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