Things that scare you...

[DaN]

I remember when I was taking my year out, and I was walking back to my motel from Cold lake marina after celebrating Canada day (July 1st) with my friends there and coming across what I thought was a snake in the middle of the path in the pitch darkness...

Now here I\'m not bothered about snakes - you\'re unlikely to die from an adder bite, and you rarely see them - but as I was in a different country I froze.

It stood there watching this snake for about a minute - wondering if it was watching me too, when the moon came out from behind the clouds and showed my snake to be a highly dangerous and venomous twig.

I was glad I was alone

 

[Roger Bunting]

That\'s the opposite of what my friend thought when he was out for a walk in the countryside of California. He saw what he thought was a log in the path and ran and jumped over it. It was only when he and his friends got back to the car they told him it was a rattlesnake. I\'ve seen the photo he took after and they weren\'t joking. This was in broad daylight. I guess he needed new spectacles.

 

[Bengoodall]

Shaz, you ever seen those stories on the news about the giant hornets, up to 3 inches long, built like a tank?

We get the smaller ones, bout an inch long in the house all the time, they arent a huge problem unless the cats take an interest.

But normally we just shut all the doors to the house and let them find their own way out.

Fly spray just annoys them, but they dont like combat boots or planks of timber.

 

[lizcam]

Bengoodall\'s knees. Have you seen the pics?:wow:

 

[Bengoodall]

Oh thats just cruel.lol

 

[Nailpainter2003]

Holy Moley, this reminds me of Klute\'s story

Big Effing Spider

Flying insects lodged in the ear canal can sound like a helicopter in the brain!!

But I\'m happy to report.....I fear nothing at all!
Age does come with benefits!:flip::bouncy::bouncy:
Faye

 

[ZapotekE]

well first thing that pops up in my mind is SPIDERS! can\'t think of them without shivering, tiny ones I can take but when they get big with long legs and chunky bodies I scream like a little girl...

and when the time comes, due to all the climate changes, for this one to move closer to my neighbourhood I will for sure move to the moon.

 

[Ebonbuddha]

I\'m not a fan of reptiles or parenthood.

I\'m not afraid persay. I just don\'t like to touch them. The father of a guy I went to highschool with ran a reptile show. I got to hold the anaconda. I felt fine, but the skin didn\'t feel quite right.

Parenthood because I don\'t want some kid muscling in on my toy money. lol

 

[treide]

Originally posted by Ritual

I am afraid of spiders though, which is completly irrational since there aren\'t any dangerous ones, not even mildly so, where I live. I have been afraid of them all my life and I don\'t really know why. But, if I know there is no way a spider can reach me I\'m fascinated by them.

I share the same irrational fear and fascination with spiders. I think it is because we realize deep down that they are supremely efficient killing machines. If we were bug size, they would be much scarier than our big predators (wolves, big cats, bears, etc.).

The spiders that really freak me out are the fast ones. I\'ll take tarantulas or black widows any day over a big wolf spider. Yikes!

http://www.treknature.com/gallery/Africa/South_Africa/photo46934.htm

 

[NerdyOgre254]

Spiders

I used to be scared of spiders - but over a while i got over it.
I think what helped was being forced to watch the \'Eight Legged Freaks\' movie. i think i just got it scared out of me.
Actually that reminsd me of a funny story -
One time i was left at home and my parents went out. i walked into the kitchen and there was the biggest sonofab!tch spider i had ever seen. i backed up to the table and shouted STOP! at it. it did. i spent the next half hour watching it and shouting out at it if it moved. when my parents got back it was dead.
I killed a spider with my mind. i honestly wished that worked with real people. lol

EDIT: also my girlfriend is really scared of spiders. it looks like i\'m getting rid of them if we live together. seriously, she freaks out like nothing else i have ever seen. a spider the size of my thumbnail showed up and she wouldn\'t go into the kitchen for an hour. i had to make dinner.

 

[DaN]

It may not have been...

Spiders are cunning in that they will sometimes \"play possum\" and feign death, only to get up and leg it once they reckon theyr safe.

(And with 8 of \'em, you really can leg it!)

Also - spider silk has a ratio strength stronger than steel.

 

[freakinacage]

Originally posted by treide

http://www.treknature.com/gallery/Africa/South_Africa/photo46934.htm

i may have just soiled myself!

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by generulpoleaxe
chicks with dicks scare the shit out of me lol

Serves you right for going into those kinds of pubs with Big Mick. lol

Originally by Uberdark Death. yeah thats my big one.

It was mine too for a long time, couldn\'t get away from the terror, thoughts of my own mortality would cause sometimes.
What ended it was the operating theatre and getting my heart started again after going into Cardiac Arrest under the knife.
Bit of a drastic therapy though. lol

 

[Sand Rat]

Eh, Death is easy - as a buddy of mine puts it you just stop breathing and the rest takes care of itself. Living is hard.

 

[SilAx]

Hmmm..my fears..
Lets see:
Death.
Not existing or being remembered in anyone\'s memories.
Some bugs.
Watching the world go boom.
My father\'s temper (Its like Godzilla + The Hulk + any type of monstrous creature combined)
Dying alone...
and Fear itself.

That is all..I think. I ask this question to most people and a lot of them say they are afraid of the ocean.

Alright, I can see why your scared but seriously theres nothing to be really scared of. Even though the ocean is mysterious and all, it hosts one of the most diverse and beautiful environments in the world, and also to add the most beautiful animals. Sharks are not \"monsters\" they are lovely animals, but at the same time they are predators and us humans are not they\'re food.

Meh I end my rant. I love the ocean too much to be afraid of it.
Silax

 

[AinuLainour]

I don\'t want to my life to end, it isn\'t so much about my memory, but the inability to live. Life is one of a kind and I intend on living it to the fullest. The thought of losing it all, is terrifying, but sort of numbing in the way that I\'m not afraid of any aspect of death anymore, besides the nothingness that follows life.

 

[rextalon]

Originally posted by ZapotekE
and when the time comes, due to all the climate changes, for this one to move closer to my neighbourhood I will for sure move to the moon.

My grandmother used to pay me a quarter a piece to exterminate those bad boys. She stopped paying when I killed a 6\" tall mason jar full in one night.

Spiders do it for me too, but not one or two, or even three. When, in my worst dreams, they horde together in masses of hundreds of thousands all moving with single minded purpose toward the ultimate goal of chewing my flesh from my very bones, that\'s when I get a little worried.

Yea, when there\'s so many spiders skittering toward you that the ground shakes with the thump of their millions of little legs striking the ground, and the air vibrates with a sound like horrible chitenous thunder, you need to be worried.

Now that I think about it, pretty much anything I couldn\'t possably shoot with an automatic weapon scares me to some degree... Heights, drowning, seamonsters, ghosts, The Homeland Security Act...

 

[Modderrhu]

Originally posted by rextalon
When, in my worst dreams, they horde together in masses of hundreds of thousands all moving with single minded purpose toward the ultimate goal of chewing my flesh from my very bones, that\'s when I get a little worried.

Spiders don\'t chew, they suck. Oh wait... that\'s not helping all too much, is it?

 

[farseerlum]

restringing my guitar.

usually i change them 1 string at a time and that\'s no problem at all.

but every now and then i take them all off and clean the fretboard and stuff. then comes the retuning.

it\'s ages of wondering if you\'ve tighted it too much or not put the peg in properly or you\'ve kinked the string at the tuners.

it\'s like blowing up a balloon too much, you\'re waiting for the bang but a guitar could hurt and is expensive.
the guitar starts to thrum weirdly and feels like it\'s about to explode. and then BOOM nothing happens it\'s like hitting the sound barrier it all goes right and is clear sailing. but you always wonder if the wings would have fallen off first.

i need a stiff drink after it\'s in tune and hasn\'t exploded. :beer:

 

[Roger Bunting]

I hear ya on the guitar restringing. I think I\'m almost tone deaf as well which doesn\'t help. I can get them in tune with each other but have no clue what key it\'s in. lol

Once broke two strings. One a new string on a guitar that didn\'t have any and then the replacement of said string a few minutes after the first one snapped. And guitar strings are pointy nasty things. Kepp stabbing myself with them.