I used to be scared of bee's, wasps, spiders etc.   But then I learned more about them... and it kinda got me past being scared of them, cos I understood them.

*sends Ducky 20 or 30 different Hoover manuals to read*

  You two talking hoovers over a glass of wine..I can see it! 

*Sends Ditty a badly grazed foot in a brown window envelope....with a note saying "bad news.... I'm going to force you to watch the scary video I made of a knuckle cracking maniac chopping off my right foot"*

see... i get where you are coming from.... but still, sending me dismembered body parts!!   Its hardly still on the same level as playing with a hoover nozzle is it?

To those of you stupid enough to believe the hoover manufacturers propaganda that they're entirely harmless devices, not capable of sucking up a whole person... maybe!

Ducky...  *sensible calm voice*    I made Mr Ditty spend hundreds of pounds on the Dyson cos I wanted the maximum suck for my money....   and even that struggles to swallow up a whole wotsit, or starburst wrapper!

Renton why do you seem obsessed with women needing men and post-menopausal women?

Only spiders scare me, and since l got my lovely plug in thingys they are history. Otherwise NOTHING!!.

oh Jaf... I am with you on that one!   You should see me driving under the Dartford tunnel....  clutching the steering wheel with white knuckles...  chanting any old crap out loud so that I won't think about the dirty great river that is above my head...   is mad... but I have even plotted out the worse case disaster scenario in the tunnel....  

So yeah... the channel tunnel... with a whole bloody sea above me... it just isn't happening!

Well nobody likes menopausal women do they?

I race over train level crossing tracks with my eyes shut at such speed that I am suprised my exhaust doesn't fall off.!!

I'm scared about the devil. I don't actually believe in it, but I was brought up very strictly Catholic and it's hard to shake it off.

I'm scared of pain.

oh yes... I will join you in that one too!

Pain & subsequent under dosing of pain killing meds! NUMB IT YOU BARSTARD.. NUMB IT!!  

me too temps!...sends me in a apanic it does!

Pain doesn't bother me.

Am more allergic than scared...

Exactly, plus we have a very very high pain threshold in our house so I know when I can feel pain that its bad. Very bad. But it does mean we get great painkillers. Wahoo.

You are a pain!

Put down the mirror darlink.

I used to think I had a high pain threshold... but that theory was tested when I was in labour... and I looked over at my generally acknowledged soft wimp mum... and shouted "you did this... TWICE... without drugs"

I do have an extremely high tolerance for meds (and alcohol, caffiene... all that stuff) though... what can I say... my liver strives to please...   the hospital knew this was true... on account of the amount of anaesthetic it took to knock me out, and then the amount of other stuff to then get me to wake up.

But did they up the morphine... no.    And... I only got ONE shot of morphine... after that it was Tylex...    then para bloody cetamol!

lol
I was reading a paracetamol box today and it said Warning contains Paracetamol. Er hello.

I read an article in a magazine about peeps that get addicted to co-codamol.  Apparently to the point where there are financial implications...  some of them taking up to 30 a day!

All I could think was   a) why, if you are gonna get a drug habit, would you chose co-codamol??    b) 30 a frickin day!  30 a frickin day!!  I had a raging ear infection... and was only allowed a max of 8 per day.... 2 every 6 hours... but they wear off after 4 hours... resulting in 2 hours of rocking in agony watching the clock!

And these peeps are on 30 a day....     someone's lying somewhere!

Do you know i don't think i have ever had co-codamol in my life. I shall look out for it. Vicadine(sp) now thats a pain killer.

I`m scared of being scared!

They are very good... has to be the effervescent ones (brand name is solpadeine).  I was given them when I had to pass a kidney stone whilst pregnant  -  I didn't think they would be much good... but they were.

Then when my sis in law had a really bad throat infection she was told to gargle them before swallowing.... and it worked for that too.

If you take two the moment you feel a shitty cold coming on, I am convinced they stop it in its tracks.

The chemist may go all serious on you though...   they seem to be very concerned that two tablets contain the daily recommended amount of salt for a day.   I have never really thought it to be an appropriate concern under the circumstances!

Why don't they just take the salt out of them then??

I'm a bit scared of being ignored. It seems to become a habit.

Hi Cologne... sorry if I ignored you....  

I think thats what makes them fizz and dissolve... and also what makes them work so bloody well... and fast! 

I just vow to use lo salt (which I do anyway).... and forgo crisps or salted peanuts for the duration of the illness

Thanks.

thats exactly my thinking Ditty, its a no no no

it works the other way too.... hubby took part in a race across the Atlantic on his mates sailing boat....    and he said one morning his mate said "well closest land is a mile away.... downwards"

That would have been me freaking!    Hanging onto a table leg!

What?  I`ll be with you in a mo..just seeing visitors out.

Rats, bats, or anything rat-sized with a tail.
People vomiting - always scared they are going to do it all over me!!

Why would anybody vomit all over you unless you are a careworker in an old folks home, in which case it shoudln't matter if they vomit over you.

i know what trollop is scared of

what are these plug in things you talk of

I don't know why they would do it... but I can say from experience they do do it.

Once by the girl sitting behind me in The Albert Hall at a Cranberries concert.

once by the girl sitting next to me in a nightclub (despite me growling at her that if she felt sick she should go to the loos).

And... then there's kids!      As they stagger into your room in the middle of the night... about to tell you they feel sick...   projectile vomit in your general direction!