Dicky it up all you like with a fancy name, but all I know is that I'm afraid of heights! I know what you're thinking a big, tough strapping lad like Drumcondra Red, but its true, I am, after all, human!!!
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Dicky it up all you like with a fancy name, but all I know is that I'm afraid of heights! I know what you're thinking a big, tough strapping lad like Drumcondra Red, but its true, I am, after all, human!!!
Only got one phobia - Rats. I know most people find them disgusting but I would literally run a mile if I saw one. It weird because mice don't bother me at all. Don't know what the tech term is
I suffer from Manchesterphobia, a fear of M*******er United.:eek: Thank God they got their butts kicked on Saturday.:D
Is it common to have no phobia?
I can't think of anything that would leave me consumed with irrational fear.
Homophobia isn't a real phobia, it's just a term created label homo intolerance. I also don't believe there are too many people with a phobia of race or colour.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gerrit
Luposlipaphobia : The fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly-waxed floor. Courtesy of the Far Side
I can't find the name for it ...but I've a fear of jewellery.
I just find a lot of it kind of disgusting. Particularly if there's metal involved.
My options with the ladies were considerably shortened back in the mid 90's when there was a not-brief-enough fad of nose and tongue piercings.
Earrings and navel rings are vile too.
On yourself or on others?
Thought you were being a smart @rse for a second but that's a reasonable question.:oQuote:
Originally Posted by noby
I can't wear so much as a wrist watch. I've tried a few plastic ones, either wrist on outside or inside of wrist.
The wife knew there was absolutley no chance whatsoever I'd wear a wedding ring so we bought the cheapest one we could get for the do
-though in fairness I wore it for the 'moon and a full tortuous month therefter. don't even know where the fcuking thing is now and care less.
I offered to get a "property of Mrs Ritchie" tatoo across my arm, ass, forehead or anywhere else if in lieu -but she hasn't called my bluff on that one so far.:D
I think most people who claim a fear is actually more a hatred of something. Like the jewellery thing above, unless you break down every time you see a necklace, its not really a fear.
To answer Peadar, I'm sure most people don't have any phobias. Of those I know I'm prbably the only one who does
Found some more:
spermatofobia - fear of sperm
menofobia - fear of menstruation (the actual fluid or the woman entirely ? :eek: )
Coulrofobia - fear of clowns
Deipnofobia - fear of chats during dinner
Hedonofobia - fear of feeling physical joy
Kolpofobia, eurotofobia - fear of the vagina
Peladofobia - fear of bald people
Hobofobia - fear of the homeless
Parthenofobia - fear of virgins
Caligynefobia - fear of pretty women
Medomalacufobia - fear of losing an erection :D
Pentherafobia - fear of mothers-in-law :D
Pentherafobia, coitofobia - fear of sex
Ephebifobia - fear of teenagers
Cherofobia -fear of joy
Autofobia - fear of being yourself
All of these truely exist, I took them from a Dutch site: www.angstlijst.nl (which means fearlist.nl)
I wouldn't be so sure. Fear is a very natural thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
I have several phobias, but they don't dominate every second of my life, only in certain situations or circumstances they come up. On other moments I can hide them quite well.
I'm sure most people who have one or more phobias have learnt how to hide them.
Having a fear of something isn't a phobia.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gerrit
I have a fear of being hit by a car when I cross the road in Dublin but that isn't irrational. It also doesn't prevent me from crossing the road.
Phobophobia - Fear of phobias
Phobias are irrational fears. Anything that induces irrational behaviour or moderates rational behaviour in an individual is a legitimate phobia.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peadar
If someone leaves their rings, bangles, watches, bracelets behind them in my place of work -I won't/can't/am disinclined to pick them up and put them somewhere safe. I have to get a (clean) dustpan and brush to do it.
Your "fear" of getting hit by a car is not, as you correctly point out -a phobia -though I would hope it does moderate your behaviour in that it makes you excerise caution when crossing. It's an informed instinct.
If you had an actual phobia of being hit by a car crossing the road you would encounter considerable difficulty crossing whether it was safe or not to do so.
OK, let's re-form my words: having fears, even irrational ones, is a natural thing. We all have our moments when logics die, if humans were all rational the world would be less full of misery and anxieties...
I know someone with a fear of mummies, not the parental sort but the dead people rapped in bandages that are incredibly slow but still manage to catch people in films. Bizarre really. I didn’t think it would have too much of an impact on his life, until he turned down a trip to Egypt. Madness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-phobia
List of phobias. Save you looking them up Gerrit
At the risk of opening a sore wound with the Egyptians ...he's probably as likely to come across a Mummy in London.:eek: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Hither green
A lot of that stuff has been returned to Egypt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie
If you go to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, you can see the Mummies but have to pay a little extra to get into that part. You must also pay extra to bring a camera, you can't use flash photography and you can't use a tripod. :(
Sorry for my tangent there.
the flash photography ban I get ...as it's standard practice in museums and galleries everywhere ...the tripod thing is a bit odd. Are they afraid everyone'll bring one or someone'll make a weapon out of one. I wonder.