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Name something unhygienic/disgusting but people do it

334 replies

stoow · 02/07/2025 06:43

I start off:
. Holding money their mouths. It’s mainly an elderly person thing. Friends working in retail see this often. Even in mask wearing days, customers lowered masks to do this, yet denied it.
. Going to the toilet and not flushing
. Washing chicken out. People don’t realise that this can spray bacteria around. Cooking it properly will kill bacteria.
. Coughing without covering mouth. Even with Covid, people are still doing this.
. Not washing hands after using loo. In public toilets, I use hand sanitiser as seen people from certain cultures spit and mums letting their toddler DS to wee in the basins.
. On planes, people walking barefooted especially in toilets. With the quick turnaround of planes, the staff can’t clean everywhere

OP posts:
ObtuseMoose · 02/07/2025 08:09

Have children. Awful sticky little creatures that they insist on taking everywhere and some people even let them sleep in their beds shudder

Rattai · 02/07/2025 08:06

Katemax82 · 02/07/2025 06:57

You probably saw me

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Really?? Is this honestly true??

Pudmyboy · 02/07/2025 08:02

EmotionallyWeird · 02/07/2025 07:56

When I was a teaching assistant I noticed an awful lot of children sitting on the floor touching the bottoms of their shoes. Those shoes had been outside and you just know the children would go on to put their fingers in their mouths at some point. If I'd been the teacher I would have told them all at the start of the year that that was one of my rules, and sent anyone I caught doing it off to wash their hands immediately (or if I thought they were using it as an excuse to mess about in the toilets for ages, maybe made them use hand gel).

This is one of the ways kids can build up resistance to illnesses, along with playing outside on grass/mud/sand. Let them build up their immune systems!

whitewineandsun · 02/07/2025 08:00

ComtesseDeSpair · 02/07/2025 07:48

Bowling. Putting your fingers in the dark, porous holes of balls that everyone uses. And wearing rental shoes while doing it.

Yes, gross.

I agree with dogs in the bed, too. I don't understand wanting an animal in the bed you're sleeping in.

Radra · 02/07/2025 07:56

I am not a pet person admittedly but I find a lot of stuff people do/allow their dogs to do pretty gross.

I think having a dog in your bed is pretty disgusting, similarly on your sofa, kissing them

EmotionallyWeird · 02/07/2025 07:56

When I was a teaching assistant I noticed an awful lot of children sitting on the floor touching the bottoms of their shoes. Those shoes had been outside and you just know the children would go on to put their fingers in their mouths at some point. If I'd been the teacher I would have told them all at the start of the year that that was one of my rules, and sent anyone I caught doing it off to wash their hands immediately (or if I thought they were using it as an excuse to mess about in the toilets for ages, maybe made them use hand gel).

deeahgwitch · 02/07/2025 07:53

Putting baked goods like sourdough loaves, maple pecan twists, danish pastries etc out on display with no cover on them - In supermarkets, delicatessens, garage forecourt shops etc so people can handle them or cough on them or flies can walk on them.
🤢

I have wondered why it’s allowed by Health and Safety - I’m in Ireland and we have a Government quango called Safe Food Ireland. They allow it 🙄.
I loved it during Covid when all baked goods were covered.
If it was necessary then surely it’s necessary now ?

Alpacahacker · 02/07/2025 07:51

Some (usually elderly) people carry tissues round in their sleeve / hands all day. Gets used for several wipes and then put back up the sleeve.

ComtesseDeSpair · 02/07/2025 07:48

Bowling. Putting your fingers in the dark, porous holes of balls that everyone uses. And wearing rental shoes while doing it.

Petitchat · 02/07/2025 07:48

RhaenysRocks · 02/07/2025 07:16

Not washing every towel after every use

Not getting up in the middle of the night to change the bedding..gross to have a WHOLE night in one set

Breathing within 20ft of another person

Allowing food waste to drop from their body without a hermetically sealed chamber and then NOT scrubbing with bleach afterwards

Eating anything except green leafy veg grown in their own garden in filtered air

Using anything that anyone else have ever touched ever.

I've been on MN too long 🤣

🤣 🤣 🤣

Sjb85 · 02/07/2025 07:48

TheChosenTwo · 02/07/2025 06:48

Picking their nose and eating it 😭
I do pick my nose sometimes if it feels like there’s something in it but at the traffic lights on my way to work recently I saw a woman pick her nose and eat the contents. I was so shocked - I couldn’t look away even though I was repulsed! Do other adults pick their noses and eat it? I’ve worked with kids, I’ve seen this happen before but never seen an adult do it 😱

My ex did. Made me physically sick 🤢

ItsCalledAConversation · 02/07/2025 07:48

I do some of these. I haven’t died.

craycray431 · 02/07/2025 07:47

mums letting their toddler DS to wee in the basins.

Thats disgusting! I can't believe (well actually I can ugh) people let their kids do this

ladyofshertonabbas · 02/07/2025 07:45

Not washing hands- getting public transport to work in a cafe then immediately getting stuck in making salads and ssndwiches.

scratching nuts on public transport and using the same hand to hold the rail/ press the button. Ughhh.

CeliaCanth · 02/07/2025 07:43

Double dipping rather than taking a spoonful of the dip or whatever it is onto a plate

Arthurnewyorkcity · 02/07/2025 07:38

I know I'm in the minority but I've always found bathroom bins very unhygienic. Anything that goes in a toilet bin, goes in a nappy sack and straight outside into our main black bin. It just seems idle to me. I could maybe understand with limited mobility but otherwise no

LindorDoubleChoc · 02/07/2025 07:34

Bum sex

JoyousGuide · 02/07/2025 07:32

Spitting
Handling money and serving food with the same hand
Licking the spoons at the salad bar and putting the spoons back (seen more than once)
Changing babies nappy on a cafe table
Allowing your dog to stand on a cafe table and lick the plates clean (local
garden centre last week)
Allowing your toddler to take a bite of a bakery item, deciding the don’t like it and putting it back in the wrapper on the shelf ( member of my local baby group in Tesco)

Pass the sick bag please.

Abhorrentpeople · 02/07/2025 07:29

tumblingdowntherabbithole · 02/07/2025 07:10

stick other people’s genitals in their mouths.

Ah, I see the "sex is disgusting" MN brigade is out early today.

Agix · 02/07/2025 07:26

Not rinsing the suds off the dishes after washing up. Just leaving them all bubbly and slimy on the draining board.

I continue to be shocked at the amount of people who don't wash their hands before eating or preparing food.

Putting takeaway containers on the plate you're planning to dish the actual food onto and eat from.

Not leaving toilet seat down when flushing and toilet not in use. That's what it's there for! It's not there to be pretty, it's intended function is to be down when you're flushing!!

Loveduppenguin · 02/07/2025 07:25

Not putting the toilet seat down before they flush…

SparklyGlitterballs · 02/07/2025 07:22

sandgrown · 02/07/2025 06:54

Letting dogs sleep on/in the bed

That's me off to hell then. My little dog won't sleep anywhere else and as I'm otherwise alone in bed, I'm happy to have him there.

RhaenysRocks · 02/07/2025 07:16

Not washing every towel after every use

Not getting up in the middle of the night to change the bedding..gross to have a WHOLE night in one set

Breathing within 20ft of another person

Allowing food waste to drop from their body without a hermetically sealed chamber and then NOT scrubbing with bleach afterwards

Eating anything except green leafy veg grown in their own garden in filtered air

Using anything that anyone else have ever touched ever.

I've been on MN too long 🤣

tumblingdowntherabbithole · 02/07/2025 07:10

stick other people’s genitals in their mouths.

NegroniMacaroni · 02/07/2025 07:10

Washing up bowl.

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