General Chat

a friend of ours is scared of birds and anything else that flies (except insects)....... a phobia really.

When she came to our house I had to remove a rubber BAT that I hung up outside! She wouldn't go out on our deck until I removed it. A flying bat, not a cricket bat.

I have two friends who freeze when they see a moth or a butterfly. I thought they were joking until I witnessed their terror.

I have a problem with snakes - they are beautiful and fascinating but they touch that primeval core of fear in me. I don't mind the big pythons so much, it's the smaller, camouflaged ones that you 'can't see' that scare me most. I have a horror of finding a grass snake in the garden :-0 Luckily a snake phobia isn't a big deal in the UK!

A fine example of why I'm more frightened by cheats, liars and charlatans (and politicians) than I am of snakes:


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/investigations/11411007/Jack-Straw-and-Sir-Malcolm-Rifkind-in-latest-cash-for-access-scandal.html

Snakes are snakes. So, it seems are some politicians. :-|

...but snakes don't lie, nether do they expect me to fund their lifestyle.

Never had a problem with snakes.
When I was about 2 or 3, I saw a huge snake slithering in a dry stone wall in Malta.
I went to tell my dad, who came out and said 'Oh - that's just a Whip Snake, it won't hurt you. Don't go too near it though, or you'll frighten it'
I'd frighten it!!!
I obviously knew to avoid snakes, but dad's ambivalent view of this horrendously huge (to me) beast was confusing, to say the least.

I've since come across an adder basking on a path, that I spent ages trying to encourage to move - it was at a horse event, and I know some people would believe one less adder would be a good thing - but they are a protected species.. I was jumping up and down, getting closer and closer. It really didn't want to move. I was about 6 inches from it before it decided to move off.

When I was staying in Portugal, I was sat on a chair under a huge bush, reading. I stood up to go in, turned to pick up the chair, only to find I'd been sharing my shelter with an enormous, fully grown (7ft) Montpellier snake. :-0

He didn't hurt me (and was unlikely to), so I wasn't bothered.

BUT when I came across a scorpion in the garage, I carefully killed it with my (shod) foot and brought it home :-D

we had a python for 20 years Henry
he was lovely :-D :-D

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Snakes :-|

I knew a chap once who crossed chickens with spiders, the idea being that everybody would get a leg to eat.

To this day, no one knows what they taste like, the flaming things ran too fast to be caught ;-) :-D :-D :-D

hate snakes - can't even bear to look at a picture of one

hmm - so racist as well

I'm sure :)

Nothing scares me really :-D :-D

but there's a few things I am not keen on

I don't particularly like Welsh people although some are nice

Frightening stuff frightens me

face masks - just hate them

rats and mice do pee all the time - everywhere they go

hate alcohol and drunk people

The Fancy rats we had peed all the time. Not sure if this was just because they were male, or because they were Fancy (inbreeding etc).
The underground rat was female and never peed out of the cage.

Snakes :-( they really make me shudder. Years ago my step sis used to have pet snakes and I could never find anything nice about them.

we have had pet Rats they are no problem to me
its just wild ones I am not keen on


but give me as rat to a dirty mouse any day
Rats have a flap on their bladders
where mice don't so mice wee as they walk
leaving a trail behind them
and they poo where they eat Rats dont :-D :-D

I can't every imagine keeping a pet rat! I wouldn't ever be able to go near it.. :-0

same as Lady Scozz.

I'm not too keen on clowns, either

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