Non sexual or non relationship everyday things that give you the ick?

[Floogal]

What seemingly innocuous things make you cringe or even feel nauseous?
Mine are:
*Over ripe bananas. The smell, texture and taste. Oh and the veiney bits.
*Being on the bus on a wet day. The stale steam everywhere and smell of damp clothes 🤢

• Those waxy farmer jackets. Not so much what they look like, but the smell of them

People who talk about mucus or phlegm when they have colds, like my colleague who spent the day trying to clear her nasal passages, and describing the feeling of a clogged sinus. “There’s some stuck there and it feels like it’s about to come out”

Please stop talking

People who don’t understand what OCD is.

Pets in the house, I mean I have them but a LOT of work goes into reducing the overall disgustingness they create 😅

That stretchy film on boiled eggs when you peel them. I eat them a lot but I despise that.

People letting dogs lick their face, or heaven forfend, their mouth, or jesus and all the martyrs in gold catsuits, letting the dog lick a newborn baby's face 🤢 STOP IT

Sharing hand towels. Or worse, public toilets with bar soap and fabric towels. People's bare feet on my sofa. People keeping a snotty hankie in the pocket (anything to do with snot tbf, cannot deal with it).

The sounds cats make when they groom themselves. A truly abysmal soundscape. I say it because I can hear it right now unfortunately.

People touching their faces or eating after holding shopping baskets/trolleys/anything like that.

People wearing shoes inside should be punished by death. The pavements are coated in spit and shit and doom, why the fuck would you traipse that inside?!

People who smoke or have pets or cook food and don't ever wash their coat. Wash your fucking coat!

The steamed up windows on the bus and the inevitable toddler licking it and smearing their hands all over it is truly just stomach turning. The seats on the bus. The greasy poles on the bus. In fact, the bus full stop. Why the hell don't they clean them properly?! They stink of piss and weed.

Another that occurred to me boy because my dog is disgusting... Pets At Home. Anything stored at dog dick height has DEFINITELY been pissed on, my dog was having a wild old time sniffing and also trying to piss up things.. she did do a poo in there, the woman was like, oh, usually people don't even bother to come and tell us, thanks 🤢 (I picked it up obviously). And that's a segue into another ick- tissue thin dog shit bags. I'd pay extra for the psychological placebo effect of a marginally thicker barrier between my hand and the shit 😅

Special mentions also go to the grubby footprints on insoles of Birkenstocks, and children turning my water bottle into a snow globe 🤢

I have vomited from someone describing something similar. Just awful.

Eating with wooden cutlery. Horrible sensation

My colleague, every morning at 9.10am (we start work at 9) scraping, slurping and crunching his way through a gigantic bowl of cereal. Properly horrible to sit through and it’s every single day.

Also, when people don’t clean the little sink in the middle and just fling sponges and wet cloths and rinse plates and leave all the shit in there.

I agree with a PP about dog smell (cat smell on the other hand is lovely). Shower curtains, even my own but especially other people's.

Amen. Even chopsticks which I do a lot because I like to have sushi as a quick desk lunch. I find dipping them in a glass of water for a few seconds before eating them helps loads though and then I can bear it.

people doing that thing when they want to spit where they loudly gather it all in there throat before spitting.

Are you serious that you wouldn't eat in someone's house if they have pets ?
We are quite civilised nowadays, the animals don't actually do the cooking 🤔

Mine is irrational but men in suits for work or in office jobs! I know, i know but it does give me the ick and OP asked!

When people stick their tongue out in photos. Gross

People sneezing into their hands. Then they grab the handle of the shopping trolley as though nothing happened.....disgusting beyond words.

Shower curtains.
People who do not know how to use a knife and fork.
Spitting
People who eat with their mouths open, particularly those that spray food everywhere when they do it 🤮🤮🤮
Anything with little holes in it - lotus flowers make me gag.

Sleeping adults especially if they sleep with an open mouth, make any kind of noise, or dribble. No problem with children or babies whatsoever!

Dogs being allowed to lick everything and people thinking it’s cute.
long toenails
dried fruit

Waxed moustaches. It’s the way they are made to curl up all pointy at the ends. My stomach turns just thinking about them

People taking 2 steps up stairs at once

Hot tubs - hot bubbly germs

Bloody Wind Chimes. Hate them with a vengeance.

Professional dancers, especially children.

Coffee shops where there are cakes and pastries displayed uncovered at the counter for everyone to cough and sneeze over as they're waiting to pay. Ugh.

Agree with the PP who mentioned wooden cutlery! The thought of it makes me feel weird

People coughing
People sticking their tongue out
Lip Gloss - nasty sticky icky stuff

As we're entering sandals season, people's hideous bare feet. I am still traumatised by MIL's hooves with cracked, dry heels and gnarly nails [heaves]

I get a pedicure every six weeks and apply foot balm every single day.

I have a colleague who eats trail mix from about 10am until 1pm continuously. Drives me nuts. Constant crunching and slurping and finger licking.

A damp shower curtain sticking to you in the shower - heave.
The noise of my dog licking himself. Has to be put out of the room.
Swimming in a public pool and the sensation of a long hair becoming entwined round your fingers.
Seeing chunks of ear wax hanging out of ear canals- my friend’s two little boys are revolting. Am dying to stick my fingernail in and gouge them out, not leave them
lurking like enormous crusty old cornflakes.
Actually making myself quite unwell writing this.