Oh God, B3ta, what have you done?
Just reading all the answers to this question have brought a few more well hidden phobias oozing to the fore like festering sores (nice image for you there).

The AIDS adverts they used to show after Eastenders in the 1980s: When I was little girl, whenever this came on TV I'd always run screaming behind the sofa and have to be coaxed out with Jelly Tots. I saw it a few months ago and did exactly the same thing.

Carwash Rollers: Because when they roll over your car it always makes you feel as though they're going to crush the vehicle like a tin can. When my Dad used to take me to the car wash as a little girl I'd always have a massive freakout and attempt to escape through one of the passenger windows.

Phillip Schofield: I hate his eerie smile. He's just too...nice. I bet he secretly rapes children.

The Children's Channel which was on Sky in the early 1990s Yes, I know this is just downright odd, but they once showed a cartoon where a cat ate a load of food and got so bloated it thought it was pregnant until a mouse came along and popped its stomach and the cat held its stomach contents and cradled them like the kitten it would never have. I burst into tears and refused to watch anything on that channel ever again after that.
(jimbowensspeedboat is your secret Austrian cellar baby, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 15:24, 9 replies)

During EastEnders?
Eh?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 15:27, closed)

I meant "after" of course
Childhood trauma affecting the old memory.
(jimbowensspeedboat is your secret Austrian cellar baby, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 15:33, closed)

Did they show them after?
Wrong channel for any ads at all, surely?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 16:05, closed)

Enzyme
I doubt they were advertising AIDS.

"Feeling fit, well and full of life?
Catch AIDS and put paid to those long boring later years!
Available from all good promiscuous partners"

The Beeb show public information films don't they?
( e.m.m.y. foxtrot uniform charlie kilo india tango, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 16:14, closed)

Re: Aids adverts of the 80s'
Were these the ones that said "Don't die of ignorance"? I heard a story about some kid who was told by his theacher that he was being ignorant. He became worried and started to cry. When the teacher asked why, he said "Does that mean I'm going to die?".
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 16:48, closed)

I thought it might be a sign of autism...
... but I had to roll into a little ball and cover my ears if my parents went through a car wash. It was just too much, but they thought it was hilarious. The old THX cinema ident used to do the same, the one where the conductor brings down is hand and you just get this scary combination of too much noise and too much going on on the screen.
(Cryptoprocta has abandoned the username of Voodoo Mary, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 17:38, closed)

It was after the programmes if I remember rightly
It was a public information film shown in the 80s. My memory is a bit shonky mind given I was only four when they were broadcast. It was of a massive gravestone with AIDS carved into it, and then they told you not to die of ignorance.

I remember moving back to England from America when I was six and there were leaflets all over my primary school letting all the kids know that you couldn't get AIDS from a toilet seat.
(jimbowensspeedboat is your secret Austrian cellar baby, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 18:33, closed)

Cat cradling its stomach contents like kittens???
What sort of sick mind came up with that?
( Olembe Refuses to write in this space, Fri 11 Apr 2008, 16:37, closed)