Thread: The Situation Room 2.0

A phobia is irrational by definition, it can't really be explained.

Ahaha... That reminds me of the time where I had a fear of going down on escalators... XD There was no reason for it to be there, I don't even have a fear of heights... ._.

Originally Posted by Zenax

Originally Posted by Paperhorse

It's okay JJM we still <3 you. :P

Speak for yourself. I'm not sure I can forgive him for posting this hellspawned monster. >:[

Ignoring it's freaky appearance, spiders are pretty much the same as any other random critter you find in neighborhoods.
Mostly harmless to humans, only attacking in self-defense.

Are we so shallow as to judge things based on their appearance? :<

I'm used to seeing spiders in pictures - they're among the common animals featured in nature documentaries - so it was okay for me. But then again, if I were to see that in real life...I'd at least scream a lot =w=;

Originally Posted by Mintaka

I'm used to seeing spiders in pictures - they're among the common animals featured in nature documentaries - so it was okay for me. But then again, if I were to see that in real life...I'd at least scream a lot =w=;

Same here. Pictures are fine but real life is just...*shutters*

Originally Posted by J J M

Ignoring it's freaky appearance, spiders are pretty much the same as any other random critter you find in neighborhoods.
Mostly harmless to humans, only attacking in self-defense.

Are we so shallow as to judge things based on their appearance? :<

Yeah, I know that and also that they make themselves useful by eating other bugs, but I'd prefer that they do so far away from me. xP

As a baby I decided Arachnaphobia was too mainstream, so I went with ichthyophobia instead. I don't know if it's much of an improvement though x)

I am not afraid of bugs or any other animal I just don't feel comfortable near certain bugs, I mean 3 black cockroaches climbed on my leg once, a gigantic locust landed on my head and got tangled in my hair (I have long hair), a bug has landed on my face while I was reading a book more than 4 times and at least 3 times I have woken up during the night to find a bug on or near my bad... once it was huge one like 2 times the big locust and I don't know what it was... really ugly, luckily I was scraping it of my wall really soon after I spotted it... :D

Also my family's country house has a garden and every summer it is storming with a type of bug which if you crash it the green blood or whatever it is smells really bad and the their size is pretty big... and yea they enter the house all the time. (I have learned to hunt them down.)

On the other hand I am fine with ants, Beatles (most of them) and most of the not so disgusting bugs... but I hate butterflies, their wings are nice but their bodies are weird. :/

Oh and a fly landed right into my mouth once while I was talking... -.-'

Hey War Room friends! Bulba told me I haven't posted in several weeks so I'm posting now.

I have awesome news though! I got into grad school at Oklahoma State with full funding as a grad assistant! It's so awesome! :D

Also I haven't been able to find a cactus large enough to hug yet. The saguaro unfortunately do not grow this far north. Maybe when I take a trip to Phoenix.

Love you guys and I miss being able to get on here regularly (since bulba on my ipod is slow as sin and I hate having to lug my computer 10 miles away to the nearest internet).

Uh, to contribute to the current discussion, I am deathly afraid of scorpions. Those things are just disgusting and freakishly unnatural. Sun spiders are the freaking worst. They look like a spider/scorpion hybrid and ughsogijgoihodj it's nasty looking.

Hello, we haven't met before cause i am new here but anyway. I have seen a sunspider only on screen but they look pretty dammn wrong, from what I remember at least... :/

[MENTION=28781]Hitomi[/MENTION]; Hope you're enjoying AZ and scorpions are horrible. I still remember getting stung by one. As for sunspiders can't say I ever saw one. If you find a tarantula though you definitely keep it as a pet. They make awesome pets until your cat eats them. Also congrats on Grad School, and we miss you here too.

To me it's more like, larger the critter, more I would be afraid of the thing.

Originally Posted by Midorikawa

[MENTION=28781]Hitomi[/MENTION]; Hope you're enjoying AZ and scorpions are horrible. I still remember getting stung by one.

That scorpion wasn't venomous? :o

Originally Posted by J J M

That scorpion wasn't venomous? :o

I believe it was I haven't heard of a non venomous scorpion but venomous is usually painful... not deadly.

Originally Posted by J J M

To me it's more like, larger the critter, more I would be afraid of the thing.

Originally Posted by Midorikawa

[MENTION=28781]Hitomi[/MENTION]; Hope you're enjoying AZ and scorpions are horrible. I still remember getting stung by one.

That scorpion wasn't venomous? :o

All scorpions are but there aren't deadly ones in Az. The venom can effect you still, though it didn't affect me luckily and I got to skip school