Page 4 | Your lighthearted icks

Kibble29 · 2025-01-04T23:05:33+00:00

I do hate the word ick but I’m not sure there’s an alternative! So, nice and lightheartedly, what are yours? For me, it’s men sitting down to pee and when people put their left arm round the passenger headrest as they reverse a car. Both just make me cringe! 😨

beadystar · 05/01/2025 17:40

Glottal stops. Saying 'me' instead of 'my'. Smacky eating. Poor posture where the neck sticks forward like a goose. Women who are artificially shrill and/or do a little-girlie voice. Dirty teeth and fingernails. Grown adults wearing tracksuits outside a gym, or the ones (usually fat) who wear brightly patterned overalls like a toddler.

Shetlands · 05/01/2025 17:41

JohnTheRevelator · 05/01/2025 17:16

Well that discounts just about the entire male population! 😂

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That's a bit harsh John! 😂

kaos2 · 05/01/2025 17:42

Men in long black puffer coats 🤮

crostini · 05/01/2025 17:43

MatchyMatchyGlasses · 04/01/2025 23:12

And to answer your question…

I have people who order in a restaurant by reading out the full description off the menu.

So, instead of saying “I’ll have the ribeye steak, please”, they say “I’ll have the 30-day aged marbled ribeye cooked over charcoal accompanied by potato dauphinoise, butter green vegetables, and finished with red wine jus”.

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Hahahaha that's honestly really made me laugh 😂

kiops · 05/01/2025 17:55

kaos2 · 05/01/2025 17:42

Men in long black puffer coats 🤮

oh god, yes! accessorised with a baseball cap
and skinny jeans 🤮

SwedishEdith · 05/01/2025 17:57

Penelope1703 · 05/01/2025 13:50

Men who speak in fake mediaeval language: 'methinks I'll go out for a beer tonight', 'evening milady' etc

Starts mundane work emails with "Hope this finds you well this fine morning".

LyndaSnellsSniff · 05/01/2025 18:02

Crocs/sliders worn with shorts
When offered sugar in a hot drink and the recipient says "no thanks! I'm sweet enough!"
Fathers using the phrase "daddy day care."
Taking part in virtue-signalling types of charity events and then posting about them on social media.

kiops · 05/01/2025 18:05

LyndaSnellsSniff · 05/01/2025 18:02

Crocs/sliders worn with shorts
When offered sugar in a hot drink and the recipient says "no thanks! I'm sweet enough!"
Fathers using the phrase "daddy day care."
Taking part in virtue-signalling types of charity events and then posting about them on social media.

charity virtue signalling: yes! I know someone locally who occasionally goes litter picking (accompanied by 1200 photos of said litter picking on facebook and 500 replies saying "oh look at you sharon, what an amazing human being you are" 🤮🤮

sorechalfonts · 05/01/2025 18:08

Penelope1703 · 05/01/2025 13:50

Men who speak in fake mediaeval language: 'methinks I'll go out for a beer tonight', 'evening milady' etc

Yes !!! it’s so embarrassing and the same types tend to do Monty Python quotes as well

sorechalfonts · 05/01/2025 18:09

SwedishEdith · 05/01/2025 17:57

Starts mundane work emails with "Hope this finds you well this fine morning".

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‘Greetings landlord I will have a flagon of your finest ale’

peachystormy · 05/01/2025 18:13

@Wavescrashingonthebeach fairy scruff 🤣 wth

TheCrassInCrassula · 05/01/2025 18:13

ACatAsleepInYourHat · 04/01/2025 23:37

Potbellied men in football shirts. Baggy shorts, woolly socks (especially revoltingly grubby white ones) and sliders worn together.

On the other hand, my husband has sat down to pee for several years, and I'm very grateful. He used to miss the bowl often enough to be annoying, and that was far from a lighthearted ick.

Sliders.

UnravellingTheWorld · 05/01/2025 18:14

"link in" seems to be the latest way to say "touch base", and both versions infuriate me

peachystormy · 05/01/2025 18:14

SaulHudsonDavidJones · 04/01/2025 23:31

Men under the age of 60 who wear flat caps. Major ick.

this too it's gross for some reason

BigCheese24 · 05/01/2025 18:17

Men in crocs.

When you can't get a jar open and then your husband can't either, or struggles. What an ick haha!

peachystormy · 05/01/2025 18:19

@MatchyMatchyGlasses 🤣🤣

Oioisavaloy27
The word ick gives me shudders it's such a childish word

I was willing to accept your point until I saw that your under name has the phrase “oi oi” in it.

emmax1980 · 05/01/2025 18:20

Socks and sliders and people slurping soup/milk. Nose picking, spitting, I don't like the word like or erm in a conversation or thingy.

peachystormy · 05/01/2025 18:22

If your partners socks smell a bit cheesey 🤢

sorechalfonts · 05/01/2025 18:23

whatdoyouthink123456 · 05/01/2025 17:21

@Printedword

Generally women would cross their legs, knee over knee, legs parallel.
Men would maybe put a foot on the other knee as a wide cross.

To me, it looks really feminine and gross when men cross their legs tight!

Like Kenny Everett as Cupid Stunt !

Iloveyoubut · 05/01/2025 18:25

Any guy who talks about spooning. 🤮 I can’t! I can not! I don’t like guys who ‘lol’ either and I heard a guy saying he wanted to ‘explore’ a relationship further and I wanted to dump him and I didn’t even know him!

Iloveyoubut · 05/01/2025 18:30

Also any guy who says milf.

Cattery · 05/01/2025 18:37

MatchyMatchyGlasses · 04/01/2025 23:12

And to answer your question…

I have people who order in a restaurant by reading out the full description off the menu.

So, instead of saying “I’ll have the ribeye steak, please”, they say “I’ll have the 30-day aged marbled ribeye cooked over charcoal accompanied by potato dauphinoise, butter green vegetables, and finished with red wine jus”.

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JEEEZUSSS!! That’d set my teeth on edge

Iloveyoubut · 05/01/2025 18:38

KathrynWheel · 05/01/2025 16:07

How do you expect a Midwife to remember the names of probably 15 "Mums" and "Babies" she's looking after for that shift?
BTW How do you manage it ?

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See, I don’t mind ‘the baby’ or ‘your baby’ but I hate eg … so how is baby? Oh I hate it! 😂

Idratherbepaddleboarding · 05/01/2025 18:38

mumandmumber · 04/01/2025 23:49

Also, loafers with no socks. Any shoe with no socks actually. See also, flip flops.

This! Also, those tiny little “invisible” socks 🤢🤢🤢. DH used to wear them and I called them “icky socks”. He’s finally moved over to white sports socks with shorts, which I know some people hate but I love a proper sock!

AppleDumplingWithCustard · 05/01/2025 18:43

People having a ‘bite to eat’.