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Ariala: Right, no flabby arms for you anymore, kitten.
That'll learn you for sticking up for moths...
posted by
chris2303
on January 12, 2005 at 4:55 AM
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DVORAK
Blimey, thanks for the advice...I would have called tbhe police if I found something like that. 8 inches? Damn, it even makes me feel inadequate as a man...
posted by
chris2303
on January 12, 2005 at 4:54 AM
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I have just started a Save the Moth campaign...PETA is sponsoring me
posted by
Ariala
on January 12, 2005 at 4:54 AM
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westwend
This is good information, but I'd have liked to have seen Roosevelt make that speech with a friggin' great moth buzzing about in his earholes. I'm too small a man to project any logic into the concept of fear, at least until I conquer my own. And the only way I'll do that is by killing every last moth in the world. Yeah, I'm also a realist...
posted by
chris2303
on January 12, 2005 at 4:49 AM
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DV...
Don't need to convince me .. ewwwww lol
posted by
RedHeadedGypsy
on January 11, 2005 at 5:25 PM
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Chris and others . . .
Y'all should NEVER move to a Caribbean island. We have insects down here that you would not believe! And they're here all year round. Big beetles, spiders, moths, bees, wasps, everything. And MAN can they get big!
I found a moth in my bedroom last week: It's wing span must've been (I shit you not) EIGHT friggin inches. I attacked it with a giant can of Raid and a goddam tennis racquet.
And one of the guys here caught a giant tarantula today. Course he just couldn't WAIT to show me . . .
posted by
DVORAK
on January 11, 2005 at 5:24 PM
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we wanna live!!!
so we're afraid of things that could kill us.
but
fear can be taught -- fear of things that we don't need to be afraid of.
fear can be learned -- getting burned for instance instills fear of fire.
we sort out our fears and ask if each is rational
I guess depends upon which hormones or such and running through my body at a certain time (or if I want to show off) as to whether I am afraid of something.
I've handled stinging insects at times -- then I've steered clear away from them.
I've handled non-poisonous snakes -- the I've been afraid to be around certain places where I've seen such a scaley body, but not certain if it is poinsous -- only natural.
I'm no Steve whatsisname -- I will not take such chances -=- but then again he's educated and knows how to handle snakes and crocs and such -- or maybe he's a bit daft.
but the quote -- that's what I was getting at -- the quote.
We were in the Great Depression and everyone was depressed and fearful of the future. Franklin Roosevelt was just elected. It was his inaugural address where he said "there is nothing to fear but fear itself." This was a great statement and helped to assuage people's fears to some extent -- it was a positive statement in a negative era -- a light in the darkness of economic ruin.
posted by
Xeno-x
on January 11, 2005 at 3:18 PM
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Chris2303
I would not say I am AFRAID of marriage. I just think it is something to be avoided. Good, sound, rational judgement, not fear!
posted by
WHAMENATOR
on January 11, 2005 at 1:56 AM
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I think I espied former Home Secretary David Blunkett in tears after DNA confirmed his paternity of his child with former lover. I couldn't see through his eyes though...
posted by
tweedhead
on January 11, 2005 at 1:08 AM
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Spitfire
I don't think we have Junebugs in this country, or if we do they fall under a different name...we have plenty of wasps in this country in the summer, and plenty of flies, but we don't get all these fancy bugs that you guys have!
posted by
chris2303
on January 11, 2005 at 1:02 AM
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Cynthia
That's understandable - I'm sure most people would be frightened of the little beggers after getting bit in the head by one. Ouch, bet that hurt...
posted by
chris2303
on January 11, 2005 at 1:00 AM
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tweedhead
Haha, yeah, most men normally do end up crying in the bank after a divorce.
posted by
chris2303
on January 11, 2005 at 12:59 AM
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MerryAnne
Aha, good point about the mother-in-law. I forgot about that one, but generally that's what I try to do with mother in laws. Forget about them, that is.
posted by
chris2303
on January 11, 2005 at 12:57 AM
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DEVILINME1
I think you was right to do that. A stinkbug sounds bad enough, but a flying stinkbug belongs nowhere else other than underneath your car wheel. I would have done the same thing in your situation, only I wouldn't have screamed like a little girl.
Some boys have no fear of little insects and such like, so I don't think you went wrong anywhere! It's just that some boys are cowards, like me.
posted by
chris2303
on January 11, 2005 at 12:55 AM
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RachelAnna
Personally, I'd take anything over a night in the same room as a moth, or even worse, two moths.
posted by
chris2303
on January 11, 2005 at 12:50 AM
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CunningLinguist
That's right, brother, be proud of your erectile dysfunction - it just means you only have to concentrate on one of the wees (not the sex one, obviously). It also means you don't have to shower as often, or at all.
posted by
chris2303
on January 11, 2005 at 12:49 AM
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gypsyred
Perfectly rational, indeed. I just pretend they don't bother me, but only because I've never "met" one.
posted by
chris2303
on January 11, 2005 at 12:44 AM
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WHAMENATOR
I bet there's something you're afraid of...like marriage.
posted by
chris2303
on January 11, 2005 at 12:42 AM
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KlaraRoberts
Luckily we don't get mosquitos in Britain, otherwise I'm sure I'd be running from them, too. I've reserved us a couple of nice seats at the institution - they're right next to the medicine cabinet. Hooray!
posted by
chris2303
on January 11, 2005 at 12:41 AM
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Ariala
Yes, there's nothing sadder than the sight of a fully grown man running away from a piece of flying paper...
posted by
chris2303
on January 11, 2005 at 12:39 AM
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Wow, my house would be like
a hellish nightmare for Cynthia! I also am scared to bloody death of bees and their demonic cousin, the wasp. Hornet ain't too cool, either. But what is the most annoying to me are thos friggin' JuneBugs. They are pretty stupid, though, cause they fly and smack themselves right into the walls and doors. They must be retarded, but I always fear them smacking into my eye or something. Eeew.
posted by
SpitFire70
on January 10, 2005 at 11:04 PM
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Squirrels do it for me Chris.
They see me coming and plan to fall on my head and get tangled in my hair and bit me and I get rabies...etc...etc..
posted by
Cynthia
on January 10, 2005 at 8:51 PM
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Australia elected a prime minister for crying in publicostensibly because of an insult to his wife. After his term. he divorced her and married his biographer. He has been spotted crying himself to the bank.
posted by
tweedhead
on January 10, 2005 at 4:54 PM
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ROFL!
posted by
MerryAnne
on January 10, 2005 at 2:00 PM
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yes, its those visits that you need to hide some rum in your bathroom for
your "bath time"..lol
posted by
Kiddo75
on January 10, 2005 at 1:59 PM
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Especially when they live at your house when visiting! YIKES!
posted by
MerryAnne
on January 10, 2005 at 1:52 PM
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merryanne.. they are the most frightful...
posted by
Kiddo75
on January 10, 2005 at 1:47 PM
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Mostly I just fear my mother-in-law....
posted by
MerryAnne
on January 10, 2005 at 11:43 AM
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I can handle snakes, spiders, but insects? I would put myself in front of
a bullet, jump into the fire for my kids.. but if they are in the area of a cockroach, a stink bug, a walking stick, or the worse of the worse - what makes me go into convulsions as I scream and beat my head as if me merely looking at it zapped it on there - a praying mantis.... than it's every man for himself. My son came up to me outside to show me his new friend..what happened after that probably will haunt him for the rest of his life. He brought me one of those huge, flying, gray stinkbug beetles. I screamed over and over as loud as I could, as I ran inside and covered up into a fetal position, still screaming. Because I knew he was following me angry that I wouldn't dare even look at it. How could I raise such a child? Where did I go wrong? OH... what exactly did watching Platoon do to you?
posted by
Kiddo75
on January 10, 2005 at 9:18 AM
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Yeah, the insecure girlfriend bit is a bit much to handle
Isn't it?
Your moth and bee issues are completely understandable. I speak from personal fear, or scary experience.
posted by
RachelAnna
on January 10, 2005 at 8:29 AM
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Brilliance!
You remind me of an old George Carlin and a young Buckwheat (when he was in his prime). You're like a skinny John Candy or a funny Sinbad. Chris, you're a combination of Richard Pryor prior to the fire and Sid Vicious while he was carving up his girlfriend with a Ginsu knife. You make me proud of my erectile dysfunction.
Carry on!
posted by
CunningLinguist
on January 10, 2005 at 8:14 AM
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I'm actually known to pet bees...they are fuzzy (until they sting,
but that's a different story.)
posted by
Ariala
on January 10, 2005 at 7:33 AM
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Chris...
I'm with you.. I say I'm perfectly rational to fear sharks and snakes.
posted by
RedHeadedGypsy
on January 10, 2005 at 7:28 AM
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Chris2303, you need to conquer your fears!
I am too stupid to be afraid of anything!
When we get a call for a man waving a gun, I am one of the idiots running in that direction, while anyone with sense is running the other way!
posted by
WHAMENATOR
on January 10, 2005 at 6:56 AM
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Unreal, Chris. No wonder I like you.
I cower at any type of bees, most especially wasps. Have been known to stay inside to avoid them. I don't mind moths, though, but have replaced your fear of them with my own fear of mosquitos. Shall we retire to the institution together now?
posted by
KlaraRoberts
on January 10, 2005 at 6:28 AM
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hahahaha, the moth one really made me laugh. Blokehead.
posted by
Ariala
on January 10, 2005 at 4:41 AM
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