Martian86 Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 L'appel du vide. Call of the void? Cool, never knew it was an actual thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bold Rover Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 There's quite honestly something about sheep that freaks me the f**k out. I can't even explain exactly what it is beyond that sheepy way that they look at you. It's unnerving. This is hardly on the level of a phobia, but I honestly feel uncomfortable around sheep. Have you had a bad experience with one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 Accidentally ending up amongst a bunch of sand eels whilst swimming in the sea and coming under heavy fire from dozens of dive-bombing Guillemots barely a metre away from harpooning your skull in from above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspy Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 Wasps deserve to die they are evil little feckers Mon the Wasps!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeek Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Have you had a bad experience with one? didn't call him back imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 This. If I spot one in the house I bolt for the door and won't re-enter that room until the wife has dealt with it. This is lamentable cowardice in a man of almost forty. I live in absolute dread of the day one enters my classroom at work: it'll almost certainly mean the end of my career when I piss myself with fear and start crying in front of a group of second years. I've had literally hundreds of them in the house this summer. For every wasp that's disappeared there seems to have been a hundred daddy long legs appeared. Every day I leave for work there's at least half a dozen sitting around the brickwork at the front of my building. I usually pick them up by their legs and fling them out or let my wee cat deal with them. He loves the taste of the wee buggers. See when you think about it, how have they evolved and survived so long? They can't fly well, they are really flimsy, aren't well hidden from predators and ridiculously easy to catch. You'd imagine they'd have gone extinct millions of years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Cool, never knew it was an actual thing! Googled it, I'm not that bright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 I'm sure we did this thread not long ago, in which I admitted to my mortal fear of ships and boats. I'm so bad that a picture of a ship on the TV will send me queasily scurrying from the room. I remember the first time I ever clapped eyes on Aberdeen harbour. Had no idea it was practically in the city centre. Turned off of Union Street in the middle of blethering with the missus, looked up, keeched myself, and had to inch all the way along the street with my back flat against the wall on the opposite side of the road from the harbour wall. Must have looked like I'd escaped from Carstairs or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killie_lad Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 yeah not an unusual one but heights http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWPgIcfTUko This video makes my feet tingle (not really sure why tbh), can't imagine anything worse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joeybhoy Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Wasps. I don't understand why though. I never used to have any kind of fear of them, indeed, I mind during school I was always the one who could sit quiet, let them rest on my hand, and then put them out. I've been stung a couple of times too, so I know I don't have an allergy, and I know it isn't that sore. For some reason though, my phobia has grown in the last few years to the point where I can't be in the same room as one. Indeed, when I was staying with my dad a few years back, a wasp flew into the room I was meant to be sleeping in, and I couldn't find it. I went and stayed at my mum's house instead. Since my phobia got worse though, the b*****ds have got more scary. I once had to sit perfectly still in the middle of a swarm in the attic when a wasps bike somehow got disturbed when I was moving boxes. Last summer, they decided that they loved my car, to such an extent that there were so many of them on the car that I climbed in via the back seat. A couple of the fuckers clung right while I drove to the shops. And when I came back out of Tesco, half an hour later...they were still there, buzzing around my car. Now, I can't even stomach the thought of seeing them outside my window. I hadn't been up in the loft at the family house in about 4 months so when I got back I heard what I thought was a garden trimmer cutting hedges next door. I got up the stairs and there was a wasp about 2.5 inches long!!!! It was dive bombing and making this horrendous noise. I overcame fear with anger and went at it with a spray can so then it started zig zagging across the room. I was running and hiding, falling over old furniture and it finally fell. I keep getting shudders thinking about it. However, it seems apparent that there a lot of us so let's set up an anonymous phobia group because I'm afraid to open Windows in the house during the Summer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taurus Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Love beans and love eggs but can't have both of them on the same plate . If there on the same plate at breakfast I can't eat any of it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamboMikey Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Beans are an aggressive food, get right up in your sausages and eggs grill. Best served on a side plate, I find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philpy Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 My biggest fear Is choking to death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE KING Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 1347650155[/url]' post='6627023']My biggest fear Is choking to death. Take after yer maw then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long live the 69 Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Paisley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE KING Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Phobias Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philpy Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Take after yer maw then Your maw is twice the man you'll ever be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dindeleux Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Cabin Fever. I like the comforts of home but I took a week off once to redecorate the hall and was going nuts within two days. I had to go to a cafe just to be surrounded by people. Why is it called Cabin Fever? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Why is it called Cabin Fever? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_fever The entimology is probably North American, i.e. long winters holed up in the same place for months on end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Pete Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Why is it called Cabin Fever? Simply a way to describe the feeling of claustrophobia caused by being shut in. May have sailing origins, but it's purely a descriptive term for the feeling of being trapped in a place and desiring a change of scenery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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