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We all know that the one thing that scares crows is a shotgun :)
What scares you?
For me it was a scene from Buffy when a particularly dead dude floated past a window looking in. It wasnt that they were dead (or undead) it is that they were not walking when they moved...that raised the hair on the back of my neck.
I am very afraid of $12,995,221,919,473.29 different things (at the time of this posting). So it is difficult for me to say.
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I am very afraid of $12,995,221,919,473.29 different things (at the time of this posting). So it is difficult for me to say.
It isnt the amount that scares you, it is the prospect that all hell will break loose when those you are forced to cede governance and your freedoms to stuff it up big time and fail to pay it back.
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Zombies ick me out (I'm about to be in a zombie feature and even in front of the camera it's icky)
But the things that really frighten me are real (and boring) stuff like my mom's cancer etc (which she's kicked to the curb I might add!)
Cool for her...<holds up blob of zombified cancerous flesh> Not cool for you...Wahahahaha!</throws chewed steak at Prankster>
I am very afraid of $12,995,221,919,473.29 different things (at the time of this posting). So it is difficult for me to say.It isnt the amount that scares you, it is the prospect that all hell will break loose when those you are forced to cede governance and your freedoms to stuff it up big time and fail to pay it back.
What really scares me is that very soon the people I have been "forced to cede governance and my freedoms to" will stop having to pretend that I live in a Republic.
What really scares me is that very soon the people I have been "forced to cede governance and my freedoms to" will stop having to pretend that I live in a Republic.I am very afraid of $12,995,221,919,473.29 different things (at the time of this posting). So it is difficult for me to say.It isnt the amount that scares you, it is the prospect that all hell will break loose when those you are forced to cede governance and your freedoms to stuff it up big time and fail to pay it back.
That is pretty damn scary.
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Scorpions and heights are the two things that freak me out.
Edit: In second grade some kids at school caught a scorpion and threw it at me. They have given me the willies ever since. Also I worked as a roofer after high school but slipped and fell off a two story roof and land flat on my back and spent the next 12 hours in the hospital strapped into a back and neck brace. Since then, when ever I get around high spaces, particularly ones with a dropoff, I am afraid I will fall again.
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Scariest thing I saw -- Comic Book the Movie. Towards the beginning, Mark Hamill is talking with some other guys in a comic book store and they were all arguing about how unrealistic Spider-Man was and that if it was realistic, he would have shot webs out of his butt. I don't think I've ever been more scared.
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Scariest thing I saw -- Comic Book the Movie. Towards the beginning, Mark Hamill is talking with some other guys in a comic book store and they were all arguing about how unrealistic Spider-Man was and that if it was realistic, he would have shot webs out of his butt. I don't think I've ever been more scared.
I think this wins the thread!
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Scariest thing I saw -- Comic Book the Movie. Towards the beginning, Mark Hamill is talking with some other guys in a comic book store and they were all arguing about how unrealistic Spider-Man was and that if it was realistic, he would have shot webs out of his butt. I don't think I've ever been more scared.I think this wins the thread!
Just thinking about it again gives me the jibblies.
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What really scares me is that very soon the people I have been "forced to cede governance and my freedoms to" will stop having to pretend that I live in a Republic.I am very afraid of $12,995,221,919,473.29 different things (at the time of this posting). So it is difficult for me to say.It isnt the amount that scares you, it is the prospect that all hell will break loose when those you are forced to cede governance and your freedoms to stuff it up big time and fail to pay it back.
Wa? You live in a Republic? If the Sith are in Charge...Is it officially an Empire or do you have to wait till they sweep away the last vestiges of the Old Republic?
"But how will the Emperor retain control with out the Bureacracy?"
"The Regional Governors will now have direct Authority..."
We all know that the one thing that scares crows is a shotgun :)
What scares you?
For me it was a scene from Buffy when a particularly dead dude floated past a window looking in. It wasnt that they were dead (or undead) it is that they were not walking when they moved...that raised the hair on the back of my neck.
Was that like either of the floating vampire Glick boys scenes into the 1979 TV movie Salem's Lot? Now THOSE were scary scenes as well. Wonder if Buffy was paying homage to that movie?
When I was a lil me, a small group of friends and I got together for a parent free evening of adventure, prowling the streets telling ghost stories and taking forest shortcuts on a night so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. We went to a kid named Danny's house when we knew he'd be asleep and I grabbed my friend Pete, the smallest of us, and lifted him on my shoulders up to Danny's window. We were trying to recreate the Glick scene. Pete scratched at the glass with a big vacant smile on his face and I tried to raise and lower him in an eerily slow, circular motion. Danny woke up and screamed. Pete got scared and in trying to get down threw himself off my shoulders and onto his head. And that was just the start of that night.
Later on I would experience the most blood curdling fear I've ever experienced. My own face. Seriously. Last kids standing that night were me and my friend Bart, and we hid in his low ceilinged (3') root cellar type basement recounting novels we'd read about ghosts and possession. Bart's didn't want his father knowing he was at home and so we tried to whisper when speaking and sneak when sneaking. When we tried to escape the basement I passed a full length mirror tacked to a door and saw myself in the dim glow of earliest twilight. I looked right into my own reflected eyes and it FROZE. MY. HEART.
Most post-apocalyptic concepts.
Spiders.
Spiders.
Spiders.
Spiders.
*Keeps muttering 'spiders' to self*
Most post-apocalyptic concepts.
Spiders.
Spiders.
Spiders.
Spiders.
*Keeps muttering 'spiders' to self*
KC, can you watch spider horror movies at all, or is it too much? The people who I know who are arachnophobic don't want to ever see them in any way... not even pictures.
Sarah Palin..and Kim Jong Il
You and us all, Wellard.
KC, can you watch spider horror movies at all, or is it too much? The people who I know who are arachnophobic don't want to ever see them in any way... not even pictures.Most post-apocalyptic concepts.
Spiders.
Spiders.
Spiders.
Spiders.
*Keeps muttering 'spiders' to self*
I can't stand pictures, and Return of the King wasn't easy at points, but I can usually suffer through it. I still can't look at the Phase Spider, though. The Pathfinder one, that is. The 3.5 one just looked ridiculous.
EDIT: Could that dead guy in Buffy be anything like the Gentlemen? They weren't real undead, but they were pretty creepy, and they floated.
Buffy houses a lot of scary stuff. Der Kinderstad, or whatever it was called. This creepy guy with big tusks and this big bowler hat who killed kids by extending his eyeballs or something. It looked kind of lame, but it's still rather disturbing.
Then there's Gnarl, who paralyzed people and proceeded to sing to them as he slowly flayed them alive. That was in the sixth season, so the writers were really coming into their own.
Sarah Palin..and Kim Jong Il
Why, I'm a lovable little fuzzball.
You and us all, Wellard.
KC, can you watch spider horror movies at all, or is it too much? The people who I know who are arachnophobic don't want to ever see them in any way... not even pictures.Most post-apocalyptic concepts.
Spiders.
Spiders.
Spiders.
Spiders.
*Keeps muttering 'spiders' to self*I can't stand pictures, and Return of the King wasn't easy at points, but I can usually suffer through it. I still can't look at the Phase Spider, though. The Pathfinder one, that is. The 3.5 one just looked ridiculous.
I came up the other way... Charlotte's Web (Fan of the movie and then the book]. Rather endeared me to the critters despite their brutal nastiness. Where others see acid and mastication I hear Debby Reynolds croon. <G>
Sarah Palin..and Kim Jong IlNancy Pelosi is equally valid for said list.
What, with those EYES? I'd say she tops the list.
What, with those EYES? I'd say she tops the list.Sarah Palin..and Kim Jong IlNancy Pelosi is equally valid for said list.Its not just the eyes. The neck skin reminds me of a deep one.
~Shudders~
Dagon's cult has infiltrated our government!
Wait, Nyarl's had walk-in access to the Oval Office for generations, why are we panicking just now?
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What, with those EYES? I'd say she tops the list.Sarah Palin..and Kim Jong IlNancy Pelosi is equally valid for said list.Its not just the eyes. The neck skin reminds me of a deep one.
~Shudders~
Dagon's cult has infiltrated our government!
Wait, Nyarl's had walk-in access to the Oval Office for generations, why are we panicking just now?
Don't Panic
Bees... I was attacked by a swarm of them when I was a kid. Just the sound of one buzzing by is enough to make my knees buckle. I can't help it. :(
Ultradan
I will not be outdone!
smurf
Smurf.
What, with those EYES? I'd say she tops the list.Sarah Palin..and Kim Jong IlNancy Pelosi is equally valid for said list.Its not just the eyes. The neck skin reminds me of a deep one.
~Shudders~
Dagon's cult has infiltrated our government!
Wait, Nyarl's had walk-in access to the Oval Office for generations, why are we panicking just now?
This one knows too much.
Pants. They keep trying to eat my legs. *Twitch* *Twitch*
I am completely, irrationally, and pathetically terrified of snakes of any kind. That includes fairly unrealistic paintings half the time or more. The picture of a snake in the PF Bestiary can give me a shock if I'm not expecting it. The sad little colored line drawing in the 2e Monstrous Manual was a bit much.
But the fear did not come from nowhere. In kindergarten a woman with some kind of small traveling menagerie came in. She had a python, of I think about typical adult size. There were one or two other snakes that she just let crawl around on the tables while we sat by and those were ok. I wasn't totally thrilled, but it was only mildly unpleasant.
But the python she wanted everyone to touch, unless we opted out. I'm four. I knew how to opt out about as well as I knew how to make a nuclear weapon, especially when an adult authority figure is assuming my compliance and proceeding. So to get us to touch the python, does she hold it and let us pet the thing? Does she set it down and let is touch it? No. She wraps it around herself, then she comes around and lays it across the backs of our necks and shoulders, one by one. Just to completely maximize the terror by ensuring that we can't even see what's going on.
WTF, menagerie lady? WTF?
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I am completely, irrationally, and pathetically terrified of snakes of any kind. That includes fairly unrealistic paintings half the time or more. The picture of a snake in the PF Bestiary can give me a shock if I'm not expecting it. The sad little colored line drawing in the 2e Monstrous Manual was a bit much.
But the fear did not come from nowhere. In kindergarten a woman with some kind of small traveling menagerie came in. She had a python, of I think about typical adult size. There were one or two other snakes that she just let crawl around on the tables while we sat by and those were ok. I wasn't totally thrilled, but it was only mildly unpleasant.
But the python she wanted everyone to touch, unless we opted out. I'm four. I knew how to opt out about as well as I knew how to make a nuclear weapon, especially when an adult authority figure is assuming my compliance and proceeding. So to get us to touch the python, does she hold it and let us pet the thing? Does she set it down and let is touch it? No. She wraps it around herself, then she comes around and lays it across the backs of our necks and shoulders, one by one. Just to completely maximize the terror by ensuring that we can't even see what's going on.
WTF, menagerie lady? WTF?
So no desire to go to the Chamber of Secrets?
So no desire to go to the Chamber of Secrets?
The bad CGI basilisk was fine with me, actually. Terrible CGI helps. The clip I just found on Youtube also had it moving like it was a giant sock rolling around on a cart.
But then I saw a person holding a brownish snake (not even with the head visible or anything) just channel surfing last night and actually let out a little shriek before I could get the channel changed. My feet came up off the floor and everything.
So no desire to go to the Chamber of Secrets?The bad CGI basilisk was fine with me, actually. Terrible CGI helps. The clip I just found on Youtube also had it moving like it was a giant sock rolling around on a cart.
But then I saw a person holding a brownish snake (not even with the head visible or anything) just channel surfing last night and actually let out a little shriek before I could get the channel changed. My feet came up off the floor and everything.
Show a little backbone, will ya?
Show a little backbone, will ya?
I'm using it. My body is not a petting zoo.
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...Later on I would experience the most blood curdling fear I've ever experienced. My own face. Seriously. Last kids standing that night were me and my friend Bart, and we hid in his low ceilinged (3') root cellar type basement recounting novels we'd read about ghosts and possession. Bart's didn't want his father knowing he was at home and so we tried to whisper when speaking and sneak when sneaking. When we tried to escape the basement I passed a full length mirror tacked to a door and saw myself in the dim glow of earliest twilight. I looked right into my own reflected eyes and it FROZE. MY. HEART.
THE JADE HEART
I stared into the mirror
- reflecting,
Into my unforgiving eyes,
There I saw a coming terror,
And it took me by surprise.
For lurking in my mirror-eye,
A shade came upon me of a most
wicked, wicked sort,
Not a reflection returning a gaze
– Thinking my childish thoughts.
27 – May - 2010
Wow. This really deserves a reply -- but I think I just made my Will save. ;-)I'm using it. My body is not a petting zoo.
Show a little backbone, will ya?
Tell me I'm not so old that no one else here understands my cheesy humor. Pet snake Reggie? I hate snakes, Jacques?
Tall Women....brrr
Really? How tall, if you don't mind me asking.