What Gav was talking about is but a tiny example of a much bigger point.
There’s a whole load of totally made up stuff out there that you couldn’t make up. It’s too stupid.
Our lazy internet search reveals you can have a complex about almost anything. Here’s a fun game for you. We’re calling it ‘PhakeFobia’ and we’re pretty sure it’ll be coming to Channel 5 soon.
We’ve listed 10 phobias. Nine are real. Can you spot the fake one?
1. Coulrophobia: running scared of clowns.
2. Omphalophobia: terrified of belly buttons
3. Papaphobia: scared of the Pope
4. Arachibutyrophobia: panicked by the idea of peanut
butter sticking to the roof of your mouth
5. Allodoxaphobia: all a quiver over other people’s
opinions
6. Oikophobia: kitchen appliances. Yes, your toaster’s out
to get you.
7. Genuphobia: knees. Not necessarily knobbly ones. Just
knees generally
8. Anatidaephobia: the fear that a goose is watching you.
Or a duck. And to be clear, the fear is NOT that it’s attacking you. Just
watching.
9. Turophobia: fearful of feta? Chilled by cheddar?
Panicked by parmesan? Turophobia is a fear of cheese
10. Phobophobia: fear of phobias
Obviously the first one is an actual genuine thing. Clowns! They’re scary.
So that leaves the other 9, and it’s actually quite hard to pick an odd one out because they all seem pretty stupid. Toasters? Cheese? Sticky peanut butter? They’re totally irrational. That is unless you actually suffer from them, in which case they’re going to affect your thinking and behaviour.
For the record, the fake one is the goose thing.
