What are you afraid of?

Mousey · Oct 18, 2007, 02:08 PM

I'm curious to know what the DH Community is afraid of, personally i'm absolutely petrified of needles, not so much when they're away from me but when the cap's off and it's ANYWHERE near me i'm about a millimetre away from pissing myself

What about you?

I'll post a poll and put some options on that

Judas · Oct 18, 2007, 02:16 PM

I'm not so much being afraid of anything.... the only thing the deters me is what some of these things "could potentially" lead to...

Heights could lead to falling which = never something good if at anything over 15 feet usually....
Dying? (hair color?

) Dieing, erm.... that's just a concern..... it's enevitable..
Needles, not really, but get stuck with a dirty one and it's game over
Accidents, lol, things are bound to happen..... course real "accidents" are typically things you don't even expect...... enless you are pumping up the chances of being in an accident.. say driving 250km/h on a 90km/h road....
Crrepycrawlies, black widows are an obvious as they are clearly a danger.....as an example...

Mousey · Oct 18, 2007, 02:19 PM

Damn you and your rational approach Judas... ;p

Judas · Oct 18, 2007, 02:22 PM

sorry

i just find the question no different then if someone is "afraid" of guns..... or being afraid of someone going nuts and shooting you with a gun....

i think most of being "afraid" comes from the fact that hopefully most people consider the plausible outcomes of what MAY happen... which usually tells us "don't do it.... bad idea"...

sometimes it's seperates the obviously stupid and the smart... but sometimes it holds people back from making a jump that could lead to pretty amazing achievments.... or death.... way to many outcomes from any standpoint.

**MIG-31** · Oct 18, 2007, 02:43 PM

Going by youre poll im stuck.... just going by my current occupation & this could sound quite odd.As im a self employed window cleaner (yes damn boring also). Im afraid of heights

I don't have any problems with any house that falls in a normal 2nd storey floor (Maybe a max of 35 feet high) then thats my limit i can cope with.

I have no problems with Needles and Syringes,as most have been jabbed by them as babies i would of thought we should be used to them.Then i suppose the opposite can happen.

Accidents: Again being self employed this can be an issue.If i fall of a ladder & become injured i still have bills to pay for.Decent insurance policies cost an arm & a leg for personal injury.

Creepy Crawlies and Insects: i like nature so i don't have that problem.

Zelig · Oct 18, 2007, 02:53 PM

No real fears here.

Not really creeped out by anything either for the most part... I suppose the thought of breaking bones/teeth (in my sporting activities in particular) is quite unpleasant to me, but I've been lucky so far.

**Asmoday** · Oct 18, 2007, 02:56 PM

I'm not really "afraid" of any of those things above...but I voted syringes and needles because I really do not like them for some odd reason. I would be an horrible injecting drug addict...

***Zardon*** · Oct 18, 2007, 03:09 PM

only thing im afraid of is never being able to ride a motorbike again, if that happened i think life wouldn't be worth living.

niceguyrichy · Oct 18, 2007, 03:24 PM

I'm kinda scared of spiders, always have been.
that's it. I'm not really scared of anything else that I've come across yet

RoyBatty · Oct 18, 2007, 03:25 PM

I guess I wouldn't bee happy if I had to swim through some narrow crooked pipe a few meters deep in the water. I never tried it for real, but I had to do something like that a few times in my dreams...

Judas · Oct 18, 2007, 03:27 PM

i know...

i'm not keen on drowning in a deep fryer...... that would suck!

the whole idea of drowning before you litterly fry to death would be pretty shitty way of going....

Zelig · Oct 18, 2007, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Zardon

only thing im afraid of is never being able to ride a motorbike again, if that happened i think life wouldn't be worth living.

I know how you feel. I was discussing things we wouldn't be able to live without with a few buddies, most of them were choosing pretty mundane things (internet, sex, supermarkets), but I'd be absolutely devastated if anything happened to me where I wasn't able to snowboard anymore.

LeanWolf · Oct 18, 2007, 03:40 PM

i don't like spiders, but i'm not really afraid of them, unless they're huge - talking LotR huge

Lelisevis · Oct 18, 2007, 03:49 PM

Running out of beer..............................

Or owning a French Car

Either scares the shit out of me

mike2h · Oct 18, 2007, 04:15 PM

im afraid of grace & her gun.

Tril · Oct 18, 2007, 06:44 PM

I voted insects. I'm not really afraid of them but I don't like wasps and the likes.

A few years ago, some wasps found a small hole in the wall of my house around the water pipe going from inside to outside. They entered the house from there and made a nest in the house, touching the outside wall, in the ceiling of my bedroom. Before the nest was destroyed, I was seeing wasps moving around inside the fluorescent light housing and I was hearing buzzing noise from the ceiling.

It's my father who took care of destroying the nest and killing the wasps. I admit I would not have done it myself.

Apart from that I don't like high heights. I'm not really afraid but when I think about what would happen if I fell, I'm more cautious when moving around high places. At my university, there is a big skylight four stories high. Anybody falling from the fourth floor is sure to die. All you have to do to fall is go over the railing that's about chest height.

Some months ago there was a case of a kid that made the news. He tried to slide on his ass on the railing of a long and high staircase. He went over the railing by mistake and could not catch the railing and fell to his death. He must have been around 30 to 50 feets high. That's a pretty dumb and frightening way to die.

Guyver2K5 · Oct 18, 2007, 06:59 PM

spiders are iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiik

**Vikingod** · Oct 18, 2007, 07:23 PM

I used to be afraid of spiders, but found out how to fix that (study them, and watch them around the house building webs, etc.). They are pretty amazing creatures.

Other than the fear that something would happen to my kids of wife, I'm not really afraid of much. I guess if anything, I fear losing my mind. Either dementia or some other disease, I fear when I get older my mind leaves me. I'd prefer death first.

OmegaRED · Oct 18, 2007, 10:05 PM

I don't like insects of any sort. Even the teeny tiny spiders which a gust of wind could blow away still bug me. I wouldn't call it "being afraid" but they get under my skin.

Falstaff · Oct 18, 2007, 11:45 PM

burning to death.
Was involved in an engine room fire onboard a ship, ran out of an oxygen canister and they secured the space I was in so we had to smother the fire with Halon. We lit it off and it put the fire out, but our gear melted from the heat, and our canisters were disabled because they rely on a chemical reaction to continue to release oxygen. We were basically burning and suffocating at the same time. We still had water so we sprayed the hot spots until the pressure in the engine room forced the fire damper open and released the heat. We all had first and second degree burns and it took weeks of painful burn treatments to remove the plastic and rubber melted onto our skin. I just had overflash on my face and hands and legs because my gear was made of treated wool, it came off easy, but God it hurt. Since then, I can still hear the claxon of the alert and hear "fire fire fire, in engineroom one, report the rescue and assistance team forward to frame 3 tack 81 tack 2 Alfa, away the rescue and assistance team, away the fire party". There is nothing worse than feeling your sweat boil on your skin or in your clothing and smell the plastic of your visor and helmet melting. I am terrified of dying this way. When my children were old enough, we practiced fire safety and had escape routes and plans for the entire house so we wont get trapped. I dont know how firefighters do it frankly, it terrifies me to this day.

Dyre Straits · Oct 19, 2007, 12:48 AM

I've been thinking about this off and on today at work. In all honesty, I can't really come up with anything I'm really afraid of.

When I was quite young, though, I was deathly afraid of the dark. I'd had so many nightmares before the age of 5 that I simply did not want to be in the dark. But, I have an uncle who helped cure me of my fear.

One night when I was over at my grandparents' house...where he still lived at the time, he hid a quarter behind a sofa in the very dark front room. And, he wouldn't turn a light on. But, he told me if I would go into the dark and find that quarter, I could keep it. (I wish I'd held out for a dollar, but I wasn't that keen to bartering at that age.

) Anyway, I did overcome my fear and found that quarter hidden behind the sofa.

That's the only real fear I can point to that I've had.

***Zardon*** · Oct 19, 2007, 03:29 AM

burning to death?! lol. well I think most of us would be afraid of that! ill add "being chopped into small pieces by industrial machinery". I wouldn't really like that.

Mousey · Oct 19, 2007, 04:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Falstaff

burning to death.
Was involved in an engine room fire onboard a ship, ran out of an oxygen canister and they secured the space I was in so we had to smother the fire with Halon. We lit it off and it put the fire out, but our gear melted from the heat, and our canisters were disabled because they rely on a chemical reaction to continue to release oxygen. We were basically burning and suffocating at the same time. We still had water so we sprayed the hot spots until the pressure in the engine room forced the fire damper open and released the heat. We all had first and second degree burns and it took weeks of painful burn treatments to remove the plastic and rubber melted onto our skin. I just had overflash on my face and hands and legs because my gear was made of treated wool, it came off easy, but God it hurt. Since then, I can still hear the claxon of the alert and hear "fire fire fire, in engineroom one, report the rescue and assistance team forward to frame 3 tack 81 tack 2 Alfa, away the rescue and assistance team, away the fire party". There is nothing worse than feeling your sweat boil on your skin or in your clothing and smell the plastic of your visor and helmet melting. I am terrified of dying this way. When my children were old enough, we practiced fire safety and had escape routes and plans for the entire house so we wont get trapped. I dont know how firefighters do it frankly, it terrifies me to this day.

Holy shit that's one hell of a story Jeff, 'spect to you dude

And the legendary Zardon being afraid of something? Wow ;p