with all kinds of phobias. Clowns, spiders, frogs whatever.
Now, I've never made fun of anyone with any kind of phobia cuz I know this is some serious shit. But I can not for the life of me, understand why people are afraid of things like cotton balls, or ballons or even mustard.

I mean, i would never be afraid of a frog but I can understand someone else being scared maybe cuz of something that happened when they were younger and they may think the little tiny frog can eat them or something. BUT a cotton ball???



Please explain to me!

it's okay hon. it's just fuzzy nothinginess. I'll protect you

BlackAdder7 said:

but Andrew, im scared

i think Montel (or some talkshow) had a show on this i think, and this woman was mortified of pickles...

it was unreal, i couldn't help BUT laugh
she was all screaming and crying n shit... it was wild....

sammij said:

Wow..that would be funny. Sad for her I guess but funny for us especially those of us that love pickles.

sammij said:

oh i think i remember that episode. I think it was on Maury.
See things like that i dont understand. Maybe its not for me to understand but still...



I was thinking about this earlier today because there is this kid, he's about 7, at a rec center here in brooklyn. Everytime the children decide they want to paint pictures, he gets crazy. He starts screaming and crying and yells he doesnt want to paint. At first I just thought..wow he must really not want to paint But after some time, it got weird. I called his parents and they said they noticed he does that at home too cuz his grandmother bought him a paint set for christmas. When he opened it, he ran in his room screaming. And locked himself in

sammij said:

oh yeah, i think you can find her on youtube. i saw a clip from that. she started screaming when they brought out pickles. now i hate pickles, but i'm not gonna lose sleep over them!

I think the cotton ball thing is about the feel and the general squadginess of it - and some of them make a bit of a squeaky noise.

I like them however, they're a bit like lil' sheep.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...re=related


Don't have a phobia of admitting you watch Maury.

Mars23 said:

that's the one!

Yo, make fun if you will,
but I heard that if you ever back a pickle into a corner,
it will bite your head off, man.
[Edited 11/27/07 7:51am]

and for the record: maury's an asshole of these people are indeed real cases, their mini interviews with the pickles flying everywhere with the creepy green word "pickles" popping up, it almost begs the viewer to laugh

i wonder why shows like his and jerry's are still on the air

Illustrator said:

pickles are delicious
especially the sweet ones

I have no phobias against this egg, cheese and grape jelly
on an toasted english muffin I'm eating right now.

I agree, there are some silly phobias out there

I'm only really scared of spiders and heights, both because of my father! I copied his behaviour as a child to be scared of the spiders he was making my mother get rid of, and he kept threatening to drop me when he lifted me up onto his shoulders

susannah said:

yeah heights and creepy crawlers for me
the creepy crawlers are pretty neat if i know they're there, but if they come out of nowhere my skin begins to crawl and i get chest pains, they really creep me out in that way

oooh! and powertools - even though i use them everyday
im still as freaked out about them as i was on the first day i learned to make my own canvas...

Mars23 said:

DanceWme said:

maybe he had a traumatic experience while painting.

Raine said:

I can't watch it.
I have a phobia with youtubes.
It may have started back when I had mine tied.

heybaby said:

im thinking that but his parents are brushing it off like its nothing.
so i dont know what to do

sammij said:

wow

i didn't want to laugh but just wow

sammij said:

I just panic! I only really have a problem with them when they're on the floor, I have no idea why, but anything on the floor, rodents, creepy crawlies, anything - if it runs across the floor I feel like I have nowwhere to run and it terrifies me!

Illustrator said:

*baddum ching!*

DanceWme said:

probably in denial. but i hope its really nothing.

i had a cousin who was afraid of everything when we were little. He was afraid of grass

heybaby said:

when my brother was about 4, he was scared of flies.
Summertime was horrible. But thank God he got over it

I actually have a friend who is scared of cotton balls. She says it has to with the sound they can make, or how they feel when they are rubbed together.

MoniGram said:

it's the sound of an ant pissing on cotton balls that I can't take...