What are you afraid of?

Rumple Foreskin

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Yeah I know, Duo17 made a thread like this. But that was well over a year ago and I decided not to drag it up from its grave.

Some people are scared of heights, others of spiders, some of needles. Everyone has something that just doesn't rub them the right way.

My fear is a little more abnormal I guess you would say. I am scared to death of ostriches (those giant birds). If I even see an ostriche on TV I literatly start to shake and panic. Blood, guts, bats, mice, not one of those things I am even remotely afraid of, but show me an ostriche and I will show you just how much a man can cry.

So, lets have it. What are you scared of?

To all you n00bs thinking you are funny; don't forget to attach your pictures of ostriches for some quick (but pathetically predictable) laughs.
 
very small spiders that i get my mom to kill them for me or take them outside...

shivers* :(

EDIT: but MOST in particular i am scared of any deep sea animal i find them to be WAY TO unnormal for me
 
Heights. I have such a fear of heights, I can't get my ass on a springboard (I think that's how you call them) when I'm at the pool.

Oh, and of course, bugs that are bigger than my hand. But that's a given.
 
I'm not afraid of any thing like spiders and snakes, but what I am scared of is sickness and disease...i know that might sound stupid but I think it is somthing to be worried about compared to bugs.......just my opinion:D
 
Heights, bugs bigger than the size of your hand. Suprisingly, I can get creeped out extremely quickly if I play MGS2 and I get discovered.. it's SCARY.
 
Originally posted by halfracedrift
Heights, bugs bigger than the size of your hand. Suprisingly, I can get creeped out extremely quickly if I play MGS2 and I get discovered.. it's SCARY.
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I know what you mean about that game. I've only played it once or twice but when they saw me and the freakin' alarm thing went off I had a damn seizer.
 
most of the time fear comes from a bad experience....so what do you think caused yours?? I know mine was last summer when I Had a severe allergic reaction and went into anaphylactic shock, ended up in the hospital and almost died, got taken in an ambulance and everything, they hooked up all these tubes and wires and crap...so as you can imagine it was enough to make me a little scared of certain things....:D
 
ohh S*** i hate jellyfish:nervous:

oh yeah i hate nasty-ass restrooms and people that actually sit down on those toilet seats without cleaning them:yuck:
 
Moths. Especially the big ones that flap around like bats. :nervous: I just wish they would leave me alone - as they always seems to fly around my ears.
 
Originally posted by Mike Rotch
Moths. Especially the big ones that flap around like bats. :nervous: I just wish they would leave me alone - as they always seems to fly around my ears.
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im going to add that to my list as they always land on my head:banghead:

i think that fear was brought up by resident evil: code veronica for the dreamcast where the giant ass moths could land on the girl's back and lay eggs and stuff and you would see it. ugh:yuck:
 
Giving a speech in front of a huge audience. :scared:

I'm scared of those huge insects too.. I'm sometimes afraid of height, it depends on the situation, really. :odd:
 
Well mine is probably close to Rumple's.

I'd hate to be in a desert alone, with no clue as to how to get out. Spending huge amounts of time aimlessly wandering in the desert, where it only gets extremely hot and extremely cold, while I just wait to die. I would find a way to kill myself.
 
what im afraid of:

needles
dentists
spiders and other creepy insects
heights (not so much anymore)
cages
enrique iglesias' mole... (thank god he removed it...)
 
I fear certain types of insects. Your run of the mill ants and mosquitoes are no problem. Lady bugs and crickets are fine too. But large insects freak me out a lot. Large cockroaches are the worst, especially the flying ones. In my old house these roaches would come up the drains about once a month. My wife would have a good laugh watching me freak out while trying to kill them in creative ways from a distance, usually by throwing things at them, like shoes.

Another fear that interests me, and that I overcame in Hawaii, was the fear of swimming in the ocean. When I entered the ocean from the boat and looked around under the water through the snorkel mask I kind of panicked. I felt so small and helpless in that vast, deep water, and the way visibility faded out after about one hundred feet was scary for me. But after five minutes I got over it.
 
I have a fear of heights. I never used to, it's something that's come on in the last few years. And I think it's not specifically heights, but actually a fear of falling. I've had some cold-sweat dreams where I have to jump off high walls, and it scares me silly.

I had to get my father-in-law to clean our guttering because whenever I climbed up the ladder, its springing motion set the fear off, and I couldn't get more than 5 rungs off the ground.
 
I also have a fear of heights, as in ladders, roofs, etc. I'm slowly overcoming it, but it still gets me sometimes. The odd thing is that I've flown aerobatics in airplanes (as a passenger) and gliders, including one demonstration of a dive-bombing attack (15,000 ft straight down in about 30 seconds, pulling out about 100 ft over my back yard) and never said anything but "wheee!" But 15 ft up a ladder feels like a mile. And I really don't like roller coasters, despite the fact that I've done exactly the same kind of maneuvers in an airplane.

I also don't like big bugs. Most anything else I can take - dark, enclosed spaces, etc.
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
I have a fear of heights. I never used to, it's something that's come on in the last few years. And I think it's not specifically heights, but actually a fear of falling.
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I have a fear of other people falling. I panicked at the Grand Canyon because my ex-girlfriend was standing out on this ledge, close to the edge, and a thousand foot drop. I begged her to back up and she thought it was really funny so I just had to walk away. I couldn't watch.

I think on some level it has something to do with fearing responsibility for someone's falling. If I beg her to get off the ledge, and then just walk away, and she falls, at least I'm clean.
 
Count me in the 'scared silly of heights' group. If there is even a remote possibility I may fall to my death, I'm paralysed with fear --doesn't matter how ridiculous it may be.

Looking out a window from a tall skyscraper (which I did a lot living in NYC) is okay and fine, but if I stepped out to my fire escape on the side of my 5 story brownstone in Manhattan, I was very uncomfortable.

Once we had a building barbeque on the roof and I (very stupidly) walked up to the edge and looked down at the street --I felt like falling over just from the intense vertigo. Ugh.. makes me cringe just remembering.

Not a fan of large bugs either, but since my wife is totally freaked by them, I am the designated creepy crawly killer in the house. In a way, its helped me deal with my not-quite-fear-but-intense-distaste with them.

We get lots of stick insects in our neck of the woods, and they're a little creepy to kill.

I also once killed a very large brown wolf spider (about a wide across as a stack of Post-It notes) and hundreds of tiny infants came pouring out of its crushed, pulpy body. It was one of the more disturbing things I'd ever seen in person. :crazy:


///M-Spec
 
ive never really had vertigo

i think im developing a fear of moving too slow, seeing as how my family takes FOREVER to get anywhere:banghead:
 
Originally posted by milefile
I have a fear of other people falling. I panicked at the Grand Canyon because my ex-girlfriend was standing out on this ledge, close to the edge, and a thousand foot drop. I begged her to back up and she thought it was really funny so I just had to walk away. I couldn't watch.
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Do you have a fear for other people's safety? Like in general besides watching people fall?

My fear is also heights. Although I rode a ride at a local amusement park that is a 100 foot drop with your legs dangling over the seat.

Meh.
 

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