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I am absolutely terrified of electricity pylons. Their thick, snaking cables, the awful fizzing noise they make in bad weather, the way they seem to be marching across the country like an army of giant metallic invaders frozen in time.

I have nightmares about them. Nothing really happens, but I find myself a few feet away from them, unable to move and scared out of my wits. The thought of being near any kind of hanging electricity wire, from the simple green wires on telegraph poles that supply streets right up to the giant, national grid high-tension lines, makes me physically shake. It feels very much like other people's descriptions of vertigo.

I'm not especially scared of electricity, nor am I bothered by mains wires, buried cables or even loose generator cables lying across the ground. It's only suspended wires that get me.
( Scrumper, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 20:49, 3 replies)

JIMMYYYYYYYYYYYY!!

( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 8 Apr 2011, 21:08, closed)

Thank god they don't still air those old electricity ads

m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=GB#/watch?xl=xl_blazer&v=AZXltqBzQok

Fuck. That.
(Nigella Pussycat picking baked-in hair from creme brulee, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 21:44, closed)

Got to be those ads I suppose.
Back in the early 1980s my young brain was fertile ground for the televised neuroses of my elders.

Was it ever really a problem though? Or was it more the case that one stupid child got fried and the Daily Mail went off on one, precipitating a typical response from the government about essentially nothing?
( Scrumper, Mon 11 Apr 2011, 14:47, closed)