AAAARGH!!!!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 12:50 PM

If people want to post on here there is now AAAARGH!!!! Part the second so PLEASE go on that instead. Thanks!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: bob jr
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 12:48 PM

i am afraid of skunks and they are everywhere this time of year up here in canada...also dont like bees or wasps or hornets , i jump when they get too close .....and bernard i promise you your heart will mend again it just takes some time to heal sometimes but mine has come back from the brink more times than i care to remeber but it does get better and you will love again.

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 16 Aug 00 - 08:55 AM

Enough about white vans already!

I've just remembered :- the Chupacabras! AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 03:07 PM

A dumb, drunken driver on a car phone in a white van going the wrong way down a one way street IN REVERSE... with his girlfriend in the passanger seat, attempting to give him oral relief - don't smirk - it's really happened!!

LTS

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Bernard
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 02:49 PM

Until last year, I'd only ever had my heart dented. But I had it well and truly shattered last year, and my mind along with it.

I despair of ever being well again... and that frightens me...

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Peg
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 01:12 PM

Flying (well, crashing, actually). I clutch a ball of hematite when taking off and landing.

Heights with some precariousness to them...rickety ladders and slippery rock cliffs and old abandoned trestle bridges and such.

Centipedes and millipedes.

Nuclear war (not so much since Reagan left office).

That greed and lack of compassion will destroy the human race and the planet.

Litterbugs. I simpy cannot comprehend this behavior. Ergo it frightens me.

Western medicine and be extension, hospitals.

Very deep water.

Rape.

Murder.

Irradiated and genetically-modified food that is not labeled as such.

eh, the usual!

Peg

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: hesperis
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 12:49 PM

Little Hawk - My hamster isn't too noisy if I give her carrots to wear down her teeth - she doesn't chew on the bars so much then. And I tied the exercise wheel up of the floor of the cage with a contraption of twist ties and elastic bands. Before I did that the weight of her as she was running would slowly cause the wheel to sink, and it would start rasping against the floor of the cage. VERY LOUD! Especially at 3 o'clock in the morning when you've just finally managed to sleep...

Ella - hamsters smell? I hadn't noticed. (I hope that doesn't mean I smell worse than she does!)

~   ~   ~

Mosquitoes are the worst for me.
The sound just sets me on edge, and I can't stand them crawling on me. The one good thing from it is that I haven't been bitten by any of them for years, since I'm so hypersensitive I smack them off as soon as they land!
It's really strange, if there's only one or two, sometimes I'm more scared. I guess cause ya never know *when* they're going to come after ya.
Even thinking about them I start shuddering reflexively.

I'm fine with most creepy crawlies, as long as
a) they're not in the house
b) they're in the house but harmless
c) I have a container to catch them in if they're poisonous and inside the house

Spiders are fine (and they eat mosquitoes!), snakes are cool (although we don't have rattlers here), moths just startle me, I love bats, mice are cute but messy, insomnia only scares me when I have to get up early.

I was afraid of a glass once when I was really suicidal. I had a vivid picture of me breaking it and slashing my wrists. That part of my life is over now, and I never want to feel that way again.

I am afraid of cold, too. And crazy drivers. And what I could do if I ever got *really* angry.

~*sirepseh*~

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 12:43 PM

Oh, sure...First Ella says I'm a sicko, now Susan hates rabbits(Hey, we're LAGOMORPHS!). All because I'm a kind, compassionate guy, who rescued a poor little cockroach. A cockroach that had been trapped in a box for half a week, subjected to the abuse of UPS employees across the nation. For THIS, I am scum? Well, let me say, then, "I'm proud to be a scumbag!" ;)

---Lepus Rex (Roaches are cute, in their own filthy way...)

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Susan from California
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 11:21 AM

Ella, I do not like any rodents, not mice, rats, gophers,rabbits, squirrels, gerbils, beavers, capybaras, etc. etc. I have many bad dreams in which rodents play the role of villan. When studying "The Black Death" in school, I had nightmares for weeks! And in a strange twist of fate, that is now part of what I teach to my 7th grade students! Double AAAAAAAAAARGH!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: MMario
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 09:13 AM

Things that make you sick to your stomach and things that scare you can be so different though....now what really scares me is irrational panic attacks. Fear of the known is okay, you can work through that. but when you wake up in the middle of the night and are completly and utterly panicked - and you don't know why! now THAT is scary!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 08:44 AM

Oh my, how did I forget Cockroaches.... They make me ill.

And I hope to never ever encounter any more thankyou very much. If I ever had them in any house I was in, I think I would be sleepless, sitting there with a big bat, going thump crunch splat.

And Little Hawk.... It happens to be gerbils and rats.

Gerbils, because I looked after a neighbours one once, and it bit me hard.

Rats - erghhhhhhhhhhh

Mice/ Voles awww cute

and hamsters v.cute but smelly.

eeeeewwwwwwwwwww roaches...

blurgh heck blurgh heck - and lepus, I think that for having a pet roach, you border on the one sick human title for that one....

keels over at the thought of it...

Ella

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 05:49 AM

Yeah, whatever, Mbo!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Amergin
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 03:54 AM

The growing unemployment in the Pacific Northwest....(sorry folks its hitting a little too close to home right now)

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Mbo
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 10:03 PM

BAAAAAAAAARF!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 09:43 PM

Wow, they're prehensile? Cool! And the info on the candiru? These bits of info will be SURE to cause nightmares, phobias, and depression to all those who were only mildly creeped-out by my earlier entries. >:D

Ah, cockroaches... My pet cockroach just died last month. No, it wasn't the hissing kind you buy in a pet store. It was a wild roach that travelled up to Minnesota in a box full of t-shirts. Either from Missouri or Pennsylvania, I forget which... I caught him, and made him a little cage, where he lived for about a year and a half. Judging by his development at the time I got him, he was well over 2 years old when he died. VERY low-maintenance pet! And I got to watch his final moult, when he finally grew his wings... Beautiful! Muahahahahaha...

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 09:42 PM

I might be a Trekkie but I much prefer Next Gen!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Mbo
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 09:16 PM

FC, you're missing out bigtime if you haven't seen the movie "Star Trek III:The Wrath of Khan" where Khan puts the Cetial eel in Chekov & his captain's ear. It woooooorks it's way your eustachian tube, and into your brain where it wraps itself around your cerebral cortex, making you "open to suggestion." Earwigs. Earth's version of the Cetian eel? You make the call!

--Matt

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 09:08 PM

Might as well make it 100!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 09:06 PM

Ugh! Eww! Gross! Yuk!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: IvanB
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 09:00 PM

Just to digress a moment - Lepus Rex discussed the fish which swims up the urethra in a much earlier post. Ironically, I had just read a fiction book which had a passage about this fish and had assumed it was fictional. However, a web search for it (it's called the candiru) proved that it is indeed a real creature. Although some of the comments raised doubts about reported amputations and deaths caused by the candiru, others maintained the veracity of such reports. Apparently, since the fish is parasitic and attaches itself normally to the gills of larger fish, sensing their location by the water flow through the gills, the act of urinating in the water can set up enough of a flow to attract them. The rest is history.

One interesting poem about the situation is here:

Click here

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 08:56 PM

EHHHHHH? You are REALLY confusing me now, Mbo!!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Mbo
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 08:50 PM

Smash earwigs? But pouquoi, my good knight? They are very helpful bugs? Did you ever wonder why they called them earwigs? I got three words for you. Wrath Of Khan. :-o

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 08:42 PM

Well, I have remembered a few more, but they aren't as bad as slugs. Needles, but I am better than I used to be about them. Heights, even when it is Other People on them (falling thing, I think) and I have a lot of trouble crossing swinging foot-bridges. I'll bet I could not drive across the Golden Gate or the Key West bridges. Maybe not even the Verrazzano bridge in NY, and it is fairly short. Think it is the falling thing again. Stoopid part is that slugs can't really hurt me, the others could........duh.

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 08:39 PM

Mbo, you've just made me shudder!!! BTW you can squash all the earwigs in the world as far as I'm concerned. Less earwigs = a better world!!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Mbo
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 07:47 PM

Aw, FC, just when I was about to tell you that I was the premier earwig-wrangler in 1st grade! When other kids ran away and called then "pincher bugs", I brought in helpful books with whole article about then, and urged them that the correct term was "earwig", NOT "pincher bug"! Mr. Intellectual at 7 years old!

BTW you should see then roaches in Japan where we were! Big palmetto bug lookin' thangs. I used to keep a tally of how many I single-handedly squelched..

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 07:36 PM

Bernard, just the fact that people kept on going on about them!

I've just found another thing I'm scared of. I just saw an earwig crossing the kitchen floor and freaked out. I think this fear stems from when I was at Chester FF and one got into my tent. I came to bed and it was on my pillow and I thought it was a cockroach. One more word about earwigs, youv'e guessed it:- AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Diva
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 07:22 PM

Getting my heart broken,its been dented but always stayed whole.

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Bernard
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 07:01 PM

Whatever gave you that idea?

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 06:56 PM

Are people obsessed with dumb, drunken drivers on mobiles in white vans or summat? :-)

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Amergin
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 06:55 PM

In one of my bouts with depression I was afraid of shaving....

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Bernard
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 06:49 PM

Ever noticed the White Van's ability to jump sideways?

How DO they do that?

A dumb, drunken driver on a car phone in a white van going the wrong way down a one way street IN REVERSE...

Your turn...

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Melani
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 06:49 PM

Heights--so I joined BALCLUTHA's topsail crew, and now I get to climb 60 feet into the rigging and balance on a rope about two inches in diameter. Of course, it took me about eight months to get up there, and I'm still inching my way higher. A friend observed that I shouldn't worry so much--after about 20 feet, I'd be killed if I fell anyway, so what difference does another 40 or so make? Fortunately, the ship is tied up and doesn't move much.

I still can't walk over the Golden Gate Bridge.

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: p.j.
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 06:44 PM

Okay, this is gonna creep everybody out...

My job in the last 20 years has involved tracking and collecting rattlesnakes, handling many varieties of snakes as well as rodents in education programs, and training dolphins.

If you'll permit me a moment of indelicacy, here's the deal with dolphin penises: they're prehensile. Yep, it means "grasping", as in primate hands, giraffe tongues, and dolphin 'love snakes', as otherwise stogy scientists are prone to say.

Once, when my job description included the improbable task of warning nubile grad students about how to predict the impending amorous advances of our research dolphins, I had the occasion to be part of the following conversation...

p.j.: "...and so, when you become aware that one of the males has an erection, you should swim over to tankside and end the session..."

Grad Student: "What did you say about his penis?"

p.j.: "It's prehensile. You know, grasping."

(Long, thoughtful pause.)

Grad Student: "I don't know whether to puke or propose..."

By the way, I'm off today to a local vivarium to pick up a tarantula which I'll be using in a series of upcoming presentations next month. He'll live in the kitchen next to the Arizona Mountain Kingsnake. Honest. I guess if any Mudcatters are planning a visit to the Bay Area and want to stay, you should probably know this...

pj

p.s. By the way, after 20 years of peacefully working with tigers, killer whales, attack dogs and every species of that which creeps and crawls, I am ABSOLUTELY DEDICATED to the proposition that bees are out to get me. It's completely irrational, and totally irrefutable. They are hideous, malevalent creatures who must be destroyed. We'll figure out some other way to pollinate things. I'll help. Just get rid of the bees!!! AAAAUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 06:10 PM

Thanks, Mbo!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 06:02 PM

A dumb, drunken driver on a car phone in a white van.... too scary for words......

LTS

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Wesley S
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 05:56 PM

A drunk, dumb driver on a car phone - the worst!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Bernard
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 04:59 PM

'Dumb' drivers are equally as dangerous as drunks.

A drunk 'dumb' driver - now THERE'S a scary thought!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Bernard
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 04:49 PM

He also said 'Donald, where's your troosers'...

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Wesley S
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 04:48 PM

I'm scared to death of drunk drivers.

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Mbo
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 04:32 PM

Like Andy M. Stewart says "It's not the falling, but the landing that'll alter social standing..."

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Bernard
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 04:27 PM

I'm often asked if I'm scared of heights - am I afraid of falling?

Well, no, but I'm scared stiff of hitting the floor!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 03:51 PM

Ella - scared of gerbils, eh? How about hamsters, mice and rats? I've had pet hamsters, and they're kind of fun, except they racket around all night long! A friend of mine, Heidi, has a whole bunch of pet mice and a couple of rats, and they are SO friendly and cute. Another friend had a rat he used to carry around in his jacket pocket. Its name was Pestilence...nice little creature.

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Mbo
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 03:19 PM

They are an alternative country band, with some big punk drums and guitars like The Pogues. But they don't have the nasty snarly voices--these boys are from Texas!

--Matt

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 02:51 PM

Who???

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Mbo
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 02:18 PM

Ick? How could you? It's got some sort of BLLLLEEEEEEEP- out every 2 seconds. Tip: check out The Old '97's!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 12:52 PM

Oh dear! mind you, I do like Guilty Conscience!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: GUEST,Rich(stupidbodhranplayerwhodoesn'tknowbetter
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 10:56 AM

My brother actually listens to Eminem. AAAARRRRGGGHH!!!

Rich

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 10:29 AM

Thanks Ella! I'll send you a PM when I get the results to tell you.

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Kim C
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 10:10 AM

The only thing that really frightens me is the uncertainty of serious weather --- bad storms, tornados, ice on the road, stuff like that.

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 10:08 AM

Firecat... Don't worry you'll be fine I'm sure.

I got a D (ooo about 12 years ago now - sob sob) at my G.C.S.E's and retook 2 times and maintained a rather consistent D again and again.

So at least I know I am definately mathematically crap.

But it is NOT the end of the world as we know it.

I went on to start A levels - only got one of those. And then did excellently at Uni where I matured and came away with a 2:1 (BA Hons).

So don't despair, there is happy endings.

Good luck, let us know how you get on.

Slan

Ella

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: P05139
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 08:53 AM

I've thought of yet another thing. Failing my GCSEs. I get the results on August 24.... AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!

Especially Maths cos if I fail that (by failing I mean getting less than a C) I've gotta retake it. AAARRRGGGHHH!!!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 07:31 AM

I'm scared of SPIDERS

earwigs

bulls

dentist noises on tv

bone sawing/drilling noises

leeches (never met one yet though - and not likely to - lol)

Those are all minor ones.

But most of all.....

I have a huge fear of tight small spaces deep underground with water in them... Ie I would never go potholing, the fear of the dark, unknown depths and the knowledge of thousands of tonnes of rock above me.

A rather healthy fear I think.

There we go, all rather silly.

Spider one gets me going with a funny reaction the most...

ooo and snakes.

oooo and gerbils - y uch

I'm not at all neurotic... lol

honestly

Ella

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 05:02 AM

HEy, I want a picture of Lepus, I like bunnies....

(got any gooseberry sauce?)

LTS

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 04:49 AM

Little Hawk, the thinning fur must be from the stress of being held down, eh? Not to mention the time I spent in that little cage at Medtronic... *twitch*

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: PoohBear
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 12:44 AM

afraid of losing myself....

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 11:35 PM

Lepus - it's perfectly normal for rabbits to panic when trapped or held down, so don't worry about it. What was that other string about thinning hair? That's serious trouble if you're a rabbit. Get medical assistance without delay!

thosp - you're afraid of people with phobias? Ha! You must be in utter terror by now...have you yet run "shrieking from the room"? (for the derivation of that phrase, consult the writings of H.P. Lovecraft).

I'm somewhat scared of insomnia too.

Radio is a waste of time. Ditto for most TV.

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Chicky
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 11:15 PM

I'm scared of Callie

(grin)

- Chicky

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: WyoWoman
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 11:10 PM

My bills.

Companies that want me to meet their deadlines but are casual in the extreme about paying me.

ww

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 10:45 PM

Everything grows really well in the sub-tropics, so we've got thousands (yes, thousands) around our house and garden, and in the hottest months an eight foot python sunbakes in a big mango tree just an arms length away from our rear deck. But thanks to these critters we have no slugs or snails, virtually no rodents and very few flies. Australia has a complete menagerie of potentially dangerous creatures, and it's great sport to regale visitors with tall tales - sharks, salt water crocs, sundry nasty spiders and snakes - but in truth the number of fatalities is very small with the odds probably of the order of a million to one. Smoking, drinking or driving are eminently more hazardous.

What really frightens me is insomnia. Put a few pythons in the room and I'd probably sleep mush better.

Regards, John

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Mbo
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 10:03 PM

They are real, Bonehead. I'm one of them.

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: GUEST,Rich(stupidbodhranplayerwhodoesn'tknowbetter
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 09:53 PM

Bob jr,
Just remember that intelligent, talented people who like Oasis aren't real and therefore can't hurt you!
Rich

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Callie
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 08:53 PM

Banjo players? What about BANJOS?!

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Amergin
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 08:20 PM

I forgot to mention my phobia about banjo players....

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Susan from California
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 07:46 PM

Rodents, of all sizes. Sharks. I like a particular beach in SoCal because I almost always see dolphins/porpise (or whatever the heck the plural is-porpii? porpises-which reminds me of that Civil War thread and urea...) Singing in public. I figured out the other day that some people do extreme sports, I get my adreniline rush from singing in front of people. I get the same rush from public speaking, but it is not as intense because although people can disagree with my point, perspective, or politics, I wouldn't believe them if they said that I was flat or sharp or just off key.

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: thosp
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 05:38 PM

i'm deathly afraid of people with phobias! any and all kinds of phobias!peace (Y) thosp

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From: Amergin
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 05:37 PM

I'm afraid of spiders, especially the shiny black ones...and the big brown ones....not afraid of heights so much as I am afraid of falling from those heights, but I can deal with it (and have had to from time to time on oily decks and such). I am also afraid of buggering up a poem during a reading....

Amergin

Subject: RE: AAAARGH!!!!
From:
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 05:33 PM

0nce in a while I'll waken into pitch darkness and have a panic attack.I put a light on for a few moments and then I can cope with what is, if anything, increased darkness. funny thing

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.

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

RIIIGHT!

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 - 01:50 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 - 01:41 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 - 01:19 PM

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

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: 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: Lepus Rex
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:39 PM

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

---Lepus Rex

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: 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: Alice
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:17 PM

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 09:51 AM

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

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: Giac
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 09:34 AM

Republicans and bears, in that order.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: Bernard
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:44 AM

Negative modifier? Is that like Monosodium Glutamate?

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: 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: Bernard
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 12:25 AM

Oooops! I did it, too!

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 - 12:22 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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!