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Give me your most random ‘ick’

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laughterworry0 · 02/11/2026 22:45

I want the weirdest of icks, I’m bored and want a giggle..

I’ll go first…

skinny jeans

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AbsoluteHoot · 10/11/2026 18:34

People look ridiculous in them nowadays. Especially men.

CoffeeCantata · 10/11/2026 18:41

Tight trousers of any kind.
Crudeness.
Lack of manners - men who don’t know how to behave in social situations (not holding doors for others, making pigs of themselves at buffets, no conversation, belching etc, starting to eat before others are served, getting drunk and loud when it’s not the time or the place etc etc)
Necklaces.
Over-grooming, eyebrow shaping etc.

Quartzfairy · 10/11/2026 18:41

People putting their dinner plate on the floor when they’ve finished eating for their dog to lick the plate 🤮

CoffeeCantata · 10/11/2026 19:10

CruCru · 09/11/2026 14:35

I really get the ick when women put on lipgloss in public.

I once met a woman who continually licked all around her lips. She’d had fillers and the swelling had exposed part of her lips which would normally be inside her mouth. She obviously felt the need to keep moistening these areas. It was revolting and cancelled out any benefit the fillers had provided.

AbsoluteHoot · 10/11/2026 19:17

CoffeeCantata · 10/11/2026 19:10

I once met a woman who continually licked all around her lips. She’d had fillers and the swelling had exposed part of her lips which would normally be inside her mouth. She obviously felt the need to keep moistening these areas. It was revolting and cancelled out any benefit the fillers had provided.

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There’s a woman on TikTok who has filled lips and constantly licks them. It’s repulsive.

I am also almost phobic about people who have ‘sticky’ mouths, by which I mean you can hear mucus type noises when they speak. Again, there’s another TikToker woman who does this and it gives me the heebie-jeebies.

StarlightLady · 10/11/2026 19:59

AbsoluteHoot · 10/11/2026 19:17

There’s a woman on TikTok who has filled lips and constantly licks them. It’s repulsive.

I am also almost phobic about people who have ‘sticky’ mouths, by which I mean you can hear mucus type noises when they speak. Again, there’s another TikToker woman who does this and it gives me the heebie-jeebies.

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Just stay off TikTok perhaps? I’ve never been on and you are not encouraging me to do so.

AbsoluteHoot · 10/11/2026 20:05

StarlightLady · 10/11/2026 19:59

Just stay off TikTok perhaps? I’ve never been on and you are not encouraging me to do so.

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I know. It’s awful and I hate myself 😂 My niece is a really successful influencer on there, that’s the only reason I have the app. That and all the hate-watching.

MurphysColeslaw · 10/11/2026 21:09

I love the towel round the waist thing.
I had a boyfriend who was never ready when I went to his house and he’d answer the door in a towel, with his chest hair all wet still.
I just wanted to jump him constantly.

CruCru · 10/11/2026 21:47

This is a social ick rather than a dating one but I hate it when someone interrogates you on where you live / work etc when they have no knowledge of the area.

“So where do you live?”
”Off the Blackstock Road, just past the Sainsbury’s”
”Oh, I don’t know where that is. So how do you get there?”
”Um, come out the station, turn right and I’m one of the streets coming off”
”I’m not sure where you mean. Which street coming off?”
”Its the third one, just past the Sainsbury’s”
”Oh right. I can’t picture where you mean”
And on and on.

I think this is an ick because I know that the person is trying to make conversation with someone they don’t know well but it ends up being like one of those infuriating interview role play things.

I also get the ick when someone talks over you and then tries to come back to what you were saying later on. The conversation has moved on, it’s no longer relevant to hear about my thoughts on XYZ, that is okay.

SpainToday · 10/11/2026 22:51

BusyGreySnail · 09/11/2026 17:34

men with small hands.

God yes!

AFigureWalks · 11/11/2026 23:12

The neck beard.
Licking the knife when eating.

AbsoluteHoot · 12/11/2026 19:13

A house one - short curtains. Never not an abomination.

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