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Jonathan,
Apparently the term for cotton wool phobia is Bambakomallophobia. Your friend is not alone. There seem to be more than a few people out there who experience it. Blimey! We live and learn, huh?
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« Reply #46 on: 15:37:32, 05-08-2007 » |
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Thanks for that Mort - indeed we do!  |
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« Reply #47 on: 16:54:31, 05-08-2007 » |
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The texture thing about cotton wool is something I can identify with, although I don't have a phobia about it. It goes back to a phase I had of Alice-In-Wonderland Syndrome when I was a teenager (can still tune back into it, in fact). My super soft bedding would become (in my mind) brittle and dangerous and then revert unpredictably back to safety.
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« Reply #48 on: 16:56:37, 05-08-2007 » |
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I can actually sort of imagine some kind of phobia of that coming from surgical and especially dental use of it though. I can still feel the texture of those wads of it I had to bite on at the dentist's from time to time...
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« Reply #49 on: 17:30:23, 05-08-2007 » |
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I also know someone who has that cotton wool phobia and, similarly, I hadn't realised it was one that was actually not that uncommon. She just wouldn't and couldn't handle it however great the need was, getting a painkiller or something out of a medicine bottle, and couldn't bear even having the stuff in the house. She managed to bring up three sons without using it at the baby stage which must have required quite a few 'alternative strategies'.
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« Reply #50 on: 20:05:22, 06-08-2007 » |
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Sorry. I've been laughing all day about this! How about "Earthworms on a hot air balloon", "Scorpions on a surfboard" and "Spiders in a helicopter"  P.S. is that John Cleese? |
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« Reply #51 on: 20:08:13, 06-08-2007 » |
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Sorry. I've been laughing all day about this! How about "Earthworms on a hot air balloon", "Scorpions on a surfboard" and "Spiders in a helicopter" P.S. is that John Cleese? |
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« Reply #52 on: 17:59:39, 08-08-2007 » |
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Sorry, a bit slow on the uptake there, thanks Ian!
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« Reply #53 on: 18:49:12, 08-08-2007 » |
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« Reply #54 on: 19:35:06, 08-08-2007 » |
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« Reply #56 on: 23:18:44, 28-08-2007 » |
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Respect: for having done it though, Martle. You clock that up as a win.  |
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Bluddy hell Mart, I can`t even l-o-o-k at the photograph without my legs feeling wobbly! Gold stars to you for going `over the top`. Cripes ! <vertigo emoticon> |
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Bluddy hell Mart, I can`t even l-o-o-k at the photograph without my legs feeling wobbly! Gold stars to you for going `over the top`. Cripes ! <vertigo emoticon> I must say I prefer the southbound flyover to the tunnel that goes in the other direction though.  |
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« Reply #59 on: 10:23:36, 29-08-2007 » |
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Bluddy hell Mart, I can`t even l-o-o-k at the photograph without my legs feeling wobbly! Gold stars to you for going `over the top`. Cripes ! <vertigo emoticon> There's one not dissimilar to that on the western outskirts of Nantes that might well give some people similar creeps; it had never bothered me all that much until I went over it on one occasion during a violent hailstorm and 100+kph winds. Not fun. Best, Alistair |
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