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Before I read this brilliant little book, I merely found spiders revolting. Now they scare the living bejeeezus outta me.
Before I read this brilliant little book, I merely found spiders revolting. Now they scare the living bejeeezus outta me.
~grumbles~ Great. Just what I need, more books in my house. ~thinks~ Maybe the library has this one.
I fear what the fire marshal would say if he saw my house and all the books there.
I'm very careful about the brown recluse. Many spiders look quite a bit like them. :\
When I was one I was given a black widow and a tarantula as pets under glass. We were able to keep nine dogs and thirteen cats as well, while living in the rural hills of bygone Marin County, CA.
Nothing in the animal world scares me except for the muppet of the same name, but only because his drumming is so fierce! Oh, and charging lions, tigers, bears and sharks. Getting eaten really sucks.
Entertainment magazine from two weeks ago. Sniff it... it smells like a soiled rabbit cage.
That's because Britney Spears' new perfume has a perfumed page inside. Her new fragrance smells exactly like animal bedding.
That scares me. Because people are going to buy it.
I am sjy and usually afraid of otjer people.I was wondering how long it would take someone with a fear of openness to post openly. Very brave of you.
Actually, I am not that shy, but most of you guys do scare the s&*% out of me.
Oh, and charging lions, tigers, bears and sharks.
What about a giant bear wielding a shark in both hands like a biting quarterstaff with doll's eyes/lifeless eyes?
I am sjy and usually afraid of otjer people.I was wondering how long it would take someone with a fear of openness to post openly. Very brave of you.Actually, I am not that shy, but most of you guys do scare the s%*@ out of me.
~evil, toothy, Draconic Smile~ Now why whould we do that, oh wizard of the mathematical realm?
BTW, j/k.
Actually, I am not that shy, but most of you guys do scare the s@~% out of me.
Aaaaaaaah. Show up a GenCon some year and watch these 'tough guys' get all stutterish.
straight edge razors.
disposable razor blades.
scalpel blades.
hypodermic needles.
The sight of my own blood in quantities greater than a few cc.
I feel queasy now and am going to lie down. My hands are tingling and I feel a little faint.
Oh, and charging lions, tigers, bears and sharks.What about a giant bear wielding a shark in both hands like a biting quarterstaff with doll's eyes/lifeless eyes?
Yep. That'll do it. (love the doll's eyes reference)
Actually, I am not that shy, but most of you guys do scare the s&@! out of me.
Thank you so much! For those of you who don't know I hire myself out as a laxative in the off-season. It's not my dream job but hey, the pay is decent and at least I'm showing real results and I'm respected by my peers.
In high school, in a basement where we had played pool, D&D and slept overnight on the floor in sleeping bags ever since junior high. My friend casually educates me to what a brown recluse is (never heard of them before)and tells me these are the same spiders we see when we turn on our flashlights in the middle of the night.
Why? why are you even living in this house still!? Burn it to the ground and move on.
Not an irrational fear, just a good healthy sense of survival.
I'm a Paladin I fear nothing.
Not the time for an education lesson.
Yes, the midwest has spiders that are as poisonous as the black widow. In fact, while you sit there in your underwear and tee shirt in a sleeping bag, they are all around you in the dark.
Good night!
Spiders and commitment.
Hence there's no constant "spider man" in my life, so I've just learned to respect the spiders space. Especially when it's one of these. Love the web but the spider itself gives me the heeby jeeby's.
You're right Tegan, I've been committed lots of times and it is scary.
Speaking of webs, another friend would put a red filter on his mag light and shine it on a web outside his house that was shaped like a funnel.
I don't know what kind of spider built it but all you could see at the bottom of the funnel were eight thick legs.
You're right Tegan, I've been committed lots of times and it is scary.
Speaking of webs, another friend would put a red filter on his mag light and shine it on a web outside his house that was shaped like a funnel.
I don't know what kind of spider built it but all you could see at the bottom of the funnel were eight thick legs.
Well there's that kind of commitment too. I have a friend of mine who keeps emails from me in a folder marked "Evidence about Tammy". He'll be my downfall. :o)
Like this kind of web?
paladins. They're so creepy! They crawl around in your evil schemes and spoil them! And they're so pure! Ugh!
I know of at least two people (neither of which are me) who are horrified by dryer lint.
Anybody else got any they'd like to share? Is there something out there that fills you with completley illogical fear?
For me it's wasps, hornets and yellow jackets. When I see one fly past me I kind of freeze and shiver. Why I don't know (although it may have something to do with the fact that I stepped in a hornet's nest last summer).
Heights also mess me up. I get all dizzy and feel vaguely queasy.
Ditto here. Although I'm not allergic, I was stung by one every year of my life until I was 18.
I think they hate me. The feeling is mutual.
Glitter.
If you touch anything with glitter on it, greeting cards are HUGE culprits here, it gets on you. You wipe & wash and still you find it on you. It gets on your clothes, it doesn't come out, just relocates, maybe to the floor but it's still there, and now it'll transfer to your foot then to somewhere else in the house. The worst, of course, is getting it in your eye, which'll only serve to scratch your eye up in the frantic attempts to get it out of there...plus it'll just be stuck to your finger at that point and the cycle continues.
- Chris Shadowens
Spiders and commitment.
Hence there's no constant "spider man" in my life, so I've just learned to respect the spiders space. Especially when it's one of these. Love the web but the spider itself gives me the heeby jeeby's.
I found one of those in my backyard. Do you know what it is? I can't find it in any bug books I own.
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I have an irrational fear of trying and failing to save or protect someone else. Weird, eh? I just see myself doing what needs doing but coming up short and not being able to save someone. The older I get and the less spry I am, the worse this fear becomes.
I have no other fears, as I have faced hell before.
I think spiders are cute, really. Then again, when the worst we have is wolf-spiders, they really are no big deal. And when you think about it, spiders are absolutely wonderful at killing pesky insects you don't like. I'd rather have a spider at home than flies.
What gets me is stuff underwater, particularly big things like big sea animals, large boat propellers, and so on. Even if they are still. The Kraken from the Pirates movies is a nightmare...
This is where the clowns live.
Hello there. Would you like to play? Come on, have a burger. They're delicious!
AWESOME! This should be a real tourist thing...but only after dark. Hell, Phil from Pantera runs a creepy haunted house down there around Halloween...maybe he can co-opt this site into a freaker's ball type attraction and let all the weirdos run loose for a month and customers pay a fee to see if they can survive the zombie-clown apocalypse.
Speaking of clowns, heres a classic short film.
Irrational fears...
Spiders. Not your average, garden-variety spider in its web, no. Not even black widows. Yes, those are scary, but not irrationally so. The ones that scare me are the ones that are over-large and covered in hair: tarantulas, wolf spiders, cane spiders... If they're big and hairy arachnids, they creep me out.
Oh, and that dancing baby from Ally McBeel. I hate that thing.
And now that I've seen Gary's links, I remember that the dancing old man from the Six Flags commercials gives me serious heebie-jeebies.
Monkeys and Chimps give me the willies. Oranguatans and gorillas Im ok with though. Guess this has something to do with it.
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Irrational fears...
Spiders. Not your average, garden-variety spider in its web, no. Not even black widows. Yes, those are scary, but not irrationally so. The ones that scare me are the ones that are over-large and covered in hair: tarantulas, wolf spiders, cane spiders... If they're big and hairy arachnids, they creep me out.
Yep, me too...though as I live in Australia, maybe not that irrational. Yes, I do have Funnel Webs in the back garden.
My irrational fear is seaweed, to the extent that I don't go swimming in the ocean...completely freaks me out.
Usually, I think of myself as pretty damned fearless - heights don't phase me, jumping out of perfectly good airplanes is fun with the right equipment, high speeds are a joy, violence is mostly survivable, and spiders eat the mosquitos, who annoy me more than anything this side of cockroaches, though there's one demon roach that has been plaguing me across several residences, who I swear comes back 666 days after I kill it. Clowns don't bother me (though clown porn...disturbs me), and there's a thousand and one fetishes that make people range from squee to squick to hork and all points in between that make me simply shrug.
However, every time I get a bit cocky about how adjusted I am, there's something that always manages to come back and bite me in the lizard-brain and make me remember to keep a bit more humble about such things.
When I was a wee lad I saw Pinocchio in the theater.
Right after that, I got to see a whale up close and personal as part of a rescue.
The eye was bigger than I was.
That moment of epiphany, of young mind, plus whale, plus movie with scary scary evil whale, plus that size and scale difference, is how I came to comprehend the conceptualization of SAN loss, of the angles no longer adding up and the world becoming a far more horrifying place.
I have never lost that particular reaction.
I learned to surf, and that doesn't bother me...so long as I'm still within sight of the beach. Sharks, for all their FLESH CRAVING SHARP POINT TEETH, don't make me wig out, but Flipper's far bigger cousins? GET ME THE HELL OUT OF THERE.
What makes this more galling is recalling the encounter in Echo the Dolphin with the big Blue. I literally dropped my controller and bolted out of the room. And when I finally was back inside my own head again, I was fine, but that freaked me more than the end boss.
My time spent in Vash'jr in World of Warcraft is, understandably, kept VERY brief.
Yep, me too...though as I live in Australia, maybe not that irrational. Yes, I do have Funnel Webs in the back garden.My irrational fear is seaweed, to the extent that I don't go swimming in the ocean...completely freaks me out.
Seems to me you have an overabundance of venomous things down under...
I had to laugh at the mention of seaweed though. My apologies, but the idea of an Australian that won't swim in the ocean is funny. This is coming from someone that was once hydrophobic that lived in Hawaii.
Gary Teter, thread necromancer, ladies and gentlemen.What, you're not scared of a little old thread, are you?
And chimpanzees. Horrible, bloodthirsty, cannibal chimpanzees.
I don't think you appreciate the gravity of the situation.
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Sharks and Crocodiles, I am not a great swimmer but they scare the bleep out of me. I think it mostly comes from the fact my dad loved these movies and there was a local theater that showed summer hits year around cheaply. Some of the first movies I remember ever seeing in Jaws, some movie about a big croc eating people, trilogy of tear and exorcist. I really dislike scarey movies as a adult. :)
I just remember seeing jaws when I was like 5 or something and having nightmares for weeks about being eaten by a shark. Now I love watching shark week, but I couldn't watch the movie open water. It freaked me out.