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Pogonophobia - 9/8/2006 12:09:05 PM

NorthernGent

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Was reading the Steve Irwin thread and thought about fears and famous people (you know snakes and what have you).

Some will know that pogonophobia is the fear of beards (whether it means the fear of men with beards or the fear of a giant beard sneaking into your home, setting fire to itself and burning your financial receipts for the year is open to debate).

Anyway, Margaret Thatcher was a famous pogonophobe. She wouldn't have any man with a beard in her cabinet (primary government to the Americans). Conservatives eh? In their deluded world the chin is the window to the soul!

Got me thinking, any of the good members of CM have fears and what about celebrities - any strange fears?

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RE: Pogonophobia - 9/8/2006 12:51:58 PM

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I used to be afraid of clowns and had still do not like them much..

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RE: Pogonophobia - 9/8/2006 1:20:40 PM

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I've always been afraid of bald women and women who shave their heads, especially bald women with long beards or thick moustaches... yikes!

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RE: Pogonophobia - 9/8/2006 1:29:29 PM

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Nothing really unusual, at least not to me. Though I love love LOVE flying and wish I could get my pilots liscense, I am afraid of heights. Somewhat claustrophobic. I refuse to swim in water I cannot see the bottom (most of the bodies of water in Iowa)

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RE: Pogonophobia - 9/8/2006 1:38:10 PM

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Politically Correct Liberals.
They are so blind to the consequences of their belief system !

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RE: Pogonophobia - 9/8/2006 3:09:37 PM

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which of course leads to tunnel visioned, right wing.......people...........

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RE: Pogonophobia - 9/8/2006 3:23:20 PM

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I am ~terrified~ of needles, although I have three tattoos and my nipples are pierced, have had two children, used to give blood (until I was put on lifetime deferrment - THANK HEAVENS).

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ... maybe I'm a masochist.

~wandering away to ponder~

PS I would absolutely pass out if a beard came walking into my house. Other people's body hair makes me kinda gaggy ... although I like hairy chested / bellied men.

Yeah. I must be a masochist.

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RE: Pogonophobia - 9/8/2006 3:24:48 PM

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Maybe I was just way too young when I read "1984" but I'm terrified of a thought controlling police state. It has nothing to do with partisan politics but it does impact my view on many political events.

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RE: Pogonophobia - 9/8/2006 3:27:14 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: WyrdRich

Maybe I was just way too young when I read "1984" but I'm terrified of a thought controlling police state. It has nothing to do with partisan politics but it does impact my view on many political events.

Whatcha now, I am afraid of that too... I think this is why John Poindexter and the Office of Information Awareness made me lose sleep at night.. that "all knowing eye" thing really is creepy

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RE: Pogonophobia - 9/8/2006 8:18:50 PM

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Bottled Kabala water scares me. There's something about Canadian spring water blessed by a monk that does not settle with me. Then there's also the price of the bottle. I'm in the wrong business. Where can I get a spring and Monk certification so I can make money off these celebrity suckers/over charged customers?

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RE: Pogonophobia - 9/8/2006 11:44:39 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: NorthernGent
Got me thinking, any of the good members of CM have fears and what about celebrities - any strange fears?

Not a phobia, per say...but I am afraid of fish biting my toes/ankle/legs in fresh water. Sea water doesn't bother me, I think it's b/c it's less murky.

I think it's a holdover from watching the movie "Piranah" when I was 9.

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RE: Pogonophobia - 9/8/2006 11:55:27 PM

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I thought this thread was going to be about pogo game addicts.

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RE: Pogonophobia - 9/8/2006 11:58:38 PM

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My biggest irrational fear is of having to be elaboratly and expensively rescued after doing something stupid. Especially if I am in a particularly embarassing situation.

For a time I had an odd feeling that I was going to slice myself badly with a sharp knife. Almost like some premonition. It was silly and actually made me a bit more clumsy with knives for a time. ( self fulfilling premonition ? ). I got over it, with no cuts.

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RE: Pogonophobia - 9/9/2006 12:02:04 AM

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Rich,

Well, time to stand up and be counted because you and I both live in thought controlling police states.

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RE: Pogonophobia - 9/9/2006 12:23:28 AM

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I like the elaborately and expensively rescued fear - there's a lot of effort and imagination gone into having such a fear!

Only snakes for me and I've never seen one apart from TV so it is irrational - but, I could never imagine going to a country populated by snakes.

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RE: Pogonophobia - 9/9/2006 2:15:19 AM

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I started hating clowns after I read the book "IT." When I was 16. *shudder* and the movie didn't help.. They got everything wrong except that psychotic evil ass clown. I also have a fear of water where I cant see the bottom. Which both my mother and I blame on my father, and him letting me read books like Jaws, The Abyss, and The Deep, when I was 8 years old. LoL my mom was trying to wean me out of my fear when I was about... 12, and took me to the lake with some friends of hers. Due to some shadows, there was a really harsh line of demarcation between light and dark, and I dropped a pair of goggles about a foot away from the line, on the light side. Mustering my 12 year old courage, I dove down, and just as I picked up the goggles, I looked into the dark. THERE WAS SOMETHING STARING AT ME!!!!!! With glowy little eyes and everything. Yeah.. that pretty much cemented my fear.

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RE: Pogonophobia - 9/9/2006 3:11:55 AM

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Yup, I have to be able to see the bottom of a body of water. Saw a friend slip/sit down on a tree/log in the water and crawdad latched onto his sack and would not let go. Blood was flying everywhere. Very tramatic for everyone involved at such a young age. We all thought he was going to die. I never did get a direct answer from the grown-ups as to if he only had one after that, but I gathered this is the case from what I could overhear.

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RE: Pogonophobia - 9/9/2006 3:58:11 AM

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A bit of bad luck for your friend. It doesn't get much worse than that :-)

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RE: Pogonophobia - 9/9/2006 4:06:24 AM

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arachnophobia is my problem. I have a deal going in the garden, they stay in their area and I stay in mine at night... Besides claustrophobia, the only problem I have is with people who are illinformed and continually make crass statements abd expect others to take it as gospel. Still they too have theior uses ~ Pet Meat!

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RE: Pogonophobia - 9/9/2006 4:41:34 AM

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So stupid..but I am terrified of skunks, and of hostile space aliens.
Talk about ridiculous...but, that's an irrational fear for you lol

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