Reply to: Funny Phobias

[Board Game Geek]

Can't say I have any phobias, where the irrational takes over the rational.

The closest I can think of is bees or wasps, for fear of getting stung.

It's not a case of "Panic....Wasp.....run screaming...etc".

More a case of "Hmm. There's a wasp there, which is a threat and a distraction. Squish. Threat neutralised."

[snaw]

Sorry, I was picking on the wrong forum member.

Just rereading that and thinking it could be interpreted in completely the wrong way.

[Paddy]

I'll see you later big man, I'll gie you a call. Honest.

Sorry, I was picking on the wrong forum member.

[snaw]

Your phobia is a phobia about reality

I'll see you later big man, I'll gie you a call. Honest.

[realityhack]

I was in a mate's garden having a coffee - near Johannesburg - and this amazing little preying mantis jumped onto my hand. Bright green with vivid markings. It turned it's head to look around like a tiny robot, then jumped onto the ground with a hop. With it's very next hop it landed squarely into my coffee cup, and died.

That same night we were on the veranda - next to a lamp. Heard a sound like a tiny helicopter getting louder - it was a bloody great beetle and it smacked me in the face.

Now, either the entire insect world hates me, or the animal armies have begun their attack.

[Paddy]

My wife hates crickets. She used to like them as a kid, until she got a magnifying glass and saw one up close, with it's big jaws etc etc.

And somehow now she has a weird magnetism for them, in my whole life I've never had a cricket jump on me, yet twice when I've been there (And others when I've not I'm assured) it's happened to her. She literally does the women/mouse thing and jumps into the air in my general direction, like I'm going to catch her or something. Cracks me up.

My phobias none, unless you count being around the company of negative people.

Your phobia is a phobia about reality

[Churchill]

Not so much a phobia, but I avoid women wearing purple. There's something about women that wear purple that I find it best to give them a wide berth.

You're not a royalist then...?

[snaw]

My wife hates crickets. She used to like them as a kid, until she got a magnifying glass and saw one up close, with it's big jaws etc etc.

And somehow now she has a weird magnetism for them, in my whole life I've never had a cricket jump on me, yet twice when I've been there (And others when I've not I'm assured) it's happened to her. She literally does the women/mouse thing and jumps into the air in my general direction, like I'm going to catch her or something. Cracks me up.

My phobias none, unless you count being around the company of negative people.

[Cliphead]

Spiders.

[Warrior Princess]

Cats, dogs, insects of any shape, size and colour.

And the most weird one..

Coloured hair extensions (especially black and blonde) – proper freak me out!!

[Paddy]

Needles.

Means I have to stick to freebasing rather than injecting.

Isle of Wight is out the question then?

[xoggoth]

Nope. Used to hate spiders years ago but don't really have any phobias anymore. As for wasps, I feed them. Come late summer and the xoggoth garden is thick with wasps attracted to all the little bits of jam I put out for them. They never sting me because I am nice to them.

[wobbegong]

Generally anybody from this government makes me want to smash up my telly - but I suppose that isn't irrational

Actually Gay Gordons mouth when he is talking - when he takes a breath and his jaw goes slack.

Hmmmm. If we could only stop him from taking that breath . . . .

[BoredBloke]

Generally anybody from this government makes me want to smash up my telly - but I suppose that isn't irrational

Actually Gay Gordons mouth when he is talking - when he takes a breath and his jaw goes slack.

[Swiss Tony]

Fishhooks for me. I can hold them and bait them, I just don’t like the look of em!