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Phobias

Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:38 am
by LoveCurryPies
Do you suffer from an irrational phobia?

My childhood phobia was snakes. And my Mum's button / needle and thread box. :lol: I have got over the snake phobia.

Yours?

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:43 am
by Hibsclaret
Canals or reservoirs

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:47 am
by Bosscat
LoveCurryPies wrote:Do you suffer from an irrational phobia?

My childhood phobia was snakes. And my Mum's button / needle and thread box. :lol: I have got over the snake phobia.

Yours?
Ophidiophobia

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:50 am
by Hibsclaret
Que

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:53 am
by The Enclosure
Snakes for me to.hate the blighters .lol

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:53 am
by Bosscat
Hibsclaret wrote:Que
Ophidiophobia is a fear of snakes m8 :D

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:55 am
by Hibsclaret
Bosscat wrote:Ophidiophobia is a fear of snakes m8 :D
Thanks. What’s my canal fear called then?

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:57 am
by Hibsclaret
Potamophobia

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:57 am
by IanMcL
Hibsclaret wrote:Thanks. What’s my canal fear called then?
Liverpool-Leeds? ;)

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:58 am
by Hibsclaret
IanMcL wrote:Liverpool-Leeds? ;)
Both

Must be still dark water with no idea of depth...weird. Best not go to Loch Ness...

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 9:59 am
by Bosscat
Set up a quiz once about Phobias ... there are some ace ones out there....

Pogonophobia ...fear of beards :lol:
Ailurophobia ... Cats
Coulrophobia ... Clowns
Chelonaphobia ... Turtles (apt on here :lol: :lol:)

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:00 am
by IanMcL
Hibsclaret wrote:Both

Must be still dark water with no idea of depth...weird. Best not go to Loch Ness...
No - that's women you are talking about! :D

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:01 am
by Hibsclaret
Bosscat wrote:Set up a quiz once about Phobias ... there are some ace ones out there....

Pogonophobia ...fear of beards :lol:
Ailurophobia ... Cats
Coulrophobia ... Clowns
Chelonaphobia ... Turtles (apt on here :lol: :lol:)
Bet that was like an episode of pointless.... :o

Re: Phobias

Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:02 am
by Lord Beamish
Anatadaephobia; The fear that you are being watched by a duck.

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:05 am
by cbx750
Hibsclaret wrote:Canals or reservoirs
Same with me Hibs, I'm all right on the sea or rivers but hate to be near still dark water.

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:08 am
by Bosscat
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Here you go have a gander (unless you suffer from Anatadaephobia as this is also geese as well as ducks :lol:)

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:08 am
by Hibsclaret
cbx750 wrote:Same with me Hibs, I'm all right on the sea or rivers but hate to be near still dark water.
It’s strange because I’m a good swimmer and have no issue with the sea or rivers.

It’s usually stuff from childhood so I reckon it could be part of a film I saw as a kid or even could have started with the the diving pool at the Thompson centre...

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:12 am
by cbx750
I think I must have drowned in a previous life. :o

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:15 am
by Rick_Muller
Allodoxaphobia - genuinely. Which is why I always try to keep the peace and find common ground

good list here

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:17 am
by Hibsclaret
Rick_Muller wrote:Allodoxaphobia - genuinely. Which is why I always try to keep the peace and find common ground
Reckon there’s a few on here with that.....

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:22 am
by Bosscat
Alektorophobia .... Rovers fans

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 11:26 am
by depechedingle
Moths bizarrely, scare me 5hitless!!!

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 11:29 am
by FactualFrank
Phobophobia.

The fear of having a phobia.

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 11:32 am
by MarkGreen
Trypophobia - the sight of irregular patterns or small holes.

Genuinely terrifies me!

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 11:47 am
by Dark Cloud
Absolutely love snakes (unless it's trying to kill me of course!)
But have absolutely terrible arachnophobia and also claustrophobia. I keep thinking I really should get some therapy for the former.

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 11:49 am
by AlargeClaret
Jeffhendrickaphobia ... seems to affect quite a few on here

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 12:01 pm
by Tricky Trevor
Fear of being eaten alive. Keeps me out of zoos and safari parks and the sea.

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 12:51 pm
by wilks_bfc
depechedingle wrote:Moths bizarrely, scare me 5hitless!!!

I'm with you on that, although I'm not as bad as I use to be.

I use to be very wary of anything that "flaps" so walking along towards a pigeon on the ground, makes me nervous as never sure which direction they would take off and i freeze whenever there is a moth regardless of size

I'm not as bad now with birds, since we acquired 3 budgies (I know odd choice of pet considering, but its a long story), but moths still freak me out.

Oddly not as much fear with butterflies

Re: Phobias

Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 2:36 pm
by IanMcL
cbx750 wrote:Same with me Hibs, I'm all right on the sea or rivers but hate to be near still dark water.
As Hibs said, Loch Ness is the darkest of dark and eerie!

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 2:38 pm
by IanMcL
When I was young, I did not like walking across the weir, on the Thames, at Reading. Always felt like I was not in control of my balance. Probably something to do with noise and fast water, right next to you.

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 2:49 pm
by FactualFrank
I have Thalassophobia, fear of the sea. It's not knowing what's below me that's the problem! Absolutely fine going swimming at the leisure centre so it's not the water.

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 2:54 pm
by andyh
I have eurotophobia... Secretly they have razor sharp teeth. :(

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:00 pm
by chekhov
I hate being sat at the same dining table with someone who mixes his food together. Disgusting.

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:05 pm
by IanMcL
FactualFrank wrote:I have Thalassophobia, fear of the sea. It's not knowing what's below me that's the problem! Absolutely fine going swimming at the leisure centre so it's not the water.
Have you seen what's below you, in the Leisure pool, Frank? :o :o :o

Re: Phobias

Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:18 pm
by Dyched
Rats and Kangaroos. Why Kangaroos? They’re just giant rats.

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:31 pm
by Longside
:o Going to Bla*kb*rn :lol:

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:36 pm
by Bertiebeehead
Cinemas

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:48 pm
by chekhov
Bertiebeehead wrote:Cinemas
Interesting. What is it about cinemas? Do you have to avoid going in them completely?

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 4:00 pm
by claret2018
I kind of get the sea thing - for me it's looking underwater and seeing an enormous submarine or similar

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 4:03 pm
by FactualFrank
claret2018 wrote:I kind of get the sea thing - for me it's looking underwater and seeing an enormous submarine or similar
For me it's just a shark, ready for a bite.

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 5:11 pm
by Bosscat
FactualFrank wrote:For me it's just a shark, ready for a bite.
Galeophobia Frank m8

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 5:21 pm
by FactualFrank
Bosscat wrote:Galeophobia Frank m8
Yep - have that one too. No way I'd ever go scuba diving! The thing is, I'm happy to go on cruises/ships - so long as they don't sink.

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 5:31 pm
by Dark Cloud
What is strange about my claustrophobia is that a few years ago I was bought a ride in a hot air balloon. As we went up in the basket, I was suddenly gripped by acute claustrophobia. All that air, open space and sun lit sky, but TRAPPED!! An absolutely awful feeling. I did manage to get some degree of control (I HAD to as there were others in the basket and no way were we going straight back down) but I absolutely hated the whole experience and was a gibbering wreck.

Re: Phobias

Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 5:40 pm
by FactualFrank
Bosscat wrote:Set up a quiz once about Phobias ... there are some ace ones out there....

Pogonophobia ...fear of beards :lol:
Ailurophobia ... Cats
Coulrophobia ... Clowns
Chelonaphobia ... Turtles (apt on here :lol: :lol:)
Covered 3 of those on a site I run in the past - and they seem to come up in quizzes now and again too. Coulrophobia I believe started to become much more known about since the original of "IT" by Stephen King was released.

Re: Phobias

Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:43 pm
by ClaretinJapan
Wasps

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:50 pm
by ClaretMov
Birds, they have creepy eyes and feet and I hate the beaks

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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 11:09 pm
by Bosscat
ClaretMov wrote:Birds, they have creepy eyes and feet and I hate the beaks
You are going out with strange lasses m8

Re: Phobias

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 2:29 am
by Suratclaret
Bank statements...the paper variety. Guess I'm cured now as my bank doesn't send paper statements now.

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Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 6:17 am
by jdrobbo
Spiral staircases inside old stone outdoor towers

Re: Phobias

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 6:32 am
by Longsider
Misophonia