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In hindsight, what gave you the ick? (Lighthearted)

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JorisBonson · 24/11/2022 11:37

The other day I remembered that ex DH would turn the water r off halfway through showering, and for some reason this gave me a belated ick.
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s trousers were always too short too.

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forlornlorna1 · 25/11/2022 20:16

Mine used to drink that much milk he stank of cheese

Sniffed his belly button fluff and thought he was fucking hilarious but in reality everyone laughs at him not with him.

forlornlorna1 · 25/11/2022 20:17

JennyWirral · 25/11/2022 19:58

I went on a tinder date with a man a few months ago

Things were going well, we had dinner then he went to the gents a minute later i get a notification on my phone

.. he sent me a photo of his penis on whatsapp... and said "do you want that?"

i left some money on the table for the bill and went home

Omg lol

Worldwide2 · 25/11/2022 20:17

My ex constantly saying 'boom!' and addressing every room he walked into as 'Hi you beautiful people' oh fuck off mate. Tbh it gives me the rage and the ick

forlornlorna1 · 25/11/2022 20:18

Mummysgogetter · 25/11/2022 19:26

My ex used to think it was funny to put his finger in his (very smelly) bellybutton hole and then put it under the dogs nose for him to sniff it 🤮

I think we have the same ex. Was fucking obsessed with his stinking belly button the rancid git

JorisBonson · 25/11/2022 20:52

For those asking about the shower, he'd go under the water and turn the shower off to later himself up, then turn the water back on. Environmentally friendly yes, but gave me the ick (inexplicably) 🤣

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CheeseAndNutellaSandwich · 25/11/2022 20:54

An ex boyfriend:

He made sex noises 🤢
The way he walked so nonchalantly and casually in my flat doing weird things with his hands

EightChalk · 25/11/2022 21:34

Autumnnewname · 25/11/2022 16:03

Called food yummy

After sex asked "did you enjoy that"

Couldn't drive

Ate with his head down, shovelling the food in, with wild eyes

Danced.

4 different men

I'm laughing so much at the eating one 😂sounds like a dog guarding its treat!

XenoBitch · 25/11/2022 21:40

One ex used to say "who's your daddy?" during sex... one time we went to a theme park and he yelled it when on a rollercoaster. That was it for me!

KangarooKenny · 25/11/2022 22:01

I already had the ick to be fair, but I decided to try sex one more time, to see if I could reignite the flame. He smelt of red wine and BO. I regret it immediately, neither of us finished, and never did it again.

CornedBeef451 · 25/11/2022 22:46

@XenoBitch DH once asked "who's your daddy" so said my Dad's name. Apparently that kills the mood somewhat.

IDontWantToBeAPie · 25/11/2022 22:54

Ok so I don't have much experience as met current DP (I'm 28) at 18. But my boyfriend before him was a lovely redhead, slim, clear skinned tall guitar player.

Within a year of getting together he gave himself a dodgy black hair dye botch job (ick), grew it to shoulder length (didn't suit him ick), grew a bulging black head on his nose and wouldn't let me squeeze it (ick) and gained three stone through eating something called a kebab monster (a foot long naan rolled around kebab mean so salad like a burrito).

My god I was glad to use uni to break up with him.

IDontWantToBeAPie · 25/11/2022 22:55

Meat no salad*

IDontWantToBeAPie · 25/11/2022 23:01

nannybeach · 24/11/2022 12:33

The annoying use of the word "ick", say nauseous. Although I cannot imagine why someone turning off a shower would produce this reaction. As someone who was nursing 40 plus years,you probably don't want to know what provokes this in my case.

The ick and nausea are different things. One means the loss of all sexual/romantic attraction the other means feeling sick at something.

SomeChickensAreJustTooBig · 25/11/2022 23:03

ChocoFudge · 25/11/2022 14:27

Bounced when he walked like he was about to start skipping at any moment

Another one called his penis 'my boy' 🤢

😂😂

Tired66 · 25/11/2022 23:05

Not me personally but I remember watching Geordie Shore a few years ago and a guy telling his girlfriend, "Well done" after they'd finished sex. 🤢🤢

Schlaar · 25/11/2022 23:15

I had one who mixed his food on the plate before eating it. And one who rubbed crumbs off his fingers and onto his remaining food - that’s dirt, it needs wiping off and throwing away, you don’t eat it!

SomeChickensAreJustTooBig · 25/11/2022 23:27

So, so many have given me the ick and once it sets in, there’s no going back.
In no particular order:
He had a very sweaty upper lip.
Another had small sharp teeth with lots of gum showing which seemed somehow worse when he had eaten garlic.
Any man that used a ‘cute’ baby voice has given me the immediate ick.
Running up to me in the street with a ‘galloping horses’ hooves run and an excited face.
Using a black bin bag as a hold-all for his stuff when staying at mine, holding it in his hand with the top rolled over.
Being moved to tears at a Carpenters song. (Wanker).
Ordering a milkshake in a cafe when everyone was ordering coffee.
Wearing very tiny black ‘pants’ that gave a pouch effect.
Telling me in all seriousness “I’m going to put a condom on, and make love to you like you’ve never been made love to before.”
Scrutinising the bill in a restaurant.
Referring to his dick as ‘My lad.’
Referring to himself as a ‘Love Pup’. (FFS).
Pretending to get over excited about a pub meal.
Asking me if I liked his chest and shoulders.
Wearing a close fitting beige jumper with nothing underneath.
Picking me up for a date in a Nissan Micra.
Eating cubes of raw bacon.
This wasn’t all one man, obvs.

threecupsofteaminimum · 25/11/2022 23:49

I walked in on an ex furiously masturbating when he thought I was in the shower many moons ago, his contorted face has haunted me ever since.

Geppili · 25/11/2022 23:53

Hairy shoulders, couldn't drive, couldn't swim.

IDontWantToBeAPie · 25/11/2022 23:55

chocolatepudandchocolatesauce · 25/11/2022 19:38

@MrsThimbles what medical problem causes someone to walk with their feet outwards? My daughter does it and I'm really conscious, mainly because walking at "10 to 2" is seen as a real turnoff on here, and have asked her to try and train herself to walk "properly" with her feet facing forwards. Should I be doing this or not? I don't want her to be self conscious but also don't want someone getting the ick over how she walks!

One of my feet pointed inwards as a kid. I was sent to a podiatrist and they gave me special insoles. Might be worth an ask at the GP.

Whichwhatnow · 26/11/2022 00:19

MrsThimbles · 25/11/2022 19:29

Did he ever draw eyes on the tip of it then cover it with a striped tea towel and say it was baby Jesus fast asleep.

No and I don't want to give him any ideas!

Geppili · 26/11/2022 00:20

@Whichwhatnow 🤣🤣

hopsalong · 26/11/2022 00:31

Had an aged Rimmel concealer in the bathroom cupboard. Always tried to pretend it was mine. (It wasn't, was about 20 years old and slightly hairy.) Would occasionally catch him applying it to invisible pimples and he'd do a little shimmy and say 'man about town'.
I give myself the ick for having endured that.

MrsThimbles · 26/11/2022 04:29

chocolatepudandchocolatesauce · 25/11/2022 19:38

@MrsThimbles what medical problem causes someone to walk with their feet outwards? My daughter does it and I'm really conscious, mainly because walking at "10 to 2" is seen as a real turnoff on here, and have asked her to try and train herself to walk "properly" with her feet facing forwards. Should I be doing this or not? I don't want her to be self conscious but also don't want someone getting the ick over how she walks!

I’m really sorry if I alarmed you. I knew referring to it as a medical problem wasn’t the best way to refer to it but I was tired and couldn’t think of any other way at the time.

So, I have two young grandson who walk with their feet at 10 and 2, they’re cousins, but they both do it for different reasons. One has one leg a wee bit longer than the other, it doesn’t cause him to limp but it does cause him to walk with his feet turned out. The other one is like elastic man and has hyper mobility which causes his arches to collapse when walking even though he doesn’t have flat feet. Both of the boys had insoles made for their shoes but it’s going to be about 2 years before we’ll see any difference in the way they walk. The person who made the insoles for them also told me that if they had to wear sandals for any reason they should wear Birkenstocks as they have something resembling an arch in them. I had my grandsons see an Orthopedic Surgeon who specialized in children with musculoskeletal issues but we don’t live in the UK and I think you’d just start off with seeing your GP. It’s always good to get these things checked out because in the case of our elastic man we now understand why he often just hurts and has random aches in various parts of him.

RosieRooster83 · 26/11/2022 04:37

On the night we broke up, which was Boxing Day, he thought it was appropriate to give me my Christmas present which was an anal butt plug! Made me feel sick. Lots of thought and romance gone into that one!! 🙄Needless to say, it went straight in the bin.

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