This might sound awful..
But women(?) in burqas.

The full ones, with face-gauze, no bodily shape.. This kind.

I don't encounter them often, living in relatively rural Derbyshire. But when I do come across them, it's terrifying.

It's the feeling of being watched by unseen eyes, from an unknown face, on a body with no form. It could be anyone under there. And I just don't like it.

I had to deal with a burqa-clad member of the public at work once. The disembodied voice, coming from this figure that was only vaguely human-shaped, actually scared me. I hated it. I don't mind hijabs all that much.. it's just, concealed faces like that, in public places.

I guess this makes me an ignorant racist twat, or something. But this is my fear, and I don't even think it's all that irrational...
( Thinker, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 15:22, 17 replies)

Ignorant racist twat? Not at all
It means you prefer people to be... er... people.

(You could smile sweetly and thank them for not inflaming your uncontrollable lust, though...)
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 15:24, closed)

I can see where you're coming from
since we learn from a young age to take in the whole face, expression and so on, when listening to someone. A friend had a similar fear, and was advised by her boss (Council staff) to "Imagine they're on the phone and the voice is all you've got to go on". Not sure that helps, but, hey, it's all I've got!
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Mon 14 Apr 2008, 15:26, closed)

It's a well known fact...
...That some of them are also Ninjas.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Mon 14 Apr 2008, 15:32, closed)

PJM is right
at any moment they could flip out and kill everyone in the office with a spoon.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 15:35, closed)

^^^
*spoons with woman in burqa*
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 15:37, closed)

^^
They do say it's more erotic to leave something to the imagination. Leaving everything to the imagination must be horny as hell.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 15:39, closed)

^Enzyme
are you sure that's a woman????
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Mon 14 Apr 2008, 15:39, closed)

@Wee Witch
*gropes*
*is reasonably sure*
*is now worried*
*loses all motivation*
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 15:43, closed)

They look like...
..they spend most of their time chasing Pacman
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 15:43, closed)

Careful now...
"Aieeee!"

*slash*
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Mon 14 Apr 2008, 15:47, closed)

Next time
you see someone in a full burqa, think of this:

www.realultimatepower.net/index4.htm
(Bazongaloid, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 16:07, closed)

@al...
That is amazing. I was just about to write off the afternoon and go home, but everything is saved now.
*flips out*
*kills people*
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 16:11, closed)

bahaha!!
"Ninjas can kill anyone they want! Ninjas cut off heads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it."

I think I might just get the fear next time I see a burqa clad person.
( Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 16:16, closed)

I can understand that.
I have yet to encounter it in person, but they look like they're wearing a black funeral shroud. It would creep me out a bit as well...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 14 Apr 2008, 16:19, closed)

so its not just me that refers to them as...
the sand people.

they could be nude under there too, would make sense in hot countries

i wonder if they keep a tidy minge of if thats banned too

just honest curiosity
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 17:15, closed)

Working in Beirut...
They were all over the place.

Cue me one evening getting back to the hotel and waiting for the lift. Doors open and 2 of the feckers are there - all ninja-like - their eyes fixed on me.

I think I may have whimpered and said "I'll get the next one..."

hmm...ponders what they wear underneath...
( snee held his breath since, Thu 17 Apr 2008, 8:03, closed)