[Vivienne]

This may have been covered before, but do any of you have quite bizarre things you are frightened of?

Fearne Cotton was saying that she can't use a dry sponge! Other bizarrre listener phobias included a fear of spaghetti hoops and sultanas!!

Can you beat this?

[Console]

Aren't all phobias, by their very definition, odd? Being afraid of harmless spiders is odd, being afraid of the number 13 or the number 666, is odd.

[Vivienne]

MUST you be soooo picky all the time! There's odd and there's really odd, isn't there? Like being afraid of dry sponges would go under the really odd classification, I feel.

[Zoot]

I think viv means 'unusual phobias'

[Vivienne]

Unusual/odd : means the same thing

[Zoot]

Really? If i was wearing 2 socks that did not belong as a pair, would I be wearing UNUSUAL socks?

[Vivienne]

You've wrecked my new topic. I hope you're happy.

[Zoot]

Well seeing as I was actually trying to stick up for you back there, you can stick it.

[Vivienne]

Calm down, Zoot. I wasn't being genuinely nasty. It's just annoying seeing a topic all smashed up over silly grammar points before it gets underway. I'll take it round to um now anyway.

[Yudster]

Best place for it.

[DevilsDuck]

I hate dry sponges too, but im not scared of them, just make my fingers feel funny!

[foot-loose]

I hate having things like lollipop sticks, and those things the doctor uses to push your tongue down, in my mouth. Oh - and cotton wool from the dentist.

*shudders*

[TIAL]

Velvet.

[rustybike]

Velvet.

Me too!

Just thinking about it gives me goose bumbs! I hate it so much.

I also hate the sound of Polystyrene.

[AC021193]

It's not really a phobia, but when a pencil's rubber (at the bottom) runs out, and you end up rubbing the paper with the metal.... Urrgh! It's like nails on a chalkboard...

[Boboff]

As a child I was always really scared my Mum would find my Porn.

[DevilsDuck]

Thats not a phobia....thats just being male

[DevilsDuck]

actually

I have a funny story to do with porn

My brother had a secret stash of porn down the side of his bed....I knew it was there, but he didnt know I knew.

So one day, sat on his bed watching a video I dropped my wallet down the side of his bed and was like "oh no....I have dropped my wallet down the side of your bed, I had better get it"

he went into panick mode and my mum came to see what we where arguing about



down side, he got rid of the stash

[S4B]

I got rid of Mr S4's stash when I found it under his bed at uni. I made him chuck it all in a skip in town. The other lads in the house were really mad, turns out it was their stash too hidden in his room so their girlfriends wouldn't find it. I was NOT popular among the boys but the girls branded me a hero!

[ladbroke]

Belly buttons. I can just about stand to look at them, the thought of touching mine, or anyone elses, makes me shudder. When my son was born and the clip that clamps the belly button fell off in the bath, I nearly threw up. I had to scoop it out and flush it down the toilet. Just wrong!

[ladbroke]

It is possible to be born without one apparently (at least a visible one anyway), but sadly I'm not one of those people!

[S4B]

How can you be born without a bellybutton?

[MK Chris]

If you're anything other than a mammal?

[Console]

How can you be born without a belly-button/navel? You could have it removed with plastic surgery at a later date, but unless you were somehow born without an umbilical cord you're going to be born with a belly-button/navel.

[S4B]

Well that's what I thought but Ladbroke seems to be insinuating that humans can.