Well actually there's no official word for the fear of pandas, you have to make do with agrizoophobia which is a fear of wild animals. So let's create a new word to describe the fear of these most stupid of creatures.
I have a friend who fears pandas... well perhaps not so much fears, as dislikes intensely due to the said creatures fulfilling no purpose. Their lack of sex drive perhaps is nature's way of making them extinct; so why do us humans have to try to save them when they can't even be bothered to further their own species and would rather eat some bamboo instead.
So perhaps instead of pandaphobia we should Latin-ise and come up with Pandodium which would be a hatred of pandas.
Anyway this appeared in yesterday's London Evening Standard and I have seen the same or a similar picture in a newspaper earlier in the year. How disturbing!
Wednesday 10th October 2012
