AAAARGH!!!!

Subject: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 12 Aug 00 - 11:33 PM

What are Mudcatters scared of? I'm terrified of moths,craneflies,heights, bangs, things coming close to my face, thunderstorms etc., but I am managing to conquer my arachnophobia!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Aug 00 - 11:42 PM

Well, I used to be terrified of wasps, hornets, etc. It blighted my youth. I have finally mostly gotten over that...I still don't like them all that much, but I remain calm in their presence now.

I have discovered that if you fear anything, it keeps coming into your life again and again and again...until you finally face the fear and put it to rest. So there you are.

I'm afraid of flying too, but that doesn't stop me from doing it.

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 12 Aug 00 - 11:45 PM

Thanks for the advice.That's what I'm doing about the spiders. i can now hold little ones but i catch bigger ones in tape cases! I'm still not up to tarantulas yet though!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: ol'troll
Date: 12 Aug 00 - 11:55 PM

Snakes and anything that resembles a snake.This does not include cooked asparagus.

troll

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:04 AM

slugs, worms or anything without a shell. Snails are fine, they have shells. This one is really bad, because I am a gardner too. I have learned to tolerate worms as long as no one chases me with them, but slugs will put me in the middle of the kitchen table, and Wyoming slugs are REALLY little. I just about lost it reading the Harry Potter book where the boy has a bout of vomiting up.....uh never mind.

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Mbo
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:07 AM

Afraid of heights, anything coming near my eyes, tornados, lightning (but only when I'm outside. Inside it's cooool!), insane drivers that I am CONVINCED are all out to do me in (HA HA!), and the smell of burning motor oil!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: bob jr
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:13 AM

i am afraid of ending up in discussions with lame ass idiots who think oasis are a good band!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:21 AM

bob jr,

what about the intelligent, talented people who like Oasis?

Scared of us too?

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Bernard
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:22 AM

English joke:

Slug sez to snail: 'Big Issue?'

Explanation for you Colonials - The Big Issue is a newspaper sold to help the homeless...

I'm frightened of loneliness...

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Bernard
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:24 AM

Oasis, intelligent and talented don't all belong in the same sentence...

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Bernard
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:25 AM

Oooops! I did it, too!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: ol'troll
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:30 AM

Yer ok Bernard. Ya had a negative modifier. But watch it, is all. OK.

troll

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:33 AM

I guess heights make me uneasy. I mean out in the open. Planes, tall buildings, etc. don't bother me. Just ledges, roofs, ladders, etc.

And I go berserk if I'm held down/locked up.

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Bernard
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:44 AM

Negative modifier? Is that like Monosodium Glutamate?

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Mbo
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:46 AM

Hey bob, live and let live by the golden rule now don't that just hit the spot?

--Matt the lame ass idiot

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:51 AM

Rattlesnakes. They grow big around here by the American River. I've only seen one in the twenty years I've been here, but it gets bigger every time I talk about it. The people across the street have the river behind them, and they get snakes in their yards a few times a year. I'm glad I live on this side of the street, even though they have a terrific view.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 01:01 AM

Well, Joe, I kinda guess you could say snakes don't have shells, huh? I definitely have a HEALTHY respect for the suckers, and I won't go hunting them for sure! We have our share here too, and this is a bad year for them (well, good if you look at it from their point of veiw) because it is so hot and dry. They are coming to the rivers for moisture because there has been so little rain. It only seems to rain/lightning when I want to go Hearme............

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: GUEST,Barry Finn
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 01:51 AM

Sharks. I used to have to swim home at night if I was the the last of 3 to call it a evening, we only had 2 dingys. The swim was about a 1/4 - 1/3 of a mile offshore & at 2:oo pm (when the bars closed or the music stopped) it would always start to get spooky about half way home. It was always comforting when I knew that dolphins were seen swimming close by. Always had a change of clothes & a swim suit in the car & could spend the night in it too if things got to spooky. If you asked a shark the same question they'd say dolphins, if you asked a dolphin they'd say not having any sharks around to have fun with. Barry

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 02:01 AM

RE: Sharks--been there, done that. Love dolphins. "When dolphins come today,the sharks will not play". Should we get into curved fin=dolphin; straight fin=shark?

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 02:10 AM

I used to like dolphins, too. Until I watched some news show about male dolphins grabbing swimmers with their penises (?!) and swimming underwater with them. That's just weird. It makes me glad I don't swim. That, and those tiny fish swim up men's urethras and die. Hey, I've got TWO new fears!

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 02:58 AM

OK then Lepus!

And Bernard, and everyone else who's slagging Oasis, STOP IT! I happen to LIKE some of Oasis's music!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 03:06 AM

Lepus, that is weird..........never heard it before. You have documentation, I presume?Should this make the Sea Critters thread for elementary kids? Probably not.....

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 05:48 AM

I have heard the little fishes thing before - some south american river species? - no one has ever explained why the do it though. go Dolphins !! - just revenge for making them jump through hoops to amuse tourists

'there is no such thing as bad publicity' - how much hard disc contains oasis now - ok so a bit more now - well done Mbo are you on commission?

Heights scare me like Lepus-Rex its more the perceived safety rather than the height. Ladders, Ledges, Scaffolding no way!
my garden has very big black slugs and there is no way I could touch one
But hey the most scary thing on the earth is people. What terrible things people do to each other in the name of religion, colour, sexuality, oh any old difference is the thing of nightmares
Roger

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Lena
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 06:58 AM

People fighting.It sounds banal,but I start crying. The sea and most water pounds periodically scare me beyond limit.Also,people walking on balconies or dangerous situations.I have that istinctive drive to push them off and that SCARES.I also used to be terribly scared from insects ,beetles and mice before coming in Australia)(those who live here know what I'm talking about...)

Nice idea for a thread!!!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Callie
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 08:13 AM

the sea, drowning, suffocating and heights. I kinda got over my fear of heights when I had to rig theatre lights regularly and there was no one to help me. I'm also frightened of people I care about dying if we've parted on negative terms.

Callie

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 08:37 AM

Being in a room that is totally silent... I will go up the wall with hysteria if I have to sit in silence for longer than about 20 mins. That's why there is a radio in every room and I have 2 portables....

Perhaps that's why I didn't do so well at exams.... all that silence..... I guess I'm terrified of going deaf. I had limited hearing in one ear until I was about 8, and had to go through lots of tests to determine why (malformed ear tube.... got better with age and a doctor who wasn't more keen on horse racing than health issues...)

LTS

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Midchuck
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 08:43 AM

People. That I don't know. Not individually. In bunches.

Oddly enough,it doesn't bother me performing; and I don't mind moderating the local town meeting or speaking to a crowd.

But going to a cocktail party and going to the dentist are about on a par for me.

Peter.

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Shanti
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 08:46 AM

Ooh...Lepus, I'm with you...HATE being held down, for any reason. If I have to, I'll hold myself down, say for a shot or something...but I don't want ANYONE else to do it for me. And to be held down and tickled is enough to make me come out kicking...aiming for the most sensitive places!

Have no particular phobias about anything else. Started to take a class in overcoming phobias...that's when I found out that I don't really have any. I don't like spiders, but I have no trouble killing them, if they're in my house...if I'm outside, I simply avoid them if I can. REALLY HATE Palmetto bugs,(for those of you who have never lived in Florida, Palmettos are huge flying cockroaches), but I can certainly beat the crap out of them if I have to. Have never found a use for mosquitoes or ticks...except as annoyances for people and animals. Snakes...not fond of them, but can look at and touch them without panicking.

I like flying, but I don't want to learn how to pilot a plane. A little squeamish about high ledges, etc., but not enough that I'd go nuts if I found myself on one. Would just try NOT to look down! I don't like elevators, (particularly crowded ones), but I do ride on them if need be. Prefer escalators. Of course, being relatively phobia-free doesn't mean I'm completely calm or sane either...

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Giac
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 09:34 AM

Republicans and bears, in that order.

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Willie-O
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 09:44 AM

Trying to confirm gigs with people I don't know who never return phone calls and don't use e-mail.

Having people mad at me for not following through on commitments fast enough.

Willie-O

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 09:51 AM

The phone bill for Internet Use........AAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHH

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 10:02 AM

Hey, I'm scared of bears too! Forgot about that. I think the best way to deal with them is to make a certain amount of noise, so they can hear you from a long way off...a bell, singing, whatever...they hear you and go the other way and you don't meet them unexpectedly. I think I may just have had a nasty encounter with a bear in one or more "previous" lives, if you know what I mean.

Liz - you're scared of a silent room??? My God, woman, how will you ever meditate and get in touch with your inner self if the damn radio and TV are going all the time? If I had a TV here, I'd shoot it and give it a decent burial in the back yard. As for the radio, it makes a good paperweight for my sheet music.

Oh, well, different strokes for different folks, I guess.

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 10:16 AM

Even though I was the first to tell people my phobias, i forgot about my fear of needles. When I had my ears pierced, the lady had to get someone else to help cos I was shaking so much.

I'm also scared of losing my boyfriend, either from splitting up or one of us dying.

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Mbo
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 10:20 AM

Know how you feel on that one, Fircat. Don't want to even think about it...

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 10:44 AM

Aaagh! I fear hitting the 'clear entries' box instead of the 'submit message box' after writing a few paragraphs! Here I go again...

Needles! I forgot about my old fear of needles. I'm over it now, but when I was a kid, I'd fight and struggle with doctors trying to take my blood. And dentists had to put me under with gas before putting a needle in my mouth, or I'd shove them away and flee. Good thing I'm over that one. I'd probably get arrested for that now...

And the dolphins... I saw the video of it on Dateline NBC or something like that, a few years ago. Dolphin penises are apparently huge and curved, and it just hooked this around the swimmer's leg like a manacle.

And the little, eurethra-loving fishes... This only happens to men who pee while swimming in the river. If I remember right, they instinctively swim upstream. When they detect the man's 'stream,' they swim right up it, but can't turn back. They have backward curving spines, so can't swim backwards, and just lodge themselves deeper into the poor guy. They die, of course. Infection, surgery... Horror.

Waaiiit... Maybe we could put these in swimming pools? Keep 'em clean? >:)

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:01 PM

Going to parties where I don't know anyone.

Being afraid of the level of violence I might rise to if I saw someone mistreating a child or an animal.

Going back to working in bars and having to take orders from bar owners. (now there, I KNOW the level of violence I could rise to)

Rick

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:06 PM

Silent rooms - I can be as quiet as all get out when I'm outside, in the garden, on the beach etc, mainly because the great outdoors is never truly silent, but because walls block those sounds, I get the screaming phantods.... the thought of never hearing another sound ever...... urrrrgghghghgghgghgh!

I would guess my other phobia is boredom. My idea of hell is to be on a cruise ship, nothing to do but nothing, nowhere to go but the ship..... shoot me in the head now!!

LTS

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Catrin
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:10 PM

enclosed spaces, being underground, never being able to sing, losing friends, being banned from using the net..... loads and loads really.

Catrin

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Alice
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:17 PM

snakes, especially rattlesnakes. (That's two of us, Joe.)

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:34 PM

oh no I just remembered the worst
wrists
its making me go all funny just thinking about it
as a child I had dreams about spikes sticking in my wrists (screwed up or what?)
So when I hear about people slitting their wrists I nearly pass out................Bump!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:37 PM

Whatever you do, don't listen to Eminem then, Roger!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:39 PM

Whatever you do, don't listen to Eminem, ANYONE! ;)

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Mbo
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:44 PM

I 3rd the notion! Did I mention I'm afraid of big trees that our close to the house? You'll have to hear the infamous Hubert Tree-Felling Horror, as it is now known to understand fully why!

--Matt

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Bernard
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 01:00 PM

Fear of needles?

There's a treatment for that, these days.

Snag: it involves acupuncture...

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 01:19 PM

I've just listened to..EMINEM!!!!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Mbo
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 01:41 PM

NO!!! The horror! The horror! At least Oasis doesn't get arrested for gun possesion, express their desire to kick a pregnant woman in the stomach, or write songs (if you could call that eminem gack songs) about raping his mother. I'll stick to my boozer loser Oasis boys, thank you very much!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 01:50 PM

The only reason I listened to it was I couldn't be bothered to turn off the radio. I'm listening to the charts and it's Number One time. MELANIE C!!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Mbo
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 01:53 PM

That's a good thing, right? Gee what's radio? Haven't listened in over a year...gotta get around to it someday...Metallica & Creed have new songs!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 01:55 PM

RIIIGHT!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Diva
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 04:56 PM

Snakes....all sorts. Took me ages when I was small to go and see the Jungle Book.