Further biscuit supplies

[davidn]

Having been in sore need of some familiar comforts recently, I was amazed when this parcel arrived from my parents in addition to the Christmas presents that we knew they were sending over. It felt a lot heavier than it looked, because it was crammed to the brim with these:


These were added to the Fox range (terrible news channel - great biscuits, though) at some point in the last couple of years, and they're made of some sort of honeycomb-like substance with chocolate spread on one side. They, like most of their biscuits, are absolutely wonderful - and unlike the Creams, these ones have the added bonus that my weird friends can't make any dirty jokes about their name.

Comments

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

"Oi, someone get that fox a longer towel, he was coming out of the shower and I totally saw his ambers.."

It sounds kinda like Crunchie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunchie)! (Not that you can get THOSE in america EITHER, for some inconceivable reason..!)

[kjorteo]

Because candy bars with horrifically creepy shapes are a European specialty! I'm safe in America wait we have a World Market here, crap

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

What's creepy about a rectangle XD

[kjorteo]

"Crunchie is a brand of chocolate bar with a "honeycombed" sugar centre."

http://trypophobia.com/

[davidn]

http://tubedubber.com/#ZuwlXxff8SU:bcmkrMtnkt0:0:100:0:0:1 !

(Not for the faint of heart)

[kjorteo]

http://tubedubber.com/#FhVi4Z6CjZk:bbS76N86lqc:0:100:0:0:1

[davidn]

I think that really is a perfectly appropriate background music for something that looks like an alien lifeform! Watching it unburrow at the start is absolutely skin-crawling (and makes me feel like I have to use one of the tools to stop it breaking free if at all possible), but when he's right next to it, the urge to scream "Run! There's one on the rock right in front of you!" is overwhelming.

And then, during the mating itself, I have the most uncanny feeling that I'm watching Deftera combining. Aaaaagh.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

As ever, the more I learn, the less I understand...!

[davidn]

I don't like crawling insects either, though oddly I am more all right with flying ones - there's something especially... wrong about the crawling thing being an unnatural bag of pulsing flesh. I tend to back off and become flustered whenever I see worms or snails as well (though at least snails have some semblance of... substance on their backs).

If I can relive my trauma for a moment, I think the fear might have come from one of these nature documentaries which I saw when I was very young, in which they showed a colony of ants surrounding a pale beige slug and just... tearing it to pieces.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

See, that's why it's a fool's errand for me to try and make assumptions about what someone will like; when you get that far into "things that people respond to subconsciously", there's absolutely no proportion between the scope and the intensity of how the various rules are applied...

[kjorteo]

I also had the idea to try http://tubedubber.com/#hCxv2ZPU3vg:UO7Fvd48By8:0:100:8:0:1 after I had already posted the other one.

[davidn]

Well, that would have been evil! I couldn't watch that after about forty seconds, just for the music and its unearthly high warbling noise... N is a consonant, N is for Night, N is an incantation that unlocks the gateway to insanity.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

I made the mistake of listening to the first video's audio out of curiosity; I seriously just put the Ecco song back on to wash it out of my brain...

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm. So you wouldn't like Aero, either, I suppose?

Does that extend to things like honey farms in Conway's Life?

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

I'm never sure when you're kidding any more.

[kjorteo]

I'm a bit quiet about it because the "community" is obsessive and also apparently has it way worse than I do anyway (I don't have instant panic attacks/skin-on-fire sensation/nausea/whatever it is these people claim) but offending images and such are a bit unnerving.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about the line between "having it" and "having it bad"; I have a bit of the phobia of mouth/chewing sounds, but I'm good at just forcing myself not to think about it so it's never really a problem (I think to some extent, "problematic" phobias are just ones where the sufferer has let it turn into a feedback loop where their anticipatory fear is even bigger than the fear itself, and it turns into a panic trigger.. so it's kinda two problems at once)..

I guess the really odd thing is, I've always adored all the things on that list of what sets trypophobes off; in fact, Crunchie bars (or at least the Canadian ones) tend to taste rather bitter, as though someone did a poor job adapting a good recipe to use inferior ingredients (which is often the case with canadian versions of european candies, alas), but I've always adored it just for that texture.

I feel like this is an interesting potential conversation, but I'm not sure if it's one you'd want to have, let alone whether David's poor journal is the place for it :P

[kjorteo]

David's poor journal is the best place for everything.

[davidn]

Once again I'm not quite sure how we got to here from biscuits, even when ascending back through the thread.

[davidn]

My journal has certainly become a lot more... interesting in the last few years, and that's very little to do with any content that I put into it myself ;)

Are you saying you like the bubbled look of it, or the feel that that results in in the mouth (as long as it doesn't make too much noise)?

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

Well, it's one and the same kind of experience. I generally like the feel of bubbly surfaces like that (whether on my finger or my tongue), and I like seeing them too because they remind me of that sensation.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

So, wait a minute, are you bothered by speaker grilles? It's starting to dawn on me exactly how many things there are that are covered in tiny holes..

[kjorteo]

Hey I have an idea, how about, instead of taking this conversation down a "does this wig you out? What about that? What about those?" checklist path, we not do that.

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

Right, sorry. :X

[davidn]

I'm also baffled by 'creepy' - it's not as if it's moulded in the shape of a phallic tentacled monstrosity or Michael Howard or anything (now I'm ruining my own journal - thanks a lot!) Surely there must be something vaguely comparable here, if (as my five years of experience leads me to assume) slightly inferior.