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Your lighthearted icks

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Kibble29 · 04/01/2025 23:05

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! 😨

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SaulHudsonDavidJones · 05/01/2025 21:52

Shetlands · 05/01/2025 15:39

Men who give me the ick:

small hands, long hair, long nails, piercings, tattoos, poor table manners, potty mouthed in public, right wing, gammon-faced, poor hygiene, stained teeth, hairy nostrils, skinny legs, beer bellies, drunk, loud, pompous, snobby, smokers, fast drivers, lazy, miserly, gamblers, drug takers, manspreaders, mansplainers, creeps, bullies, trainspotters, gamers, history re-enactors, nail-biters, golfers, pub bores, Corbyn fans, Farage fans, racists, homophobes, sexists...

I could go on 😂

History re-enactors 😂 So random but so true.

FuckItItsFine · 05/01/2025 22:00

This is quite specific but I once got the ick when on a first date with a guy. We were students. We went to a pub for drinks and he ordered a hot chocolate. It just turned me off him completely.

CorduroySituation · 05/01/2025 22:45

Shetlands · 05/01/2025 15:39

Men who give me the ick:

small hands, long hair, long nails, piercings, tattoos, poor table manners, potty mouthed in public, right wing, gammon-faced, poor hygiene, stained teeth, hairy nostrils, skinny legs, beer bellies, drunk, loud, pompous, snobby, smokers, fast drivers, lazy, miserly, gamblers, drug takers, manspreaders, mansplainers, creeps, bullies, trainspotters, gamers, history re-enactors, nail-biters, golfers, pub bores, Corbyn fans, Farage fans, racists, homophobes, sexists...

I could go on 😂

Comprehensive list that I completely agree with!

ACatAsleepInYourHat · 06/01/2025 00:52

Simplepink · 05/01/2025 19:19

Men who sit to wee is gross - and it’s always something they have been forced to do by their partner.
imagine if this was the other way round and a husband forced his wife to piss in an unnatural way for a female.
We would call it abusive - also how do you know, are you watching them to make sure ?!

What on earth is unnatural about about a man sitting down to wee? He sits down to poo, doesn't he? At least, I sincerely hope he does.

And I certainly didn't force my husband to do anything. I may have been a little, er, robust, in my language after wiping up the nth pool of pee, but he got the message, bless him. He's not actually a filthy fucking animal and worse than an old dog pissing up a lamp post, really...

coxesorangepippin · 06/01/2025 03:00

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

^
😂

coxesorangepippin · 06/01/2025 03:02

I want to gift my neighbour a plant.

^

😂

So gross

ThatLimeCat · 06/01/2025 03:24

Lego builders, men who are into marvel movies or new star wars - culturally bereft, immature, boring, mindless crap.

Men who sit around without a shirt on in summer. Put it away please.

People who say 'seen' rather than 'saw', 'I seen a pair of shoes I like'. Awful.

People pleasing/wife pleasing men. Let's get along, but if you don't agree with someone or you don't want to do something, say so.

Commonsenseisnotsocommon · 06/01/2025 03:35

Women with plastic talons tapping loudly on their phone screens.

Old(er) men doing that disgusting gas release/quiet burp thing after eating.

Anyone removing food from their teeth with their fingers.

Commuters using elbows to push past others on public transport.

Men crossing their legs when sitting down.

Men carrying an umbrella just in case it rains.

Man bags.

Women who walk like miss piggy when not confident in heels, practice at home for God's sake.

Other people in a queue who don't respect personal space and come too close.

Commonsenseisnotsocommon · 06/01/2025 03:53

Adults who use "my bad" wtf?!

Drunken groups of women and men on hen and stag parties screaming laughing and shouting disturbing everyone else in the whole venue. Have fun but why at top volume?

Laziness.

People not removing jewellery or cleaning fingernails before baking or cooking.

Parenting out loud "Tabitha, should we go to the toilet? Will you have a wee wee now or will it be another wasted trip?" in public places.

I could go on.

Cakencookieobsessed · 06/01/2025 03:59

Overly descriptive and pedantic. One guy I dated told me that he drove his mum to the supermarket and to say thanks she bought him a " Lincolnshire sausage roll with black pepper". Why wouldn't you just say sausage roll?

missdeamenor · 06/01/2025 05:42

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 ?

Yeah, I know you're right. It's just one of my stupid icks. I had a routine check up the other week and the nurse, head to one side, baby voice, said are 'we' still active. Mums, wives, children and old people are all unique individuals and I just want to be called by my name.

Supergirl1958 · 06/01/2025 05:44

Fucking matching Christmas PJs for the Instagram/fb likes…life isn’t matching fucking pjs!! I hate it!

missdeamenor · 06/01/2025 05:50

When a person puts my meal down and says 'bon apetit' then waits until I've taken a mouthful, 'how's the meal'. We're not in bloody France and I just want to be left alone at the trough.

TribeofFfive · 06/01/2025 05:59

missdeamenor · 05/01/2025 14:38

Midwives referring to mum and baby instead of using a name.

Yes to this and I’ll take it one further; my most recent midwife always referred to my husband as daddy. “Is Daddy joining us today?” “Will daddy be bringing snacks” “How long is daddy taking off work”
🤮

Supergirl1958 · 06/01/2025 06:04

missdeamenor · 06/01/2025 05:50

When a person puts my meal down and says 'bon apetit' then waits until I've taken a mouthful, 'how's the meal'. We're not in bloody France and I just want to be left alone at the trough.

OMG this! Went to a chain steak place the other day and said this exact thing to my fiancé! I literally had my mouth full when the waitress came up to us and ask how our meal was! I really hate that!

Justleaveitblankthen · 06/01/2025 06:04

Beards longer than mild and sexy stubble 😱

missdeamenor · 06/01/2025 06:14

TribeofFfive · 06/01/2025 05:59

Yes to this and I’ll take it one further; my most recent midwife always referred to my husband as daddy. “Is Daddy joining us today?” “Will daddy be bringing snacks” “How long is daddy taking off work”
🤮

What! are you joking - that's awful and it sounds creepy somehow. Hope Daddy and baby are well today. Sorry, am just trying to take this in.

TribeofFfive · 06/01/2025 06:17

missdeamenor · 06/01/2025 06:14

What! are you joking - that's awful and it sounds creepy somehow. Hope Daddy and baby are well today. Sorry, am just trying to take this in.

Very creepy! It was absolutely awful and if I was a more confident person I would’ve asked her firmly to stop. It made me want to scream! I don’t even expect her to remember his name but husband would’ve been fine once she had established who he was.

TribeofFfive · 06/01/2025 06:19

Mine is grown men who walk around with their trousers halfway down their backside! Either accompanied by a delightful view of their crack or their, usually, grubby underpants.

Thepiecesdontfit333 · 06/01/2025 07:27

Health professionals who say things like, “can you get undressed for me?” or “can you wee in that pot for me?” as if you are seven years old.

Any infantilising language spoken by so-called professionals gives me the ick for that matter; have some dignity fhs and treat your clients with dignity too!

People who stare. Grow up.

Women with long painted nails prodding focaccia dough

Men with long nails urgh

Men in open toe sandals

Men wearing hats that are too small for their heads or positioning them too far back on their heads

Men with pudgy small hands

Anyone sporting an asymmetric haircut

Men who aren’t competent in basic life skills

Men who aren’t competent in a crisis

Men who want babying

Men who only eat nursery food

Men who are miserly

Suspicious overly cautious men who are threatened by kindness

Men who quote old Norse

Men who have very obviously had their eyebrows plucked

Men who sport a tiny pigtail at the back of their necks, although a full clean luxuriant man bun is fine

Men who have shaved off their body hair

Men who are players when they are fifty and above

Men with weedy voices or knobbly knees

Men or women with soft clammy handshakes

Men wearing light fabric type slip ons or lace ups with heavy corduroys

Men who cannot calculate their shirt collar size or sleeve length correctly .

Yikes that’s a long list; I think I may need therapy 😀

I must say I rather like a man putting his left arm over the passenger headrest as he reverses op, especially if he drives competently and has a strong neck and shoulders AND he smells nice 😀

Kibble29 · 06/01/2025 08:31

So many things on here that I didn’t know I hated.

I need to add adults (but mostly men) who are passionately into Disney. Or Lego.

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FuckItItsFine · 06/01/2025 08:37

Oh no, I can’t believe I’m an ick-giver. I love Lego 😟

ThatLimeCat · 06/01/2025 09:50

Kibble29 · 06/01/2025 08:31

So many things on here that I didn’t know I hated.

I need to add adults (but mostly men) who are passionately into Disney. Or Lego.

It's so bloody weird.

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 06/01/2025 16:51

Adults into Disney arghhhh just no

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