Thread of Fear!!!

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What are your phobias?

There's a poll, and it's anonymous. I forgot to include an "Other" category. Just pick the scariest thing on the list and if you want to share your own, post it here.

Do you like being scared?

[labor_days]

http://www.batw.net/images/CicadaFront740_700.jpg

http://www.uos.harvard.edu/images/ehs/pest/centipede_main.jpg

(I can't even look at my own post. I'm creeping myself out. Shit.)

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I'm going with snakes. The Unknown at a close second. But the worst thing the unknown could be is a ****ing snake, so that's my fear math.

[jimski]

I don't think I'm bothered by anything real, though if a rat walked across my floor right now it'd definitely provoke a reaction.

Phobias?... Zombies. Definitely zombies.

[mastap]

http://www.bustedtees.com/bt/images/BT-beards-gallery-202.jpg

[owlboy]

Mermaids, **** em

[kwok_talk]

Clowns and their satanic grinning. Once during a trip to Hong Kong (and their love of butchered nonsensical english) I found a shirt that said "Clowns Will Eat Me," which basically summed up everything.

[kahunablair]

Well I have a fear of both heights and tight spaces. The worse part is, I was getting over my fear of heights and hadn't had any real problems with it. Then I went on the glass elevator that takes you to the top of the Eiffel tower. I started to freak a bit, but I held it together, and then I reached the top. Dear lord! Why would a giant tower have grates for flooring? Why would they let you look straight down???
So needless to say, my fears hit me like a ton of bricks and they've stuck with me ever since.... ****ing french!

[itsbecca]

I voted bugs/spiders... but I have to differentiate that it's the bugs not the spiders. I have no problem with spiders, at least our north american ones (I'm sure those Australian ones the size of your head might get to me a bit). Sure I don't want them on my face or anything, but they don't freak me out. I just hate hate hate roaches. Crickets too as per my post. I don't care that they're more like grasshoppers than roaches. To me they look like jumping ****ing roaches.

I'm used to be very afraid of people killing me. I wouldn't even close my eyes in the shower because I thought I might get snuck up on, but I think I'm mostly over that. In fact sometimes when I'm walking down the street I hope I'll get mugged because I've never gotten in a fight before and I want to try it out. I feel like I might be able to go crazy on someone.

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In fact sometimes when I'm walking down the street I hope I'll get mugged because I've never gotten in a fight before and I want to try it out. I feel like I might be able to go crazy on someone.

They have "clubs" for that.

[luthor]

None of the above...but below *shivers*

http://www.allfantasyart.com/aliens/twoaliens.jpg

[fred]

I'm afraid of escalators because of the height combined with the lack of control. Oddly, not really afraid of heights in other situations.

[mikegraham6]

When i graduated from grade 8 we have a prom and on my way out i crashed through a glass door and cut up my arm pretty bad. Ever since then i have had a extreme phobia of broken glass (i don't know what the phobia's called) but i can't go near the stuff. i'll avoid it on the sidewalk and if i break a glass i have to get someone else to clean it up, i just freak. it's calmed down a bit lately, but i was pretty bad for a long while after the accident.


In the words of Special Agent Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks: "Nothing is as bad as it seems as long as you can keep the fear from your mind"

just remember that kiddies!

[iSteve]

Fear of heights is my number one fear, followed by spiders and bugs.

http://homepage1.nifty.com/chameleon/artricks/moving/image/vertigo-new.jpg

[mister-s]

Crowds. I went through a real bad spell a couple years ago where I could only go to the grocer's at midnight on a Sunday.

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Crowds. I went through a real bad spell a couple years ago where I could only go to the grocer's at midnight on a Sunday.

I have that sometimes too. I don't like walking in the front of a group, because I panic when there's someone behind me. I also get really upset when I'm in a store and people are all going in different directions at different paces. I end up looking at the floor and storming to the end of the aisle, away from all the other people.

[k33k3r]

Heights for me but extreme heights. Like skyscraper heights or at least over 20-30 stores up.

[iSteve]

What about emetophobia - the fear of vomiting?

Or agoraphobia - the fear of wide open spaces?

Or brontophobia - the fear of thunder and lightning?

[iSteve]

Some other fears:

Aichmophobia: The Fear of Pointed Objects
Anglophobia: The Fear of England and its Culture
Bogyphobia: The Fear of the Boogeyman
Electrogeniphobia: The Fear of urinating during an electrical storm.
Soceraphobia: The Fear of Parents-in-Law
Arachibutyrophobia: The Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
Francophobia: The Fear of the French
Rhabdophobia: The Fear of being Beaten with a Stick
Venustraphobia: The Fear of Beautiful Women
Politicophobia: The Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians
Xylophobia: The Fear of Wooden Objects
Hellenologophobia: The Fear of Complex Scientific Terms and Greek Terminology
Porphyrophobia: The Fear of the color Purple
Gymnophobia: The Fear of Nudity
Ostraconophobia: The Fear of Shellfish
Stasiphobia: The Fear of Walking
Pantiphobia: The Fear of Everything

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What about emetophobia - the fear of vomiting?

Or agoraphobia - the fear of wide open spaces?

Or brontophobia - the fear of thunder and lightning?

Yeah, those were on the list of top ten most common fears, but I felt weird adding to them, especially since commitment needs to be on the list. You know, for the mild chuckle.

[jaflanagan]

I nearly used my moderator powers to strike those bug images from the page.

I can't look at close up, high rez pictures of bugs. I remember skipping school the day we had to do that in the microscope in biology. I can't explain it, but I hate it.

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I nearly used my moderator powers to strike those bug images from the page.

I can't look at close up, high rez pictures of bugs. I remember skipping school the day we had to do that in the microscope in biology. I can't explain it, but I hate it.

So reading Exterminators must be fun. :D

[jaflanagan]

It give me the crawlies now and then, but that's part of the thrill of reading it. That's when I know they've done a good job, especially since it's just drawings.

But that also tells you how I feel about the overall writing, because if it wasn't strong, I wouldn't be reading it.

[labor_days]

I nearly used my moderator powers to strike those bug images from the page.

You should have totally done it. I scroll really fast past my own post on the first page. F---ing creepy, man.

Do it, Josh. Replace them with Care Bears. Who's afraid of Care Bears anyways?


(Exterminators creeps me out. When I see it on the racks, I move other books in front of it. Roaches are the devil's spawn.)

[mastap]

Some other fears:
Venustraphobia: The Fear of Beautiful Women


... F*ck...

[mastap]

I'm afraid of escalators because of the height combined with the lack of control. Oddly, not really afraid of heights in other situations.

I used to be afraid of escalators 'cause I got my shoe stuck in one when I was 4 and it dragged me the whole way down, then ate my shoe... and then broke...

I'm not so much scared of them anymore though, ride on enough of 'em and you (read: me) get over it

[labor_days]

This (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004092008,00.html) is why everyone with sense should fear insects/spiders and or snakes.

Pet spider kills its owner

http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2004090934,00.jpg


From ALLAN HALL
in Berlin

A MAN who lived in his own “zoo” of lizards and insects was fatally bitten by a pet black widow spider — then eaten by the other creepy-crawlies.

Police broke in to Mark Voegel’s apartment to find spider Bettina along with 200 others, several snakes, a gecko lizard called Helmut and several thousand termites had gorged on his body.

Neighbours alerted police after becoming alarmed by the stink.

And horrified officers were met by a nightmare scene.

http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2004090936,00.jpg

A police spokesman said: “It was like a horror movie. His corpse was over the sofa.

“Giant webs draped him, spiders were all over him. They were coming out of his nose and his mouth.

“There was everything there one could imagine in the world of reptiles.

“Larger pieces of flesh torn off by the lizards were scooped up and taken back to the webs of tarantulas and other bird-eating spiders.”

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Loner Voegel, 30, never invited people back to his “jungle” home, a small apartment in the German city of Dortmund.

Police described it as a cross between a botanical garden and the butterfly breeding ground in the serial killer movie The Silence Of The Lambs.

One tarantula had built a nest the size of a swallow’s in a corner of the ceiling.

Voegel also had a boa constrictor and several poisonous frogs from South America.

Spider expert and animal cruelty officer Gabi Bayer said he kept creatures “that should never be allowed in a private home”.

She said: “He had spiders so aggressive they are the equivalent of a pit-bull in the animal world.”

The reptiles were allowed to roam free in the flat.

The heating elements on two tanks containing spiders and their termite snacks had exploded and dislodged the metal tops allowing them to escape.

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Voegel is thought to have been dead for between seven and 14 days.

A post-mortem will be carried out in the next few days. But authorities believe Bettina alone was responsible for Voegel’s death.

[itsbecca]

I nearly used my moderator powers to strike those bug images from the page.

I can't look at close up, high rez pictures of bugs. I remember skipping school the day we had to do that in the microscope in biology. I can't explain it, but I hate it.

I used to love looking through zoobooks and animal encyclopedia books when I was younger, but If there was ever bug pictures I could look at them (with a bit of an ooogey feeling in my tummy) but I could not touch them. I don't know. It was a weird thing. Like they might be able to reach out the page and get on me or something.

And yes. Some of the scenes in exterminators made me pretty freaked. Any where they were en masse like the mushroom or the ummm... (don't want to spoil) scene in the ghetto. Yeaaagh

[esophagus]

Is it a bad thing that I voted for "People / Social Situations". I'm a n00b.

My fears:
Awkward situations
Rejection
Small spaces
Closed spaces (I don't lock doors. This has caused many problems with public washrooms. I'm just glad I use them minimally.)

edit: And birthday party clowns. Their hack job make-up is just awful and scary. It looks like they put no effort in. "Is he a real clown, or is he just going to kill me?"
http://www.knddesign.com/snaps/aboutsnaps.jpg

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A South Korean man has died after reportedly playing an online computer game for 50 hours with few breaks.
The 28-year-old man collapsed after playing the game Starcraft at an internet cafe in the city of Taegu, according to South Korean authorities.

The man had not slept properly, and had eaten very little during his marathon session, said police.

Multi-player gaming in South Korea is extremely popular thanks to its fast and widespread broadband network.

Games are televised and professional players are treated, as well as paid, like sports stars.

Professional gamers there attract huge sums in sponsorship and can make more than $100,000 a year.

The man, identified by his family name, Lee, started playing Starcraft on 3 August. He only paused playing to go to the toilet and for short periods of sleep, said the police.

"We presume the cause of death was heart failure stemming from exhaustion," a Taegu provincial police official told the Reuters news agency.

He was taken to hospital following his collapse, but died shortly after, according to the police. It is not known whether he suffered from any previous health conditions.

They added that he had recently been fired from his job because he kept missing work to play computer games. And that this will happen to me.