[Peter]

Household creepy crawlies frighten Britons more than terrorist attacks, or even death, the survey found.

Terrorism only came second on the list of respondents' top ten fears, according to the survey conducted by RSGB Omnibus for Universal Pictures UK Ltd. The survey was based on telephone interviews of 1,000 aged 16 to 55 across Britain on Sept. 22-26.

Another crawling phobia -- snakes -- was ranked third, followed by a fear of heights. Death came in a surprising fifth place as the nation's greatest fear.

"It's not surprising that terrorist attacks came only second to creepy crawlies," said psychologist Donna Dawson, hired by Universal Pictures to comment the survey. "This is because fear of small creatures that scuttle about on four or more legs is a much more ancient, primordial fear, going straight back to caveman days."

http://www.local6.com/news/3800509/detail.html

hahaha
wimps

[d4nth3m4n]

wimps...

[AKcrab]

Does Britain have poisonous snakes?

[SimeyTheLimey]

Originally posted by AKcrab:
Does Britain have poisonous snakes?

It has one, the adder. Adders are unbelievably rare and not especially poisonous. The UK also has no poisonous insects or arachnids that I am aware of. It doesn't even have poison ivy. The worst thing you can get in the outdoors is a stinging nettle rash. But even then, nature plants the antidote nearby.

It really is an extremely benign little island. No wonder the early English colonists to North America and Australia died like flies.

[nredman]

and there is our #1 ally in iraq...oh boy we are ****ed