What's your worst fear?

HazeHaze O RLY? Join Date: 2003-07-07 Member: 18018Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">Needles, darkness, heights, death, flying...</div>I've got some weird fear of heights - rock climbing is pretty tough for me. I still do it, but whenever I look down I desperately cling to the rock I'm on and say thirty different prayers to sixteen different gods, two made up for just this occasion.

Also. Things that make me cringe have gotta be any sort of cut what so ever. Bullet wounds dont apply, I can deal with those, but just imagining someone running a sword across the back of anyone's hand gives me the heeby jeebies.

Whats your fears/cringe worthy ... stuffs?
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  • ExploderExploder Join Date: 2006-11-02 Member: 58202Members
    I have a fear of scalpels and worms/snakes.

    I don't like knives in general actually because once I get my hands on one I awats start thinking about horrible things.
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  • ShzarShzar Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21098Members, Constellation
    Spiders, and those insane GIGANTIC millipedes that sometimes pop up in this apartment. I usually have to spend about 5 minutes working myself up enough to squish those buggers.
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    I have an irrational (or IS IT?) fear that if intarwebtards confuse the words "your" and "you're" (or just deliberately misspell them as "ur") one time too many, it will usher in the apocalypse. Or worse.
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  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    Spiders. Definitely Spiders... unleeeess it's a jumping spider. No idea why but they don't scare me at all no matter how big they get.

    I think it's because jumping spiders move and act with personality. They seem more like they have the intelligence and traits of animals we have as housepets (cats, dogs, etc).

    See, when the horrible non-jumping spiders move it's either that slow, creepy crawl or the weird 'stuttering' one where they move a short distance really fast then stop like they're in some kind of flickering movie or marilyn manson video. They also have a sort of dark alien intelligence that glints in their beady lil eyes when they're watching you.

    Jumping spiders just move like a normal creature. On top of that they're funny to watch. One was peeping on me in the bathroom and I jumped up at it giving it a fright. It leapt backwards with it's legs wide in a comical gesture of shock then when I went back to brushing my teeth it slowly edged forward tilting it's lil head curiously. cute :3
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    Spiders and scary movies/games. I'm super scared of spiders only when I'm alone; around other people I suck it up and ignore them. Scary movies/games though, they really freak me out, and it's annoying because it's so irrational.
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  • SpacerSpacer Invented dogs Join Date: 2003-05-02 Member: 16008Members
    Wasps.

    <img src="http://www.waswasps.co.uk/buzzAni.gif" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

    OH GOD LOOK THERES ONE RIGHT THERE
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  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    My teeth being punched, knocked, torn, or falling out. Dear god almighty that terrifies me. I love needles, though...
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  • Marik_SteeleMarik_Steele To rule in hell... Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9466Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1580135:date=Nov 23 2006, 05:51 PM:name=Shzar)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Shzar @ Nov 23 2006, 05:51 PM) [snapback]1580135[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Spiders, and those insane GIGANTIC millipedes that sometimes pop up in this apartment. I usually have to spend about 5 minutes working myself up enough to squish those buggers.
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    For a person who appears to enjoy System Shock 2 enough to have that awesome image as your avatar, I find your fear of spiders surprising <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
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  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    Wasps aren't so scary once you realise you can backhand them without getting stung. Great thing about wasps is they'll often fly in a straight line which makes for easy tennis if you have a swatter around <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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  • RoverRover blargh Join Date: 2003-09-23 Member: 21139Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1580157:date=Nov 24 2006, 01:13 AM:name=Geminosity)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Geminosity @ Nov 24 2006, 01:13 AM) [snapback]1580157[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Wasps aren't so scary once you realise you can backhand them without getting stung. Great thing about wasps is they'll often fly in a straight line which makes for easy tennis if you have a swatter around <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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    Still isn't fun when you know you're allergic to em though.
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  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    Yellowjackets attacked me Labor Day of 2004, and I took 50 stings which sent me to the ER.

    Oddly enough, I don't fear them but if I hear a buzzing sound (even caused by a distant chainsaw) I freak. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wow.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":0" border="0" alt="wow.gif" />
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    Heights. It's extremely scary to climb a cliff face for me but to abseil it is such a thrill.

    I also remember on my Army exercises last year during my college course I froze several times going up and over a 50 foot climbing frame. Damn was it funny watching me poo my pants <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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  • MantridMantrid Lockpick Join Date: 2003-12-07 Member: 24109Members
    I have odd fears. For some reason, busy tones, the tone when a phone is left off the hook too long, and the out of order messages you get when you dial a non-existant number all really freak me out.
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  • BadMouthBadMouth It ceases to be exclusive when you can have a custom member titl Join Date: 2004-05-21 Member: 28815Members
    my biggest fear would be of failure and disappointing those that expect a certain standard out of me.
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  • SkulkBaitSkulkBait Join Date: 2003-02-11 Member: 13423Members
    edited November 2006
    <!--quoteo(post=1580155:date=Nov 23 2006, 06:07 PM:name=Marik_Steele)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Marik_Steele @ Nov 23 2006, 06:07 PM) [snapback]1580155[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    For a person who appears to enjoy System Shock 2 enough to have that awesome image as your avatar, I find your fear of spiders surprising <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
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    Believe it or not, arachniphobia was common enough in SS2 players that LG released a patch to remove all the spiders. For some players, this was the only way they could bring themselves to finish the game.

    Anyway, worst fear? That I might live forever. Seriously. I never thought about it much until I read a short story called "You will never die" that, as far fetched as it was, still haunts me to this day.
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  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    Growing old. By old, I mean unable to live unaided, and remain in good health.
    I'll die in a skydiving "accident" before I turn 60.
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  • ShzarShzar Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21098Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1580155:date=Nov 23 2006, 07:07 PM:name=Marik_Steele)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Marik_Steele @ Nov 23 2006, 07:07 PM) [snapback]1580155[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    For a person who appears to enjoy System Shock 2 enough to have that awesome image as your avatar, I find your fear of spiders surprising <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
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    haha, touché. Those spiders do freak me out a little bit, but the presence of a very large wrench helps me overcome my fear. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

    Also, Mantrid's comments about telephone off-the-hook signals reminded me of my immense dislike of the sort of buzzer one hears from alarm clocks. Even if I hear one of those in a movie or something, it makes my skin crawl.
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  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    Needles. Actually, scratch that. Any metal piercing, perforating, or cutting my skin. Needles are just the worst, because they go in *deep*. I have no idea why, but metal hurts like crazy. I've cut myself on bone chips and standard rocks though, and there's no problem aside from a simple need to stop any bleeding. But any precision man-made cutting or piercing tool? Ergh.

    Spiders aren't so bad any more, I've gotten very good at catching them under a glass and tossing them out the window. I'd second the 'getting old' comment from above though as a possible second. I'd much more happily sail off the edge of a cliff in my car, doing something I love, than rot away in some bed, too weak to even stand and make it to the restroom unassisted.
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  • DrSuredeathDrSuredeath Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8217Members
    Cockcroaches
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  • semipsychoticsemipsychotic Join Date: 2003-07-09 Member: 18061Members
    <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Also, Mantrid's comments about telephone off-the-hook signals reminded me of my immense dislike of the sort of buzzer one hears from alarm clocks. Even if I hear one of those in a movie or something, it makes my skin crawl.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    If that's the same feeling I experience, then it's less of a fear and more of a mixed loathing and anguish. You know, the kind of thing you feel when you wake up to an alarm before sunrise.

    As for me, it's anything around my eyes. I'm not squeamish about being stabbed, sliced, or shot (though this may be because I've never actually experienced it), but so much as bring a pencil too close to my eyes and I take off down the street.
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  • StakhanovStakhanov Join Date: 2003-03-12 Member: 14448Members
    Cynophobia. Dogs are savage pets and always manage to scare me regardless of their size.

    Otherwise , piercings make me cringe - looking like they could tear flesh apart horribly , simply by being pulled.
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  • BlackMageBlackMage [citation needed] Join Date: 2003-06-18 Member: 17474Members, Constellation
    lack of mittens...
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  • RustySpoonRustySpoon Join Date: 2003-07-10 Member: 18069Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1580267:date=Nov 24 2006, 02:18 AM:name=Black_Mage)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Black_Mage @ Nov 24 2006, 02:18 AM) [snapback]1580267[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    lack of mittens...
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    Yea that never gets old. Custom titles are for achievements not annoyances.

    Anyway, my fears are all pretty strange. I sometimes wake up feeling utterly terrified and yet have no idea why. I've not found my phobia yet. I think I might have phobophobia <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/nerd-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::nerdy::" border="0" alt="nerd-fix.gif" />
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  • ExploderExploder Join Date: 2006-11-02 Member: 58202Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1580135:date=Nov 23 2006, 11:51 PM:name=Shzar)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Shzar @ Nov 23 2006, 11:51 PM) [snapback]1580135[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Spiders, and those insane GIGANTIC millipedes that sometimes pop up in this apartment. I usually have to spend about 5 minutes working myself up enough to squish those buggers.
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    Oh mt God, gigantic millipedes!!! I hope I never get to see one of those!!!
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1580302:date=Nov 24 2006, 11:33 AM:name=RustySpoon)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(RustySpoon @ Nov 24 2006, 11:33 AM) [snapback]1580302[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Yea that never gets old. Custom titles are for achievements not annoyances.

    Anyway, my fears are all pretty strange. I sometimes wake up feeling utterly terrified and yet have no idea why. I've not found my phobia yet. I think I might have phobophobia <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/nerd-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::nerdy::" border="0" alt="nerd-fix.gif" />
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    A fear of fear? OR a fear of phobias?
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  • Zor2Zor2 Join Date: 2005-01-13 Member: 35341Members, Constellation
    Usual range of freaky insects: spiders, wasps, daddy long legs things

    Had the most scary experience once when I went to the toilet (shed with a hole in the ground) in Uganda (of all places) Thought I could hear some fluttering/scurrying. Then I realised there was a group of flying ###### cockroaches above me :[

    I'm generally better with spiders as long as they don't touch me. Doing the whole glass procedure is too risky imo so its normally squish-time with some paper or shoe time if its a bigger one. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
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  • ZupiCoZupiCo Custom titles rule&#33; Join Date: 2003-03-22 Member: 14792Members
    Nosebleed, had to stop boxing because of it. I get all panicky and trembling when I bleed, no way I could stay in a match if someone punched me on the nose.
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  • LofungLofung Join Date: 2004-08-21 Member: 30757Members
    Death. painful and lonely imho..
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  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    edited November 2006
    <!--quoteo(post=1580376:date=Nov 24 2006, 09:44 AM:name=Lofung)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Lofung @ Nov 24 2006, 09:44 AM) [snapback]1580376[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Death. painful and lonely imho..
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    I never did understand that. After 70 years of obnoxious existence, death is a well-needed ending. The only thing to worry about is an afterlife. If there's an afterlife, well, you're screwed. Kinda ruins the whole reason of looking forward to death.

    I'm also somewhat afraid of spiders... not so much I seize up, but I'm afraid of the little ones that climb on your walls and come down on your head and stuff. I love big buggers like tarantulas, though.
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  • HazeHaze O RLY? Join Date: 2003-07-07 Member: 18018Members, Constellation
    My only fear of death stems from me not doing all I could possibly do or want to do. Not stupid things, like become a president, but things like seeing my own children grow up. Other than that its actually a curiosity as to what happens when you die.

    Oh! I recently saw one of those massive millipeeds in my house. I nearly crapped my pants, because I squashed it with (something, that I dont remember) and it got cut in half. One half stayed and twitched while the other started to run away. T-T (shudder!)
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