised a lot afterwards) and spent the next year or so seeing a psychologist about it. It's not the pain side of it, it's the thought of metal under my skin. Can't even watch Casualty if they're sticking needles in people. Have had all my travel jabs recently and it took serious relaxation exercises and telling the doctor "if I pass out, just give me the damn jab while I'm unconscious".


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 2:48 pm
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Clowns.

Seriously.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 2:52 pm
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Heights and flying.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 2:54 pm
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heights
deep water
spending time with my sister
having my penis chopped off in a freak accident.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 2:54 pm
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So you're fine if it comes off in a run-of-the-mill accident then?


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 2:56 pm
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+1 for rodents

Family gatherings I can't get out of

Anything that comes too close to my eyes


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 2:56 pm
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heights
deep water

Those aren't phobis.

I don't think I have any.

For Saxonrider and Bregnate.

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Posted : 05/10/2011 2:59 pm
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chubby cyclists. one fell on me once, i was lucky to survive.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 3:00 pm
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ohhhhhh anything coming to close to my eyes +1squillion!

things moving rapidly towards my face, even if its mrsconsequence pouncing on me for a kiss really freak me out... always put it down to working in psych units.

oh and chickens, horrible little beady eyed pecky beaked feathered bastards! used to be fine with them, but now even a photo of them makes me feel uneasy. i must've been gang raped on an organic farm as a kid and my brain has blocked it from ym memory or something!


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 3:00 pm
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Cottage cheese, ok not a phobia, but it makes me puke, just thnking about it. looks like puke, smells like puke, bleuuuuergh


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 3:01 pm
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Orange Fives.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 3:02 pm
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Heights, I have an irrational fear of heights, can get proper vertigo (you go stupid dizzy).

I have spent my entire life trying to face my fear, done every kind of mountain sport, ski and snowboard down anything, when I was a young photographer, went to the very very top platform above this huge crane building the biggest building we had round where I then worked and took a shot with a new fangled lens called a fish eye, all driven by this irrational problem.

Even now if I don't have a board or a bike under me I struggle to get near the edge of a rooftop or a cliff, it's totally stupid, I've often wondered why, I must have been killed in a previous life falling off something..

Then the other question if you have some stupid fear like this, why do you feel you have to 'face' it down..

Mental, clearly I'm not all there..


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 3:03 pm
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I don't feel the need to 'face down' cottage cheese no...

LOLing at Drac, meany. 😀


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 3:04 pm
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Lifts, hate them, fear of getting stuck in them.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 3:12 pm
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It was needles, but then my daughter contracted type 1 diabetes so I had to MTFU about it very quickly.

Oddly I can't watch anybody else handle them yet though.


 
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This guy...

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Posted : 05/10/2011 3:21 pm
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Springs and the ground.

Lifts, hate them, fear of getting stuck in them.

I got stuck in a lift once, far from being a frightening experience I found it quite funny.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 3:23 pm
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Has to be moths for me.. silly ****ers with no sense of direction.

A GF of mine used to hate wet wooden spoons!


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 3:49 pm
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Similar to Pyro - needles. But I can cope with being injected myself more than I can cope with seeing someone else being injected - I squirm when I see it on the TV (such as the heroin scene in Pulp Fiction).


 
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Syringes +a lot! I once bit my doctor. I had warned him that I was terrified and he implied that I should MTFU. I explained that I was serious and there was a high probability of me passing out. By the time he came at me with his poisoned nail, I had wrapped my feet around the legs of the chair and was holding on to the sides - knuckles white. He stabbed me with it and I keeled over - face planted on his office floor. He put me in the recovery position and as he stuck his fingers in my gob to retrieve my tongue, I started to come around; sensing a foreign object in my mouth, I bit down really quite hard. I had another jab to follow this and the same thing happenned again, this time he didn't bother fishing my tongue out.

The other thing is high bridges. I didn't realise this until about three years ago when I drove MrsG and the BabyGs over the Humber Bridge. I properly freaked out.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 3:54 pm
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monotony and tedium..


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 4:03 pm
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Hairdressers - haven't been for 23 years.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 4:10 pm
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Marriage!


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 4:10 pm
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Octopuses. Far too close to these for comfort.

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Posted : 05/10/2011 4:10 pm
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Drowning
Cotton wool


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 4:25 pm
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Elastic bands and other rubbery things, but only when stretched.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 4:28 pm
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Heights, which makes my job challenging


 
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Not a fan of spiders here either, although I think it's more their webs I don't like. They're sticky and feel weird.

Things I'm actually scared of:

Futurama being cancelled permanently.
Being seriously injured, in that it affects me for the rest of my life (that might not be a phobia though, that might just be common sense).
Being stranded alone in deep, open water.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 4:40 pm
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[i]Clowns.

Seriously[/i]

My stepdaughters ex bloke was scared of clowns as well. Which was odd cos he f***ing looked like one.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 5:27 pm
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Bigyinn
Cotton wool
Sandra - is that you ?


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 5:45 pm
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Spiders


 
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Injections. So much so I actually punched a nurse who was trying to administer my measles jab at school (panic attack/fight or flight reaction - I apologised a lot afterwards) and spent the next year or so seeing a psychologist about it. It's not the pain side of it, [b]it's the thought of metal under my skin[/b]. Can't even watch Casualty if they're sticking needles in people. Have had all my travel jabs recently and it took seriousrelaxation exercises and telling the doctor "if I pass out, just give me the damn jab while I'm unconscious".

This.

jolly well have not punched a nurse though.

Oh, and being on the edge of steep drops. Was on a very narrow trail on Conwy Mountain a few weeks ago, on the very steep side. Kevevs merrily scuttles along it, I almost had to crawl along it to get to flatter ground. Took me ages to get over my fear of even gentle drop-ins. Also, once stayed in a flat in NY, which had floor to ceiling windows. Being right up against the window, you're actually just right on the very 'edge'. Ok if I looked straight ahead, but as soon as I looked down.....


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 6:04 pm
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The combination of water and darkness.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 6:10 pm
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Offices with people and desks and chatter - horrible places

Moths


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 6:10 pm
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Ooh yeah don't like moffs. Fascinating creatures, just not when they're flying in me face trying to lay eggs in me eyes.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 6:13 pm
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Carnies - Circus folk. Nomads, you know. Smell like cabbage. Small hands.


 
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Spiders
Injections - not the pain just the thought of a needle piercing my skin then injecting some stuff.
Not sure if this is a phobia but when I'm somewhere high and exposed (like a chairlift or something) I have this weird urge to jump. I won't do it but there's a weird compulsion to do it 😆


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 6:16 pm
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skinny rat like people, who's ribs you can see, who pick over food and have those horrible thin boney pointy shoulders.

😡


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 6:19 pm
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Moths. Absolutely terrified of them.


 
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@philconsequence.

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Never fancied a big cock then?


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 6:28 pm
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skinny rat like people, who's ribs you can see, who pick over food and have those horrible thin boney pointy shoulders.

Ah Vegetarians.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 6:31 pm
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Not sure if this is a phobia but when I'm somewhere high and exposed (like a chairlift or something) I have this weird urge to jump. I won't do it but there's a weird compulsion to do it +1

first noticed it when i worked in les gets. first noticed it on the super morzine 4 man chair.


 
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Dinner parties full of middle managers dressed in chinos polo shirts with the collars turned up and timberland sailing shoes going on about their salaries rugger and asking "What are you driving these days?"


 
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WOOD ANTS. Long story short. Hit a tree at speed on a downhill trail. It was a KO. Woke up on a nest and covered in them. From that day they creeps me out.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 6:54 pm
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Moths and to an extend butterflies.
Idave and coyote, you don't know how much good it does to me to hear they freak you out as well.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 7:08 pm
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Don't really have any phobias
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Well, apart from dying


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 7:09 pm
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Bigyinn
Cotton wool

Sandra - is that you ?


IF the price is right....

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WOOD ANTS. Long story short. Hit a tree at speed on a downhill trail. It was a KO. Woke up on a nest and covered in them. From that day they creeps me out.


Ooooh makes me want to scratch all over. Eeeekkk


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 8:46 pm
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Spiders. Can deal with them outside OK-ish but inside not happy at all.

Large tropical type spider in my vicinity would seriously be a cardiac arrest job.


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 9:00 pm
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A bro-zilian in the changing rooms. 😯


 
Posted : 05/10/2011 9:13 pm
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[url= http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1000212761/ ]This does it for me...[/url]


 
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Unexpected chewy gristly bits on meat in stews/curries etc. Speshly if I've cooked it myself! It's not really a phobia, but I DO NOT LIKE IT.

oh, and public speaking in front of loads of people. Freaks me right out. No probs with a few people. Just when there's loads.


 
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