Phobias

[awlrite4now]

greenbeing said:

OMG! (Sounds like a demented children's book: Slug Soup.)

--GB

Probably only Carl will get this joke. The host of a gross-out kid's show: Soupy Snails.

[dogma]

greenbeing said:

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I think I will try the beer trap in the backyard to see if there are any hatching back there yet. And I will be very careful not to end up with slug soup.
--GB

i think something else you can do is pour salt on them,, i can't remember,,


weird or odd or just childish,, one of the phobias i have is the new burger king figure on the commercials,, that creepy huge face scares me,, i can't watch those commercials,, for fear i will have nitemares about him,, shivers,,

i think it's called dublwpperphobia

[dogma]

anyone have a phobia of being a millionaire?
the powerball is over 200 million
the drawing is wednesday

anyone who can play in their state, really should,,

and ,, i promise,, if i win the 200 mill,, i will treat all of us in this group to a trip to nyc and a private showing of "doubt"

that is sure to get me a good chance of an earlobe nukkie

[bjobsessed]

dogma said:

anyone have a phobia of being a millionaire?
the powerball is over 200 million
the drawing is wednesday

anyone who can play in their state, really should,,

and ,, i promise,, if i win the 200 mill,, i will treat all of us in this group to a trip to nyc and a private showing of "doubt"

that is sure to get me a good chance of an earlobe nukkie

Not to mention a boat load of karma!!

[greenbeing]

dogma said:

i think something else you can do is pour salt on them,, i can't remember,,


weird or odd or just childish,, one of the phobias i have is the new burger king figure on the commercials,, that creepy huge face scares me,, i can't watch those commercials,, for fear i will have nitemares about him,, shivers,,

i think it's called dublwpperphobia

Ha! Dublwpperphobia--love it.

Actually, he is quite creepy, and could probably fall under pediophobia, the fear of dolls. It also "extends to other lifeless models of the human figure, such as mannequins, wax figures, statues, and ventriloquists' dummies." (And the creepy Burger King guy!) Often because of the fixed, staring eyes, lifeless like a corpse, being scared of being stared at, or related to practices with voodoo dolls.

Could also put Mr. King into the category of teratophobia: the fear of monstrosities.

Chrematophobia is the fear of money. Linked to excessive concerns about cleanliness, or fear of loss of money, which some equate with self-worth. I'm sure it would also be related to the fear of becoming rich, since there is a fear of happiness...

Yes, you can pour salt on slugs. I heard that from my grandpa, and from Hoosier, I think. Apparently they sizzle... But salt will also kill your yard, so with my extensive problem, I decided not to kill the garden. Yet.

--GB

[greenbeing]

Round Two:

Barophobia--fear of gravity
Basiphobia/Basophobia--fear of walking
Baistasiphobia/Basostasophobia--fear of walking and standing upright

Bathroom phobia (no scientific name)--May be afraid of falling into the toilet, of being attacked by a monster coming from it, or of being infected.

Batrachophobia--fear of frogs (should I take offense to this one?), also refers to fear of other reptiles.

Pogonophobia--fear of beards, or persons who have beards (sadly, the closest I have come to a fear of mustaches, but my fear does not extend to beards! esp. as my daddy has one. in fact, he shaved once back in 1976, when my sis was 2, and she wouldn't go near him, so he had to grow it back, and he learned his lesson)

Clinophobia--fear of beds, or of going to bed
Taphephobia--fear of being buried alive
Scopophobia--fear of being looked at or stared at

This one is for Forensic Paws:
Belonophobia/Belonephobia--fear of needles and pins

I'm going to combine Blennophobia--fear of slime, with "bug phobia", sadly, without a scientific name it sounds pretty lame, but together, they will equal: Blennbugophobia--the fear of slugs!!!

Erythrophobia--fear of blushing
Dysmorphophobia--fear of deformity of one's own body
Osphreisiophobia/Bromidrosiphobia--fear of body odors
Bogyphobia--fear of bogies, or the bogeyman, or to generalize fear of demons, goblins, or spirits

Boogyphobia--fear of "getting down and rocking"

Bolshephobia--fear of Bolshevism, or Bolsheviks
Botonophobia--fear of plants
Merinthophobia--fear of being bound
Meningitophobia--fear of brain disease
Brontophobia/Astrophobia/Keraunophobia/ceraunophobia--fear of thunder

Batophobia--fear of passing a tall building

Taurophobia--fear of bulls

Cainophobia/Cainotophobia/Neophobia--fear of newness or novelty

Carnophobia--fear of meat!!! Here's my other big phobia! Well, we'll just extend it to mean fear of raw meat. Then it will apply.

Catagelophobia--fear of ridicule
Catapedaphobia--fear of jumping from both high and low places
Cathisophobia--fear of sitting
Catoptrophobia--fear of mirrors
Coimetrophobia--fear of cemeteries, usu. accompanied by fear of going to funerals, looking at tombstones, looking at dead bodies, or even hearing about funerals
Cenophobia--fear of empty rooms
Chaetophobia--fear of hair (if only there were a fear of lips, I could combine the two)
Tropophobia--fear of making changes
Cheimaphobia--fear of cold, being cold, cold things, or cold air

Cherophobia--fear of being happy or of gaiety. Fear that they're going to produce disaster or aversive events. As a hopeless optimist, I guess there are people out there who are terrified of me ;D

And I have a mild fear of:
Pediophobia--fear of children

Geniophobia--fear of chins How come there is a fear of chins, but not of mustaches???

Chionophobia--fear of snow
Sinophobia--fear of China, the Chinese language, and things relating to Chinese culture (don't try taking this person out for fried rice and egg rolls!)
Chorophobia--fear of dancing
Chrematophobia/Chromophobia--fear of money
Chromatophobia/Chromophobia/Chrematophobia--fear of certain color or colors
Chronophobia--fear of time (aka: prison neurosis, this may be the most common anxiety disorder in prison inmates, almost all prisoners suffer to some extent, terrified by duration and immencity of time, aka: "stir crazy". Thought this was quite relevent!) Also a fear of seeing, hearing or thinking of clocks, the passage of time, or the infinity of time. May have a compulsion to be on time or a fear of being late.

Ecclesiophobia--fear of churches or of clergy persons
Cibophobia--fear of food, or particular food, or class of foods

And I will leave you tonight with a fear they created just for me, I'm sure. A fear of me: Eosophobia--fear of dawn

--GB

[Forensic Paws]

Wow. You've gotta wonder- how many people actually suffer from some of these 'phobias' rofl. That's part of the fun of researching phobias though- things you could never imagine being afraid of, there seems to be someone who's bothered by it!

Can I say i'm afraid of watermelon dripping down my chin? I love watermelon but can't eat it in the regular way- I have to use a knife and fork and cut it up into teeny peices.

[hoosier]

greenbeing said:

From my co-worker:

His grandmother had an intense hatred of moles. Saintly old lady, went to church every Sunday, respectable citizen, sweetest person in the world. She used to pour gasoline down the mole holes, then light them on fire, and watch gleefully while the moles burned. Yet he swears she was the first person through the Pearly Gates!

I don't think I'd be quite gleeful if my slugs were burning... But it's something to keep in mind!

--GB

A garden expert was on the noon news today and a viwer had a question on getting rid of slugs and it made me think of you His suggestion was that you get two 2 by 4 and lay them next to the hostas (thats where her problem was), the next morning pick them up , the slugs will have crawled up on them, and then slam them together. Okay, fine, if you like slimy slug guts all over you! He was joking, of course but said that with all the rain we have been having (it has rained the last 6, count 'em six days!!!) all the slug bait will wash off. Something to consider if, I repeat if, you are ready desperate!

[maggiethecat]

hoosier said:

greenbeing said:

From my co-worker:

His grandmother had an intense hatred of moles. Saintly old lady, went to church every Sunday, respectable citizen, sweetest person in the world. She used to pour gasoline down the mole holes, then light them on fire, and watch gleefully while the moles burned. Yet he swears she was the first person through the Pearly Gates!
--GB

As someone who spent a large and lovingly remembered part of her childhood rereading The Wind in the Willows . . . I find this horrendous treatment of moles very disturbing. Not terribly Zen-like, burning one of God's creatures in such a heartless manner.

[carl1951]

Karmaphobia: Fear of getting or giving karma.

I definitely do not have.

So, have no fear, give me Karma.

(Keep those phobias coming. Thanks GB, they are fun to read.)

Later, Carl

[greenbeing]

[hoosier]

greenbeing said:

oh my gosh! Thank goodness someone asked me a question right then or I might have lost it!
;D

[bjobsessed]

Ok. I must be losing it these days. I finally get it!!! LOL!

[hoosier]

We all know of GB's mustache and slug phobias and while I wouldn't quite classify this as a phobia, I defintely do not like to handle birds in any way but I had an encounter that was up close and personal the other day.

Birds are fine when they are out flying around. That doesn't bother me in the least. I even put out feeders and feed them all winter. I had kept a couple of the feeders out because the weather has been cool and they were still coming around. I had put some flowers in a big pot near the feeders and was watering them, bending over with one hand on my hip, when, all of a sudden, something plowed into my arm and then I heard rustling leaves in the nearby tree. Some bird must have thought I was a statue or the landing strip in the north forty! It must have been a good size bird from the pop it gave me--a blue jay, which we have several of, or a starling etc. No little sparrow or goldfinch! I never got a look at it. I gave a yelp and the dog ran over, looking around with a 'what! what!' look on her face. Nice to know she will actually come to the rescue if needed! I checked my shirt to be sure the bird hadn't left any unwanted souvenir , what with it being surprised and all, and luckily it hadn't. That was the first time that had ever happened and hopefully it won't again--or at least not this year--but we both survived to tell the tale!

[dogma]

hoosier said:

the dog ran over, looking around with a 'what! what!' look on her face. Nice to know she will actually come to the rescue if needed! I checked my shirt to be sure the bird hadn't left any unwanted souvenir , what with it being surprised and all, and luckily it hadn't. That was the first time that had ever happened and hopefully it won't again--or at least not this year--but we both survived to tell the tale!

i for one know i sure would sleep better at nite knowing my dogs would risk life and limb to protect me from a near sighted bird,, whew,,
they are constantly on the prowl for the leaf that decides to blow too close to me,, and god forbid that a bunny hops into their view, we all know anything within their view is automatically a trespassor