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Posted by Andrei on Wed Jul 27th at 10:07am 2005

I was just curious as to what people are irrationally afraid of. I for one have a close to maniacal fear of cockroaches. When I see one, I mutilate it until it doesn't resemble a roach anymore. Also have a partial fear of gravity but heck I'm into flight so it figures.



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Posted by Juim on Wed Jul 27th at 10:51am 2005

There are so many more phobias than the ones you have listed, you should have included an "other" option. My particular phobia is of bees and wasps. It's truly uncontrollable how I react when one pays too close attention to me.



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Posted by Hugh on Wed Jul 27th at 11:04am 2005

I concur with Juim. I'm afraid of death/fast spiders/big spiders/deep water/heights.



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Posted by Adam Hawkins on Wed Jul 27th at 11:11am 2005

I'm a walking wreck.

Heights make me really nervous, and if I have to go across a footbridge, I have to walk along the middle so that I can't see down below quite so much!

Like Juim, bees and wasps make me react in ways I wish I wouldn't! When I was younger, a wasp came near me and I turned round and ran - straight into a lamp-post, knocking myself out. All I remember is waking up in bed with a cracking headache.

People pointing sharp objects in my direction freaks me out too!




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Posted by Andrei on Wed Jul 27th at 11:15am 2005

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you should have included an "other" option.


I got rid of the gravity phobia and added the "other".






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Posted by Psychosomatic on Wed Jul 27th at 11:23am 2005

My vote was Batophobia (wierd name). I fear that even 2m boards of wood will fall on top of me. Sucks.





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Posted by Leperous on Wed Jul 27th at 11:27am 2005

I have a fear of swimming in the sea/ocean on my own, thanks to watching too many shark documentaries in my youth. Also, I recently started to develop a fear of flying (more to do with turbulence knocking the plane out of the sky at 36,000 feet than terrorism), though that seems to be slowly going away again. Strange given that I've flown about 40,000 miles a year for the last 10 years or so.



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Posted by Natus on Wed Jul 27th at 12:12pm 2005

i fear things that can harm me, only if i can't defend myself/prevent it from doing evil stuff to me.



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Posted by wil5on on Wed Jul 27th at 1:12pm 2005

No option for poison headcrabs...

I guess of all the options given, apart from other, I've probably got arachniphobia. Also big moth phobia, whatever youd call that.




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Posted by French Toast on Wed Jul 27th at 2:32pm 2005

1. Bees/wasps/etc.
2. Bridges
3. Heights
4. Flying
5. Dentists

That's about all I think. I can't understand being afraid of spiders, to me they're so cool! I've got a pet snake and tat kinda freaks some people outas well.




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Posted by fishy on Wed Jul 27th at 2:48pm 2005

the aliens coming back........


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Posted by Andrei on Wed Jul 27th at 3:11pm 2005

A guy showed me one of those hissing cockroaches a while ago and said some people actually keep them as, well, PETS. Now what kind of man wouldn't want a giant hissing cockroach as a pet? It was my nightmare come-true! And what's more, I wasn't allowed to kill it but every bit of it's aspect looked as if it was begging to be stomped-on.
By my standards, tho, lizards snakes and toads are cute. My favorites are lizards, they're cool.




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Posted by ReNo on Wed Jul 27th at 3:12pm 2005

I can get pretty freaked out by spiders, but I'm getting better around them these days. Used to bloody terrify me, and my sister used that to her advantage on too many occasions.




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Posted by fraggard on Wed Jul 27th at 3:40pm 2005

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

*dies*




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Posted by Hugh on Wed Jul 27th at 4:37pm 2005

I used to have a problem with bees/wasps until I realized they don't sting you if you leave them alone... but even THAT got me stung once 'cause I just let it climb up my shirt, then a few minutes later I noticed it was in my HAIR, then like 10 minutes later I just casually stroked my wonderful hair and *STIIIIIIIIING* <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif"> Oh well.



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Posted by satchmo on Wed Jul 27th at 5:22pm 2005

I don't like spiders, but I am no fan of cockroaches either.

Back in Taiwan, cockroaches are as big as the palm of your hand, and they can fly! At night, when someone turns on the light, the room would be filled with fluttering insects. Sometimes, for unknown reasons, they seem to have predilection of flying into people's faces.

I hate that.



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Posted by French Toast on Wed Jul 27th at 5:23pm 2005

I was camping and had a June bug dive bomb me like eight times before it died. Stupid bugs...




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Posted by Natus on Wed Jul 27th at 5:38pm 2005

oh yeah, i am afraid of almost everything alive in a swedish forest (giant mosquitos, giant wasps, giant swedes etc.)



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Posted by Andrei on Wed Jul 27th at 5:56pm 2005

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Back in Taiwan, cockroaches are as big as the palm of your hand, and they can fly!




Strangely enough, that just about how they are here in Romania. But what's the point in wondering why? After all, we have black widows on the seaside and we've had about 6 tornados (like the ones in the US) in 2 months!




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Posted by Hugh on Wed Jul 27th at 6:07pm 2005

Black widows... saw some of those in my dad's workshop back in the day. Scaaaaaary. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">



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