Phobias

[Exeter_Gently]

Spiders.... petrified

 

[Davidoff]

Baked beans, they look like a load of mini bald fellas drowning in radioactive sauce

*shudders

 

[cronullasharks]

Heights is a bit of a weird one with me, I've bungee jumped the highest one in New Zealand, used to look for the highest jumps into water I could find when I was younger - bridges, cliffs etc. Never bothered me one bit but for some reason things like getting up on the roof to get a football or something has me doing the leg tremblers in fear.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Had a friend in college who kept a can of bug spray, then kind that reaches 10+ ft, just for spiders.

Myself, I'm terrified of

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Especially the splattering on the ground part after the fall.

Heights, gets much worse as I get older, irrationally so. If my kids go near an edge I completely lose it, to the point of being a bit weird. My legs went n the multi-story car park not so long ago, probably on the 3rd floor.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Also, deep water, that feeling when you are swimming and it gets very cold and dark beneath you.... nope. Or, snorkeling and then it just opens up ahead of you into the deep - nope.

 

[dachshund]

Snakes and needles

 

[NathDogg]

Heights is a bit of a weird one with me, I've bungee jumped the highest one in New Zealand, used to look for the highest jumps into water I could find when I was younger - bridges, cliffs etc. Never bothered me one bit but for some reason things like getting up on the roof to get a football or something has me doing the leg tremblers in fear.

This is me mate, really odd.

I can jump off the high board at the pool, the huge big concrete buggers, no problem.

I can ride on any fairground ride or roller coaster on the planet and have an absolute ball, love it, no fear, no sweats, no nothing.

I got stuck up a ladder cleaning the gutters for about 25 minutes not so long ago, froze with fear, leg trembles, making the ladder shake like a swine, couldn’t move an inch, it was horrendous.

Me missus was peeing herself laughing at me, still ain’t forgiven her.

 

[maltablue]

Baked beans, they look like a load of mini bald fellas drowning in radioactive sauce

*shudders

Guess you're not liking the Ann-Margaret scene in Tommy then?

 

[COYBL25]

Also, deep water, that feeling when you are swimming and it gets very cold and dark beneath you.... nope. Or, snorkeling and then it just opens up ahead of you into the deep - nope.

If I can`t see the bottom I start to flap, doesn`t matter whether it`s a river or the sea.

My mind starts to tell me that there`s all kinds of nasty things lurking beneath me and I should get out asap.

 

[COYBL25]

This is me mate, really odd.

I can jump off the high board at the pool, the huge big concrete buggers, no problem.

I can ride on any fairground ride or roller coaster on the planet and have an absolute ball, love it, no fear, no sweats, no nothing.

I got stuck up a ladder cleaning the gutters for about 25 minutes not so long ago, froze with fear, leg trembles, making the ladder shake like a swine, couldn’t move an inch, it was horrendous.

Me missus was peeing herself laughing at me, still ain’t forgiven her.

I`m the exact same.

Zip wire - no problem.
Jumping off a cliff into the sea- no problem.
Running on top of fells in Cumbria - no problem.

Cleaning the bedroom windows on a ladder - legs lock, start to feel dizzy and acute panic sets in

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

If I can`t see the bottom I start to flap, doesn`t matter whether it`s a river or the sea.

My mind starts to tell me that there`s all kinds of nasty things lurking beneath me and I should get out asap.

lol - exactly, God forbid anything should actually touch my foot.

 

[COYBL25]

lol - exactly, God forbid anything should actually touch my foot.

That`s me too

Watching Jaws as a child, has a lot to do with this I think.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

That`s me too

Watching Jaws as a child, has a lot to do with this I think.

Even in British sea I worry about sharks cos of that stupid film

 

[trueblue84]

Never understood why it's called homophobia. Is it really an irrational fear of gay people? Shouldn't it be an "ism"?

 

[Littlesue]

If I'm in water I have to be able to touch the floor with my toes so for me anything further than the 4ft 6 mark is out of bounds. At the Swimming Baths I'm one of those annoying prats who swims widths which really pee's off all those folk doing lengths