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What are yours dakkadakka?

My phobia is rings or getting my fingers trapped. Weirdly i dont mind thumbrings just the idea of anything going past my second knuckle makes my skin crawl.

My irrational hatred is dressing up, not like uniforms or work clothes (or back in the day school uniform) just fancy dress or any event/venue that requires special clothes.

Spiders. I will be transformed into a gibbering baby at the first sight of the hairy little monsters.

I have an irrational hatred of lists of irrational hatreds.

I think everyone on here knows my phobias.



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coolyo294 wrote:Spiders. I will be transformed into a gibbering baby at the first sight of the hairy little monsters.

My Fionce hates the things... she will even stop a gaming session (fnar) to demand that i 'kill the fething thing' :S

Spiders are cute

I don't know if it's really a phobia..perhaps more of an irrational hate, but I loathe appearing weak or incapable or having to ask others for help...
I can't begin to count the times I've lifted things at the shop I had no business attempting to lift by myself, or struggled with a situation before I would allow myself to ask for assistance.

What i dislike about people who are afraid of spiders (+wasps actually) is that they insist on killing them. Poor blighters. :(

FITZZ wrote: I don't know if it's really a phobia..perhaps more of an irrational hate, but I loathe appearing weak or incapable or having to ask others for help...
I can't begin to count the times I've lifted things at the shop I had no business attempting to lift by myself, or struggled with a situation before I would allow myself to ask for assistance.

How did I know you would say this...

Phobias:
Millipedes
Centipedes
Swimming in lakes
Rollercoasters/most amusement park rides (I am uncomfortable putting my life in the hands of the underpaid disinterested high school student sitting behind the controls for the damn thing, that and I saw perhaps 1 to many news stories about people that died on rides)


Hatreds:
Baby Wipes
Small Children
Asking for help
Giving up

coolyo294 wrote:Spiders. I will be transformed into a gibbering baby at the first sight of the hairy little monsters.

I just came upstairs due to a spider appearing in the living room from behind the TV. Trouble is that there was a very small one in the same area earlier on, so i'm becoming worried that the big one that just appeared was the same one from a few nights ago, and it went in to hiding to give birth... Luckily, the house is going through the selling process at the moment, so any further birthings will take place far away from where i'll be, thank God.

Perkustin wrote:What i dislike about people who are afraid of spiders (+wasps actually) is that they insist on killing them. Poor blighters. :(

I'm the opposite; i'll ask someone to remove the spider, they'll grab something to whack it with, and I have to tell them not to kill it, only to be fixed with a stare that says "look you wuss, it either dies here or stays here".

It means a lot of the spiders I point out to people end up dead within minutes, but it's good to know you weren't the one who ordered their execution.

A Black Ram wrote:I think everyone on here knows my phobias.



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You rang?
Since you're on the subject, I must say that Brutus is still hanging around, saw him the other day.

One of our guys went to the ER last week due to an unexpected hornets nest, a hazard of my occupation.

Large bodies of water (I cant swim) and surgeons telling me what they plan to do to me.... I dont need too know those kinds of things

Ralin Givens wrote:Large bodies of water (I cant swim) and surgeons telling me what they plan to do to me.... I dont need too know those kinds of things

Me too. Just knock me out and make sure I have plenty of pain meds to eat while I recover. And as for the water phobia, living in Kansas fixes that one nicely. I do live less than an eighth of a mile from a river, but it's pretty easy to avoid.

I'm a bit claustrophobic.

Underwater landscapes... particularly in the Ocean. That amount of water can be unsettling. Couple that with being deeply submerged in it and interacting with the environment there and I can get the shivers. Its funny though because I like aquariums. I guess it being behind glass makes it 'safe.'

Heights. If I'm enclosed, say, in an airplane, I'm fine. If I'm on a roller coaster, I'm fine, since somehow the thrill of the speed overrides my fear.

But if I'm hiking up a mountain and part of the trail happens to have a sharp drop off on either side? Or if I'm on a ferris wheel that stops while I'm at the top? Or the time I was at some team-building exercise thing where they have you walk across the rope between two trees? I don't know what the technical name is.

Oh man. Oh. Man. OH MAN.

I'm very slightly claustrophobic, and have a mild fear of heights.

I used to be fairly arachnophobic but that's faded a lot since I was a kid. Maybe my rational awareness of how great an ally they are to human beings in dealing with parasites who actually are directly harmful to us has penetrated to my subconscious.

Death.

Fear of death certainly isn't irrational, i'd say it's quite the opposite.

I'd also like to add heights to my list.

Perkustin wrote:My irrational hatred is dressing up, not like uniforms or work clothes (or back in the day school uniform) just fancy dress or any event/venue that requires special clothes.

This. I almost died having to wear a tie for graduation...

I have a phobia of darkness...well, not specifically the darkness but just things that "go bump in the night." Just let it be known that If you're standing next to me and its dark and there's the slightest noise, I am likely to pull a Scooby Doo and jump into your arms.

coolyo294 wrote:Spiders. I will be transformed into a gibbering baby at the first sight of the hairy little monsters.

So you'd do that if I were to say post something like this?

That's really not funny.

It isn't so irrational, but I HATE people who don't admit their mistakes, or that they're wrong, etc. Essentially I hate egotists who can't see that they are incorrect. I hate even more those who do see such and try to lie or manipulate themselves away from any blame or fault.

Moral of the story, if you do something, own it.

Anime.

Is that really an irrational hatred or phobia?

Goddard wrote:Death.

I've pondered this over the years, and basicly come to the conclusion that there's no point in fearing death...as no matter what we do...sooner or later everyone of us is going to die...not a damn thing we can do to prevent it.
Sure, you can take steps to lessen your chances of dying....but even if you lock yourself in a room and never set foot outside...some day...you have to die.

Spiders. I am a lot better now though then in the past. However they will die. I don't care how good they are for us.

The Dark. Blame a babysitting from years ago. Don't let little kids watch horror movies. (Why this has to do with the dark, I don't really know, it was more of a jump out at your thriller)

Heights. Flying is fine. Tall buildings are even fine. Ladders and tall platforms, not cool. Which sucks when I am a light guy for theater and do wiring on the sides. Scary when you are 2 stories up and the ladder starts to tip.

Hate: Horror movies (see above), roller coasters, and that is pretty much about it.

Emails - I don't even open them unless absolutely essntial.

How did you activate your Dakka account?

FITZZ wrote: I don't know if it's really a phobia..perhaps more of an irrational hate, but I loathe appearing weak or incapable or having to ask others for help...
I can't begin to count the times I've lifted things at the shop I had no business attempting to lift by myself, or struggled with a situation before I would allow myself to ask for assistance.

This, I hate asking people for things because it doesn't give me the gratification that I would get if I did it or got it myself.

Also, get a rather uncomfortable feeling when in high places, but I'm not sure if that's really a fear, much less an irrational one.

Albatross wrote:Anime.

The style, the genre, or the medium?