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What do other people do that you find utterly gross?

152 replies

domestoscitrusblast · 04/03/2025 18:11

For me it's when people gargle, spit, or brush their teeth in the kitchen sink.
You don't often touch the bottom of the bathroom sink, but with the kitchen sink you touch it constantly and wash dishes in there.

OP posts:
ShanghaiDiva · 04/03/2025 18:12

Sniff

CatamaranViper · 04/03/2025 18:13

Meh, as long as you clean it after I don't mind that.

Mine is take their shoes off in public (unless it's on the beach or by the pool etc)

Devilsmommy · 04/03/2025 18:14

Hock a loogie right in front of you in public 🤢

RaininSummer · 04/03/2025 18:14

Does that matter? I assume the sink gets rinsed out. I don't do this however as I have never had a need to do so.

SuziQuinto · 04/03/2025 18:16

domestoscitrusblast · 04/03/2025 18:11

For me it's when people gargle, spit, or brush their teeth in the kitchen sink.
You don't often touch the bottom of the bathroom sink, but with the kitchen sink you touch it constantly and wash dishes in there.

Don't you clean your sink regularly? We clean ours several times a day..

MyUmberSeal · 04/03/2025 18:16

I’m pretty low maintenance and can cope with most things people do. However, I was sharing a tent with my best mate at Glastonbury years ago, I could hear a shuffling around so unzipped my part of the tent to see what she was doing and she was pooing into a plastic pint glass as she couldn’t be bothered to go to the long-drops. I’ve still not recovered from her level of scuzziness, she’s still my best mate though 😂.

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 04/03/2025 18:16

My colleague came in today utterly reeking. Clearly unwashed, hair thick with grease and had obviously covered herself in Febreze to ‘mask’ it.

I had to leave the room. She had the nerve to sit next to me and I had to get up and leave.

So not washing. I can be a bath-dodger and my hair never looks like that, so she must have left it weeks.

So, that’s rank. And sitting next to someone when you reek like that is deliberately rude.

AndActuallyWhyYoureAtIt · 04/03/2025 18:16

Fart freely, I get sometimes you don't know it's coming but most of the time you can tell.. leave the room and preferably go into the bathroom to do it.

WellsAndThistles · 04/03/2025 18:20

Over sharing about their kids toilet training usually gives me the boak.

Cutting nails in the same room as me, especially toe nails 🤮, that clip clip sound 😱

Feet, I can't go near anyone's hideous trotters, as you can imagine pools and beaches aren't my thing.

BobbyBiscuits · 04/03/2025 18:20

Use margarine instead of butter but still refer to it as 'butter'. I'm talking to you, every person who owns a greasy spoon cafeteria in the whole of the British Isles!
Farting in public. Having very rotten black front teeth? I don't think many people do but it's horrible.

wholettheturnipsburn · 04/03/2025 18:23

Anything with nails - picking, biting

Kissing anyone on the lips other than a partner

Welshwhales · 04/03/2025 18:24

People, mostly men blowing their full up noses in handkerchiefs at restaurants . Err this puts me right off my food .

HenryCavillsPerfectTeeth · 04/03/2025 18:26

People blowing their noses in restaurants and then putting the tissue on the plate. Yes the plates get washed I know but makes me feel ill Blush

MooseAndSquirrelLoveFlannel · 04/03/2025 18:28

Wearing fake nail, acrylics etc (or just having absurdly long nails) and then click clacking them on keyboards, phones, touch screens. It's so gross and all I can think it about the disgustingly gross dirt that must be under the nails 🤢

BorgQueen · 04/03/2025 18:30

Absolutely fucking everything.

AlternativeView · 04/03/2025 18:31

Keep windows closed with lots of people in one room, use the office sponge to "clean cups and cutlery".
Sneeze without trying to catch it, cough without covering up the mouth and all x 1000000000 in a non ventilated space.

Maddy70 · 04/03/2025 18:32

Not washing hands after using the toilet

Talking with their mouth full

Wee splashes on the seat

Anewuser · 04/03/2025 18:32

Chewing gum. I don’t mean discretely, I mean with their mouth open and making the most horrendous chamming noise.

Noodlie · 04/03/2025 18:32

People letting dogs lick their faces. Boke - literally getting dogshit transferred to their mouth. Actually, smelling of dog at all, which is unfortunately unavoidable if you have one.

shellyleppard · 04/03/2025 18:33

Leaving their false teeth in my favourite tea mug besides the sink 🤢🤢

Mademetoxic · 04/03/2025 18:34

BorgQueen · 04/03/2025 18:30

Absolutely fucking everything.

Yes definitely haha!

Deedeesharpwhatkindoflady · 04/03/2025 18:36

HenryCavillsPerfectTeeth · 04/03/2025 18:26

People blowing their noses in restaurants and then putting the tissue on the plate. Yes the plates get washed I know but makes me feel ill Blush

Gads min . that's just filth 🤮🤮

ACatAsleepInYourHat · 04/03/2025 18:36

Men scratching down the crack of their arse or under their crotch and then sniffing their fingers. Utterly foul.

SuddenFrisson · 04/03/2025 18:36

Keeping pets indoors, especially letting cats on kitchen surfaces, or cats or dogs in your bed. Putting pets’ dishes in the dishwasher.

CrispyK · 04/03/2025 18:39

People having a good root around in their ear, looking at whatever they’ve excavated, then flicking it on the floor. Surprisingly common in meetings.

people wiping their nose on their hand, especially their palm.

Exhaling forcefully with their mouth open when sitting opposite.

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