Off Topic Spiders and phobias

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No need to shout :p

Aren't paras scared of water and need arm bands as well as not being very fit, ? :D
No played waterpolo for combined services and for Kent
Swam for combined services kent and Sutton and Cheam
 
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Do marines ever jump from aircraft? The reason I ask is in Malta our barracks were near the Marine Commando barracks and they had a part of an aircraft fuselage which I assumed they used in training?

as far as im aware a rope off a helicopter but normally landing. we have paras for airlifts and special boat Squadron
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As a kid I remember one of my brothers and a sister hated cotton wool. We used to get a handful and tease it apart in front of them - they used to go nuts, said it was something about the sound it made.

This anything like you @marcusblackcat ?
Yeah I’d go spare. I’d have to leave. If I touch it I freeze!!! I understand it makes zero sense. I understand it’s soft and fluffy. But Christ my head does not help me!!!
 
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I’m a nurse so anything medical doesn’t scare me. When my kids were little it was always me not their dad (wimp, lol) who got called to remove spiders, bees wasps etc that got into their rooms. Heights, swing bridges, cliffs mountain overlooks all good, and as I live in North Carolina so snakes, poisonous spiders are dealt with fine, but I do suffer from lepidopterphobia and coulrophobia! (Moths/butterflies and clowns.)
 
My sons girlfriend is terrified of E.T.
Telling me was a mistake though....i printed this out.....
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Cut round it, and stuck it on his bedroom window (we live in a bungalow).
I waited till he went in the shower, then tapped on the window knowing she would open the blinds. I can still hear the scream now....
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My sons girlfriend is terrified of E.T.
Telling me was a mistake though....i printed this out.....
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Cut round it, and stuck it on his bedroom window (we live in a bungalow).
I waited till he went in the shower, then tapped on the window knowing she would open the blinds. I can still hear the scream now....
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You are evil!:emoticon-0130-devil:emoticon-0102-bigsm
 
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I've already fessed up to fear of heights, but that isn't the fear that has had the biggest effect on my life.

Needles, meaning syringe needles. As a result of having an abscessed tooth extracted under local anaesthesia when I was about 8.

This was back when the dentist had reusable syringes, and this one seemed pretty blunt!

I had injections either side of the inflamed gum, into the cheek and into the roof of my mouth (which felt like it was going to come out of the top of my head).
 
I've already fessed up to fear of heights, but that isn't the fear that has had the biggest effect on my life.

Needles, meaning syringe needles. As a result of having an abscessed tooth extracted under local anaesthesia when I was about 8.

This was back when the dentist had reusable syringes, and this one seemed pretty blunt!

I had injections either side of the inflamed gum, into the cheek and into the roof of my mouth (which felt like it was going to come out of the top of my head).
Needles for me as well, school decided to show a video of dug addicts and what can go wrong when they are injecting and they twitch... Ruined me for life regarding needles
 
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My sons girlfriend is terrified of E.T.
Telling me was a mistake though....i printed this out.....
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Cut round it, and stuck it on his bedroom window (we live in a bungalow).
I waited till he went in the shower, then tapped on the window knowing she would open the blinds. I can still hear the scream now....
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hmmm... good excuse for lurking outside her bedroom window :emoticon-0159-music:emoticon-0159-music
 
I've already fessed up to fear of heights, but that isn't the fear that has had the biggest effect on my life.

Needles, meaning syringe needles. As a result of having an abscessed tooth extracted under local anaesthesia when I was about 8.

This was back when the dentist had reusable syringes, and this one seemed pretty blunt!

I had injections either side of the inflamed gum, into the cheek and into the roof of my mouth (which felt like it was going to come out of the top of my head).


I'm a bit like that with general anaesthetic.
Hated the gas and mask as a kid at the dentists. And I smashed me jaw in twice, once in Devon on holiday and again a couple years later in Shields. :D
Feel like shìt after it, sick as a dog.
Arl inside your mouth and chin sewn up doesn't help either :D although a needle now which doesn't bother me much
It's probably that old experience and a fear of not being in control/put to sleep.

I turned down havin me tonsils out cos of it, which turns out I was misdiagnosed anyway and didn't need them out :D

I remember my dentist saying to me when I was in my early twenties that of all his child patients I was the one top of the list he thought that would stop coming. He used to have to get another dentist to hold me down whilst avoiding fists and feet <laugh>

But although uncomfortable especially at the front of your mouth I'll take a local needle anyday over general, especially gas lol.