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General Discussion & Feedback => Just Chat! => Topic started by: MissMontana on 19/10/2005 22:12:00
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Balloons, they give me the wiggins, it's a ridiculous fear, I can't explain it but I am curious about other people's phobias.
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Oh I love balloons...but do you mean the big ones you ride in or the little ones that go pop ?...I reckon you mean the little ones eh ?...sometimes I just grab my pack of balloons (NOT CONDOMS...though they do make excellent balloons too) and blow twenty or so up....wifey hates it...the kids love it...they always brighten up a room.
Phobias eh ?.....the sound that you get when a needle skates across a record groove..brrrrrrrrr !!!!!....what I absolutely detest akin to the record groove is that all weather gear that has thousands of little grooves and goes..eeek eeek !!..as you walk in it...do you know what I mean ?...I can't even bear to touch the stuff !!..brrrrrrr....errrr !...gives me the shudders just thinking about it !!
Men are the same as women.... just inside out !! (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerogain.com%2Fforum%2Fimages%2Fsmilies%2Faction-smiley-075.gif&hash=84631c0c4a382b5e68463904b7b9fddf)
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A fork scraping a plate, when the end of the tines scrapes across the plate, not so much the side.
I've been known to take forks away from people for scraping them on their plate.
I guess my only other phobia would be needles. Like shot needles in a doctors office. I faint when I see one. Blood, knives, whatever doesn't bother me, just needles. I guess I wouldn't make a good junkie. Or diabetic.
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John - The Eternal Pessimist.
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Blimey, a 'renaissance' of many founding members of this forum. Great to see you both back again, Tweener and MissMontana
...There's nothing to fear except fear itself !
Chris
"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception"
- Groucho Marx
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Just the bog standard spiders, heights and people.
I had to travel up to town in the rush hour yesterday and there were millions of the little blighters, plus some of the escalators were uncomfortably tall! [V]
Still, I didn't see any spiders [:D]
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lightning for me.... but only if i'm out in it.. i love watching it but being out in a storm petrifies me as i'm convinced i'll get struck. It goes back to when i was about a meter from a lightning strike when i was about 9 or 10...
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I'll say it again Needles absolutely petrified of them.
And clowns as well can't stand the bloody things they scare the **** out of me.
Live long and Love life
Kevin Fisher
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Originally posted by drkev
And clowns as well can't stand the bloody things they scare the **** out of me.
How funny...[;)]
"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception"
- Groucho Marx
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Phobia??[?]
can you imagin that I have dog's phobia !!!!!![:(][:(]
when I see dog ......I start to run...but dont ask me to where....may eyes start to have tears bay it self ....may face become
yellow...and i will have nightmare on that night too.....I can't even watch a movie if there is dog in it .....[:(]
and I don't Like circles in any conditions...[:0]
BLOOM WHEREVER YOU PLANTED
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I confess to not liking being in a high place looking down. But I really feel that like most phobias there is a survival value to it- after all, if you fall 30 meters, you are going to die, ey? Likewise if you are hit by lightning you may not see another morning. Fear of dogs may seem silly at first, but there have been a few Americans torn to pieces over the past few years by Pit Bulls. Alot of this stuff is based on an early experience, but there is a certain connection to survival too.
chris wiegard
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Spiders & ladders.
The ladder phobia is really stupid. I can climb scaffolding no problem. I've even done a bit of rock-climbing and abseiling in the past, so it's nothing to do with heights. But get me on a ladder and I literally freeze on about the 4th or 5th rung. I should point out that it's only free-standing ladders. I'm perfectly ok with fixed ones.
I'm not even sure when that phobia started. Up until my late teens & early 20s I was fine, but now... no way.
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The Internet, very scary place. Is it all just Maya ?
Ian
Cafe Del Mar. Vol Siente
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I can get on with most things but the creaky sound of cotton wool being squeezed has a very adverse efect and makes me shiver. I've no idea why cos it isnt very loud or a very nasty noise
Learn, create, test and tell
evolution rules in all things
God says so!
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Silver foil making a connection with a filling in my teeth. or fingernails screeching down a blackboard.
"The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct."
K.I.S. "Keep it simple!"
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I can't touch cotton wool! I physically cannot hold it I have no idea why but I cannot bring myself to pick it up and will not have it in my hand.
No idea why, wierd eh?
Live long and Love life
Kevin Fisher
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A phobia of cotton wool seems to be surprisingly common. I wonder why that is. Are any of you phobiac about wire wool too?
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Cotton wool ?..that's a first for me !..Kev..what is it about it that you hate ?...Have you had this since childhood ?...did your detestation commence immediately after holding cotton wool for the first time ?...can you use cotton wool buds ?.....do you hate clouds ? [:D]
Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!
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Some "expert" somewhere would probably say it's down to the trauma of having your little baby ears and nose cleaned with cotton buds [:D]
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Originally posted by MissMontana
Balloons, they give me the wiggins, it's a ridiculous fear, I can't explain it but I am curious about other people's phobias.
Hi MissMontana,
fear of balloons would not be ridiculous if you had latex allergy. (anaphylaxis).
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Thankfully no latex allergy, would make going to the dentist (amongst other things) very uncomfortable
Not keen on cotton wool either, I think it's the funny squeaky noise it makes when you squeeze it
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Hi Everyone. God here.
I was just doing my rounds and I thought I would catch up on all the phobias I created for you. Glad to see the Cotton Wool one is doing well.
All the best
God
I am GOD..You are Not..I don't exist !!
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a phobia is just an irrational fear so fear of hights not so much a phobia as it can be life threatning also arachnophobia in uk a phobia but in a jungle with spiders that can kill you its a survival tool as for myself am just too lazy to be that frightened about anything
"I realised i was sitting on a thousand tons of fuel in a rocket built by the lowest bidder" John Glen
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i'm a bit new to this! but i totally agree on the fear of clowns! and i also get the fear when i see those street entertainers who are pretending to be robots, painted head to toe in silver! creepy. [:o)]
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i just cant hold cotton wool it makes me feel very creepy and uncomfortbale. I can use cotton buds but its the balls of cotton wool, i cant have them in my hand at all.
I hate mime artists there is something really odd about them but clowns really do it for me.
Live long and Love life
Kevin Fisher
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Originally posted by MissMontana
Not keen on cotton wool either, I think it's the funny squeaky noise it makes when you squeeze it
Clown-phobia and needle-phobia are conditioned responses: they are learned.
However the screech of nails on blackboard, and the squeak of cotton wool cause disgust because of a resonance effect analogous to "brown noise" discussed elsewhere on this site.
The unpleasant effects of these sounds are innate, physiological, NOT learned, so they are not actually phobias.
Differentiating between psychological and physiological effects is important. Psychological conditioning can unlearned: phobias can be cured by psychotherapy. Physiological reflex actions cannot be altered by psychotherapy.
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I am not afraid of cotton wool I just find the feel of it very unpleasant and try to avoid it if posssible but it does not stop me from using the stuff. I cannot see why it should be unpleasant. I think it must be a sensory warning like a bitter tase or a bad smell but I can't think what. Fine fibres can be very dangerous and irritating and the creaky feel may be a way of sensing fine fibres.
Learn, create, test and tell
evolution rules in all things
God says so!
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I don't really have a phobia that i know of
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I hate snakes....Far as I know, nothing has happened involving a snake but when I see one I just jump out of my skin and am to afraid to even scream.
There are a lot of things I just don't like but snakes are the worst.
Did I just say that out loud?
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DOG SALIVA.
Michael
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I hate crowded elevators or really tight spots where tons of people stand shoulder to shoulder.and will wait until there are fewer people or find stairs in the case of elevators, snakes(but do like to look at them in aquariums, foil, needles, chalkboard, mom's cooking...ick!
"Lo" Loretta