Things that scared you as a kid and maybe still do.

[TerraMartin79]

We all had them that little irrational fear as a kid, may it be something tangble or just some creepy music your heard lets here em.

 

[blobfish]

We all had them that little irrational fear as a kid, may it be something tangble or just some creepy music your heard lets here em.

When I was a kid, I saw my sister masturbating with a cucumber. Ever since, I was afraid to have sex because I thought that a lady's pink slip was a second mouth and that she would eat my dicky.

 

[TerraMartin79]

I had and still have this idiotic fear of scary movies. I can not sleep for days after I watch one

 

[Sean]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb00H6mCTM8

 

[butters]

being trapped in a burning car and dying from it
(as an adult, maybe the 'not dying from it' might be scarier)

 

[blobfish]

My first post was a joke.

 

[blobfish]

I'm scared of being raped by several attractive girls because they can't resist my male beauty. I don't have any irrational fears, though.

 

[Bert Notorius]

Being trapped on an adult discussion forum and not being able to leave.

 

[TerraMartin79]

being trapped in a burning car and dying from it
(as an adult, maybe the 'not dying from it' might be scarier)

I can totally understand that one

 

[oggbashan]

Not irrational, but discarded or lost unexploded ordnance scared, and scares me. London in the 1940s was scarred with bomb sites, many still having unexploded bombs on them.

One of my childhood friends lost three fingers off one hand when he picked up a detonator on a beach. When the bomb disposal unit arrived they found half a ton of WWII explosives just under the sand. Had the detonator been closer to the rest, I and several other friends would have been mincemeat.

I don't like being near the SS Richard Montgomery, sunk off Sheerness in Kent. There are still hundreds of tons of rusting shells and bombs on a broken ship in shallow water. As a child I saw some of the damage caused by an ammunition ship exploding off Gibraltar's harbour.

 

[butters]

Not irrational, but discarded or lost unexploded ordnance scared, and scares me. London in the 1940s was scarred with bomb sites, many still having unexploded bombs on them.

One of my childhood friends lost three fingers off one hand when he picked up a detonator on a beach. When the bomb disposal unit arrived they found half a ton of WWII explosives just under the sand. Had the detonator been closer to the rest, I and several other friends would have been mincemeat.

I don't like being near the SS Richard Montgomery, sunk off Sheerness in Kent. There are still hundreds of tons of rusting shells and bombs on a broken ship in shallow water. As a child I saw some of the damage caused by an ammunition ship exploding off Gibraltar's harbour.

*shivers*

why don't they do a controlled explosion, Ogg? i'm presuming too much disruption to shipping lanes but maybe something else?

 

[sereneone4u]

I had a nightmare as a child about Count Chocula and Frankenberry and they have frightened me ever since.

Dead serious.

 

[oggbashan]

*shivers*

why don't they do a controlled explosion, Ogg? i'm presuming too much disruption to shipping lanes but maybe something else?

The last time anyone tried something similar the whole wreck exploded and killed the demolition crew. The explosives are too unstable to move and any 'controlled' explosion is likely to set off the whole lot, destroying most of Sheerness, Kingsnorth Power Station and damaging property as far away as Essex.

I'm well to the East of the Isle of Sheppey. I'd hear and feel it if the ship exploded but my house is unlikely to be damaged. It would be heard all over London.

 

[parodyluvr75]

Mimes and clowns.

 

[Johnny_Ray_Wilson]

Becoming an adult.

 

[TerraMartin79]

I've always wondered why clowns freak some people out

 

[killallhippies]

caterpillars.

i still don't like them touching me.

 

[oggbashan]

caterpillars.

i still don't like them touching me.

With some caterpillars, that is a rational fear because they can cause a severe rash.

 

[Saint Peter]

With some caterpillars, that is a rational fear because they can cause a severe rash.

Sea water is very corrosive. Does the ammunition become less likely to explode with time in the water?

 

[oggbashan]

Sea water is very corrosive. Does the ammunition become less likely to explode with time in the water?

They don't know and no one wants to find out by removing some. Some of it is sealed in shells. If the casing hasn't corroded the explosive inside has possibly deteriorated to a point where it could spontaneously explode. Even if 25% is still viable as explosive, that's a big bang.

Edited for PS: There is a large amount of WW1 and WW2 explosives in the North Sea and English Channel. Fishermen tangle their gear in some several times a year, sometimes bringing it to the surface. Most is now non-viable as explosive, but some is. There is a large dump of WW1 gas shells out there.

Most of Europe still has so many unexploded bombs that each country has several bomb disposal teams working all year round. A couple of years ago I was in Normandy. One of the bridges just behind a D-Day beach was closed at the time of a very low tide to remove a known bomb. It was due to be closed for an hour or so, but they found that the bomb was resting on an Army truck loaded with large artillery shells. The bridge was closed for several tides.

 

[killallhippies]

With some caterpillars, that is a rational fear because they can cause a severe rash.

true. some are mildly poisonous, but that has nothing to do with it. they just disgust me.

 

[neci]

clowns and gang rape

 

[TexasWife25]

Bats.

When I was little, a bat came into my room via the fireplace, my older brother told me if it got close it's wings would get caught in my hair and they'd have to shave my head. Hated the little fuckers ever since.

 

[Bert Notorius]

Politicians with my tax money.

 

[HoHoBomb]

earthquakes