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My mom took me and sis to see Jaws when it came out in the theater.... I think I was 4 at the time, and it scarred me for life. Even swimming in lakes, or pools at night, I have a fear of sharks in the back of my mind that makes it less than enjoyable.
This is just an email forwarded pic, but it makes my blood run cold. What are you a'scared of?

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your mother




remind me to kick her in the nuts when i see her. no wonder you freak out when I want to swim in the ocean

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It's a goddamned dolphin!!!!

Arrrrrrrrrrgh!!!!

(We've been through this before, see ...)

Here are a couple of them ...

The Original Thread

The Repeat, by someone who hadn't read the first thread ...

The Poll

Oh, hey, sorry.... lemme go back and read every old thread on here then, so I never again make the same faux pas. :rolleyes:

Don't take it personally jinx. Reposts happen all the time. Wolf was, in her own charming and inimitable way, pointing this one out. :)

But, yeah, get cracking on those threads. Theres a lot to read and there will be a test. :D

hmmmm. not too cool. this was a source of displeasure for you, wolf? or are you just edgy?

Yeah... the picture itself wasn't really the point of the thread, it just represents my 'fear'. That's what all those words were about in the original post.... and the name of the thread... Sorry I wasn't clear enough.
Perth, I actually have at least skimmed thru quite a few old threads - I even read the history, lol! I've been bored with sick kids at home...

Indeed, I did not mean it personally.

My response was primarily a joke for the folks who have been through the shark/dolphin wars.

If I had intended my remarks to be personal, they would have involved direct reference to your being an "asshat" or "fuckwit."

They did not.

You are new(ish) here, and have more leeway provided than perhaps others might. You are a nice lady and offer a refreshing point of view around here.

I also offer my condolences for your having accepted LumberJim's offering of genetic material and providing him offspring.

P.S. It's a joke. My humor tends to go from dry to arid at times. Please do not initiate a flamewar over commentary I thought was funny. I sometimes have difficulty comprehending 'normal' social interaction. Come to think of it, most of us do here ...

LJ, I actually meant "charming and inimitable", for Wolf is both. :) Maybe its due to a similar sense of humour, but I've never misunderstood her intent when on more than one occasion, others did.
I've done that a couple times, too. It is an interesting read. Think I'll read it again. Its slow here at work today, and I'm just about out of internet to read.

wolf, you dirty rat.

i'll have you know that i outscored jinx on the emode iq test by 2 whole points, i'm tall , well spoken, healthy as an ox, and can see out of both eyes. ( man, i wish dave was here for that one) You should be so lucky. (not that jinx was lucky in roping me, as she has as many or more redeeming qualities.)


but beyond the jibes and insults that could errupt from this point, let's focus instead on what scares you. namely, gun control.

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being burried alive

having my eyes gouged out with a dirty spoon

Gun control does indeed scare the shit out of me, but with good reason ... many of which are enumerated in The Seven Myths of Gun Control and More Guns, Less Crime.

But ... as far as what really scares me?

Fire and falling from high places. Falling from a high place while on fire would be extremely nasty.

(note, I'm not afraid of high places. I actually rather enjoy them. It took a long while to realize that it was the falling part, and not the heights part that I fear. I get woozy on stepstools while changing lightbulbs, and also have a life long dislike of escalators.)




(2 points on the emode test is probably within the margin of error. You two are quite nicely matched.)

I used to be deathly afraid of moths. Answer to standard first question: No, it has nothing to do with "The Silence of the Lambs". Something about them just freaked me out, but butterflies didnt bother me. Last summer, we had a *lot* of Miller moths and I was forced to confront the fear. They still give me the heebie-jeebies, but I can at least get close enough to them to kill em now.

I used to think I was afraid of heights, but it turns out I'm just morbidly fascinated with being in high places.

jinx is also afraid of being on a burning boat. remember that cruise ship?

and, perth, my daughter is scared to death of moths. ever since one " dive bombed" her when she was in her high chair. she won't even get near one, and becomes quite frantic if they fly near her. weird.

yeah, but I'm smarter.

Fox paws? Yes, it is a mammal but its obviously ocean dwelling, its a dolphin!

NASCAR scares the cornflakes outa me.

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Edgar Allan Poe had the buried alive fear too. Wrote some good shorts about it. Unless you have dealings with the mafia, you should be damn dead by the time you get embalmed and stuff.

quicksand.

Speaking of mafia, ever since I saw "Casino", I refuse to put my head anywhere near a vise.

Hmm...interesting. My head is full of vices.;)

this is kind of scary too: click this only of you have a strong stomach and want to see whats under the yellow star below WARNING NSFW! THIS MAY CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

Jinx, for the love of God, keep him away from the children.:rolleyes:

DAMN LJ DON'T BUT A GUT !!!!!

More Drugs - Less Crime, and the Wisdom of Creating a Lucratively Profitable Market for common weeds and flowers

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Oh goodness! I'm such a ninny...LOL!

I used to be afraid of the dark BIG TIME!
fire
Drowning
needles (mainly the pain part of it all)
Getting a kidney transplant and having it fail. :(
falling from any height and breaking bones
bugs
biopsies (they stick a HUGE needle in ya!)
dying violently (I know...if I'm dead, why should it matter? It just does)...:(

I'm afraid of getting old and frail and unable to care for myself and have to depend on people who don't really give a shit.

Bele - ditto.

The other thing - cockroaches. EWWW.

Yeah, cockroaches - just think about being old and dependent in a room with cockroaches.

Back in the poor student days a boyfriend and I were traveling in Florida. We stayed at someone he knew's house in Gainsville. Everytime the lights went out in the bedroom, we heard a scittering scurrying sound. It must have been a bijillion vampire cockroaches. I slept (sorta) up on a chair with my feet up for the night. Ick.

definitely cockroaches for me! last weekend i was at the farm cutting up a tree that had fallen a few months back and the chainsaw at one point on the trunk had shattered the bark and about 6 or 8 of those dirty little miscreants scattered about. almost had to change my shorts!:eek:

another one is acrophobia. i know i fly planes but that's different what i mean is standing on the edge of a tall cliff or the roof of a tall building.......

Oh good lord.

It's only a prolapsed rectum. Happens all the time.

Sheesh.

and plthijinx ... acrophobia in pilots is probably not all that uncommon. There is a BIG difference between the experience of being way high up in the sky, and way high up in the sky with a clear connection to the really flat, hard place below you. Standing on a cliff you don't have the same sense of power and control that you do in an aircraft. Wings are aerodynamically shaped, and supported by lots and lots of physics that allow you to be relatively certain that stable flight will continue to be so. You, personally, do NOT have aerodynamics on your side, unless you are Wile E. Coyote, and of course Coyote Physics requires that you plummet to your doom as soon as you have recognition of the fact that you are unsupported by anything other than your lack of awareness of the location of the ground.

damn..

I feel like such a fuckwit/asshat for posting the 2nd in Wolf's URL train...

oh well, at least my rectum is ok I guess.


rectum?
damn near killed 'em!


(if someone has already made that joke then just ignore me, and apply the above insults liberally once again).

He.. heh it had to be said.

not to me it doesn't! .....only a prolapsed rectum........waugh!

gave me the heebie geebies in a big way. anyone ever had this happen to them? tell me you have not seen this in person, wolf. i would quit whatever job that put me in the way of that on the spot, drive home and take a few showers. i could not work in the medical field. eeewwww! god bless you and insoluble ........ i'll stick with being looked down upon by teachers and people with real jobs cuz im in the auto industry.

whooook!

i've lost my engine in flight before (over a very busy highway at night) and had caught "Wile E. Coyote-itis. fortunately after running the checklist i was able to get the engine back. my co-pilot had switched tanks for me and didn't turn the valve all the way so he cut off the fuel. that was scary! cool thing was that i wasn't scared until after it was all over. training. gotta love it!

Yes, actually, I have.

On a elderly female, but the prolapse was much more everted (that means more was hanging out). Pictures were taken, but I don't have them ... they are probably still undeveloped in the disposable camera, that the office manager has "somewhere".

I usually don't get to see spectacularly ugly medical stuff. We send people to the real hospital for that, but every now and again you have a "wow, you just have got to see this" kind of client.

The ambulance crew quarters showers are reserved for those "I was exposed to WHAT???!!" moments. I haven't ended up with anything. I'm very careful about universal precautions ... this, incidentally, is despite several hospital-wide infestations of scabies, lice, crabs, and the yearly pink eye epidemic. One of my partners gets EVERTHING.

EDIT TO ADD: I did once get to see the wet read of an xray of a client who had inserted a screw in her vagina. She had initially wanted me to be present for the extraction (I'd known her for a long time and she trusted me to be the duenna for the procedure), but luckily changed her mind on that at the last minute.

I once saw the xray of a guy who had inserted a soda bottle up his rectum. I think that the problem getting it out was that the small end was in and was creating a suction on some tissues inside. No idea of how that was resolved. Maybe they drilled a hole in the bottom of the bottle or something.

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Did she have a severe problem with interpreting vulgar colloquialisms or what?

No, she ran out of quarters for the slot.

Who is going to post the awful Photoshopping that kills this thread?

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Something similar kind of happens on a very rare frequency: being awake in surgery without being able to move or speak.

My fears? Eh, roaches are pretty nasty, but I'm talking about Florida palmetto bugs -- big as your head! When you spray them, their last attempt in life is to scare the shit out of you by coming right at you. The fun part: palmetto bugs fly.

I actually have a fairly tough time with sleep now and then. The whole "loss of control" is oddly difficult when you are under large amounts of stress during the day.

I love flying, but the last time I flew I paused for a moment and thought, "There are 40,000 feet just outside this metal tube between myself and the ocean. Holy shit."

Still love to fly, though.

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So do sufficiently large roaches.

We have that kind at work.

Occasionally the patients try to make one a pet.

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sounds like they're certifiable to me!


i've caught myself a couple of times on cross country trips staring at the ground and wondering what it would be like to have lost a wing or something. then i'll snap back and take care of the chores at hand with the airplane. one time air traffic control had given me vectors that took me straight over an "antenna farm" here in houston of which the tallest of these towers is 2,049 feet above ground level. man i looked at the top of that tower and just about shit my pants because of how tall it was! i was cruising at 3000 feet but still, it looked as if it was right there. i can't imagine being one of those guys that has to climb to the top of those things to change the light/strobe:eek:

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Those antenna farms are spooky-cool. The guys that change the lightbulbs get paid quite a bit, too. I've been partway up a cell tower before and I couldn't believe the wind just halfway up -- it felt like it was going to pull me right off the thing! I've been told that the extremely tall towers are traversed by a small elevator. Good thing, too -- can you imagine a storm rolling in real quick while you're at the top?

plthijinx, what do you fly? Commercial or private? What aircraft?

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i hold a commercial rating, single instrument land. i'm getting ready to go to california for a couple of weeks to finish up my CFI so i can gain some hours to hopefully someday become a "glorified bus driver":D as soon as my refinance of the house is done i'm going to get it. as of now i'm checked out in cessna 150, 152, 172, 182, piper tomahawk, warrior, archer and arrow, grummen cougar and finally the cheetah. the arrow is by far my favorite, here's a pic.......the plane in the back ground is an apachimo. an old apache transformed into a geronimo.....

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so is it like an electric winch or something?

i couldn't imagine being caught in a storm on one of those things! the summer storms that brew out of nowhere here are spooky enough in an airplane let alone being caught on a tower somewhere when it happens........

Oh storms are no problem. You can back down to the ground at 32 feet per second, squared.:D

looks like i picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue!:D (lloyd bridges-airplane)

anyone have any good pics ?

as soon as i get my medical back i'll get some good ones.......

OMG, similar story. Years ago, stayed at a friend of a friend's home in VA. Forget about turning out the lights...you saw these fuckers in broad daylight and they.were.HUGE!!!! They scurried all around the front yard and porch...ugh they were just every damned where!

And when night came...lights ON...ALL NIGHT! :D

I've lived in three places that had cockroaches when I moved in. I never had any trouble getting rid of them using sugar and powdered boric acid. Works pretty well with ants too. The great thing is that they live long enough to tell all their friends where the stuff is - kills off the whole gang.

Baking soda and sugar is what I used when I lived in Fla...worked well for me too. And pet-safe to boot! Just gave the dog gas for a little while. HEHE


Brian

What proportions, Brian. Might work for my mothers annual ant invasion.

you don't plan on giving her gas do you??:D

Hey methane is a valuable commodity. She should earn her keep.:p

The proportion is three parts baking soda to one part sugar. Mix well and spread in lumps or make a wall around an ant entrance or colony. They can't climb through loose powder either. Or so I'm told.

Brian