Do you have any phobias?

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I used to love riding horses while they were running at full speed. Had a few that could run so fast they would make your eyes water. Had them fall on me several times. That's not fun.
 

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Why bunk beds? Enlighten us.

I have no fear of the dark or enclosed spaces unless both are combined, so your guess is as good as mine. The bottom bunk or a top that's too close to the ceiling causes serious suffocation anxiety. I know, it's fucked up and irrational, but that's what phobias are.
 

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I don't like horses. When I was seven I was getting a ride on a neighbor's horse and it spooked and took off at a gallop. Wouldn't call it a phobia though.

LoL. Television and the movies make it look so easy.

It's not. Neither is handling a horse that rears up on it's hind legs.
 

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LoL. Television and the movies make it look so easy.

It's not. Neither is handling a horse that rears up on it's hind legs.
It is easy when you grow up on a horse farm. :yep:
 

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Considering I was seven and prior to that my experience level was a shetland pony at a fair it scared the shit out of me.
 

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The only fucking time I ever rode a horse this son of a ***** decided to take off full fucking tilt on me when he got spooked. I was shitting myself for a few minutes. Since then I have avoided horses. NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE! Its not a fear of horses so much as me not knowing how to control one so I don't take my fucking chances anymore.

The only legitimate phobia I have is arachnophobia.
 

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The only fucking time I ever rode a horse this son of a ***** decided to take off full fucking tilt on me when he got spooked. I was shitting myself for a few minutes. Since then I have avoided horses. NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE! Its not a fear of horses so much as me not knowing how to control one so I don't take my fucking chances anymore.

The only legitimate phobia I have is arachnophobia.

This shit's for real....

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Is that guy insane? You see something like that you kill it and then burn it to be sure it's dead. I can see that thing running up that guy's arm and biting him in his eyes.
 

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It is easy when you grow up on a horse farm. :yep:


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Not so easy when the only time you ride is when you're on vacation with your wife.


One of our last rides was on a beautiful forested trail in New Mexico. It was one of those half-guided rides where they'll let you go off on your own for while once they know you can handle things. Well, being young and a lot more confident & adventurous, I tried to prod the horse to go down a somewhat steep trail. Ignoring what the guides told us about the horses knowing the trails, I kept pushing him but he would have none of it.

About a minute into the ordeal the horse decided that he'd had enough and he stood straight up on me. I'm pretty sure the only thing that stopped me from being thrown was the fact that we were facing downhill. I later found out from the guides that the horse, appropriately named Diablo (Eater of Purple Flowers), had stepped on a beehive at the bottom of the trail a week or so earlier.

Two things I learned that day: It's possible to sprain your ass and horses aren't entirely dumb animals.
 
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Yeah, those things are considerably bigger than the average person's hand:

[video=youtube;klHDzIIrsjY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klHDzIIrsjY[/video]
 

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Men dressed up in wonky clothing and painting their faces to amuse children...yeah, nothing to be afraid of.

I worked with a dude that was a clown on the side. He went to school for that shit and everything. He used to ogle 12 year olds at work (we worked at a supermarket). It fucking sickened me and the rest of us that worked in our department. One of my coworkers finally confronted him about it and the dude went fucking berserk, talking about meeting hm in Logan Square and all sorts of whacked shit. Then he became a principal at a catholic school. Awesome. His clown name was "Boxcar, the Clown."

Yeah. Clowns.
 
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I worked with a dude that was a clown on the side. He went to school for that shit and everything. He used to ogle 12 year olds at work (we worked at a supermarket). It fucking sickened me and the rest of us that worked in our department. One of my coworkers finally confronted him about it and the dude went fucking berserk, talking about meeting hm in Logan Square and all sorts of whacked shit. Then he became a principal at a catholic school. Awesome. His clown name was "Boxcar, the Clown."

Yeah. Clowns.

See, this is the shit I'm talking about.
 

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Yeah, those things are considerably bigger than the average person's hand:

[video=youtube;klHDzIIrsjY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klHDzIIrsjY[/video]

Amazing creatures but this video is as close as I ever want to come to one of those.
 

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Spiders always get a bad rap. My wife always wants me to kill spiders whenever she sees one in the house, but I would rather not b/c they're killing all the other bugs in the house.
 

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Spider boy isn't insane. He's a fucking idiot. I was hoping that thing would bite him. I would have used that machete much different than those guys.
 

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