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Funny fears and Phobias

Afternoon/evening you miserable lot

While I was busy at work today I was browsing the interwebs and came across a list of real phobias that people have, now I know everyone is scared of something, for me it's spiders and it is something that has got worse as I have got older. But some of these are just too funny...

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words
Nomatophobia- Fear of names.
Pluviophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on.
Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking
Prosophobia- Fear of progress.



comment by Diggler (U4142)

posted on 18/9/12

I had a cool moment with two wasps over the summer.

When drying the dishes I spotted a wasp on the window, towel-flicked it, one hit, dead.

The missus said there was another one round the fridge behind me, turned, towel-flicked out of the air, one hit, dead.

One of those moments where you just think, " aww yeah".

posted on 18/9/12

I have a fear of cranes. When I was a kid I was on a bus and looking out of the window and we passed a house whose side was being demolished by a large crane. It really startled me at the time and has carried on into adulthood. If there is a program on TV about the docks or a construction site I tend to look away or turn the channel over. A few years ago I was on a train going past an industrial estate and there were about 4 cranes. I shouted out loud and stood up. Everyone was looking at me. Really embarrassing, I was 22 at the time...

posted on 18/9/12

a building being demolished bu a large crane, i bet its beak was massive

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posted on 18/9/12

comment by It's a Mexican Rave!!!! (U6687)

posted 35 minutes ago

a building being demolished bu a large crane, i bet its beak was massive


I knew someone would make a joke about it being a bird crane! But seriously, it is a bit of an odd phobia. I don't have a problem with the really large 'T' shaped cranes, just the normal upright ones.

A friend of mine has the weirdest phobia - Bergerac, the 80's TV detective program.

posted on 18/9/12

A friend of mine has the weirdest phobia - Bergerac, the 80's TV detective program.
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He has a phobia of nettles??

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comment by Earl Brutus (U1449)

posted 38 seconds ago

A friend of mine has the weirdest phobia - Bergerac, the 80's TV detective program.
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He has a phobia of nettles??


Ha Ha!

Yes. When he was about 8 or 9 he was watching bergerac and a dead body appeared which had been burnt to a crisp and it made him run out of the room.

He got married recently and received a bergerac DVD as a present off someone.

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