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Bwarch wrote:Shemp, phobias.

They are more often than not illogical but still they persist.

Yeah but it's the fact that he said daddy long legs in particular rather than spiders in general that puzzles me. Is it the long skinny legs? It's just that people I know who are scared of spiders are either scared of all of them or just the big hairy ones and the ones they know are venomous.

Doctor Shemp wrote:

Bwarch wrote:Shemp, phobias.

They are more often than not illogical but still they persist.

Yeah but it's the fact that he said daddy long legs in particular rather than spiders in general that puzzles me. Is it the long skinny legs? It's just that people I know who are scared of spiders are either scared of all of them or just the big hairy ones and the ones they know are venomous.

it's probably how their legs twitch around when they get pulled off

darkychao wrote:

Doctor Shemp wrote:

Bwarch wrote:Shemp, phobias.

They are more often than not illogical but still they persist.

Yeah but it's the fact that he said daddy long legs in particular rather than spiders in general that puzzles me. Is it the long skinny legs? It's just that people I know who are scared of spiders are either scared of all of them or just the big hairy ones and the ones they know are venomous.

it's probably how their legs twitch around when they get pulled off

Now that's just cruel.

Apiphobia
The fear of bees. In my case, it's more the "fear of everything that slightly looks like a bee".

I've got that one too to a certain degree.

When I hear buzzing I try and check and see if it's a fly or a bee before going on with whatever I was doing. And getting away if it is indeed a bee.

I was eating outside a restaurant one time (it was one of those little shack restaurants where you order through a window and then eat outside) and I saw a bee so I booked it across the parking lot and across the street and then waited a bit before coming back.

I actually don't know if it was a bee. It was in the category of yellow/black insects I'm afraid of, though. I've never actually been bitten by a bee/wasp/yellow jack/other assorted Satan spawns.
They just freak me out for some reason. I'm sure the pain is tolerable I just hate the idea of it. Also why do bees have to be fuzzy? That makes them so much more gross. Cute things are supposed to be fuzzy, bees are trying to get in on it too but I'm NOT FALLING FOR IT.

Do I really need to point out what a phobia usually is again on the same page

Bees are fuzzy for a pretty interesting reason: when they fly the movement of their wings builds up static electricity in their fur. When they land on a flower the static electricity is discharged (as flowers are earthed) which will cause all the pollen to jump a few millimeters towards the bee, causing large amounts of it to get stuck in the fur. That way they can bring pollen back to the hive more effectively.

It's also because it gets really really cold in some of their habitats in winter but that's a less interesting reason.

alex2 wrote:Wasps (which are not bees) want to fuck you up and then piss in your wounds.

Wasps will go on stinging you far after it's necessary to do so, but on the other hands bees will easily kill themselves just to hurt you, for the good of the hive. The first one is more immediately scary but the second one is pretty unsettling.

alex2 wrote:I don't really care about the "being afraid" part. People who act like wasps are bees just piss me off.

Fair enough.

Shut up with your science, I know they're fuzzy just to spite me.

alex2 wrote:

Doctor Shemp wrote:

alex2 wrote:Wasps (which are not bees) want to fuck you up and then piss in your wounds.

Wasps will go on stinging you far after it's necessary to do so, but on the other hands bees will easily kill themselves just to hurt you, for the good of the hive. The first one is more immediately scary but the second one is pretty unsettling.

Only if it's necessary, though. They won't touch you if you're not obviously being a threat.

Because they disembowel themselves if they do sting you and they'd rather not waste a worker like that.

Bees be tragic, yo.

As long as THEY die, I do not oppose

Hey man they just trying to live and let live.

I'm irrationally scared of the fellas but wishing them harm is another thing!

Sorry, Bwarch, I didn't know people out there were routing for the Enemy.

Peace maaaaan, it's a heck of a drug.

Bwarch wrote:

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Peace maaaaan, it's a heck of a drug.

this made me afraid of bees

Doctor Shemp wrote:

Bwarch wrote:Shemp, phobias.

They are more often than not illogical but still they persist.

Yeah but it's the fact that he said daddy long legs in particular rather than spiders in general that puzzles me. Is it the long skinny legs? It's just that people I know who are scared of spiders are either scared of all of them or just the big hairy ones and the ones they know are venomous.

I actually had a pet tarantula, but daddy long legs... the way they, walk, that tiny head, and skinny legs terrify me

The general thought is that daddy long legs are spiders, a common misconception then.

You can't blame people though since it looks like a spider entirely.

Bwarch wrote:The general thought is that daddy long legs are spiders, a common misconception then.

You can't blame people though since it looks like a spider entirely.

No, it really does not look like a spider.
Here's an Opiliones/Harvestman/Daddy Long-Legs and here's a Pholcus phalangioides/Daddy Long-Legs spider

Fuck you! Seriously, you should be banned for posting that in this thread.

I think it's the second one I see around a lot, not the first one. I can't confirm since I don't go right up to them and just leave them alone. I have doubts about both though since I've never seen one in a web (which would suggest that it's not the spider) but I do see them around the house all the time and apparently (looking it up) harvestmen don't come indoors.

Doctor Shemp wrote:I think it's the second one I see around a lot, not the first one. I can't confirm since I don't go right up to them and just leave them alone. I have doubts about both though since I've never seen one in a web (which would suggest that it's not the spider) but I do see them around the house all the time and apparently (looking it up) harvestmen don't come indoors.

Lies! In my old home those bastards would show up everywhere

darkychao wrote: Traumatizing things for Insane

Screw you because to the average joe that does indeed look like a spider.

Oddly enough I have no problem with spiders though

Bwarch wrote:

darkychao wrote: Traumatizing things for Insane

Screw you because to the average joe that does indeed look like a spider.

At that level of zoom, it doesn't, because a spider has its body divided into two bits (technical term) but if you look at the harvester it's all one bit.