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colourlovers.com — According to the National Institute of Mental Health, phobias and irrational fears affect approximately 10% of adults. Some of those phobias relate to colors being the most terrifying thing imaginable … for those poor people, this color loving website would probably be hell-incarnate.

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  • MtheoryX, on 11/12/2007, -3/+11Oops. They gave the same description to Arachnophobia that was used for Trypanophobia.
    Still, very interesting to see what people are afraid of. Especially when they have no idea why.
    • prgmctan, on 11/12/2007, -1/+2are we reading the same article?
      • sleze, on 11/12/2007, -0/+1I think the clown is far freakier than any of the colors. Almost buried because of inaccurate title but dugg because of freaky tongue and clown photos.
        • mcraigw, on 11/12/2007, -0/+1The clown is from the movie "IT" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099864/ adapted from the novel by Stephen King.
        • KibibyteBrain, on 11/13/2007, -0/+3Why do clowns even exist? Most kids either hate them or are scared of them, and adults don't give a damn about them. It's the strangest industry ever.
    • altrego99, on 11/13/2007, -1/+24The fear of beautiful women, hahahaha! Oh wait... I get scared to death when one of them comes anywhere close to me. Damn it!
  • suxmonkey, on 11/14/2007, -4/+58I'm deathly afraid of of yellow, but only after seeing those garish suburban H2s painted that color.
  • corenominal, on 11/13/2007, -2/+72Do not visit this page if you have a phobia of clowns!
    • chris9902, on 11/12/2007, -1/+16or huge ***** spiders. I did not need to see that.
      • blahtastic, on 11/12/2007, -4/+3Actually, I think that spider is on carpet fibers, and the camera is just really zoomed in. So that makes it a tiny ***** spider. Damn ***** spiders...getting all the hot spider action...
        • jcaino, on 11/12/2007, -0/+5you're right. while i'm not aware of what particular spider it is, i've seen those around before and they're only about a quarter-inch in size.
        • capiCrimm, on 11/12/2007, -1/+7there is no such thing as tiny spiders.
        • altrego99, on 11/12/2007, -5/+0Anybody who is afraid of spiders could try this method which cured my arachnophobia. I used to fear spiders. Then one day I decided to confront my fear, so I got hold of one ugly big spider. Then I boiled it, and ate it. After that I am afraid of spiders no more! Will cure your fear too, guaranteed!
          • Alteran, on 11/12/2007, -0/+2You are one very sick and evil person, you are just trying to scare the ***** out of us.
          • mcraigw, on 11/12/2007, -0/+1Have you been watching the "1000 places to see before you die" series? In one country they were in they watched a woman eat a big tarantula. The expressions on the traveling couple's faces were priceless. It was pretty disgusting.
    • dynacrylic, on 11/13/2007, -2/+6I won't be sleeping with the lights off for another week- that damn It clown freaked me out again.
    • Audacitor, on 11/13/2007, -2/+3Or beautiful women...
    • uziko, on 11/13/2007, -1/+4I'm not even even afraid of clowns and that scared me. Imagine seeing that pop up while your taking a bath alone or something.
      • antdude, on 11/12/2007, -0/+1Or like the one in Poltergeist movie (forgot which one: first or second).
    • psychogasm, on 11/12/2007, -0/+1bad enough to be THAT clown, but sheesh to have it rotate freakishly like that was too much. almost dugg down because of it.
  • newbill123, on 11/13/2007, -4/+23That's really cool: coordinated color palettes for fear.

    Any idea what Microsoft might come up with for "Fear of Competition"?
    (The google colors? the nano colors? the EU flag colors... hmm)
    • Audacitor, on 11/12/2007, -0/+7Black, white, and orangey-yellow. The colors of Tux.
    • Trax91, on 11/12/2007, -0/+5White and silver, Apple.
  • audey10, on 11/13/2007, -2/+35Caligynephobia Must really F**king suck...
    • dynacrylic, on 11/13/2007, -1/+7Liquid courage (aka beer) will fix that for you
    • dasutin, on 11/12/2007, -0/+3but what if you have Methyphobia? then your really *****
    • Audacitor, on 11/12/2007, -1/+3I think I have a slight touch of it. Started around the time when I had to deal with my first high school dance...
    • newbill123, on 11/12/2007, -0/+1bear411.com won't cure you, but I'm sure you won't see any beautiful women there. It may open your eyes to other outlets.
    • Neewom, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2Caligynephobia: The fear of beautiful women. = Homosexuality...
  • pelline, on 11/12/2007, -2/+4this is a great article, great idea to choose colors.
  • 10goto10, on 11/13/2007, -4/+72Since Windows I find blue the scariest color.
    • MtheoryX, on 11/13/2007, -4/+11Since Mac, I find white the scariest color ;)
      • LargeTrout, on 11/12/2007, -0/+4You killed the original joke. Now all we need is an Ubuntu one...
        • daok, on 11/12/2007, -1/+12Since Linux, I find black screen with a lots of white caracter meaning nothing the scariest color.
    • izzybr, on 11/12/2007, -0/+8Microsophobia?
    • KAMiKAZOW, on 11/12/2007, -0/+7Not that strange and ugly dark turquoise MS uses as default desktop background color in Win95 and Win98?
  • meachen, on 11/12/2007, -18/+9I'm scared of Oprah......I didn't see black on there
  • kinggimped, on 11/12/2007, -1/+10This site seems to be cropping up a lot on social bookmarking sites lately. Funny, you wouldn't think a site about colours would attract so much attention. Where I'm from, someone who is "good with colours" means something else entirely...
  • havaslash, on 11/12/2007, -3/+2....that spider...
  • mfrieze, on 11/12/2007, -3/+3...needles...
  • ohsin, on 11/13/2007, -3/+19Internet is not made for people with Caligynephobia.
    • LargeTrout, on 11/12/2007, -0/+1I wonder how you'd treat it.
    • flarn2006, on 11/12/2007, -1/+7The Internet is for porn!
      The Internet is for porn!
      Why do you think the net was born?
      Porn, porn, porn!
  • Albatrossswiss, on 11/12/2007, -6/+1Dugg to death.
    Duggmirror also returnes some .net errors.
  • kidcodea, on 11/12/2007, -13/+11we get it.

    theres a website called colorlovers.

    now can u guys please stop planting spam here like you have in the last year or so?
    • plhearn, on 11/12/2007, -2/+11As long as they want traffic they'll submit their stories to digg. As long as ppl digg them the stories will keep making the front page.
    • KMye, on 11/12/2007, -9/+3This used to be tech website
      • KMye, on 11/12/2007, -0/+1I meant this in the sense that these submissions are supposed to here...
  • gwill11, on 11/13/2007, -1/+7That clown kinda freaks me out.
  • blackmage439, on 11/12/2007, -2/+6That GIF of IT was probably the scariest thing I have seen in awhile... That movie scared the crap out of me as a kid... and I already hated clowns!
    • MerryMortician, on 11/12/2007, -0/+6jesus. even after reading the article, seeing the picture and coming back to the comments.. i still read that as I - T not "it".
  • capiCrimm, on 11/13/2007, -1/+9personally infrared and ultraviolet scare the ***** out of me, looks like I'm a minority, though.
    • flarn2006, on 11/13/2007, -1/+15I have a remote control and I'm not afraid to use it!
    • bakagaigin, on 11/12/2007, -2/+8The fact that you can't see them is kinda scary...I guess...
    • keviniskool, on 11/12/2007, -0/+1When you press the power button on the remote, do you scare yourself out of the seat?
  • rowlodge, on 11/12/2007, -4/+1my guess is ***** and pee colors, since i cant get the site to open. yes, had schizophrenia before.
  • LargeTrout, on 11/12/2007, -2/+4I'm surprised there's no mention of pogonophobia; probably the most horrific phobia of them all (especially if you live in the Middle East).
    • flarn2006, on 11/12/2007, -0/+6Rich Texan: Stop! I'm entitled to park there!
      Homer: Really? What's your handicap?
      Rich Texan: Pogonophobia: fear of beards and moustaches.
  • visje, on 11/12/2007, -1/+6Using Caligynephobia in a pickup line will guarantee success
  • tvanfosson, on 11/12/2007, -2/+2Coral Cache link: http://www.colourlovers.com.nyud.net/blog/2007/11/ ...
    But not really worth it IMHO.
  • joshpar, on 11/12/2007, -0/+7AAAHHHH!!!!! ... oh, it's just Tim Curry .... I thought phobias were 'irrational' fears, whereas Dr. Frankenfurter as a clown IS scary.
    • mlvassallo, on 11/12/2007, -0/+3That made IT less scary for me. However Coach made Poltergeist even worse...
  • Frostman3D, on 11/12/2007, -3/+1Mirror?
  • andergriff, on 11/13/2007, -2/+6A fear of beautiful women??? What are they afraid of? That some babe will cause them to have a heart attack once she disrobes???
    • accessviolation, on 11/13/2007, -0/+5The thing about phobias is they are irrational
    • mcraigw, on 11/12/2007, -0/+1I'd guess that it is more a fear of rejection than of beautiful women.
  • snazzydrew, on 11/12/2007, -2/+4:[ Web pages with spider should warn people. I almost had a little panic attack when I saw that scary little creature.
    It must suck to be afraid of some colors. You wouldn't be able to love a beautiful rainbow if you feared one of the colors.
  • deese64, on 11/12/2007, -3/+1I think there are a lot of people with Chromatophobia and don't know it. They fear the color of BLACK.
  • hipsterelitist, on 11/12/2007, -5/+7This was about the least insightful article ever.

    Does it actually give scary colors? Nooo. Does it use generic color phobias to lead into even more poorly written accounts of other phobias? Yesss.
  • wedgemartin, on 11/12/2007, -1/+2They should've extracted shades of brown from '2 girls 1 cup'. I have fear-of-tinyurl-leading-to-2girls1up-phobia.
  • Zippo, on 11/13/2007, -0/+21oh god, that photo with the needle gives me the ***** creeps.
    • accessviolation, on 11/12/2007, -1/+1That was really gross, but it was also kinda... hot
    • stoanhart, on 11/12/2007, -1/+2In a good way. I love that picture! If only they had wallpaper size
  • Jalh, on 11/12/2007, -1/+1the site is going slow , we don't need mirror yet
  • Salanmon, on 11/12/2007, -1/+0wow... my night light definitely going on tonight
  • jdramire, on 11/12/2007, -4/+2The absolutely sentence that makes no grammatical sense.
  • RikkiTikki, on 11/12/2007, -4/+1And there I was thinking Coulrophobia was the fear of republicans
  • H0ns, on 11/13/2007, -3/+1I feel weird and my eyes hurt, just viewing this color.
    http://colourlovers.com.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/wp-c ...
  • fLUx1337, on 11/12/2007, -1/+1What color is the internet? Whatever it is, I'm scared if it! Damn scared!
  • eatbeefjerky, on 11/12/2007, -3/+8Was the stock photo of the needle going through the chick's tongue REALLY necessary? They couldn't have just used a picture of a needle? Seriously.. that was not ok.
    • uziko, on 11/12/2007, -0/+5you a ***** wimp
    • blagoaw, on 11/13/2007, -0/+0I was thinking the same thing. Squeamishness when you see something that looks painful seems a bit unrelated to me, personally.. and that does look pretty uncomfortable.
    • martindale, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Don't check out the author, then, http://www.suzi9mm.com/
  • dkern, on 11/12/2007, -0/+2Gacy lives!
    • newbill123, on 11/12/2007, -0/+1Gacy, of course, being the pedophilic, serial killer John Wayne Gacy Jr, and his alter-ego "Pogo the Clown". I did a book report on this fellow in the eighth grade (highly relevant since he preyed on boys my age). Our teacher must have had a fear of clowns since after that she had to approve each of our topics beforehand.
  • macweirdo42, on 11/13/2007, -0/+4Buried as inaccurate. There was not one mention of the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" color scheme. Those colors will keep you up at night.
  • Rezistik, on 11/12/2007, -5/+1duggmirror.com
    or is it
    diggmirror.com
  • irgeorge, on 11/12/2007, -2/+2Articles on "silly phobias you didn't realise existed" are the utter pits of hack journalism, just take a latin word and suffix it with -phobia and you've pretty much got the framework for your article!

    Colourlovers is usually fairly interesting, but this was just banal and pointless.

    Didn't even mention the excellent book "Chromophobia" written by the artist David Batchelor, which actually tackles this subject with some depth in an engaging manner...
  • RKilla, on 11/13/2007, -6/+1Google got it.
    http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:LbZzG_NUYOwJ: ...
  • RKilla, on 11/13/2007, -6/+1http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:LbZzG_NUYOwJ: ...
  • RKilla, on 11/13/2007, -6/+2http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:LbZzG_NUYOwJ: ...

    mirror
  • RKilla, on 11/12/2007, -1/+3Holy *****, sorry for the triple post.
  • wilhel1812, on 11/12/2007, -0/+1Dugg for the Edvard Munch painting
  • trollick, on 11/12/2007, -3/+1All bogus phobias on one page
  • riverstyx, on 11/12/2007, -1/+1Spiders, Pennywise the Clown, Heights, Needles. That sums it up for me. How anyone can do a needle drug is beyond me.
  • spawnfree, on 11/12/2007, -0/+3Selachophobia - The fear of sharks.
    Anyone here that doesn't have this one?
    They are also missing the fear of your hand going into a blender, i'm not sure what they call that one.
  • lalanis, on 11/12/2007, -0/+2Dugg beacuse all phobias are greek words... :P
  • MadOgre, on 11/13/2007, -0/+3Red is the bad color. It makes the others angry.
    • mahdaeng, on 11/13/2007, -1/+3Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor
      Queen jealousy, envy waits behind him
      Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground

      Blue are the life-giving waters taken for granted,
      They quietly understand
      Once happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready,
      But wonder why the fight is on

      But they're all bold as love, yes, they're all bold as love
      Yeah, they're all bold as love
      Just ask the axis

      My red is so confident that he flashes trophies of war and
      Ribbons of euphoria
      Orange is young, full of daring,
      But very unsteady for the first go round
      My yellow in this case is not so mellow
      In fact I'm trying to say its frightened like me
      And all these emotions of mine keep holding me from, eh,
      Giving my life to a rainbow like you
      But, I'm eh , yeah, I'm bold as love
      Yeah, yeah
      Well I'm bold, bold as love (hear me talking, girl)
      I'm bold as love
      Just ask the axis (he knows everything)
      Yeah, yeah, yeah
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