Forums » Newbie Central » Read Thread

Welcome to the site, If you have any questions feel free to post them, and we will jump at the chance to help you.

Hi!!! Nice to meet you!

I have minty gum if you want some:) It's oh so delicious

Hah! I have melon gum! Victory is mine!

Hi! I'm Bo and if you need any help with  the editor, forums, pics, or just whatever pretty much any one here will be more than happy to help you.

(don't get any impression from his picture like you'd probably do. he changes it so often nobody knows what to think of him!)

Welcome! I can help you with almost anything (except scripting. That's Zikara's department) but I'm always willing to be a coauthor if you want. ^_^

Lol, aparently that zombie thing with no eyes is tim curry in drag. :P

If he's Pennywise, he can be a Mindless Null

Don't even mention Pennywise! That thing scares me to death....

I thought it was kinda cheesy, but if you say so.

I didn't even watch the movie, I just have a pathetic coulrophobia.

Tar gum! Tangy and bitter :D

It also leaves an awesome aftertaste.

Disclaimer: Tar gum should not be used for construction or in any method similar to uses of actual tar. If your teeth is stained black due to repeated usage, please advise your dentist to prevent unwarrented tooth drilling. Please be advised that tar gum may or maybe be related to cases of cancer, indigestion, hemophilia, and abnormal growth of the nose. Please enjoy tar gum and chew wisely.

Lol, thats not pathetic, it happens in a lot of people. What's pathetic is I have a phobia of falling. Not heights, falling. I can be a mile in the air on an airplane and not feel a thing because I feel safe. I can also not feel a thing if I'm in a building looking out a window, or even on the top of the building looking down through the railings. What I am afraid of is when I step down from a sidewalk not realizing that the street is starting -_-

（´-`）.｡oO(I didn't know that was a phobia) Then again, I used to not beleive anyone could possibly be afraid of clowns, and look at me now...

I don't know if they have a name for it, but it has the conditions. I can't go down escilators or steep stairs (I literally can't, its not that I don't want to, I can't make myself do it.) Tim curry did actually play Hewhoshallnotbenamed, I wasn't just saying something random.

That's not so bad. The worst is when they hinder daily life. A had a childhood friend once who was positively in fear of water, of any form. And seeing as how everyone needs water, her parents gave her water in tablets. Yep..tablets. Ingenious, but rather...sad.

I had*

positivity*

Nvm, it is positively. ;p

Hydrophobia is pretty serious, i feel sorry for her.

Phobias I know that were not already stated.:

Auldophobia - Fear of flutes

Neophobiea - FO (fear of) anything new

Bogyphobia - FO demons and goblins

Triskaidekaphobia - FO the number 13

Gamophobia - FO marriage

Scopophobia - FO being stared at

Aurophobia - FO gold

Chrmatophobia - FO money

Astraphobia - FO thunder and lightning

Blennophobia - FO slime

Phasmophobia - FO ghosts

Arachnephobia - FO spiders

Hedonophobia - FO pleasure

Chaetophobia - FO hair

Catoptrophobia - FO mirrors

Ombrophobia - FO rain

Isopterpophobia - FO termites

Laliophobia - FO talking

Pgoonophobia - FO beards

Theophobia - Fo God

Ecclesiophobia - FO churches

Taurophobia - FO bulls

Teratophobia - FO monsters

Tapinophobia - FO small things

Homichlophobia - FO fog

Geumophobia - FO flavors

hadephobia - FO hell

Gymnophobia - FO nudity

Levophobia - FO things on the left side of the body

Ichthyophobia - FO fish

Mechanophobia - FO machines

Pteronophobia - FO feathers

Politicophobia - FO politicians

Siderodromophobia - FO trains (or traveling on them)

Symmetrophobia - FO things that are symmetrical

Xenophobia - FO foreigners or unfamiliar things

Zoophobia - FO animals

Anthrophobia - FO people.

Ophidiophobia - FO snakes

Graphophobia - FO writing in public

Linonophobia - FO string

Pantophobia - FO everything

Fear of flutes?

I like how a xenophobe is someone who hates foreign cultures, but a xenophile is someone who is attracted by it. I know its because of the same root word but it tickles me. My little brother may have had a minor case of scopophobia when he was younger. It might have just been because he was weird though, he screamed at mannequins for staring at him.

Doesn't everyone get the creeps from mannequins that look real? Their eyes seem to follow you everywhere! Both me, my sister, and my brother used to hide behind clothing racks so they wouldn't see us. 

 (which is why I prefer the featureless knobs)

The knobs creep me out even more. At night, if an unlucky soul gets stuck in the store, the knobs will either turn them into a mannequin to have more company, or rip their face off to have an actual expression, then hiding the body so nothing will seem suspicious.

*shivier*

Of course I have to talk about this at night!

I can't remember the movie, but when I was younger I saw it and it had a bunch of people without faces running around. Not that scary now, but at the time I was like five and was horrified, I still find those faceless monstrosities horrifying...

I once saw a goosbumps show about it. that's when my fear really started up. But it was really from this creepy book I read.

The mall that I go to doesn't even have the knobs. The mannequins there are headless, which I always thought was worse.

I'm actually perfectly fine with those. When I was younger, I actually used to laugh at how funny they look and I'd think "Their heads went out for lunch!" or something. ha, I had such a twisted mind back then . . . and now.

That's a bit creepy. I used to think their heads were hiding somewhere, just waiting for me to come near so it can attack me. or eat me .

Where's the phobia that you're being watched by a duck?

Whats the phobia of being watched by a panda?

I haven't heard of that one.

As of now, there is no recognized phobia (By whoever names the phobias I guess) of pandas, but I do know that some people are incredibly scared of pandas, so it does happen.

Anatidaephobia

Aaaah, yes, thank you Bo. Apologies to all who suffer from it (because apparently there are such cases, if not, the term wouldn't exist), but I find this phobia hilarious.

yeah, you Canadians are lucky because of that. But, your books and stuff like that are way overpriced. Like by 6 dollars.

Actually, I just got this book and Found In Canada it's sold for just 4 dollars more! Still...

I thought that was just the crossover of currency. Like the Euro is worth less than the dollar or something. I may be wrong, but that was my first impression.

yeah, we have to fly to Hawaii for that, but I guess it might actually be worth less depending on your local hospital :)

Another fun fact about the American Healtchare system, which some of you might have heard of. I was watching CNN at the gym (I love how you can plug in headphones to the treadmills now!) and they were talking about this 50-something year old with severe leg and foot problems who walked into a bank with a gun, and handed the clerk a letter telling her to hand him one dollar. After recieving the dollar, he sat down and waited for police to arrive. The reason? The healthcare in the prison was better than the ones he could afford on the outside.

yeah. Sometimes I want to visit Canada just to see exactly what it's like there.

The system is also getting milked by those in charge of the hospitals. My mother went in one time for severe migraines that had been troubling her for over a week, so she waited for a few hours, got an IV for unexplained reasons, got several tests done, and then waited for about 4 more hours before she unplugged the IV, walked out, took a Tylenol, and had my dad (He used to be an EMT) to remove the IV still sticking in her. Then we got billed for all the ridiculous tests they took.

Also, another reason no universal system has been made was because of differences between parties. They were set up to recognize the differences of opinion between the population as well as making sure everyone was equally represented. But now, the two major parties spend so much time bickering nothing gets done. That and Obama's healthcare system was extremely long (did I hear 1000 pages or was it just 100?) so no one would read it all the way and he could sandwich in other democratic bills. That was a tactic used surprisingly often actually, parties would try to pass a big bill addressing a situation that the public is worrying about, but they sandwich in other bills related to their party that the other wouldn't ordinarily pass. That way, if the other side agrees, the problem would be solved but the other party would have many laws passed that the other wouldn't agree with, but if they disagree they look bad. This way, most major bils are denied.

That is partly true, but most bills also have to be lawyer proof. Finding each and every hole, plugging it, and finding holes from the plug, and plugging that, etc. From what I could tell of your mother's billing issue, some tests are just necessary in order to provide the best quality of health if the circumstances deem it be required. I have a whole library of medical books, and severe migraines can be a symptom to more lethal and contagious infections. Yes....I don't deny it, some do milk, but considering your dad was an EMT, I think they would at least provided some ease of company as fellow who suffered equal hardship.

Oh, by the way, Euro is worth more than dollar because Euro is comprised from all of Europe. However, almost every country in Europe has their own currency that they use.