LVSteve
Member
Didn't take long for the snake haters, did it. 
Fear And Loathing
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BJoe
Member
I may be wrong but I think God put everything here for a reason and till he asks me for advise on who/what gets genocide, I'll give everything a pass.
I don't have a problem with reptiles;I try not to seek them out & hopefully they've adopted the same policy towards me. Insects, though, especially anything that can fly & sting...I'm out. I'm deathly allergic to bee venom, & I've had some pretty bad reactions to wasps & hornets. Bad enough so that when I'm mowing I have an EpiPen in my pocket so that I can hopefully inject myself before I swell up like a toad & go into shock. Other than that, a touch of claustrophobia. Funny thing is I can put on a full face cycle helmet & it doesn't bother me at all. Put me in to small a room though & things could get interesting!
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shouldazagged
Absent Comrade
It's funny, I'm afraid of heights but not of flying. I can ride an elevator up the outside of a seventy-eight story building--did it in Atlanta. The difference seems to be that I'm enclosed in something.
sipowicz
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carpriver
US Veteran
Don't like snakes, I don't bother them and I hope the leave me alone, I will walk 5 miles out of my way to avoid a snake.
I don't like flying, did aerial delivery missions in Viet Nam, did it didn't like it. well it not the flying it's the falling I don't like. Rats I don't like rats. Don't like tight spaces. Air' I don't like being without air.
I don't like flying, did aerial delivery missions in Viet Nam, did it didn't like it. well it not the flying it's the falling I don't like. Rats I don't like rats. Don't like tight spaces. Air' I don't like being without air.
Grayfox
US Veteran
I don't have any fear of snakes, spiders, bugs or much of any critter in my part of the world. I rather enjoy watching them. If they don't bother me, I don't bother them. Seems to work pretty well for both of us.
I do have an unusual thing about heights. As long as whats under me is reasonably solid, I'm good. I can stand at the edge of a 100 ft cliff and enjoy the view. No fear of flying either. But put me on a six foot ladder and if that sucker wobbles just once, I'm done!
I do have an unusual thing about heights. As long as whats under me is reasonably solid, I'm good. I can stand at the edge of a 100 ft cliff and enjoy the view. No fear of flying either. But put me on a six foot ladder and if that sucker wobbles just once, I'm done!
Roadtrash
US Veteran
Snakes have always fascinated me, use to collect them as a kid. Spiders I don't care for back when I was a small child my Father was bitten by a Black Widow and I figure that might be the reason I don't care for them.
Heights are no problem worked too many years in construction as a pipefitter/welder to be bothered by high places.
Tight places are no problem either, I spent a lot of time out here in the desert crawling around in a lot of old mines and loved it.
Heights are no problem worked too many years in construction as a pipefitter/welder to be bothered by high places.
Tight places are no problem either, I spent a lot of time out here in the desert crawling around in a lot of old mines and loved it.
LVSteve
Member
Interesting that quite a few of you mentioned claustrophobia. I am convinced that this is Britain's second most popular hobby after sex. I have nearly always worked in places with few or no windows and it has never bothered me. However, the rest of my countrymen are not so casual. It was not long before I noticed that if the tour group had four or more people, at least one of them spent the whole visit raking the walls with their eyes.
kamloops67
Member
came across a rattlesnake while hiking last summer. i could have left it alone ,cause it sure wasnt bugging me, but its not in my nature to not poke things with sticks ...it wouldnt even rattle for me ,it slithered off into the brush to get away .maybe he was a chicken snake.
im afraid of spiders kind of i guess ,and wasps. ive killed a lot of them and they aint never killed me ,so i guess the fear is kinda unjustified
im afraid of spiders kind of i guess ,and wasps. ive killed a lot of them and they aint never killed me ,so i guess the fear is kinda unjustified
Well, I don't guess I have any phobias...not any more. I used to be terrified that I was going to die young. No need to worry about THAT one any more. 
I feel kind of like the op about snakes. I have a deal with them. They leave me alone and I'll leave them alone. I believe that God has a plan for all his creatures and that all of us, great and small have a part to play in His world....with two exceptions. The mosquito and the hardhead catfish. They serve no discernible purpose that I'm aware of. And I loath and despise them.
As a saltwater fisherman for the last 63 years I've had many an encounter with the slimy hardheads and I often wound up the worse for wear. I nearly lost a finger one time when a "stab" wound got infected. They are so nasty that a crab won't eat one. A starving seagull MIGHT take a couple of bites of one to save his life but I doubt it, I really do.If you have had the pleasure of messing with them then you'll understand How/why I feel the way I do.
I don't guess I need to explain about the mosquitos ...
I feel kind of like the op about snakes. I have a deal with them. They leave me alone and I'll leave them alone. I believe that God has a plan for all his creatures and that all of us, great and small have a part to play in His world....with two exceptions. The mosquito and the hardhead catfish. They serve no discernible purpose that I'm aware of. And I loath and despise them.
As a saltwater fisherman for the last 63 years I've had many an encounter with the slimy hardheads and I often wound up the worse for wear. I nearly lost a finger one time when a "stab" wound got infected. They are so nasty that a crab won't eat one. A starving seagull MIGHT take a couple of bites of one to save his life but I doubt it, I really do.If you have had the pleasure of messing with them then you'll understand How/why I feel the way I do.
I don't guess I need to explain about the mosquitos ...
Oldiron
US Veteran
Have small grand kids and I do not let any potential bitters stay around. They bite each other often enough.
Personally I do not like spiders. They will bite you without you knowing it and make awful sores that take forever to heal. As far as making me feel uncomfortable it would be sitting in a car at a RR crossing with a train whizzing by. Just something about watching the rails flexing up and down makes me uneasy. One of those suckers comes off the rail, it doesn't just stop.
Flying is no problem, stood in the door on the chopper years ago with it hovering anywhere from 25-100 feet. No Problem. Claustrophobia isn't a problem. Took my scouts on many "wild" cave tours and scuba dived.
Larry
Personally I do not like spiders. They will bite you without you knowing it and make awful sores that take forever to heal. As far as making me feel uncomfortable it would be sitting in a car at a RR crossing with a train whizzing by. Just something about watching the rails flexing up and down makes me uneasy. One of those suckers comes off the rail, it doesn't just stop.
Flying is no problem, stood in the door on the chopper years ago with it hovering anywhere from 25-100 feet. No Problem. Claustrophobia isn't a problem. Took my scouts on many "wild" cave tours and scuba dived.
Larry
Snakes and spiders really don't bother me, but I do hate rats!! Fear of hantavirus, I guess.
Claustrophobia...definitely! Remember that scene in the Kill Bill movie where Beatrice Kiddo is tied up & thrown into a coffin? Then the lid is nailed shut & she is buried alive. I can barely watch that!
COL Jagdog
Member
Large sharks -- bull sharks, tropical hammerheads, tigers, white tips --
especially when you are on a 9' 6" surfboard getting ready to catch a wave and a 14-ft shark swims thru the wave you are getting ready to catch ....... that will really give you a gut check.
especially when you are on a 9' 6" surfboard getting ready to catch a wave and a 14-ft shark swims thru the wave you are getting ready to catch ....... that will really give you a gut check.
Hights don't bother me being an old Telco lineman. Spiders don't either. I ran across lots of rattlers while living in the Sierra Foothills for 35 years. I was OK with that if I saw them first. I will not fly any commercial flights anymore after a disastrous flight from Newark.NJ to Orlando. Fl. But the bugs in Florida are in second place on my hate list.
feralmerril
Absent Comrade
Rats, snakes and work.
SW_shooter
Member
Only two things that come to mind.
1) snakes, deathly afraid of them in person or on TV
2) butterscotch pudding, hated it as a kid and the smell turns my stomach to this day.
1) snakes, deathly afraid of them in person or on TV
2) butterscotch pudding, hated it as a kid and the smell turns my stomach to this day.
