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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:
EnjoythemoneyJane · 04/03/2025 20:20

For me it's when people gargle, spit, or brush their teeth in the kitchen sink.

JFC. What kind of household do you live in that this is such a regular thing you’d start a thread about it?! That’s beyond disgusting!

For me it’s hair. Absolutely gives me the gip (I accept I’m unreasonable about it, to the extent I can’t do public swimming pools or changing rooms with all the great fucking drifts of it wafting about).

By all means brush it, but don’t let all the bits and strays fall where you’re standing. Don’t come in the kitchen tossing it around where I’m cooking. Don’t leave a mat of it on the bathroom floor so I’m wearing fur slippers if I step out of the shower 🤮. Don’t pick it off your clothes and drop it on the floor for me to clean up. I’ve got long hair myself, but have zero tolerance for people who drop it everywhere with no consideration.

I read about a guy who crawled miles along pavements for charity or a world record or something, and he said the thing that surprised him the most was the sheer volume of hair everywhere. Made me feel lightheaded with disgust. Don’t worry, I know it’s a me problem.

Nutmuncher · 04/03/2025 20:21

Where do I even begin.

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 04/03/2025 20:21

ThatsNotMyTeen · 04/03/2025 20:15

Men that make that really loud huffing/snorting/heavy breathing sound in a swimming pool, steam room or sauna

men who wear football shorts swimming, especially white ones

What about when they jump straight into the pool after being sat in the steam room without having a shower first?! Fucking disgusting and it really pisses me off that the lifeguards don't pull them up on it.

StMarie4me · 04/03/2025 20:22

BornSandyDevotional · 04/03/2025 19:07

Men and boys standing around or walking about with their hands thrust down the front of their waistband.

This should be illegal in public. They go and touch stuff in shops afterwards!

I said to one outside my granddaughters school- why are you playing with yourself outside a primary school?

ThatsNotMyTeen · 04/03/2025 20:25

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 04/03/2025 20:21

What about when they jump straight into the pool after being sat in the steam room without having a shower first?! Fucking disgusting and it really pisses me off that the lifeguards don't pull them up on it.

Yes! It’s rank

Grown men cannon balling in to a 4 ft deep pool (as the David Lloyd one is) gives me the major ick too. I think my fanny would seal closed forever if my husband behaved this way in a pool setting 😂

Shessweetbutapsycho · 04/03/2025 20:26

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.

Do people do this!? Why!? I’m genuinely puzzled…Do they not have sinks in their bathroom 😂

Dappy777 · 04/03/2025 20:29

Holding their knife and fork like a toddler, leaning over their food, eating with their mouth open and smacking their lips together. Some people have the table manners of medieval peasants. Disgusting.

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 04/03/2025 20:29

ThatsNotMyTeen · 04/03/2025 20:25

Yes! It’s rank

Grown men cannon balling in to a 4 ft deep pool (as the David Lloyd one is) gives me the major ick too. I think my fanny would seal closed forever if my husband behaved this way in a pool setting 😂

I generally find the behaviour of most of the clientele at DL self absorbed and immature. Really loud IM SO IMPORTANT phone calls anywhere and everywhere, women taking selfies in the changing rooms when theres other women and their children trying to dress, parents taking no notice of kids literally screaming at the top of their lungs, perfectly fit and able men totally alone parking in the disabled and parent/baby spaces walking out the car swinging their tennis racquets. I could go on!!!

Noodge · 04/03/2025 20:30

Blondebrownorred · 04/03/2025 19:26

Sleeping with animals in their bed.

I feel the same way as this, but about men.

Guavafish1 · 04/03/2025 20:31

Spitting whilst talking - YUK!

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 04/03/2025 20:31

Kindling1970 · 04/03/2025 19:27

She's probably depressed and finding it hard to look after herself. Nice of you to wonder if she is ok.

It was more her forcing herself onto me.

If you stink, fine. But don’t sit next to someone who’s eating. It’s beyond bad manners.

00ps · 04/03/2025 20:33

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.

There was a video clip that went viral a while ago about a couple, in public, the man put his hands down the back of her trousers, then put his hand to HER nose as if they regularly did this. I'll try to find it!

Edit - found it.

https://www.facebook.com/steve.fair.3/videos/10212801108843501

Redheadedstepchild · 04/03/2025 20:37

sidebirds · 04/03/2025 19:57

name and shame! 😲

I've already replied to another poster but think fjords and ABBA. Shocking, I know.

saveforthat · 04/03/2025 20:37

EnjoythemoneyJane · 04/03/2025 20:20

For me it's when people gargle, spit, or brush their teeth in the kitchen sink.

JFC. What kind of household do you live in that this is such a regular thing you’d start a thread about it?! That’s beyond disgusting!

For me it’s hair. Absolutely gives me the gip (I accept I’m unreasonable about it, to the extent I can’t do public swimming pools or changing rooms with all the great fucking drifts of it wafting about).

By all means brush it, but don’t let all the bits and strays fall where you’re standing. Don’t come in the kitchen tossing it around where I’m cooking. Don’t leave a mat of it on the bathroom floor so I’m wearing fur slippers if I step out of the shower 🤮. Don’t pick it off your clothes and drop it on the floor for me to clean up. I’ve got long hair myself, but have zero tolerance for people who drop it everywhere with no consideration.

I read about a guy who crawled miles along pavements for charity or a world record or something, and he said the thing that surprised him the most was the sheer volume of hair everywhere. Made me feel lightheaded with disgust. Don’t worry, I know it’s a me problem.

Edited

I was once at the hotel swimming pool, I use and the shower drain was blocked. The member of staff cleaning it asked if I wanted to see it OMG! There is something quite satisfying though about pulling it all out.

Ihitthetarget · 04/03/2025 20:39

Facial piercings anywhere except earlobes. I just can't bear looking at bars/ bolts/ stretched earlobes/ piercings going through gristly bits. Makes me feel ill.

Filled lips that look like they'll burst.

EnjoythemoneyJane · 04/03/2025 20:48

IHadaMarvelousTimeRuiningEverything · 04/03/2025 19:13

See I'd never put my bag on the floor where someone's dirty feet have been. I always put it on a spare chair or hang it off my chair where possible.

Same. Bag is always on my lap, on a chair, on a hook. I’d never put it on the floor anywhere.

Used to amaze me that my own mum (who was picky as hell about hygiene and obviously gave me and DSis our weird cleanliness issues) would just put her bag on the floor wherever she went, including public loos.

chillycat · 04/03/2025 20:49

People breathing too close next to me at meetings or on transport etc. - so I can smell them. Yuk. Keep your breath smells to your own lane please 😂

EnjoythemoneyJane · 04/03/2025 20:49

saveforthat · 04/03/2025 20:37

I was once at the hotel swimming pool, I use and the shower drain was blocked. The member of staff cleaning it asked if I wanted to see it OMG! There is something quite satisfying though about pulling it all out.

You know you’re a monster, don’t you? 😂

DiscoBeat · 04/03/2025 20:51

Devilsmommy · 04/03/2025 18:14

Hock a loogie right in front of you in public 🤢

What does that mean??

00ps · 04/03/2025 20:51

Absolutely loads.

Obviously the nose-picking/skin-picking/ear-wax digging bleurch. Surely that goes without saying, but why do so many people do it in public?

Pets in homes. So thoroughly gross. I love cats, but can't tolerate one in the house, dogs even worse. And people let them on the soft furnishings. In the bed! GROSS.

Shoes past the front door. Shoes on the bed! WTF!!!!

Not showering before bed.

kos88 · 04/03/2025 20:52

LemonBossy · 04/03/2025 19:36

Lick a their fingers after eating with that loud smacking noise 😱 Ugh!!

Cannot bear this 😩

Starseeking · 04/03/2025 20:52

Men hoiking back and spitting a massive glob of something from their mouth while walking down the street. I've never seen a woman do this only men.

Also men pissing in the street. I've seen so many go behind a tree or near a car as if they are invisible, to relieve themselves anywhere. It's disgusting. Again, I've never^^ seen a woman do this, only men.

Imabitbusyatthemoment · 04/03/2025 20:55

ShanghaiDiva · 04/03/2025 18:12

Sniff

Agree

giuspeace · 04/03/2025 20:55

All the above and men "wearing" trousers which don't cover their backside...in a supermarket the other day a male member of staff was kneeling down showing acres of bare bum and his crack.

DiscoBeat · 04/03/2025 20:58

DiscoBeat · 04/03/2025 20:51

What does that mean??

Sorry, just seen other comment. Yuck!