Phobias

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Do you, like Truewhite15 have a phobia?
Let it all out here and we'll try and cure you of it...



... with shock tactics.

Warning - people of a nervous disposition may want to leave this thread alone.

[Gary the Enfield]

I haven't found my phobia yet.

Plenty of things I dislike but can tolerate.

Heights
Turbulence
Cellars of derelict properties with no windows (you'd be surprised how many of these I encounter)

But nothing I could say I'm phobic about.

[truewhite15]

Unless you're planning on hooking me up to the National Grid, there aren't any shock tactics that are gonna cure me of my phobia

It's deep-seated. My parents can't explain it, because they have no fear of spiders. Yet I've had it all my life, and it is properly severe, as you've no doubt noticed.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Mine's rats, but only real rats. I don't give a monkey's about photos of em or stuffed toy rats or the like. But real rats running towards me and I shit myself. Strangely enough, mice I'm not overly bothered about so long as they are not touching me, and other rodents like shrews and whatnot I actually like.
My worst nightmare is being in confined spaces with the buggers, and I once had the misfortune to go on a tour of the secret world underneath the Royal Mile in Edinburgh and the place was alive with them.

[PC1978]

The best phobia has got to be hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, the irrational fear of long words!!!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

The best phobia has got to be hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, the irrational fear of long words!!!

because supercalifragilisticexpealidocious is a made up word, would a fear of that to a hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobe be quasihippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

There is, truly, a fear of having peanut butter getting stuck to your upper palate - unfortunately I've forgotten what it's called.

EDIT: found it "Arachibutyrophobia"

[David Lee's Hair]

Bananaphobia... I shit you not...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Bananaphobia... I shit you not...

What? You've got a fear of bananas?

[Montreal Wanderer]

Bananaphobia... I shit you not...

What? You've got a fear of bananas?

It is an odd one but I suppose it depends on the circumstances. Is a fear of someone taking a large banana and shoving it up your rectum irrational?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Bananaphobia... I shit you not...

What? You've got a fear of bananas?

It is an odd one but I suppose it depends on the circumstances. Is a fear of someone taking a large banana and shoving it up your rectum irrational?

But that, surely, would be recto-penetrato-phobia as opposed to bananaphobia, wouldn't it?

[Montreal Wanderer]

Bananaphobia... I shit you not...

What? You've got a fear of bananas?

It is an odd one but I suppose it depends on the circumstances. Is a fear of someone taking a large banana and shoving it up your rectum irrational?

But that, surely, would be recto-penetrato-phobia as opposed to bananaphobia, wouldn't it?

Not if you enjoyed other implements of penetration (organic or inorganic) and only feared the banana. Still, it is not a subject on which I would like to claim any expertise.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Nor one upon which I wish to dwell further. I fear I may have a touch of bananaphobia myself.

[David Lee's Hair]

No-one has ever shoved a banana up my derriere... No idea where it is from, but it is a true phobia as it is irrational...

The mother tells a tale that as a baby - talking months old - I'd see a banana, freeze and start to shake uncontrollably... wierd!

Not that bad now, I can be in a room with them but I don't trust them.... how can you trust something that is grown on a plant that "walks" around the world!!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

No-one has ever shoved a banana up my derriere... No idea where it is from, but it is a true phobia as it is irrational...

The mother tells a tale that as a baby - talking months old - I'd see a banana, freeze and start to shake uncontrollably... wierd!

Not that bad now, I can be in a room with them but I don't trust them.... how can you trust something that is grown on a plant that "walks" around the world!!

You're going to have to explain that last bit to us ordinary mortals who see bananas simply as cuddly yellow skinned fruit.

[PC1978]

No-one has ever shoved a banana up my derriere... No idea where it is from, but it is a true phobia as it is irrational...

The mother tells a tale that as a baby - talking months old - I'd see a banana, freeze and start to shake uncontrollably... wierd!

Not that bad now, I can be in a room with them but I don't trust them.... how can you trust something that is grown on a plant that "walks" around the world!!

You're going to have to explain that last bit to us ordinary mortals who see bananas simply as cuddly yellow skinned fruit.

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Is this what you mean?

[Gary the Enfield]

From some or other clever fecking know-it-all website:

It is a common myth that banana plants may "walk" or move as they grow. This myth originates form South American banana plantations, and is a gross misunderstanding of how the banana plant grows.

To resolve this misunderstanding, it is first important to know that the banana plant is not a tree, but a herb. What this means is that the part of the banana plant that sticks out of the ground (called a pseudostem) is only a small part of the plant, and in fact grows, bears fruit and dies all within a year, compared to the relatively long lifespan of the plant of up to 25 years.

The banana stem exists underground, growing laterally. The plant will grow only up to two pseudostems at any given time, with several months' difference between them.

As the pseudostems grow, bear fruit and die, it looks as though the plant is moving slightly, whereas all that is really happening is that the actual banana plant is growing laterally underground and sending its' pseudostems up in slightly different positions.

The position of the pseudostems' growing site may differ from the original by up to 40 centimetres in the lifetime of a banana plant.

[David Lee's Hair]

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[Lost Leopard Spot]

I knew none of this. I always trusted my bananas to be upright unmoving citizens of the plant world, not sneaky shifty pseudo-creatures creeping around the place on not-feet. Bananas out!

[Montreal Wanderer]

From some or other clever fecking know-it-all website:

It is a common myth that banana plants may "walk" or move as they grow. This myth originates form South American banana plantations, and is a gross misunderstanding of how the banana plant grows.

To resolve this misunderstanding, it is first important to know that the banana plant is not a tree, but a herb. What this means is that the part of the banana plant that sticks out of the ground (called a pseudostem) is only a small part of the plant, and in fact grows, bears fruit and dies all within a year, compared to the relatively long lifespan of the plant of up to 25 years.

The banana stem exists underground, growing laterally. The plant will grow only up to two pseudostems at any given time, with several months' difference between them.

As the pseudostems grow, bear fruit and die, it looks as though the plant is moving slightly, whereas all that is really happening is that the actual banana plant is growing laterally underground and sending its' pseudostems up in slightly different positions.

The position of the pseudostems' growing site may differ from the original by up to 40 centimetres in the lifetime of a banana plant.

Interesting. It may not be a tree but those pseudostems are treelike in size.