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Braver Than Britain, Occasionally by Spadge Whittaker (view source)
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Anyway. ''Braver Than Britain'' - in which Spadge researches Britain's top ten fears and faces them all over the course of a year. We're quite a fearful society, you know. And the things we fear most are, in order: heights (acrophobia), snakes (ophidiophobia), public speaking (glossophobia), spiders (arachnophobia), small spaces (claustrophobia), mice (musophobia), needles (trypanophobia), flying (pteromerhanophobia), crowds (agoraphobia) and clowns (coulrophobia).
Which of those frighten you? I'm immune to them all, except for heights and spiders. But when I say except for heights and spiders, I mean except for HEIGHTS and SPIDERS. Spadge's biggest fears among these are flying, spiders and public speaking. We could look at this in two ways: firstly, I'm braver than Spadge because I am frightened by fewer things; secondly, Spadge is braver than me because she is prepared to face her fears and the chances of me touching a SPIDER or braving HEIGHTS sit at a big fat zero. I think we can safely say that Spadge is braver than me.
Over the course of ten chapters, Spadge lets a tarantula crawl up her arm, abseils down Lincoln Cathedral, gets her nipples pierced and allows herself to be imprisoned in a car boot for hours on end, among many other feats of courage, all accompanied by photographic evidence. I won't lie: I skimmed the SPIDER chapter. Even photos of SPIDERS are enough to send me running for the hills.