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Talking to old women about their prolapsed uterus ranks highly

Yay another steal for me

I can't really say much creeps me out.....probably maggots, they are pretty gross.

What creeps you out? Spiders? worms? mice? your uncle?

hmm?

Centipedes. Especially this kind:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8CL2hetqpfg

We must kill them with fire.

Close-ups of insects.

Christian conservatives.

Pants

T-rex's

Especially JP's one.

That little grin they have that leads your focus straight to their yellow eyes...

Sharks are pretty creepy too, seeing something move in the dark water below you:eek:, giant squids and leviathans, generally anything big underwater is creepy for me.

I'd also like to add Sea Cucumbers to my list

Having packing pulled out of my foot.

Spontaneous Human Combustion. :(

Snakes.

Tramps in my shop.

Smell of manure (I live in the country, it's nasty!)

Moths. *shudders*

Having packing pulled out of my foot.

How does that work?:confused:

Are you a sentient "build your own bear"?

Having packing pulled out of my foot.

someone in my family had a rectal abscess once and I had to pull the packing out of their butt....that's infinity more gross.

How does that work?:confused:

Are you a sentient "build your own bear"?

I'm going to link you to a picture of my foot after it was operated on.

Do not click. (http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y79/Goomg/may22024.jpg)

Note the cloth. There was about 6 more inches of that inside my foot. I have no idea what the packing does, but it's disturbing when it's getting pulled out.

someone in my family had a rectal abscess once and I had to pull the packing out of their butt....that's infinity more gross.

*twitch*

..*twitch*


*cries*


Well, that's a story for the grandkids.

Birds totally freak me out. I'll cross theroad to avoid sparrows.

there was like 2 feet of it in there too, I kept pulling and pulling.....eww.

Like the magician's handkerchief trick! :)

*twitch*

..*twitch*


*cries*


Well, that's a story for the grandkids.

there was like 2 feet of it in there too, I kept pulling and pulling.....eww.

there was like 2 feet of it in there too, I kept pulling and pulling.....eww.

I seriously hope the person didn't add any.. sounds.

Freedom and Glory.

This is a plot! You are working for the government to set up room 101 for us!

Like the magician's handkerchief trick! :)

Just for that mental image, I'm sending my trained squirrel ninjas to harass you and break into your bird feeders...

... I was going to say running into a spiderweb at night...


but I think I'll change it to Medical procedural stories...


the ones I went through were... enough for me...

Like the magician's handkerchief trick! :)

I mastered that one the other day! I fit 8 feet of handkerchiefs in my shoe!!

I mastered that one the other day! I fit 8 feet of handkerchiefs in my shoe!!

Outstanding! :)

Just for that mental image, I'm sending my trained squirrel ninjas to harass you and break into your bird feeders...

Outstanding! :)

Your Mother.


Some one had to say. *runs away*

The Clintons.

Die hard Religous people.

Fuzzy Bunnies.

Note the cloth. There was about 6 more inches of that inside my foot. I have no idea what the packing does, but it's disturbing when it's getting pulled out.

When I had punctured my foot with iron spike through the bottom/side so far it made a scar on the *top* of my foot (though it didnt pierce the skin on the top), it was explained to me that they do it so the pus and such can drain rather than pooling (and potentially rotting) in the bubble created when your skin scabs over. Basically trying to prevent gangrene (but I'm no doctor - may be wrong on that)

Clowns of any variety.

Tissues / serviettes / napkins / handkerchiefs / .. anything paper-tissue-ish, especially those that come in layers. I'm fine holding them, but the second I have to rub them in any way I freak.

Beetles, esecially the extra-hard-backed, in the vicinity of my face.

The sound of people popping their knuckles.

Clowns of any variety.

What's so creepy about clowns?

http://ron.ozrock.net/blog/images/clownface.jpg

:D

The sound of felt tips on paper. I can never decide if that sound makes me want to crawl out of my skin or throw up or both..

What's so creepy about clowns?

http://ron.ozrock.net/blog/images/clownface.jpg

:D

Now that clown's the one performing the trick...

Dammit! Summon the undead viking ferrets!

You'll pay, LG...oh you'll pay...

What's so creepy about clowns?

Knew you'd be here sooner or later, but didn't expect to be called on right the next post ;P

I really don't know what makes them that way for me, they just are.. like that. I tells ya there's a reason It is a clown-ish thing!

Note the cloth. There was about 6 more inches of that inside my foot. I have no idea what the packing does, but it's disturbing when it's getting pulled out.

It's because the wound isn't a simple incision so they put in the packing to force it to close over from the bottom of the wound to the top preventing the skin from healing at the surface and leaving a hole inside for plenty of nice pus, etc to fill. I had the same thing on my back

Knew you'd be here sooner or later, but didn't expect to be called on right the next post ;P

I really don't know what makes them that way for me, they just are.. like that. I tells ya there's a reason It is a clown-ish thing!

I only ask so we can improve on disguising our true natures. :)

Not a single animal on earth creeps me out.

edit: except cows, what the fuck is their fucking problem?:upyours:

Not a single animal on earth creeps me out.

edit: except cows, what the fuck is their fucking problem?:upyours:

This mght help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkHCDkYkYnk

This thread.



Also dissected pig fetuses (feti?). *shudders* Actually, dissecting anything really.

Morris Dancers. When I seize power, all Morris Dancers will be rounded up and shot.

*nods*

Now that clown's the one performing the trick...

Dammit! Summon the undead viking ferrets!

You'll pay, LG...oh you'll pay...

I've got more creep than you have mammals, buddy. ;)

the idea of being tortured. Specifically having my fingernails ripped out. It gives me the chills.

the idea of being tortured. Specifically having my fingernails ripped out. It gives me the chills.

Torture should always be for entertaiment purposes only. :)

I've got more creep than you have mammals, buddy. ;)

We shall see, Oh Clownish One, we shall see...:D

the idea of being tortured. Specifically having my fingernails ripped out. It gives me the chills.

That and spikes through my hands or feet creep me out.

Wow this thread is opening my eyes to how many things creep me out

Torture should always be for entertaiment purposes only. :)

Sexual purposes in particular

(consensual of course)

Freedom and Glory

Centipedes. Especially this kind:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8CL2hetqpfg

We must kill them with fire.

Thank you very much for adding that to the list of stuff that creeps me out...:mad::headbang:.....:(

I HATE...all bugs, spiders etc...

I don't like seeing pictures of people on magazines when I'm alone. They creep me out, especially if it looks like they're looking at me.

I'm sure there are many other things, but that's just one thing.

Bushes... No, i don't mean shrubberies. Ni!

Moles, especially star-nosed moles (http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/starnosedmole.jpg).

Moles, especially star-nosed moles (http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/starnosedmole.jpg).

That is conclusive proof that if evolution doesn't exist, then God does drugs. *nod*

I don't like seeing pictures of people on magazines when I'm alone. They creep me out, especially if it looks like they're looking at me.

I'm sure there are many other things, but that's just one thing.

Ditto, except any photograph, not just magazines.

the idea of being tortured. Specifically having my fingernails ripped out. It gives me the chills.

Try ripping out toenails. By yourself.

The entire thing.

While riding a bicycle.

And try not to scream in joy...

What's between the stars on a very dark night.

I can't really say much creeps me out.....probably maggots, they are pretty gross.

What creeps you out? Spiders? worms? mice? your uncle?

hmm?

blood.

Hungryman Dinners.

The picture on the box and the actual product are two different fucking dimensions. :(

the idea of being tortured. Specifically having my fingernails ripped out. It gives me the chills.
One of my Granny's best friends worked for the SOE in Occupied France during WW2, and was tortured by the Gestapo. Having her toenails pulled out was one of the few things she could bring herself to talk about.

Which, as a child, didn't half give me the willies.

Especially when I had to get both big toenails removed.

*revels in weird feet*

What's between the stars on a very dark night.
More, fainter, stars?

Leeches. (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Leech_blutegel.jpg)

*shudder*

[...]

More, fainter, stars?

Actually, it's trying to comprehend infinity which creeps me out. The black between the stars is just a symbol of that.

Actually, it's trying to comprehend infinity which creeps me out. The black between the stars is just a symbol of that.

Infinity used to scare me to hell.

Canadians.

Infinity used to scare me to hell.

Eternity is fairly creepy as well.

Eternity is fairly creepy as well.

That was my biggest fear when I was little. :)

Actually, it's trying to comprehend infinity which creeps me out. The black between the stars is just a symbol of that.
I can see why it would, though I get a huge feeling of.... huge, I suppose. I quite like that feeling of your brain not quite being able to comprehend stuff.

I used to often lie in bed when I was a kid, visualising a simple pattern in my mind (such as a group of four dots in a square) and then 'focus' in on a part of that pattern, until I could see the pattern within the pattern.

Visualising incredibly simple fractals I suppose.

Eternity is fairly creepy as well.
Eternity on your lonesome without a good book, perhaps. :)

That was my biggest fear when I was little. :)

Mine, right now, is purgatory. *shivers*

Mine, right now, is purgatory. *shivers*
But heaven's just round the corner, no?

Though heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.

Mine, right now, is purgatory. *shivers*

Feeling "meh" for all eternity isn't so bad...it's not that great, but it's not bad. More or less anyway.

I can't really say much creeps me out.....probably maggots, they are pretty gross.

What creeps you out? Spiders? worms? mice? your uncle?

hmm?

Doesn't Ruffy exist as a poll option here?


Uhm ... i find myself uncomfortable around clowns. I don't know if it's creeps or what, other than a deep sense of distrust in knowing someone needs a caul to provoke some kind of response from me. Had it all my life.

someone in my family had a rectal abscess once and I had to pull the packing out of their butt....that's infinity more gross.
HOLE-y moley!

Any relation to Flush Limblob - er, Rush Limbaugh? That's how he weaseled out of service for 'Nam.

Doesn't Ruffy exist as a poll option here?
someone stole my OP, so no poll today. :(


Uhm ... i find myself uncomfortable around clowns. I don't know if it's creeps or what, other than a deep sense of distrust in knowing someone needs a caul to provoke some kind of response from me. Had it all my life.

are you uncomfortable around me?

someone stole my OP, so no poll today. :(
D'oh! Sorry.

are you uncomfortable around me?Since i haven't actually witnessed you in clown regalia, i can't say as i am. You're one of the sweetest people on NS, actually.
Of course, you know the only comparison is Lunatic Golfballs, and we all know where that conversation will go. :D

I'm going to link you to a picture of my foot after it was operated on.

Do not click. (http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y79/Goomg/may22024.jpg)


Eh, i've eaten worse.

Er, to quote Sam Malone,
"I've eaten through worse than this."

But heaven's just round the corner, no?

Though heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.

Well, with Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, there's nothing but infinity, meaning that nothing different ever happens. Here are your options:

a)Punished for eternity
b)Happy for eternity, or
c)Meh for eternity.

With punishment, you'd get used to it; with happiness, you'd get tired of it; and, with purgatory, it'd be infinite meh, which isn't really bad or good.

:(

Or you could just die and everything would be black... hm...

Like the magician's handkerchief trick! :)

See, this is why laughter is the best coping mechanism per my uneasiness regarding clowns.
*nods emphatically*

Or you could just die and everything would be black... hm...
http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/9316/dontevengetmestartedonijh3.gif

I seriously hope the person didn't add any.. sounds.
The scenario probably came with its own soundtrack, but do you mean like, bleating?

But heaven's just round the corner, no?

Though heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.

I dunno, there was a revolt. I'm sure, if you got LG up there you could start a pi revolt.

Well, with Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, there's nothing but infinity, meaning that nothing different ever happens. Here are your options:

a)Punished for eternity
b)Happy for eternity, or
c)Meh for eternity.

Purgatory is just for a (long) while. Then you get to go to heaven (if either of them actually exist)

... I was going to say running into a spiderweb at night...


but I think I'll change it to Medical procedural stories...


the ones I went through were... enough for me...They make great anecdotes! ;)

The sound of felt tips on paper. I can never decide if that sound makes me want to crawl out of my skin or throw up or both..

Oh yeah - the sound of people sucking or blowing through a straw.

...yes, that means felching is right out.

...yes, that means felching is right out.
When is felching ever in?

I only ask so we can improve on disguising our true natures. :)

See?!? See!??!?

That's what i'm talkin' about.

Well, with Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, there's nothing but infinity, meaning that nothing different ever happens. Here are your options:

a)Punished for eternity
b)Happy for eternity, or
c)Meh for eternity.

With punishment, you'd get used to it; with happiness, you'd get tired of it; and, with purgatory, it'd be infinite meh, which isn't really bad or good.

:(


The solution is obvious. Do good deeds all your life and make sure you never miss church.
But sign a pact with the devil for a time-share on your soul. Say, one week per year. For eternity, of course.
;)

Heaven and hell are of course examples of infinity. Whether they exist or not, they cannot be fully comprehended by a human mind. Even if "being there" was of limited duration, what experience can you compare "ultimate pleasure" or "ultimate suffering" with ?

When is felching ever in?

Ohnoyoudin't, you didn't just ask that on this thread.
Doomed, doomed, doomed. We're doomed.
http://www.gearsandwidgets.com/external/wherethisthreadgoing.jpg

I dunno, there was a revolt. I'm sure, if you got LG up there you could start a pi revolt.


All clowns go to Heaven. We're like dogs that way. Though, for the sake of the cleaning staff and to maintain the image of peace and serenity, we are segregated to one small area(kind of like Bourbon Street but with clowns). From time to time, the other peaceful and tranquil people in Heaven can come by for a rowdy weekend in Clown Heaven to have some fun before returning to their eternal contemplations. *nod*

Now tell me that isn't creepy. :)

Ohnoyoudin't, you didn't just ask that on this thread.
Doomed, doomed, doomed. We're doomed.
Don't panic Captain Mainwaring!

Discussion of this sticky subject (boom boom!) is over.

What's between the stars on a very dark night.

What a cool f*ckin' answer!

Personally, i LOVE that.
Especially when the same space exists on a night with a full moon.

The solution is obvious. Do good deeds all your life and make sure you never miss church.
But sign a pact with the devil for a time-share on your soul. Say, one week per year. For eternity, of course.
;)

Heaven and hell are of course examples of infinity. Whether they exist or not, they cannot be fully comprehended by a human mind. Even if "being there" was of limited duration, what experience can you compare "ultimate pleasure" or "ultimate suffering" with ?

So, would Purgatory be summer vacation? :confused:

All clowns go to Heaven. We're like dogs that way. Though, for the sake of the cleaning staff and to maintain the image of peace and serenity, we are segregated to one small area(kind of like Bourbon Street but with clowns). From time to time, the other peaceful and tranquil people in Heaven can come by for a rowdy weekend in Clown Heaven to have some fun before returning to their eternal contemplations. *nod*

Now tell me that isn't creepy. :)

That wasn't creepy.




*shudders*

But heaven's just round the corner, no?

Though heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.

Other than an amusing floor show when that psychopath John scuttles in.

No wait, you're right - he'd NEVER get there.

Bees, wasps, and hornets.

Micheal Jackson

That wasn't creepy.




*shudders*
http://www.best-horror-movies.com/images/it-pennywise-howling.jpg
...and in the storm drain on Bourbon Street.
http://www.echolog.de/img/es2.jpg
Something like that, i suspect.
Nope, no creepies here.
Well, other than Tim Curry, which it really doesn't matter how he's dressed.
http://faqsmedia.ign.com/faqs/image/article/727/727070/frankenfurter.jpg

Micheal Jackson

Can't believe it took until page 7 to get this one.
:(

caterpillars

Freedom and Glory.

Don't worry, him, DK-RO, MTAE and others are a macro program created by the Bush administration.

So, would Purgatory be summer vacation? :confused:

I'm a bit vague about what Purgatory is really. By the time my scripture teacher had done describing heaven, I was constantly interrupting. Shortly after that, I was outside the Deputy Principal's office.

But I'm thinking the devil would probably appeal the case, and there'd have to be a trial somewhere.

Don't worry, him, DK-RO, MTAE and others are a macro program created by the Bush administration.

They're just a type of culture.
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=533712

Micheal Jackson

More specifically, what's left of his face. Snappy dresser, though.

More specifically, what's left of his face. Snappy dresser, though.

"Purity" glove? 19 extra zippers?


*retch*

my elderly neighbor. She has a habit of trying to make moves on me. I stray away from talking to her as much as possible as of late.

Most of the people posting on raptureready (http://raptureready.com)'s forums.

"Purity" glove? 19 extra zippers?
*retch*

I suppose you don't like the way he dances, either ?

Starting a fad for pet monkeys.

*retch*

Dodging court because his personal doctor says he's too delicate to be driven in a motorcade.

*retch*

I'm starting to see your point ...

Most of the people posting on raptureready (http://raptureready.com)'s forums.

-smacks forehead- I don't get my fellow christians some times.

"Where there's a Will there's a way" -Groucho Marx

Will as in inheritance? Well, if she has a large bank account, then perhaps i could sneak over there one night.

okay seriously, i feel like vomiting now :(

4chan creeps me out at times.

my elderly neighbor. She has a habit of trying to make moves on me. I stray away from talking to her as much as possible as of late.

"Where there's a Will there's a way" -Groucho Marx

4chan creeps me out at times.

all chans creep me out. they have an abundance of cp, jb, and i even saw one where a chick was stepping on a kittens head with high heels killing it. I was pissed about that one. it almost made me cry :(

all chans creep me out. they have an abundance of cp, jb, and i even saw one where a chick was stepping on a kittens head with high heels killing it. I was pissed about that one. it almost made me cry :(

They're just reposting it..

I suppose you don't like the way he dances, either ?

Starting a fad for pet monkeys.

*retch*

Dodging court because his personal doctor says he's too delicate to be driven in a motorcade.

*retch*

I'm starting to see your point ...Well, if anyone needed a reason, you've certainly belittled me in faculty.
*bows*

Most of the people posting on raptureready (http://raptureready.com)'s forums.

Perhaps they'll take a cue from those Hale-Bopp Heaven's Gate fans a while back and sequester themselves somewhere to speak "in tongues" and feast on things that fall out of the air .... maybe play with poisonous snakes and stuff like that. Just get the kids out of there and keep their death-cult bullshit to themselves.

Freedom and Glory.

You win.

Cleaning litter boxes.

I can't really say much creeps me out.....probably maggots, they are pretty gross.

What creeps you out? Spiders? worms? mice? your uncle?

hmm?

Natural patterns that look somehow artificial (like the hexagonal spread of mold or honeycombs), or things embedded in things, like this: http://media3.guzer.com/pictures/canadian_fridge.jpg

Also, spiders.

Natural patterns that look somehow artificial (like the hexagonal spread of mold or honeycombs), or things embedded in things, like this: http://media3.guzer.com/pictures/canadian_fridge.jpg
That is so awesome.

I used to get creeped out a Nuclear Apocalypse fiction (Z for Zachariah, Brother in the land etc). Then I started getting bored of the rather naff writing. Never did work out why I read so many of them. These days, not much really.

They make great anecdotes! ;)
"I... Being of sound mind and very low constitution with a very active and detailed imagination..." :D
I've got more creep than you have mammals, buddy. ;)... and the frightening thing is... I believe you.

blood.
Yep... tho for me, Other people's blood.


on and another thing that creeps me out is finding blood stains on my hand and not finding the cut/scrape or any source of where that blood came from.

I'm going to link you to a picture of my foot after it was operated on.

Do not click. (http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y79/Goomg/may22024.jpg)

Note the cloth. There was about 6 more inches of that inside my foot. I have no idea what the packing does, but it's disturbing when it's getting pulled out.

Not to mention-smelly.


Nothing really creeps me out...except Borat wrestling a fat,hairy pig-man.

I still dont know if I saw a testicle or a hemorrhoid...ANd I just cant un-see it.

Fingernail damage.

I can't really say much creeps me out.....probably maggots, they are pretty gross.

What creeps you out? Spiders? worms? mice? your uncle?

hmm?

You do! :eek:

We all know there are no wimminz on the internet!

Not to mention-smelly.


Nothing really creeps me out...except Borat wrestling a fat,hairy pig-man.

I still dont know if I saw a testicle or a hemorrhoid...ANd I just cant un-see it.

I am seriously traumatized from that scene.....somebody could have warned me, especially my cop friend who saw me on the way in who knew about it....I bet he is still bruised.

I am seriously traumatized from that scene.....somebody could have warned me, especially my cop friend who saw me on the way in who knew about it....I bet he is still bruised.

... and where did you place said bruise? :p

... and where did you place said bruise? :p

Bonus points for the hemorrhoid/testicle region.

... and where did you place said bruise? :p

there is a place on his leg that I repeatedly kick him, so he has a perpetual bruise, I was unable to really kick him properly while he was on duty and in uniform and carrying his weapon and stick-club-hit-me thing so I punched him in the arm that time.

Does anybody else get this?
Just after I've cut my fingernails, my fingers become very sensitive to touch. For example, if I run the ends of my fingers (and the cut nail surface) down my shirt, all the hairs on my body stand up and I get massive shivers. Fades away after a couple of hours. Anyone?

Does anybody else get this?
Just after I've cut my fingernails, my fingers become very sensitive to touch. For example, if I run the ends of my fingers (and the cut nail surface) down my shirt, all the hairs on my body stand up and I get massive shivers. Fades away after a couple of hours. Anyone?

that used to happen to me before I started playing guitar, now I have to keep them short and there is a callous there so they aren't sensitive anymore.

there is a place on his leg that I repeatedly kick him, so he has a perpetual bruise, I was unable to really kick him properly while he was on duty and in uniform and carrying his weapon and stick-club-hit-me thing so I punched him in the arm that time.*makes note to look for perpetually limping police officer when I visit Oklahoma.* :D

Does anybody else get this?
Just after I've cut my fingernails, my fingers become very sensitive to touch. For example, if I run the ends of my fingers (and the cut nail surface) down my shirt, all the hairs on my body stand up and I get massive shivers. Fades away after a couple of hours. Anyone?
not my fingers... my toes on the other hand...

I can feel the individual threads in my socks after a nail clipping...

I am seriously traumatized from that scene.....somebody could have warned me, especially my cop friend who saw me on the way in who knew about it....I bet he is still bruised.

luckily, I didnt pay to see the movie, but still feell like my an-yuse is broken by it.

there is a place on his leg that I repeatedly kick him, so he has a perpetual bruise, I was unable to really kick him properly while he was on duty and in uniform and carrying his weapon and stick-club-hit-me thing so I punched him in the arm that time.

were that my leg, you'd have a perpetual set of teeth marks all over your neck/chest/breast region.

1. The idea of spending eternity in hell. That would suck ass, what with all the gnashing of teeth and (otherwise) total agony which the unrepentant soul must endure. Therefore (and for other reasons), I believe in (and try to follow) Christ.

2. Scary and/or gruesome movies.

3. Total darkness (i start thinking of scenes from said scary/gruesome movies).

hehe

not my fingers... my toes on the other hand...

I can feel the individual threads in my socks after a nail clipping...

You have toes on your hand? Sorry.

Hmm, glad to know I'm not the only one. No one else I asked ever got it. Not so creeped out anymore. :)

meh, he's a bitch. he is afraid of me, even with his gun *abuses her cop friend*

he did titty twister me when I was about 12 though and I kicked his 11 year old ass.....ever since he is my bitch.

maybe a weekend at the manor would change that

were that my leg, you'd have a perpetual set of teeth marks all over your neck/chest/breast region.

meh, he's a bitch. he is afraid of me, even with his gun *abuses her cop friend*

he did titty twister me when I was about 12 though and I kicked his 11 year old ass.....ever since he is my bitch.

meh, he's a bitch. he is afraid of me, even with his gun *abuses her cop friend*

he did titty twister me when I was about 12 though and I kicked his 11 year old ass.....ever since he is my bitch.

... I love you...

*Zen Hugs*

Insects that are difficult to catch/kill kinda creep me out.

The ugliness of the bug doesn't really bother me, but when they run or fly faster than I do, I get a bit creeped out. :p Also, giant locusts - the way they can spring in any direction. Flying cockroaches are similar. Spiders and bees and all that, though, don't bother me.

Other things that creep me out:

1. Cockroaches - especially big ones that fly.
2. The sticky, slimy mass of goo that occasionally accumulates in the trap in the kitchen sink.
3. Other people's hair in the bathtub.
4. Moldy food.

maybe a weekend at the manor would change that

meh.

if there is a boy on this forum that could whoop me it prolly ain't you. just sayin'.

Other things that creep me out:

1. Cockroaches - especially big ones that fly.
2. The sticky, slimy mass of goo that occasionally accumulates in the trap in the kitchen sink.
3. Other people's hair in the bathtub.
4. Moldy food.

speaking of #3 know what creeps me out? people who don't clean out their hair brushes, I will be at their house washing my hands in the bathroom and they will have this brush with like an inch of hair on it.........ewwww.......

Children and quail

Children and quailI don't mind quail,but children are pretty creepy.And maggots.And rotting anything.And people who talk about nothing but god.

Children and quail

Quail is delicious, though! :p Maybe you haven't had it prepared right. ;)

Quail is delicious, though! :p Maybe you haven't had it prepared right. ;)


The ninja quail... they are scary >>;

You know what creeps me out, Bush, and bush. Someone needs to get rid of all bushes!:sniper:
Tall people too, like the really tall ones... especially if they're bushy.

Underaged dino sex.

meh.

if there is a boy on this forum that could whoop me it prolly ain't you. just sayin'.

I havent "whooped" alot of women.

For some odd reason,I've never had to. ;)

Spiders.
Clowns.
And people convinced of any form of irrational belief (not just religious, that extends to social and political beliefs, too)

Spiders.
Clowns.
And people convinced of any form of irrational belief (not just religious, that extends to social and political beliefs, too)

...and posting from beyond the NSG grave. ;)

Decided to grace us with your lovely presense once again?

...and posting from beyond the NSG grave. ;)

Decided to grace us with your lovely presense once again?

For about 2 weeks. I've handed in my notice and don't have anything to do at all right now ;)

seeing people like Bitchkitten back on NS who i have not seen in along time

For about 2 weeks. I've handed in my notice and don't have anything to do at all right now ;)

dam your back again i thought i TG you to leave and not come back here again :p :fluffle:

hmm..not much grosses me out....because i find most gross stuff hilarious:mp5:

seeing people like Bitchkitten back on NS who i have not seen in along time

Bitchkitten is back!? when? where? :eek:

Bitchkitten is back!? when? where? :eek:

A few posts above you. :p

just spiders really. insects are only creepy if there are swarms of them.

I don't mind quail,but children are pretty creepy.And maggots.And rotting anything.And people who talk about nothing but god.

:fluffle:

Bitchkitten is back!? when? where? :eek:

as TD said and at the NSG Pub

i would have to say the collectively suicidal values of the dominant culture. that romantacizes and rewards aggressiveness while all but de facto ostracizing permitting oneself to enjoy the exercize of whatever creative and or intellectual capacities you might otherwise happen to have.

the whole situation that exists right now with who and what contorlls military power and what the're motivated to attempt to do with it.

the way what pretentiously calls itself conservatism insists on continuing to make the world a more dangerous and brutal place, totally gratuitously.

this whole notion that torture is ok if you don't call it torture and come up with what you can convince everyone is a good enough excuse for it, dispite the fact that anyone with half a brain already knows that nothing positive is ever actually accomplished by it.

that what we are doing to screw up our world is so totally avoid able, and without even having to give up our 'gameboys' to avoid doing so.

that i have to live with anyone in order to survive at all, if i also want to be able to get on here and run off at the keyboard like i like to do.

that people are economicly coerced into exactly the worst possible ways of living for both themselves individually AND the future well being of the human species and the planet.

that anyone can have the law on their side to demand attention and make a pain in the ass of themselves. i think that's really the creepiest part of it right there.

the way the euro-'christian' invasion of the western hemisphere 600 years ago wiped out ten thousand years of history of civilizations, some of which may have been in some ways as, if not more, advanced, then their own. not to mention the resaulting untold genocides, history as it is still being, as far as i know, taught in western hemisphere schools to children and young adults, is still for the most part utterly denying.

that so called 'christianity' could be the world's dominant religeon, and islam its closest rival. either one.

that people are more concerned with their religeous, economic, and idiological fantasies then with how their indifference to screwing everything up for everyone else is screwing up everything for themselves as well.

and how they can deceive themselves into blaming the resaults of this on everyone else, on other cultures, or people far enough away they can pretend their cultures are that much differently motivated then their own.

human gullibility to this sort of thing that made hitler and all the rest of them, going back to alexander 'the great' and possibly long before even that, possible.

=^^=
.../\...

SNIP

I beg you to take a writing class

People who use normal grammar but have an irrational hatred for capital letters. What did they ever do to you? :(

Anyone who is perpetually happy unsettles me. As well as all the usual insects.

hmm..not much grosses me out....because i find most gross stuff hilarious:mp5:

That's something that creeps me out - people who steal half my name then use the mp5: smilie. *hides*

Clowns
http://www.forteantimes.com/front_website/themag/

Children

Mice for some reason (don't mind rats at all)

Believers

Clowns
http://www.forteantimes.com/front_website/themag/

I must look for this issue. *nod*

Goatse creeps me out.

Insects? As far as they are not on me (or too near me), I've got nothing against them.

The Greys freak me out (yeah). If anyone would like to post a stupid comment: I am talking about those appearing in TV or on images or whatever, I've never met any of them in person :P

The Greys freak me out (yeah). If anyone would like to post a stupid comment: I am talking about those appearing in TV or on images or whatever, I've never met any of them in person :P

Do not worry, the mothership has been notified of this. You shall be tagged and released back into the wild soon.

Babies...

Do not worry, the mothership has been notified of this. You shall be tagged and released back into the wild soon.

No. Not the anal probes! :eek:

Cathetors. The mere thought of anything going into my urethra.... eww....

Spiders, snakes and slimy bugs.

I also hate old men who just stare at you. That is just way beyond creepy.

Cockroaches. People with "impediments"(for want of a better word). Basically, anyone (adult) who is obviously shorter than 1.4m, has a hunch, facial misformations, lots of tics, look a little "mentally challenged"(whether mental retardation or very obviously unhinged, as opposed to my "chic insanity"). Beyond that? Wandering anywhere unfamiliar in the dark(I have excellent LLV and memory for paths within my own home, so no real problems there.)

Spiders, snakes and slimy bugs.

I also hate old men who just stare at you. That is just way beyond creepy.

I'm not old but I stare a bit vacantly when I am tired on the bus and some people give me a look as if I am trying to stare at them.

I can't really say much creeps me out.....probably maggots, they are pretty gross.

What creeps you out? Spiders? worms? mice? your uncle?

hmm?
Wet paper.

Seriously.

I cannot touch wet paper. If you take a tissue and soak it in water, I will run across hot coals and broken glass to get away from it. I really, really don't like wet paper.

No idea why.

Bread pudding.

It's tasty, but the texture is just.. no.

I cannot think of anything that creeps me out.

I can't really say much creeps me out.....probably maggots, they are pretty gross.

What creeps you out? Spiders? worms? mice? your uncle?

hmm?

Okay...

Mice, rats, lice, flies, centipedes, ants, spiders, dogs that drool, babies, fungi, my father suspicious stains, smokers, used bubblegum, dairy products, sticky things, rusty things, my mother, worms, slugs, snails, zits, people who stand too close, the possibility that I haven't cleaned my teeth properly, my father again, food that smells funny, hairs lying around, and public bathrooms.

Wet paper.

Seriously.

I cannot touch wet paper. If you take a tissue and soak it in water, I will run across hot coals and broken glass to get away from it. I really, really don't like wet paper.

No idea why.

I don't like that squeaky sound that lettuce makes, it's like finger nails on a chalkboard to me......blech. Wet paper is very much the same "yaaaah" cringe thingy.

I don't like that squeaky sound that lettuce makes, it's like finger nails on a chalkboard to me......blech. Wet paper is very much the same "yaaaah" cringe thingy.
I'm one of the few people I know who's never had a problem with nails on a chalkboard. I've never understood everyone else's aversion to it.

I'm one of the few people I know who's never had a problem with nails on a chalkboard. I've never understood everyone else's aversion to it.

I read an article about people like you once, something to do with not hearing certain frequencies the same.

Okay...

Mice, rats, lice, flies, centipedes, ants, spiders, dogs that drool, babies, fungi, my father suspicious stains, smokers, used bubblegum, dairy products, sticky things, rusty things, my mother, worms, slugs, snails, zits, people who stand too close, the possibility that I haven't cleaned my teeth properly, my father again, food that smells funny, hairs lying around, and public bathrooms.
You sound a little like Hanners from QuestionableContent.net :p

You sound a little like Hanners from QuestionableContent.net :p
I love Hanners, as you may be able to tell by my nation name. She's much like me, in that we're both serious germophobes, both have rich overbearing mothers, and are both built like scarecrows.

For some odd reason,I've never had to. ;)

Well, of course not. Even YOU have had ample access to pharmaceutical riches and advantages at varying points of opportunity.
:D

i would have to say the collectively suicidal values of the dominant culture. that romantacizes and rewards aggressiveness while all but de facto ostracizing permitting oneself to enjoy the exercize of whatever creative and or intellectual capacities you might otherwise happen to have.

the whole situation that exists right now with who and what contorlls military power and what the're motivated to attempt to do with it.

the way what pretentiously calls itself conservatism insists on continuing to make the world a more dangerous and brutal place, totally gratuitously.

this whole notion that torture is ok if you don't call it torture and come up with what you can convince everyone is a good enough excuse for it, dispite the fact that anyone with half a brain already knows that nothing positive is ever actually accomplished by it.

that what we are doing to screw up our world is so totally avoid able, and without even having to give up our 'gameboys' to avoid doing so.

that i have to live with anyone in order to survive at all, if i also want to be able to get on here and run off at the keyboard like i like to do.

that people are economicly coerced into exactly the worst possible ways of living for both themselves individually AND the future well being of the human species and the planet.

that anyone can have the law on their side to demand attention and make a pain in the ass of themselves. i think that's really the creepiest part of it right there.

the way the euro-'christian' invasion of the western hemisphere 600 years ago wiped out ten thousand years of history of civilizations, some of which may have been in some ways as, if not more, advanced, then their own. not to mention the resaulting untold genocides, history as it is still being, as far as i know, taught in western hemisphere schools to children and young adults, is still for the most part utterly denying.

that so called 'christianity' could be the world's dominant religeon, and islam its closest rival. either one.

that people are more concerned with their religeous, economic, and idiological fantasies then with how their indifference to screwing everything up for everyone else is screwing up everything for themselves as well.

and how they can deceive themselves into blaming the resaults of this on everyone else, on other cultures, or people far enough away they can pretend their cultures are that much differently motivated then their own.

human gullibility to this sort of thing that made hitler and all the rest of them, going back to alexander 'the great' and possibly long before even that, possible.

=^^=
.../\...
One of the best posts i've ever seen. Very, very nicely done. *bows*

People who use normal grammar but have an irrational hatred for capital letters. What did they ever do to you? :(
Dirge for Ritlina. *hangs head*

As well as all the usual insects.No one actually SAW Keyser Soze and lived to tell about it ... what kind of insect was he again?

I pretty creeped out by ticks

Ugh, lets see...


Those people on the Christian TV Channels with the big white wigs and cheap toupes'. Oh and layers of make-up.

Germs- like when I see people leave the restroom without washign their hands, or a dog licks it's ass and then licks the owner in the mouth........gross.

Door to door salesmen.

Rednecks who still fly the confederate flag. WHEN THEY LIVE IN NEW JERSEY. Some people really are insane. Well, it doesn't really creep me out, it's just one of the very few things that I do not tolerate.

NationStates, seriously, what kind of no life dorks spend time on that website. I mean God - oh shit, oops!

No, seriously though. I fucking hate forests. I hate being around them; I guess thats pretty weird...

I love Hanners, as you may be able to tell by my nation name. She's much like me, in that we're both serious germophobes, both have rich overbearing mothers, and are both built like scarecrows.
Hah! See? I instantly recognized that connection...

Have a germ-free fluffle! :fluffle:

I pretty creeped out by ticks

Yeah. For some reason, picking ticks off myself doesn't bother me. But picking them off of dogs does. Not sure why, exactly. It's probably just the finding them in the fur. :p

Gars and eels creep me out, but in a good way.

There are only very few things that creep out or give me the shivers.
I've been bled on, puked on, puked on with blood, wiped and cleaned people's butts, saw my fair share of dead people, some of which have been dead for quite some time or terribly mutilated during (car) accidents.

There are, however, a few things that make me very uncomfortable, to say the least:

-Wasps do, because their buzzing noise makes my hairs stand on end.

-Ticks do, because those sneaky bastards carry a lot of illnesses.

-Real Bregenwurst (brain sausage) does, because while I enjoy eating all kinds of innards, eating brain just seems... creepy to me. (That will change when I turn into a zombie, I'm sure - but up until then, no brain for me!)

-Snakes do, because there barely are any where I live - and while they surely are fascinating creatures, I don't really care for them to be too close to me. That goes especially for poisonous ones.

-Venomous spiders do. Again, there are none of that kind around here - and I'll either tolerate or relocate those that do show up in my apartment. But I'm no friend of the eight-legged dudes that are bigger than a finger...

There are only very few things that creep out or give me the shivers.
I've been bled on, puked on, puked on with blood, wiped and cleaned people's butts, saw my fair share of dead people, some of which have been dead for quite some time or terribly mutilated during (car) accidents.

There are, however, a few things that make me very uncomfortable, to say the least:

-Wasps do, because their buzzing noise makes my hairs stand on end.

-Ticks do, because those sneaky bastards carry a lot of illnesses.

-Real Bregenwurst (brain sausage) does, because while I enjoy eating all kinds of innards, eating brain just seems... creepy to me. (That will change when I turn into a zombie, I'm sure - but up until then, no brain for me!)

-Snakes do, because there barely are any where I live - and while they surely are fascinating creatures, I don't really care for them to be too close to me. That goes especially for poisonous ones.

-Venomous spiders do. Again, there are none of that kind around here - and I'll either tolerate or relocate those that do show up in my apartment. But I'm no friend of the eight-legged dudes that are bigger than a finger...

I am scared of wasps, because unlike a bee that can only sting you once, wasps can sting you over and over again. I had it happen once, one wasp stung me like 12 times. It hurt really bad.

I am scared of wasps, because unlike a bee that can only sting you once, wasps can sting you over and over again. I had it happen once, one wasp stung me like 12 times. It hurt really bad.
It's been years since the last one got a chance to sting me... Any wasp that enters my sphere of influence and airspace now will be terminated with extreme prejudice and with all means available.
And if that means closing the door and thus trapping it, grabbing some deodorant spray and a lighter - sucker's gonna die!

(Whereas bees and bumblebees are pleasant visitors and will be escorted out again without any harm. Especially bumblebees are great! And I guess they really like the Nag Champa...)

Oh, I forgot to mention scorpions... They fall into the very same category as snakes. Good from far, far from good!

It's been years since the last one got a chance to sting me... Any wasp that enters my sphere of influence and airspace now will be terminated with extreme prejudice and with all means available.
And if that means closing the door and thus trapping it, grabbing some deodorant spray and a lighter - sucker's gonna die!

(Whereas bees and bumblebees are pleasant visitors and will be escorted out again without any harm. Especially bumblebees are great! And I guess they really like the Nag Champa...)

Oh, I forgot to mention scorpions... They fall into the very same category as snakes. Good from far, far from good!

Does that include these (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB8HudfbaTE) Scorpions?

Does that include these (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB8HudfbaTE) Scorpions?
Nah, those rock you... like a hurricane - while they bring wind of change. ;)

And they come from pretty much around the corner (only an hour away from here) - those guys are cool!

Does that include these (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB8HudfbaTE) Scorpions?Those ones creep me out.

The dust my mom dropped on my sheets today while showing me what was in the dustbuster thing.

giant thisle plants (they do get about 6 feet tall) and cockroaches. they are creepy. they make clicking sounds and can swarm all over things. and thisles, well... ive had very bad experiences with them.

Ugh, lets see...


Those people on the Christian TV Channels with the big white wigs and cheap toupes'. Oh and layers of make-up.

Germs- like when I see people leave the restroom without washign their hands, or a dog licks it's ass and then licks the owner in the mouth........gross.

Door to door salesmen.Peechy!!!!

*dances weasel dance*

There are only very few things that creep out or give me the shivers.
I've been bled on, puked on, puked on with blood, wiped and cleaned people's butts, saw my fair share of dead people, some of which have been dead for quite some time or terribly mutilated during (car) accidents.

There are, however, a few things that make me very uncomfortable, to say the least:

-Wasps do, because their buzzing noise makes my hairs stand on end.

-Ticks do, because those sneaky bastards carry a lot of illnesses.

-Real Bregenwurst (brain sausage) does, because while I enjoy eating all kinds of innards, eating brain just seems... creepy to me. (That will change when I turn into a zombie, I'm sure - but up until then, no brain for me!)

-Snakes do, because there barely are any where I live - and while they surely are fascinating creatures, I don't really care for them to be too close to me. That goes especially for poisonous ones.

-Venomous spiders do. Again, there are none of that kind around here - and I'll either tolerate or relocate those that do show up in my apartment. But I'm no friend of the eight-legged dudes that are bigger than a finger...

Those all sound pretty reasonable and rational as discomfort goes.
As far as wasps - i have a natural "hair on end" reaction to them too. Perhaps it's a carried-on response to a dangerous situation, like an instinct of sorts.
Dogs growling too, at times.

Mimes.

Nah, those rock you... like a hurricane - while they bring wind of change. ;)

And they come from pretty much around the corner (only an hour away from here) - those guys are cool!

Lucky you.

Those ones creep me out.

Come on, they're the Scorpions!

pig heads

-Real Bregenwurst (brain sausage) does, because while I enjoy eating all kinds of innards, eating brain just seems... creepy to me. (That will change when I turn into a zombie, I'm sure - but up until then, no brain for me!)

Holy shit, man.

People who will blindly follow an ideaology without considering pros, cons, hows, or whys tend to make me ancy.

For the longest time pretty women used to scare the shit out of me...

Driving, the amount of responisbility being placed on me makes me nervous.

Needles... I hate needles!

And those big heavy vans with no side windows...

And coffee beans!

Oh oh.. Porcupines because they are covered in needles.

And Cacti...

And and I have been making things up since needles.

A serious one... this is probably going to get me laughed out of NS. The kind of parents that home school thier children; they make me nervous for reasons I can not explain... maybe because thats the kind of parents who are portrayed in movies and books as the kind that eventually flip and start to muder thier children's friends so they can have thie child to themselves... or the kind of children who go all Psycho style...

A serious one... this is probably going to get me laughed out of NS. The kind of parents that would home school thier children; they make me nervous for reasons I can not explain... maybe because thats the kind of parents who are portrayed in movies and books as the kind that eventually flip and start to muder thier children's friends so they can have thie child to themselves... or the kind of children who go all Psycho style...

it creeps me out that you think that, as I am one of the homeschool parents who doesn't kill people.

it probably won't get you laughed out of NS though, most of the people around here are opposed to homeschooling for various reasons all stemming from the red herring of "socialization"

Blood and hairy lady lips.

Lucky you.
Well, yeah. The problem is that while they come from around here, they spend most of their time playing somewhere else...
Holy shit, man.
It's a regional specialty I really don't care for at all! Curly kale with brain sausage... Yuck! I'd rather eat insects than that.
Needles... I hate needles!
Oh dear - I succesfully repressed that until you mentioned it.

Needles freak me out even worse than anything else. The thought and feeling alone of the sharp metal puncturing your skin is enough to make me go crazy!

I'm okay with subcutaneous or intramuscular injections like vaccinations - but intravenous injections or drawing blood (let alone giving blood) drive me over the edge instantly.
it creeps me out that you think that, as I am one of the homeschool parents who doesn't kill people.

it probably won't get you laughed out of NS though, most of the people around here are opposed to homeschooling for various reasons all stemming from the red herring of "socialization"
The beef I have with homeschooling is that you as a parent-teacher can only teach your kids as well as you yourself know how to. You're no professional - and don't take it personally, please - but dumb parents are not going to teach their kids well, no matter how much good will or effort they put into it.
There's a reason why I as a future teacher go through a lot of professional training.
And while certainly you can and will give your own kids more attention than a regular teacher with 30+ kids in one classroom can - I sincerely doubt that you can prepare your kids for real life when all they know is the safe learning environment at home...
Blood and hairy lady lips.
Blood? Nah, not really. I just wouldn't drink it. Blood sausage is good, though.

And if you're talking about ladies with a moustache, I can only agree.
But there's nothing wrong with hairy lady lips... :eek::p:D

The beef I have with homeschooling is that you as a parent-teacher can only teach your kids as well as you yourself know how to. You're no professional - and don't take it personally, please - but dumb parents are not going to teach their kids well, no matter how much good will or effort they put into it.
There's a reason why I as a future teacher go through a lot of professional training.
And while certainly you can and will give your own kids more attention than a regular teacher with 30+ kids in one classroom can - I sincerely doubt that you can prepare your kids for real life when all they know is the safe learning environment at home...

the problem I have with people who are against homeschooling is that most of them make an arguement from ignorance. My kids go to class, they have other teachers than me, they learn things that I don't have expertise in. The only difference between my kids education and the kids in public school is who has control. In homeschooling education is fully in the control of the parents and the children, in public school it is in the complete control of the government. My kids have educational opportunities that most children in public schools will never have.

As far as parents being too dumb to teach, I ask you this, if I went to public school and did not learn the concepts well enough to teach them to someone else then why in the hell would I send my children to school to not learn them as well?

Homeschooling is no longer being chained to the kitchen table and cut off from the outside world, my children have more experiences with a wider range of people than kids who are in public school sitting at desks and being lectured to.

It has been proven time and again that homeschooled children excel while public school kids fall behind.

http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v7n8/

# Almost 25% of home school students are enrolled one or more grades above their age-level peers in public and private schools.
# Home school student achievement test scores are exceptionally high. The median scores for every subtest at every grade (typically in the 70th to 80th percentile) are well above those of public and Catholic/Private school students.
# On average, home school students in grades 1 to 4 perform one grade level above their age-level public/private school peers on achievement tests.
# The achievement test score gap between home school students and public/private school students starts to widen in grade 5.
# Students who have been home schooled their entire academic life have higher scholastic achievement test scores than students who have also attended other educational programs.
# There are no meaningful differences in achievement by gender, whether the student is enrolled in a full-service curriculum, or whether a parent holds a state issued teaching certificate.

the problem I have with people who are against homeschooling is that most of them make an arguement from ignorance. My kids go to class, they have other teachers than me, they learn things that I don't have expertise in. The only difference between my kids education and the kids in public school is who has control. In homeschooling education is fully in the control of the parents and the children, in public school it is in the complete control of the government. My kids have educational opportunities that most children in public schools will never have.
That's not necessarily a good thing. One of the teaching positions of German public school is to turn your kids into (politically) mature citizens [=mündige Bürger]. (The translation doesn't sound quite right)
As far as parents being too dumb to teach, I ask you this, if I went to public school and did not learn the concepts well enough to teach them to someone else then why in the hell would I send my children to school to not learn them as well?
There's a huge difference between learning something and being able to teach the same thing as efficiently.
School does not teach you to teach. It teaches you how to learn, and what to learn - and then you'll have to do the learning by yourself with the aid of the teachers.
Homeschooling is no longer being chained to the kitchen table and cut off from the outside world, my children have more experiences with a wider range of people than kids who are in public school sitting at desks and being lectured to.
Good education does not consist of being lectured.
It has been proven time and again that homeschooled children excel while public school kids fall behind.
That simply shows how bad your public school system is. It doesn't really say anything about how well-taught the homeschooled kids are.

I mean, if your public school students are incredibly dumb and your kids are less stupid - it doesn't necessarily make them bright only because in comparison they are not as dumb...

That's not necessarily a good thing. One of the teaching positions of German public school is to turn your kids into (politically) mature citizens [=mündige Bürger]. (The translation doesn't sound quite right)
it is a good thing. I would rather my children get a good education than a politically motivated one.

There's a huge difference between learning something and being able to teach the same thing as efficiently.
School does not teach you to teach. It teaches you how to learn, and what to learn - and then you'll have to do the learning by yourself with the aid of the teachers.
if you don't understand something well enough to teach it to another you haven't learned it very well at all.

Good education does not consist of being lectured.
and yet, that is what happens in the public schools, you have 30 kids who are put at desks and told to "shut up and listen to the teacher"

That simply shows how bad your public school system is. It doesn't really say anything about how well-taught the homeschooled kids are.
if the public schools are bad, why would I send my children there? even the private schools scored lower on the tests than the homeschooled children. Besides, wouldn't public schools by definition have to be better since they have "real teachers" and not "dumb parents"?

I mean, if your public school students are incredibly dumb and your kids are less stupid - it doesn't necessarily make them bright only because in comparison they are not as dumb...
If your public school teachers are really dumb but have a teaching certificate but your homeschool parents are really smart but don't have a teaching certificate......

it is a good thing. I would rather my children get a good education than a politically motivated one.
Well, going to public school here will get your children a good education. The political motivation is not something along the lines of "love your dear leader"; the goal is to turn them into responsible adults who support the system.
if you don't understand something well enough to teach it to another you haven't learned it very well at all.
That's a fallacy and simply not true. You can be a genious on a topic and still not know how to teach it to others.
Believe me, way too many university professors are like that. They know exactly what they're talking about, but they cannot phrase it in a way that someone new to it and willing to learn about it will understand.
and yet, that is what happens in the public schools, you have 30 kids who are put at desks and told to "shut up and listen to the teacher"
Yeah, well. The public school system in the States sucks big time. But that's nothing new to me.
if the public schools are bad, why would I send my children there? even the private schools scored lower on the tests than the homeschooled children. Besides, wouldn't public schools by definition have to be better since they have "real teachers" and not "dumb parents"?
Again, there's a huge difference between receiving a teaching certificate in the States and here. It's really sad that the only choice you're given is send your kids to a private school or to homeschool your children instead of changing the system and making it take care of your childrens' needs.
And not only your childrens' needs but also of all those parents who cannot homeschool for various reasons. But that's just my sense of social responsibility speaking...
If your public school teachers are really dumb but have a teaching certificate but your homeschool parents are really smart but don't have a teaching certificate......
...it still doesn't improve the overall dumbness of your country's children?

Big bugs...that don't look like a butterfly
That, is creepy.

http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/spinne.gif
http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/krabbel.gif

Spiders. I'm not afraid of any bug of any size, but spiders...eesh.

Six legs good, eight legs bad.

For me, it really depends on the size of the http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/spider.gif and whether they are poisonous.

Holy shit, man.

You know, the brain-eating would be creepy, but it's the Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease is the part that's a bit weary for me.

You know, the brain-eating would be creepy, but it's the Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease is the part that's a bit weary for me.

Eh?

Well, yeah. The problem is that while they come from around here, they spend most of their time playing somewhere else...

It's a regional specialty I really don't care for at all! Curly kale with brain sausage... Yuck! I'd rather eat insects than that.

That sucks. And there are a lot places where you can eat insects. I had crickets fried in butter once. They didn't taste too bad. And barbecued mealworms are pretty nice.

Eh?

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro04/web2/kkrasnec.html

You know - the corollary to BSE.
:eek:

Well, going to public school here will get your children a good education. The political motivation is not something along the lines of "love your dear leader"; the goal is to turn them into responsible adults who support the system.
I don't want my kids to turn into adults who "support the system" I want them to grow into adults who think and act.

That's a fallacy and simply not true. You can be a genious on a topic and still not know how to teach it to others.
it's not a fallacy. To learn is to acquire the skill well enough to replicate it, if you can not explain the basic idea to someone else you have not learned it. You can not be a genius on a subject and not understand it well enough to explain it. You can however be very well verse in a subject and be able to explain it multiple ways and someone still will not learn it, no matter how hard you try.
Believe me, way too many university professors are like that. They know exactly what they're talking about, but they cannot phrase it in a way that someone new to it and willing to learn about it will understand.
If even university professors cannot teach, then how do you expect me that the teaching community at large who learn from them, are able to? Certainly they can not be self taught their way through college because like you said, you need a teacher to learn something, you can't learn it from your peers or tackle your education on your own.

Yeah, well. The public school system in the States sucks big time. But that's nothing new to me.
and again, if it sucks so bad, why would I as an intelligent person send my children there? I have nothing against teachers, I consider myself one, I teach, kids learn, I am a teacher. I passed the teacher certification test, I have that little piece of paper, if I wanted I could teach in the public schools now. I think most of the teachers in the public schools are doing their best with what they have. I don't care to send my children to government schools still, and it has nothing to do with the "quality" of teachers there.

Again, there's a huge difference between receiving a teaching certificate in the States and here. It's really sad that the only choice you're given is send your kids to a private school or to homeschool your children instead of changing the system and making it take care of your childrens' needs.
The government schools will never meet my children's needs, yet I do what I can to change the system for others because I think it's eventually going to kill the economy here, since something like 75% of high school graduates are functionally illiterate.


And not only your childrens' needs but also of all those parents who cannot homeschool for various reasons. But that's just my sense of social responsibility speaking...
I also have a sense of social responsibility, but I don't see the point in sending my kids to something that is broke. I can effect change while still giving my children the education they deserve.

...it still doesn't improve the overall dumbness of your country's children?
it saddens me that you blame children for "being dumb", but not their parents for not taking them out of a bad situation. Children in America are ignorant because they have not been taught, they are by no means stupid or dumb. Most of them are very interested in learning when they start school, but it's practically beaten out of them by the end of first grade because of the sucky way bureaucracy has made the schools run now.

It saddens me more that you are going to be a teacher and you already label some kids as "dumb".

You know, the brain-eating would be creepy, but it's the Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease is the part that's a bit weary for me.
I think when you start developing a taste for brains, CJD is the least of your problems... http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/Braaains.gif
That sucks. And there are a lot places where you can eat insects. I had crickets fried in butter once. They didn't taste too bad. And barbecued mealworms are pretty nice.
Except for the odd fly, bug, or skeeter while riding my bike I haven't had insects so far.
No, wait - that's not true... I had those tequila-lollipops with a worm in them.
I don't want my kids to turn into adults who "support the system" I want them to grow into adults who think and act.
That's why I said the translation wasn't very good. A "mündiger Bürger" is a citizen who thinks and acts for himself instead of simply following orders and "supporting the system" as you put it.
it's not a fallacy. To learn is to acquire the skill well enough to replicate it, if you can not explain the basic idea to someone else you have not learned it. You can not be a genius on a subject and not understand it well enough to explain it. You can however be very well verse in a subject and be able to explain it multiple ways and someone still will not learn it, no matter how hard you try.
Again, I have to disagree.

Learning something does not necessarily mean that you are able to replicate it in such a way that you are able to teach it properly.

Even if you have completely understood a certain thing or topic you may still lack the communicative skill needed as a successful sender to put it into words that the addressee will be able to understand. (This sounds a lot like linguistics, I know - but that's how transmitting information works; and it also explains where it may fail.)

Especially those who are experts on a matter often enough fail to break down their knowledge to a level where the average learner will be able to follow them. That is what makes teaching (not learning) the skill that is needed if you want to communicate information to someone who doesn't have that information yet.

What you allude to in the last sentence is the skill of receiving (learning) and thus digesting the information transmitted properly to be able to grasp the concept of what's being taught.

If even university professors cannot teach, then how do you expect me that the teaching community at large who learn from them, are able to? Certainly they can not be self taught their way through college because like you said, you need a teacher to learn something, you can't learn it from your peers or tackle your education on your own.
I'm not saying each and every university teacher is like that.
Most are good and great teachers - while some simply fail at communicating their knowledge. It doesn't mean they don't know, they simply don't know how to bring it accross.

Those are usually the kind of person to be better put into a laboratory producing results while others who have better communicative skills are the ones to teach the students.

and again, if it sucks so bad, why would I as an intelligent person send my children there? I have nothing against teachers, I consider myself one, I teach, kids learn, I am a teacher. I passed the teacher certification test, I have that little piece of paper, if I wanted I could teach in the public schools now. I think most of the teachers in the public schools are doing their best with what they have. I don't care to send my children to government schools still, and it has nothing to do with the "quality" of teachers there.
Well, I guess it breaks down to two things. Number one, your fear of anything that has to do with your goverment. (And to be honest, I wouldn't trust your government either.) I mean, the situation obviously is bad enough for people not wanting to send their kids to public school, yet nobody really cares and simply blames "them up there".

And the second and more important thing that bothers me is that instead of improving on the overall situation for everyone by making the schools better, increasing the funding, and raising the requirements for teachers you show a terrible lack of sense of community by only caring for your own.
The government schools will never meet my children's needs, yet I do what I can to change the system for others because I think it's eventually going to kill the economy here, since something like 75% of high school graduates are functionally illiterate.
Would you care to elaborate on what you're doing? Because so far, it only sounds like you withdrew your children from public influence along the lines of "each for themselves", let the rest figure it out without me.

As for people graduating from highschool without being fit for life - well... that's as much the parents' and students' responsibility as it is the schools', or rather the governments'.
I also have a sense of social responsibility, but I don't see the point in sending my kids to something that is broke. I can effect change while still giving my children the education they deserve.
So far it didn't sound like you had - that's why your position on it sounded dubious to say the least.

it saddens me that you blame children for "being dumb", but not their parents for not taking them out of a bad situation. Children in America are ignorant because they have not been taught, they are by no means stupid or dumb. Most of them are very interested in learning when they start school, but it's practically beaten out of them by the end of first grade because of the sucky way bureaucracy has made the schools run now.
Well, the problem with that is that today's grownups have been through exactly the same kind of mind-numbing and stupefying highschool that now makes their kids dumb. And the problem is getting worse and worse with each generation.
And believe me, during my senior year in highschool I have met enough students who may have had the potential for more - but they simply didn't care. And that was at a good private school with interesting subjects and good teachers. (While in comparison to my German public school, except for a few courses like AP Biology or AP English, the requirements were ridiculously low...)
They were just a bunch of lazy idiots - and I blame their non-caring parents as much as I blame the kids.
It saddens me more that you are going to be a teacher and you already label some kids as "dumb".
If they are, there's no way I'm going to sugar-coat it.
Some kids simply aren't bright enough and thus not meant for higher education - and it helps no-one if we lowered the standards for everyone simply to drag them through the system like it's happened in the States.

But that doesn't mean I'll be labeling them like that publicly, nor treat them differently, nor give them a fair chance, nor will I deny them the attention they may need - up to a certain point where everyone else would suffer from giving them special help during the lesson.

If you can't make it like everybody else, maybe your place is not amongst everybody else. (I know this sounds really harsh, it doesn't sound as bad in German in my head. I'm simply tired and not in the mood to elaborate on the German school system and how people with special needs get special attention etc.)

And while that may sound like this would be exactly the situation where homeschooling might improve things - homeschooling is not a valid alternative here because we have compulsory school attendance (for various reasons) and not everyone can just start teaching their own kids.

I managed to creep out Smunkee!!!

I managed to creep out Smunkee!!!
Great! She needs a good creeping-out ever once in a while. *nods*

What?!?

The way that brevious stalks me around here..

ok i lie..


it turns me on... :O

Well, going to public school here will get your children a good education. The political motivation is not something along the lines of "love your dear leader"; the goal is to turn them into responsible adults who support the system.

That's a fallacy and simply not true. You can be a genious on a topic and still not know how to teach it to others.
Believe me, way too many university professors are like that. They know exactly what they're talking about, but they cannot phrase it in a way that someone new to it and willing to learn about it will understand.

Yeah, well. The public school system in the States sucks big time. But that's nothing new to me.

Again, there's a huge difference between receiving a teaching certificate in the States and here. It's really sad that the only choice you're given is send your kids to a private school or to homeschool your children instead of changing the system and making it take care of your childrens' needs.
And not only your childrens' needs but also of all those parents who cannot homeschool for various reasons. But that's just my sense of social responsibility speaking...

...it still doesn't improve the overall dumbness of your country's children?

I hate to break it to you dude, but you're acting like an arrogant prick right now.

Things under water, just imagining looking down in murky water to see something large coming up at me makes me shudder.

That's why I said the translation wasn't very good. A "mündiger Bürger" is a citizen who thinks and acts for himself instead of simply following orders and "supporting the system" as you put it.
actually you were the first one to use the phrase "supporting the system".

Again, I have to disagree.

Learning something does not necessarily mean that you are able to replicate it in such a way that you are able to teach it properly.

Even if you have completely understood a certain thing or topic you may still lack the communicative skill needed as a successful sender to put it into words that the addressee will be able to understand. (This sounds a lot like linguistics, I know - but that's how transmitting information works; and it also explains where it may fail.)

Especially those who are experts on a matter often enough fail to break down their knowledge to a level where the average learner will be able to follow them. That is what makes teaching (not learning) the skill that is needed if you want to communicate information to someone who doesn't have that information yet.
everyone can teach, some are better than others, but everyone can do it. If you have ever explained anything in your entire life you have taught. Everyone can learn, some people are better at it than others.

What you allude to in the last sentence is the skill of receiving (learning) and thus digesting the information transmitted properly to be able to grasp the concept of what's being taught.
what I allude to is the fact that if you truly understand something you should be able to explain it clearly to another, thus if you have really learned something you should be able to explain it to another and teach them how to do it. If you know that 3(3)=9 but you can't explain why, then you didn't learn that 3(3)=9 you are just repeating it.


I'm not saying each and every university teacher is like that.
Most are good and great teachers - while some simply fail at communicating their knowledge. It doesn't mean they don't know, they simply don't know how to bring it accross.
but you are saying that every homeschool parent is like that.


Well, I guess it breaks down to two things. Number one, your fear of anything that has to do with your goverment. (And to be honest, I wouldn't trust your government either.) I mean, the situation obviously is bad enough for people not wanting to send their kids to public school, yet nobody really cares and simply blames "them up there".
I don't fear the government, I fear people who think the government is responsible for every single thing in their life.

And the second and more important thing that bothers me is that instead of improving on the overall situation for everyone by making the schools better, increasing the funding, and raising the requirements for teachers you show a terrible lack of sense of community by only caring for your own.
I care for my own above everyone else's children, that is true, but it's not a black and white thing. I feed my kids, I donate to the food bank, if the choice came to either donate to the food bank or feed my kids, I am going to feed my kids, that's the same thing with the homeschooling.

Would you care to elaborate on what you're doing? Because so far, it only sounds like you withdrew your children from public influence along the lines of "each for themselves", let the rest figure it out without me.
Well, first I am not responsible for everyone else's kids, they are. Second, I do what I can, I vote, I go to school board meetings, I raise awareness in my community about what I feel is wrong with the school system here. Putting my kids into school so they can be bored out of their minds and forced into underachieving isn't going to fix anything.

As for people graduating from highschool without being fit for life - well... that's as much the parents' and students' responsibility as it is the schools', or rather the governments'.
As a homeschooling parent I am co-responsible with my children for their education, I thought you would be proud of us for taking responsiblity for ourselves.

So far it didn't sound like you had - that's why your position on it sounded dubious to say the least.
What position? I homeschool my kids because they receive a better education that way.


Well, the problem with that is that today's grownups have been through exactly the same kind of mind-numbing and stupefying highschool that now makes their kids dumb. And the problem is getting worse and worse with each generation.
So, sending more kids to the government school is going to fix this? You know they say the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

And believe me, during my senior year in highschool I have met enough students who may have had the potential for more - but they simply didn't care. And that was at a good private school with interesting subjects and good teachers. (While in comparison to my German public school, except for a few courses like AP Biology or AP English, the requirements were ridiculously low...)
They were just a bunch of lazy idiots - and I blame their non-caring parents as much as I blame the kids.
As a homeschooling parent I am co-responsible with my children for their education, I thought you would be proud of me.

If they are, there's no way I'm going to sugar-coat it.
Some kids simply aren't bright enough and thus not meant for higher education - and it helps no-one if we lowered the standards for everyone simply to drag them through the system like it's happened in the States.
So, you admit that the schools here are not productive?

But that doesn't mean I'll be labeling them like that publicly, nor treat them differently, nor give them a fair chance, nor will I deny them the attention they may need - up to a certain point where everyone else would suffer from giving them special help during the lesson.
So, if a "dumb" child attends your school and they fall behind in basic skills whose fault is it?

If you can't make it like everybody else, maybe your place is not amongst everybody else. (I know this sounds really harsh, it doesn't sound as bad in German in my head. I'm simply tired and not in the mood to elaborate on the German school system and how people with special needs get special attention etc.)
My kids can't abide the "education" in public schools so they don't belong there, I am glad we agree.

And while that may sound like this would be exactly the situation where homeschooling might improve things - homeschooling is not a valid alternative here because we have compulsory school attendance (for various reasons) and not everyone can just start teaching their own kids.
My position has never been that homeschooling is the only option, nor is it the best option for everyone. However, your position is that it is wrong in every case, which you have failed to prove.

I think when you start developing a taste for brains, CJD is the least of your problems... http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/Braaains.gif


You know, of course, that you have managed to cement yourself in my mind forever with your mastery of smilies.
I kid you not.
*bows*

The way that brevious stalks me around here..

ok i lie..


it turns me on... :O
Hey, like minds ....
if you're into smart chicks/dudes, go to libraries and the like .... you know the saying.

However ...

I know that you
Don't know me very well
We've barely met
But I can surely tell
No one will ever
Love you like I do

I like to feel
The warm spot on your chair
Sometimes I drool
And usually I stare
My precious one
I saved that gum
That you threw in the garbage

You're the one I dream about
But the only question with me now
Is "Do I creep you out?"
Everytime I shake your hand now
Wanna stick your fingers in my mouth
Do I creep you out?

Call you every night and hang up
Gonna carve your name in my leg
In my leg, oh-oh!

Somethin' I should ask about
Can I sniff the pit-stains on your blouse?
And do I creep you,
Do I creep you out?
(Your restraining order's out)
(Still the only question with me now)
Oh the only question
(Is "Do I creep you out?")
Is "Do I creep you out?"
Know exactly where you live now
Follow you from work right to your house
Well, do I creep you out?
Do I creep you out?

(Cheering crowd)

I hate to break it to you dude, but you're acting like an arrogant prick right now.
And honestly, I don't give a shit. Neither do I care for your opinion. :p

You know, of course, that you have managed to cement yourself in my mind forever with your mastery of smilies.
I kid you not.
*bows*
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/king.gif Thanks!

Usually, when people are headshot, they go liquidly limp in a way that no conscious person could emulate. That's not what bothers me.

What bothers me is that occasionally, the body will continue to groan, make noises, and flop around for up to 30 minutes, with no brain in the skull at all.

Nails scratching across leather. Freaks me out.

Except for the odd fly, bug, or skeeter while riding my bike I haven't had insects so far.
No, wait - that's not true... I had those tequila-lollipops with a worm in them.

I can't remember exactly how you make the crickets, but they're not bad.

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro04/web2/kkrasnec.html

You know - the corollary to BSE.
:eek:

Wow.

http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/spinne.gif
http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/krabbel.gif

Poor thing, I watched for like 5 minutes, and it never got the bug.

Poor thing, I watched for like 5 minutes, and it never got the bug.
They're just good friends - neither one tries to eat the other. *nods* :p

Wow.

Makes a good argument against cannibalism.
Well, unfettered cannibalism, that is.

cockroaches *shudders*

Makes a good argument against cannibalism.
Well, unfettered cannibalism, that is.

And creation of zombies.

And creation of zombies.
Don't remind me... I had to put the first two dozens out of their misery because all they could do was shake.
That wasn't useful. Not useful at all!!! :mad:

But we're getting there... Muahahahahaha! :eek:

Anyway, I still believe that http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/Werwolf.gif own them all!

(Except for maybe mummies - they were indeed wrongfully buried in oblivion. Or tombs, to be more precise... ;))

Don't remind me... I had to put the first two dozens out of their misery because all they could do was shake.
That wasn't useful. Not useful at all!!! :mad:

But we're getting there... Muahahahahaha! :eek:

Anyway, I still believe that http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/Werwolf.gif own them all!

(Except for maybe mummies - they were indeed wrongfully buried in oblivion. Or tombs, to be more precise... ;))

They'll all get CJD, you know. The vampires are the best.

And creation of zombies.

Yeah - i prefer the good old Serpent and the Rainbow method, m'self.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/king.gif Thanks!

Of course, of course.
:)

That "Fox News + Anonymous = OH YEAH" thread and the accompanying YouTube video creeps me out and makes me think seriously about getting off the internet altogether.

Yeah - i prefer the good old Serpent and the Rainbow method, m'self.

Serpent and the Rainbow?

That "Fox News + Anonymous = OH YEAH" thread and the accompanying YouTube video creeps me out and makes me think seriously about getting off the internet altogether.

:eek:

bugs in my ears!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhh *chill up my spine*


well once I walked into a huge spider web at night and wouldnt you know it, a gigantic spider was right where my face was. I grabbed it with my hand (it was a handfull) and threw it and ran away screaming. I was traumatized for a couple of hours at least.

bugs in my ears!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhh *chill up my spine*


well once I wanked into a huge spider web at night and wouldnt you know it, a gigantic spider was right where my face was. I grabbed it with my hand (it was a handfull) and threw it and ran away screaming. I was traumatized for a couple of hours at least.

You.... wanked... into a spider? :eek:

You.... wanked... into a spider? :eek:

LOL - damn it!

Yes, I thought it might be a sexy thing to do, ya know?