cockroaches r actualy quite clean (well the domestic ones u know ones u keep for pets).

taw. how can there be a reasonable phobia?
anyhoo, ive only seen about two crickets in real life, and have no problem. i just have a really silly fear of bees and wasps. *shudder* wasps mainly, damn european bastards. but i can see where eskie is coming from with the moths, if one is in my room when im trying too sleep, it get killed very, very quickly.

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Never understood the fear of bugs that you can outrun. A woman climbed on top of her desk when she saw a millipede. Made me laugh for a week which made her mad for a week. Snakes, ok as some are poisonous, spiders for the same reason, especially the black widow.

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Edited by - Finalday on 6/13/2004 10:01:49 AM

in the sense that it's unreasonable to be scared sh*tless of things that can't harm you, but q reasonable to be scared of things that can. so it's not q the tautology or oxymoron that you're suggesting (thus also proving that I put some thought into my posts)

..the Devil will find work for idle hands to do; i stole and I lied, and why? because you asked me to..

I hate spiders with a passion. I don't think that there's anything that creeps me out more.

"Violence is the supreme authority from which all other authority is derived."

Ohh hey another thing I really hate alot is jellyfish. God I hate those things, I go on vacation to a part of europe that at a certain time in the summer has tons of these things floating about. The ones im thinking about have the big round area about as big as a dinner plate and they tend to be really big and gooey. Their actually brownish/yellow which is wierd considering most people think their clear or white'ish, well there is probably plenty like that and those look strangely beautiful in a way. These just look like really big floating pieces of ****. They wouldnt be so bad really, if it isnt for their horrid sting, their near impossible to see from in the water and many times people will dive into em or swim right through them, the stinging is so debilitating most people almost drown, and it leaves a lifelong scar. Its incredible how resistant the damn things are though, the only way to remove one is to grab a big stick, swim under it and poke it from the bottom and lift it out of the water. You toss it on a rock and it toasts in the sun for 1-2 days and then its like gone . But even stepping in the juices it lets out as it dries can hurt even more than actually getting stung by one when your swimming. Yeah, i hate the damn things (though technically they only bother you if you bother them and their anything BUT fast, the advantage they have is that you really cant see them at all)

"Some people are like slinkies, their not really useful for anything, but you cant help but laugh when you see one tumble down the stairs"

*Muses* Hmm, we have a lot of frightened people on these forums...

I only hate insects that can actually harm me. Speaking of phobias, i'm terribly afraid of hitting my head against a wasp or bee nest. Wonder if that counts?
My sister has arachnophobia, which I don't uderstand. But I do understand fear of, say, tarantula - they're darn poisonous.

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Almost sounds like the Porutguese Man O War jellyfish except they are unmistakable. They are a sort of stripey mottled purply brown and clear color combination and many have these large crest like appendages on top that act like sails.

I don't know if it is a phobial that I have. Instead I have this sort of stupid fascination with things like poisonous snakes and the like. I try to get close to them to get a better look. I've never been bitten and so I guess I've not gotten too close after all.

I hate cockroaches too but who doesn't? Poisonous spiders concern me because they are not so easy to detect.

nah it sounds like Comont came across one of those bloody big jellyfish. I've come across them before while kayaking in the sea it was almost a foot in diameter, totally clear apart from a red ring in the middle of its body. I was glad I wasn't in the water with it.

EDIT: @Indy, you've been taking a closer look at venomous snakes in Noo Yoik?

Edited by - Recusant on 6/15/2004 12:54:39 PM

rec, there are adders, theyre native to the uk and poisonous.

When I was younger, I lived out in California and Texas. In California, I lived in a small desert turned into farming by irrigation town. There were sidewinders and diamondbacks (rattlers) in the desert very close to school. And though it was rumored that there were water moccasins in the canals, I never saw one.

I only came across sidewinders. Never saw a diamondback in the wild. Any way, I stupidly used to chase them with a stick and stuff. Never thought that they would try to bite me or what the consequences of that would be. As far as poisonous strength goes, sidewinders are not the more venemous of rattlers.

We also had gila monsters. I came across only two in my days in California. They are very slow in comparison to the snakes. They don't have fangs but their
saliva is both somewhat venomous and also chock full of injurious bacteria.

We always get our fair share of redback spiders at our place. I've nearly been nailed by one a few times. Last time there was a family of about 10 of them that had set up house on the underside of the garage door, nearly planted my hand on one of them. They soon met with the homemade WD-40 flamethrower though, best way to get rid of spiders and their webs, just gotta make sure you don't set anything else on fire in the process.

redbacks are bastards, aggressive little blighters (i was going to use a word that starts with c and ends with t, but this is a family site) i nail every one of em. but my favourite pastime was hunting massive spiders we have called huntsmans. big hairy and flat, they make good targets for home made crossbows made from pens and rubber bands.
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