Your Greatest Fear?

[ratty]

Something bad happening to my child / children

[ratty]

Oh, and getting bummed by a horse!!

[char1ie]

Dwarves! Armed dwarves. Dwarves with arms. Brrrr! Makes me shudder it does.

Charlie

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

"Chinooks"

Oddly enough, my one and only perk when I was at the MOD, was a trip in a Westland up the Thames. Wasn't frightened one bit and absolutely loved it. Just planes then.

[jumpinjackflash]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> jumpinjackflash Wrote:

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> > Chinooks. Shudder everytime I see one on TV

> and

> > in the papers.

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> Do you say this as someone who has been in a

> Chinook and found it traumatic? Or merely as an

> observer?

No never been in one but I think it's what they represent perhaps? Although saying that, I've no fear of tanks, fighter jets etc when I see them.

[Asset]

I find the distinctive throb of a chinook quite exciting and always look to see them when I hear it. Agreed the representation of military might is not so nice but as a piece of hardware they are great.

[PeckhamRose]

LOVE this thread.

I fear people: more specifically, people's stupidity and greed.

Specially when those people are in charge of society / other groups of people.

I refuse to fear the unknown. A lovely 95 year old taught me that the unknown may save us.

I refuse to fear irrational things and try hard to overcome them.

When I realise I am fearing something, as Richard Gere said when playing whatsisname in FirstKnight (Oh I quote from the best sources!) "Your fear should push you forward", or something.

So what else do I fear? Billy Joel (LOVE him) once said in a song (or maybe he sung it!) "What if I die and nobody knew who I was". That always struck a (minor) c(h)ord. Oh God I am writing like an 80s NME journalist.

I was listening to a comedy radio show on XFM in USA last month and a male comic said "My girlfriend says, 'My biggest fear is I'll lose my looks and you'll stop finding me attractive and like, you'll find someone else. What's your biggest fear?' and I said, 'Bears'".

So: my biggest overall fear is politicians, followed by stupid people generally.

Personally, my biggest fear is failure. But I'm getting used to it!

[Brendan]

I fear for the peoples of this world, that they may all not have the opportunity to bask in the warmth of my brilliance.

That and cabbages. Have you ever smelt a cabbage field?

[PeckhamRose]

YES! On the way into the Isle of Thanet the cabbage fields made me go ill I got fearful of having to visit my friends there!

Another memory of a stand up thing. I wish I could remember her name, this brilliant femal stand up:

I paraphrase "So there I am giving head whilst getting DP* and I suddenly thought to myself, Jeez I am turning into my mother."

Yep, I fear I shall turn in to my mother. Not a good thing.

* double penetration.

[spadetownboy]

being watched the whole way down lordship lane on cctv and when randomly questioned by the jackbooted state police at goose green checkpoint i am then bundled into the back of a black maria and spend 42 days in the big house as a suspected terrorist and all because i forgot my poxy id card.

[jollybaby]

Being scared. Silly isn't it.

[Moos]

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> So what else do I fear? Billy Joel (LOVE him)

> once said in a song (or maybe he sung it!) "What

> if I die and nobody knew who I was".

I don't think you were talking about being known, were you PeckhamRose? But anyway your post reminded me of the beautiful and grave end of Middlemarch, when Eliot considers the happy but undistinguished fate of Dorothea:-

"Her full nature...spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive; for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

I am amazed and impressed by the courage of those who are sharing their greatest fears with us on this thread. Thank you.

[PeckhamRose]

Yeah that'll do me. Lovely Middlemarch quote! Minus the tomb bit though. My last gift if they'll have it will be my own body to the London Anatomy Office Medical Students, since without the NHS many times saving my life I would not be here. London Anatomy Office. You can do it.

But back to thread: I fear they'll reject it!

[david_carnell]

Oompah Loompahs. Gives me the willys. The originals though...not the new one(s).

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*shudders*

[Keef]

That's reminded me...

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Lollipops....

[Guest]

Crikey, yes, Keef. Always found Jimmy Savile produced a similar feeling to the Childcatcher - I never, never wanted Jim to fix it for me.

[SteveT]

I whole heartedly agree about 'him'll fix it' Ms B, there was a magician called David Nixon many years ago and he also made me shudder too.

Today it is Bill Oddy, Bruce Forsyth, Maxwell Hutchinson, and Scylla Black who makes me reach for the controller.

So my greatest fear is losing the remote control.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

I remember some terrifying dolls in Dr Who from the distant mists of my childhood. Did I make that up?

[kford]

No, Dr Who used to scare the shite out of me too. That, and the song 'Born With a Smile on my Face' by Stephanie De Sykes.

[Guest]

Bruce Forsyth!! SteveT, you're so right - always found him rather menacing, as though somewhat creepily that might be someone else's scalp he's wearing.

[PeckhamRose]

Yes, the Cybermen in Dr Who. They always scared me when I was a kid but not the latest RusselTDavies' incarnation. They became too human then. Another scary DrWho monster from the 1970s was the SeaWeedmen. Remember them? FEAR!!!

[Guest]

Wasn't there an episode with huge white maggots?

Actually I was pretty terrified when John Pertwee morphed into Tom Baker. Couldn't scare a child with that kind of thing these days.

The TV series Survivors around the same time gave me nightmares - 95% of the world's population wiped out by a virus, struggle to survive and maintain a level of humanity etc.

[SteveT]

Your Greatest Fear.......

is I failed to learn how to live life to the full, before the big blue flash did for us all..................

[Azul]

water

lots of water

[Asset]

the particle accelerator being switched on.