[DevilsDuck]

Awww, he looks all cute and fuzzy!

[foot-loose]

Still feel to short in the tooth to start a new topic so had a wee search and hijacked this thread...

Seeing as we're on the subject of phobias on the show and a couple of big jessies on here are admitting to papping themselves at the sight of a spider, I thought i'd ask about and see if there are any more out there.
So far discovered DD and Boboff like the porn and foots doesn't like things in his mouth.

Biggest fearty gets a photo of me in a thong, that'll scare the be-jesus out most folks.

Foots doesn't like things in his mouth? Which Foots were you talking to?!

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*

*shudders again*

Honestly just shuddered twice when I read that.

Just the stump of belly button and clip flushed down the bog. Actually after 9 pints of strong lager and a few JD and cokes I no longer give a * about belly buttons. All hail lager. I'm cured.

However the large amount of dead lamb, smothered in chilli sauce, garlic sauce and limp salad I've just eaten is making me feel just as un well. Never mind, swings and roundabouts and all that old bollocks.

Stumps, belly buttons, bogs, lager, jd, dead lambs, limp salad, swings, roundabouts and bollocks - all in one post.

Brilliant.

Just made myself "lol" when I read that.

Brilliant.

[a-moron]

Foots doesn't like things in his mouth? Which Foots were you talking to?!

Our Foots

I hate having things like lollipop sticks, and those things the doctor uses to push your tongue down, in my mouth.

Was a few years ago so maybe he has overcome his fears of things poking about in there.

[a-moron]

Bollocks, foots came before me.

[Yudster]

Story of his life.

[foot-loose]

*stares at Nic*

Wasn't me miss!

[a-moron]

*Stares at foots*

Ssshhh ya big clipe.

[Bonanzoid]

I don't know if it's odd, but I can't stand lifts. They scare the shit out of me. If I'm in one (which is rare in itself) and someone jumps up and down as it's moving, I'll most likely punch them in the tits.

[foot-loose]

They don't have electricity in Aberdeen yet and the rest of the country don't let you lot leave the city boundaries without good reason so, generally, you should be alright.

x

[Nicola_Red]

I dunno if I have any odd phobias actually. I have the usual ones: claustrophobia, wasps, slugs. I do have pretty bad OCD about some things, but that's not the same really.

[Johnny 1989]

Wasps. Can't stand the * things. Also things that fly and buzz when I can't verify that they're definitely not a wasp.

Same here, I've been stung 3 or 4 times by the *, unfortunately my fear for them has got so bad I can be a bit weary round Bees now, which is silly as Bees don't attack you unless you attack them.

Worst thing ever regarding wasps was in our bathroom once about twelve of them came in through the vent, I was absolutely petrified & wouldn't go back in there until they were all killed.

Nasty little things

Waters become one now for me ever since the person above my flat left his tap running, I'm always double-checking the taps are off as I fear I could be as careless as him, but it's like locking the door or switching lights off, the everyday stuff your memory doesn't store all the time.

And yeah, wasps for me too.

I do with the front & back doors and again this is through personal experience, I woke up one morning in my house to find that my brother had left the front door open, not widely but still open, now considering that Ilford is a tip & that the area we live is rated by the Met Police as "high risk" for crime I was really pissed off, my brother just shrugged his shoulders & said "ah well". Since they I religiously check to see that the front & back doors are locked & if I'm the last one in I end up checking loads of times before leaving the house.

I don't know if it's odd, but I can't stand lifts. They scare the shit out of me. If I'm in one (which is rare in itself) and someone jumps up and down as it's moving, I'll most likely punch them in the tits.

I'm a lot better with these now, if they have glass in them I'm perfectly fine, however again through a bad experience as a 5-6 year old I hated lifts for years, when the Docklands Light Railway first opened me & my family travelled down to the old (demolished) Island Gardens station & had a day out in the area, on our way back we took the lift up although loads of us were crammed in.

Unfortunately the old lifts on the DLR were shite, they had no door sensors & the doors opened & closed very quickly, I was at the back of the lift last one to get out when the doors started closing, I tried pulling the door open but as a 5 year old I couldn't stop them, luckily some old bloke saw what was happening & pulled the doors open. It took to my teens to be able to finally get back in a lift comfortably but I still don't like the ones you can't see out of, especially those small metallic silver ones you find in council estates in East London.

Not exactly a phobia but I hate rats (although Mice don't bother me at all) and not fantastic with heights, I'm ok crawling along but not standing up as I have shite balance.

[McGuinness-89]

Chalk is my one, the feel of it, the sound it makes on a chalkboard, thinking of it makes me feel a bit funny.

God bless Laszlo Biro.

[Nicola_Red]

Not exactly a phobia but I hate rats (although Mice don't bother me at all).

I keep pet rats, and if I see a wild one in the street I still jump! To be fair a fear of wild rats might be considered rational as they carry disease, but a lot of people who visit my flat aren't keen on mine. I think they're the cutest things in the world and can't understand how anyone could be scared of them.

[Johnny 1989]

Not exactly a phobia but I hate rats (although Mice don't bother me at all).

I keep pet rats, and if I see a wild one in the street I still jump! To be fair a fear of wild rats might be considered rational as they carry disease, but a lot of people who visit my flat aren't keen on mine. I think they're the cutest things in the world and can't understand how anyone could be scared of them.

Pet rats are fine, it is indeed the wild ones, I had one run into my ankle once near our old office, they had a huge rat problem near there, came home this evening & found a dead rat near the curb of next doors house, flies buzzing round it as well, not frightened of it but nice to see that LB Redbridge are tackling our rat problem as usual

[a-moron]

...not fantastic with heights, I'm ok crawling along but not standing up as I have shite balance.

That's the booze Johnny, causing your shite balance. I seen you that afternoon, crawling down the main street and I swear the pavement you were on was 6" off the road, 8" max.
Wouldn't say that required the need for you to be on your hands and knees but any old excuse will do I suppose

[Bonanzoid]

I don't know if it's odd, but I can't stand lifts. They scare the shit out of me. If I'm in one (which is rare in itself) and someone jumps up and down as it's moving, I'll most likely punch them in the tits.

I'm a lot better with these now, if they have glass in them I'm perfectly fine, however again through a bad experience as a 5-6 year old I hated lifts for years, when the Docklands Light Railway first opened me & my family travelled down to the old (demolished) Island Gardens station & had a day out in the area, on our way back we took the lift up although loads of us were crammed in.

Unfortunately the old lifts on the DLR were shite, they had no door sensors & the doors opened & closed very quickly, I was at the back of the lift last one to get out when the doors started closing, I tried pulling the door open but as a 5 year old I couldn't stop them, luckily some old bloke saw what was happening & pulled the doors open. It took to my teens to be able to finally get back in a lift comfortably but I still don't like the ones you can't see out of, especially those small metallic silver ones you find in council estates in East London.

Yeah I'm fine with glass ones, if you can see out it's ok. Didn't realise I was claustrophobic until I more or less freaked out when I was on a bus with tonnes of folk standing, crammed in the isle. I was shaking when I squeezed my way off the bus. How pathetic.

[Nicola_Red]

Actually now I've considered it I definitely do have one: balls (oo-er missus, fnar etc). I can't be in the vicinity of where a football or tennis ball is being kicked or thrown. I've been known to walk 5mins out of my way to avoid groups of kids playing football in the street. I s'pose I must be scared of them hitting me, but that's probably a bit stupid.

[bmstinton93]

I keep pet rats

Why doesn't that surprise me...?

Actually now I've considered it I definitely do have one: balls

Well you seemed to conquer that fear pretty well last night...

[Johnny 1989]

...not fantastic with heights, I'm ok crawling along but not standing up as I have shite balance.

That's the booze Johnny, causing your shite balance. I seen you that afternoon, crawling down the main street and I swear the pavement you were on was 6" off the road, 8" max.
Wouldn't say that required the need for you to be on your hands and knees but any old excuse will do I suppose

No silly, I have pretty poor balance, surprisingly enough I'm better when sober

[yummytummy]

i don't know why but got a phobia of down escaltors. I just don't like them. Don't mind up one's but down one's i hate them

[corsaboi]

i don't know why but got a phobia of down escaltors. I just don't like them. Don't mind up one's but down one's i hate them

I can see that, If you think of someone getting mashed up at the end of an escalator, it's always at the end of a down escalator, not at the top of an up one.

[a-moron]

Must say the chalk fearer's are on course for the thong shot! Really can't see the reasoning behind it. Fair enough with heights, rats, wasps etc... sometimes that shit could hurt you. Chalk on the other hand, unless its charlie and he's trying to teach you how to juggle when you're in a muddle and you're shit feart of clowns - then I could see the phobia kicking in. Also scared of escalators = big jessie. Nobody getting dragged down that wee gap unless you're morph, in which case you've nowt to worry about. We'lll just turn you into a piss poor pot.

[Yudster]

But that's the point - a phobia is an irrational negative response, not necessarily a fear as such. People have genuine phobias about ridiculous things like buttons, cotton wool - oh anything. Its not that they are scared that these things are going to hurt them, its an uncontrollable pathologically negative response - fear is the word we tend to use for it.

[a-moron]

Well phobia is latin for fear so I'm going by that rule

[Nicola_Red]

No more obesity, and no more going beyond the ground floor for people with arthritis either...