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I'll start off with E-Fit's.
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I can't be in the same room as a boiling kettle. You spend my childhood telling me not to mix water and electricity, then spend my adulthood telling me to put them together? No sir, not going to happen.
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It's not really a fear or phobia, but I've never liked sticky labels, like price labels or on fruit etc.

Edit - Jono has a friend who is scared of stickers.
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Gavin Chipper wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2020 3:21 pm It's not really a fear or phobia, but I've never liked sticky labels, like price labels or on fruit etc.
I can understand that, they do often leave a sticky mark on the particular item, which can be annoying if you want to eat it.
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China dolls , which was fun having two daughters.
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six smalls...
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Craneflies. I've become a bit more tolerant towards them as I have got older but still hate them (I can now catch them in a sufficiently large container and give them someone to take outside since I can't justify killing a harmless creature, whereas before I wouldn't have been able to even go within a few metres of them).

Oddly, spiders don't bother me at all and in fact I've rather a fondness of them. I'm more than happy to coexist with them and will only move them elsewhere if they're causing a disruption (and I'm more than happy to pick them up with my hands). Loads of spiders in my bedroom? No problem. A singular cranefly somewhere in the house? Must be evicted or I'm getting no sleep.
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Elliott Mellor wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2020 4:52 pm and give them someone to take outside
No wonder you can't get any sleep, I'd personally choose not to live in Oldham if human-sacrifice-appeased giant crane flies dwelled amongst you.
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Courtesy of an industrial-strength bout of OCD in my early teens (that has since fucked off), I wound up suffering with the wonderfully named hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia-or 'fear of 666', which led to a general dislike of the number 6. If the same product cost £6.99 or £8.99, I'd buy the more expensive one just to avoid the 6. It was that bad, I once refused to go in the car when the odometer was on '12,661' miles for what would be a 10-mile journey, opted to wait half-an-hour rather than board a train numbered '350 266' where the individual carriage numbers all had three sixes in the string of numbers and had a deathly fear of Bolton and Blackburn (due to the A666). At it's peak, even a mention could bring on panic attack symptoms. This has long since gone, mercifully. Still hate the A666 and Blackburn though-I have since walked along it from Ewood Park to the Town Centre, and I have yet to visit a more dire fleapit. It makes Stoke-on-Trent look like Palm Beach.
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I ain’t scared of Rhys Benjamin
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You will be.
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Rhys Benjamin wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2020 3:15 pm You will be.
How?. I ain’t scared
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Rhys is so quick at blocking me. Maybe I should choose a different username, Rhys get ready I’m going to spam the wiki like never before. Regards, Mark.
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You fancy a game of whack a mole Rhys?
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Because you've now gone further than impersonation. You uploaded someone's private photos to the wiki. That is a misuse of private information and the police are now involved. Goodbye.
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Don’t involve the police I will stop cancel it and I’ll never spam again
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I’ll leave Ashton alone as well
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Bit late now, nice one Rhys!
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This isn’t me. Mark you’ve harassed me go away, i personally would rather the police not be involved, as I don’t won’t it to go on my record for assisting him. I’ll never spam again but I believe Mark would.
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Anyway, to put this thread back on track, I have a phobia of dogs. All dogs. It's my biggest failing, really, I can't be anywhere near them.
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Rhys Benjamin wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2020 3:48 pm Anyway, to put this thread back on track, I have a phobia of dogs. All dogs. It's my biggest failing, really, I can't be anywhere near them.
I am also a bit phobic of dogs, due to an incident with one as a child. I am sure my relationship would be different if the incident hadn't occurred. But, get where you are coming from.
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Volume ocd. I prefer to have my TV volume set at multiples of 5. I can tolerate it a bit if it's late at night and 5 would be too low and 10 would be too high but normally it has to 10, 15 or 20. I've tried setting it to numbers in-between but I can't leave it like that for long. Doesn't bother me with tje radio setting though, only tv.
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Feathers , but weirdly not birds.
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