good afternoon everyone
a friend of mine text me saying
"dave your ergophobic"
A quick search shows ergophobia is the fear of working
cheeky bugger lol i just got a new job
anyway i carried on reading
and heres a few that made me chuckle (a few beers and that laughing stuff has contributed haha)
Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning
Agraphobia – fear of sexual contact
Anthropophobia – fear of people or the company of people, a form of social phobia.
Atychiphobia – fear of failure
Chaetophobia – fear of hair
Chronophobia - fear of time and time moving forward
Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns)
Descendophobia - fear or discomfort while descending stairs or down the hill
Disposophobia – fear of getting rid of or losing things - sometimes wrongly defined as "compulsive hoarding"
Erythrophobia – pathological blushing
Friggatriskaidekaphobia, Paraskavedekatriaphobia, Paraskevidekatriaphobia – fear of Friday the 13th
Frigophobia - fear of becoming too cold....(thats me lol)
Genophobia, Coitophobia – fear of sexual intercourse (whats the fear of not getting it hahahaha)
Gerontophobia – fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly (yeh them zimmer frames are lethal)
Gynophobia – fear of women ( i would hate to have this phobia...their was a thread yesterday about hatred for women)
Hypnophobia or somniphobia - fear of sleep
Nomophobia – fear of being out of mobile phone contact
Odontophobia - fear of teeth (tim currys teeth in IT was bloody creepy)
Omphalophobia – fear of bellybuttons
Panphobia – fear of everything or constant fear of an unknown cause (hahaha thats most of us here)
Phobophobia – fear of having a phobia (hahahaah)
Telephone phobia – fear or reluctance of making or taking phone calls (thats me, dont know if its the debt collector)
Trichophobia – a morbid disgust caused by the sight of loose hairs (doesnt sit well in the throat either)
Turophobia – fear of cheese
Xenophobia – fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens (thats why we are all grouped here haha)
Polonophobia - fear/dislike of the Polish
Russophobia - fear/dislike of the Russians.
Anatidaephobia – the fictional fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you. From Gary Larson's The Far Side.
Arachibutyrophobia – fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Robophobia - Irrational fear of robots and/or androids, also known as "Grimwade's Syndrome".
hahaha i better stop now
sorry for dragging it on
gave me a little laugh
dave
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