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BessLane
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I have some very odd phobias. I will not touch a fluorescent light bulb (the long ones or the curly ones) because they are explody and untrustworthy. I won't touch a marshmallow. They are squishy and catch on fire very easily. I realize these are odd things to be afraid of, but so be it. So does anyone else have an "odd" fear?
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cliffdweller
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Maybe not a phobia, but I will feel uneasy around giant flags-- every now and then will drive by a (usually American) flag that's just massive and out of proportion. Something about that just disturbs me.
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Lyda*Rose
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My fear isn't unusual, but my solution to it may be. I am not crazy about heights, especially the edges of cliffs like at the Grand Canyon which I love to visit. I've decided that if I stay one and a half full body lengths from the edge, I can't fall over. So then I am free to enjoy the view in the knowledge I am safe. (I might feel differently in a high wind. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) )
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Lothlorien
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Birds. Wild birds are usually fine, in cages sort of ok although I would prefer them free. But flapping around me as my grandmother's budgerigar used to out of cage, or at sanctuaries like Currumbin on Gold Coast where they land on visitors at feeding time? That is terrifying
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jacobsen
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I don't know if this is fear or simply distaste, but I would hate to handle a slug. And large-bodied spiders are not nice, either.
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Adeodatus
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Wind turbines. When they're moving they look out of control and might kill you in needlessly slicey ways at no notice.
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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Large earth moving machinery *shudder*.
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LeRoc
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Crowds.
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Ariel
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Crane flies. I know they're harmless but they look just like flying spiders and they stagger and drift all over the place. The more you flap them away, the more they come towards you.
Trying to sleep with one in the room is a nightmare as their tendril legs suddenly tickle across your face and drift towards your mouth and nose in the middle of the night, causing you to suddenly wake up and scramble away screaming in the darkness. Then you remember that screaming means you've got your mouth open and they might get in.
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Piglet
Islander
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Mould, especially on food. **shudder**
If I find something that's gone bad in the fruit-basket, I have to get D. to throw it away - if he's not around, I can just about manage to pick it up through a wad of kitchen-paper, but it still makes me cringe.
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Bene Gesserit
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Crane flies. I know they're harmless but they look just like flying spiders and they stagger and drift all over the place. The more you flap them away, the more they come towards you.
Trying to sleep with one in the room is a nightmare as their tendril legs suddenly tickle across your face and drift towards your mouth and nose in the middle of the night, causing you to suddenly wake up and scramble away screaming in the darkness. Then you remember that screaming means you've got your mouth open and they might get in.
Hear, hear!! Crane flies are truly disgusting. ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
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Galilit
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Lawnmowers.
They are so noisy and cruel and almost always barely under the control of the mowing person who is a hater of grass and a control freak.
Ditto the sharp, horrid, mean and nasty single-wheel-y thing that they push around the edges of lawns cutting earthworms in half every revolution of their sharpened blade thingy.
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Bob Two-Owls
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Children, since I left teaching I get very anxious if young children come near me. I'm fine with teenagers, its just the younger kids and especially toddlers that creep me out.
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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Steel tape measures. I don't like the way they flop over and bend when extended. I don't trust them not to suddenly retract, taking my fingers with them.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Originally posted by Piglet:
Mould, especially on food. **shudder**
The slightest trace of butter in the Marmite or the jam. It turns me, as they say at home.
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Sioni Sais
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Fish
Not on plates, or even at the fishmongers, but live fish of any size give me the willies, whether they are in the sea, a river or an aquarium. I can appreciate the beauty of a manta ray, but I don't want to be confronted by one or even a 400lb halibut (which are almost as ugly as cod, but taste better).
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Lamb Chopped
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There's a particular song that was big during 1968 or so which used to make me terrified every time it came on the radio. I was about two. Even now when it (rarely) comes on it gives me mysterious horror (something about the tune). Brrrrrrr.
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Dafyd
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I have a slight fear of heights. Usually it's just slight. However, if I'm high up and there's something with no support from below at about my eye level, whether hanging from the ceiling, or the ceiling itself, I get the complete wobblies.
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Sandemaniac
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Touching nylon mesh. This may be a throwback to the 1970s, era of nylon shirts, where I burnt holes in not onee but two of the things by leaning against a Rayburn, but touching the stuff gives me the heebies.
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Brenda Clough
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There is an entire phobia about small holes. Naturally I have forgot the word for it, but it is not rare.
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Pigwidgeon
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Puppets -- the marionette kind, not hand puppets.
When I was about two or three I went to a puppet show of "Jack and the Beanstalk" with my mother and sister and spent the whole time sitting in my mother's lap, sobbing on her shoulder. (I only vaguely recall this, but my mother spoke to me about it years later. I don't know if I had to sit through the whole thing or if Mom took me out when it was too excruciating.)
The movie Parable came out when I was in high school, and we watched it at our Youth Group meeting. I think I had nightmares that night.
Even the music of Petrushka can sometimes creep me out.
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Angel Wrestler
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Tree fungus creeps me out!!!
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Posts: 2767 | From: half-way up the ladder | Registered: May 2008
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Mamacita
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Snakes. I say no more.
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Sparrow
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Clowns.
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Schroedinger's cat
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Crane flies. I know they're harmless but they look just like flying spiders and they stagger and drift all over the place. The more you flap them away, the more they come towards you.
Trying to sleep with one in the room is a nightmare as their tendril legs suddenly tickle across your face and drift towards your mouth and nose in the middle of the night, causing you to suddenly wake up and scramble away screaming in the darkness. Then you remember that screaming means you've got your mouth open and they might get in.
This is supposed to be strange phobias, not perfectly reasonable fear of the beasts of hell.
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jedijudy
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When I worked in a restaurant, the fish was thawed in water in a cooler. The warm water fish sometimes had worms, and they would be floating above the fillets which really creeped me out. My lovely co-workers noticed and one time put a cooked spaghetti noodle on my shoulder as I was getting ready to prep the fish. They thought it was funny that I did the silent scream and almost fainted.
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Kittyville
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In the unlikely event that I visit Florida (distance reasons, nothing more), I will not be eating fish...
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Tattooed women. They're going to look very funny as little old ladies.
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Doone
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
When I worked in a restaurant, the fish was thawed in water in a cooler. The warm water fish sometimes had worms, and they would be floating above the fillets which really creeped me out. My lovely co-workers noticed and one time put a cooked spaghetti noodle on my shoulder as I was getting ready to prep the fish. They thought it was funny that I did the silent scream and almost fainted.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
Tattooed women. They're going to look very funny as little old ladies.
Tattooed anyone. My dad, an old navy man, who had seen plenty of old sailors with indecipherable blobs on their arms, agreed with this sentiment.
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Lucia
Looking for light
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As a child I had a great fear of the gratings in swimming pools where the water either came in or went out. If I accidentally put my foot on one I would panic! Not sure what I thought was going to happen... Maybe I imagined I was going to be sucked in! Even now I don't like them and try to avoid touching them.
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BessLane
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Lucia just brought back an old odd childhood fear....I didn't like pools with diving boards because I was convinced sharks lived under the shadow of the board and would swoop out to eat me if I dipped so much as a toe in the water....
Now I'm grown and know sharks don't live in swimming pools, so I just avoid being eaten by sharks by not going in the ocean ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Nicolemr
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Not really a serious fear, but something that makes me nervous is walking across gratings in sidewalks. Not because I'm afraid they might give way or anything, (which might be rational) but because I can't shake the fear that a piece of my jewelry might fall off and fall through the grate.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Originally posted by BessLane:
Now I'm grown and know sharks don't live in swimming pools, so I just avoid being eaten by sharks by not going in the ocean
I don't like swimming in either fresh or salt water for fear of being nibbled at by any kind of fish, sharks or otherwise. I only swim in pools.
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Graven Image
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Like Sparrow I also do not like clowns. They all give me the creeps. If one appears around me I close my eyes. I do not understand what people find funny about them.
I am find with bugs, and snakes and such but a clown sends me fleeing from the area.
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Pigwidgeon
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quote:
Originally posted by Nicolemr:
Not really a serious fear, but something that makes me nervous is walking across gratings in sidewalks. Not because I'm afraid they might give way or anything, (which might be rational) but because I can't shake the fear that a piece of my jewelry might fall off and fall through the grate.
I've never had jewelry fall through one, but many years ago my key ring fell open as I was opening my car -- there went my car and apartment keys! (By some stroke of luck I had a spare car key in my purse.)
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Nicolemr
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Funny thing, Pigwidgeon, losing her keys was always my mother's fear about grates. I always felt it was more rational than mine, too.
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Galloping Granny
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
Birds. Wild birds are usually fine, in cages sort of ok although I would prefer them free. But flapping around me as my grandmother's budgerigar used to out of cage, or at sanctuaries like Currumbin on Gold Coast where they land on visitors at feeding time? That is terrifying
You share that not with me but with my neighbour. Last year her cat brought a starling in, and I was called on to rescue the bird while she stayed out of the way. Hardest part was getting the cat out of the room where the bird was. I had to kick him – gently, of course.
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Lothlorien
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I minded my dad one day when mum came down to city. He had dementia and needed somone in house. It was winter in BlueMountains with flurries of snow. I heard a big bang on back verandah. A bird had hit the glass in southern end and broken its neck. Even though it was dead, I could do nothing. I rang a neighbour and he came and got rid of it.
I have despatched and buried rabbits but could not go near that bird.
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Boogie
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I used to breed cockatiels which flew free in the house, when my friend visited I had to put them in their cages. When I asked why she said "I'm afraid they'll get tangled in my hair" I reassured her that never happened.
(They didn't make a mess as only pooped when roosting in their cages)
The next day one of my birds got tangled in my hair! It was quite a job stopping it flapping to untangle it.
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Doone
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Though not one of mine, I know two people who are terrified of balloons (the small party type, not the hot air). One of them just shakes and can't move if one is in the room, a real problem at parties, Fayres and such.
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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I used to be, not afraid of dogs, but not very good around them. It's amazing how quickly having a dog myself cured me of that.
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starbelly
but you can call me Neil
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Razor blades, the thought of them makes my blood run cold. I think it is a perfectly rational fear though.
Neil
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Dormouse
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Dirty grubby bits of paper make me retch. No idea why. Peeling stubborn stickers off items is a bit of a nightmare because of this.
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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Originally posted by Dormouse:
Dirty grubby bits of paper make me retch. No idea why. Peeling stubborn stickers off items is a bit of a nightmare because of this.
White spirit and a cloth does the trick
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Or this stuff.
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Sarasa
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Cacti and various other plants, mainly creeping ones. I think I was frightened by Quatermass as a small child. I had to gingerly move a moeny plant when I went to a restaurent recently, there was no way I could comfortably sit there eating a meal and looking at it
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