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Various Non-Bald Discussions => General Discussion => Topic started by: Timmay on January 06, 2008, 02:19:23 PM
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I was just wondering what phobia's were out there. I came across mine again last night. I was eating a popsicile...something i very rarely eat...and the wooden sticks they are on. I will not in anyway shape or form let that stick touch my tongue. I cant stand it...even those wooden spoons you use to get in those little ice cream cups. ECKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKk damn makes me shiver thinkign about it them. I know it may not really be a phobia to others..but to me.....if i see a wood popsicle stick or a wood spoon....i wont look back at them. I know it sounds crazy.....and please....dotn fill my mailbox full of wooden spoons or sticks. I dont even really like tooth picks either. When i see soemoen sucking on a toothpick...i want to go and pull it out and throw it down.
Timmy
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good topic timmy. i have a fear of heights. yet i have done alot of rock climbing. sorta don't make sense but the fear made me a better climber or at least more cautious. really don't like snakes or spiders either.
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I wouldn't exactly call it a phobia, but I also have an aversion to the feel of those wooden popsicle sticks/ice cream spoons against the tongue. Snakes and heights are my two main phobias. I even have a hard time looking at snakes on TV sometimes.
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you always hear of the snakes, heights and small spaces as fobia's. I dont have any of those fears. Well heights maybe a little....im ok if i dont look down....i get a lil wobbley if i start looking down. Just those damn wood sticks....damn wish i hadnt brought those up in here...
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Any kind of reptile grosses me out. Snakes, frogs, turtles, lizards. I wont have anything to do with them.
I also have a thing with dirty dishes in the sink. Its like OCD there cannot be a dirty dish in the sink.
Also people with stuffed up noses who sit there and sniff and snort. Blow you nose!!!
Hmm those really arent phobias more like pet peeves
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I scream like a little girl and run whenever I see big cockroaches. Stems from cleaning my uncle's water tank when I was eight. I went in while it was dark and damp. Cousin hands me a light and I see myself surrounded by a horde of the little critters. Freaked the hell out of me and affects me to this day.
Funny though. I can deal with snakes, rats, spiders and even get rid of bigger and more threatening insects but I can't seem to deal with roaches.
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Heights has gotta be the biggest for me. A couple of years ago, I decided to put Christmas lights up on the front of my house. We have a 2 story with a very high peak in the front. I had my 20 foot extension ladder out and was standing on the top rung of the ladder and still couldn't reach the top of the peak. I don't mind saying I was terrified and and thought I was gonna die. So, I climbed down and told my wife that the lights were just not gonna work. So, she climbed up the ladder and put the staple in for the top of the peak. That was the last time we did lights on the front of the house.
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I have a distinct fear of seeing Timm on the street dressed in red and white shorts!!!!
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I have a distinct fear of seeing Timm on the street dressed in red and white shorts!!!!
Paul, I don't think that's a fear....I think it's called having a healthy respenct for things that could harm you.....LOL... :*)) :*))
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Heights has gotta be the biggest for me. A couple of years ago, I decided to put Christmas lights up on the front of my house. We have a 2 story with a very high peak in the front. I had my 20 foot extension ladder out and was standing on the top rung of the ladder and still couldn't reach the top of the peak. I don't mind saying I was terrified and and thought I was gonna die. So, I climbed down and told my wife that the lights were just not gonna work. So, she climbed up the ladder and put the staple in for the top of the peak. That was the last time we did lights on the front of the house.
I can totally relate to that.
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Well, I think I know how we can keep Timmy from coming to your house in his Red and White's - hang popsicle sticks on the door...LOL Sorry Timmy, I couldn't resist!
As for me, just keep a snake on your doorstep and I won't be showing up. The funny thing is I joined a fraternity who's mascot is a snake. Half the guys had them in their room as pets.
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Y'all can sit there and say that it just totally scares the crap out of ya to see me in red and whites...but you all think about it all the time...just ask jdog
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I freak out whenever I see one of our 3-inch mutant Texan cockroaches.
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my big fears are tight spaces( i couldn't spell the word for it) and heights and flying, with the last 2 its not the heights and the flying, its the sudden stop at the ground that sucks.
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Bring on the cockroaches, snakes, confined spaces and heights. Just keep me away from clowns and mimes.
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Rob...i was waiting for someone to mention clowns. I dont want to poke fun at that because I know people have serious problems dealing with that....i just cant for the life of me see what is so scary or awkward about a clown. We are all different so if that is what you are afraid of..so be it. I even know someone who is afraid of bubbles and balloons....
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Air travel and heights have to be my 2 worst fears. I am the worlds worst flyer. It really sucks as everytime I do fly I have to go 20 hours minimum to visit the family back in Ohio. I no longer drink alcohol on long haul flights. I have suffered severe panic attacks while in mid-air flight.
I also to a lesser extent have a fear of very large ships on large bodies of water. Has anyone ever heard of this. My sister has it too, she has to close her eyes and look away when she sees one.
My friends mother was an agoraphobe(fear of open spaces) all through growing up. She ran a very successful sewing business from home and would never leave the confines of her inner city house and backyard. It was 10 years before she was able to conquer it and it now a well-heeled traveller, having visited over 100 countries in 5 years.
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I have a problem with heights. Wasn't until I fell out of a tree making a fort, as a kid, and broke my leg. I can still recall that fall - seemed like it was in slow motion, bouncing from branch to branch.
No problems with any bugs or spiders, but not crazy about most rodents. Perhaps that isn't a phobia, though, and more just wanting to avoid disease-carrying nasty little vermen.
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I have been staring at this for a while and really can't think of anything I fear except a slow painful death. I have been snakebit, love rollercoasters, want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane, squash cockraches and spiders, and have caught a couple of alligators to realease at the wildlife preserve. I guess all the stuff that has happened or that I have done taught me to embrace my fear of things. I still get the butterflies in the stomach when certain things occur, like skiing or kneeboarding behind a boat and there is a 12 foot alligator on the bank of the river your in, makes you a better skier though!! :)
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Either that a fast swimmer ! LOL
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I used to enjoy roller coasters ... until after 1,100 flight hours in a Navy P-3. :-[ :o :( :-\
Not that I'm scared, the rides just seem like work now.
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bros check out how big the cockaroaches were in Pakistan. This knife had a 3 inch blade on it! These things were crawlin every where!!
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yup in my line of work it is some deep trust to admit your true fears to other guys. :-[
my fear are pretty basic. tight spaces (i too couldn't even think how to spell the word) it doesn't matter if it is small closet or a huge ball room packed with people I will get jittery. and (despite being a soldier) if i see any sort of bug while I have more skin than my hands and face exposed you can bet on me moving to a different spot. If it is a big spider or cockroach i am screaming and crying like a 5 year old girl with a scraped knee. :'( :-[
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Roaches make me nauseous; they just gross me out. Where I grew up, we had some monsters. When we moved into our new house when I was young, we were out in the evening. As soon as we turned on the flourescent kitchen light, you could see boat loads of huge roaches scatter... I will never forget that. Heights don't really bother me but if I look down and then start thinking about how easy it would be to die if pushed/stumble, it can kind of make me queasy.
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WELL GUYZ, dogs snakes roaces NONE of those bother me , I'm not scared of heights , BUT i dont like rickety ass LADDERZ ! :o Being a BIG guy , me n ladders just dont seem to agree ! im ok on the bottom or 5 stories up, its just getting up n down, and i have to admidt im a LIL closterphobic , and my women friends :pxTRY to tell me I HAVE CONTROL ISSUES ! they think because I feel that "people should do WHAT they say they will WHEN they say theyre GOING to" , that I have control issues :Xo!. If I say im going to do something , im going to give it my BEST shot or call to let you know that i cant , and i would appreciate the same BACK ! BE on time or call and tell the frggn truth and we'll be cool O0
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I love tight spaces ;)
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I did some backpacking a few years back and was lucky enough to go to Egypt through my travels. Of course we went to the pyramids, and as I was standing at the entrance to the Great Pyramid getting ready to go inside, I realised I'm claustrophic... there was noooooo way in hell I was gonna go inside that thing. I'm 6'3'' and the entrance was lucky to be 5' tall and really really narrow. So... I turned around and waited for my friends outside. :/O
And rats... disgusting little things they are!!!!!!!!!
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That's a ROACH?
It looks like a turtle!
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Snakes and worms. Can't deal with them. I can handle bugs, roaches and all the other critters fine. Must be the no legs thing. We had a snake in our pool one time just a 3" green snake and I went to get the gun. My wife told me absolutely under NO circumstances was I was going to shoot into the pool. "You're going to blow a hole in the bottom of it." She was right. SHE had to get the net and get it out though.
I went inside and locked the door and opened a nice cold beer.
Heights are cool, in fact I love heights. Went to Chicago in July and went to Sears Tower and the Hancock building. Did you know you can actually go OUTSIDE on the Hancock Observatory. AWESOME! Also rode the
"Big Shot" on top of the Stratosphere in Vegas. That was totally cool. Wife stayed inside.
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I hate heights. It even makes me uneasy to see other people standing near the edge of a building, cliff, etc. I once went to the observation deck on the Empire State Building. I was fine with that, however.
I'm also claustrophobic. I don't like snakes too much, at least big ones. I'm perfectly ok admiring the small snakes in a pet store, since they're in an enclosure. :)
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i have a fear of having only half a head of hair. so i shave ha ha ha ha ha
j/k guys. snakes are bad unless i know where they are. i mean, i do live in lousyana. so snakes are always around. if they surprise me, then i turn into the six year old girl. but if i see them from a distance, i can easily kill them.
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I used to enjoy roller coasters ... until after 1,100 flight hours in a Navy P-3. :-[ :o :( :-\
Not that I'm scared, the rides just seem like work now.
I'm right there with ya, Padre. My kids love roller coasters (as do I), but I can't do them anymore. The whole inner ear thing apparently changes as you get older and motion sickness hits me harder/earlier than it used to.
Oh, Sharks freak me out too. The whole idea of becoming a fish's lunch doesn't sit too well with me.
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That's a ROACH?
It looks like a turtle!
Exactly! They're HUGE!
The first time I encountered one, shortly after moving to Texas, I was sitting on the john (TMI?) and one dropped into my lap from the exhaust fan above.
If anyone had had a video camera handy, my reaction would probably have made for one of the funniest YouTube videos out there!
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Don't mind spiders, don't mind rats and mice and even snakes, but I'm outa there FAST if I hear a bee or a wasp. hate the way they come at yer and won't give in. :D
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Our domestic cockroaches here in NY aren't very big, but at the pet store they have giant hissing cockroaches for sale. I can't even fathom why people would want pet cockroaches. :/O
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I'm with Rob6, clowns are all bad for me. Ever since I was little, they have been scary. If you have ever read IT by Stephen King, you'll understand.
Flying scares me too, I think since I am not the one flying the plane, I don't feel like I'm in control.
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Hate snakes, worms, heights and tight spaces. I'm with Timm on the popsicle sticks, they give me the willies...
KC
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I'm nothing but a quivering mass of phobias. W/out them I wouldn't even have a personality. My wife gets pretty annoyed, but after 14 years she's used to the rituals. That's the price you pay when you ride on the Bald_Okie Love Train!
If anyone is interested I'll tell my pygmy story and how it all started.
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I'm nothing but a quivering mass of phobias. W/out them I wouldn't even have a personality. My wife gets pretty annoyed, but after 14 years she's used to the rituals. That's the price you pay when you ride on the Bald_Okie Love Train!
If anyone is interested I'll tell my pygmy story and how it all started.
you got me. what is the pygmy story?
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Yeah bring on the pygmy story....we are waiting!....................
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I grew up an Air Force brat. When I was 5 we were stationed in the Philippenes. My dad was an electrition and he worked on planes that flew missions to Vietnam. My dad's older brother was stationed at the same Air Base and although we were half way around the world I had cousins.
My cousins being teenagers told me stories of pygmies that lived in the jungles surrounding the base and at night they would come on base. They liked shiney things. If you were sitting by a window and had a necklace they would cut off your head to get the necklace. If you had a watch and you hung your arm out the car window they would cut your hand off to get the watch.
I asked my dad if there were pygmies who lived in the jungle around the base. He told me there were pygmies who lived in the jungle and they helped the Americans win WWII because they hated the Japanese. I asked him if they came on base at night and he said yes they did. Even if we wanted to keep them out we couldn't. To a 5 year old that added validity to their story.
To this day I don't go by or look out windows at night. I sleep as far away from the windows as I can get. I have to check my kids' windows before I go to bed and I don't drive with my car windows down at night.
There you have it, the pygmy story. Is that totally screwed up or what?
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i think i would have to torture my cousins some kind of way for that one. oh yeah, don't look now but the pygmies are watching. j/k bro. not making fun of you.
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Bald Okie yeah bro that is one crazy story re: pygmies. Goes to show how impressionable our minds are at that young of an age.
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I'm with Porky... I hate ladders, but only extension ladders! The fold up kind is OK... but those damn extension ladders just scare the living bejesus outta me! It is a chore for me to put the Christmas lights up every year, but I force myself through the fear to bring happiness and joy to the neighborhood!
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... I force myself through the fear to bring happiness and joy to the neighborhood!
How altruistic of you.
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i think i would have to torture my cousins some kind of way for that one. oh yeah, don't look now but the pygmies are watching. j/k bro. not making fun of you.
Life has a funny way of working out. All those cousins did hard drugs in high school and are total losers. I may have issues with windows but I also have a masters degree and all my own teeth. :*))
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i think i would have to torture my cousins some kind of way for that one. oh yeah, don't look now but the pygmies are watching. j/k bro. not making fun of you.
Life has a funny way of working out. All those cousins did hard drugs in high school and are total losers. I may have issues with windows but I also have a masters degree and all my own teeth. :*))
touche ha ha ha ha
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I used to enjoy roller coasters ... until after 1,100 flight hours in a Navy P-3. :-[ :o :( :-\
Not that I'm scared, the rides just seem like work now.
I'm right there with ya, Padre. My kids love roller coasters (as do I), but I can't do them anymore. The whole inner ear thing apparently changes as you get older and motion sickness hits me harder/earlier than it used to.
Oh, Sharks freak me out too. The whole idea of becoming a fish's lunch doesn't sit too well with me.
Don't think anyone really wants to be munched on/ ripped to shreds ;)
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I'm with Rob6, clowns are all bad for me. Ever since I was little, they have been scary. If you have ever read IT by Stephen King, you'll understand.
Flying scares me too, I think since I am not the one flying the plane, I don't feel like I'm in control.
Dude the movie adaption for that book SCARES THE SH!T out of me, I don't even want to think of it. The still can't finish the second Evil Dead movie either, as soon as they find the book made from human skin I am GONE
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Snakes is the big one for me; If I see one in the road, I run over it. If I ever find one in the house, I will move! Darn slimy critters!
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Snakes is the big one for me; If I see one in the road, I run over it. If I ever find one in the house, I will move! Darn slimy critters!
Ain't slimy, scaly!
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Claustrophobia.
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I have a long list of phobias.Here are some,
1.Heights
2.Fire
3.Bees
4.Rats,snakes,flying waterbugs etc.
5.Disease and death.
6.losing a loved one.
7.certain mean dogs.
I might have a few more here and there but those are the ones that come to mind.
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I have always been afraid of heights but I have worked very hard to overcome the fear. I can handle air travel pretty well now and I just spent 4 days in Whistler (B.C.) snowboarding at around 5-7000 feet and riding gondolas and chair lifts with no problem except every night I would have dreams I was falling or something height related.
I used to fear clowns when I was young but now I just hate them. My parents got this huge poster of a clown from Ringling Bros. and put it on my wall when I was like 5 and at night it was pure evil, since then I have despised them.... If a clown comes and jumps in my face my fists ball up and I say things like "You better get the **** outta my face". My wife usually waves them off before it gets to that point but I cant stand them.
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timmj...floating around the air in a clown outfit dancing around Marz head at night while he sleeps. The big red nose pops off...lands on Marz face...and is stuck to his nose. Marz wakes up..looks in mirror....and says hey.....I make a good looking clown............
Damn I knew I was good for something...lol
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timmj...floating around the air in a clown outfit dancing around Marz head at night while he sleeps. The big red nose pops off...lands on Marz face...and is stuck to his nose. Marz wakes up..looks in mirror....and says hey.....I make a good looking clown............
Damn I knew I was good for something...lol
I was thinking more along the lines of Alien
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Well Im one of those too.....people say im must be from another planet...cause im just too weird...
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Well Im one of those too.....people say im must be from another planet...cause im just too weird...
You said it! Not me! Whats with the doily anyway? ???
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Hey you leave that doily alone. When i feel in touch with my feminine side i use it as a loin cloth...lol..
No seriously bro...that doily has alot of sentimental value....the bathroom that I took that in was in my wifes bathroom cause it had a shelf like that for me to take the pic....but that doily is a doily that is about 98% finished. My grandmother was crochetting that when she died instanly while watching tv and doing what she loved best...needlework. It was given to my wife actually because my wife does alot of that and quilting. So its ok...you dont have to worry....i dont use it as a loin cloth...
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No seriously bro...that doily has alot of sentimental value....the bathroom that I took that in was in my wifes bathroom cause it had a shelf like that for me to take the pic....but that doily is a doily that is about 98% finished. My grandmother was crochetting that when she died instanly while watching tv and doing what she loved best...needlework.
Tim, I just read this post.
Dude you're making this grown mans eye's swell up at work. I lost my grandmother last March. It was horrible. :(
She was one cool lady and an avid chrochetter and needleworker. Had a very young spirit. She had many grandchildren, but gave all her framed needlework pictures and doilies to me and my wife. I don't go a day without thinking about that woman.
Tim, cherish that doily, and all the memories you have of your grandmother. She must have been a fine lady cause she had you as her grandson.
Rodger O0
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Just remembered a few more phobias of mine.
Spiders and cobwebs.
Needles.
Thunder and lightning.
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Sitting on my bike: I fear Mums (and Dads) who drive their children to piano lessons or ballet-school or sport..... hush, hush, fast, fast!!
Attention? cyclists? No!! My little sweety, we are late!
Death sits in each gate.
J