I've been watching a lot of woodwork videos on youtube recently and I can't help but feel uneasy every time someone starts using a table saw. Despite the fact that it's all prerecorded and is 99.999% certain to end well I still feel like I'm about to see someone sever a hand. I'm ok using a saw myself it's just watching other people do it that makes me feel very uneasy. Despite the equally exposed blade bandsaws don't elicit quite the same reaction which seems odd.
What freaks you out, causes you to avert your eyes or otherwise makes you feel a wee bit queasy?
hebegeebees?
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People putting in or taking out their contact lenses
Reading about tables saws apparently as I was cringing thinking about it!
Spiders
What freaks you out, causes you to avert your eyes or otherwise makes you feel a wee bit queasy?
Binners.
You're right about the table saws. I saw a piece of wood ejected from one recently that was going fast enough to go right through the apron the user was wearing. Luckily they're quite tall, or they might have lost a bollock 😯
Also, Thicknesser/Planers. Colleague of mine, excellent DT teacher of many years standing literally took the palm of his hand off on one. Urgh. That was a lot of blood!
The heebie jeebies are only caused by one thing. Drunken guilt.
The feeling of the dread you get the morning after your works Xmas night out.
See also - the cider spiders.
Actually no, these were the HeeBeeGeeBees (and yes, that guy in the middle is Angus Deayton)
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Yip Table Saw for me.
I once had to clean up a mess, then note all the safety gear/lack of/should have been there before a report was given to the then Heath and Safety Inspectorate for a claim made by an employee that ... because he wanted to cut 20mm slices off a bit of 4x2 he'd remove all the guards and push the timber in with his hands..
And lost two finger off his right hand.
It was "interesting" sifting through the sawdust underneath to find both fingers..
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And interesting paperwork to fill in too.
Clean cuts I have to say, off for 6mths then back on light duties.. nice lad too.
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Camembert and Brie
Oh bugger, thanks to ajantom I've just added Thicknesser/Planers to the list of things that now freak me out. Literally shuddered picturing that.
Router tables and, weirdly, fresh Stanley blades.
Non-woodworking: raw chicken.
Hangovers
That goat pic ought to be removed...
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Goat pic is nowhere near as horrific as
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Camembert and Brie
Delete your account.
Toilet seat warmth in public toilets.
finding forks entangled by their prongs - goes right through me, I feel in it my teeth.
I can handle it now, but once when I opened the drawer in my kitchen and found the last 2 forks like that I freaked a little, banged the drawer open and closed a few times to free them and when that didn't work I closed it and left it for a week to give them the chance to do the right thing. 7 days passed before I opened it again (I was working away 5 of them though).
I can close my eyes and seperate them now, if I have to.
the cider spiders
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Here you go OP, the fun starts at 4:20 or thereabouts
Injections. I can't watch anyone getting an injection, even if it's a pretend one on the telly. As a diabetic, I stick needles into myself umpteen times a day, but I can't watch anyone else doing the same.
Yuk!
Angle grinders. My dad tried to teach me how to use a big one on some scrap iron when I was in my mid-teens and it was bloody terrifying.
I can just about manage to use a 4" one now without getting too scared.
first person shooter computer games where there is something going to attack you, it just hasn't happened yet.
notably zombies, aliens and the German Shepherd dogs in Call of Duty.
Sends shivers down my spine every time.
Lladro figurines.
Freaky little weirdos.
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Injections. I can't watch anyone getting an injection, even if it's a pretend one on the telly. As a diabetic, I stick needles into myself umpteen times a day, but I can't watch anyone else doing the same.
Injections - but only for me, and only if I look.
I can watch anyone else get an injection, either on TV or in person. I've even given other people injections without so much as a twinge.
I'm perfectly fine with getting injections myself as long as I don't watch it happening.
As soon as I look and see that needle piercing my skin, I freak out.
also, Scented Geraniums
Chainsaws and freaky dolls.
properly put me on edge, I think if i saw a chainsaw operating freaky doll i'd explode.
Those you tube vids of people dangling and wandering around on top of massive chimneys and such like.. Makes my toes curl
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People putting in or taking out their contact lenses
This.
And these...
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Balconies. Not heights in general. Just balconies.
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Milling machines. Ever since an apprentice who thought he knew what he was doing fractured a tool. We were picking bits out of the wall!
Long bits of swarf off a lathe as well.
I used to climb very very tall stacks for a living. the fact that a big solid structure gets a "vanishing point" when look off the top of it and more concerning, the buggers dont half sway in a strong wind and get all sorts of internal whale song used to really freak me out at first.
Oh and old school steeple jack scaffolding with pegs and rope, that was a full on Fred Dibnah I'd rather not repeat. (luckily with modern HSE standards that would never happen today)
We were picking bits out of the wall!
Bit's of tool or bits of apprentice?
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Fingers. Have broken and dislocated many in my years playing in goal and keeping wicket, but the thought of it still makes me squirm.
Frogs
Cows.
Endless fields of Cows....
Also, finding no loo roll left after a terrible ordeal at the pan face...
Those funny earrings that take up the whole earlobe, like what the youf wear.
Not a fan of bugs that would be the stuff of nightmares if magnified.
In fact there's basically a wikipedia article of stuff I wouldn't fancy watching!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_horror_films
Caveat - Treevenge sounds just awful enough to be fun
Toilet seat warmth in public toilets.
+1. I'd rather lose fingers on a table saw.
Chainsaws. Yet love an axe.
Spiders. But love all other insects.
I witnessed a schoolfriend drop his trowel blade he was heating in the furnace in tech.
He put the tings down and grabbed it. Bleeeeurgh
A lake but only if it's totally flat without a ripple on it. Doesn't apply to the sea though.
Looking over the edge of high drops. And more oddly, watching other people (esp loved ones) looking over the edge of high drops. Must be some sort of empathy test.
The word Hebegeebees gives me the Hebegeebees.
Milling machines. Ever since an apprentice who thought he knew what he was doing fractured a tool.
I completely misread that for a moment.
first person shooter computer games where there is something going to attack you, it just hasn't happened yet.
I played Alien:Isolation the other day. Spent two hours quietly crapping myself. Didn't see a single alien.
Whatever you do, don't play Resident Evil: Biohazard. I had the demo and it's creepyAF. Realistic graphics, limited vision as it's all lit by torchlight, and plays psychological warfare with you. Like you go into a room, turn round to leave and there's a mannequin standing there which wasn't there before.
A shower or bath running in a bathroom with the lights turned off.
I have no idea why.
Cutting up words and into sticking them lines...
Using an angle grinder recently a spark got past my safety glasses and lodged itself in my eye. I waited a day before going to A&E. They said it had 'rusted' it's way and needed a specialist to retrieve it. I attended the clinic sweating proususely in the waiting room. The consultant anaesthetised my eye then unwrapped a sterile needle to remove the grit. It thought I'd make it but he said he'd need a second attempt. I heard a second needle being unwrapped and then collapsed on the floor. I woke up still there in a puddle of sweat with the waiting room door open and prospective patients looking anxious.
I used to love watching MTB crash videos on pinkbike. Now they freak me out
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/fail-of-the-month-july-2017.html
For example. Pretty much all savage smashes apart from the last one.
Plus I would now include death, or more specifically am early death. 5 years ago couldn't care less really, then I had kids
Women who collect dolls, the women and the dolls.
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this picture. Even pasting it on here has made me feel horrible and I was trying to avoid looking at it
this picture. Even pasting it on here has made me feel horrible and I was trying to avoid looking at it
Trypophobia - I get that, it sets me on edge and gives me that "cold fire" across my skin, just thinking about my stupid google search the other week makes my bum go funny
The Yahoo comments section.
Utter bile.
What about that gif of the grub thingy coming out the dudes neck.
That was hoachin.
Slugs and frogs.
The other week I slipped my foot into my gardening jelly shoe, to feel a wet, slimy creature inside. It freaked me out. There was a small slug snuggled down in the bottom.
Everyone for half a mile must have heard the blood curdling scream. Sweating now just thinking about it.
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The scorpion in our bathroom last night! Where is the next one coming from and are they in my shoes? We are in bloomin France not some exotic location.
The section of canal at Todmorden, the sheer wall of black bricks going straight into the water.
Slugs and frogs.
I can beat that. I once strimmed a slug in half. Before I realised with horror what I'd done, I thought it'd started raining because of the splashes on my face.
Exposed power tools, chainsaws, angle grinders, that kind of stuff. And I own a number of them. It's just watching them being used.
Also in a similar vein to cougars slug & strimmer; I give you the horror of the fresh dog turd and manual push along lawnmower.
Nail files. Action Man hair. Spongey foam. Can all paralyse me at distance.
Sean Paul.
He sounds like the product of an unholy union between Metal Mickey and Rastamouse and seems to infect other people's records like some kind of a virus.
Water... Anything where I can't stand on the bottom with head easily out of water.
Landing in a plane where the runway is near/sticking out in to water
Big civil engineering around water..... Dam walls, harbour walls, piers, locks, being close to big ships and oil/gas platforms. Crossing bridges over deep water (especially at night)
Eek!
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Trypophobia is the weirdest thing.
For revenge, you may put up cave diving pictures - the idea of voluntarily going through a flooded cave is making me feel panicky already...
Ladders, specifically free standing ones.
I'm a rope access technician. I happily hang from a rope 150 plus metres above the ground, sometimes using grinders, saws, whatever. No qualms at all about the height or exposure. If I have to use a step ladder at home? Instant Elvis leg.
That's horrible......but not as bad as this
Edit: image deleted. It was starting to freak me out a bit.
That's horrible......but not as bad as thisEdit: image deleted. It was starting to freak me out a bit.
Was it Clows face post faceplant?
Nah, there was no grit in it. Just holes. 😀
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Shipwrecks.
More specifically, pictures or film of big, old, broken up shipwrecks.
It's just the utter wrongness of the whole thing tbh.
To be fair, I quite enjoy it now and again, it's easy to avoid, and and aversion therapy would be expensive and dangerous.
I'll live with it.
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I think I have trypophobia, I hate those photos but I'm fine with frogs, water and injections!
Foam sponges, unprotected edges and water that you can't see to the bottom!
Sponges I hate the feel of them on my skin.
Unprotected edges make me want to throw up, nothing to do with heights as I climb telecomms towers.
The water one is weird as I've done a load of open water swimming!
Seeing people use these things always makes me nip up.
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I know the damage isn't on a par with bench saws or planers but even so...
People cutting towards themselves with a sharp knife.
Supernatural / horror movies; I just can't do them, I'm far to suggestible.
Pretty much all the saw type things in an abbatoir. Holy crap always makes me clutch my leg or some other body part I'd not like detached in a nano second. Bleaurgghhh.
If you imagine you need to saw the legs off 2000 cows but want to do it before morning coffee break. You need a fairly ruthless saw for that. Somewhere to collect the blood and shit also. Cows have a lot of blood and shit in them.
water that you can't see to the bottom!
I have a phobia of deep water / drowning (I have a completely unscientific and unproven theory that everyone has two phobias, one innate and one acquired, this is my acquired one (there's probably another thread in this)). Walking across slatty bridges over it wigs me out. I'd rather it was a massive drop.
Many years ago a then-girlfriend once convinced me to walk out on some little narrow jetty thing, think Northshore but over water. I got to the end of it then went to pieces, just froze up. I got back off it on hands and knees.
Ladders, specifically free standing ones.
I'm a rope access technician. I happily hang from a rope 150 plus metres above the ground, sometimes using grinders, saws, whatever. No qualms at all about the height or exposure. If I have to use a step ladder at home? Instant Elvis leg.
Again, ditto - I'm a (lapsed) rock climber. I think it's that I trust the rock and the ropes, but ladders are just some bit of wood / metal resting casually against a wall. It'd be interesting to see how I'd cope with fixed / secured ones.
Theresa May
My mother-in-law's downstairs toilet.
It's crazying hot in there with bric a brac everywhere and there's a collage of photos of her (a present for her 153th bday) and in one she's badly flirting with a presumable a family friend... Grrrrr .. my blood is running cold just thinking about her staring at me a I have a wee.
Oh and the witch puts the loo roll on its holder so that the paper is against the wall
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Oh and the witch puts the loo roll on its holder so that the paper is against the wall
Hanging's too good for her.
Random aside - I backed a Kickstarter game (Thimbleweed Park, it's ace, buy it) which featured a photo of a bathroom in one of the development 'sneak peek' screenshots. It had the toilet roll that way round. The feedback was so vocal that the devs made loo roll orientation a selectable option in the game settings.
Oh god.
Attempting to write with a pencil that is so blunt the wood on the outside of the lead scrapes along the paper, or even worse a bit of the lead has broken and fallen out and you just have the pointy wooden shroud around the lead 'writing'.
Oh god even writing it made me grind my teeth.
Having my blood pressure taken really freaks me out and makes me feel like my arm is going to burst. Always have high readings because of it.