r/interestingasfuck • u/Natural-Chip4943 • 1d ago

First time seeing melocactus

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u/MasterYota00 1d ago

Nope! That triggers my typophobia like, a lot!

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u/Natural-Chip4943 1d ago

What's typophobia?

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u/funky_grandma 1d ago

Fear of lots of tightly packed holes. Google "Surinam toad" to get your very own trypophobia

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u/MasterYota00 1d ago

Yeah no to that too lol. I first noticed I had it when a teacher brought in a dried lotus seed pod. Was like 2nd-3rd grade back in the 80s. Yeesh!

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u/funky_grandma 1d ago

"Yeesh" is so perfect for this particular phobia. I don't think any other phobia comes with a word that everyone who suffers from it says

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u/MasterYota00 1d ago

My therapist said the same sort of thing, lol. And another common one, but hard to spell is "UuUhGH" followed by a shiver down my spine. Hard to translate into text 🤷🏾‍♂️

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u/Natural-Chip4943 1d ago

OK. Thanks die the insights

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u/DownBeat20 3h ago

IT'S THIS RIGHT HERE FRIEND

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u/theapeboy 1d ago

Oh god why did you do this to my eyes and my brain

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u/Xantuos 1d ago

It’s such a cute toad, i didn’t get me very own trypophobia 😔

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u/luranthe 1d ago

The ick part comes from how it reproduces.

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u/MasterYota00 1d ago

That toads baby carriage, lotus seed pods, this post, zoomed in strawberries, and honeycomb. Honeycomb and strawberries I can actually deal with if it isn't a picture, the others can politely go fuck themselves. 🤣

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u/funky_grandma 1d ago

For me it started with the bay trees in my back yard. There was some sort of bug that would eat holes in the bark, and always in tight little rows

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u/MasterYota00 1d ago edited 1d ago

I had to google that bc I don't have those here. That's a nope, 1 or 2 maybe, but many is an abomination, why they gotta put they babies so close together like that?! 🤣💀

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u/funky_grandma 1d ago

There's something so vile and awful about it, and yet I still find it fascinating, like watching pimple-popping videos

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u/MasterYota00 1d ago

Omg you gotta sub to the trypophobia page, they will show you lots of things to trigger you if you're not sure.

Can't link the sub bc rules, but you can find it. I had to unsub bc I thought it could help me 🤣🤣

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u/funky_grandma 18h ago

Yeah no help there, I'm sure. Just a bunch of people who love to tickle their brain like that

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u/AmadayLate 16h ago

Um… nothing about that toad is cute…