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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Ebbie Date: 22 Jun 05 - 11:55 PM Annamill, no, I've never lived in California although I visit frequently. I've lived in Alaska for 17 years so far; before then I lived in Oregon. Last week I had an episode of claustrophobia. I was able to function fairly normally, kept my breathing even, consciously kept my muscles relaxed, and stayed in a conversation but it wasn't easy. There is a three-mile tunnel leading to Whittier, Alaska, an end-of-the-road port town. The tunnel is only one lane wide and one's car literally straddles a train track. Vehicles are given a time table for when they may enter and when they must not. We had the air conditioner going and I think that made it worse- there was an acrid, oily, heavy smell in my nostrils. A couple of hours later on our way back through I was fine. We also kept the air conditioner off. Doug/darkriver, some things just can't be explained. One time, at about 10:30 PM in my home in Dayton, Oregon, I heard two fighter jets (i.e. not passenger planes) roar over my home. They were going fast. The sound was diminishing when the jets evidently turned and went in a slightly different direction. There was an air force post in Tillamook- not too far away, as planes go - so jets in my vicinity were not unknown. This time, although the feeling I had was not panic, my whole body chilled in fear. Two days later, our local 3-issues a week newspaper had a short blurb saying that two jets had been sent out that evening from Tillamook in response to unidentified objects in the sky I tend to feel that I somehow tuned into the fear the pilots were feeling. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: GUEST,sneezy Date: 22 Jun 05 - 01:43 PM but what if she's allergic to those downy little feathers??? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Little Hawk Date: 22 Jun 05 - 01:41 PM I intend to keep her name close to my chest, brucie. This is the internet, eh? ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Torctgyd Date: 22 Jun 05 - 11:15 AM Well that's all right then. My irration fears have disappeared from this thread so I obviously don't suffer from them any more! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Peace Date: 22 Jun 05 - 11:06 AM Her name Jane by any chance, LH? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Little Hawk Date: 22 Jun 05 - 10:06 AM My irrational fear of the day is that Chongo Chimp will meet this woman I'm really interested in and carry her off to his treehouse. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: GUEST,David Hannam Date: 22 Jun 05 - 09:46 AM My irrational fear at the moment is Bruce!!! Arrrgggghhhh, he haunts me at every turn and thread. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 22 Jun 05 - 09:34 AM I'm not too good with car washes either. I can not sit in a car whilst it's going through an automated car wash..... subsequently my car was filthy. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: *Laura* Date: 22 Jun 05 - 08:50 AM of course not. they're not funny and what's more they know they're not funny and they KNOW you know they're not funny - so they become sinister as they still continue with the pretence of being funny! clowns. *shudder* |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 06 Jun 05 - 12:50 AM Being skinned - tanned - and hung upside down to grace the collar of "sir jOhn ho Hull's " mistress.
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: annamill Date: 05 Jun 05 - 06:13 PM " I had to avert my eyes from alongside the road when they had netting spread there to keep the banks/boulders from moving." Ebbie, do you live in California?? I have a very annoying fear of deep water where I can't touch bottom. I tried diving once. Went out and spent over $300 for the equipment. A friend took me out into Barnaget Bay, just a little bit off the dock. When I realized I couldn't put my head up and breathe, I paniced, inflated my vest and went to the top, pulled off my mouthpiece and backpaddled til I could touch bottom. That's when I found out about this damn silly fear. I really wanted to dive. It hasn't gotten better, I'm afraid to go out into the ocean past my thighs. It's funny because I can kayak way out on the deep water without fear. In fact, it's one of my greatest pleasures. Strange, huh? Love, Annamill |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: *Laura* Date: 05 Jun 05 - 03:05 PM the daleks are returning... properly... my fear will be back in my house!!! xLx (I know - I am a very sad person :o) ) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Big Al Whittle Date: 25 May 05 - 07:00 PM yeh occasionally it gets them to buy a round |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Ellenpoly Date: 25 May 05 - 11:02 AM Being around drunks. I think it's because of the unpredictability of how alcohol affects people. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: GUEST,KB Date: 25 May 05 - 10:11 AM Balloons. its the tension. they might go bang! {{shiver}} When they actually do burst its not a problem - its the potential that seems to get me. am better than I used to be, but at one point I couldn't be in the same room as a balloon without feeling EXTREMELY anxious. Also - I used to not be afraid of heights at all - loved climging trees etc, then after I had my daughter I suddenly became absolutely petrified of even fairly low heights. The full going dizzy and seeing/feeling everything swinging round. I think I read somewhere that its quite common for women to suddenly develop vertigo after having kids. weird. Kris |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Bill D Date: 25 May 05 - 09:28 AM You're not paranoid at all....they're really after you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 25 May 05 - 08:44 AM That I'm not Paranoid enough! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: *Laura* Date: 25 May 05 - 07:56 AM THE NING NING FROG! I just got reminded of it by that other thread - it is really freaky! It's like - nothing will get through to it is just KEEPS ON GOING NING NING AND GRINNING IT'S STUPID SCARY GRIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! Phew... xLx |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: robomatic Date: 24 May 05 - 11:34 PM That only rational fears will be acceptable in polite society. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: GUEST,marks Date: 24 May 05 - 10:29 PM Homophobia - the irrational fear that in the middle of the night, some gay guys will break into your home and tastefully redecorate it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Peace Date: 24 May 05 - 07:55 PM I also have the irrational fear that George W Bush will be elected again in 2004. Think about THAT one for a bit. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: GUEST,Marion Date: 24 May 05 - 07:51 PM I like this quote that I saw once in a satirical horoscope (The Onion, I think): "Your baseless and irrational fear of doctors will disappear... and be replaced by a completely rational and well-founded fear of doctors." |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: harpgirl Date: 24 May 05 - 06:33 PM ...you people need expensive treatments! lol |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 24 May 05 - 04:42 PM Tunnels under water. Tunnels under ground I'm reasonably fine with, I don't panic if I'm stuck on the Underground train, but if it's under water.... get me out of there! I can't walk any of the foot tunnels under the Thames river, because I start to hyperventilate and panic before I get halfway.... and the Channel Tunnel, no matter how short a time you are under water, is just never going to happen for me! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: *Laura* Date: 24 May 05 - 01:03 PM That's not irrational Ted! hehehe |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Paco Rabanne Date: 24 May 05 - 11:10 AM Banjos |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Donuel Date: 24 May 05 - 11:06 AM The next time code red is declared, it is here to stay. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: JennyO Date: 24 May 05 - 08:43 AM LOL Joe - right with you there! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: GUEST,KT Date: 24 May 05 - 03:00 AM oops! (GOTTA GET USED TO THIS NEW COMPUTER!) Driving through long tunnels and driving over long bridges whose approach is on a steep decline toward the water. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: GUEST,KT Date: 24 May 05 - 02:55 AM |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Joe Offer Date: 24 May 05 - 02:17 AM My irrational fear? Sh----es! Certainly, nobody would accuse Sh----es of being rational, would they? -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Peace Date: 24 May 05 - 12:15 AM RUN! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: JennyO Date: 24 May 05 - 12:10 AM Thanks to a certain other thread, I'm beginning to develop an irrational fear of the flush of a distant toilet :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Peace Date: 23 May 05 - 07:21 PM Needles, blood (my own or that of others), injuries have never 'put me off'. Except when it involves infants or children. I have a hard time dealing with that. Don't feel like throwing up--but, mentally it's very difficult to handle. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: jacqui.c Date: 23 May 05 - 07:13 PM That's the other thing for me - needles and skin being cut - whether in a TV programme or the thought of being cut myself. Turns my stomach. That one's getting worse as I get older. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Lepus Rex Date: 23 May 05 - 06:27 PM Oddly, it's heights. I say "oddly," because I never used to fear heights, and in fact enjoyed rock climbing as a boy. But I'd always had a terrible phobia of needles. Several of my childhood dentists (I didn't keep one for long...) ended up on the floor after producing a syringe. Now, I don't mind needles at all... But get me on a ladder, and I'm shaking like a chihuahua. Weird. ---Lepus Rex |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Once Famous Date: 23 May 05 - 06:00 PM Certain Mudcatters hanging around my synagogue with spray paint and armbands. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Donuel Date: 23 May 05 - 04:14 PM http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=6083&start=1&end=10&display=photoshop |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: heric Date: 23 May 05 - 12:51 PM I'm becoming that way with heights, but I think it is entirely rational. If people ask if I have a fear of heights, I think to myself "Do you mean do I understand gravity?" I don't have a fear of enclosed spaces, with one exception which I was too scared to even discuss previously. I have a terror of being trapped with my knees bent, so that I can't straighten out my legs. Terror. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: frogprince Date: 23 May 05 - 12:33 PM I'm much like Joe F. about heights; with me, even standing on a little step stool and reaching up to change a lightbulb can make me shakey. But no discomfort whatever riding down the Grand Canyon with the mule walking the very edge, or on a hot air balloon ride. I just don't trust my own balance a bit at any height at all. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Big Al Whittle Date: 23 May 05 - 12:24 PM saying something silly and being held up to public ridicule. thenks to my fellow sufferers on mudcat I am fighting this phobia on a daily basis |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: kendall Date: 23 May 05 - 10:26 AM Falling or being pushed into a well head first. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 23 May 05 - 10:05 AM Heights -- but only if I have nothing to hold onto. I have no difficulty looking over the wall of an overlook or balcony, or out the window of an airplane. But I was once literally paralyzed with fright on trying to go up a railingless staircase in a church tower, and once, on crossing a bridge on a pedestrian walkway that had only a grating for a floor, I couldn't move without holding onto the railing, so that my hand was filthy by the time we got across. It has gotten gradually worse with age: I visited San Francisco in 1972, and went up the summits of Twin Peaks (no railings, and somewhat exposed) and down again with no anxiety. 25 years later I had to have a friend hold my hand to go down. --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Parent & child is host & guest plus warden & prisoner. :|| |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: RangerSteve Date: 23 May 05 - 09:21 AM The above bit about vines was from me. I forgot to log on. Ranger Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: GUEST Date: 23 May 05 - 09:19 AM Closed spaces. I freaked out in a closed MRI. That's the first time I realized I was claustrophobic. Since then, I can't stand to think about it. In the book "Angels and Demons" there's a scene where the hero gets trapped under an overturned sarcophagus. I knew he'd get out since the story was only half finished, but I had to skip over the whole chapter. I also couldn't get through a piece in a recent National Geographic about the deepest cave in the world - somewhere in Russia or Siberia - some of the pictures gave me the willies. I still haven't finished the article and probably never will. My real irrational fear, one that I got over, sort of, is vines. I saw too many horror movies as a kid, and I know that you shouldn't turn your back of vines. They'll sneak up and grap you and possibly eat you. As a park ranger, I forced myself to get used to them, but I still don't like them. I saw a movie a few years ago with Christopher Lee playing a fortune teller who uses tarot cards to foretell miserable deaths to four different people. One of the stories concerned carnivorous vines taking over a guy's house and winning in the end. There was a small plant peeking up through the boards in the deck by my back door at the time. Within a few days it had taken over the whole deck. It really creeped me out. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: *Laura* Date: 23 May 05 - 06:20 AM I don't think small spaces is an irrational fear. I don't like them either but I would have thought that was quite rational. The sea water thing - I don't know - I guess that's like fear of the unknown or something? But quite irrational to many people I guess. (but Daleks still win hands down) xLx |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Ebbie Date: 23 May 05 - 03:08 AM A 2 1/year, after telling me that he "used to fly" his own airplane, told me that he had died "one time"; when I, in a casual tone, asked him, Oh, what happened? He said, The airplane was burning. They didn't get me in time. This is in Alaska where there is a higher percentage of small plane pilots than anywhere else in the US. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: fat B****rd Date: 23 May 05 - 03:02 AM Premature burial (mine) and small people. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: Peace Date: 23 May 05 - 01:47 AM Boab, There is nothing irrational about that fear. Glad it never happened. BM |
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Subject: RE: BS: What is your irrational fear? From: freda underhill Date: 23 May 05 - 01:37 AM ebbie - re In my opinion, ONLY , we sometimes have bleedthroughs from another time, another place... my youngest daughter, when she was aged around three, said "I was burning, wasn't i mum?" (she has never been burnt in this life!) |
