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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on April 03, 2014, 01:45:21 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018599925
Oh my.
I'm sure the primitives have been eagerly scouring the very long list, hoping to find phobias that give them a seat on the disability gravy-train.
Aerows (23,164 posts) Thu Apr 3, 2014, 12:12 AM
Interesting: a list of phobias
I found this one to be interesting:
Bufonophobia- Fear of toads.
Just so you know I'm not making fun of people, I have a BLAZING one. I can't be in the room if I spot a cockroach (and probably ran screaming from the location) until I can come back with enough bug spray to kill a zombie.
I'm well aware that isn't an eco-friendly position, but when it comes to cockroaches, I lose it because of my terror of the damn things.
http://phobialist.com/
Where are you on this list?
Too bad the primitive wasn't afraid of raccoons.
<<<not afraid of raccoons; just leave them alone, and they leave me alone.
<<<only known phobia is anxiety when driving over a bridge.
Anyway.
The list is very long, but I thought these might apply to the primitives:
Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing.
Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.
Agliophobia- Fear of pain.
Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place.
Algophobia- Fear of pain.
Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions.
Androphobia- Fear of men.
--applicable to the screeching she-women banshees
Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society.
Atelophobia- Fear of imperfection.
Autophobia- Fear of being alone or of oneself.
That's just the "A"s; there's all the rest of the alphabet.
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only known phobia is anxiety when driving over a bridge.
This is bothersome to me, but only on a motorcycle. Especially the bridges with the grating in the center span.
Causes white knuckles on the grips every time.
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Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions.
They have it in spades. Plus the particularly virulent offshoot: FOXallodoxaphobia
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This is bothersome to me, but only on a motorcycle. Especially the bridges with the grating in the center span.
Causes white knuckles on the grips every time.
My wife has a similar fear, but it involves the grates sometimes found in the sidewalks. She has to walk around them, not over them.
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I wish all liberals had the fear of breathing.
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This is bothersome to me, but only on a motorcycle. Especially the bridges with the grating in the center span.
Causes white knuckles on the grips every time.
Mine's a little different; it's a feeling that the bridge is narrowing, narrowing, narrowing as one crosses it, and it's going to be too narrow for the motor vehicle before one gets to the other side.
This feeling is strongest when one approaches a bridge at high speed, which is usually the case around here (because of little traffic).
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Here's some additional fears of the primitives:
Ergophobia – fear of work or functioning
Gelotophobia – fear of being laughed at
Heliophobia – fear of sunlight (for the basement dwellers)
Christianophobia – fear/dislike of Christians
Here's some fears they DON'T have:
Obesophobia – fear of obesity
Osmophobia, olfactophobia – fear of bad odours
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I'm shocked no one has mentioned this one yet . . .
Hoplophobia
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I'm shocked no one has mentioned this one yet . . .
Hoplophobia
Fear of the Greek Infantry? :confused:
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Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.
The one that would apply to the DUmmies would be the converse of that, a fear of sanity.
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Conservaphobia - Fear of conservatives (I made that up)
Eleutherophobia - Fear of freedom
Astynomiaphobia - Fear of police
Hypengyophobia - Fear of responsibility
Pedophobia - Fear of babies
Lilapsophobia - Fear of tornados
Nourlphobia - No internet (I made that up too) :-)
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I'm shocked no one has mentioned this one yet . . .
Hoplophobia
Funny, I asked that at trivia a few months ago. :-)
Describes DUmmies perfectly.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018599925
<<<only known phobia is anxiety when driving over a bridge.
Me too, but only extremely tall ones, which is a blessing because I have to drive over multiple bridges all day long here in coastal Virginia. The funny thing is that this has not always been the case, and I know exactly when I developed the phobia: going over a crazy bridge in San Diego (is it called the Coronado?). I actually shut my eyes (I was the passenger or this would have ended badly) and ducked my head until we were back on the ground. Now I HATE the super tall bridges.
As for bridges with metal grates..... I drive over one every day in heavy traffic, and the WORST is when I am stopped right on top of it. I always think it's going to collapse.
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Nourlphobia - No internet (I made that up too) :-)
:lmao: :rotf: :lol: :rofl:
H5-worthy!
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Fear of the Greek Infantry? :confused:
That's more or less where the word comes from, the free Greek soldiers provided their own personal panoply (Suite of arms and armor) at their own expense, and the equipment for war was personally owned by them and maintained in their homes. Not so strange, really.
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When I was a kid we'd often travel through Marlinton, WV in deer season. There was a wooden bridge across the Greenbrier River that had no floor. It was a wooden trestle bridge, and cars traveled across on wooden tracks maybe eighteen inches wide.
I never saw a car go off the tracks, but I guess if it did it would be caught between the cross members that held the tracks. It would have been a bitch to retrieve a hung up car. It was low to the water, but I always held my breath until we got across.
Of course, it was replaced by a strong concrete bridge during the prosperity of the Reagan Boom. I haven't been there in decades, but today it's probably called the Robert C. Byrd Bridge. As far as I know they haven't renamed the river or the town.
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That's more or less where the word comes from, the free Greek soldiers provided their own personal panoply (Suite of arms and armor) at their own expense, and the equipment for war was personally owned by them and maintained in their homes. Not so strange, really.
Yup.
That irrational fear exists in great barrels on the 'Island. No doubt.
Thanks for the clarification, by the way. :II: :cheers1:
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I suspect my phobia of bridges "narrowing" as one crosses them perhaps comes from that usually I'm approaching them at high speeds (the highway speed limit); otherwise, I've never had any bad experiences with bridges, nor have noticed any in decreptitude.
During the massive floods here about seven or eight years ago (I forget which year), I actually drove across a bridge that was totally under water. This is NOT recommended, never, ever, not at all.
But I didn't have any choice; there was water behind me too, building up. The bridge, about a third of a mile long, led to higher ground.
Unbeknownst to me, the neighbor and a deputy sheriff were standing on the opposite bank, in this torrential downpour. All they could see was my headlights, and they were practically on their knees praying that I'd make it, because the current, it needs not be said, was powerfully strong.
There was a panic-stricken collie dog in the back seat, all bent out of shape and excreting from its bowels.
I crossed it at 10-15 mph, deathly afraid the water would kill the motor, sweeping me down the river to Omaha. I don't think I breathed the entire time.
Obviously I made it, and the bridge held. I credit it to that Nebraska isn't a corrupt blue machine state, where contractors, buddies of politicos, fudge on construction specifications. We're all aware of course of all these things that fall down in blue states because some bosses had to be paid off, and that was done by scrimping on construction.