British Comedy Guide

Rational and Irrational fears

What scares you? Intimidates you? Makes your skin crawl?

And more importantly is it a rational or a shameful irrational fear?

Sootyj Fears

1 Posting letters (shameful and pretty stupid)
2 Sitcoms (rational)
3 Being tired in the middle of the week (sort of rational)

And some other stuff probably.

I don't like flying. Nothing strange in that....apart from the fact I have a degree in the bloody subject.

Ladies smiling at me scares me too.

Then street sweeper things. The ones with men on. They make me do scaredy screams.

They do come right up to you don't they?

I mean if one came right upto you would it bump you slightly? Or would you be sucked in....

You must live in posh places to have road sweepers!

Flying - rational
Spiders - rational (some would say irrational, but I disagree.)
Death - rational

Spiders hmmm.

I can't bear one watching if I'm on the loo. And the UK ones are apparently getting more venemous thanks to them coming back in luggage etc.

Quote: bigfella @ September 2 2010, 8:41 PM BST


Ladies smiling at me scares me too.

As it does me, once every five years or so.

Oh bless we are such dweebs.

Quote: sootyj @ September 2 2010, 8:56 PM BST

They do come right up to you don't they?

I mean if one came right upto you would it bump you slightly? Or would you be sucked in....

They're TERRIFYING. One time one snuck up on me and I cried and Dan had to hug me for about five minutes until I calmed down.

Quote: bigfella @ September 2 2010, 8:57 PM BST

You must live in posh places to have road sweepers!

Which cities don't have road sweepers?

Maybe like sharks you should hit them firmly on the snout and shoo them away.

But sitcoms old style ones do scare me a fair bit.

Quote: zooo @ September 2 2010, 8:58 PM BST

Flying - rational
Spiders - rational (some would say irrational, but I disagree.)
Death - rational

Women smiling - rational.

Hmm enclosed spaces. Any where I can't strech my arms full length either side.

Tubes stopping in tunnels when crowded, not nice.

Rational but inconvenient.

Flying never bothered me. I mean it's so out of one's control and death would be pretty sudden.

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ September 2 2010, 9:03 PM BST

Women smiling - rational.

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Are you scared yet?

Losing my sight.

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