What are your odd phobias?

Fago!

Me? Equinophobia I'm afraid of horses. Horribly afraid of these frightening wannabee centaurs.

Spiders and insects in general.

Other people's leg hair too. Ewe!

Actually looking back on what I've written, I'm such a pansy.

I'm sure you lot have worse ones.

Aye?

Doyler92

I'm afraid I will not be able to find After Hours with all its name changes!

ashyle

Tomatoes - just when they are in the round format, love all tomato based food.

Seaweed - I don't think that's irrational because when I'm swimming in the sea it looks like a horrible creature & I wear glasses so I can't tell what it is...UUUGH!! (obviously I don't wear glasses whilst ag snamh)

R0ot

I for one welcome our phobiatic overlords. :pac:

bleg

All phobias are odd, irrational fears.

Novella

I'm afraid of butter and people pinching the skin on the backs of their elbows.

jd007

Fago_25 wrote: »

Me? Equinophobia I'm afraid of horses. Horribly frightening creatures.

Spiders and insects in general.

Other people's leg hair too. Ewe!

Actually looking back on what I've written, I'm such a pansy.

I'm sure you lot have worse ones.

Aye?

Does anyone actually like other peoples leg hair?

Fago!

jd007 wrote: »

Does anyone actually like other peoples leg hair?

Actually probably not.

jd007

Novella wrote: »

I'm afraid of butter and people pinching the skin on the backs of their elbows.

You mean their wenis?:pac:

Princess Zelda

Moths....evil feckers they are :mad:

Novella

jd007 wrote: »

You mean their wenis?:pac:

OH. MY. GOD. That is horrendous! :eek:

JangoFett

I used to be afraid of pregnant women, terrified of them!
But my time in Australia cured it, heavily pregnant women on the beach a lot sorted me right out

Fago!

JangoFett wrote: »

I used to be afraid of pregnant women, terrified of them!
But my time in Australia cured it, heavily pregnant women on the beach a lot sorted me right out

I'm kinda like that only around HEAVILY preggers women. Frightning.

ashyle

same here fago, I do be afraid they'll break! Also phobia of getting pregnant :P

JangoFett

The beaches offered all the stages of pregnancy so I dealt with it
I was petrified of pregnant women, couldn't be in the same room as them! I had to explain it to several pregnant women who I now think are lovely and beautiful, not in THAT way!!

Kiera

Feet and maggots. I dont mind spiders or worms or any other creepy crawly, but maggots push me over the edge.

Feet are just gross. Hate when people point something out to my on their foot. I pretend to look. And I'll knock you flat out if you touch mine!

I use to have a fear of people touching my back. Have no idea where that came from. Got over it about 5 years ago and now i love my back being touched.

BluesBerry

I have a fear of swallowing pills and try and avoid taking them as much as possible:(

xw2lj9uspm1eyh

I have a fear of veins i remember getting an injection and the nurse said we couldnt find any veins to stick the needle into nearly passed out

Novella

Oh, I'm afraid of biting on a fork too! Or hurting my teeth in any way!

Diabhal Beag

I hate looking at radiators. I don't know why but it hurts my eyes after 2 seconds.

ashyle

I have dreams where my teeth fall out, SCARY

Kiera

BluesBerry wrote: »

I have a fear of swallowing pills and try and avoid taking them as much as possible:(

I've met a couple of people with this fear in the last year. What if you have the worst headache in the world?

Fago!

BluesBerry wrote: »

I have a fear of swallowing pills and try and avoid taking them as much as possible:(

He he mate of mine used to have that. He tried one of them solphadine capsules with powder inside.

He tried for ages trying to swallow it with water, but ended up biting it open, chewing it and vomiting from the awful taste.

All ove my shoes no less.

Fago!

Kiera wrote: »

I've met a couple of people with this fear in the last year. What if you have the worst headache in the world?

Solution?

Kiera

I've a friend who cant watch others brush their teeth. She gets totally freaked out. Has a fear of people breaking their teeth on the toothbrush

sky88

i can not stand even seeing a nappy clean or dirtty

BluesBerry

Kiera wrote: »

I've met a couple of people with this fear in the last year. What if you have the worst headache in the world?

I would use a soluble painkiller which I hate the taste and I have been known to vomit from some same goes for vitamins the ones that dissolve in water

anything else would have to be crushed into a fine powder with a yogurt (which I heard is not good because pills have a coating that is only suppose to work when it gets to lower intestine )

Abi

ashyle wrote: »

I have dreams where my teeth fall out, SCARY

You seem to be listing a few of my fears! I've had dreams where teeth would fall out. I'm afraid of falling over too, in case I smash my teeth. But then again, I've an obsession with my teeth, brushing and flossing several times a day. I can't stand being around pregnant women, but I know theres nothing wrong with it and its just down to a fear of getting pregnant. I can't even watch the Clear blue ads without diving for the remote! And don't even talk to me about feet..

Thennn theres the food. I'm vegan because I'm afraid of everything that could be in stuff that we don't know about, and even picky with the most basic of food elements

ashyle

Kiera wrote: »

I've a friend who cant watch others brush their teeth. She gets totally freaked out. Has a fear of people breaking their teeth on the toothbrush

Is this friend me by any chance?? I get the shivers and physically feel ill when I can hear someone brush. It grates on me


Guys I think I need psychiatric help....

Novella

Kiera wrote: »

I've met a couple of people with this fear in the last year. What if you have the worst headache in the world?

I can't swallow pills but I don't actually believe painkillers like Panadol etc. work so I'd never take 'em anyway! My mam always whinges at me for not taking medication but fcuk it, I'm gonna get better anyway and chewed up painkillers are nasty!

Nozebleed

women...they freak me out. and lifts i wont get i a lift.

Kiera

ashyle wrote: »

Is this friend me by any chance?? I get the shivers and physically feel ill when I can hear someone brush. It grates on me


Guys I think I need psychiatric help....

Haha nah she lives over my way

Thats crazy that you have the same fear, i thought she was the only oddball out there :P

Novella wrote: »

I can't swallow pills but I don't actually believe painkillers like Panadol etc. work so I'd never take 'em anyway! My mam always whinges at me for not taking medication but fcuk it, I'm gonna get better anyway and chewed up painkillers are nasty!

Ah you need the prescribed shít, thats where its at

@Abs: you're quite the freak arent you :P (ah but i get the teeth thing. I'm obsessive about mine too)

/i've actually weird food hang-ups but they're not fears. Just weirdness on my part.

Dudess

Rats, which isn't an odd fear IMO, but it leads to a fear of mice (due to them being from the same family I suppose) which I don't think is reasonable, seeing as they're so tiny - and absolutely petrified of humans.

Creamy Goodness

being touched on the neck.

medication pills you know them capsule yokes, aptly enough i can't swallow them to save my life.

being submerged in water. i go anymore than waist high in water i phreak.

pawrick

people touching my neck - don't mind it if it's a kiss from a gf but otherwise I hate it.

Abi

Kiera wrote: »

@Abs: you're quite the freak arent you :P

Yes M'aam, yes I'am

(ah but i get the teeth thing. I'm obsessive about mine too)

Well when they're gone, they're gone! So it's all about preserving them as best you can. People kind of take them for granted, but the same people happen to be scared shitless of dentists! The mind boggles

/i've actually weird food hang-ups but they're not fears. Just weirdness on my part.

I think its actually natural for women to have some kind of hang-up / hang ups about food. My fixture is on food contamination and sly labelling to hide additives and preservatives. Donnnnn't even start me! :eek:

Dudess

Kiera wrote: »

@Abs: you're quite the freak arent you :P

But she's our freak! :pac:

Captain Slow IRL

spiral staircases:(

Fago!

Captain Slow IRL wrote: »

spiral staircases:(

Now that is odd.

Kiera

Abigayle wrote: »

Well when they're gone, they're gone! So it's all about preserving them as best you can. People kind of take them for granted, but the same people happen to be scared shitless of dentists! The mind boggles

Yeah i'm the exact same. I dont get how people dont look after their teeth, the mind does boggle. We should have a delft competition

Abigayle wrote: »

I think its actually natural for women to have some kind of hang-up / hang ups about food. My fixture is on food contamination and sly labelling to hide additives and preservatives. Donnnnn't even start me! :eek:

Oh thats not my weirdness. Up until i was 27 i would only eat chicken. Only started eating eggs and cheese about a year ago. Was very hard for my gang to go for dinner as they always had to ring to see if there was a chicken dish with no tomato sauce on it. Now i eat red meat maybe twice a year. Hate pizza or bread. Hate pasta. Mainly eat rice dishes or chicken and spuds with gravy and green veg only. I could go on......:)

stripysocks85

Biting into a wad of cotton wool

Spiders

Ghosties........ [not the crisps, the dead people]

Abi

Fago_25 wrote: »

Now that is odd.

I'd be surprised if a few others didn't mention they had an issue with them actually. I dunno what Captains deal is with them is, I'm with him on this one. The open spirals you can see through (heights), and the ones you can't (claustrophobia).

I remember being in cathedral.. type place.. (was with a sightseer) a fully walled one in Cork a few years back. Well fucking hell I thought there was going to be no end to it, and there was nothing but thick grey walls around me. I was down those steps like there was something after me. Love the pubs down there though

Kiera wrote:

Yeah i'm the exact same. I dont get how people dont look after their teeth, the mind does boggle. We should have a delft competition

Oh thats not my weirdness. Up until i was 27 i would only eat chicken. Only started eating eggs and cheese about a year ago. Was very hard for my gang to go for dinner as they always had to ring to see if there was a chicken dish with no tomato sauce on it. Now i eat red meat maybe twice a year. Hate pizza or bread. Hate pasta. Mainly eat rice dishes or chicken and spuds with gravy and green veg only. I could go on......

The worst is when people oppose or question it, yet if you tell them why you feel like you're ranting about it by their expressions

Dudess wrote:

But she's our freak!

Ohhh.. you :pac:

*clasps hands*

loglogbarkbark

Sour milk

Carsinian Thau

Novella wrote: »

I don't actually believe painkillers like Panadol etc. work so I'd never take 'em anyway!

Why exactly do you think this? There's plenty of pharmacological data about the pathways associated with paracetamol to support that they should work.



On topic: People biting things that shouldn't be bit. Specifically Lego blocks.

I can't explain it.

Fago!

Carsinian Thau wrote: »

Why exactly do you think this? There's plenty of pharmacological data about the pathways associated with paracetamol to support that they should work.



On topic: People biting things that shouldn't be bit. Specifically Lego blocks.

I can't explain it.

He he I bite things all the time.

Carsinian Thau

Fago_25 wrote: »

He he I bite things all the time.

I've gone to the scary visual place! :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Captain Slow IRL

Abigayle wrote: »

.........The open spirals you can see through (heights), and the ones you can't (claustrophobia)..........

Combination of both, more-so a problem with heights!

Kazooie

Stickers. Always hated those bastardin things.

RonMexico

People that don't like Classic Rock

Fago!

RonMexico wrote: »

People that don't like Classic Rock

Don't be silly. Everybody LOVES classic rock.

Carsinian Thau

Fago_25 wrote: »

Don't be silly. Everybody LOVES classic rock.

Which means that you don't like it.

You're frightening RonMexico. Bad Fago. Bad!