General Chat

Do you also suffer from aphephobia Joy?

Spiders - they terrify me.

.................. and Gelotophobia

Ailurophobia Elurophobia Felinophobia Galeophobia Gatophobia I suffer from all of them. The fear of cats. I'm shuddering just typing this. Spud

Venustraphobia- Fear of beautiful women Pentheraphobia- Fear of mother-in-law. (Novercaphobia) I must tell my husband he suffereing from the penthera thingy, Selena

Athazagoraphobia.....................

they also suffer from gametophobia ;-))

I will bow to your superior knowlege madam...................... I am sure that all of us men would be together on that one.

Personally , I find men get a touch of synophobia when that date is mentioned (the fear of togetherness)

Ho, Ho, Ho....................... the only time I get genophobia is when I forget about the 14th of February.

Family Historian I mis read that for a second, thought it said genophobia ;-))

Mageirocophobia.......fear of cooking

Geneaphobia

oenophobia - fear of wine don't suffer from that one either ;-))

Triskadekaphobia........fear of the number 13

Dee, I don't get any warning at all. We work on the top floor and last year there was a problem with the air conditioning units which until then I had been blisfully unaware of in the roofspace above. One morning I came in to find a lump of ceiling on my desk, a big gaping hole above, and water dripping through from some ominously shaped lumps in the roof with pipes on that I couldn't look at. Took months to sort that out and while it was going on they left the ceiling tiles off. I freaked out and could sit there, or even within view of there. They had to move me to the other side of the open plan office which was a bit of a problem for the people I work with. And every time I needed something off my desk I had to ask someone to get it as the thought of walking under the gaping hole with pipes and machinery in made me feel sick. I blame my dad - he was a bit of a mad inventor and always had the back off tvs etc when I was small. I used to get faint when I walked in a room and saw him rummaging in the back of an old valve style tv with all those wires. Angela

Len I am OK with snakes, and spiders and you have probably worked out I don't suffer from lalophobia ;-))

angela the feel of of sand on your feet or if you touched it would make me literally sick,i had to stay in doors when my hubby layed some slabs in the back garden lol ,i told him he had to sweep ever last grain away so i didnt get it on me,he thinks im mad. karen

Snakes, particulary the poisoness ones. Years ago in India I was with some colleages having a walk round this village when we came across a snake charmer, he had cobras and some other types which I cant remember. I was persuaded to hold one of these 'things' by my companions on the premise that they had had their poison glands removed, I found out afterwards that they were all very poisonous and I'd been playing with them yuk!!!!!! B_____ds!!! Len

Angela, that must be quite difficult, it is something that is hard to avoid, if maintenance needs to be done I guess you don't always get much warning