Saw this headline this morning…”Clown tries to lure kids in Winston-Salem, two clown sightings reported”. I’ve always been a little afraid of clowns.
Outside of big government, what are you afraid of? Bonus points if it’s something funny. For example, we had a foster child who was terrified of cicada shells.
My worst fear outside of government related ones would be becoming sick or disabled and unable to take care of myself.
I met two people in one week who have a fear of holes. Yeah, that’s actually a thing.
Trypophobia.
Sooooo, doughnuts would be a big problem?
Bugs
As a kid, woke up to a centipede crawling across my face.
Swimming in water I can’t see the bottom of.
Sharks. I stay outta their water and they stay off of my land. It’s been scientifically proven that 100% of shark bites…occurred in the water.
Not necessarily! I saw a documentary where a shark shot out of the water and onto land to eat a moose.
I was bitten by a Black Widow and would have suffocated if my mom had not gotten me to the emergency room in time. I hate all poisonous things including liberals.
Hillary Clinton becoming the president. Not trying to be funny. I really fear if she wins it will be the end of our REPUBLIC.Either by secession ,hostile ethnic strife or out right civil war.
So like rhys jr said, poisonous spiders…
Dogs. I’ve had far too many bad experiences with delusional dog owners whose fanged missiles were overly aggressive, usually while fighting them off the SO’s utterly submissive collie. Dogs can and DO kill people, astonishingly a record 45 people were killed by dog attacks in the U.S. and Canada during 2015, including an also-record 33 people killed by pit bulls, along with 459 disfigurements-attacks SO severe that someone will be disfigured or disabled for LIFE. Most of these victims were KIDS. NONE of these dogs was abused, mistreated, or ‘trained to fight/kill’. And unfortunately since our society utterly worships the beasts they are permitted everywhere without regard for public safety.
Snakes. I swear my brain is hardwired to be afraid of snakes. It doesn’t matter that rationally I know I live in an area where there are virtually no poisonous snakes and any snakes here don’t get bigger than a couple feet. A few years ago I walked by a stone retaining wall on my property and my brain flashed a SNAKE warning overlaid with the image of a snake head the size of a basketball. It was surreal. I carefully checked the wall and finally found the six inch snake with just its head peeping out of the wall.
Passing out from a massive erection, and then never regaining consciousness.
PAINT. I fucken fear and hate paint. Fuck paint. Paint eats shit. Fuck you, paint!
Well … the kitchen walls are done …. two coats of primer, and three coats of paint.
The 3 window frames and windows themselves, 2 door frames, 2 doors, and molding along the floor have been sanded down to bare wood (it had about 5 coats of brown, blue, and white enamel previously), primed, and painted.
The 8 foot length of metal covering the heating coils have been stripped to bare metal and primed and painted.
The insides of all the cabinets (22 of them) have been sanded, primed, and painted, and new contact paper installed.
All the framing around the cabinets have been sanded, and primed, and sanded again.
PAINTING OF ACTUAL CABINET DOORS STARTED TODAY! YEA!!! … 22 doors, front and back. Backs will get a minimum of two coats. Fronts will get a minimum of three coats, maybe four. If I can paint all the doors in one sitting, and then wait until the next day for it to dry, lightly sand, and put on the next coat, well … I’m hoping to be done by Sunday.
Fuck paint.
Paint Eats Shit.
But, I repeat myself.
Carry on, non painters!
Painting isn’t so bad, what I hate is the prep work. Scrape, sand, sand, sand, clean up, sand some more…UGH! After all the dreary prep, painting and seeing a finished well done product give much pleasure and pride.
Weeding the garden is a chore I’d like to avoid, yet the results are satisfying. But the most hateful thing is cleaning up vomit and baby shit…gags me every time.
Wait..this is about what I fear most…well I guess it is that all the doom and fear mongers are right.
People like Stucky keep people like me in business.
“Painting isn’t so bad, what I hate is the prep work.” ——- Hagar
LOL
My dad was a professional painter … trained in Germany by a master painter. One of the few possessions he brought over with him were his rollers …. they had these raised designs on them, often flowery stuff and some with geometric designs … dip the roller in paint, and paint the wall …. the end result was beautiful, looked just like wallpaper, only better. He NEVER ran out of work … people just loved it.
Anyway, … dad said that the “secret” to a great paint job is in the prepping. Any monkey can slap on a coat of paint, he said … and that painting is 95% preparation, and 5% actual painting.
I am afraid that I will one day never find another english speaking person. I will be completely frickin surrounded by people who cant frickin speak english.
icon, I work for a company that is very pro-diversity. I’m already surrounded – even with the (less that half) of my group that is located here in the US.
I would prefer not to get burned to death or fall off of a very high place where I have time to take several breaths before I impact. Being eaten alive like Timothy Treadwell would suck too. I don’t dwell on fear all that much. I tend to get really pragmatic when most people become fearful.
I’d like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers.
Amway salesman trying to get you to join their cult.
I’ve always been creeped out by clowns absolutely hate them. I also hate spiders.
You must have loved the movie IT
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