h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/pontefract-cakes-p-184.html

but we would have to get there before my other half, as he is from Ponte too and a liquorice nut, and definitely not normal

Websailor

There is the fear of bridges gephyrophobia and the fear of loud noises is called Ligyrophobia.

There is not a fear of mugglephobia, been frightened of people who don't have magical powers.


I thought Batophobia was the fear of bats but it's the fear of eights or being close to high buildings.

I tried to find the fear of being ordinary but it did not come in the search.

Triskaedekaphobia...........Fear of the number thirteen!!!






GT

the question is what sort of pose should the statue be in

ar'but, would there be enough brass/copper about to make it, it's all getting nicked for abroad

Then it shall be made of yorkshire stone

Unless you have a fear of Yorkshire stone!

Or Yorkshire's tone

or we make it out of yorkshire thingslike whitby kippers yorkshire puddings, James Herriot books

Archiphobia is missing - ever tried employing one?

dimensionallytranscendentalaphobia is a fear of something bigger on the inside

OooooOooooh!!

cassussolumobia - fear of empty bottles!!

soapaseptiphobiajust writing it scares the it out of me

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words

If you don't believe me - 'google' it.

(Personally, I think it's a load of bo**oks, it ain't in the Qxford E.D.).

So what would be the term for 'fear of having oneself made prematurely into a Pontefract cake statue' be????

'Liquoriphobia'?

zdt

Book title: The Insanity of Normality: (Normality vs Autonomy)...(not much danger around here, thankfully). Normality as taking orders - real and implied - to fit in with the crowd - conformity as denial of yourself. Judicious mix of both needed (Heidegger), not just being conventional, e.g. you should drive on the left in the UK even though it's conforming.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Insanity-Normality-Toward-Understanding-Destructiveness/dp/0966990846/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250628934&sr=1-1

Don't know the book but I sure do know the theme. There was a series of books by someone whose name I've forgotten (but her ideas were close to RD Laing's) on the same theme - the insanity of being 'normal' - a good few years ago.

Jab

More:

We Are 'Normal' And We Want Our Freedom (song) - Bonzo Dog Band.
The Fear of Freedom - Erich Fromm

Jabs

I'd even baffle Sigmund Freud if he was here

He didn't treat real nutters, only neurotics, Prof.


Jabs