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Ariadne

13:01 / 04.08.02

Well, wee fearty to be accurate. I've just discovered I'm scared of thunder and lightning - how silly is that? It's crazy but I'm having to fight the urge (flash... count the seconds ...) to climb under the bed. Or at least pull my quilt over my head

Anyway, I was just so astonished to feel scared that I had to write it down.

I'm also thanking any gods out there for the fact that I got indoors with literally half a minute to spare before this started. The rain's bouncing a foot off the road and it wouldn't be fun on a bike.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

13:13 / 04.08.02

It might not be the best time to go online, you realise...

Persephone

13:15 / 04.08.02

Really? Why?

Ariadne

13:20 / 04.08.02

Yeah, I know, but without being online, there's just me and the lightning...

Anyway, it's moving away.

Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes

13:42 / 04.08.02

Well im scared of big footed giants, I used to have nightmares where I was in a town centre and this big foot would be trying to crush me. Then there was that episode of "the Goodies" about a big foot, this scared the hell outa me.

Kit-Cat Club

14:19 / 04.08.02

Have just got back from Sainsbury's - absolutely drenched - and of course the storm stopped just as I opened the door. Grrr.

My irrational fear - crane flies. I have to leave the room if one comes in. It's the way they just drift around the room, completely noiselessly, and suddenly drift into one's hair or one's face and dangle their legs around and then lose a leg and carry on in a lopsided fashion, ugh ugh ugh. There is no reason to be afraid of them, since they are totally harmless, but boy do they give me the willies...

Spatula Clarke

14:42 / 04.08.02

It's been a beautiful day here, which kind of makes up for me getting drenched coming home from Sainsbury's at 17:20 yesterday.

Ah. I appear to have put 'frenched' in that sentence before checking it through.

Persephone

16:30 / 04.08.02

*sob*

I just want to know why I can't be online during a thunderstorm...

Ariadne

16:47 / 04.08.02

Because the lightning will come down the line and make you post things you'd never have done otherwise - true confessions of things you did when you were 16, descriptions of the hair on your big toes, that kind of thing.

Sorry. The reality is more prosaic - if the lightning causes power fluctuations it can damage your PC. There may be more reasons than that (Nick?), but if you don't have a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) fitted, you can end up with lots of damage. And I don't. And so in fact I took his advice and went and read my book. Under the quilt!

captain piss

17:37 / 04.08.02

Ohhhh [i]ya big fearty![/i]
SOrry..
don't cry Persephone- I think what Ariadne says is right- s'to do with overhead cables that carry phone lines, I think, which sometimes get struck by lightning (carrying a huge surge of current to anything else on the line, to wit: your PC and modem, although I think lots of them now have protective devices to stop your circuits getting sizzled - oops I have unhealthy interest in this kind of bollocks)

Tryphena Absent

21:55 / 04.08.02

I have a ladder phobia, I can't climb up one, never have been able to. If a staircase is in the middle of a room rather than by a wall I won't go up it and I really can't stand the stairs with holes where you can see the ground below. For those of you who know the Tate Britain I have real problems with the steps up to the main entrance because there's so much space around you and no rail. Funnily enough I don't get vertigo, I think it's actual fear of falling rather than fear of heights. Totally irrational.

Sax

06:44 / 05.08.02

Also, you must never go up a ladder in a thunderstorm. While wearing a tin-foil suit. And a wire coat hanger fashioned into a hat.

Saveloy

09:06 / 05.08.02

Sax>
...UNLESS there's a Faraday cage for you to climb into at the top of the ladder, in which case it's probably the most sensible thing you can do. Then you can taunt the storm by jumping up and down shouting "Woo hoo, I'm in a tin-foil suit and stuff and there's nothing you can do about it! Go on, just try it! Ha ha!"

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:10 / 05.08.02

I'm scared of moths- more so than spiders, which I no longer fear but still dislike intensely.. And clowns. And... milk. (No, really. But not as bad as it used to be.)

My dog, on the other hand (yawn... stoatie goes on about his fucking dog again) is terrified of thunder. Just got home (several hours late) from work, thinking "she's really gonna be dying for a poo now"... had to actually drag her to the cemetery as soon as the thunder went off (and she froze while crossing the road). And then had to bring her straight back after the cemetery, because she was terrified. (And I was quite looking forward to a nice hour's dog-walking...).

I can't stand to see a cute dog scared...

Less searchable M0rd4nt

15:33 / 05.08.02

Wasps. And horses. I don't trust horses.

Rev. Orr

00:34 / 06.08.02

Telephones. You can't see peoples faces to tell if they are really bored of talking to you and are pulling faces and making sarcastic comments to the people around them with their hand over the receiver. Actually, reading that back, I guess it's not that rational, but I still get scared phoning people I don't know very, very well. Thank fuck for SMS, and don't let me get started on the pulsating evil that is the answerphone.

gravitybitch

03:21 / 06.08.02

Wasps and bees and hornets and yellow jackets... I'm fine with other bugs, but if it's black and yellow and can fly, I'm gone. If a bee's made it onto the bus I'm on, I'll get off and wait for the next one. If there's a nature show on that features bees, I'll turn the TV off. Don't know what I'd do if one got into my apartment, now that I'm living alone... gotta keep the windows closed, I guess.

captain piss

10:46 / 06.08.02

I find bees quite cute and cuddly - moths too. Spiders though..noooo

Shortfatdyke

10:59 / 06.08.02

i nearly ate a crane fly once. nightmare scenario!

wasps - i used to put my arm over the (sweet and lolly wrapper filled) bin at school and have loads of wasps crawling over it. no problem, tho i think it was an early (and rather bizarre) attempt to express my sexuality.

flies sometimes freak me out - when i was a kid i picked up a stick in the playground, broke off the end and was nearly sick when about five flies squeezed their way out. it was just wierd. i'm having some serious 'phone phobia right now, but that's probably down to trying to get rid of the Strange Woman who i think keeps calling me.

Grey Area

11:39 / 06.08.02

I am very apprehensive about horses, and they know it. There's a big neon arrow above my head, visible only to horses, that spells out "scared of horses!!!" in blinking type (arrow pointing down at me of course). This causes them to flock to my side, scaring the living daylights out of me.

Horses. They're up to something.

Bill Posters

14:26 / 06.08.02

Me? I Know No Fear.

Actually it's spiders, which is dull and predictable but eeeeeek do I hate the fuckers. Cockroaches I hate more but encounter less here in the UK.

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