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Posted by Loco on Wed Jul 27th at 8:18pm 2005

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

Those things can be really nasty. Not because they're dangerous or anything, but because they sound like a B42 bomber.



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Posted by Andrei on Wed Jul 27th at 8:23pm 2005

June Bugs...are they those big black flying bugs that grow in forests?




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Posted by fishy on Wed Jul 27th at 9:59pm 2005

a phobia will send your body into a state of panic, while the spider is crawling up your arm say, but it can only exist in a state of panic for so long, usually only a minute or two. if, for some reason, the spider stays on your arm beyond that point, you will begin to relax. doing this two or three times is usually enough to greatly reduce a phobia.

get someone with a jar of crawly-bugs to strap your arm to a table (ReNo's sister sounds like the right kind of person <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">), and if possible, make a vid and post a link.




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

No restraint system could keep this on me for more than 30 seconds:


(the giant hissing cockroach. who wouldn't want one?)

Although if you stare at this pic for more than 1 minute, you kinda tend to see the interesting side of this creature (what am I saying *smacks self hard on the head*).




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed Jul 27th at 10:26pm 2005

I spent six years living in the Philippines and the giant flying cockroach was ubiquitous.

I remember once I pushing back the shower curtain, still dressed, and a roach on the curtain that I didn't see managed to fall into the sleeve of my tshirt without me noticing. A few seconds later as I was walking out of the bathroom, it started flying around in my shirt, trying desperately to get out.

I was in elementary school at the time and I started screaming my head off and frantically shaking my shirt... which only made the roach more upset.

Eventually it dropped to the floor and scurried away.

I'm surprised I'm not permanently scarred from that episode. I loathe the sight of them, but I'm not afraid of them. Although the idea of them eating my eyebrows or nails in my sleep does creep me out.




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Posted by Andrei on Wed Jul 27th at 10:31pm 2005

Another creature worthy of my fear: earwigs


They say that they enter people's ears.




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Posted by Myrk- on Wed Jul 27th at 11:14pm 2005

? quoting Leperous
I have a fear of swimming in the sea/ocean on my own, thanks to watching too many shark documentaries in my youth.

I have the same phobia, but also including swimming pools on my own- maybe its genetic. Also afraid of cockroaches because when I was around about 4 we lived in Belize, and had a roach nest with queens and over 2000 roaches in our house! Every night they used to come out of the floor and crawl everywhere- scared to death of them unless they are contained.

cockroaches are evil buggers too- invunerable to radiation and live without a head for a month!

Also, just remembered- I have a really strong concentration- it's completely selective, but when it comes to some films i.e. the Grudge, I can easily confuse these sorts of things with real life as my imagination can be really intense due to my concentration- quite annoying really, I can get freaked out really badly by some stuff. The best example is "It" which I watched at age 7 or 8, and scarred me all throughout primary school where I was terrified of being alone!




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Posted by Pegs on Thu Jul 28th at 12:00am 2005

I have a realy bad fear of Spiders, i dont mind bee's/wasps too much but i wont stay near them if i can.

i think there is a fear of everything, so ive herd. but who trusts their mates aye?

Although for some reason ive had a fear of anything like daddy long legs..... urgh




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Posted by Underdog on Thu Jul 28th at 12:32am 2005

I have a fear thats not clearly definable. I drive a lot, but fear crossing any bridges. Since I must cross them, its a fear I deal with but know not why I fear them to be honest.

I have a secondary fear of heights on anything mettle. I can climb an incredibly tall wooden ladder with no problems at all, but an aluminum ladder sends chills up my back so badly that I cannot transverse it more than a few rungs. I can climb trees, I cannot climb mettle towers, such as a water tower or an antenna tower.

Weird. To my knowledge, I have had no reasons for these fears, they just exist.

I fear no insects. I respect many, but fear none. Same with most living things I suppose. I like to think all living things have a purpose, but have yet to ascertain what good a chigger is.




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Posted by Crapceeper on Thu Jul 28th at 12:54am 2005

I'm a little afraid of heights. Just a little. I enjoyed the view out of a flying plane the other day.
But I can't just stand on a cliff and look around or down. Especially when the wind blows....

And I'm afraid of people (especially my friends) would think .... things (I don't really know what exactly) of me and abandon me.


Is anybody afraid of dying? - I am. I'm afraid of dying unnecessarily.


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Posted by Underdog on Thu Jul 28th at 1:06am 2005

Define, Dying necessarily please.


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Posted by Crapceeper on Thu Jul 28th at 1:39am 2005

Now you got me.

That's really tricky. Dying unnecessarily would be something like "walking just around, tripping over some stupid thing lying on the ground and falling into a junk press (with a additional: Not having done anything useful in your life of what you could be proud of)".

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Dying necessarily would be some kind of honorable death you can be proud of. Maybe even whilst doing your duty (whatever it may be).


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Posted by French Toast on Thu Jul 28th at 1:51am 2005

I'm not really afraid of dying. However, if I can't sleep at night, and my mind wanders onto the subject and I ponder it for some time, I do spook myself out a lot.




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Posted by WarloK on Thu Jul 28th at 1:55am 2005

The thing i fear the most is heights. I get scared s**tless when i am 2 metres from the ground, i think caused by when i was a toddler i used to climb high things in my house and fall off. I always climbed higher and subsequently fell farther so i think my karma is biting me in the ass again and trying to make up for all that fearlessness.
My second worst fear is moths. There is nothing to me more terrifying than sitting on my couch and suddenly this monster size moth starts flying around my head. I'm so afraid of them im afraid to kill them if that makes any sense.
I'm equally afraid when Rival comes over to my house because to get sadistic pleasure from hitting me, feeling my chest and calling me fat. Personnaly i think its caused by a rejection from the opposite sex but thats just me.




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Posted by OtZman on Thu Jul 28th at 2:19am 2005

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


There really aren't any large insects in sweden, unless you count the swedes as insects <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">
Those mosquitos are just plain annoying.

I dislike heights, spiders with long legs, worms, centipedes and a little of this and that that crawl. Also, I fear that someone would steal my computer, or anything else I value. When I'm leaving the house and no one else is home I usually check every window and door just to make sure that there's no easy way in.




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Posted by mazemaster on Thu Jul 28th at 3:18am 2005

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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia


Heh, people who have that fear would be afraid of the word that describes their condition. That would suck.

Person 1: So, what are you afraid of?

Person 2: Long words.

Person 1: What's the name for that?

Person 2: ...


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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Thu Jul 28th at 3:46am 2005

Lets see...

I'm a rock climber and a scuba diver, I like spiders and snakes (though huge spiders do make me a bit nervous), I've never seen a cockroach in the flesh, and I'm curious about death...

I think the only thing I really fear is harm to my loved ones. The fact that there are many dangers from which I cannot protect them angers and terrifies me.




Some people are like slinkys...

They aren?t really good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one tumbles down the stairs.



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Posted by im.thatoneguy on Thu Jul 28th at 7:09am 2005

I have a phobia of sliding on loose rock, especially on snow, next to large cliffs when I'm not tied to something solid. What do you call that?

Oh yeah I also have a phobia of large holes in rapids, recirculating eddies, and places on rivers where the current runs underneath rock overhangs.





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Posted by DrGlass on Thu Jul 28th at 8:24am 2005

I'm most fearfull of my mind.

I could say I have vertigo, but I only get dizzy and scared when I imagin myself falling down/off what ever I am standing on. For instance, I was in the 4th talles building in the world a few weeks ago and it had an indoor aterium (sp?) that went down 600 or so feet into the lobby (of the hotel). There was NO possible way to fall, you had to look through glass into this place, yet, I though about free falling down to my death and I wasn't even able to look at it...

I also can get myself scared of dark rooms. I look into the darkness and think, what if there was some one standing there... some one who came into my house and just stood there in the dark waiting for me. They are just standing there, looking at me right now, knowing that when I turn on the light they will just look at me.

Right now, I'm thinking about someone standing behind me... I can feel them there, but I know they arn't there.

But I cant really say I'm afriad, becuase I can just turn around (just did) and beat that fear. So I'd say I'm not afraid of much of anything.

Just a few says ago I was in an old Insane asylum, with 3 friends. They got so scared of every little sound. I just know, there is nothing in there... I mean maybe a homeless guy or a cop may come by, but nothing to be scared of. Even when we saw all the fake blood that some other kids had splashed around or when we found the words "turn back" and "welcome to hell" I wasn't scared.

anyways, blah blah blah sorry for the long winded post.




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Posted by Agent Smith on Thu Jul 28th at 9:49am 2005

I'm afraid of heights, but only when I can clearly see the ground. I haven't done it, but I think I could sky dive, yet I have trouble standing on my roof.

I hate spiders, they give me the willies and dammit they all seem to know. I had a huntsman spider stalking me for a week. Everytime I'd go to get into my car at night, the damned thing would be waiting on or near the door handle, scaring the s**t out of me, then running off. Little bastard.

I also hate small spaces, though its more when I'm cramped in and can't move too well. Hold me down and I can't stand it for more than a minute.

Swimming in the ocean also gets me, due primarily to various shark movies. Particularly when we get great whites down the bottom of Australia, and every now and then they take a holiday up my way.

I've considered it, and I think the worst way for me to die would be to fall off a dam, get sucked under water into a pipe that narrows, getting wedged in the pipe, in the dark, and drowning .



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