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To ask you what illogical thing freaks you out.

362 replies

cupidsgame · 30/06/2016 10:51

I have an illogical fear of large empty swimming pools. It's totally irrational but I'd be too frightened to look at one let alone stand in it.

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pippinandtog · 30/06/2016 20:10

Yes,LastGirl, lines under mushrooms!
It's the repetition in nature thing.

MyBreadIsEggy · 30/06/2016 20:13

alegretto I was literally just about to type "human teeth" and then I saw your post!
I was never scared of the dentist or teeth, until I had to have 4 teeth removed in preparation for having braces fitted when I was about 13/14. The first two tooth extractions were fine, job done quickly and I got the feeling back in my mouth pretty quickly. But two weeks later I had to go back and have two removed the opposite side, and the dentist had a faulty, leaky syringe that dribbled the local anaesthetic into my entire mouth, not just the required area! It was vile! I couldn't feel the lower half of my face, but I could feel blood and saliva dripping everywhere because I couldn't feel my face to keep my mouth semi-closed or form the right shapes to spit!
I've been terrified of the dentist and teeth in general ever since! I love plastic surgery programmes like "Botched Up Bodies", and I can happily watch a woman getting her butchered boobs patched up, or a dodgy facelift get fixed, but as soon as someone goes in with a bad dental job I have to turn it off Confused

LastGirlOnTheLeft · 30/06/2016 20:18

That is so interesting, Pippin. I find them so revolting I can't have anything to do with mushrooms. I can't even touch them never mind eat them.Confused

Asprilla11 · 30/06/2016 20:22

Oh I forgot something from my list, touching raw meat, even just bacon!

newtscamander · 30/06/2016 20:25

Wind turbines. I think it's because they look all futuristic and robotic or something.

Stratter5 · 30/06/2016 20:25

Yellow teeth. I hate bad teeth.

People eating. If I had my own way, I would eat all by myself, so I didnt have to see anyone else eating, and walking and eating would be banned.

Pettywoman · 30/06/2016 20:29

Silos, especially near run down or disused farm buildings. I can't help imagining being thrown in. Creepy.

Snooks1971 · 30/06/2016 20:32

Ditto the huge freaky hulls of ships and also submarines...

Imagine swimming in the sea (not that I ever would) and somehow, inadvertently being next to the bow of a ship Shock or, a submarine may easily surface next to you..... all entirely possible in my head

OliveBranchCollins · 30/06/2016 20:40

Clowns
Ventriquists dummies
Daddy long leg
Pork I'm fine with all other meat but everything about pork makes me want to hurl and cry and run away

LastGirlOnTheLeft · 30/06/2016 20:43

Strayer yellow teeth do NOT mean bad teeth.

Petty you didn't happen to watch Witness or Dark Night Of the Scarecrow, did you?

LastGirlOnTheLeft · 30/06/2016 20:44

Sorry....Stratter obviously!!!

ClarkeyCat · 30/06/2016 20:44

When there is a technical fault with a tv station and it goes off air. Remember in the 90's, I think it was ITV would put on a picture of a load of roofs with aerials? Aaaarrgghhh. It makes me feel really uneasy. I can't really put my finger on it.

minatiae · 30/06/2016 20:46

ships

Champagneformyrealfriends · 30/06/2016 20:50

Cake bars. Confused

Fucking cake bars.

feelingdizzy · 30/06/2016 20:51

Escalators,terrified getting on one.

Buzzardbird · 30/06/2016 20:52

People on stilts and touching crisp new £5 notes with wet hands.

bigtapdancingpimp · 30/06/2016 20:53

Bright red lipstick on women wearing no other make-up, not even a hint of mascara.

I really can't explain why this bothers me so much Confused

Snooks1971 · 30/06/2016 21:12

The cuffs of a woolly cardigan or jumper that accidentally get wet (by washing up etc). Cannot bear wet woolly cuffs

YourNewspaperIsShit · 30/06/2016 21:13

Stairs with gaps in that you can see through Blush

Any chemical cream like anti-wrinkle or rejuvenating bollocks. Makes me think of skin being pulled overly taught and I cringe massively. Won't even touch it with my fingers!

TroysMammy · 30/06/2016 21:18

Moths and eating a shelled hard boiled egg like it's an apple.

Smeldra · 30/06/2016 21:20

Flying ants.

Even typing that has made all the hairs on my arms stick up and my scalp itch

Roomba · 30/06/2016 21:20

Swings. I have given up trying to push my kids on them as I feel faint and almost vomit with fear. No idea why!

Slugs. I can barely type the word. No issue with snails at all. Living in a very old house is not helping as they get in my kitchen at night.

I am also emetophobic, but that's quite common I think?

Double decker buses freak me out, I can't sit upstairs, much to my kids' annoyance. I am terrified they will tip over when we go round a corner. Same with big lorries, and huge ships. Those massive cruise ships frighten me to death.

mynamesnotMa · 30/06/2016 21:21

Mess

Roomba · 30/06/2016 21:23

Just remembered this one - bath sponges. Can't bear to touch them and when I read about pregnant women getting cravings and chewing/sucking them it makes me go all weak and shaky!

backtowork2015 · 30/06/2016 21:37

Egg shell. I will go to great lengths to get a fragment out. Will even crack a new one rather than risk a fragment in my scrambled egg or omelette