The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part six- Page 90

[JLSatUD]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:14pm

My friend who is a lefty always says "Lefties are the only people in their right minds!"

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:14pm

LOL thats clever



I go through like a 100 posts a day, I clearly have no life. Updated On: 2/11/06 at 09:14 PM

[Katt]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:14pm

Heh, JL...I played with dolls, but I hung out with my brother a lot as a kid, and my best friend was a boy, so I ended up doing lots of guy stuff too. Climbing trees, playing cops and robbers/cowboys and indians/hide and go seek at night, football, basketball, climbing on the roof, playing in our fort, riding bikes and scooters, building a clubhouse in the woods, video games...stuff like that. Updated On: 2/11/06 at 09:14 PM

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:15pm

I'm just a klutz.

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:16pm

lol me too. I remember this one week I kept on falling down my stairs and choking on food. I even fell going up my stairs.

[JLSatUD]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:17pm

Oh Katt, I had a clubhouse in the woods too! Pretty much every kid on our street had their own in the back and we took rakes into the woods and made paths between them. Now I don't even think about going back there when I am home. No idea what kind of critters are hiding back there!

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:18pm

My mom is a lefty.

I've always been a klutz. I totally take after my dad in that respect - it's a wonder the walls in our house are still standing after all the times we've walked into them.

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:19pm

LOL I remember when I was a kid I used to play in this swingset contraption I had in my backyard, and you could crawl all over the place. Now I would never go on there.. I don't even want to know what kind of spiders and bugs are there *shudders*.

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:19pm

I don't really have any scars, birthmarks, or moles. I'm lucky, I guess.

The lab I work in does cognitive-behavioral treatment for specific phobias. It's incredibly interesting. Of course, blood/injection/injury phobias are much harder to treat than say, a phobia of dogs, for obvious reasons. Usually I'm really surprised at how effective it seems to be.

That IS really interesting. Can they even do anything for needle phobias?

Agreed on everything re: the Danish Chess recording, Lexi. I'm quite impressed by this Freddie (and he reminds me of Adam a great deal) but I really love Adam's performance. Oh, I watched the Murray Head video--you're right, bad bad BAD! Eeek. I think it sounds like the Danish version and the benefit concert are more similar than any other incarnations of the show.

Okay, I've got to admit... the way Danish Freddie overenunciates some syllables is irritating. It reminds me of the way Cary Shields sings Glory. Other than that, though, definitely two thumbs up.

Oh my God, Murray's note in "Taste of Pity" is one of the most painful things ever, right?! I'm not really a fan of the way Murray performed that song or PTC in the first place, but his voice seems to have really declined on top of that. On another note, though, the interview clip with him with him was funny. "Sexual overtones?!" Hee.
Updated On: 2/11/06 at 09:19 PM

[Katt]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:20pm

Before they made new houses in the neighborhood, we would ride our bikes or hop on someone's golfcart (before golfcarts were banned from the neighborhood) and go to the woods and clear out paths by pulling away the branches and trees, etc. Eventually they cleared out all the woods and built houses, which was kind of sad, because we had worked hard on it.

I really had no choice but to like guy things. I didn't mind though. My brother and I both loved shows like Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers, and movies such as Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, and Star Wars. My best friend always climbed up the Magnolia tree that was in the shortcut between our two houses, so I had to choice but learn to climb the tree also. We had some really great times as kids.
Updated On: 2/11/06 at 09:20 PM

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:21pm

I have soooo many scars it's not even funny. Most of them are from stupid accidents though. I'm a total klutz. I also bruise like a freakin' peach and sprain things constantly.

I have an actual phobia to getting blood drawn, but my doctor suggested I take anti-anxiety meds to treat it and I figured that I'd just avoid getting blood drawn instead.

[JLSatUD]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:22pm

The cognitive behavior treating of phobias is really interesting. I have had a huge snake phobia for my whole life. Even if I'm flipping the channels and see a snake on TV it makes me jump and my heart starts racing. I was usually able to avoid it so it didn't really screw up my life - but now that I work in a school library snake books are everywhere! Some of the kids accidently found out when I jumped at a picture once. I was always hesitant to do any of the phobia treatments because I knew it would involve looking at snakes or touching snakes ... but having to see pictures everyday for a few years really has improved it. I'm not cool with real snakes or TV snakes but at least I have stopped jumping at every picture and that's an improvement!

[Katt]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:24pm

I know someone deathly afraid of snakes. I also know someone afraid of lizards, which amuses me.

My friend had a teacher who was afraid of squirrels and midgets. No one really liked her, so they would post pictures of squirrels all over the classroom, and on the ceiling so that she couldn't get to them. She retired, probably due in part to that, heh. But before she left, my friend put a picture of a squirrel under a poster of something else, so I'm sure she got a suprise when she took the poster down!

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:26pm

Needles are pretty much my only fear. I just have a lot of anxieties over many things, which then leads to panic-asthma attacks.

[opiv]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:26pm

I am so scared of snakes. Once my neighbor put a fake snake on my driveway and hid in the bushes to watch me scream.

[Katt]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:27pm

The person I know is like that. If she sees a snake, she'll start crying. She is in her forties I think.

[JLSatUD]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:30pm

It never helped that my family enjoyed my phobia. One day I went upstairs to go to bed, pulled the covers back, and there was a snake. I screamed so loud that you probably all heard me, ran down the hall, down the stairs, out the door, down the driveway, across the street, and up the driveway of my neighbors house to be surrounded by pavement.

Then my mom stuck her head out the front door and said "I told your brother he could buy the rubber snake if he promised to only put it in your bed once."

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:30pm

That IS really interesting. Can they even do anything for needle phobias?

WE can't because we mainly treat children and it would be like... next to impossible to ever get approval for that, not to mention have the medical staff, but according to my advisor it's possible. If the fear is as simple as someone just being afraid of blood, then exposure isn't as difficult. If they're affraid of injections, I suppose you would need to very slowly go through the process of giving them a shot while using fear reduction techniques. I'm not exactly sure the procedure for that, though.

Out of curiousity, you guys who have phobias of blood or injections... have you ever fainted when getting one? That's one of the only specific phobias that causes fainting, which is interesting.

Oh my God, Murray's note in "Taste of Pity" is one of the most painful things ever, right?! I'm not really a fan of the way Murray performed that song or PTC in the first place, but his voice seems to have really declined on top of that. On another note, though, the interview clip with him with him was funny. "Sexual overtones?!" Hee.

The "sexual overtones" thing was HILARIOUS. What a weirdo. And yeah, that note made Julia's yelp in "Nobody's Child" look like glorious technique by comparison. Updated On: 2/11/06 at 09:30 PM

[Musical_nerd]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:31pm

I have tons of scars and stuff.. yeah. I also have a hitchhiker's thumb.

I played with my little Disney characters when I was little. My parents forced me into playing soccer and I hated it. I really still don't like most sports.. except for volleyball.

My friend is squeemish when it comes to eyes, she can't watch people put in eyedrops and she herself can't wear contacts because of it.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:32pm

Out of curiousity, you guys who have phobias of blood or injections... have you ever fainted when getting one? That's one of the only specific phobias that causes fainting, whih is interesting.

I think I said this already, but I know my dad has fainted while getting blood drawn at least once.

[JLSatUD]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:32pm

Siren, it's interesting that the blood/needle phobia is one of the only ones with the fainting. I bet most people with any phobia woudl describe their phobia emotion as feeling ill and like they're going to faint. Good to know that my body won't let me down like I fear it will every time I'm scared!

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:34pm

I've never fainted. I just get really panicy and my chest feels tight, which is due mainly because of the asthma, and I hyperventilate.

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:35pm

Out of curiousity, you guys who have phobias of blood or injections... have you ever fainted when getting one? That's one of the only specific phobias that causes fainting, whih is interesting.

Personally, no, but I've felt very lightheaded and as if I was going to faint.

The "sexual overtones" thing was HILARIOUS. What a weirdo.

I know! I downloaded the One Night in Bangkok music video -- it's so cheesy and so 80s. He's kind of good-looking for an old guy in it, though. Haha. I can't believe his brother was Giles on Buffy!

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:39pm

I have an emotional breakdown/asthma attack combination. I get really panicky if I see it on TV or someone mentions to me that I get blood work done.

[Katt]

Posted: 2/11/06 at 9:40pm

Anthony Stewart Head! I love him.