Top Ten List of the Week - Fears/Phobias People Have

[Mike]

Let the games continue! Introducing the new Top Ten List this week.

(I'm not going to crown a champion as I did last week, because it can be a matter of members being on line at the right time. Not quite fair.)

Remember, the SAME RULES APPLY:
1. No cheating by looking for this or any other similar list that would give you an unfair advantage. This is on your honor.
2. Only 1 response per post, but you are free to post as many times as you'd like.
3. I'll post the link to the list when it is completed.
4. I'll fill in the list on this OP in the order that they are given.
5. I'll fill in Post #2 with wrong answers as they are given.

So, this week's Top Ten List is... Top Ten Fears (Phobias) People Have. A reminder that this is NOT my list. I'm just going with what this list I found said.

Top Ten Fears (Phobias) People Have

1. Acrophobia (heights) - Handy
2. Claustrophobia (enclosed spaces) - Handy by a minute!
3. Nyctophobia (dark) - Sparrowhawke
4. Ophidiophobia (snakes) - Sparrowhawke
5. Arachnophobia (spiders) - Handy
6. Trypanophobia (needles/injections) - Sparrowhawke
7. Astraphobia (thunder & lightning) - Sparrowhawke
8. Nosophobia (disease) - Sparrowhawke
9. Mysophobia (germs) - Sparrowhawke
10. Triskaidekaphobia (the #13) - Sparrowhawke

Let's have at it! You guess 'em, and I'll fill 'em in! Now, git guessin'!! NO CHEATING!!

 

[Mike]

WRONG RESPONSES

Moths
Cats
Clowns
Being Outside (agoraphobia)
Glossophobia

Please define your terms for the benefit of everyone.

Creepy crawlies (spiders was said)
Flying
Dying
Public Speaking (surprisingly not on the list!)
Dirt
Falling
Loud Noises
Water
Barfing
Vomit
Anger
Old people
Being buried alive
Psychosis
Being watched
Women :p
Abandonment
Failing
Aliens
Disorder/mess
Incarceration
Blood
Tests
Embarrassment
Being wrong
The unknown
Dogs
Not knowing the Top Ten :D
Bats
Relationships
mice/rats
Bunnies (awwwwe)
Atomic bomb
Earthquakes
Drowning
tokophobia : Please define your terms for the benefit of everyone.
Stinky stuff
Smelling bad yourself
Fire
Odors
Numbers
Crowds
Offending people (not a lot of that around here! )
Breaking a mirror
Walking under a ladder
Demon possession
Being obese
Rejection
Corpses (the dead)
Growing Old
Doctors
Dentist
Medical Procedures
Being Photographed
Being alone (abandoned)
Skeletons
Winning
Mel Gibson (Yes! He's made another contest!!)
Light
Being naked
Dying in one's sleep
The Toilet
Barbarian (a blast from the past)
confrontation
Sharks
Making lists
Asking directions
Speed
Anesthesia
Hospitals
Lawsuit
Surgery
Patients
Handwriting (I think this was a joke)

 

[handy]

Moths...the most loathsome and fearsome creatures on the planet!!!!!

:o

 

[handy]

And, for the more mundane fears

Heights

 

[handy]

Mike, you'll probably appreciate this one:

Cats.

Can't understand it. Truly can't, but there it is! Some folks just have irrational fears...I mean really, to be fearful/hateful about cats, yet view a moth (shudder) as some "harmless" insect. Ugh!

 

[handy]

Arachnophobia...fear of spiders.

 

[handy]

And, right up there with moths (well, almost):

Clowns.

Seriously, aren't clowns the creepiest things?

 

[handy]

Oh, and agoraphobia, at least I think this is how it's spelled...anyway, it's the fear of being outside.

 

[Hitch]

Glossophobia

 

[Sparkey]

Fear of the dark

 

[Sparkey]

Afraid of germs

 

[Sparkey]

Fear of Ssssnakes... (ether that or the sound of Ssssibilant Ssss's)

 

[Sparkey]

Fear of creepy crawlies (bugs, insects, slimey things)

 

[handy]

Opps! Said snakes then saw that Sparrowhawke was on that one...

How about claustrophobia, being afraid of being in closed in areas...gotta admit to that one as well. Don't fence me in!

 

[Sparkey]

Fear of closed in space: Claustrophopia

 

[Sparkey]

Fear of flying

 

[handy]

Sparrowhawke, we keep posting the same answers at the same time! Great minds, eh!

Fear of dying!

 

[Sparkey]

Fear of sounding like Handy

 

[Sparkey]

Afraid of public speaking (social situations?) Overyly shy.

 

[Sparkey]

My sister was afraid of jumping off newspapers but Handy mentioned fear of heights. My other sister was afraid of moths, but again, Handy has the one covered. My last (youngest) sister was afraid of dirt.

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I used to say, "Ahhhhh... Kathy? Look at me." Then would slowly dip my Three Muskateers candy bar into the dirt and take a bite. It would freak her out.

Fear of Dirt.