[quote]chimera182 wrote:
Worms or anything resembling them. Snakes are basically worms with venom and teeth.
Also, small spaces and clowns not necessarily together, but that would be awful.
I punched a clown in the face when I was younger.[/quote]
Chim
Your entire post… LMFAO!
i was afraid of oranges for YEARS. and mashed potatoes,no idea why.
had my first orange in my late teens and my first mashed potaoes when i was 21–and forced to face them.
but i also have ten siblings so i probbaly was pummeled with fruit and mashed food as a toddler.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
chimera182 wrote:
Worms or anything resembling them. Snakes are basically worms with venom and teeth.
Also, small spaces and clowns not necessarily together, but that would be awful.
I punched a clown in the face when I was younger.
Chim
Your entire post… LMFAO!
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I’m glad my idiosyncrasies are entertaining to you. But punching the clown was pretty funny, and satisfying. Why the hell would a grown man want to be a clown?
[quote]brute_fury wrote:
i was afraid of oranges for YEARS. and mashed potatoes,no idea why.
had my first orange in my late teens and my first mashed potaoes when i was 21–and forced to face them.
but i also have ten siblings so i probbaly was pummeled with fruit and mashed food as a toddler.[/quote]
I once had an orange seed stuck in my ear (don’t ask why). Your fear is justified.
Also, if you’ve seen Bigger, Faster, Stronger vitamin C has some pretty ugly side effects from overdosing.
oh my god!
Being buried alive.
Things touching me while I’m swimming.
Fat!
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Really fat women with big curly stray hairs on their chest who wear low cut shirts.
Bees…in the car.
STDs
That last one is the result of taking classes in pathology that use way too many slides to get a point across. If most of you knew what was really out there, you would have sex wearing a Hefty bag.[/quote]
I do. But only the ribbed ones. You know, for my pleasure.
[quote]imhungry wrote:
sluicy wrote:
pushmepullme wrote:
Zits on other people.
Spiders/bugs with multiple legs.
Mine exactly. (I was waiting for imhungry to answer this for me.)
There’s something about those extra legs that is just CREEPY! When I was at school in New York we occasionally had these bugs in the dorms we called “thousand leggers.” They were big, slinky-fast and when you killed them they released a nasty smell. Horror movie stuff. When I have to kill anything with more than six legs I’m ashamed to admit I do the whole hyperventilating, screeching, ultra-girly terror bit.
Oh, and ticks.
No, i’ve stopped giving you crap for that.
Also, I hate MAGGOTS.[/quote]
I knew you were a nice guy. But maggots can help save your life, you know.
For everyone with spider phobias, my brother is in the fast-car biz and one of his racing buddies got out on the track when he felt something crawling around in his helmet. By the time he stopped and got his helmet off, the thing had crawled in his ear. The track first-aid kit had no tweezers so they ran him to the emergency room. It was a brown recluse spider and by the time they got it out it had already bitten him in his ear canal.
Jeepers, I would have been absolutely passing-out schizo-freaking-crazy on that ride to the E-room. I can’t wait to move out of Texas where they have all these creepy things that can kill you. If I’m going to be sent to an early grave, let it at least be by something pretty. I’d take being eaten by sharks or lions over a spider, at least it would be dramatic. Plus I’ve heard that the adrenaline kicks in and you can’t feel anything.
[quote]sluicy wrote:
imhungry wrote:
sluicy wrote:
pushmepullme wrote:
Zits on other people.
Spiders/bugs with multiple legs.
Mine exactly. (I was waiting for imhungry to answer this for me.)
There’s something about those extra legs that is just CREEPY! When I was at school in New York we occasionally had these bugs in the dorms we called “thousand leggers.” They were big, slinky-fast and when you killed them they released a nasty smell. Horror movie stuff. When I have to kill anything with more than six legs I’m ashamed to admit I do the whole hyperventilating, screeching, ultra-girly terror bit.
Oh, and ticks.
No, i’ve stopped giving you crap for that.
Also, I hate MAGGOTS.
I knew you were a nice guy. But maggots can help save your life, you know.
For everyone with spider phobias, my brother is in the fast-car biz and one of his racing buddies got out on the track when he felt something crawling around in his helmet. By the time he stopped and got his helmet off, the thing had crawled in his ear. The track first-aid kit had no tweezers so they ran him to the emergency room. It was a brown recluse spider and by the time they got it out it had already bitten him in his ear canal.
Jeepers, I would have been absolutely passing-out schizo-freaking-crazy on that ride to the E-room. I can’t wait to move out of Texas where they have all these creepy things that can kill you. If I’m going to be sent to an early grave, let it at least be by something pretty. I’d take being eaten by sharks or lions over a spider, at least it would be dramatic. Plus I’ve heard that the adrenaline kicks in and you can’t feel anything.
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Jesus H Christ, Sluicy!!! Spiders don’t scare me at all, but that story gave me goosebumps!!
Ugh…
The Zamboni used to scare the hell out of me as a kid. We’d have 1 hour of public skating, then these loud sirens would go off and the Zamboni would emerge from the back room, usually spewing out steam like some sort of angry dragon.
The hole of the toilet still freaks me out. If I ever dropped my keys in there, even into an empty bowl at my own house, I’d be squeamish fishing them out. Half expect something is going to grab me.
Midgets, also. Not so much lone, solitary midgets, but when they congregate in groups…midget advocacy groups, basketball teams, whatever…like on that show “Little People, Big World”. Absolutely horrifying
spiders
if i see one, my body just freezes up and i get goosebumps
i’m so scared of them that I’m even hesitant to crush them with my shoe!
many years ago, a spider crawled inside a pair of shoes i had and then crawled back out after a second. i never wore the shoes again
[quote]tootles27 wrote:
Something that I’ve never even seen in real life freaks me out big time. You know when addicts shot themselves up and get track marks? Gross. I think I read somewhere that they start going in between their toes to hide the marks. More gross. If this isn’t true, someone say so, so I can earse this thought from my mind.[/quote]
Sorry but it’s true. They like really like the veins on the tops and sides of their feet and ankles. Easier to get a hit and they aren’t as noticeable when they collapse. They joypop in the freckles on their hands and arms. I’ve even seen people that slammed in their crotches, men and women, so you wouldn’t see their tracks. I’ve seen people do drugs in ways you wouldn’t believe.
ouroboro_s hates leeches and so do I. When I was in country I always had rubbers with me. When we got into leech areas I always put one on so no small ones could get up my urethra and lock on. Just thinking about them still gives me chills!
I’m embarrassed to admit these 2, but oh well.
Jewelry, the metal freaks me out. I can’t touch it, and I can’t have it near me or in my pocket. Every GF I’ve had gets annoyed by it.
Change- dimes, nickels, pennies (quarters are ok, need those for video games as a kid, lol).
I think it began in 3rd grade when I would see kids stick dimes up their nose or in their mouth, gross.
My friends lover being around me when I pay cash for things b/c they get the spare change.
I love debit cards 
I’m weird, I know.
[quote]imhungry wrote:
SteelyD wrote:
Getting eaten alive… by shark, alligator, lion-- whatever.
Not so much gulped, but chewed on slowly to death…
I think that’s why I hunt and fish so much. There’s probably some really badass karma retribution thing waiting for me… a great white or a grizzly or something.
Does this help, Steely?[/quote]
Yes it does. As long as that dude is ‘giving a hand’, mine is safe. 
plumbers crack.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Not much really scares me, but there are a few little things that freak me out.
Hornets. If I see one, I head straight indooors.
Someone vomiting nearby (if I hear it behind me, I flinch)
Deep black water. I’m not a great swimmer, so the unknown depths have a particular dread factor. Yet I’m nearly fearless in the deep clear teal water of the Caribbean, and love snorkeling.
Name yours.[/quote]
I’m almost exactly the same, except for number 1. I do run when I see a hornet though - but it can be fun when you try and swat the huge ones with a plastic cricket bat.
Vomiting, yes, it’s a horrible thing to witness or hear.
Deep black water, yeah, for sure. I hate it when I can’t see what’s beneath me…and the depth & blackness just adds to it.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Body odor - I went to the zoo this past weekend and some guy was holding his kid up to see the chimps and I swear my eyes started watering from the stench from his armpit. I couldn’t take it anymore so I had to tell him. “Dude you wreak.” You know its bad when you are at the zoo and the animals smell better than the people. [/quote]
LMFAO!!!
Chihuahuas.
When I was 4 years old, our neighbor who ironically was named Kitty, had 9 of those little piranhas on legs. Three of them got loose one day and attacked me.
I hate those little fuckers to this day.
I am shit scared of ending up alone. (i.e. sans family)
I’m with Prof X on the bee’s in the car… I was driving last summer and a bee hit my arm (window was down) and landed on my lap before beginning to buzz about and begin to fly. I almost went off the road trying to kill it before it stung me in the junk. Gives me goosebumps thinking about it.
Otherwise the thought of either chipping/breaking a tooth, or having fingernails/toenails pulled out.
Needles too - but not quite so bad as the first two…
I have to stop thinking about it - I’m getting chills just writing about them