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Mine are heights, snakes, big spiders, small spaces and to some extent needles, though getting tattoos has helped with the last.

I have a hatred of being hot, can't stand it and get really agitated and angry when I overheat.

Mine are wasps, bees and any other yellow & black insect. And spiders, centipedes, earwigs, ants, but wierdly I love snakes.
I used to have 2 pet snakes. They were awesome.

TrollPie wrote:Mine are wasps, bees and any other yellow & black insect. And spiders, centipedes, earwigs, ants, but wierdly I love snakes.
I used to have 2 pet snakes. They were awesome.

Well, you might love snakes because they're not insects? =P

FITZZ wrote:

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Scary clowns with knives
can understand that Ash YIKES!

...Wait...what's wrong with clowns...?

one came up to me when i was a little kid. (this was right after the movie it too. sooo.) and Said "HOWS IT GOING CHILD WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE A BALLON ANIMAL!" In the most sadastic manner possible, scared the crap out of me.

I have an extreme phobia of being injured via sharp objects. Getting vaccinations and the like freak me the feth out. At least that means I have virtually zero capacity to inflict bodily harm on myself.

Add to my list: Needles and sharp-objects wielded by other people in close proximity to myself.

Getting jabs for anything or injections in general will cause me to violently hyperventilate amongst a few others things like feeling lightheaded or uncontrollable tensing of my muscles, and spark a state of general panic.

Knives or similar sharp objects in the hands of others will cause me to experience a fear of them managing to injure themselves or me through carelessness or misuse, so I often have to leave the room or try not to watch them use it.

Clowns are my phobia, they just look at you all happy and evil like.....

Wolfun wrote:

TrollPie wrote:Mine are wasps, bees and any other yellow & black insect. And spiders, centipedes, earwigs, ants, but wierdly I love snakes.
I used to have 2 pet snakes. They were awesome.

Well, you might love snakes because they're not insects? =P

But they're all slimey and nasty and ewww!

snake wrote: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.

This +231351246

I cannot stand someone with an ego.

Well, we all have an ego.

I forgot one.

Lighting things on fire.

I hate starting gas burners.

Monster Rain wrote:Well, we all have an ego.

Well, healthy ones. I meant those who have an irrational one.

You mean an alter ego?
or is it id

I dislike heights (though I'm more than willing to be "that guy" who pushes the skittish people off the edge whilst bungie jumping)...and commonly make up exscuses against having myself placed in such places. I do however have a habbit of hanging out of my bedroom window and ungodly hours of the night for some reason, and have no problem with getting out of a situation where I am in a high place-youknow like jumping off of said window ledge into the neighbour's bushes to chase after a bloody fox...that type of thing. ^^

Swimming not so much. I like swimming...though I've learned that I'm not to fond of it when it involves a bit of cave diving (oxygen masks? We don't need not stinking o2 masks...) with a bunch of idiots just for an award. Meh, I just cliimbed up the gorge face to the other side....I like gorge climbing. =)

Irrational hatreds? Uh....I hate lawyers and parking wardens (irrational as I've never been in a situation where I've felt their "rath", otherwise I loathe the fethers).

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:You mean an alter ego?
or is it id

No... I mean like not being able to take criticism, not taking fault for ones own mistakes, being a douche, not caring about the feelings/POV of others, etc.

Interesting if that is a rational dislike or not.
I have a similiar intuitive dislike. but if I am brutally honest have been guilty of same myself.
Doubt if such is uncommon, as it is unlikely there are any saints among us.

Rationally I want to believe that I am sympathetic to others' views. But the truth maybe otherwise.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:How did you activate your Dakka account?

"Essential" is the operative term in WG's reasoning... duh!

Mine...

Fears: Death, heights

Phobias: Needles, misplacing things (worst feeling when I know I have something but cannot find it)

Hatreds: Bogans, ugly parents with uglier children

Full submersion underwater. It just makes my body freak out hardcore even though in my head I know I'm okay.

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:Full submersion underwater. It just makes my body freak out hardcore even though in my head I know I'm okay.

Fears (updated): The Black Ram and Cannerus discover my IRL address

AvatarForm wrote:

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:Full submersion underwater. It just makes my body freak out hardcore even though in my head I know I'm okay.

Fears (updated): The Black Ram and Cannerus discover my IRL address

+1

Phobias I've gone are rather odd. Swimming in deep water is fine, riding a boat through the ocean is great and I love to snorkel, but looking directly down while at the surface terrifies me to death. The way the water blurs everything beneath me is horrific as I'm fully aware, being a hopeful marine biologist, of what sort of nightmare being could be snaking its way up to me. It's easy enough to fix by submerging myself... but until I do that is awful. The other big phobia is just abandonment. This leaves me to be socially askew at times '>...>

What I despise with intense fury though are arachnids and really anything with over 6 legs. Centi-, mili-peds along with their ilk, and most other insectoid creatures Will die a second and eternal death in the bottoms of the pits of hell where they rightfully belong. Stuff with 6 legs though is fine, praying mantises are adorable and ants just belong outside my house, but I still dislike touching them

Fears (updated): The Black Ram and Cannerus discover my IRL address

adjacent to

what sort of nightmare being could be snaking it's way up to me

seems somewhat appropriate.

The stuff that nightmares are made of.

Fear of the Ocean is completely rational. Cthulhu is down there somewhere.

Fears - Putting myself wholly into the power of others. I hate the idea of for example, being knocked out and having some stranger rooting around inside me. If i was awake, I could at least snatch a scalpel and defend myself.

Hatred - People who ask for help too readily. I hate it when people don't even try to help themselves.
Tying in with that, people who accept obligations they can't/won't be able to handle, and do so in the full knowledge that 'someone' will pick up the slack.

And the fact that we let people get behind the wheel of a car before we find them legally competent to enter into a contract or take care of themselves. That is.... something special.

I fear that gravity will fail and that I will be flung off into space.

George Spiggott wrote:I fear that gravity will fail and that I will be flung off into space.

I've had a dream like that, it wasn't pretty...

I suppose you could call IEDs an irrational fear. Though, at the time when they were actually a problem for me, it was rational; just took quite awhile to get over the fact that i was driving in a "safe" environment, and there were no IEDs where I am. I'm sure I have something better, but I haven't thought of it yet.

Hatred: Flies... god fething hell!!! i bloody hate the little bastards buzzing around, dodging my attempts as ending their pathetic, and annoying existence.

People with a lack of manners, and being rude to others in public places, or to residents of a housing area when they are guests.

Things like not saying "please" and "thank you" especially when concerning the treatment of restaurant workers, OR kids concerning their talking to adults. It's not hard to say thanks, or thank you, or even Sir and Ma'am.. so bloody do it!

My seriouly greatest fear is to choke or get strangled. Being unable to breath seems like such a extremely horrible way to die.

Hates... Um... Must be those idiots who refuse to admit there exists a problem called Global Warming...

Where is the Ordo Idioticus when you need them?

Im not scared of anything because I am an alpha male.

Heights, snakes, spiders, wars, enclosed spaces, dentists, I eat them all for breakfast.

I dont like rap music, does that count?

mattyrm wrote: Im not scared of anything because I am an alpha male.

Heights, snakes, spiders, wars, enclosed spaces, dentists, I eat them all for breakfast.

I dont like rap music, does that count?

you ever been to war? It's pretty cliche to say that there are no atheists in a foxhole, but it's pretty damn true. When things get hairy... they also get fun.. I will admit that being shot at, while ridiculously scary, is also one of the most adrenaline producing moments I have ever dealt with.

I think the rap music thing does count, and I generally share your sentiment in that regard, though I cant say that I hate it as much as what i put earlier (although if you are playing your rap music far too loud whilst driving an automobile.. that's rude and obnoxious.. which means i hate it)

Azure wrote:Phobias I've gone are rather odd. Swimming in deep water is fine, riding a boat through the ocean is great and I love to snorkel, but looking directly down while at the surface terrifies me to death. The way the water blurs everything beneath me is horrific as I'm fully aware, being a hopeful marine biologist, of what sort of nightmare being could be snaking its way up to me. It's easy enough to fix by submerging myself... but until I do that is awful.

Interestingly enough, Azure, this is one of my fears to including the hopeful marine biologist bit.