CalhounSq said:

Me too, on all that including the not having done it since before I was a teenager. I think I was ten or eleven but I don't remember. It's so gross....

Protege said:

And doesn't it suck that every damn tv show/movie has to have a hurl scene these past few years???

BASTIDS!

CalhounSq said:

It does!!! I'm so glad I wasn't the only who noticed that. I'm like "people, please. Stop. Now."

Nasty.

Protege said:

As I told you in chat, if something has more than 2 legs there's a 50% chance it intends to harm you. If it has more than 4 legs it wants to eat you.

FACT!

Fauxie said:

Fact. Yes.

spiders
being trampled or crushed in a crowd
heights (though i'm mostly over that now)

Bees.

I suffer from Bees.

Thats it.

Oh and life.

I'm not really scared of one thing... it's just general anxiety that plagues me.

SureThing said:

i saw a movie yesterday where a lady had a fear of bees, but it was because they stung one of her eyes out and killed her mother. and the lady was a taxidermist and a witch. with one eye. think about that.

Anx said:

I'm not even fucking around.

I'm TERRIFIED!

Like, I've had MORE injuries running away from bees, than anything else.

Taxadermy is a BIG bussiness around here.

Theres like 3 on each block.

Claustrophobia
and not in that big level Hypochondria

furygirl said:

Co-sign on both counts.

spiders, bugs with many legs, etc.

It's pretty bad.

Spiders and heights.

Heights are just scary because you can fall down and die.

Spiders are sacry because they come from the devil and teal your soul while you sleep.

The thing about heights is that I'm not scared of being on a plane and I actually like sitting by the window.

JasmineFire said:

that's where the spiders get in, you know.

Anx said:

And Melissa Etheridge.

Anx said:

there are no spiders on planes! they can't survive that high up AND when the plane is on the ground, it's not close enough to nature for the spider to get to it.


so there! I can sit near the window all i want.

live4lust said:

Zombie movies - hate them, can't watch them - make me shudder
Extreme heights even in movies - break out in sweaty palms, shortness of breath
I HAVE AN ABSOLUTE PHOBIA ABOUT GAMESHOWS - I will walk out of the room if one is on - won't watch em. I HATE THEM....

blueblossom said:

I forgot!!

I have a zombie phobia. For real. Zombie movies freak me OUT. Bad. BAD.

blueblossom said:

WHAT

Protege said:

Totally. I went for over ten years without throwing up for the same reason. It was a phobia.

HereToRockYourWorld said:

i have something like this but it's more of an aversion than a phobia. plus i have gag reflexes of the gods.

I'm afraid of insects, especially bees and spiders. It's SO RETARDED and I hate it.

Especially because I like being outdoors. I was kayaking on Friday and this bee came up to me. . .I could have easily flipped my boat trying to duck away from it and pissing it off by trying to whack it with my paddle , but that water was COLD and I wasn't wearing a wetsuit, so I made myself take a deep breath and deal with it.

I still believe that it's likely my death will be caused by a bee or a spider surprising me while I'm driving and causing a giant wreck.

HereToRockYourWorld said:

That almost happened to me!! A spider was somehow behind the glass on the speedometer in my car. It crawled out WHILE I was speeding down the freeway. I seriously paniced. I'm really lucky I didn't die.

It happend to me too, but I didn't panic.

He crawled from behind the seat and fell into the back of my head. I simply grabbed it and threw it out.

Now, the most FAMOUS spider in this territory where I live in is called a "camel spider", mind you scorpios fear those spiders.


This what a camel spider bite look like..


A lil' myth about 'em..

Solifugae are the subject of many myths and exaggerations about their size, speed, behavior, appetite, and lethality. They are not especially large, the biggest having a legspan of perhaps 12 cm. They are fast on land compared to other invertebrates, the fastest can run perhaps 10 miles per hour (16 km/h), about as fast as a human sprinting. Members of this order of Arachnida apparently have no venom, with the possible exception of one species in India (see below) and do not spin webs.

In the Middle East, it was once rumored among American and coalition military forces stationed there that Solifugae will feed on living human flesh. The story goes that the creature will inject some anaesthetizing venom into the exposed skin of its sleeping victim, then feed voraciously, leaving the victim to awaken with a gaping wound. Solifugae, however, do not produce such an anaesthetic, and they do not attack prey larger than themselves unless threatened. Other stories include tales of them leaping into the air, disemboweling camels, eerie hissing, screaming, and running alongside humvees; all of these tales are false, apparently told to new recruits in order to frighten them, to the amusement of the veterans. Online videos indicate that U.S. Marines sometimes place camel spiders in a ring with scorpions to watch them fight.

Due to their bizarre appearance many people are startled or even afraid of them. However, the greatest threat they pose to humans is their bite in self-defense when one tries to handle them. There is no chance of death directly caused by the bite, but, due to the strong muscles of their chelicerae, they can produce a proportionately large, ragged wound which is prone to infection.

I too heard about folks camping in the desert nearby, and waking up in the morning to see some flesh from their stomach missing with blood gushing everywhere.

But its true that they eat the flesh of the camels,,,they're a BIG problem for camel owners across the country and every 6 months they create a new method or poison to fight them.

Nothing really.

But I refuse to stick my hand in a glass to clean the inside of it...but that's just because I once had a glass shatter when I was washing it and it ripped my hand open.

Claustrophobia, I can't stand cramped or small spaces I get sever panic attacks and freak out. And water, I can't believe I forgot about that one, I took swimming lessons for three solid summers and can't swim a lick for my fear of drowning.
[Edited 4/9/07 12:38pm]

JustErin said:

Handinglassphobia

One of the worst phobias

CalhounSq said:

I'm totally with you on this. And stuff like Jackass will show them actually doing it, not just faking like on CSI or something.