What creeps you out?

I hadn't heard the one about our eating spiders in our sleep. That *is* creepy.
Thanks for that.

Did you hear the saying that, "You are rarely more than six feet away from a spider."?
That creeps me out.

 

These pictures, the exhibit that they portray and the event that precipitated both.

 

Brown recluse must be a spinster black widow?

 

lol... You could say that. Particularly since they're harder to recognize.

I easily would confuse them with a common house spider, so they all get killed in my apartment.

 

Must rain all the time in your neck of the woods

 

We're in a drought actually. Do I need to kill more spiders to make that end?

 

It would be more humanitarian of you to go outside and do a crazy dance.

 

Not doing it outside - but I am going to Zumba tonight - so I kinda have that down.

It also creeps me out to have my toes hanging over the bed when I sleep. Fingers either.

 

Ah, From the many who brought you I Am Legend, Richard Matheson. Creeps my wife out too. You really want creepy, though, read the short story it's based on, "He Who Kills".
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Fresh wounds from cutting or burning, but only on other people. (I don't care much for them on me either, but I can handle it.)
Loud, crowded places. (I sweat and get anxious. It's not pretty.)
Reality television, and no, I'm not saying that to make fun. The stupidity of it offends and disgusts me.
Morbidly obese people who dress like they're stick thin teenagers (cf. people of Walmart.)
Dental pain.
Any insect with significant mandibles.
Guntards.

 

I'd only add Scientologists, Catholic priests (or really anyone whose taken a vow to never have sex) and "Amway families" to that list. Other then that looks pretty damn complete.

 

Ever heard of a dobsonfly? I was well nigh traumatized when one of these lighted on the bare skin of my leg as a child. They're harmless but try telling that to a seven year old boy.
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I use to have a phobia about my arm hanging off the bed when I was a kid because something under the bed might grab it.

 

Holy Crapsticks Batman!!! I'm now scared of the dobsonsfly

 

Adult male dobsonfly mandibles, like male stag beetles, are so out of proportion to the creature that they pop out the other side of creepy and into neat/ridiculous.
Female dobsonfiles and larvae (Hellgrammites) on the other hand.... My scalp crawls as I type. And the thought of James Dobson being able to fly is utterly horrific.

Where I grew up, we had the closely related snake flies, which were irritating but not creepy.

 

Snakes.....

 

The noises my stomach makes after 900ml of Ready-Cat 2 Very Berry Smoothie. What IS barium, really? Any why is it percolating in my stomach?

Oh, and bot flies. Horrifying, really. 'Monsters Inside Me' scarred me for life.

 

I am 100% with you on this one.
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Apparently the UN recently released a paper looking into the possibility of insects as a cheap, alternative food source (lots of protein!)

 

Anyway, like I was sayin', grub is the shrimp of the dirt. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, grub-kabobs, grub creole, grub gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple grub, lemon grub, coconut grub, pepper grub, grub soup, grub stew, grub salad, grub and potatoes, grub burger, grub sandwich. That- that's about it.

 

And strangely enough, 'grub' is slang for food.

Most people that eat insects do so because they were raised in a culture where they were raised doing so. For example, a number of the immigrants I work with. People like me - well, we have psychological blocks in place. It's 'all in my head'.
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Barium is what you do to a chemist if you are unsuccessful in your attempts to helium or curium