The 'Eeek' Factor

[Park Kraken]

Out of curiosity more than anything, which of the below would you ascribe as to being your biggest 'Eek' factor?

[Peter McCoy]

You say 'which of the below' despite the fact that the poll choices are above your post. Try not to disappoint me again.

If moths had been on the list, I'd have chosen that.

[Atreyu]

I hate heights. :uhoh

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I hate spiders, but I hate heights more. :x

In fact add 'someone else's child near a safety railing by a drop off' and that's my ultimate sick feeling in my stomach. I literally cannot watch or I start getting all crazy.

[Dasquian Belargic]

If moths had been on the list, I'd have chosen that.

augh, this :ohno

[Morgan Evanar]

Moths? Really?

Pretty much the only thing that really bothers me on that list would be an unprotected height. I also have mild claustrophobia, and

FUCK WASPS/HORNETS FOREVER.

[Tess Abrahams]

I went with roaches because they`re the only living creature I hate. Aliens was a close call but its really not fair to lump them in with a movie portrayal - if I ever met one irl I would probably be okay. (hahaha no no, I would piss myself in all liklihood.)

Heights are scary but in that delightful way that drives me to go higher and higher and higher and, if there is water or a soft surface below, hurl myself off and/or gainor/backflip.

[Rutabaga]

Spiders. Spiders spiders spiders. I hate them. Whenever my father heard me scream for him when I was a little girl, he always knew it was because he had to come rescue me from a spider. Nowadays I smush the little ones with a tissue or paper towel, while the big ones get sucked into the vacuum. DO NOT WANT.

Debating politics on the internet comes in a really close second. O_o

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

I chose 'other', since I can deal pretty well with the rest of the stuff on that list by either avoiding or simply not noticing.

The big thing for me actually ties into my biggest fear of all (losing limbs/extremities), and that is trains. I don't know why, but dammit trains scare the hell out of me. I refuse to walk along tracks, and I visibly cringe if I have to walk across them.

Sorry Kraken :(

[Darth Turbogeek]

American Politicans are hte sole thing that truly scares hte absolute living shit out of me. Everything else on the list? Pffft whatever!

[Captain Untouchable]

FUCK WASPS/HORNETS FOREVER.

Amen, brutha.


I get uncomfortable/afraid when I can't see / predict what is going on. Because wasps move in such an unpredictable way, they scare me a bit. When spiders and snakes do their move-quickly-then-stop routine, that makes me nervous. Pigeons, when they do that exploding into flight thing, used to scare me. I don't like tunnels in aquariums either, because the sharks are "behind" me.

I also don't like going through doors first, or sitting at the front of buses, and I always sit in a corner wherever possible so that no one can come up behind me. One of my friends thinks it's hilarious - apparently I do a quick tactical sweep of any room I go in, looking for possible entrances before choosing the most defensible seat. ^_^;

[Park Kraken]

I chose 'other', since I can deal pretty well with the rest of the stuff on that list by either avoiding or simply not noticing.

The big thing for me actually ties into my biggest fear of all (losing limbs/extremities), and that is trains. I don't know why, but dammit trains scare the hell out of me. I refuse to walk along tracks, and I visibly cringe if I have to walk across them.

Sorry Kraken :(

Understandable. Sometimes I get a little nervous standing next to the tracks watching a speeding train go by, but I'm comforted by the fact that if it derailed, I probably wouldn't feel a thing before I was turned into pudding.

Now, standing on the side of a busy highway, that gets me very very nervous.

[Rossos Atrapes]

Wasps, and/or hornets, and or insects, spiders, and most creatures on this planet? Nothing. I usually just ignore them, and they ignore me, though sometimes they get a bit curious and I remind them I'm not a flower, plant, or other object of interest. Most insects leave you alone, even wasps, though they are the most likely to be douche-bags.

Unless you're close to their nest and all. Then they might attack. Cottonmouths (snakes) suck cause they might actually attack you just because you walked by. But having killed all manner of snakes with all manner of implements, it's kinda hard to get more than "be effin careful" around them, and not really scared.

I'm not scared of heights per se (though large heights do make me uncomfortable), but rather I get a sense of vertigo and motion-sickness until I either move away or do the whole "deep breaths with your eyes closed" thing. I still get weird when riding a roller-coaster for the first time when I go to theme parks, and after the first ride I'm fine for the rest of the day.

[Sanis Prent]

Aliens. The last bullet in the magazine is for me.

[Peter McCoy]

Moths? Really?

They're creepy as fuck. I have a feeling Silent Hill and Resident Evil 2 may have played a part (giant moths in both) but for some reason they scare the shit out of me. The fact that moths drink saliva from the open mouths of sleeping people with their long tongues is terrifying. If I woke up with a moth sitting off on my bottom lip I'd scream the house down. And have you seen them fly!?!?!?

"I'm going this way! No, this way! No, that way! Back this way! Where to next!? Maybe here!? You don't know! Too quick! ATTACK YOU HA!!!"

A moth just lying dormant on my bedroom wall is the same for me as this:

http://www.markta.co.uk/alien/chapter14.htm

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Boy would you hate my house this time of year in the evening then... I mean, um... come out and visit! Summertime is great, and especially at dusk when the outside lights are on. That's the best time to chill outside and shoot the shit underneath the front deck light.

[Sanis Prent]

I kinda wish we had a bug zapper now. Not because I hate bugs, but it's kind of fun to keep time on hot summer days in the south when you have one.

"Y'all want some sweet tea?"

zap

zzzap

"Yep."

zap zap

"Reckon it's gonna rain?"

zap

"Hell naw."

[Judas Voss]

If there had been Bees on this list I would probably have chosen that, but instead I'll go with spiders. I'm just fine watching them from a distance, but if they are up in my face its "AIEEEEEEE!!!" *squish* Almost made my mom wreck her car one time when I noticed a spider on my arm while riding shotgun. True story.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Moths? Really?

They're creepy as fuck. I have a feeling Silent Hill and Resident Evil 2 may have played a part (giant moths in both) but for some reason they scare the shit out of me. The fact that moths drink saliva from the open mouths of sleeping people with their long tongues is terrifying. If I woke up with a moth sitting off on my bottom lip I'd scream the house down. And have you seen them fly!?!?!?

"I'm going this way! No, this way! No, that way! Back this way! Where to next!? Maybe here!? You don't know! Too quick! ATTACK YOU HA!!!"

A moth just lying dormant on my bedroom wall is the same for me as this:

http://www.markta.co.uk/alien/chapter14.htm


Waking up and realising that there is a moth in your bedroom is terrifying.

You can't chase a moth out. It won't be reasoned with. It just keeps flapping hysterically around the room :ohno

[Judas Voss]

Moths? Really?

They're creepy as fuck. I have a feeling Silent Hill and Resident Evil 2 may have played a part (giant moths in both) but for some reason they scare the shit out of me. The fact that moths drink saliva from the open mouths of sleeping people with their long tongues is terrifying. If I woke up with a moth sitting off on my bottom lip I'd scream the house down. And have you seen them fly!?!?!?

"I'm going this way! No, this way! No, that way! Back this way! Where to next!? Maybe here!? You don't know! Too quick! ATTACK YOU HA!!!"

A moth just lying dormant on my bedroom wall is the same for me as this:

http://www.markta.co.uk/alien/chapter14.htm


Waking up and realising that there is a moth in your bedroom is terrifying.

You can't chase a moth out. It won't be reasoned with. It just keeps flapping hysterically around the room :ohno

Crane Flies must render you catatonic.

[Polly Smithson]

Oh man, you guys would hate South Africa. Moths as big as your head. Pretty, mind you - like giant, flittering oil paintings. :love

[Dasquian Belargic]

Crane flies/daddy long-legs don't bother me, actually. They're easier to catch or shoo out of the window than moths are.

[Rossos Atrapes]

If there had been Bees on this list I would probably have chosen that, but instead I'll go with spiders. I'm just fine watching them from a distance, but if they are up in my face its "AIEEEEEEE!!!" *squish* Almost made my mom wreck her car one time when I noticed a spider on my arm while riding shotgun. True story.

My cousin had us all nearly crying from laughter as he talked about how the huge bees around our old house scared the crap out of him.

"I would take the garbage out, but there's a ...big bee right there."

It was his delivery, I think.

I remember hearing that Daddy Long Legs are among the most poisonous spiders in existence, but their mouths are too small (or something similar) to penetrate human skin. I don't know if it's true, but it sure sounds cool. Crane flies eat mosquitoes, so they are officially among my favourite insects.

[Sanis Prent]

Crane flies/daddy long-legs don't bother me, actually. They're easier to catch or shoo out of the window than moths are.

Wait what? You have daddy long legs in the UK??

[Atreyu]

I remember hearing that Daddy Long Legs are among the most poisonous spiders in existence, but their mouths are too small (or something similar) to penetrate human skin. I don't know if it's true, but it sure sounds cool.
Not true unfortunately (or fortunately :p).

Snopes article (http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.asp)

[Darth Turbogeek]

[
I remember hearing that Daddy Long Legs are among the most poisonous spiders in existence

Is not even close to true.

Stumbled across a Sydney FunnelWeb today. Treated it with a shovel - and that's why no insect scares or bothers me. We are big. They are small. We have tools. And flamethrowers. They cant move fast enough.

Fuck the ocean tho. There's some truly nasty bastards not that far from the breakers

[Aidan Fox]

The name daddy long legs is ambiguous, as it is commonly used for two different arachnids - spiders of the family Pholcidae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy_long-legs_spider) (also known as house spiders) and members of the order Opiliones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones) (also known as harvestmen). House spiders have two distinct body parts and spin those cobwebs in the corners of your basement or attic. Harvestmen are not spiders - they have only one body part, and they have no spinnerets. They forage for food rather than spinning webs.

Both are found worldwide, and neither one is dangerous. The house spider can envenomate humans, but you really have to go out of your way to get bitten by one, and the effects are trivial as spider bites go. The harvestman has no venom glands at all.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Crane flies/daddy long-legs don't bother me, actually. They're easier to catch or shoo out of the window than moths are.

Wait what? You have daddy long legs in the UK??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly

^ Those. We call those daddy long legs in the UK.

[Travis North]

Must crush Capitalism
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