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To have such a weird phobia?!

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WinterSnow · 23/06/2011 20:17

I am terrified of nautical things, old style diving suits and ship figureheads being top of my list, I actually feel sick and dizzy if I know one is nearby, do you have any weird ones?

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Mandy2003 · 23/06/2011 22:49

Here!

runningonmt · 23/06/2011 22:55

archie Not genetic - my DS has been kindly taught my my mum how to remove said evil jumpy jumpy things from my house when the blasted cats bring them in ..... My DS is my hero [big heart shaped emoticom thingy required]

shavmcv · 23/06/2011 22:59

I have a major phobia of clowns - to the point I have been known to run away crying !! HTB has a weird dislike of mattresses and most satin material things particularly ribbon . Hmm

Diving suits don't bother me but I can really see why people find them creepy !
Smile

LordOfTheFlies · 23/06/2011 23:00

Swans, geese and ducks but I think it's perfectly reasonable.

Also swimming pools. I used to think the filter covers were doors for sharks. When the pool was empty ,they would let the sharks have their swim.

A couple of years ago at Butlins we were having a late evening swim. Very quiet, only about ten people. I went into the fast water stream, swimming away like Rebecca Whatsername. Looked down to see a dark grey shape (tiles). Couldn't get out quick enough!!
My DCs wet themselves laughing at me Blush. Little gits.

choux · 23/06/2011 23:03

No one has mentioned my phobia yet. I cannot bear the sight of the earth from space. Not that I've ever seen it myself obviously but news reports on space shuttles orbiting the earth turn my stomach and the worst is the Universal Pictures trailer at the cinema where the camera zooms forward over the word Universal and the earth is below you. I have to close my eyes... I will not be booking a trip on any Virgin Spacefilghts!!!

archieleach · 23/06/2011 23:05

Rebecca Whatsername

spoonface, I think is the word you're looking for

fuzzpigFriday · 23/06/2011 23:07

The balloon one makes me chuckle a bit - not because I think it's funny, but because my DH's ex-BIL knew somebody who had a balloon FETISH!!! He was a bus driver and apparently once stopped en route to go into a party shop

This bloke works on our bus route now, I do have a bit of a smirk to myself when I see him...

LordOfTheFlies · 23/06/2011 23:08

Oooh Archieleach -harsh.

True, but harsh Grin

archieleach · 23/06/2011 23:12

I think it is funny. Don't like the bloke who said it though. Vicious humour is not nice. Whatever happened to Gerard Hoffnung, Flanders and Swann and their ilk?

NormanTheForeman · 23/06/2011 23:15

I have Trypophobia, and also have a phobia of large taproots on plants (especially if you pull them out of the ground) and icebergs.

sparkleshine · 23/06/2011 23:23

Peas

Awful awful things...green and small and they roll around everywhere

(shudders)

fuzzpigFriday · 23/06/2011 23:24

Anyway, my weird phobias (well, fears technically as they are not phobias by the proper meaning of the word, I don't think I have any actual phobias)

Crabs. I think I stepped on one at a beach when I was little. I used to have recurring dreams in childhood about swathes of bright orange crabs swarming up from between the bed and the wall and covering me. In hindsight it was probably because of abuse - which mostly happened in that bed - and it was just the timing of the beach incident that turned the crab into the subject of the dream. Anyway, it's mostly ok now - my DD has a flannel thing shaped like a crab and has got a bit obsessed, I even bought her some toy crabs, and held a tiny baby crab on holiday recently. Still don't like the massive ones in aquariums though, ugh.

Wet railings Confused - at a pier I went to with my very bossy friend, there was this weird fun house thing. I didn't want to do it but friend pushed me to. The first bit was this weird moving ladder thing that was vertical and very hard to climb. It was raining and the railings were metal and really slippery, I felt sure I'd fall down and it was really high. The fun house was shut down the next time I went, not surprising really, that sort of thing definitely wouldn't pass Elf n Safety now... So, slippery railings make me a bit wibbly

sparkleshine · 23/06/2011 23:24

I've had therapy and the lot...couldn't even go 10 foot away from one a few years ago. I can now have them close, but will NOT and NEVER touch them.

And MUSHY peas...omg I'm gonna be sick

fuzzpigFriday · 23/06/2011 23:25

Oops posted too soon - went to an old signal box recently and the stairs up there were really rickety and the railing was wet and really wobbly... Was terrified my DD would fall!

Doha · 23/06/2011 23:27

Caramac chocolate, had a bar when l was 7, vomited everywhere, including over my sister.Smile
Needles--major phobia (difficult being a nurse)
submarines, anything under water

to name but a few

archieleach · 23/06/2011 23:27

NormanTheForeman Thu 23-Jun-11 23:15:08
I have Trypophobia, and also have a phobia of large taproots on plants (especially if you pull them out of the ground) and icebergs

Wot like lettuces you mean?

NormanTheForeman · 23/06/2011 23:29

archie, no not lettuces, those enormous things made of ice which lurk mostly under the water and sink Titanics......

Canella · 23/06/2011 23:30

superjobeespecs - you're the first person i've ever heard to share an irrational fear of stickers!! They make me properly heave. And with dc, its a nightmare trying to avoid them.
A friend gave me a sticker book last week for dc3 - its still in the bag. Blush He doesnt know its there but if he opens it there'll be stickers everywhere. On the bottom of socks is the worst.

No actually, the ones you get on the bottom of new cups or glasses that dont always come off easily - aaaahhhhhh!

archieleach · 23/06/2011 23:33

Do they indeed. That's not on.

LoopyLoopsBettyBoops · 23/06/2011 23:34

You waspy-zombie phobic seen this?

archieleach · 23/06/2011 23:40

Oh God Loopy, you really put the wasp amongst the zombies there.
They don't like it up 'em you know.

archieleach · 23/06/2011 23:44

After a male wasp injects its egg into the ladybird, the larva munches on its host's internal tissues before breaking out through the abdomen.
In some cases the partially paralysed ladybird remains sitting on the parasite as it spins a yarn.
Researchers think venom from the wasp makes the ladybird twitch and grasp - warding off other suitors.
This uncharacteristic behaviour by the ladybird begins at the point that the parasite breaks out of its body.

Marriage and kids anyone?

LaurieFairyCake · 23/06/2011 23:44

Fuck a duck, you people are odd.

I have a phobia about loofahs (the eight legged ones)

Thassit.

differentnameforthis · 24/06/2011 02:02

Stairs. I have dreams about them...usually where one side is against a wall & then other isn't, but has not safety barrier...so it's just open.

I can't look down when I walk down them. I hate carrying my children on them, especially when they were babies.

I hate walking past them, say on a landing to get to another room. In our old house it was 2 up 2 down, so a small landing at the top & I hated being on it & would press against the wall to walk past.

JoySzasz · 24/06/2011 02:17

Swimming baths,the smell and the floor.

The changing in to a costume bit,and the climbing from the hard floor in to the water!

I hate them ...I know it is not a phobia as such though.

What I really can't bear is wet things on dry...lolly sticks in my mouth ...wooden spoons when I am cooking -I have to use plastic.