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What makes your skin crawl

214 replies

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 10/09/2019 16:48

Mine is paper straws. They make my fingers tense up. Shudder.

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Wehttam · 10/09/2019 22:44

People with braces, that fucking slime or whatever the hell it is on the teeth, especially when they have that plastic wire attaching the top and bottom 🤮

Chip and pin machine keys 🤮

Mugs in cafes / plates in cafes / cutlery in cafes / those always fucking hot to the touch mini water glasses that always stink of dishwasher 🤮

Just vacated warm seats on trains or buses 🤮

Non automatic taps in public loos 🤮

The word supper when used for dinner. 🤯

OhHelpMaBoab · 10/09/2019 22:45

I have another one...

When someone talks and a little white bit of spit gathers at the corner of their mouth

WalkersAreNotTheOnlyCrisps · 10/09/2019 22:47

My daughter likes rapping her false nails on her teeth, makes me murderous 😠

carriemathisonshandbag · 10/09/2019 22:47

Veins. Both sticking out visible veins on humans (I have a few myself on my calf) and those you find in meat.

Waxed moustaches. Even thinking about them now turns my stomach. Also really wispy moustaches. For example when men who do not usually have them, grow them for movember. The hair can be really fine and patchy.

Wehttam · 10/09/2019 22:50

Vape cloud 🤮 keep your fucking poisonous cherry smoke to yourself vile creature.

Any form of litter, receipts or remains of the last user of a trolley at the supermarket 🤮

Under the sea or things built into the sea like piers or oil rigs 🤮

Morrison’s salad bar 🤮

Wehttam · 10/09/2019 22:54

Having a meal, went for a meal, Going out for a meal, that word meal makes me rage. It’s dinner you fucking imbecile.

Wehttam · 10/09/2019 22:59

Knotted chicken chunks. 🤮

Baby corn crocodiles 🤮

Snotty eggs 🤮

Dogs in cafes / pubs 🤮

Pigeons 😭🛡⚔️

historysock · 11/09/2019 06:15

Wehtam-I also don't like the whole 'out for a meal' thing...but it's. it always dinner...my mum Uses it when she goes out for lunch too...🤷🏽‍♀️

Greenglassteacup · 11/09/2019 06:29

A long hair in the washing up

A long hair in food

Sharpening knives

Cutlery scraping a plate

People eating crunchy apples and smacking their lips together

MeganTheVegan · 11/09/2019 06:38

@IDontLikeZombies My DH has a similar thing about knees. He can't even listen to someone talking about them, he goes all funny and limp.

For me, it's Pyrex. Hate the sound it makes, hate the feeling of it, the look of it, ugh.

flamingjune123 · 11/09/2019 06:39

The feel of sand and soil. Makes life quite challenging as gardening is my passion

MeganTheVegan · 11/09/2019 06:43

Men with long nails.

@headlock, there was a poster on here a while back who shagged a guy whose toe nails were so long, they made a clicking sound on the floor when he walked Grin.

LoreleiRock · 11/09/2019 06:52

Loose teeth, wet wool, massive age gaps, long fingernails

cranstonmanor · 11/09/2019 06:57

Holes really disturb me.

cranstonmanor · 11/09/2019 06:57

Like this.

What makes your skin crawl
What makes your skin crawl
FrangipaniBlue · 11/09/2019 07:00

The sound of cutlery scraping on crockery - DH is a git for it and it turns me murderous.

He also eats baby mushrooms raw - the "poooh" sound they make when he bites them Confused

The feel of cold baked beans - if they touch my skin when I empty the tin I can't eat them once they're warm.

Any sort of sloppy sounds people make with their mouth either eating or just generally - FUCK OFF!!!

tectonicplates · 11/09/2019 07:31

How on Earth have we got all the way to page 7 without someone mentioning chewing gum?! Worst invention ever. Chewers make my skin crawl. Why can't they just not?!

IDontLikeZombies · 11/09/2019 07:42

Megan That's me too - I felt a bit sick writing on this thread.

Many years ago, as a newly qualified nurse, I took a bank shift in orthopaedics - knee replacements Envy vomit. Oh my goodness, what a mistake, I was sicker than the patients Grin

Sunnysidegold · 11/09/2019 07:46

Hair of other people. Especially stuck to my foot in the pool. Or caught in my fingers when I swim.

Bin juice.

When a kid hands you say a mini roll to open and it's squished in the wrapper and stuck to it.

My son's sticky out sternum bone. He's a skinny thing and it's always protruded a bit. I touched it and freaked out.

The crust round the top of the milk carton if someone's been messy with the milk.

Door handles in public toilets. I wash my hands but I know not everyone does.

Picking up the cat's dish to wash it it feels a bit....slimy...or crusty.

And I'm so glad someone else mentioned the scratchiness of microfibre cloths. Not so bad when they're wet but the dry ones catch on my skin.

Stuff in the dishwasher trap.

CrowleysBentley · 11/09/2019 08:21

Feet

Needles, specifically in veins like a blood test. Injection into muscle is not so horrible. I've gone all wobbly thinking about it.

Moths

Deep water, swimming pool, sea. Anywhere my brain can decide a giant shark could be hiding waiting to eat me.

villainousbroodmare · 11/09/2019 08:41

When you thicken something with cornflour... you put the cornflour in a cup and add a bit of water and as you start to stir it it creates this awful dragging effect. I can't explain it properly.

Tootyfilou · 11/09/2019 09:17

Tories

TrendyNorthLondonTeen · 11/09/2019 09:49

Being able to see hands and feet inside a pregnant woman. Nightmare fuel.

Franklymydearidontgiveadam · 11/09/2019 10:39

As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I hate holes so bad I have trypophobia and someone has posted a fucking picture.

wowfudge · 11/09/2019 10:54

Now I find a number of things set my teeth on edge, but I find it's things like pervy men or things which make me feel uncomfortable that make my skin crawl.