What creeps you out?
 

a sampling:

-- cars that park themselves

-- closet monsters

-- overly earnest religionists

-- pink eyeshadow

overly friendly weird looking guys. They really creep me out.

I tend to have a pretty high tolerance, but ...

spiders
fire
spiders on fire typically make me feel better, though.
mimes
The French, especially French mimes

Like Aliantha said, guys who don't know American standard spacing in public. Yikes, gimme room, son!

Is it a different story for you Britons? You guys are considered European, aren't you? And I hear their public and intimate space is way different.

Old women who put on makeup.

It's like being around Pennywise.

Ahhh...we're generally considered to be Australian mate. You lot are closer to Europe than we are.

We like the wide open spaces here. There's no need for anyone to be standing too close without invitation.

There are always those who don't observe generally accepted distances though.

Sorry Ali, I forgot you were from down under but I was just generally asking the mass British populus that hangs around here. But sounds like you and your Australian mates like 3-5 feet of room comfortable as well.

High five!

it may seem silly, but i really fucking hate it when my scotch tape dispenser is low. i feel this unreal pressure that it's going to run out soon...but i don't want to just throw out the remainder of the roll.....i hate to waste .it...but you can't tell when it's really on its last lap or if it has 5 or 6 left....

i confessed this to a salesman today and he mocked me unmercifully. meh... prolly deserve it. but i really do get edgy about that for some reason.

cock

Would it freak you out if I mentioned that I've only got 2 degrees of separation from Marcel Marceau?

We're only technically European - our public space is 11 miles (Dover to Calais for those not in the know)

I think you'll find we're about the same as the Americans, if not even more cautious about getting close. Except on the Tube, and even then correct form is to pretend the person with their nose in your armpit isn't really there.

Very much. The goats may help to redeem you, however.

You also drink whiskey and not wine.

In my experience Americans have a smaller personal space and are way more touchy-feely than Brits.

I'm not keen on:

really pale blue eyes
the grids at the bottom of swimming pools
veins in roast beef

U.S. Personal Space is 1.5 to 3 feet.

I have to take a test for my Assault Training Cert every year. That's one of the first questions.

1.5 is waaay too close. Unless we're having sex.

I've noticed that people in elevators disperse like a gas, and everytime one person exits (I was going to say 'gets off') everyone else rearranges their position slightly to achieve maximum total spacing.

Agreed, Monster. 3-5 is what I consider normal. Normal conversations don't occur at 18 inches, unless there's absolutely no space at all.

let's add

sharing food /drinks. DON MOT LIKE. spit issues. I'm no germ freak -my house is filthy and I eat food off the floor, (yes my real name is The Hoff) but there's something about slobber sharing.

I hate dogs, I'm scared of them, but I'm more scared of the slobber than the teeth, if I'm honest.

people like that noob UsageBSomethingorother coming into the chat room and leaving without talking :p

Did I mention the pale blue eye thing already? *shiver*

I hate the cotton wood pads the dentist uses. The sensation of them touching my teeth is worse than nails on a blackboard.

:D Okay, I'm still figurin' this chat thing out!

Sex from a foot and a half away?!
You must have a pretty good size, uh, imagination.

space thing is a biggie for me - i don't like it when people get in my face

we have a sales guy that comes in to the office once a month - he could totally pass for WC Fields - 1st words every time -
"you lookin mighty pretty today" - then he proceeds to tell a couple of jokes (real knee slappers - sarcasm)

creeps me:

spiders

holey textures

boring mediocre people

flames and what not painted onto a normal everyday car (and spoilers)

dog food

The fact that Hugo Chavez and George Bush are world leaders.

Hey! I'm working on it.

Now you made me cry.

Not YOU! No Cellarites! Just the general feeling I'm getting about the immediate population around me, today. ;)

boring, dumb mediocre people.

obviously none of us qualify!

guys with wimpy handshakes

not looking me in the eye when talkin to me

Where are they looking?

yikes - left myself open with that one:blush:

Hardcore fans.
Myself, I have... um... impulses.

not to mention the splinters!;)

Food or utensils I'm about to use touching my kitchen counter. Because my cat walks all over it...after walking on the floor...and in his litterbox...:greenface

:lol:

I prefer the biting stick to the cotton wool

Finding someone else's pubic hair as I unfold a "clean" hotel towel.

After a very tasty cup of hot joe at a diner, the person sitting in the facing bench tells you about the lipstick on your cup...sure enough, you turn it around and there it is...gross.

Any unidentified smell in the back of a taxi (that I didn't create). ;)

Hilary Clinton.

Limp & slightly moist handshakes.

And much, much more...

I must agree, if you are not going to give me a blow job you are about to be exterminated.

GASP! The secret is out!

TheMercenary is a Dalek!

There is absolutely nothing sinister about pink eyeshadow - it's all shimmery, pretty goodness.

hahahahahahaha @ roast beef veins!

What's really creepy:

- touching toilet paper when your fingers are pruned.
- people who like turnips.

M&Ms with hair.

Wear many sweaters with pockets?

Easily avoided if you stop shopping the Arnold Palmer men's section of the Sears Catalogue.

Corpse-pale lipstick like Paris Hilton's.

Creamed eggs. Just thinking about them makes me shudder.

on the commercials!

Welcome, Violet Haze.

Never mind M&Ms with hair -what about when you bite into a sandwich and the bit in your gob remains connected to the rest of it by the amazing unbreakable, undetachable from the food human hair. The one that looks like a record-breakingly long pube. So entrenched in the food that as you pull the remaining food away from your mouth, it yanks the bite you just took straight back out. Not that you wouldn't have spat it out anyway. barf. ick. yeuch . squirm.

How am I supposed to eat my egg mcmuffin now?

Doh!

That obviously flew right over my head :bonk:

paris hilton

people that are not able to connect emotionally

people that fragment their emotions

people that are too controlling

people that are too nice (I need to get over that one)

With all the Paris Hilton comments, the cover of today's New York Post seemed appropriate to share.

You just got a kick start on your new healthy-eating plan.

It's just one of the many free community services I provide :D

How dare you malign the greasy/rubbery/spongy/ texture-melding goodness of the egg mcmuffin?

Hmmph.

I totally thought she meant the candy, too. Do the M's on TV have hair?

People who think emotions are more important than reason. You never know what they will do and they never make any sense. Avoid at all costs.

there's a new set of commercials on tv with M&Ms with hair. They are uuuuugly!

people who think reason is more important than emotion. They always think they're right, never listen, and are deluded in thinking all problems can be solved with logic.

:p

Creamed eggs? (confused) You mean scrambled?

LJ's Goo Pic. *hides under bed*
I have never stated any of those things.

That's just WRONG!

yes. yes, it is.

I got some kiwis:p