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America's Top 10 Fears

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While nearly a decade ago, Americans celebrated the arrival of "hope and change", since then "hope" (not to mention "change") has been all but eradicated (if only for the vast majority of the population), and has been replaced with an emotion that is its polar opposite. Fear.

Fear of government corruption (which we were delighted to find in the top spot), fear of terrorist attacks, fear of the NSA, fear of ID theft, fear of cyberterrorists, and even fear of economic collapse... all the way in 8th place.

And yes, "fear of clowns" is in there too.

In an attempt to quantify these fears, the Chapman University Survey of American Fears provides an unprecedented look into the fears of average Americans.

In April of 2015, a random sample of 1,541 adults from across the United States were asked their level of fear about eighty-eight different fears across a huge variety of topics ranging from crime, the government, disasters, personal anxieties, technology and many others.

Domains of Fear

There were 10 major “domains” of fear addressed by the survey, including:

Fear Domain Types of Questions Included
Crime Murder, rape, theft, burglary, fraud, identity theft
Daily Life Romantic rejection, ridicule, talking to strangers
Environment Global warming, overpopulation, pollution
Government Government corruption, Obamacare, drones, gun control, immigration issues
Judgment of others Appearance, weight, age, race
Man-Made Disasters Bio-warfare, terrorism, nuclear attacks
Natural Disasters Earthquakes, droughts, floods, hurricanes
Personal Anxieties Tight spaces, public speaking, clowns, vaccines
Personal Future Dying, illness, running out of money, unemployment
Technology Artificial intelligence, robots, cyber-terrorism

 

Top Fear Domains, 2015

Each fear question asks Americans to rate their level of fear on a scale ranging from 1 (not afraid) to 4 (very afraid). The average score for each domain of fear provides insight into what types of fear are of greatest concern to Americans in 2015.

On average, Americans expressed the highest levels of fear about man-made disasters, such as terrorist attacks, followed by fears about technology, including corporate and government tracing of personal data and fears about the government (such as government corruption and ObamaCare). The complete, ranked list of Domains of Fear follows:

Domain of Fear Average Fear Score (out of 4)
Man-Made Disasters 2.15
Technology 2.07
Government 2.06
Environment 1.97
Personal Future 1.95
Natural Disasters 1.95
Crime 1.72
Personal Anxieties 1.63
Daily Life 1.51
Judgment of Others 1.31

 

Top 10 Fears of 2015

 

Below is a list of the 10 fears for which the highest percentage of Americans reported being “Afraid,” or “Very Afraid.”

Fear Fear Domain Afraid or Very Afraid
Corruption of Government Officials Government 58.0%
Cyber-terrorism Technology 44.8%
Corporate Tracking of Personal Information Technology 44.6%
Terrorist Attacks Man-Made Disasters 44.4%
Government Tracking of Personal Information Technology 41.4%
Bio-Warfare Man-Made Disasters 40.9%
Identity Theft Crime 39.6%
Economic Collapse Man-Made Disasters 39.2%
Running of out Money in the Future Personal Future 37.4%
Credit Card Fraud Crime 36.9%

 

The Complete List of Fears, 2015

The following is a complete, list of all of the fears addressed by the Chapman Survey of American Fears, Wave 2 (2015), including the percent of Americans who reported being afraid or very afraid. 

 

Sorted by Percent Afraid/Very Afraid

Fear Fear Domain % Afraid or Very Afraid
Corruption Government 58.0
Cyber-terrorism Technology 44.8
Corporate Tracking of Personal Data Technology 44.6
Terrorist Attack Man-made Disasters 44.4
Government Tracking of Personal Data Technology 41.4
Bio-warfare Man-made Disasters 40.9
Identity Theft Crime 39.6
Economic Collapse Man-made Disasters 39.2
Running out of Money Personal Future 37.4
Credit Card Fraud Crime 36.9
Gun Control Government 36.5
War Man-made Disasters 35.8
Obamacare Government 35.7
Illness Personal Future 34.4
Pandemic Natural Disasters 34.3
Nuclear Attack Man-made Disasters 33.6
Reptiles Personal Anxieties 33.0
Meltdown Man-made Disasters 32.3
Civil Unrest Man-made Disasters 32.0
Tornado Natural Disasters 31.4
Global Warming Environment 30.7
Grid attack Man-made Disasters 29.8
Illegal Immigration Government 29.7
Drought Natural Disasters 29.4
Robots Replacing Workforce Technology 28.9
Public Speaking Personal Anxieties 28.4
Property Damage Natural Disasters 27.7
Heights Personal Anxieties 27.4
Pollution of rivers and streams Environment 26.9
Earthquake Natural Disasters 26.7
Drunk Driver Crime 26.5
Flood Natural Disasters 26.5
Hurricane Natural Disasters 26.4
Trusting Artificial Intelligence to do work Technology 25.8
Insects Personal Anxieties 25.5
Blizzard Natural Disasters 25.0
Overpopulation Environment 24.0
Robots Technology 23.9
Unemployment Personal Future 23.8
Artificial Intelligence Technology 22.2
Break ins Crime 22.2
Loneliness Personal Future 22.0
Dying Personal Future 21.9
Theft Crime 21.6
Water Personal Anxieties 21.0
Drones Government 20.4
Claustrophobia Personal Anxieties 19.9
Volcano Natural Disasters 19.7
Aging Personal Future 19.6
Ponzi Schemes and other financial crimes Crime 19.0
Technology I don’t understand Technology 19.0
Needles Personal Anxieties 18.5
Whites no longer majority Government 18.2
Dying Daily Life 16.8
Germs Personal Anxieties 16.5
Mass Shooting Crime 16.4
Walking Along at Night Daily Life 16.4
Murder by a stranger Crime 16.0
Mugging Crime 15.8
Police Brutality Crime 15.4
Flying Personal Anxieties 15.2
Rape by a stranger Crime 14.5
Gangs Crime 14.1
Whooping Cough Personal Anxieties 13.5
Kidnapping Crime 13.0
Mammals (Dogs, rats or other animals) Personal Anxieties 12.9
Measles Personal Anxieties 12.7
Stalking Crime 12.7
Dismissed by Others Daily Life 12.5
Blood Personal Anxieties 12.2
Hate Crime Crime 12.2
Weight Judgment of Others 11.4
Rape by someone you know Crime 11.3
Murder by someone you know Crime 10.9
Ridicule Daily Life 10.6
Romantic Rejection Daily Life 10.4
Expressing Opinion Daily Life 9.7
Ghosts Personal Anxieties 9.7
Talking to Stranger Daily Life 9.7
Gossip Daily Life 9.6
Dark Personal Anxieties 9.3
Appearance Judgment of Others 8.7
Zombies Personal Anxieties 8.5
Vaccines Personal Anxieties 8.4
Clowns Personal Anxieties 6.8
Age Judgment of Others 5.9
Race Judgment of Others 5.6
Gender Judgment of Others 4.5
Dress Judgment of Others 4.2

 

Sorted Alphabetically 

Fear Fear Domain % Afraid or Very Afraid
Age Judgment of Others 5.9
Aging Personal Future 19.6
Appearance Judgment of Others 8.7
Artificial Intelligence Technology 22.2
Bio-warfare Man-made Disasters 40.9
Blizzard Natural Disasters 25.0
Blood Personal Anxieties 12.2
Break ins Crime 22.2
Civil Unrest Man-made Disasters 32.0
Claustrophobia Personal Anxieties 19.9
Clowns Personal Anxieties 6.8
Corporate Tracking of Personal Data Technology 44.6
Corruption Government 58.0
Credit Card Fraud Crime 36.9
Cyber-terrorism Technology 44.8
Dark Personal Anxieties 9.3
Dismissed by Others Daily Life 12.5
Dress Judgment of Others 4.2
Drones Government 20.4
Drought Natural Disasters 29.4
Drunk Driver Crime 26.5
Dying Personal Future 21.9
Dying Daily Life 16.8
Earthquake Natural Disasters 26.7
Economic Collapse Man-made Disasters 39.2
Expressing Opinion Daily Life 9.7
Flood Natural Disasters 26.5
Flying Personal Anxieties 15.2
Gangs Crime 14.1
Gender Judgment of Others 4.5
Germs Personal Anxieties 16.5
Ghosts Personal Anxieties 9.7
Global Warming Environment 30.7
Gossip Daily Life 9.6
Government Tracking of Personal Data Technology 41.4
Grid attack Man-made Disasters 29.8
Gun Control Government 36.5
Hate Crime Crime 12.2
Heights Personal Anxieties 27.4
Hurricane Natural Disasters 26.4
Identity Theft Crime 39.6
Illegal Immigration Government 29.7
Illness Personal Future 34.4
Insects Personal Anxieties 25.5
Kidnapping Crime 13.0
Loneliness Personal Future 22.0
Mammals (Dogs, rats or other animals) Personal Anxieties 12.9
Mass Shooting Crime 16.4
Measles Personal Anxieties 12.7
Meltdown Man-made Disasters 32.3
Mugging Crime 15.8
Murder by a stranger Crime 16.0
Murder by someone you know Crime 10.9
Needles Personal Anxieties 18.5
Nuclear Attack Man-made Disasters 33.6
Obamacare Government 35.7
Overpopulation Environment 24.0
Pandemic Natural Disasters 34.3
Police Brutality Crime 15.4
Pollution of rivers and streams Environment 26.9
Ponzi Schemes and other financial crimes Crime 19.0
Property Damage Natural Disasters 27.7
Public Speaking Personal Anxieties 28.4
Race Judgment of Others 5.6
Rape by a stranger Crime 14.5
Rape by someone you know Crime 11.3
Reptiles Personal Anxieties 33.0
Ridicule Daily Life 10.6
Robots Technology 23.9
Robots Replacing Workforce Technology 28.9
Romantic Rejection Daily Life 10.4
Running out of Money Personal Future 37.4
Stalking Crime 12.7
Talking to Stranger Daily Life 9.7
Technology I don’t understand Technology 19.0
Terrorist Attack Man-made Disasters 44.4
Theft Crime 21.6
Tornado Natural Disasters 31.4
Trusting Artificial Intelligence to do work Technology 25.8
Unemployment Personal Future 23.8
Vaccines Personal Anxieties 8.4
Volcano Natural Disasters 19.7
Walking Along at Night Daily Life 16.4
War Man-made Disasters 35.8
Water Personal Anxieties 21.0
Weight Judgment of Others 11.4
Whites no longer majority Government 18.2
Whooping Cough Personal Anxieties 13.5
Zombies Personal Anxieties 8.5

h/t ValueWalk

 

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Sun, 10/25/2015 - 19:22 | 6710201 SMC
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Fear is inversely proportional to intellect, knowledge, ability and competence.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 19:41 | 6710266 besnook
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that's risk. fear is mostly just irrational emotion despite all that information.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 19:29 | 6710217 Lea
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"Fear" and "threats" are the two most favored words in the "home of the brave".

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 19:57 | 6710324 Grouchy Marx
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Or maybe "fries" and "Coke".

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:19 | 6710410 falconflight
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I'll miss them both, especially the Coke Classic.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:48 | 6710659 Skiprrrdog
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I wish they still put cocaine in Coca Cola... I would drink lots...

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:51 | 6710668 FredFlintstone
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they don't? i'll stop wasting my money then

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 19:38 | 6710255 tlnzz
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The only fear I have is of the unknown. Prepare for the worse, hope for the best. I won't be going quietly into the dark. I have night vision capabilities. The back of my ball cap reads: "For Darkness be thy Ally".

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 19:39 | 6710258 falconflight
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What no constipation or wee wee leaks?  American television is filled w/ such products.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:11 | 6710546 MsCreant
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By that standard, erectile dysfunction and being depressed.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 19:40 | 6710263 free
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If you fear, they have won.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 19:44 | 6710269 besnook
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and the scariest stat is the lonliness stat, the source of all the serial killers.

 

are people really that lonely?

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 19:46 | 6710275 PoasterToaster
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Because government IS corruption, it's understandable.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 19:55 | 6710308 TEOTWAIKI
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My biggest fear is the disruption of the supply chain of the things I need to survive:

T-Bone Steak, Rotisserie Chicken, Smoked Salmon, Stinky Cheese...

(I figure I could make my own beer and wine and grow my own doobie if things went south)

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 19:58 | 6710330 mcsean2163
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Unemployment Personal Future

23.8

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:04 | 6710361 falconflight
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86% believe that a 72 hour emergency supply is a good idea, yet 72% haven't bothered because 51% believe that a "first responder" will bring em a 'subway sandwich combo.'  I never cease to be amazed.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:13 | 6710554 MsCreant
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So a first responder is the first delivery guy that will answer the phone and take your order. I did not know that.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:04 | 6710363 Kreditanstalt
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Funny how the masses fear "corporate spying" more than GOVERNMENT spying...

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:09 | 6710374 falconflight
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As if there's all that much difference.  

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:27 | 6710439 Crocodile
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You put those two numbers together to get the real number since they are one in the same; fascism.  The implication is large corporations; yet people give up their privacy to these corporation and I know because I read the "Privacy Policies" and should be renamed "Personal Information Disclosure Policy".

 

I received a credit card application in the mail recently and I read that by signing the agreement you agree to allow them to use some or ALL the information to their "affiliates" and "business partners", which they do not name.  You agree to accept emails, phone calls and text messages from the same.  Think about that for a minute.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:08 | 6710540 PrettySkulls
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just stick a line through the offending parts, and initial it. write in the same ink that by sending you a card they accept the changed made and initialized by you.

Basic contract law...

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 22:04 | 6710697 Kreditanstalt
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Wouldn't worry me.  But governments have GUNS...

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:14 | 6710381 Crusader75
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Americans are always peeing their pants, urged on by their ridiculous media, it's embarrassing.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:11 | 6710383 Crocodile
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B.S. survey; Americans #1 fear is loosing their SMART devices; particularly their SMART phones.  "And the survey says; 80/100"

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:13 | 6710387 falconflight
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My greatest fear is being NDAA 'detained' and having that bird cage fitted over my head for some rat reeducation sessions.  ;0

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:14 | 6710393 I Write Code
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I fear the transporter has malfunctioned and left me here in parallel hell.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:28 | 6710440 Arthur Schopenhauer
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I actually performed physical time/space travel last night. I consumed so much alcohol i passed out, ...and Poof! Whaddya know? The next thing I knew when I opened my eyes I was five miles away from my house in the back seat of somebody's car this morning.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:14 | 6710394 GeoffreyT
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"Being too stupid to understand basic probability" was not on the list; it would be good to see those 'fear domains' expressed in terms of their historical probability of occurring to a randomly selected individual (for example:  for an individual living in Upper Buttfuck MO, the risk of dying in a terror attack is as near to zero as makes no odds; the risk of the same event in DC is perceptibly above zero... but both are less than the unconditional risk of being shot by a cop).

People's expectations of risk are conditioned by the number of hours they spend watching mainsteam 'news'.

 

Also... it is just me, or are these stories aimed at people who are mildly retarded?

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:16 | 6710564 MsCreant
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100% of us are victims of government corruption. Seems like a reasonable fear to me.

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 05:12 | 6711224 Teh Finn
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Sounds like you watch too much tv as well.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:18 | 6710407 chistletoe
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you left out "fear of zero hedges" ....

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:22 | 6710420 Nesbiteme
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Intersting, clowns, air travle, etc.. What about getting killed in your car? This happens about 30,000 times a year. Clowns killings + whooping cough + measles + commercial carrier death maybe 400 or so.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:22 | 6710423 FreeNewEnergy
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Guess I missed the boat on the fear index. About the only thing I'm afraid of is somebody catching me jerking off while I'm driving.

It's a risky business.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:44 | 6710426 Soundgardener
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  • The words (and underlying concepts) 'no' and 'maybe'
  • Prolonged cessation of reward (sugar, caffeine, calories, full gob, sugar water, alcohol, sex, video games, TV, drugs, steady supply of victims)
  • Reversal of obesity stats to 1970 level, when four-foot wide fuckers stuck in the bus door TURNED HEADS
  • Expectation to have grasped some basic knowledge and life skills upon leaving school
  • Ability to view oneself and one's country through the eyes of others
  • Fewer than 10 firearms per capita
  • Problems that can't be swallowed, fucked, bought off, beaten, shot, shouted, prayed, or ignored away
  • Inability to claim to victim status & unearned entitlement; refusal of others to accept claims of exceptionalism
  • Punctuation, spelling, grammar, vocabulary; someone taking the crayons away
  • Expectation of honesty, common human decency, politeness & manners, shutting your fucking faces occasionally when you holiday abroad (I KNOW IT'S A FUCKING SCONE WITH CREAM ON NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU'RE EMBARASSING THE OTHER MAMMALS)
  • Request to fuck off back to the US, take your military bases with you, stop killing everyone and have a nice day. PLEASE? Just this one?
  • Inability to scapegoat religion / race / political affiliation / economy etc as the cause of EVERYTHING BAD (exception: blame yourselves)
  • Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Floyd, Deep Purple, King Crimson, Bowie, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Killing Joke, The Cure, The Smiths etc -90% of the best music in history isn't American. And fuck the blues (okay, Jimi was cool - but he had to make it in the UK).
  • Subtelty not signposted by emoticons; abstract concepts, THE LIST GOES ON AND ON...
David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPVrFIP0CMs

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:27 | 6710597 KashNCarry
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"...90% of the best music in history isn't American." That's why you share a moniker with the American band Soundgarden... right...

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:24 | 6710430 FreeNewEnergy
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Or not having toilet paper when I take a crap. Terrifying.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:33 | 6710458 taopraxis
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My mother grew up on a farm in Tennesee during the Great Depression. She told me there was always a Sears Catalogue available in the outhouse. Read a page, crumple a page...

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:12 | 6710549 Fahque Imuhnutjahb
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Mountains of NC,  corncobs and kudzu leaves.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:39 | 6710631 Skiprrrdog
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I want to be a Kudzu farmer... riding the range on my trusty steed, surveying my Kudzu empire...

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:36 | 6710461 thebigunit
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Ha!

Gun Control Government 36.5 Obamacare Government 35.

 

Reptiles Personal Anxieties 33.0  

Global Warming

Environment

30.7

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:52 | 6710500 highwaytoserfdom
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wait government corruption    What space shot did this government grant study?  Ah wait a minute "space Shot" bad word doesn't NASA hook rides from Russia to space station? http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/GCMD_USDA_ADDS_SHEEP.html

  IT'S OFFICIAL FOUND THE NATIONAL SHEEP DATA BASE...    Big data rocks...

 

Sweet Caroline Sweet Caroline

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:55 | 6710511 mijev
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I had breakfast in a chinese shopping center one sunday morning after a big night on the booze. After breakfast I suddenly got hit with the "I need to take a massive, urgent, morning after too much grog dump of the century." No way to make it back to the hotel in time and no one spoke english so I used scary hand gestures to indicate to the waitress I needed to find a toilet. One of my biggest fears came true. No sit down toilets, just a hole in the ground, but there wasn't any other option. It was a mostly successful operation except for a couple of annoying issues. 1) in a chinese restroom, the toilet paper is on a big roll at the entrance to the restroom. I was still carrying the napkin from the coffee shop and that had to suffice. After a dump like that it was an unwinnable battle. 2) My knees are so fucked I found I couldn't stand up without putting my hand on the floor to support me. You don't want to know what that floor looked like. The only good thing to come out of that experience was that the next person in there got to enjoy it as much as I did.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:08 | 6710539 Fahque Imuhnutjahb
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Well damn it!!  Now I've got to change mine from Government Corruption to Chinese Bathrooms,  thanks for

the imagery.  Now where's my damn eraser?  Oh well, both fears involve things nasty and full of shit, so since

I can't find my eraser I'll let it be.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:09 | 6710542 djsmps
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I think we've all been there before.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:21 | 6710579 falconflight
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Quite a story.  I guess much of China isn't much for "vitreous china"?

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:28 | 6710599 mijev
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That shopping center alone had more marble in it than the average Italian city.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 22:25 | 6710741 falconflight
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But not in the toilet industry, apparently?

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:30 | 6710604 bid the soldier...
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You should have moved out of the East Village when you had the chance

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:31 | 6710611 redd_green
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maan dat is fear what is fear. Put that number one on that university list.  

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:33 | 6710616 FredFlintstone
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not sure why i upvoted that exactly

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:39 | 6710628 JamaicaJim
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Visceral "you've been there"?....just not a Chink shitter?

I had a similar experience in Russia.

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 13:34 | 6712633 dogbert8
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TMI?

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:13 | 6710555 Soundgardener
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The below are conspicuously absent from the list of fear categories and fear items, rendering the results a nonsense:

Brian Dennehy

Gary Busey

Ayn Rand / anyone called 'Ayn'

Hunter S Thompson on / after Day 2 of a binge

Bruce Willis

Jerry Springer / Morton Downey Jr / Oprah Winfrey, Rikki Lake etc

The band Creed, their friends, family, fans, employees, associates past or present, sympathizers, apologists, and minions

Richard Simmons

Patrick Swaze

The Carpenters, The Osmonds, Paul Fucking Simon, Steven Tyler, Crash Test Dummies, HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH, 3 Doors Down, Whitney Houston, Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Axl Rose, Johnny Cash, Lou Reed, T Rex, Lars Ulrich, Trent Reznor, Rush, Alice Cooper, Bruce Springsteen, WASP, Warrant, Poison, Public Enemey, 50 Cent, Limp Bizcut, Dave Mustaine, Joe Satriani, Billy Corgan (and associates), Melissa Etheridge, Meatloaf, Billy Ray Cyrus

The Church of Scientology

Henry Kissinger

Dogg the Bounty Hunter, his wife, family, and pets

Boss Hogg, Roscoe P Coltraine

Ty Cobb

Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Obama et al

Anthony Robbins and known supporters

 

 

 

 

 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:23 | 6710585 MsCreant
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You must be constantly paralyzed with fear. How do you even type your posts?

Richard Simmons?

Okay, you were bullied pretty bad in school, weren't you?

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:39 | 6710623 Soundgardener
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How do people like you happen? Go and ask a grown-up for help (A BIG PERSON), try not to get mad at them when they tell about your mistake, and remember:

IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE A BAD PERSON! In fact, you're already qualified to write a Self-Help book!

Just make sure not to operate any machinery, hire, supervize or manage any staff, process any information (that's big people talk for "understanding thoughts in your head"), handle money, try to understand big words, make any decisions, or breed. For now, work on coloring inside the lines, not getting upset with hard things like doors and chairs, keeping your special parts to yourself, and using your drool rag.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 22:22 | 6710738 MsCreant
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Hit a sore spot. Apologies.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:26 | 6710596 bid the soldier...
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I'm going with 'love handles' for men and dimpley celluite thighs for women

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 05:04 | 6711218 MEAN BUSINESS
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RUSH:

"Fear" is a set of four songs by the band RUSH. The composition consists of:

Part I: "The Enemy Within" -1984 Grace Under Pressure

Part II: "The Weapon"        - 1982 Signals

Part III: "Witch Hunt"         -1981 Moving Pictures

Part IV: "Freeze"                -2002 Vapor Trails

(wkikpedia Fear (song series))

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:40 | 6710634 JamaicaJim
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My #1?

The fear that everyone I run into/meet is a clueless fuck - and the fear is daily!

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 09:16 | 6711592 nofluer
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Hey, Mon! That's an easy one to control! Just quit running into/meeting people!

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:43 | 6710642 MATA HAIRY
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death is really my main fear, and my secondary fears are financial and health, because those areas might impact my ability to have my brain cryopreserved so that I can be revived in the distant future and thus beat death.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:46 | 6710652 FredFlintstone
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don't fear the reaper

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 23:32 | 6710897 MATA HAIRY
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the bible tells you to fight for immortality right here on earth...the bible tells you that death is slavery...that death is horrible...that death is an infection....why don't you listen to what god says?

 

See the betterresurrectionchurch.wordpress.com

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 08:24 | 6711462 FredFlintstone
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you may be misinterpreting "immortality", which would not be good for your immortality

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 09:18 | 6711604 nofluer
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Hummm... I don't remember reading any of that in the Christian Bible. Chapter and verse, please?

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:45 | 6710647 22winmag
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Hitlery Klinton supporters have me checking under the bed before I go to sleep.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:50 | 6710665 Conax
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Man boobs.

Anal leakage.

 

Vote your biggest fear ^ ^ ^ ^

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:51 | 6710667 Skiprrrdog
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My biggest fear is being locked in a small car, wedged in between Rosie O'Donnell and Roseanne Barr while they scream interpretive versions of Tool songs...

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 22:16 | 6710726 Fahque Imuhnutjahb
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...with Fran Drescher in the back seat singing Ethel Merman show tunes.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 22:00 | 6710684 Stud Duck
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I had a friend headed home late, got the word from shit central that a fast train was coming through, did a dive in the woods, picked a few nice leaves close and did it. Well those leaves were poison ivy leaves and I will let you handle the visual of that poor boys next week. Of course we did not give him any slack, but damn I am glad it was him and not me!! 

 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 22:04 | 6710692 Goldilocks
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Top 10 American Companies that Aided the Nazis — TopTenzNet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AojiX7QFuxM (8:27)

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 22:18 | 6710732 bid the soldier...
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What a Mickey Mouse survey.

 

NOBODY MENTIONED A RAT CAGE ATTACHED TO THE FACE.

 

DENIAL ANYONE?

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 22:22 | 6710740 Goldilocks
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Clinton 2016? Conspiracy Shocker! Must See Documentary!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DtjHdB2VBY (1:41:39)

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 22:26 | 6710745 northern vigor
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Obama said global warming is the biggest worry in the world...I suppose an Obama third term is second.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 22:26 | 6710748 JR
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Look in your rear view mirror; the climate police are coming!

Climate change (global warming) regulators are stoking up the public’s fears more and more in order to fleece them by costly regulations on carbon. Obama’s new energy plan, according to cnsnews.com, could cost $2,500,000,000,000 in lost economic growth alone.

This is coupled with a gag order on scientists who refute global warming.

The reach into the public’s pocket already has begun in California. This month Californians received a “climate change” notice tucked in with their electricity bill which grants them a credit on their electricity bills “from a California program that is fighting climate change…designed to help you join in these efforts.” The California Public Utilities Commissions notification says “the Climate Credit is one of many programs resulting from landmark legislation called the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006,” and that the bill savings from your Climate Credit can be used as you choose but hopefully for energy upgrades.

California’s cap-and-trade program puts a high price on use of carbon-based fuels and extended it to include transportation fuels on Jan. 1 of this year by raising California’s gas tax by an estimated 10 cents a gallon.

Well, the money for "climate credits" has to come from somewhere.

At the same time, the government itself is being charged with climate manipulation.

Greg Hunter in an interview today with lead researcher Dane Wigington for the global climate engineering informational website, GeoengineeringWatch.org, “says newly discovered U.S. government documents prove global climate manipulation, commonly referred to as chemtrails, is real.”

Geoengineering is the artificial modification of Earths climate systems through two primary ideologies, Solar Radiation Management (SRM) and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR).

http://usawatchdog.com/

But the government is shutting down debate:

Government Implements Illegal “Gag Order” On National Weather Service And NOAA Employees

October 21, 2015     240 Comments

Dane Wigington
geoengineeringwatch.org

“The power structure is beginning to panic as the public wakes up to the criminal climate engineering insanity. The growing police state is completely out of control and becoming unimaginably blatant with their actions. In recent weeks Washington has placed ‘gag orders’ on the following agency employees, ‘The National Weather Service’, the ‘National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’, and the ‘US Department of Commerce"’. This is a massive red flag that should trigger alarm bells everywhere…

“Some time ago I personally spoke to an NOAA scientist that said ‘we all know it is going on (climate engineering) but we are afraid to speak out, we have no first amendment protection’. The new ‘gag order’ is a further muzzling of the NWS and NOAA. It is likely there are many in the National Weather Service and NOAA that have had enough of lying about what is really going on in our skies.”

http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/government-implements-illegal-gag-order-on-national-weather-service-and-noaa/

http://www.gazettextra.com/20150122/pro_california8217s_tax_hike_battles_climate_change_without_hurting_consumers#sthash.1gKhIVsF.dpuf

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 01:11 | 6711061 bunnyswanson
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Weatherman sees chemtrails on map.  Was in military, knows what they are.  (Chaff)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5xuAgcHwnM (1 min)

chaff1 CHaf/ noun noun: chaff the husks of corn or other seed separated by winnowing or threshing. synonyms: husks, hulls, pods, shells, bran, shucks

"separating the chaff from the grain"

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 04:01 | 6711183 MEAN BUSINESS
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"chafftrails"? doesn't sound too sexy. So what, they set up a fucking tub grinder at the back of the Herc, open the door and let 'er rip? Where are the vids of it's "raining chaff haleluja"? Where's all the farmer's interviews saying: "these guys with funny hats and sunglasses said they wanted to purchase 999,000 tonnes of straw, preferably barley straw, 12 times per year so we were like yeah $30/bale, $40 if you want it delivered to the airstrip"???

ooh-emm-gee! 

 

 

Tue, 10/27/2015 - 00:27 | 6715422 bunnyswanson
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Residua of toxic material which is too costly to dispose of being sprayed onto our heads?  Honestly, I feel like a sitting duck.  The man Greg Hunter interviewed yesterday has more information that is quite disturbing (politician who wanted to bring weather modification topic to an interview killed, found in landfill shortly thereafter).

If anyone has children/relatives in military, it is time we sit down and tell them "it is us or them"  (false confidence, chest pounding members of the military world will take notice if their family is going to take matters into their own hands, and refuse to accept their involvement in an apparent form of terrorism which takes "time" to show results....Killing us slowly.

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 04:55 | 6711213 MEAN BUSINESS
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Dane Wigington versus all the scientists behind the 30,000+ published science papers that AR5 was based on? A typical science paper will have way more than one author so he'd be calling out about 100,000 scientists, and every national science academy on earth. Dane personally talked to a guy so there it is folks? "Global climate engineering info site" and you fall all over yourselves to bleat his blah blah blah? EMBARRASSING. You saw it on USAwatchdog.com?

There are international treaties against these types of geoengineering activities. Do you have any evidence of any international objections to ongoing activities of this nature? Are you suggesting that the RoW would allow this to happen on a global scale and remain silent?

The type of policy you see in California is also being enacted in other sub-national jurisdictions. Ontario and Quebec have linked their policy with California. In Paris you will begin to see national policy created along the same lines. Brace yourself. Failure to get on board in Paris will have far more significant consequences than not signing Kyoto.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 22:34 | 6710771 bid the soldier...
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The sudden reappearance of Ronald Reagan

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 09:13 | 6711588 nofluer
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The sudden appearance of Ronald McDonald!!!

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 22:40 | 6710781 Goldilocks
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Panphobia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panphobia

"Panphobia, omniphobia, pantophobia, or panophobia is a vague and persistent dread of some 'unknown' evil."

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 22:54 | 6710811 MsCreant
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Anxiety is very different than fear. 

Anxiety is worry about something that might happen. Often it is tire spinning over something you cannot control anyway.

Fear happens when you are inside the event. You fight, flee, or freeze. A lot of that has to do with biology. You never know what you will really do when you are in the shit. You can train your biology a little bit, but your amygdala, not your frontal lobe is in control on this one. 

This is an anxiety survey, not a fear survey.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 22:59 | 6710820 steelrules
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Where is gun grabbing on that list? 

Oh now I see it under corrupt government.

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 00:28 | 6711006 Keyser Sose
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I'm afraid of worrying about the wrong thing.

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 00:50 | 6711035 idontcare
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No asteroid or Planet X strikes?   Baaaahhhh, this can't be a real study of real Americans, after all, we all know that it is all going to end in March, 2016.....then again, like that definite rate hike, the destruction of humanity is always subject to change.

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 02:23 | 6711123 SSRI Junkie
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i fear runnning out of fat people that can be rendered into diesel fuel after the collapse

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 02:58 | 6711153 enloe creek
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I fear I don't understand what the fuck is going on well enough to know if I should just kiss my ass goodbye or fucking  go into full regard prep or what.

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 03:32 | 6711168 bunnyswanson
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The rich stay rich by stealing from the...middle class at this juncture.  The poor are on the dole (Stockholm syndrome).

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 09:09 | 6711577 nofluer
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Why isn't "Super Mario" on the list? I mean... he's kinda scary. Little guy in coveralls romping all over your computer screen... who knows what he's changed when you weren't looking? Like you go to the bathroom and come back to an empty bank account and dinosaurs trashing your tax forms and books!

And... what if the little freak figured out how to get OFF the screen? Wow! We could be in real trouble! And that gorilla that is in the same program... what if he and Mario got together and decided to take over the UN and impose "Universal Peace" on the world and the "peace keepers" didn't wear condoms! Wooo.. now THAT's scary!

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 09:17 | 6711596 Ghordius
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SuperMario isn't on that list because EuroGirl bombards him with confetti. that makes him hard to be taken seriously as a pet fear

The question is more what kind of relation EuroGirl and the gorilla have, and what that means for EuroGirl's plans about Universal Peace, with or without the UN

note in this that EuroGirl and Miss America have both peace in their mind

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 10:18 | 6711777 DuneCreature
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You wanta know what I fear the most?

 

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Voters.

 

No, make that drones.

 

On second thought, make that drone voters.

 

~ DC

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