A fair few swimming pool things. Mirror-still swimming pools. I lost a race once because I couldn't be the first one to break the surface of the water ahead. The way the deep end just falls away. I swear my speed doubles at that point. The windows on the sides of swimming pools, below the water line. And grids. Horrible, nasty, dark, scary f*ckers.
Yep, wooden spatulas. I'm just about okay with ice lollies, but those wooden things that they give you with a cafe latte are just gross. Detective films where they take DNA swabs with a wooden spatula.... In fact, any medical procedure involving a wooden spatula.
Pregnant women. I break into a sweat and have to get out of the room if one of them starts rubbing their belly. It's not a baby in there, it's a f*cking ALIEN, waiting to burst out of your gross, enlarged, ready-to-pop-at-any-moment belly. And for God's sake, please don't ask other people to put their hand on your belly to feel the alien kicking. It's just obscene!!
Combinations of tomato products, eg ketchup with baked beans or grilled tomatoes with beans. Not good. Also the combination of red meat, olives and any form of gravy, particularly if cream has been added. Retch-making.
Several communal-eating phobia. People who spread butter/paté on their bread, then return the unused spread to the dish. WHO THE F* WANTS TO EAT YOUR LEFTOVERS, MIXED WITH YOUR SPIT?? People who talk with their mouths full. There's a very good reason it's unacceptable. Makes me heave.
Belly buttons. Probably influenced by the balloon-taut pregnant women. As for 'outy' belly buttons, I hope to God Almighty that it's just a bogeyman rumour.
Can I go back to the football forum, now? Shaking with fear at what might turn up next.