Anyone got any Phobia's

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Listening to an interview of Billy Bob Thornton (slingblade) and it turns out he has a phobia about Antique Furniture. I know it's not funny, but fer fecks sake antique bloody furniture. Anyone else got some strange phobia's? I promise I wont laugh................much!

-- Anonymous, January 09, 2002

Answers

Ok I'll start. My main phobia is pretty straight forward.

Daddy long legs, not spiders, just them. Sends me into a cold sweat just thinking about 'em

-- Anonymous, January 09, 2002


Hahahahahaha! Daddy Long Legs. You big wuss!

-- Anonymous, January 09, 2002

I have a thing about heights. Not with barriers or windows in the way, but for instance, standing on the edge of a cliff unprotected, that would have me creating a mess.

-- Anonymous, January 09, 2002

You know Screach, you can be a right nasty b@st@rd sometimes! :o))

Anyway if you haven't got any phobias tell them about your fetishes.

-- Anonymous, January 09, 2002


Les Battersby look-a-likes.

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Spiders and moths. Watching "The Premiership" or reading the Sunday papers if we've lost.

-- Anonymous, January 09, 2002

That's a funny fetish Jacko!

-- Anonymous, January 09, 2002

I have a broccoli fetish.

-- Anonymous, January 09, 2002

Eating broccoli or using it in other contexts?

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FA Cup final

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A mixture of the two, Dougal ;)

-- Anonymous, January 09, 2002

I'm with Paul on heights. On the rare occasion I have a nightmare, I'm always crawling over the f***in' big wire on the world's largest suspension bridge. Good news is, I must make it to the other side OK tho cos I'm still he.................................................................lp

-- Anonymous, January 09, 2002

But at least I can cope with spiders (well, at least British ones), Daddy Long Legs (teehee) and Broccoli.

-- Anonymous, January 09, 2002

How much room do I get? The heights thing as Paul mentioned, bugs of any description(spiders, stinging insects and roaches being the worst), rodents, public speaking, driving in city centres(when I'm doing the driving), being on open water in any craft smaller than a very large yacht, most vegetables ;-))

Other than that I'm quite brave...aaaiighh what was that?!!! Oh, sorry, just my shadow, it's ok. whew. :-)

-- Anonymous, January 09, 2002


I really hate dentists...not their surgeries just the dentists themselves :-) No, actually I do despise having to go to them, 'cos I had lots of teeth problems when I was younger.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002


I wouldn't say i've got any phobias, although there's plenty of things I'd avoid. Heights (tall ladders, cliff edges, the usual). Scorpions really give me the shivers.
I know someone that almost faints at the sight of prawns (so she obviously avoids corporate football hospitality). The strangest I've heard of though is buttons. Apparently (according to some TV program) there are a fair few people who have real phobias about buttons, especially i've they're loose (the buttons I mean).

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Must be murder at panto time Pete.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Talking of buttons, it's also the answer to 1 down in today's Times crossword, if anyone's interesetd ;-)

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Heights again here silly cosidering im 6'3" and its the ground u should be scared of , heights never hurt any1. I remeber we were at lands end and my mate took his kid in a pushchair to the edge of the cliff. My legs went like jelly and i was 10 foot behind.< br> And lifts I got stuck in one yrs ago when i was very little, im getting better with that one now , more because im not fit enough to run up 10 blloming flights tho

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Agree with you Bobby on dentists! I've avoided them for about 8 years but had such agonising toothache this week that I went into the one down the road and spoke to the receptionist. She got the dentist to see me straight away and he removed a rotten wisdom tooth. Over and done with in half an hour so no time to panic and just glad to be pain-free!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

The colour red, especially if it's mixed with white. Makes me feel bilious. Oh, and monkeys masquerading as people.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

That's no laughing matter, Syme, I know exactly what you mean: as soon as you open your mouth to scream they fly in. Evil little sh*tes!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

A friend of mine once went into his sisters bedrom at night (to borrow spot ointment, he said) and his sister was asleep with a daddy long legs sitting on her face.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

I hate being crowded and it seems to be getting worse, too many people in a room and I feel very uncomfortable, lucky the world has changed to all seater stadia

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Have Newcastle got a phobia to silverware?

Or do alot of Newcastle fans have a phobia about humility?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002


So Ben is only an excuse for not coming to the Straabeery then??

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Do the Makems have a phobia about actually paying to watch a football match, Kev?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Well I pay £390 for my ST + whatever for cup games( very few!) £30 a match on beer,bait,travel etc.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

No, you're right, the last time I went into the Strawberry, some how at a game without Ben, I couldn't stand it. They need to have pubs in open fields

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Forgot about the being in crowds one, though I cope ok if I have a reasonable sized pocket of air or my back against a wall or railing. I get very freaked when I'm crowded by people taller than me, which would be most people, actually. For some reason the effects diminish inversely to the amount of drink I've consumed. So Macb, the trick is get to the pub before it gets too crowded and drink enough that you won't noticed when it has gotten crowded. ;-))

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Makems have a phobia of foreign places...why else would they make such efforts to avoid European football?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Killer beatles that hide in the dark and can climb up walls and across ceilings so the barricade you've made around your bed is no good whatsoever meaning you have to sleep with your shoes (trainers for faster getaway) on and with the pillow over head (obviously to stop them falling in your mouth while you snore). Luckily they don't live in Hebburn.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Tony - you REALLY need to talk to someone...

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

as I've said before on here .... red, the colour red I hate. Red shirts in particular.

Oh and my latest phobia....I'm not sure what you'd call it, but there's this really uneasy feeling I get whenever I reach the end of a case of beer and notice that there is no more in the house. Not a good feeling at all that!!!!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002


Nor will you Tony, at least not for much longer if you sleep with a pillow over your head. Anyway, I always liked the beatles. It was the beetles that scared the sh.te out of me.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Dunno, I always thought the Beatles were pretty killer.

Mine's the blue shiny one with the braids and tassel thingies hanging off the shoulders. Ta.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002


It was Ringo Starr I was talking about, I'll be alright if I can just get some sleep....

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

I'm realtively wee too maybe that's what the problem is, I like the idea of getting in early to drink enough to not notice, sadly I'm a two pints and I'm unconscious type drinker, of whisky though

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

So What about all the fetishes then? Apart from Paul's Broccoli (He'salad)and Jacko's Les Battersby doppelgangers everyone's being surprisingly shy!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

The broccoli one wasn't strictly truthful to be honest...

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Like Macbeth and others I do have great difficulty in crowds and have to leave- but as Ciara notes a few drinks do lessen the problem - but at the Strawberry the difficulties are compounded - heaving masses stopping you from getting to the bar! Also I cannot stand Weather Forecasts.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Claustrophobia. Curiously, being in crowds doesn't bother me, but confined spaces......aarrgh.

I recently had to take transquilisers to enable me to go into an MRI Scanner, for the 2nd time. The first time I was right on the edge of panic throughout the 20 mins I was head-first right inside this metal bloody tube only about 18 inches in diameter that was making strange loud noises .... then 2 years later they told me I needed to go through it again!!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002


I find it interesting that so many of you lot have phobias about crowds, bearing in mind the crush that happens whenever the toon plays anywhere. Are you differentiating between familiar crowds "toon games crowds" and crowds in say Fenwicks on Christmas eve. I must admit I love football crowds "hoe man hey man hoe man hey man" but shopping crowds just frustrate me because I always get stuck behind the slowest, widest, unable to find the checkbook type person on the planet.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Ladies loos that run out of loo paper/soap.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

This has changed from a phobias thread into a "what get's up your @rse thread"

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

There's that stray apostrophe again :)

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

ladies who don't wipe the seats in those loos when they've missed the giant gaping hole.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Right then seeing as noone else is being candid .. I have a fetish abouit lasses shoes ( looking at them not wearing them ! ) .. and I am sh1t scared of the dark particularly in the countryside .. think I'm a bit of a townie all up !

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Haha Ciara - do lasses do that too then ? And to think they're always whingeing about us lads leaving the sseat up !!

And while we're on the subject Dougal, what the hell is "loo soap" all about ?

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2002


Hmmmm. Am I developing a fetish for ladies toilets doc ?

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2002

Recently developed phobia of VCRs and Post Offices!

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2002

LT, they sure do...total pigs some of 'em! I often wonder if those same ladies also leave their loos at home in such a state.

Now..you've never heard of soap in loos? Or do they not put it in men's rooms? Or did you not know what it was for? Ewwwwww! ;-))

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2002


I hate having my arms pinned or held to my side, it sends me into an irrational panic and I feel like I can't breath.

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2002

Yes, I've heard of folks who don't like accupuncture ;-)

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2002

little pricks all of 'em.

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2002

Washing your hands with water, never mind soap, is often a scorned act within men's loos (at the pub, that is). Most men's loos in pubs don't have the necessary to facilitate a good hand wash anyway - paper towels, towels on a roll, hot air dryers, soap(!), things you don't find at all. While I do prefer the traditional pub as opposed to the Pitcher & Piano or Cathedrals bar, there is a satisfaction in being able to have clean hands and to be confident that should you get amorous you know she/he will not go green at the smell of pissy / beer stained fingers.

Sting - lasses shoes? Can't say footwear has ever been a particular turn on (excepting shiny PVC thigh length boots, but it's the lass in them that makes the difference).

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2002


Once heard a quite houmourous put down from a guy who, having seen his mate washing his hands afterwards, came out with a withering ' What's the marra, did yer fahll doon ?

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2002

I love lasses that wear glasses when doing the nasty.

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2002

Syme, far be it from me to suggest that they need to keep their specs on to find what they're looking for. I'll leave that to some other smartarsed BBS'r.

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2002

I knew it, can't divulge nowt on here. It's so they can see what a good lookin' bastard I am or so they can see what's coming and they can brace themselves accordingly or so they can see their way oot the door.

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2002

It's a ratio between how many germs you are likely to get from your hands and carefully scrubbed penis and how many you are likely to pick up from taps that have been used by folk who pissed all over their hands and scratched their arses prior to using the self-same tap. The real answer is foot-operated taps. It never ceases to amaze me that you are expected to handle a filthy tap, clean your hands and then turn off the filthy tap again. At least you can operate a pedestrian crossing with your knuckle to minimise cantagion.

They cut out the middle-man inside the stadium by piddling directly into the sinks. Under no circumstances should you think of splashing some water over your face at half time.

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2002


Softie, I assume from the above that one of your phobias is a fear of contagion. Careful, Howard Hughes started off with a mild fear of using taps in public toilets!

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2002

Scousers winning the league! Yuk!

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2002

I don't have time to be frightened of contagion, I'm too busy struggling with the blueprints for this flying boat...

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2002

No wonder guys are so fast in the loo!

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2002

You guys have reminded me - one of my greatest phobias is being caught short and needing to use a 'sit down' at SJP. Broadly akin to the same experience in a Tunisian souk (sp?) during an Al Queada convention!

-- Anonymous, January 11, 2002

Fractures, heavy bleeding, entrails hinging oot nee problem, anything to do with eyes yuk, I go for an eye op on the 23rd - local aneth, c,mon Buff you big soft sh-te, think of Lord Westwood and cringe

-- Anonymous, January 13, 2002

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