A scary world
Posted by on Saturday 17th May 2003. 12 comments.
As everyone knows,today's world is a very stressful place. The pressures of ordinary life, let alone such traumatic things as exams, has dramatically negative effects on an increasing percentage of the population, manifesting itself in such things as personality disorders, paranoia, antisocial behaviour and a bewildering range of phobias.
Here are a few good ones to cultivate to aviod having to take your exams:
graphphobia- fear of writing
bibliphobia- fear of books
ponophobia-fear of working
gynophobia- fear of women (if inviulator is female)
androphobia-fear of men (if the invidulator is male)
anthropophobia-fear of people (other candidates)
ochlophobia-fear of crowds (might be lots of them)
scopophobia- fear of being looked at (and they might stare)
agrophobia-fear of open spaces (can't leave your house)
phedngophobia- fear of daylight (at least, not till 9pm at night...)
hodophobia-fear of travel (can't get to the exam room)
claustrophobia-fear of confined spaces (can't go into it)
okiophobia-fear of one's surroundings (can't stay there even if you can get there, get in, and stand everyone else who's there)
neophobia-fear of new situations, objects, or places
phonophobia-fear of sounds or of speaking aloud (problematic if you have langauge aurals)
And the all-encompassing:
pantophobia-fear of everything
phobophobia-fear of fearing
And there's always triskadiakaphobia, the morbid fear of the number thirteen, which should at least get you one day off a month if all else fails....
(appologies to anyone who actually has any of these!)
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| cabbage bits man. |
| That's ok as long as your teeth don't squeek back... |
| Cabbage squeaks agaionst your teeth, eww! |
| Didnt understand a word of that |
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There are tomato pople in Cucumbria? How do they get on with the indiginour population? Well, I trust, being all generally salad-like peoples. Or perhaps they're too alike for peaceful coexistence? |
| Yeah alex some of us do what is needed to make ends meet. a little bit of export never did anyone any harm |
| To the tomato people of cucumbria. Not all of us live in Cambridge where we have five maids and a butler. Mike needs to sell his cabbage to pay for but the one maid. |
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Mike sells cabbage? Who to, and more importantly, why? |
| Yes, but it's often out-noised by lettuce... the noisy devil it is. |
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They go 'boomshakalak' i would know as i sell them so im pulling rank on this one |
| Cabbage makes a specific sound? |
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I have specific phonophobia. I hate the sound of crap music and cabbage. |