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What animals or insect do you have an irrational fear of

  • 23-05-2022 6:19pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭


    Spiders. They are very important for the eco system. Have zero danger to anything except an insect. Are very still


    Rats. Very shy creatures who don't have a sinister bone in their bodies. Didn't cause the black plaque, don't cause rabies. Despite their numbers, one of the least likely animals you will catch a disease from



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭em_cat


    Spiders or speeeeders as I irrationally point & screech while jumping (as much as I can) up on the sofa when they sprint across the floor in the late summer. The dogs couldn’t care less & my OH seems to move at a snails pace to catch & release them back outside whilst I’m panicking…

    I got bit by one while camping as a child. Not sure if the phobia was present before or after the bite.

    Its odd, I’m allergic to Bees but am quite rational if one is around me even though one could literally kill me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    I don't trust horses



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,116 ✭✭✭archer22


    Nobody has an "irrational fear" of Rats...its well justified.

    "very shy creatures" ...the one that walked in my door a few weeks must have been on a confidence building course so.

    "least likely animals you will catch a disease from"...tell that to my Dog some years ago who caught Leptosporosis from the bastards.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭sam t smith


    Earwiggers.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,324 ✭✭✭Be right back


    Daddy long legs/ moths!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭YellowFeather


    Fking hate centipedes. One of them wrapped around my finger when I was a child and I was convinced I’d be Yellow-Nine-Fingers.

    Also dislike wasps, but that’s rational because these guys love me and will follow me around at any event.

    Saying that. I wouldn’t kill any of them, but I will shout at them and put them out. The little bastards.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,309 ✭✭✭...Ghost...


    Have a Google of Noble False Widow. Also spiders live outside of Ireland and some are very dangerous.

    Stay Free



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,397 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    Cockroaches. I don't know what it is but when I lived abroad they were everywhere. Spiders or anything like them no problem but those cockroaches are weird. And the way they die it's fucked up aswell. Give me rats or spiders any day over cockroaches. Assholes and u can't kill the bastards because there's 100 more where they they came from.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,286 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Ticks and lyme and any other disease they carry.

    But I guess that's not irrational.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Still stihl waters 3


    Came on to post ticks, dirty creatures I often pick off the dog, makes my skin crawl



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 JuanGreen


    Totally agree! I hate a bug that leaves anything more than a stain when you kill it.

    With a cockroach, you have a corpse to deal with. And unlike a rat, a cockroach never really looks dead to me.

    Have to escort it out of the house with a never-ending sense that it is going to spring to life and... I have no idea what I think it is going to do. Guess that is what makes it an irrational fear.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,608 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Sharks!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 665 ✭✭✭goldenmick


    Large slugs with white hair.



    Never did like bumbling thicko Boris. Tory git.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,020 ✭✭✭gifted


    Rats.......I scream like Ned Flanders when I see one.....



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭Damien360


    Used to have an irrational fear of wasps and bees. I’d leave the room to let my wife deal with them. This was caused by a few wasp stings and a swarm of bees around me when I was very young as they looked for a nest site. Not too many years ago, I realised their importance to the food chain and somehow lost my fear and would actively protect them, but still get them out of the house, rather than swat them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 609 ✭✭✭HazeDoll


    Bulls. I live in the country so I have had enough dealings with them to learn that they can be very dangerous. If I'm walking along a country road I always have an escape route in mind (over a gate, through a hedge etc.) in case I see one on the road ahead. I frequently encounter them loose on the road near my house so I never ever walk there. I was late for work one morning because there was a disgruntled fecker standing right outside my front gate and I couldn't open the gate to get to work.

    I'm not afraid of spiders, I used to have a pet rat, I adore bats. I dismiss people who squeal when they see something smaller than a Yorkshire terrier as cowards and eejits, but I will not walk across a field unless I can see into every corner of it to be sure there's no bull.

    I know because they're dangerous this mightn't qualify as an irrational fear but I definitely give bulls more thought than other people do.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Wasps and bees… was stung three years ago for the first time and man… got it in the neck.. ouch. Hurt like a motherfücker.

    i don’t know if I have a bit of an allergy to their stings but aside from hurting like hell there was quite a bit of swelling for a simple small sting. Half a golf ball sized lump..which im reading is probably an allergic reaction..

    id have a bit of a fear of sharks too… irrational as the likelihood is I’ll never encounter one..I remember swimming in water at Clearwater Beach in the mid ‘90’s…I was in my teens and was bumped by something chunky and rough around my knee…I waited about five seconds before looking down hoping not to see blood or a huge mouth of teeth coming in for a second bite…

    What I saw was a rather big sea turtle paddling away but i got out of the water….



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,485 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Anglerfish. Used to just think they were creepy little buggers but then saw the photo of the one big enough to eat a person. Unlikely to ever meet one but still, aaaaaaaahhhhhh!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 845 ✭✭✭blackvalley


    Eels



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,230 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Spiders, fat pigs (wood lice), pretty much any little thing that crawls... kill them with fire.

    (No, I don't actually kill them. I call on my partner with excellent insect handling skills. Lucky me.)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,437 ✭✭✭barneygumble99


    Snakes! Honestly wouldn’t visit a country that has a large quantity of venomous snakes.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭YellowLead


    Rats, snakes, spiders, wasps - don’t see how these are irrational folks.

    is nobody afraid of cute bunny rabbits or anything???



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,286 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Humans scare me a lot.

    Has anybody seen what they've done to the planet and do to each other ?

    Dangerous creatures.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭em_cat


    My husband can’t understand my fear of spiders, especially as I’m the one who deals with all the dog injuries, have rodents for pets, including rats, deal with foster fleas and sometimes lice, can remove ticks with ease and have no issues with what most people would find gross.

    But god almighty if a spider scurries I’m like…




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭The Mighty Quinn


    Maggots.


    Give me the gawks. I couldn't cope with picking one up. Wiggly squirmy pulsating freaks



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Spiders. Even typing the word increases my head rate. I can't begin to describe the sense of panic that comes over me. It is absolutely 100% irrational but when it happens I lose the run of myself.

    My subconscious can be cruel because they enter in to my dreams. I suppose because it knows that it's a fear and so they are the 'perfect' monsters for my nightmares.

    When I was a child some of the other kids in my class had a small plastic one. I remember as plain as day hiding in the girls bathrooms, standing on the toilet petrified they would throw it at me. Didn't make an odd that it was a toy. There is something not quite right with a person who gets a kick out of that kind of thing.

    The odd person will still make fun of my fear and indeed the fears of others, but that says something negative about them I think.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,230 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    How is it that you even see maggots, never mind picking one up... fishing, I hope?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭The Mighty Quinn


    Admittedly it is not a common sight, but sometimes in summer the compost bin will have maggots in it.

    There was a horrible moment in my teen years where I'd left a sandwich in a gearbag for weeks and forgot about it til the end pocket burst open with maggots. That scarred me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,222 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Those fooking yellow wasps that chase you…I cannot rest till fooking dead!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,613 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    I'm glad we don't have giant centipedes in this part of the world. The stuff of nightmares, 1 foot long and can kill bats and mice and inflict very painful bite on a human.

    Hate cockroaches too , thankfully we seem to have very few here.

    I like seeing House spiders (tegenaria domestica and gigantea) in the house I like to think of them feasting on various insects



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,979 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    I'm not really afraid of any animals, I used to by quite scared of mice and rats but working in poultry farms soon put that to an end. The ex wife and her sisters are terrified of cats. Which I find completely irrational 😀



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,230 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    God love you! I would be scarred too.

    Speaking of maggots, my 7 year old self was similarly educated in a neighborhood search for that awful smell, only to find a poor dead dog behind our house, with the full exuberance of all fauna.



  • Posts: 2,725 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Jack Russell terriers.

    Got bitten twice as a child by the horrible little fúckers.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,979 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    The evil ones are great ratters though. There was an evil one in an estate we used to train he'd bite the back of your legs



  • Posts: 2,725 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Good thing I didn't grow up in an estate then.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,979 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Neither did I but we used to run around one for boxing training, and that little fúcker used to see us as sport



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,482 ✭✭✭AyeGer


    Wasps I absolutely hate, they tormented me as a child and even as an adult they will come straight for me when I'm with other people. Spiders I'm not too bothered about, the very fast moving ones can be a bit freaky though.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,868 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    No irrational fears and if you have them you really should deal with especially if you have kids. You just pass it on or often give them more anxiety about it than you currently had. When I moved in with my wife she was jumping around in fear of spiders and any insect really. She split her head open on a kitchen cabinet when she reacted to a bee on the other side of the room. That is when she decided to get over it and it didn't take therapy or anything just a bit of will power. Spiders don't bother her at all but she avoids bees and wasps more than others but doesn't panic.

    If you have one irrational fear you probably have more



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Nothing irrational about fearing rats , dirtiest most disease spreading creatures on the planet

    Aggressive bastards too


    I'm terrified of them



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭badabing106


    Rats like all animals including humans transmit disease, but the humble rat simply doesn't warrant the bad press they get in the media

    Here are the animals to worry about according to CDC in America

    Bats, Ticks, mosquitoes, cattle, pigs etc

    https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2019/s0506-zoonotic-diseases-shared.html



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,950 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Can't say I'm afraid of anything which can't do me any harm. Can't understand why people run away screaming from tiny creatures esp in this country.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭forestgirl


    Butterflies because to me they are just so dangerous They start coming out in march if we get a hot day and this goes on until October but some hide in curtains,I am so scared.They get into the house and I get full on panic and it's so ridiculous with all the terrible things in the world and I can't shake this phobia off



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,230 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh




  • Posts: 133 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I was just standing in the middle of 50,000 bees. They weren't happy but I was there for their own good.

    One of the little feckers stung me as well.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,230 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,950 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore




  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,160 Mod ✭✭✭✭Oink


    House spiders don’t bother too much, but not them hairy fookers.

    cockroaches are repulsive.

    but my real phobia is parasites. Stuff that crawls out of other living animals’ flesh. Feeling itchy right now just thinking about it.



  • Posts: 133 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    First year at it but that's the plan.

    A bee suit, smoker and a pair of marigolds keep them from getting to you most of the time



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,979 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Women



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