Four million Brits suffer from toilet phobia

The Daily Mail ^ | November 11, 2006 | Staff

[Thumper1960]

Public health problem.

Needs study.

Send money.

$$$$$$$ Right down the toilet.

[Oberon]

So I guess reading the Shelob passages in the Lord of the Rings must have been pretty traumatic, then.

Peter Jackson's film didn't really adequately convey the horror of Shelob, I think.

[Mrs Ivan]

The book, was much worse - there, there is room for my own imagination to take over and - well, euuurgh.

In the film it pretty much a none event, I mean I didn't say, "Yippee, spiders!" but it was expected and portrayed in a fairly routine manner.

[dc27]

My hubby refers to me as a poop camel

Now that's funny.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Our local gay males prefer the woods and shrubs of our local public parks. It's about the only time they ever go in bush in their life. ;-)

And it NEVER occured to you to transplant large quantities of poison ivy to those parks?

Give the filthy buggers a real itch to scratch.

[Lockbar]

If afraid to use other's toilets, then they should just carry their own.

[Ditter]

Have these people never been to France and Holland where the citizens will pee anywhere? I have seen more people peeing out in the broad open daylight in my several trips to Europe than I have seen in my entire life in the US. I have a very good Dutch friend in the US and that woman will pee anywhere anytime. Amazing!

[tet68]

"It is known as the 'secret' or 'silent' phobia because of its double whammy impact,"

Double whammy super secret phobia bump.

[Gorzaloon]

Our bathrooms are infested with horrible hairy spiders that like to lie in wait for me - I think they like the sound of me screaming.

For some reason, they avoid you.

Hahaha, I have SUCH a difficult time not responding to MY wife's posts on here! We have a truce about not bringing the threads home.

It's a plot. Do we use our wives to scare the spiders away so it is safe for us, thereby never seeing the dreaded Loo Spiders?

Like flushing game?

[KoRn]

I've always thought they were just afraid of tooth brushes. Now toilets too!

[grey_whiskers]

She also says, by the way, that Ivan is quite handsome, even from her accustomed angle.

My Oberon! what visions have I seen! Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.

--A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act IV, Scene I

Cheers!

[Fresh Wind]

[Oberon]

gw, that's rather more irony than I was expecting this morning. Thank you very much!

[grey_whiskers]

:-)

Off to ride my bicycle now...

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Toilet phobias range from a mild dislike of public loos

I thought that was known as common sense.

[mewzilla]

A funny, possibly related link...

The Sewergator Sanctuary

[Chewie84]

Maybe they watched "Lethal Weapon 2" a few too many times.

[Solamente]

I used to worry when I was a kid that some aquatic creature would swim up the pipes and bite my balls - after all, one is most vulnerable whilst seated on the toilet.

[Slings and Arrows]

If I had to use a public toilet, then I'd be scared to! Have you seen those things?

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

[san juan]

"I find this article absolutely hilarious."

This is a very real phobia; as unexplainable but nearly as common as your partner's fear of spiders yet far more debilitating. My question is: Why do you find it so laughable? Do you still giggle as fart jokes?