What's your irrational fear?

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DarrenW

Discussion Starter · Sep 25, 2006

Prompted by a conversation over the weekend, involving Mrs Wedgedout (although I'll not say more cos it's not my fear :lol: ).

So yeah. Spiders, Pigeons, Dogs etc etc... All fairly common. But has anyone got any unusual ones? You know, like a fear of blue pencil cases or of the word "spork" or whatever. My apologies if you DO have an irrational fear of the word "spork", I'll only mention the word "spork" once in this post so you should be OK.

Thing is, I'm not sure I have one myself! Irrational fear I mean, I've got a few sporks. I don't particularly like wasps, but they don't bring me out in a bout of apoplectic shrieking. Maybe I DO have one, but I haven't thought of my nemesis yet, maybe someone will prompt it and I can then spend the rest of my life in fear of encountering whatever it is.

The closest is the Mk5 Escort. But it's not an irrational fear, it's totally justified and logical :lol:

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DarrenW

Discussion Starter · #2 · Sep 25, 2006

Brian Burrows said:
Tigers!

RLY? All Tigers or just Sunbeams? :crazy: :smartarse:

If you have a fear of Tigers, do you have a much-reduced fear of common house cats then? A minor flinch rather than a full-on "WHOAH GET ME OUT OF HERE NOWWWWW!"?

gazapc

· #3 · Sep 25, 2006

zombies

no really can't watch any movie/tv show/game with them in

ianbott

· #4 · Sep 25, 2006

The closest is the Mk5 Escort. But it's not an irrational fear said:
Nothing wrong with a MK5 escort, better visually than a mk 4 escort.
I truly hate wasps but dont freak out when i see one.

JESUS

· #5 · Sep 25, 2006

Wolves, shite me up everytime, and its very rational :incheek:

easigee

· #6 · Sep 25, 2006

Daleks, Clowns and that nasty robot in RoboCop :crazy:

monkey76

· #7 · Sep 25, 2006

surely a fear of tigers is a rational fear as they really can rip your head off and discombobulate you!

Mr.AJ

· #8 · Sep 25, 2006

Just heights really.... well not just heights, pretty much anything i can fall off.

Shamrockez

· #9 · Sep 25, 2006

eggs

sid_the_geek

· #10 · Sep 25, 2006

Lesbians

JESUS

· #11 · Sep 25, 2006

monkey76 said:
discombobulate

Love that word, :lol:

Mr.AJ

· #12 · Sep 25, 2006

monkey76 said:
surely a fear of tigers is a rational fear as they really can rip your head off and discombobulate you!

Its the monkeys you want to worry about.

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cara_m

· #13 · Sep 25, 2006

Nothing really unusual but I'm really scared of daddy long legses

DarrenW

Discussion Starter · #14 · Sep 25, 2006

Brian Burrows said:
That's why I keep a chair with me at ALL times

The only thing in the jungle that a Tiger is afraid of is a chair . . . that's why Lion (Tiger) tamers use 'em

To be honest, if I were a Tiger and I spent all my life in the jungle and stuff, surrounded by trees and nature and all that, I'd be pretty freaked too if I came into a clearing and in the middle was an orange plastic school chair or something :lol:

Hmm, do animals have irrational fears too then? :strokeschin:

fifi trixabelle

· #15 · Sep 25, 2006

Boats/the sea/rivers/canals

Frauline Anna

· #16 · Sep 25, 2006

monkey76 said:
surely a fear of tigers is a rational fear as they really can rip your head off and discombobulate you!

Irrational in that there aren't too many Tigers roaming the mountains of France.

Impy

· #17 · Sep 25, 2006

"there are only 2 things in this world that scare me.....& 1 is nuclear war!!"

"whats the other 1??"

"Pardon"

"whats the other thing your scared of"

"Oh.....Carnies, circus folk......small hands..smell like cabbage"

Sorry, shameless Austin Powers quote!!!

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Tyzer

· #18 · Sep 25, 2006

Toe nails, makes me flinch when I cut mine :|

wedgedout

· #19 · Sep 25, 2006

snakes

upsetting Mrs Wedgedout, but trust me, that's VERY rational

owning a Truimph acclaim, again very rational.

DarrenW

Discussion Starter · #20 · Sep 25, 2006

Shamrockez said:
eggs

Even Easter ones?

Brian Burrows said:
Funnily enough . . . I've managed to 'make friends' with the (male) Feral Cat that lives in my garden . . . he rips everyone else to shreds, hisses and spits, etc. :lol: . . . for some reason he lets me stroke him

I don't like Clowns much . . . not a 'fear' as such . . . just make 'uncomfy'

Clowns. Yeah, I see that... Wouldn't say I fear them but I'm sure I've paid a few to work on my cars in the past :lol:

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