What scares you?

[woodrot]

I cant handle zombies - had to switch off 28 weeks later - maybe cos if the collapse of society thing going on

That book thing The Road as well. urgh.

yours ?

[Ted Max]

If we're talking actual fear, then not much. Haven't had that spine-creeping, hair-up, "shitting-hell what was that" feeling for a long time.

As a boy, when I was about 11 (so not tiny by any means) my family spent one half term holiday in a rental house. The holiday coincided with Halloween. The weather was terrible and we spent most of our time in the one room with any heat, a sitting room with fire. The rest of the house was properly freezing, with dark wood panelling on the walls, and stone stairs that had a half landing with a lead-framed window above the landing.

You had to go upstairs for a piss, turning on the half-landing under the window. I left the sitting room after tea, about 6pm, stepping out from the warmth to the cold, from light to dark. I stood at the bottom of the stairs and I knew, just knew, that if I went up those stairs then something really, really terrible would happen. Not necessarily even to me, but just a sense that I was being told very strongly *not* to go up the stairs. There was no way on f*cking earth I would have gone up those stairs on my own that night.

Stupid: of course there was nothing there and my fear was self-induced, but it *felt* real. When the kids ask me to turn lights on now and go ahead of them etc, the temptation is to tell them not to be so fecking stupid, but I get it - the tricks the mind plays and how, at the moment, this stuff is real.

I shit on zombies, though.

[LadyDeliah]

Lol.

I don't really have many fears but I'm scared of the politicians turning the clock back and allowing the elite to once more become feudal overlords, but with bigger weapons and better intelligence.

The only other thing I'm scared of is climate change and surviving after the oil runs out.

Give me zombies, vampires, hood rats all day long, it's bigger stuff that scares me.

[Otta]

Conspirect theorists scare me.

[LadyDeliah]

Not sure a person's analysis of political/economic/environmental trends as they see it could be called a conspiracy theory Otta, if your comment was referring to me :-)

[Otta]

It wasn't

[Salsaboy]

Getting caught. Again.

[Otta]

Otta Wrote:

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> It wasn't

Although conspirecy theorists do tend to be paranoid! ;-)

[red devil]

No we're not!!!!!...

[Salsaboy]

I'm not paranoid. They really are out to get me.

[LadyDeliah]

Otta Wrote:

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> It wasn't

Cos you know I'm not scary!

[MrBen]

In Edinburgh airport's passenger security hall there is a life size cardboard cut out of a woman in a BAA uniform and where her mouth is they have some kind of mouth shaped video screen of moving lips trying to tell you something. You can hear a disembodied voice that doesn't sync with her flashing video lips whilst her eyes and nose and cheeks are frozen in cardboard. The overall effect is terrifying.

Edit: I've been getting the train lately.

[red devil]

MrBen Wrote:

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> In Edinburgh airport's passenger security hall

> there is a life size cardboard cut out of a woman

> in a BAA uniform and where her mouth is they have

> some kind of mouth shaped video screen of moving

> lips trying to tell you something. You can hear a

> disembodied voice that doesn't sync with her

> flashing video lips whilst her eyes and nose and

> cheeks are frozen in cardboard. The overall effect

> is terrifying.

>

> Edit: I've been getting the train lately.

Does she come with real hair?..

[????]

the Internet scares me a bit. So many stoopid people just regurgitating stuff they know sweet FA about. Sort of democratic but at the same time depressing.

That and vampires.

[nashoi]

Coincidentally just read the following line in a book

" Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance."

and that was written by a Nobel prize winner

[Huguenot]

I'm not sure they were calling us stupid though, more highlighting that it's often important to avoid extraneous complications when going about our everyday business - i.e. we don't forget to eat because we're too busy worrying about world peace!

:)

[nashoi]

He was talking about our ability to construct a convincing narrative from a limited amount of information, in fact the more limited the information the easier it is. So no not stupid, more delusional.

[Otta]

Duplicate post

[Otta]

What Quids said! (er, minus the vampires)

[the-e-dealer]

unemployment under the Tories.

[StraferJack]

"the Internet scares me a bit. So many stoopid people just regurgitating stuff they know sweet FA about. Sort of democratic but at the same time depressing. "

Isn't it the people who scare you then rather than the internet?

It's a bit like local businesses who blame the forum for bad worth of mouth spreading, instead of realising they have a chance to listen to the local population. They don't have to like what they hear and what they hear may well be stooopid, but it's still who they need to listen to if they want to adapt

[????]

WTF are you wittering about SJ it's nothing like local businesses choosing to ignore the forum! What a bizarre conclusion. I am on social media and engaging just amazed at so much ill thought out rubbish that goes round.

[jumpinjackflash]

Chinooks...I don't know why but my blood runs cold if I see one on TV. Perhaps I was a Chinook pilot in my past life.

[Mick Mac]

???? Wrote:

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> the Internet scares me a bit. So many stoopid

> people just regurgitating stuff they know sweet FA

> about. Sort of democratic but at the same time

> depressing.

>

C'mon that's unfair. We do our best with limited resources.

[Otta]

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> WTF are you wittering about SJ it's nothing like

> local businesses choosing to ignore the forum!

> What a bizarre conclusion. I am on social media

> and engaging just amazed at so much ill thought

> out rubbish that goes round.

In the last 24 hours I have discovered that a bloke who I knew through a friend in Australia has basically become a borderline neo nazi conspirect theorist. He presents stuff from the internet as proof of the Zionest Worl Order's plan to wipe us all out and take over the world, and he can not be reasoned with. Of course it is HIM who has been led to believe this shite, but it is the internet that allows this shite to be circulated so that idiots who are looking for someone to blame for their crappy life can latch on to it.

When I first started seeing his 9/11 conspirecies popping up, I thought it was quite funny and harmless, but it has quickly esculated in to something that frankly I find dangerous. That can be blamed at least partially on the internet.