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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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Spiders and women.......... And spiderwomen
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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.
🙂
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.
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.
This. While in Chamonix I and a bunch of other bikers went up to the little cafe cabin overlooking the Bosson Glacier and several walked along a path to an overlooking point. I followed, but went the wrong way, realised and turned around.
And looked down a steep, smooth rock face that disappeared out of view through the trees. I just froze, like Cougar on the jetty, and like him I had to sit down and work my way back on my bum!
Oh and the witch puts the loo roll on its holder so that the paper is against the wall
People who do that should be made to repeatedly drag their fingernails down a blackboard.
For days.
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.
I really, really wish you hadn't posted that up...
johnners I cut the tip of my finger off using a mandoline while making coleslaw 😳
The idea of breaking teeth, or other people breaking teeth. Broken bones? Fine! Injections, blood loss... no issue. Knocking your tooth out? Nope nope nope nope
Parasitic worms... Roundworms in poo, moving tapeworm segments or the thought of tapeworms... Yuck.
That **** of an opera singer on the go compare advert ..always change channels when he comes on.
My worst nightmare would be that he would be on every channel simultaneously..
In terms of advertising I guess you could say that it has worked ..but I hate the fat bastard so much that I would never ever use that comparison site ..
Also following my 14 year old son down trail centre singletrack now that he has lost his fear factor ( says he sitting here with broken ribs after an otb :lol:)
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.
I once foolishly used a strimmer whilst wearing shorts.
Inside-out slugs all over my legs. Bleugh.
+1 for tape worms.
Also puffer fish freak me out. And jelly fish.
Similar to nails on a blackboard, nails running along smooth cement floors. Really annoying as I don't know why and the floors in work are polished concrete!
The idea of breaking teeth, or other people breaking teeth
Many years ago my youngest daughter was having an operation on her lip. The young boy in the bed next to her was in as he'd had his two front teeth rammed right back into his upper jaw in a see saw accident in the park. That really made me come over all a bit wobbly when his mum explained what had happened. Teeth were successfully retrieved though.
Maggots. Especially if they appear in a cupboard. Aarrgghhh 😯
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Omfug.
But seriously... vertical sided, dark, cold, manmade water features: flooded quarries, canal lock gates, that sort of thing. Wonder if it was those scary public information vids of the 80s that did it?