Phobias

[StevenK]

What you got? How bad is it?

10 years ago I'd hand on heart say I wasn't afraid of anything. Now I've got a real dislike of heights and claustrophobia settling in.

I regret moving into this little treehouse.

 

[basic]

What you got? How bad is it?

10 years ago I'd hand on heart say I wasn't afraid of anything. Now I've got a real dislike of heights and claustrophobia settling in.

I regret moving into this little treehouse.

phallophobia. it's not that bad. I manage it.

 

[StevenK]

phallophobia. it's not that bad. I manage it.

Head on?

 

[BeefJerky]

Do you guys know the word for "fear of long words"?

It's "Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia".

How cruel is that?

 

[basic]

Head on?

balls to the walls

 

[DevilRedeemed]

I used to be really scared of dogs growing up. Used to dream they would attack me, would even feel actual pain from the bite.
But that was around 30 years ago. Last dream I had where a dog was about to attack me, I hugged it and it licked my face and that was it. Pretty crazy

 

[neo_mao]

Dropbears

 

[Moob Butter]

The steel cooker hood in my kitchen has a really sharp edge and I keep bumping into it when pissed and trying to cook something.

My phobia is one day it will knock me out cold and my house will burn down, killing me in the process and I won't even get to eat my bacon sandwich first.

 

[prof]

 

[wyo]

I have an irrational fear of wasps, especially hornets. Not really a fan of any flying insects tbh. Mosquitos love me. Fuck horseflies as well. Bees get a pass because they actually have a purpose in life.

 

[jro]

Spiders. Do not like them.

A few weeks ago I picked up my cat's food bowl to toss out the few little crumbs and wash it and I got it about halfway from the ground to walking height and there was this little spider crawling in it. Just big enough to have all the identifiable spider characteristics, startled me so bad that I just utterly launched the thing away from me... and the bowl, which was made of porcelain, landed directly on the water bowl, which was also made of much thinner porcelain, and the water bowl shattered in little pieces.

So splintered pieces of glass-like porcelain from the water bowl all over the floor plus an intact food bowl with various food crumbs and a now-drowned spider and soaked carpet.

Tossed the food bowl in a trash bag, picked up all the pieces I could find from the water bowl, then got out the wet vac to get whatever I couldn't see easily. Covered the water bowl area in sheets just in case and put a new bowl down. Cat came in and looked at me like, TF man.

 

[Lagduf]

Gonna need a picture of your cat.

 

[StevenK]

I have an irrational fear of wasps, especially hornets. Not really a fan of any flying insects tbh. Mosquitos love me. Fuck horseflies as well. Bees get a pass because they actually have a purpose in life.

I'd say flying insects don't bother me too much, but have you ever been on a cruise? A couple of weeks out at sea, zero wasps, mosquitoes, flies, gnats, any air-shit, you quickly notice something is just better.

 

[jro]

Gonna need a picture of your cat.

Against all common sense and IT knowledge, I have somehow not been able to transfer my old pics from Galaxy Whatevs to Pixel 8.

I assume the takeaway here is that I'm retarded but it's sort of weird when everything else was so easy.

Anyway, might try it again in a few days, but she's mostly black with a little white fur and she says Fuck Tha Police.

And that Jerry Heller took it raw with

.

Yeah my 20-year-old cat is gangster AF.

She knows Dre done lost it.

 

[jro]

I honestly do very much enjoy Easy's response in the form of

 

[jro]

Jesus Christ this was supposed to be about spiders.

Pitchfork hire me I guess?

 

[Moob Butter]

I have an irrational fear of wasps, especially hornets.

Yeah I’m similar I hate wasps too. It’s not irrational as they do sting you for no reason other than they are cunts sometimes, unlike bees which need to be provoked.

Wasps get even more annoying in late summer/autumn as they eat fermented fruit, get drunk, and as they know they are about to die they decide to take you down with them.

Wasps, truly the skinheads of the insect world.

 

[LoneSage]

Against all common sense and IT knowledge, I have somehow not been able to transfer my old pics from Galaxy Whatevs to Pixel 8.

I've transferred every picture I've taken over the past twelve years to an external HDD. It is the most precious thing I own. I should really look more into preservation beyond that, though. I never even got into the Cloud, wow.

 

[greedostick]

I don't know... But this right here still scares the living shit out of me going on 40 years now.

 

[Lagduf]

I've transferred every picture I've taken over the past twelve years to an external HDD. It is the most precious thing I own. I should really look more into preservation beyond that, though. I never even got into the Cloud, wow.

I’d say copy the files to another hard drive and send it to your mom but we know she’d just throw it away.

 

[Average Joe]

Legit case of thalassophobia here.

I will never voluntarily set foot into any ocean or lake unless someone needs some kind of saving.

 

[smokey]

I have an irrational fear of wasps, especially hornets. Not really a fan of any flying insects tbh. Mosquitos love me. Fuck horseflies as well. Bees get a pass because they actually have a purpose in life.

All flying insects pollinate. Even flies. Bees are best controllable (and produce edible honey) so that is why they are our preferred pollinators.
Wasp are super easy to kill just clap on them hard, if you open your hands fast enough you don't even get stung.

 

[StevenK]

Wasp are super easy to kill just clap on them hard, if you open your hands fast enough you don't even get stung.

I don't think wyo is actually worried that a wasp could take him in a fight

 

[smokey]

I don't think wyo is actually worried that a wasp could take him in a fight

I assume the fear comes from being afraid of being stung. but actually you can take them out easily without being stung

 

[Moob Butter]

But if you kill one, their mates get angry.

If you kill a wasp, it will warn the others . . .

Nothing takes the gloss off these precious last sunny days quite like a deluge of wasps. This year, they seem particularly ubiquitous.

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