Bugs are the devils minions, miniature monstres from the deepest parts of Hell! No such thing as just a bug! The only good bug is a dead bug!

Forensic science makes me appreciate all insects. They're not scary to me.(:

When they bite, sting, and rape you to death, don't come crying to me!

Entomophobia- the fear of insects...

She'd probably hurt her delicate girlie hand.

yeah, but bugs in australia are ENORMOUS and THEY LOOK LIKE DEMONS

She said she was hyperventilating because "the water was so cold". Anyway: unless the FML states explicitly that she is receiving treatment for a phobia, it's entirely fair to assume she's a drama queen. Actual phobias are rare, people who urgently need to get over it, are not.

Agreed. I hate how everyone who freaks out over something claims phobia. A phobia is a severe, irrational fear that can render you helpless. OP sounds like a drama queen who thinks bugs are icky.

I'm Australian, and you'd be crazy NOT to have a phobia of bugs there! If OP was worried about the thing that landed on her foot, she should have been more worried about the Funnel-web Spiders alive and waiting at the bottom of the pool...

No, a proper brother would've found more bugs to fling into the pool right by her then gone into the house and locked the door. I bet she would've gotten out of the pool right quick then.

1) Water warms up slower than air. The temperature in the pool was probably a lot cooler than the air outside. 2)She wouldn't be able to stand up if she fell in the deep end, I doubt she's 8 feet tall. 3)How about we throw you into a body of cold water and see how well you can swim? 4)A few feet is a lot when the water is cold and you have wet clothes dragging you down. Sometimes people in boating accidents die within 10 feet of the shore. 5)Where does it say she was unconscious?

Those could all be valid points, love me electric, but the fact that it did not happen argues against it. The water may have been cooler than the air but that does not mean it was at freezing temperatures. OP obviously knows how to swim and her brother was aware of it. She was not injured. In the ocean, the extra weight of clothes may mean the difference between surviving or not; in a pool, less so. I've been pushed into chilly water fully clothed. You don't suddenly forget how to swim.

love_me_electric - the ocean temperature in Sydney at the moment is 19C/67F, so a backyard pool is going to be warmer than that even if this was posted a few weeks ago, so she could pretty reasonably have been in there for a few hours with no problem. Even in the largest domestic pools, you can't tell me that you're going to be that far away from somewhere you can stand up. I HAVE been in cold water, out of my depth, fully dressed and managed to live to tell the tale. The unconscious part is because that's when the brother actually should have done something. Someone standing in chest-deep water going "OMG OMG it's so cold!!" needs to be laughed at, not rescued. Most Aussies take water safety pretty seriously, so if there was any actual danger, I'm sure his reaction would have been different.

31, agreed.

#46, "How about we throw you into a body of cold water and see how well you can swim?" Er, I can swim well enough, thanks. But if she has absolutely no ability to swim whatsoever, she should not be near enough to the pool that she could fall in.

51 The water is freezing at the moment. It is Spring, almost summer, but the weather is funny and it is quite cold out.

You guys should be on some debate teams.