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

114 replies

Floogal · 04/03/2025 18:10

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
OP posts:
MaryTheTurtle · 01/07/2025 18:35

Sing in damp clothes and worse if you’re in damp clothes but don’t change and just wait to dry off!!!!!!!!!! NO NO NO and NO

FlyingUnicornWings · 01/07/2025 18:36

Nottodaythankyouverymuch · 22/04/2025 22:40

Sniffing on public transport or even worse, a really aggressive snort and ‘hoick’ back up
of snot so you can hear it in the person’s throat. Just blow your bloody nose. Boak boak boak.

There’s a guy who walks down my street, every day, twice a day, at the same times doing this continually as he passes by.

It’s so loud I can hear it from my garden.

RefreshingMist · 01/07/2025 18:38

Eggs
People eating eggs
The smell of eggs
Eggy food like quiches
Pictures of eggs

CrackOfYawn · 01/07/2025 18:46

Empty swimming pools - just no 😨
Wooden cutlery/lolly sticks
Paper straws after about 2 minutes
Opening jam/marmalade to find someone has been in it with a buttery knife.
My ginger cat’s weirdly pale pink lips and gums
Americans saying “alrighty”

Yerdug · 01/07/2025 18:47

Adult men eating yoghurt out of a pot with a teaspoon. Infantile.

SDmdzMn · 01/07/2025 18:58

Husbands and wives calling each other Mummy and Daddy

MidnightMeltdown · 01/07/2025 23:03

Communal touchscreens in public places. Like when you go to fast food place and they expect you to order your food on a germy screen that’s been touched by hundreds of grubby hands.

RedBeech · 01/07/2025 23:17

HappilySquare · 18/04/2025 22:07

Dirty tables in cafés. I always have a pack of wet wipes with me to clean the table. I wouldn't sit in my own filth at home, why would I sit in someone elses filth and pay for the privilege? My kids used to find it funny- now they're adults they do it too 😄

I'm the same. If I don't have wipes I ask the staff to give me spray and paper towel to clean the table with.

Juliesjewels · 02/07/2025 01:40

Other people's home made food agree, makes me gag thinking about it, I can almost smell their 'house smell' on it. BORK🤮

mycatismyworld · 02/07/2025 02:04

Terry towelling clothes.
Grazing boards.

coxesorangepippin · 02/07/2025 02:10

Someone else's food in a Tupperware

coxesorangepippin · 02/07/2025 02:10

Yerdug · 01/07/2025 18:47

Adult men eating yoghurt out of a pot with a teaspoon. Infantile.

😂

LondonFox · 02/07/2025 02:34

Yerdug · 01/07/2025 18:47

Adult men eating yoghurt out of a pot with a teaspoon. Infantile.

Let me guess - real men eat yogurt with an army knife?

Amberlynnswashcloth · 02/07/2025 03:27

The smell when someone is sucking throat pastels. Its antiseptic-y and sickly sweet at the same time and a reminder that I'm breathing in someone else's virus-laden breath.

Wheezygonzalez · 02/07/2025 06:14

Men who wear trousers that are too short and when they sit down they raise up you see the skin above their sock. Extra icky points if they have ‘quirky’ socks on.

Cakes and pastries out uncovered in coffee shops/market stalls etc. with wasps or flies buzzing around them.

PurpleChrayn · 02/07/2025 06:40

Men who have very defined lips. Makes me nauseous.

soupyspoon · 02/07/2025 07:16

It doesnt at all, thats not what OCD is

Myblueclematis · 02/07/2025 08:04

People's crusty feet in sandals or flip flops in this type of weather, especially if they have those thick, yellowy toe nails.

WingBingo · 02/07/2025 08:09

SDmdzMn · 01/07/2025 18:58

Husbands and wives calling each other Mummy and Daddy

My MIL calls DH daddy. All the time. Even when the DC aren’t there.

I’ve told him it’s weird. He never corrects her.

I know you said non-sexual but my vagina clamps shut everytime I hear it.

Wheezygonzalez · 02/07/2025 08:57

I just thought of one more:

When you touch something with food on in the Dishwasher. 🤢

RowsOfFlowers · 02/07/2025 08:58

Old men who buy lynx deodorant or wear tracksuits 😩

RowsOfFlowers · 02/07/2025 08:59

WingBingo · 02/07/2025 08:09

My MIL calls DH daddy. All the time. Even when the DC aren’t there.

I’ve told him it’s weird. He never corrects her.

I know you said non-sexual but my vagina clamps shut everytime I hear it.

Oh lord, hell no.

BlueEyedBogWitch · 02/07/2025 09:02

As a teacher…

kids who will not blow their bloody noses. The bubbling snot, wiping on the back of their hands, licking their top lips…and then they say “No, I’m alright Miss” when I offer a tissue 🤢

I’m talking teenagers here.

RowsOfFlowers · 02/07/2025 09:03

BlueEyedBogWitch · 02/07/2025 09:02

As a teacher…

kids who will not blow their bloody noses. The bubbling snot, wiping on the back of their hands, licking their top lips…and then they say “No, I’m alright Miss” when I offer a tissue 🤢

I’m talking teenagers here.

Oh god

BlueEyedBogWitch · 02/07/2025 09:04

Vape clouds. There’s a particular one that smells exactly like Pripsen threadworm medicine from the 70s, and if I ever get downwind of that I could puke on the spot.