I'd save crazy for someone who might be frightened when confronted by an earth worm.
And how the hell can a moth scare anyone? I don't even think they pose a significant choking hazard.
I've never really developed any phobias. Usu when I realize I'm being unreasonable I make great efforts to over come it. If I were to cower or flee from a roach I would certainly want to be beating to my own humiliation and shot for the sake of eliminating small-mindedness.
I'm not saying the isn't nothing wrong with none of you all of course!
Cockroaches are great fun when they fly around in your kitchen, banging clumsily into the wall and scuttering away only to reappear hours later. And then they hang out in your bedroom in the middle of the night.
I'm told that in extremely severe cases, when you have a roach infestation and not much food out (and it's probably also made worse by sleeping on or near the floor as this person was), that eyelashes are made of yummy protein and have a tendency to vanish.
Cockroaches made me miss those little tiny roaches that hang out in your food cabinet, because at least they didn't fly and they weren't fucking huge.
Have I mentioned recently how much better I like the apartment I'm living in now, than I did my parents' house?
{DSG}DarkRaven wrote:
My kinda-sorta phobia is small boats. I missed 90 minutes of beautiful Irish national park because I was staring at the bottom of our tiny boat. My neck hurt like heck afterwards. It's not so bad now that I've sorta learned how to swim, but in previous days, the fear of sinking was great.
That reminds me... I'm also afraid of lake/river water. If I can't see the bottom, I won't get in. For real. I'm okay to a certain depth but seriously... it terrifies me.
moocow wrote:biggiy, I should stab you for that.
😃 That wouldn't be very nice. I can go post a few more clowns if you want.
That clown looks like the clowns from the Killer Clown movie.
moocow wrote:I'm also afraid of grasshoppers...
:sweat: I promise I don't bite.
These things usually freak me out until I realize what they are. Mainly because they like to jump like 3-4 feet into the air, right in front of me to be a show off. Especially when I'm playing games, and they jump in front of the TV. But bugs that move faster than they appear that they should usually creep me out. Once I was lying in the floor watching a movie, and felt something on my foot. It was comforting to see a large spider just dart across my chest. I ended up poking at it with my fingers. Those silly spiders are afraid of me. Bwhaha
Beldaran wrote:I imagined you strolling down the beach, having a great time, when all of a sudden you see a small boat going past in the water. Terrified, you drop everything and run screaming. I was thinking you might be crazy.😊
Okay, let me rephrase myself: I am afraid of being in small boats. Large boats don't bother me. I was on a ferry between Wales and Ireland, and it was no big deal. I was on a much smaller riverboat once here in Michigan, and it was great. Canoes, rowboats, and the like just don't sit well with me. The thought of it doesn't bother me, nor does the sight of it. Simply being in such a boat gives me great anxiety, and it's very much connected with drowning.
Successor, phobic objects are rarely as harmful as the intense fear they cause might suggest. Being afraid of bees, for instance, is far more common for someone who has no documented risk of bee sting allergies, which is exactly the opposite of what you might expect.
For instance, some quick google searching with the right keywords brings up some videos of the Maury Povich show (which I am completely unable to watch on 56k), where they have people scared of the most ridiculous things. Balloons, peaches, alluminum foil, cotton balls, and even birds and mustard.
even birds and mustard.
Do you mean birds and mustard together, or just birds and just mustard. Because fear of mustard is really stupid. Birds I could see being a phobia though. Ever see a movie by the same name?
Aside from wasps/bees/hornets, my phobias probably only include jellyfish, stingrays, and other similar animals.
(Actually, thinking about it, I guess my childhood instilled me with a fear of
anything that stings.)
Grasshopper wrote:
These things usually freak me out until I realize what they are. Mainly because they like to jump like 3-4 feet into the air, right in front of me to be a show off. Especially when I'm playing games, and they jump in front of the TV.
I LOVE those things. They are called Camel Crickets or Cave Crickets. I have literally hundreds of them living in my basement, and even more in my sub-basement.
I like to go down and catch them every once in awhile. My mom hates them, and makes me catch them when they manage to get to the 1st floor.
They are interesting bugs because they are wingless and thus don't produce noise, and they have a really strange property with their eyes, where they always think they are moving in the opposite direction that they really are. This makes it so that when they try to run away from predators, they actually hop towards them, scaring them.
Amaster42 wrote:Do you mean birds and mustard together, or just birds and just mustard.
I have no idea. Did you even watch the video? I can't, on account of my 56k. But you should. Totally.
{DSG}DarkRaven wrote:they have people scared of the most ridiculous things. Balloons, peaches...
...Peaches? How the heck can someone be scred of PEACHES?!? Last I checked, they don't bite...
I discovered what Riverman was using in his struggle against the moths:
