Things that Do NOT scare you.

Scared is perhaps too strong a definition, but being alone in the company of the ladies has never intimidated me. Many fellows that I know have some sort of misconception that a group of women talk about babies and female ailments. What nonsense.

One of our dear lady friends who honoured us by asking us to be Godparents to her son, laughed when I told her that I am useless at DIY. In fact I dubbed DIY as: Don't Involve Yourself. The DIY conversation came about when the ladies were exchanging horror stories of their home disasters. DIY doesn't intimidate me, I just pick up a phone, call in the expert, part with the cash, job done.
 
horseless carriage said:
Scared is perhaps too strong a definition, but being alone in the company of the ladies has never intimidated me. Many fellows that I know have some sort of misconception that a group of women talk about babies and female ailments. What nonsense.
One of our dear lady friends who honoured us by asking us to be Godparents to her son, laughed when I told her that I am useless at DIY. In fact I dubbed DIY as: Don't Involve Yourself. The DIY conversation came about when the ladies were exchanging horror stories of their home disasters. DIY doesn't intimidate me, I just pick up a phone, call in the expert, part with the cash, job done.
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Some people do say they experience this though:

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horseless carriage said:
Scared is perhaps too strong a definition, but being alone in the company of the ladies has never intimidated me. Many fellows that I know have some sort of misconception that a group of women talk about babies and female ailments. What nonsense.

One of our dear lady friends who honoured us by asking us to be Godparents to her son, laughed when I told her that I am useless at DIY. In fact I dubbed DIY as: Don't Involve Yourself. The DIY conversation came about when the ladies were exchanging horror stories of their home disasters. DIY doesn't intimidate me, I just pick up a phone, call in the expert, part with the cash, job done.
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yep and some of us Ladies are a dab hand at D-I-Y as well...(y)..in fact I've just spent a little while this morning bleeding all the radiators in my house...
 
horseless carriage said:
Scared is perhaps too strong a definition, but being alone in the company of the ladies has never intimidated me. Many fellows that I know have some sort of misconception that a group of women talk about babies and female ailments. What nonsense.

One of our dear lady friends who honoured us by asking us to be Godparents to her son, laughed when I told her that I am useless at DIY. In fact I dubbed DIY as: Don't Involve Yourself. The DIY conversation came about when the ladies were exchanging horror stories of their home disasters. DIY doesn't intimidate me, I just pick up a phone, call in the expert, part with the cash, job done.
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Not nonsense around here: that, and religion, is indeed what most of the women seem to talk about when they're in groups (although in my age group, it's grandbabies). I've tried mentioning other subjects, but that only results in a frown and the subject being brought right back to their grandchildren.
 
officerripley said:
Not nonsense around here: that, and religion, is indeed what most of the women seem to talk about when they're in groups (although in my age group, it's grandbabies). I've tried mentioning other subjects, but that only results in a frown and the subject being brought right back to their grandchildren.
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The religious conversation is a rarity in this country except among those few who attend church... and I mean few... our country albeit Christian is no interested overall in attending church, except for weddings and funerals etc..so women or men for that matter, here religious conversation is barely ever heard outside of the home..

>.now grandbabies, that's very much a thing.. at least with the women. ..Unfortunately for those of us who have no grandchildren, is boring... BORING... as it was even to me when my Daughter was a baby and everyone wanted to just discuss babies ... *arrghh*
 
hollydolly said:
The religious conversation is a rarity in this country except among those few who attend church... and I mean few... our country albeit Christian is no interested overall in attending church, except for weddings and funerals etc..so women or men for that matter, here religious conversation is barely ever heard outside of the home..

>.now grandbabies, that's very much a thing.. at least with the women. ..Unfortunately for those of us who have no grandchildren, is boring... BORING... as it was even to me when my Daughter was a baby and everyone wanted to just discuss babies ... *arrghh*
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I actually enjoy it sometimes when kids or grandkids are talked about but if it goes on too long and that's all is every talked about...sigh. It's odd: I used to know someone who talked about her grandkids incessantly and would've been angered by the suggestion that she talked too much about them, but the few times I tried bringing up a different subject scornfully dismissed it; one time when I brought up science (don't remember exactly which branch), she literally waved it away, saying, "Oh science! Nobody's interested in science! Don't be silly!"
 
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katlupe said:
Impressive! Since I have come to know you on here, I am never surprised about what you can do.
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Right? i've only been here about 3 months, but i got the feeling that what ever differences of opinion @hollydolly and i might have we also have a good deal of 'attitude' in common. A tendency toward self-sufficiency and problem solving.
 
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The list of things that inspire 'fear' in me would be much shorter. But that would be off-topic really.
Maybe tomorrow morning when i have more time i'll raise the subject from different angle.

The point of this is much like a gratitude list or journal (which i kept one going thru divorce from #3 hubby).
Nature and animals don't scare me. Living without a man in residence doesn't scare me. DIY projects don't scare me. i am grateful to live in the country and it may sound crazy but i get a little charge when i see scat from various wild animals on my land, or the tracks in the snow in winter. The sightings of Deer, Raccoons and even the coyote feel like blessings. (Shoot even the little skunk waddling into the brush as i drove by tickled me. i've installed a bathroom sink, and winterize our windows every fall, split and stack firewood.

Which i have to get moving this morning and move the last of log sections needing splitting to undercover as am ordering a new load this coming week. Will be back later. Hope everyone has a good whatever (morning, afternoon, evening, night).
 
I'm not really "scared" of anything....other than things I have No control over....severe storms, etc. I just assume that virtually everything I might do, or come in contact with, has some degree of risk....and try to avoid doing anything that might contribute to that risk.
 
hollydolly said:
The religious conversation is a rarity in this country except among those few who attend church... and I mean few... our country albeit Christian is no interested overall in attending church, except for weddings and funerals etc..so women or men for that matter, here religious conversation is barely ever heard outside of the home..
>.now grandbabies, that's very much a thing.. at least with the women. ..Unfortunately for those of us who have no grandchildren, is boring... BORING... as it was even to me when my Daughter was a baby and everyone wanted to just discuss babies ... *arrghh*
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If you factor in the deliberate marginalisation of most religion and religious thought then the fact there is little surprise so few choose to discuss religion in public, or outside of the churches or other religious buildings of differing faiths.

Whether all the other things people, particularly young people, will ultimately give them the sense of contentment and balance in their lives, those who have had some religious thinking instilled in us I have to doubt though. I think a yearning for answers to ones' life, and life in general, is present in many, rather than accepting an inevitability of all meaning nothing, (outside of oneself, one's own interests or happiness, or the people we choose to care about, and care about you/us).
 
debodun said:
Things I am not afraid of that most people are:
snakes
mice
bats
most insects
being alone for extended periods


Things I am afraid of that most people aren't:
making phone calls
driving
going into a crowded or congested place
getting a letter in the mail from someone I don't know
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grahamg said:
Quote:
"You’re no doubt familiar with the dictum to “do one thing every day that scares you.”"

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” (Eleanor Roosevelt)
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Generally (before I was confined to my house), I used to do that from time to time, to get out of my comfort zone. I think it's a great idea. Of course, sometimes I don't do those things more than once -- like riding in a glass elevator on the outside wall of a very tall hotel. Lovely view, but the experience gave me the heebie-jeebies.

Heck, the last year of going through chemo and radiation was way out of my comfort zone. I was thinking seriously of not doing it because of the damage it would give to my quality of life, etc., but my kids were appalled at the very idea.
 
hollydolly said:
yes overgrown teenagers who knife people to death in some places...especially places like London..or those overgrown toddlers who are terrorists, or members of Isis ...or school shooters.... :oops:
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Yes, but that is a very small percentage of the total number of teenagers. I like the teens I've met, none of them were violent though. Except for one of the guys who dated my daughter, I didn't like any of them for rational reasons. My dog *hated* one of them - the only person he has ever felt like that about. He loves people, the more the merrier. Two of them told her they fantasized about killing her. One of them consistently tried to undermine my authority when she was a teenager. He gave her a cell phone when I took hers away temporarily for some good reason or the other. He encouraged her to dislike me and my few important rules. She dumped him for that. She had a bunch of boyfriends that didn't pass muster for me. Usually they showed their true colors quickly enough for her to see it too.
 
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timoc said:

Things that Do NOT scare you.​


Kippers, they stink like hell when cooking, but oh, they are so delicious. :)
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Kippers are cured herring (I looked it up, I knew they were fish). My husband and I were talking yesterday about places in Europe we'd like to visit. I said my choice were all food-based and I would have to lose weight so I looked like a twig, or I would return home looking like a whale. Kippers came up, and I told him I would have to research the foods generally eaten in kipper places, so I could make sure I'd get a breakfast I would like to eat. I do not like fish. My mother loved herring, but she never bothered to get her children to eat it while they were young enough to perhaps like it. I tried to get my kids to like liverwurst when they were young. Only succeeded with one of them.
 

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