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Shorty
08-15-2012, 11:37 PM
What things scare the bajesus out of you?

Poisonous things like scorpions and rattlesnakes scare the shit out of me. Natural disasters scare me because I've never been in one and don't know what to expect, hypothetically speaking. Needles scare me because I was in and out of the hospital a lot as a kid and the nurses could never find my vein, so they'd poke me over and over.

Also, I was mortified of Dracula and vampires as a child.

What choo fraid of, EoFF?

Citizen Bleys
08-16-2012, 12:11 AM
Love.

/thread

Jiro
08-16-2012, 12:19 AM
I'm not afraid of anythang.

Shorty
08-16-2012, 12:25 AM
You two are the worst.

Citizen Bleys
08-16-2012, 12:31 AM
Hey, my answer makes sense. Love makes people weak. My hated archnemesis Dr. Psychopathico would be able to strike at me through my loved ones.

I'm joking, of course. Dr. Psychopathico is a puppy dog. We all know my real nemesis is Dr. Light and that machina infernalis of his. You will never know how close my esteemed colleague Wily was to a cure for cancer when that damned robot broke into his lab, destroyed his research, and murdered him. We must remain strong to resist such evil.

Jiro
08-16-2012, 12:32 AM
A truly accurate answer would take too much time and no such things go bump in the night. The darkness is nothing to be afraid of.

Sephex
08-16-2012, 12:48 AM
Psychological type horror as seen in Silent Hill 2 and Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I can play those games perfectly calm, but the idea does scare me. If anything remotely close to the settings of those games happened in real life I would be a mess.

Pike
08-16-2012, 01:04 AM
Moths.

Tigmafuzz
08-16-2012, 01:04 AM
I'm not really afraid of most anything. There are the innate human fears of dying alone and typically being unnerved by things unknown, but those are pretty easy to come to terms with. And darkness isn't so much a fear, it just makes you proceed with caution. Putting aside things that are a little scary but don't make me lose my cool (going outside to check what that noise was, for example; I know I can take care of myself no matter what's out there), the only things that I actually have a real fear of are drowning and THOSE GIANT smurfING COCKROACHES WITH THE WINGS. Because when I was 6 I was learning how to swim and one of those giant smurfers swam in my mouth and I freaked out and almost died. I was coughing up water for a few minutes and was shaking like crazy.

So yeah. Giant cockroaches and drowning are my phobias. But nothing else is really scary at all as long as you remind yourself that you're a smurfing human being and can take care of yourself by remaining calm and rational in the face of adversity.


Psychological type horror as seen in Silent Hill 2 and Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I can play those games perfectly calm, but the idea does scare me. If anything remotely close to the settings of those games happened in real life I would be a mess.

I'm pretty sure I could take on those situations in real life fairly calmly. It's not like video games haven't been mentally preparing us for the weirdest things that could possibly happen. I might be a little jarred at first, but one adapts and overcomes. The idea of being stuck in a world like that is actually kind of exciting to me.


Moths.

Goddammit Pike.

Sephex
08-16-2012, 01:19 AM
Psychological type horror as seen in Silent Hill 2 and Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I can play those games perfectly calm, but the idea does scare me. If anything remotely close to the settings of those games happened in real life I would be a mess.

I'm pretty sure I could take on those situations in real life fairly calmly. It's not like video games haven't been mentally preparing us for the weirdest things that could possibly happen. I might be a little jarred at first, but one adapts and overcomes. The idea of being stuck in a world like that is actually kind of exciting to me.


Even the invisible water monster part? See, that's where I would throw my arms up in the air like I am preparing to get my body mutilated and thrown in the air.

Mercen-X
08-16-2012, 01:42 AM
I do not suffer from irrational fear. I suffer from instantaneous shock. This means, the sudden appearance of objects within sparse seconds where once there was nothing, impact noises, unexpected impact against my body, or fidgety behavior in other people around me can all inspire the one-time (quiet) jump. In general, I can only be "shocked" once every half-hour or so. So there's only a slim possibility that wandering through a horror house can get the jump on me (since I'm on guard from the moment I walk in as was the case in high school where my teacher asked me to grab an "eyeball" off the floor. I couldn't have cared less if the eyeball were real, I didn't find the situation intimidating although my older cousin standing right next to me was shivering head to toe. Best experience of my life)

As a kid, I once had a huge black spider (legspan approx 2 in) drop from a ceiling fan on top of me. I jumped up, screamed, and ran for my life. Those things are poisonous!

CimminyCricket
08-16-2012, 01:45 AM
My future mother-in-law scares me to death. She called my phone once while I was peeing and I dropped my phone in the potty.

fire_of_avalon
08-16-2012, 02:01 AM
Cockroaches, centipedes and eternity shake me up.

That being said, I startle very easily. For example, the other day I was helping my friends paint their new house and I was in the bathroom, just paaaaainting away. When Greg says "That's some good painting" from the doorway and I screamed because I didn't know he was there.

Generally though, my response is to punch.

Faris
08-16-2012, 02:38 AM
What is in the dark.

Jowy
08-16-2012, 02:56 AM
hearing the national anthem at 3AM only to be followed up with an echoing and emotionless voice informing me the broadcast day is over. then came the colourful bars and high pitched "beeeeeeeeeeeeeep". sends chills down my spine to this day.

and the staggered buzzing from the emergency broadcast system via radio/tv. that is the sound we will all hear before the world ends.

Clo
08-16-2012, 05:16 AM
I had a friend as a kid who told the class she was afraid of the skinny children from the commercials about sending African children money. I thought it was funny then and, by George, I think it's funny now.

Rantz
08-16-2012, 07:42 AM
Kathy Bates.

Pumpkin
08-16-2012, 04:16 PM
Scorpions, lizards, snakes, lobsters, escalators, flying.... the future.

I've been staying with my boyfriend and he apparently lives in lizard country because they're everywhere. They are small and (he says :shifty:) harmless but they still creep me out. And last week I found a dead dried up scorpion while sweeping. None of that would be as bad as if I saw a snake though. I'd probably cry. I'm happy that I haven't seen one in many years.

Madame Adequate
08-16-2012, 05:03 PM
Centipedes. Don't know why they get me so, but holy crap I lose all of my shit when I see one. :(

Mercen-X
08-16-2012, 05:04 PM
My mom spooks easily. She hates scary movies or even any show that hints there might be a spooky scene upcoming. She covers her eyes, shrivels up into a ball and tries not to listen to sudden noises.

She startles easily too. If the sound around her is generally quiet and someone says something from a direction she's not expecting (i.e. normally, my dad would be using a computer at the dining room table, and if he's not there) my mom jumps. She jumps if she turns and finds you there even if you've been there for the past few minutes. Even if you made a point of a noisy entrance. Even if your shadow is clearly visible on a near wall. Even if there is a mirror in front of her in which she has already seen your reflection. Apparently, none of this aids her in judging your distance from her when she turns, so if you happen to be close, she jumps and make a slight squeak. Then she gets mad at you because she apparently has poor depth perception and is must be going deaf in at least one ear.

Pike
08-16-2012, 05:04 PM
Centipedes. Don't know why they get me so, but holy crap I lose all of my shit when I see one. :(

xGEZ3NNH6cs

Psychotic
08-16-2012, 06:12 PM
The Jew.

Shorty
08-16-2012, 06:50 PM
Do you mean The Bear Jew?

Jinx
08-16-2012, 07:13 PM
Mitt Romney.

Shorty
08-16-2012, 08:19 PM
For a second I thought this was the 4 eva thread and I was going to BAD SAM you.

Goldenboko
08-16-2012, 08:26 PM
Love.

/thread

chica-chica-yeah.

Rocket Edge
08-16-2012, 08:32 PM
No creature really scares me if I'm being honest. I do get a bit iffy walking in pitch dark - It think it's probably a fear of the unknown.

fire_of_avalon
08-17-2012, 01:52 AM
And last week I found a dead dried up scorpion while sweeping.
HERSCHEL ;___________________;

Clo
08-17-2012, 02:09 PM
I have had a striped giant bulbous spider hanging out outside the window by my front door all summer. I have watched him eat many flies while smoking on the porch. I have named him Mr. Jones, and I want to kill him, but I am smurfing horrified of his big bulb body.

I was standing by the window last night and he stuck his front legs up menacingly at me after sucking out the innards of a fly.

Grant me the power to stop this thing from becoming more powerful.

Shorty
08-17-2012, 02:11 PM
Zing him with some hairspray. Hairspray is spiders' kryptonite. (That and shoes, anyway.)

Jiro
08-17-2012, 02:55 PM
Or you could not be a horrible human being and let him live. He's obviously not an australian spider because you're still alive.

Clo
08-17-2012, 02:58 PM
But he keeps getting bigger. He's clearly evolving into an Australian spider.

Jiro
08-17-2012, 03:08 PM
Shit. Run. Or get a sword.

Shorty
08-17-2012, 06:09 PM
FORGET THE SWORD GET THE HAIRSPRAY

Tigmafuzz
08-17-2012, 08:19 PM
GET A HAIRSPRAY SWORD

Clo
08-17-2012, 08:21 PM
OH GOD WHERE DO I GET ONE OF THOSE

NorthernChaosGod
08-17-2012, 09:19 PM
Just get hairspray and a lighter.

Jiro
08-18-2012, 02:33 AM
Now you're cooking with gas.

Sephex
08-18-2012, 04:08 AM
Wasn't the hairspray sword someone's ultimate weapon in FFX-2?

Citizen Bleys
08-18-2012, 04:44 AM
Now you're cooking with gas.

Quite the opposite, in fact, it is a combustible liquid. It would be more analogous to cooking with lighter fluid.

Mercen-X
08-18-2012, 05:06 AM
Wasn't the hairspray sword someone's ultimate weapon in FFX-2?

You're referring to Paine. She obtains the weapon as part of her Badass Hairday dressphere ensemble.

Tigmafuzz
08-18-2012, 05:34 AM
Just like blowing the bottoms out of beer bottles.

Clo
08-18-2012, 01:12 PM
I regret to inform everyone, I have yet to muster the courage to kill Mr. Jones. Guests have begun admiring him.

Shorty
08-18-2012, 05:26 PM
Dammit Clo, grow some balls!

escobert
08-18-2012, 05:58 PM
Stuff doesn't really scare me. It's more quick movement or things that startle me.

Zeldy
08-19-2012, 12:52 AM
crane fly and zombies.

blackmage_nuke
08-19-2012, 01:30 AM
I tit myself whenever my computer dies and I cant get it back on and I think I've lost it all.

Infact I was asleep this morning when there was a bang outside like a car backfiring or something and my first thought as i woke up was "I hope that wasnt the sound of my computer exploding"

I put it to anyone who says they arent afraid of anything to pour some hot coffee over thier hard drive right now. And not just some spare one you have lying around, i want you to pour it over the one where you keep the porn you havent backed up.