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Hanners's's's's OCD/What are your phobias
IanClark:
Centipedes. I've refused to sleep in my own bed because there was a centipede in the room that I'm not sure was dead after it was hit with a book. I've avoided not just entire rooms, but the rooms and hallways near it just because I saw a centipede there the night before. It's a sickness.
Heliphyneau:
As a character, Hanners' OCD is balanced by her preternatural adorableness, plus she has one of the most positive outlooks in the strip. This does not always happen in life. It is definitely good to see her continue to push her boundaries and grow.
--- Quote from: IanClark on 21 Sep 2010, 21:43 ---Centipedes. I've refused to sleep in my own bed because there was a centipede in the room that I'm not sure was dead after it was hit with a book. I've avoided not just entire rooms, but the rooms and hallways near it just because I saw a centipede there the night before. It's a sickness.
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You mean House Centipedes, right? Unless you live somewhere tropical. Here's an explanatory link, but do NOT click it if you already know that this is the kind you mean -- there is a pic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata Blarg.
I strongly dislike them as well, but ever since I found out that they eat other bugs, I have less of an urge to fumigate the entire house. I kind of take a "Enjoy whatever bug buffet you find as long as I never see you" approach to them. Fun fact: when you squish one of those things, the legs keep running, even when not attached to the body anymore.
*shudders*
By "fun," I apparently meant "horrific."
The only other phobia-ish thing of mine I can think of is vertigo/fear of heights, but only when I'm stationary and looking down. Evidently, when I am hurtling through the air on a rollercoaster, everything's hunky dory.
Binary:
Like the Harry Dean Stanton character in Paris, Texas, it's falling. Not heights, just falling. So I'm fine going up the Monument, for example, or going to the top of 30 St Mary Axe (the "Gherkin" tower) when it was open to public on the Open House London weekend a few years ago. Great panoramic views over London, wonderful for photography.
But I cannot bring myself to climb up a ladder higher than the ground floor, and several times during that Youtube video with the engineer climbing to the top of the 1768 ft radio mast with no safety harness, I had to look away from the screen. (No link because the safety board are a bit pissed about it and got it taken down, but other copies have been re-posted. Search Youtube for "climbing tower stairway to heaven", and it's the 7-minute clip).
It's utterly beyond me how parachutists chuck themselves out of aircraft.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Heliphyneau on 21 Sep 2010, 22:18 ---I strongly dislike them as well, but ever since I found out that they eat other bugs, I have less of an urge to fumigate the entire house.
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Apparently, they eat spiders, too. Which is a bit of a tradeoff in the "eating bugs" department.
May the greatest number of legs win!
Heliphyneau:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 22 Sep 2010, 08:21 ---
--- Quote from: Heliphyneau on 21 Sep 2010, 22:18 ---I strongly dislike them as well, but ever since I found out that they eat other bugs, I have less of an urge to fumigate the entire house.
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Apparently, they eat spiders, too. Which is a bit of a tradeoff in the "eating bugs" department.
May the greatest number of legs win!
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Yeah, it's a trade-off, but I don't mind if they go all Mortal Combat on each other, as long as it's not ON me. :wink: Spiders, you keep to your corners and eat the fliers, and centipedes, you stay in the dark and eat things I never want to see -- everyone wins.
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