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Britain's weirdest phobias include a fear of peas and kneecaps
The Telegraph ^
| 27 Dec 2008
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Posted on 12/27/2008 3:06:45 PM PST by managusta
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Come on America. We must be able to beat the British at phobia's.
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posted on
12/27/2008 3:06:46 PM PST
by
managusta
To: managusta
“Tea bags, tree roots and midgets are other terrors......”
Must resist......
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posted on
12/27/2008 3:09:27 PM PST
by
GQuagmire
To: managusta
I've always been fascinated by an up-and-coming phobia: fear of clowns. My daughter is in her 20’s and clowns give her the creeps.
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posted on
12/27/2008 3:13:39 PM PST
by
LiberConservative
("We gonna get PAID!" - Obama voter)
To: managusta
I have a fear of foreign phobias.
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posted on
12/27/2008 3:14:27 PM PST
by
ThomasThomas
( I don't ask for directs why would I ask for tech support?)
To: managusta
Explaining her dislike of peas, she said: "They tend to just look at me ganging up on me. All the hairs on the back of my neck go up. I have to know where they are in the supermarket before I go in.I feel terrible, but I am yucking it up over this!
Having said that, phobias are very real to the sufferers, and are not funny at all. I don't have any, but oddly I can kind of relate to this lady with the pea-phobia. Some small, round things gross me out and I finally figured out why: I think they remind me of kids making Rubber Cement "boogers" which looked like real boogers, rolling them around in their fingers and admiring them, LOL!
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posted on
12/27/2008 3:17:06 PM PST
by
KJC1
To: managusta
... and they also seem to be developing a fear of freedom.
To: LiberConservative
I have never liked clowns. My sister saw Ronald McDonald at a local McDonalds in the 1970’s and was traumatized. I just think they’re creepy. Mimes are the same, just more annoying.
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posted on
12/27/2008 3:18:34 PM PST
by
TheConservativeParty
("A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not why the ship was built." by The First Gal of AK)
To: LiberConservative
That’s not a phobia. Clowns ARE creepy.
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posted on
12/27/2008 3:18:49 PM PST
by
Bryanw92
To: managusta
There would be plenty of material here for a Monty Python sketch.
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posted on
12/27/2008 3:20:45 PM PST
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: Bryanw92
> Thats not a phobia. Clowns ARE creepy.
Yup. Ever seen/read Stephen King’s “It”? Perry Wise the Dancing Clown? Crikey! That’s enough to scare kids...
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posted on
12/27/2008 3:23:34 PM PST
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: managusta
What’s it called when you fear having your in-laws come for a visit? They’re union liberals by the way, how my husband turned out conservative is a miracle. At my house on Christmas, I took out my latest gun purchase to show my Dad (conservative) and my Mother-in-Law says “you have a gun?”. Answer “I have 4”. M-in-L “Why?”. Answer “ because this is AMERICA that’s why.” I swear she has cotton candy for brains. Everytime the husband says “guess who’s coming to see you?” I get a twinge of panic. I guess that is a phobia!
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posted on
12/27/2008 3:24:07 PM PST
by
TheConservativeParty
("A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not why the ship was built." by The First Gal of AK)
To: GQuagmire
> midgets
Midgets can be creepy. So can dwarves.
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posted on
12/27/2008 3:24:57 PM PST
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: managusta
Empty beer cans! Only cure is a full one.
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posted on
12/27/2008 3:25:58 PM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: managusta
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posted on
12/27/2008 3:29:40 PM PST
by
LucyT
To: TheConservativeParty
Whats it called when you fear having your in-laws come for a visit?Sanity.
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posted on
12/27/2008 3:29:59 PM PST
by
Antonello
(Oh my God, don't shoot the banana!)
To: managusta
Boo
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posted on
12/27/2008 3:32:28 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma)
To: LiberConservative
Clowns give me the creeps also.
They always make me wonder, who is really behind all that paint and fakery?
Some pedophile?
Probably not, but if they were, could you tell?
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posted on
12/27/2008 3:39:30 PM PST
by
Fichori
(I believe in a Woman's right to choose, even if she hasn't been born yet.)
To: managusta
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posted on
12/27/2008 3:44:32 PM PST
by
LucyT
To: managusta
Austin Powers: Only two things scare me and one of them is nuclear war.
Basil Exposition: What's the other?
Austin Powers: Excuse me?
Basil Exposition: What's the other thing that scares you?
Austin Powers: Carnies. Circus folk. Nomads, you know. Smell like cabbage. Small hands.
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posted on
12/27/2008 3:44:47 PM PST
by
anymouse
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