# What's your "kryptonite"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 23, 2007, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263 "2007-04-23T04:35:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263/1 "2007-04-23T04:35:09Z")
I’m a pretty active guy, I get things done, etc… But one thing that shuts me down RIGHT NOW is a gall bladder attack. I can control the onset fairly well but if I get hit with one I can barely think, it hurts so much. I can’t drive, read, or do anything else except suffer in pain. What’s your “Kryptonite”? Your boss, your hobby, an illness, your partner? What? ---
**Author:** ![enigm4tic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@enigm4tic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enigm4tic)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263/2 "2007-04-23T04:43:51Z")
rotten or curdled milk. Only thing that can really stop me dead in my tracks. I’m fairly sure that if someone were to spill curdled milk on me, I would vomit instantly. Other than that one particular aversion though, not really. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263/3 "2007-04-23T04:56:45Z")
Right now, the\* Rienzi\* overture. Stops me in my tracks, wrenches my guts out. ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263/4 "2007-04-23T05:08:57Z")
Definitely Yuengling and cheap foreign food. I love it more than anything, and I will put off doing anything to enjoy a good beer with cheap Thai food. Brendon ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263/5 "2007-04-23T05:18:09Z")
Bullets. Never been hit by one, but I’m assume it won’t do anything good for me. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263/6 "2007-04-23T05:23:56Z")
**Shamozzle** - Get your gallbladder removed - I had mine out a week ago, and it was nothing! See the gallbladder removal thread on IMHO for my story. Truly - I’m a wimp, but it was not at all a big deal. StG ---
**Author:** ![enigm4tic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@enigm4tic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enigm4tic)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263/7 "2007-04-23T05:31:24Z")
[QUOTE=RandMcnally] Bullets. [/QUOTE] Pansy. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263/8 "2007-04-23T05:33:44Z")
I don’t think I’d last long against a bear. ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263/9 "2007-04-23T06:04:06Z")
A sounding alarm clock. Sometimes they’re on TV ads for random products, and they cut right through me. I think I’ve been classically conditioned to feel downright miserable when an alarm clock goes off. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263/10 "2007-04-23T06:31:39Z")
[QUOTE=Team of Scientists] A sounding alarm clock. Sometimes they’re on TV ads for random products, and they cut right through me. I think I’ve been classically conditioned to feel downright miserable when an alarm clock goes off. [/QUOTE] Yes, a definite runner-up. I made the mistake of setting up my cell phone to also serve as my alarm clock. Now, whenever I get a phone call, I basically jump out of my skin. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263/11 "2007-04-23T07:10:32Z")
Wouldn’t you like to know? Nice try **Shamozzle** , nice try. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263/12 "2007-04-23T07:42:29Z")
Being in earshot of stupid, ignorant, or inane conversation. Causes my brain to shut down, and probably start melting too. Sometimes a TV show such as ‘Hollyoaks’ can do it. This is when someone at work has seized the TV remote. I would never knowingly watch Hollyoaks, just as, and to a lesser degree of conviction, I would never knowingly eat another human being’s poo. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263/13 "2007-04-23T07:51:26Z")
[QUOTE=Team of Scientists] A sounding alarm clock. Sometimes they’re on TV ads for random products, and they cut right through me. I think I’ve been classically conditioned to feel downright miserable when an alarm clock goes off. [/QUOTE] If I’m enjoying a perticularly blissful sleep an alarm clock or ringing mobile phone has the effect of making my brain go from 0 to 60 in 0.05 seconds. At those moments more than at any other time in the day I seem to be calling upon super-human mental abilities (probably, in the case of the phone ringing, so that I can deal with the interruption quickly and get back to sleep) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263/14 "2007-04-23T09:25:31Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Borgia] I don’t think I’d last long against a bear. [/QUOTE] Well, I’ve never lost a fight to one, so I think I’d probably be OK. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263/15 "2007-04-23T10:11:44Z")
Adult responsibility. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263/16 "2007-04-23T10:26:10Z")
[QUOTE=Lobsang] Sometimes a TV show such as ‘Hollyoaks’ can do it. This is when someone at work has seized the TV remote. I would never knowingly watch Hollyoaks, just as, and to a lesser degree of conviction, I would never knowingly eat another human being’s poo. [/QUOTE] I have very similar feelings about Hollyoaks - but now one of my cousins is in it, and I’m slightly torn between boycotting it as usual, or ‘supporting’ it by watching it in some familial obligation. But I still can’t stomach watching it. ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263/17 "2007-04-23T10:26:30Z")
Waking up. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263/18 "2007-04-23T10:43:03Z")
Kryptonite is my kryptonite. I mean… farts. Yeah. ---
**Author:** ![rucciface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@rucciface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rucciface)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263/19 "2007-04-23T20:00:10Z")
Rodents. All you’d have to do is threaten to show me a picture of a…you know…one of those, and I am completely helpless. A few days ago, I was reading an industry magazine and was happily skimming along when I turned a page and there was a picture RIGHT THERE of a…rat.(There. I said it.) My heart stopped for a second and I froze. I wish I could have seen the look on my own face. I think there should be a mandatory warning for something like that. I can’t even read the PetCo circular that gets sent out now and then. I learned that lesson the hard way. ---
**Author:** ![titorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@titorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/titorian)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263/20 "2007-04-23T20:33:09Z")
I get knocked down by foot cramps when my ankles get cold. Which seems to be every couple of days. Practically fall down. I feel like wearing those old legwarmer things from my Jazzercize days. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-kryptonite/401263.md?page=2)