# Who scares you? I mean \*really\* scares you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 1, 2003, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515 "2003-07-01T05:34:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![flonks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ab097/32.png) [@flonks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flonks)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/21 "2003-07-01T17:46:18Z")
The american military and the way it is used ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/22 "2003-07-01T17:47:26Z")
Oh, and one I forgot: At every gym I’ve ever been to, there have been a few guys who are just too big. Just last night I saw this dude benchpressing over four hundred pounds. He wasn’t a very tall guy either, he was just built like a gorilla. I just don’t thind that kind of thing can be good for you. I think with some people there’s a body dysmorphia going on where they just have to get bigger and bigger. Kind of the opposite of anorexia. Plus, a lot of them are probably on “supplements”, which makes me want to steer clear clear of them in case they decide to have a 'roid rage episode. And I hope to God I’m never asked to spot for one of them. That would be awkward. “No way man. Sorry. Why? Well, number one, I’ll be of very little help to you if you lose control of that Volkswagen you’re hoisting up over your head, and number two… well, frankly you make me very nervous.” ---
**Author:** ![skittles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@skittles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skittles)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/23 "2003-07-01T18:19:43Z")
Don’t laugh…but Michael Myers, not the actor - the character from the Halloween movies. I can’t see that face/mask without severely getting freaked out. ---
**Author:** ![yoyo3500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/5daacb/32.png) [@yoyo3500](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyo3500)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/24 "2003-07-01T21:17:15Z")
Here’s another vote for Hillary. I don’t think anybody really scares me quite like Hillary. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/25 "2003-07-01T23:15:56Z")
Men, in uniform or not, carrying loaded weapons. Groups of three or more thugs. Gaunt-looking people in soiled clothes wandering around in public while talking angrily to themselves. The homunculus I see every morning in the mirror. Otherwise, no one specific. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/26 "2003-07-01T23:41:16Z")
There’s a couple of kids at school who just make my skin crawl. They just set off my creepy guy alarms. I’m not sure why, but they do. Also, people in those big character costumes, like at Dinsey Land. I hate to even be near one. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/27 "2003-07-01T23:44:25Z")
Honestly, number one for me by a long shot would be George W. Bush. He took our country _to war_ without an immediate threat, in the face of massive domestic protest, while taunting and mocking our strongest allies, without a realistic long-term plan. Even if I agreed with the final goal of attacking Iraq, with a little more time and patience the same thing could have been accomplished without the enormous diplomatic and financial costs, and without letting whatever WMD remnants did exist in Iraq get looted by god knows which nutballs. I don’t think he’s evil, I think he’s impatient and reckless. Impatience and recklessness are very scary qualities to have in the leader of the most powerful nation on earth. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/28 "2003-07-01T23:48:43Z")
The only thing scarier than the Bush Administration are the folks who _believe_ them. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/29 "2003-07-01T23:57:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Optihut \* > \*\*Another vote for Bush or rather the whole Bush administration. \*\* > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Soup\_du\_jour_ > \*\*Rabid dogs. \*\* Are these one and the same? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![fizzestothetop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@fizzestothetop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzestothetop)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/30 "2003-07-01T23:59:16Z")
Do zombies count as a who? They really, really scare me. ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_Schmeese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Marconi\_Schmeese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_Schmeese)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/31 "2003-07-02T00:40:38Z")
Christoper Walken - even after that Fat Boy Slim video - he’s still one scary mother. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/32 "2003-07-02T01:05:10Z")
I am truly, _seriously_ afraid of people who actually believe this: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Giraffe \* > Honestly, number one for me by a long shot would be George W. Bush. And this: > [@](#): > > while taunting and mocking our strongest allies, And who _still_ believe this: > [@](#): > > with a little more time and patience the same thing could have been accomplished without the enormous diplomatic and financial costs, and without letting whatever WMD remnants did exist in Iraq get looted by god knows which nutballs. ---
**Author:** ![Glassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Glassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glassy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/33 "2003-07-02T02:32:33Z")
Andrew Luster, the Max Factor heir and rapist. He freaks me out. A man who drugs women unconscious and then videotapes himself raping them - now that’s one creepy SOB. I saw a special on him (I think it was “American Justice”) and it gave me nightmares. They need to keep that guy in prison forever. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/34 "2003-07-02T02:44:12Z")
The woman who let the guy bleed to death in her windshield The Hit and Run Bishop The executive with the $6K shower curtain Any woman willing to hang out with OJ. If there were a cosmic balance scale of good and evil, it would take thousands and thousands of good acts to make up the vileness of these people’s acts. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/35 "2003-07-02T02:55:09Z")
number 3 for hilary Declan ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/36 "2003-07-02T03:15:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WILLASS \* > \*\*Me…no really, I have come to the conclusion that I have caused myself more heartache and hassle than anyone else. I am always slightly worried that my current (wonderful) situation might come crashing down around me i.e lose job, girlfriend, self respect, friends, family members ecetera and I will end up in a self destructive downward spiral. \*\* As someone who has actually survived a self-destructive downward spiral, I can only concure. I know absolutely, without a doubt, that I have contemplated doing and have done worse things to myself than anyone else ever has. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/37 "2003-07-02T03:21:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by js\_africanus \* > \*\*I’m scared by people who look up to John Ashcroft. \*\* You’re scared of everyone shorter than 5-feet 10-inches? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/38 "2003-07-02T03:23:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cuauhtemoc \* > \*\ ***Revtim** ’s friend who was [voluntarily cannibalized and killed.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=174724&highlight=cannibalized) Shit like this keeps me up at night, I swear. \*\* I read the articles linked to in that thread. All I could think was, in a world where an ad that says “gay men wanted for slaughter” gets _five_ responses, why is it so hard for me to get a date? ---
**Author:** ![Trafalgar\_Laura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trafalgar_laura/32/2907_2.png) [@Trafalgar\_Laura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trafalgar_Laura)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/39 "2003-07-02T03:38:35Z")
The whole GW Bush team scares me to death. I shudder to think of what they have in store for us next. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/40 "2003-07-02T03:53:20Z")
I have three… -thunderstorms (specifically lightning and how it becomes dark in the daytime) -people with too much power -dying alone [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515.md?page=3)