What are you phobia's? [Archive]

homer15

10-07-2002, 05:44 PM

heights scare me, but i still like to go up in tall buildings and on tall rides. it gives me a thrill, i guess. and spiders are gross. i don't mind killing them, but i can't stand the thought of one on me.

lil Jimmie

10-07-2002, 06:05 PM

That they'll take my PC's away from me!!!

Eric H.

10-07-2002, 06:12 PM

spiders and height.

aym

10-07-2002, 06:16 PM

Mainly height.

doubledragon5

10-07-2002, 06:58 PM

My wife taking my PC away,because I'm always on it.

RenegadeKing

10-07-2002, 07:06 PM

That outside thing..

Doobie

10-07-2002, 08:11 PM

Originally posted by homer15
heights scare me, but i still like to go up in tall buildings and on tall rides. it gives me a thrill, i guess. and spiders are gross. i don't mind killing them, but i can't stand the thought of one on me.

You read my mind... Those are the things I was going to put! No need to post it twice..

Redo40

10-07-2002, 08:22 PM

I'm a big guy at 255 lbs and tight places just bug the heck out of me.

CorruptedSanitY

10-07-2002, 08:35 PM

roger.. i can relate to that haha..

I guess mine is wasps..( had a bad experience as a kid..and also 2 months ago lol )

erucader

10-07-2002, 09:07 PM

tight spaces and the dark. blank screens too.

mairving

10-07-2002, 09:08 PM

Becoming a drooling, grumpy old fart ... er too late on that one.

Maybe being mistaken for Homer Simpson.

Becoming a Florida fan.

Having to use Windows 3.0 again.

Having to go back to dialup.

Getting on Doc's bad side.

Having to pay to make idiotic posts like this.

To name but a few.

Nuclear Krusader

10-07-2002, 09:46 PM

Insects, butterflies and grasshoppers. In fact, aside from arachnids, ants, bees and flies, anything with more than four legs and/or with no fur gets me histerical.

SARGE

10-07-2002, 10:04 PM

Noises in the night. As deaf as I am, I can hear a creak or some unrecognizable sound and it bothers me immensely until I'm satisfied what it is. Guess it goes back to another time...

doctorgonzo

10-07-2002, 10:40 PM

Spiders and flying insects bother me. I cannot be around them. It is strange; when I see a spider or something big flying around, I get a weird ringing in my ears and I have to get away.

Another thing that I just thought of, given some recent troubles with auto service: if I see on the street the mechanics who have @^$@!$ up my car, I fear that I will not have something to beat them with.

glc

10-08-2002, 01:03 AM

Sarge - is "IT" still in your attic?

Redo40

10-08-2002, 01:11 AM

Lol, I had done forgot about that! So what about it Sarge?

lpc300

10-08-2002, 02:18 AM

Rodents, heights, and especially flying. Haven't been on an airplane since 1988.

reboot

10-08-2002, 10:30 AM

Flashing red lights in my rearview mirror, or on my cable modem.
BSOD's during a BIOS flash.
Loaded guns pointed at me.
Of course I'm just kidding about everything except the red light on my modem.

Statica

10-08-2002, 10:47 AM

Having to work for money... :)

Reign of Chaos

10-08-2002, 11:22 AM

For me it's heights and multiple choice questions on final exams. They make it so every choice seems like the right answer and I can never pick with one.

homer15

10-08-2002, 12:50 PM

Originally posted by Reign of Chaos
For me it's heights and multiple choice questions on final exams. They make it so every choice seems like the right answer and I can never pick with one.

yea, i hate that. sometimes teachers are really devious.

Reign of Chaos

10-08-2002, 04:27 PM

With multiple choice they can be both "devious" and lazy. A lot of teachers use them to cut down of there work load.

I am new to posting here so I was wondering how do you make a quote in your reply?

Doobie

10-08-2002, 04:39 PM

click on quote, on the response that someone made that you want to quote...

RenegadeKing

10-08-2002, 04:45 PM

Or type it our manually (use [ and ] instead of { and } ) :

{QUOTE}{i}Originally posted by *whoever* {/i}
{B}Message text{/B}{/QUOTE}

Reign of Chaos

10-08-2002, 04:55 PM

Originally posted by Doobie
click on quote, on the response that someone made that you want to quote...

Oh I see it now. Kind of stupid of me to not see that. Thanks.

Planenuts

10-08-2002, 05:40 PM

I have this huge phobia about poop. Dog poop, cat poop any kind of poop. I don’t like poo.

mairving

10-08-2002, 05:41 PM

Originally posted by Planenuts
I have this huge phobia about poop. Dog poop, cat poop any kind of poop. I don’t like poo. Have a kid. You'll learn to live with it.

Nuclear Krusader

10-08-2002, 05:57 PM

Originally posted by Reign of Chaos
With multiple choice they can be both "devious" and lazy. A lot of teachers use them to cut down of there work load.

Not exactly lazyness. Have you ever wondered how much time does it take to check a hundred exams? When those exams are open questions? And all the time the principal is bothering you with "I want the results yesterday"?

;)

Reign of Chaos

10-08-2002, 07:05 PM

Hi Nuclear Krusader.

I can see what you are saying and totally agree. I had a few courses last semster in university that had over a hundred and fifty students in the one class. The prof had a few forth year students to help mark, but he still must of had a pile himself. Plus a lot of the students askings him everyday when are our test going to be corrected. It's just that I have been getting some bad marks lately and was a bit mad at this type of questions. From now I will think about both sides of a subject before I post.

raftero

10-08-2002, 09:03 PM

i don't guess i have any real ones but did you ever dream you were out in public with no clothes and no one seemed to notice,i have and when i wake up i was still feeling like i should hide,and don't say i should see a shrink,i don't have the money.

Edave

10-08-2002, 09:23 PM

Ticks!!
I am always checkin for them when i come in from the outdoors.When I do find them,I have the creeps for hours:)

SARGE

10-08-2002, 09:40 PM

Originally posted by glc
Sarge - is "IT" still in your attic?

glc, not this summer as it gets too hot for anything living to stand. Now that cooler weather is here I'm either imagining noises from there or expect to before long. I do not want another winter like last. I do have some creative ideas this time, that doesn't include a bud with beer and gun camping out up there. BTW, I'd loved to have seen/heard him up there, but idea was nixed. The stories would have lasted a lifetime. :D

Werewolfdaddy

10-09-2002, 04:44 AM

My main phobia's are heights and snakes. Tight places are close, but I like pushing my limits. I learned to live with snakes and have even pet a few friends' pythons and I have climbed on those climbing walls; one was even 4 stories high. Heights still get me most of the time, though. I plan to bungee jump one day and maybe even sky dive.

Nuclear Krusader

10-09-2002, 02:41 PM

Bungee jump? :eek:

I'd only jump from one of those if my life depended on it.

Hot Rod

10-09-2002, 02:58 PM

Heights. I hate spiders. I also hate anything with more legs than I can count.

Kassia

10-10-2002, 02:41 AM

Heights. It's kinda weird tho, I have no prob gettin up onto something high....it's getting down that freaks me out....:confused: Go figure.

Byte 2.0

10-10-2002, 09:46 AM

spiders and other bugs.
The be bright yellow thing in the sky.
Books on Paper.
Computers more then 2 years old.
Win 95
Win ME

Carl Price

10-10-2002, 11:51 AM

Originally posted by Werewolfdaddy
I plan to bungee jump one day and maybe even sky dive.

May I go with you?

Jake Kantonen

10-10-2002, 01:48 PM

My phobias are:

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia-Fear of long words...AHHHHHH!

Kathisophobia--Fear of sitting down (yes, I am standing right now)

and finally,

Ablutophobia--Fear of washing or bathing.

By the way, has anyone noticed how nasty the world smells these days, or is it just me?

:D :D :D

Werewolfdaddy

10-10-2002, 02:26 PM

Originally posted by Kassia
Heights. It's kinda weird tho, I have no prob gettin up onto something high....it's getting down that freaks me out....:confused: Go figure.
yeah, me too. I can totally empathize with you.

Werewolfdaddy

10-10-2002, 02:28 PM

Originally posted by Carl Price

May I go with you?
They have a few places in Gatlinburg that have bungee cords. I'll probably go there. I 've been kinda weak on the testing the limits for the past couple of months, though. When I am ready, I 'll get in touch with you. It shouldn't be more than a few months more.

Nuclear Krusader

10-10-2002, 05:03 PM

Khathaksungphobia anyone? :D

TimPoet

10-11-2002, 11:32 PM

That I'll work on my one and only computer and will get stuck and not be able to go online to PC Mek to get help!! :eek:

ryanatalie

10-11-2002, 11:55 PM

Originally posted by Nuclear Krusader
I'd only jump from one of those if my life depended on it.
My buddy talked me into bungee jumping one weekend. I've skydived a few times, and thought it would be no problem. Let me tell you, I will never bungee jump again. It scared the bejeesus out of me. :eek: The height must have been at my ultra freak out limit. Skydive = OK Bungee jump= Bad idea!

Jomama

10-12-2002, 12:15 AM

if it not "indictment or inoperable" I dont sweat it.
Well, maybe..Mairving's Getting on Doc's bad side.

Doobie

10-12-2002, 11:31 AM

Originally posted by ryanatalie

My buddy talked me into bungee jumping one weekend. I've skydived a few times, and thought it would be no problem. Let me tell you, I will never bungee jump again. It scared the bejeesus out of me. :eek: The height must have been at my ultra freak out limit. Skydive = OK Bungee jump= Bad idea!

Have you ever seen any of those Faces of Death movies, there was one with some guys that decide to bungee jump off a building... They measured everything but the forgot the calculate the streach of the rope (or rubber rope, what ever its called)

Need I say what happend! :eek:

cobra

10-13-2002, 09:22 AM

Spiders. AHHHHH, I hate those nasty things. I would rather eat a cockroach than have a spider on me.
And the Open Ocean. I love being in a boat fishing in 2000' of water, but as for being "in" the water, just go ahead and shoot me, cause I'm NOT getting in.

cobra

10-13-2002, 09:24 AM

Originally posted by mairving
Have a kid. You'll learn to live with it.
SO true. It becomes part of your day. :P

TimPoet

10-13-2002, 08:13 PM

Originally posted by cobra
but as for being "in" the water, just go ahead and shoot me, cause I'm NOT getting in. Ah, you must have seen "Jaws."
I remember in a scuba diving class, the first time I snorkeled to the bottom of Puget Sound. Just couldn't believe tha abundance of life on the ocean floor. There was among a myriad things a huge "carpet" of kelp just off the bottom undulating with the current. I was told to pick something from the bottom and bring it up.
I reached for a piece of wood that lay in front of a piece of clay pipe. Didn't the crab sitting at the mouth and when he darted backward into the pipe I actually shouted underwater in a startle. :o :D

ktkendall

10-14-2002, 06:56 AM

I'm trying to teach my two boys 6&8 to not have fears but I can't quite overcome my phobia of snakes. last time we encountered one my boys both thought I should be as fearless as Steve Irwin (Croc Hunter), and they both wanted me to pick it up. I'm getting better , I'm not terrified but still don"t want to pick one of em up. He sure does make it look easy on Croc Hunter though doesn't he??

Lord Prism

10-14-2002, 09:12 AM

I'm joining the Height and Snake fears - never thought I'd admit that though.... hhmmmm I guess I have a fear of admiting fears, too!

Nuclear Krusader

10-14-2002, 11:45 AM

I hear you ktkendall. Once my GF tried to help me overcome my fear of insects by putting one on me! The moment she grabbed the grasshopper I jumped and ran. From a safe distance I told her to drop that dreadful animal immediately! We had a bitter discussion later. She never tried to help me overcome my phobia again.