Phobias

[Cheeky Monkey]

I went to the docs and got some tablets which help calm the nerves. They do work and it was the only way I could face a flight.
I am also getting better with each flight I go on.

I only get prescribed enough tablets for the actual period of time so no danger of addiction.

Ah the amount of valium addicts who use that ole chestnut with their GPs eh Yorkie? Still, needs must.

 

[tedebear]

I have two Chilean Roses, which are the most commonly available variety, and a Chilean Yellow Rump, which is quite unusual. Both species are fairly docile.

I'd be ok in your house but I have to wonder why you keep them as pets - were they bred in captivity?? Spiders belong outside don't they? well thats my thoughts anyhow...forgive me if you are studying them or a scientist...

The respect for spiders I have comes from being Australian. Spiders live outside and I live inside - when I go outside I keep my eyes peeled for the usual places they make webs or nest or trapdoors and I steer very very clear!! If they come inside - unfortunately for them they die...

 

[tedebear]

ahh sorry forgot to add I have a dreadful fear of turbulence when flying - think we're going to fall out of the sky....

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

I'd be ok in your house but I have to wonder why you keep them as pets - were they bred in captivity?? Spiders belong outside don't they?

Yes, they were bred in captivity. They are all females. In the wild, the females of most tarantula species do next to nothing. They find or dig themselves a small, cosy burrow when young, arrange it to suit themselves, and then sit there waiting for things (food and a mate, who usually ends up as food too) to drop in for the next 20 or 30 years.

The males are a lot more active, but only really when they reach maturity.

 

[Lush]

In the wild, the females of most tarantula species do next to nothing. They find or dig themselves a small, cosy burrow when young, arrange it to suit themselves, and then sit there waiting for things (food and a mate, who usually ends up as food too) to drop in for the next 20 or 30 years.

Sounds a bit like my life...

 

[looney]

dentists and wasps.

 

[Trufflehound]

Jeremy Beadle

 

[looney]

The Dentist - although I've found a brilliant dentist now and recently managed a session where I let them lie me flat on my back and repair a tooth ... 4 months ago, that would not have happened.

Wasps and bees - one night about 8 years ago we had to put something in the loft. Stepladder down, my wife went up so I could pass it up to her. She turned the light on and I could see the shadow of something flying around. She flew back down the ladder as 2 wasps followed her out. I pointed out she'd left the light on and she went back up. I closed my daughter's bedroom door and did the same in my son's bedroom ... and stayed in my son's room till she told me it was safe to come out. Turned out we had 3 nests and about 25,000 wasps lodging with us!

I have however held a nice fluffy tarantula in my hand.

Same phobias how creepy! I need a General anasthetic to have teeth pulled, and I have done a runner before.

 

[looney]

heights and buttons

you'll fear me then as I am tall.

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

Sounds a bit like my life...

The lifespan of most male tarantulas is only around eight months to a year. The maximum age they can reach is usually about two years.

Once the male reaches full sexual maturity he has only a matter of weeks to find a mate before he dies. Often he is eaten by the female he is trying to seduce before he even gets a chance to get his pedipalps over. Either that, or he is killed by the female immediately after mating, and he then becomes the first meal for his offspring.

Female tarantulas, on the other hand, normally live for a minimum of ten years, while the females of some species can live for up to thirty years under ideal conditions.

The spiders that you see scuttling about on your carpet are almost always mature males desperately looking for a jump before they turn their toes up. Meanwhile, the females are sat in their comfy burrows awaiting their next victim.

It's a grim life being a male spider. Be kind to them.

 

[jevs]

I have an irrational fear of wasps and cockroaches.

Any other insect, creepy crawlie, snake, lizzard, vermin or bird doesn't worry me at all....but put me in a room with a wasp or a cockroach and i will fill my pants !!!

 

[Man of Harveys]

Rather strangely, I really hate those metal fire escape-type staircases with griddle-like stairs that you can see right through. You often get them in cathedral towers - I love climbing up cathedrals. There's a particularly nasty one at the top of Cologne cathedral which has always freaked me out - it's in a massive open gothic stone chamber half a mile up in the air - I took a photo of it which still gives me judders when I look at it. I'm similarly not fond of being up ladders either.

Yes, I'm mad as cheese.

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

OK, having banged on long enough about my interest in spiders, I shall now reveal my phobia, which is.....

TOMATO SAUCE!

 

[Caveman]

Spiders and ......

 

[GUNTER]

Spiders

 

[Hampden Park]

although i havent done it i would hate to go pot holing
i am not claustrophobic but i just couldnt go underground into a small wet dark hole. wheres the fascination?? ive done utbnb so dont even go there

 

[Croydonbloke]

What are your phobias if any?

I hate needles. They make me feel sick and very faint.

Crabtree. As he always finds something wrong with my posts.

Other than that Steve Bruce.

 

[lost in london]

Dwarves.

 

[Bigtomfu]

im luposlipophobic

 

[Seagullible]

Dwarves.

what about elves?