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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: xrtoronto on September 04, 2006, 01:13:01 PM
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Was thinking about the death of Steve Irwin and thought about how many things he did that I wouldn't have the nerve to do...like reaching under a rock ledge looking for snakes. I can remember when he almost got bit by a diamond back! He didn't seem to have much fear about things that most of us would simply not try. That made me think about what I was really scared of...
The one thing that I have always been fearful of is scuba diving in the open ocean. Thing about it is you can't see what is coming towards you. Depending on your depth, you can't see something approaching from behind or in front, from below and sometimes even from above. You are enjoying your dive and then all of a sudden out of the darkness 20 feet away, is something life threatening. And to make matters worse you are in an alien environment.
(http://blacktomato.co.uk/images/EventImages/70/great-white-shark-picture-014.jpg)
Diving is not for me. Give me terra firma!
I would expect mine to be a fairly common fear. What is it that you know you are afraid to do?
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who wouldn't be afraid of that?:confused:
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nice fishy!
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I'[M ARFRAID OF LIRBBARURRELRUERLUELES OHNOES!!!!!!!!!!!111111
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Also:
Ninjas
Chuck Norris
Chuck Norris as a Ninja
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truly, the only thing in the world I have a genuine fear of is losing my friends and family to illness, accidents, etc.
life is so fragile that i just know another tragedy is round the corner and i really don't like that thought.
other than that, and now sharks, i'm pretty care free.
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hmmm what bats said but also burning up in a fire.......thats gotta be up there in the top 5 worst ways to go
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ok so thats good stuff there....
TOP 5 worst ways to go for me.
1. right now as i type this
2. burning/ on fire/ freezing
3. crippled by something with a hint of a chance but struggling for the rest of it
4. chuck norris
5. infront of my children before they were grown (not even born yet)
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Quicksand / swamp ......
The idea of slowly sinking in mud til I drown in it scares the living crap out of me ......
Absolutely the worst thing in the whole wide world - ever - completely .....
Now I need a drink.
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needles
burning to death.
heights, in the 2 - 4 stories range only.
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the minute you step into the ocean, even at a beachy touristy spot you choose to enter the wild. I'm amazed by how many people who have no business doing that do so each day, I'm even more amazed so many more don't simply drown never mind the fauna.
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I have a very irrational fear of sharks. Or at least I used to. For the longest time it was a "sharks in the swimming pool" kind of phobia. That is, even though I rationally KNEW there weren't sharks in the swimming pool, I would still get panicky and have to get out of the water.
The funny think about it, was that I grew up around the beach (from age 1-13) with no real shark problems. It was when we moved to the Desert that I started wierding out.
That picture gives me the heebie jeebies though lol.
-Sik
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shark attack (http://www.nearlygood.com/video/sharkattack.html)
Pretty sobering video...due to the panic of the moment it is not a clear film (there is a better one available of this same incident but I can't find it)
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My List Circa 1982 (http://agw.bombs-away.net/showthread.php?t=57380)
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I'm very scared of the fact John Tesh sells records.
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This is another shark attack with 2 sharks after a surfer dude (not too graphic)
shark attack 2 (http://www.collegedowntime.com/media/violentsharkattackmovie.php)
Clever the way sharks "hunt" in this case
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I'm afraid of screwing up on/in the ocean. I'm also afraid of screwing up on my job. I am afraid of not being someone my kids can look up to, and not doing my job to raise them properly. I really don't think there is anything worse than not being there for your kids. if you can't help it.
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I'm afraid of failing as a mother.
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Originally posted by xrtoronto
shark attack (http://www.nearlygood.com/video/sharkattack.html)
Pretty sobering video...due to the panic of the moment it is not a clear film (there is a better one available of this same incident but I can't find it)
I saw that film on another site. Slightly safer for your computer. But not exactly the type of site that Skuzzy would approve of lol.
While I have at times felt fear. Often during fleeting moments of events surrounding me.
Like when my kid was an hour late comming home from school and the after school activity he was supposed to be at didnt remember seeing him there. Turned out he was there, and the bus taking him home took the long route home to drop the kids off (he was new)
I have a slight case of stagefright when Im supposed to speak to a group of people right up to the time I actually do it. Then it goes away.
My only true "fear" is of jumping from a high place. Such as high diving.
I'll climb up about as high as you want. Just dont ask me to jump LOL
Wont happen.
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Canadian commentary on the US political scene.
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Originally posted by dmf
I'm afraid of failing as a mother.
Normal and natural fear.
And precisely why you wont fail
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
My only true "fear" is of jumping from a high place. Such as high diving.
I'll climb up about as high as you want. Just dont ask me to jump LOL
Wont happen.
a friend of mine swore the same thing right up untill we pushed him off a 40ft cliff into the sea. he stood at the top for almost 25 mins wanting to but not able to . pushing him only made him want to do it again and he jumped the second time :D
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Originally posted by B@tfinkV
a friend of mine swore the same thing right up untill we pushed him off a 40ft cliff into the sea. he stood at the top for almost 25 mins wanting to but not able to . pushing him only made him want to do it again and he jumped the second time :D
Been tried with the end result being me wanting to kill the person that did the pushing.
Only the fact that he was better fleet of foot then I saved him LOL
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Been tried with the end result being me wanting to kill the person that did the pushing.
I can relate to that!
I remember at the cottage being pushed into the lake and landing the most painful belly flop you could ever imagine.
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Heights and Public Speaking. I try to confront both head on. I have only locked up once when I was standing on a mesh catwalk about 80 feet up in an auditorium, but it was only for 20 seconds.
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1. The fear of once again accidently looking up Janet Reno's Barney dress and seeing her tighty whities.
2. Them Damm flying Monkies from the Wizard of Oz... they are Evil !!!
3. Dieing alone and unloved.
Mac
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I was afraid of heights and flying (except the blue planes ):lol
i was afraid the Hillary would get in the white house and destroy America but now I figure if that happens I will just pray for the Iranians or north koreans to nuke us and that will save time.:rofl
and yes the flying monkeys freak me out:O too
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I have a very irrational fear of sharks. Or at least I used to.
The most dangerous shark is no more than a weak second to the most dangerous animal in the sea.
(http://ntl.bts.gov/DOCS/narmain/narmain_files/ohiosub.jpeg)
We have killed many more sharks than they have killed people...
I have always been amazed that some will talk of their fears of natural world while drinking at the neighborhood bar and then drive home drunk: "I can make it home, I'm not that wasted."
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Wasps.
Got stung about an inch below the sack once. Never recovered mentally from that one.
Talk about pain..
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Originally posted by storch
the minute you step into the ocean, even at a beachy touristy spot you choose to enter the wild. I'm amazed by how many people who have no business doing that do so each day, I'm even more amazed so many more don't simply drown never mind the fauna.
Bingo.
I think it's best to be at the top of my food chain.
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Mostly im scared of me and the missus having some sort of accident so we cant raise Mia up to an age were she can take care of her self. There is always family, but still.
Im a tad nervous and jumpy around computers, and never spend much time on them. That eye/webcam freaks me abit cause i know it can see me.
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
The most dangerous shark is no more than a weak second to the most dangerous animal in the sea.
(http://ntl.bts.gov/DOCS/narmain/narmain_files/ohiosub.jpeg)
We have killed many more sharks than they have killed people...
I have always been amazed that some will talk of their fears of natural world while drinking at the neighborhood bar and then drive home drunk: "I can make it home, I'm not that wasted."
i know i've said it before & will probably continue to repeat myself
the most dangerous Great White:
(http://image.com.com/mp3/images/cover/200/drg300/g337/g33782svten.jpg)
twice as deadly as teh sharxor
funniest great white:
(http://sctvguide.ca/programs/images/gwn.jpg)
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you have a better chance at winning the lottery or being killed by lightning than you do being attacked by a shark ...
I think your fear of sharks is slightly miss placed ... best look both ways when you go through the next green light as you have a much higher probability of being t-boned by an idjit running his red
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Originally posted by Eagler
you have a better chance at winning the lottery or being killed by lightning than you do being attacked by a shark ...
I think your fear of sharks is slightly miss placed ... best look both ways when you go through the next green light as you have a much higher probability of being t-boned by an idjit running his red
Well, if you are surfing of the coast of Cali in the red triangle, I would say you have a better chance of being attacked by a shark
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Originally posted by Nilsen
Im a tad nervous and jumpy around computers, and never spend much time on them.
:loking at your post count:: uhh huh
That eye/webcam freaks me abit cause i know it can see me.
yea right, C'mon Nilsen, Well all know your a regular cam potato :D
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I think he means statistically and he's correct. however sharks are far and away the least thing one needs to be concerned with when entering the ocean. keep in mind that the ocean can be as deadly as any remote place on the planet sometimes even within sight of the shore.
look at all the people that take off in a boat for a pleasurable afternoon, go out completely unprepared (as in no radio no mobile phone no drinking water no working knowledge of the mechanical systems for their watercraft the list can go on ad nauseum) get themselves in trouble for a myriad of reasons and are helpless.
I grew up in a marine environment and I still enjoy the ocean and what it has to offer. I enter the ocean well prepared and with strong swimming abilities and occassionally still find myself in trouble.
the last episode. a friend and I went to spear fish off of hollywood beach when the yellowtail were schooling close to shore. we have an innertube type float with a net in the donut to keep first aid stuff, mobile phones two gallons of fresh water, energy bars etc. we have our dive flag on this. additionally we have a float and dive flag we take with us even though we seldom go beyond fifty feet from the tube. we still get boats go zipping by between us and the tube!!! anyway we are riding a strong northerly current, drift fishing the reef more or less laterally with the shoreline. suddenly there is an outgoing current we cannot swim against so we are pushed quite far out to sea, maybe a half mile or so. we drift with current still northernly but now fishing is out of the question as we are far from the reef and in blue water. we drift for about an hour and are finally able to kick in around LLoyd state park in the next town up, Dania, Florida. then I had to walk back to hollywood beach on A1A to get my truck to pick up our stuff. Interesting day. This occurred to two seasoned watermen right on the beach. tricksey tricksey mother ocean can be harsh. she was sweet to us that day.
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Ya being eatin alive by anything, great heights, a crushing death, burning...all rank up there.
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Originally posted by Sixpence
Well, if you are surfing of the coast of Cali in the red triangle, I would say you have a better chance of being attacked by a shark
unless you are standing there with your 7' surf/lightning rod and an active thunderstorm comes rollin in :)
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you said it, Eagler. I was a little blase' about lightening on the water untill this June coming back from Bimini to Pompano Beach we hit lightning squalls 7 miles off shore on the way in. Two of my brothers at the helm holding onto the stainless T-top braces got shocked when we had a near miss behind us. Their hands were numb for a few minutes and all the electronics got fried. It was terrifying. We made it home ok. But it was an eye opener. I have a sailboat with a 30' mast, I'm paying to have it grounded, but I'm finding out that a correctly grounded boat is more likely to get hit by lightening, tho damage is less likely. Its actually a complicated subject, and not all agree as to how best to do it. One way is safest for sure, avoid storms :)
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I think the movie "Jaws" and the media frenzy since have done a great disservice to western culture by giving millions of people an irrational phobia about sharks and the ocean. I love the water and can't get enough of it.
What scares me is a crushing death. When I was young I was pulling siding off a two story barn that was being readied to be demolished. A stiff wind came along and blew the barn over toward me while I was at the very base of the wall. I dropped my tool and ran like never before. As the barn came down behind me, I felt the wind and dust from the wall envelope me as I ran. It could have been feet or inches, I don't know but it was close. Thinking what would have happened if I hadn't looked up at that second or if I had stumbled is what keeps me up at night. Give me a shark any day.
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drowning has got to be my number one fear. in my youth my mother taught me about undertow in lake michigan, and showed me the pics of friends who drowned there. on the man made lake i grew up on a man drowned jumping off a diving platform and getting tangled in the weeds and held underwater. add in seeing piranah and jaws as a young impressionable child i have an irrational fear of any water i can not touch and see the bottom.
I have snorkeled in the carribean, and that is cool and fine. you can see the bottom 100 feet down, and far away side to side. put me in a murky lake where the bottom may be only 10 feet and weedy and I am panicing. same with open deep ocean. F that. talk about heart attack city. like sikboy i had the "sharks in a pool" thing for a while as a kid if i was the only one in a pool, but thats gone now.
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being buried alive like in a coffin and slowly suffocating ranks pretty high too.
just close your eyes and think about it for a second while holding your breath.
really think about it:O
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Normal and natural fear.
And precisely why you wont fail
I'm glad sombody thinks that.
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I swear...I fear nothing.:noid :noid :noid :noid :noid :noid :noid
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I am not at all afraid of sharks or the ocean. In fact about 3 weeks ago I did the Escape from Alcatraz swim where I had to jump into the water about 100 feet off of Alcatraz Island and swim to the mainland.
It has been reported that there are sharks in the area but not Great Whites. I did not give them a second thought. I was more afraid of the cold.
The thing that I am afraid of is being confined in a tight space. I read once where Gingas Khan killed people sometimes by rolling them up in a carpet and then having his men run over it on horseback. I can't imagine a worse way to go.
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Originally posted by WilldCrd
being buried alive like in a coffin and slowly suffocating ranks pretty high too.
just close your eyes and think about it for a second while holding your breath.
really think about it:O
Did you see Kill Bill ;)
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Originally posted by dmf
I'm glad sombody thinks that.
Will you make some mistakes? Sure, we all do.
But your fear of failing as a mother and parent will keep you thinking in the best interests of your child first and foremost.
So long as you do that. And do not waver.
You will not fail.
Just remember
Maintain good dicipline, always. Your their parent first, their friend second
When diciplining. Find what is the most effective for YOUR or that particular child. And make the punishment fit the crime. Dont go overboard on something minor. And dont be too leinient on the major stuff.
Make sure the punishments "stick" If you ground the kid for a week. for example. Then they are grounded for that week. Dont get soft and cave in after two days
What the child may want is not always what is in the best interests of the child. Its ok to say "no"
And they dont HAVE to have every new thingamabob out there just cause they want it.
Discourage the negatives. Encourage and reward the positives.
Encourage independence. To do things for themselves rather then you do everything for them. Remember, your teaching them how to survive inthe world once their grown. And that day will come alot sooner then you think...or want.
Set high standards and reachable goals for them. In time they will set high goals for themselves rather then take the easy way out.
The goals I alwas set were "Exellence is standard. Standard is substandard. And substandard will not be tolerated"
Let them make mistakes within reason.
thats how we learn
Be well nvolved in their lives. but not OVER INVOLVED.
And remember to let a kid, be a kid.
Talk to them. But also actually listen to what they have to say
And just love the hell out of them.
Do that. and you will not fail
I think you will do just fine
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Originally posted by Angus
Did you see Kill Bill ;)
that is in "The Serpent and the Rainbow" too... tagline for the movie: "Dont' bury me! I'm not dead yet!!"
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My worst fear is rejection
Second is any kind of confrontation
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lemme guess, you're single.
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Hehe only for the last 4 weeks Storch :-)
Though to be honest my last 4 girlfriends have all asked me out.
And with the invention of mobiles - Text Flirting saved my sex life even more so I dont do to bad.
:-)
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only thing i fear is fear its self.......and dieing but thats gonna happen so it doesnt Really count
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Originally posted by Blank
Hehe only for the last 4 weeks Storch :-)
Though to be honest my last 4 girlfriends have all asked me out.
And with the invention of mobiles - Text Flirting saved my sex life even more so I dont do to bad.
:-)
lucky you. I on the other hand am very well aquainted with rejection. but one out of ten have taken pity on me and thus I've been able to pass my genes forward. :D
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I'm afraid if BBC runs out of third world analysts outlining what's wrong with U.S. foreign policy, it won't have anything left to broadcast.