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Funniest reason you got "the ick"...

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singlewhitetrashheap · 07/04/2025 17:41

A fair few years ago, I was with a really hot bloke from the Netherlands. Tall, dark haired and really good looking. He was also nicely endowed in more intimate areas.

We'd had sex a couple of times and were just learning what we both liked etc. Third occasion is in full swing, and he's on top. He pauses for a minute, and let's out a really loud fart which ordinarily wouldn't be an issue because they're funny. It was really nasty and we had to stop so I could open a window. Fortunately we weren't being loud.

We're getting back into things and I can tell he's getting close but he starts moaning really loudly because he's ALSO farting really loudly and is trying to hide it by moaning like a porn star, and then there's the fact that he can't hide the smell, and it hits me again and the over performative moaning/the actual farting, and the fact that the entire street must have heard him, meant I just couldn't do anything but laugh and gag.

Neither one of us finished and he was mortified. I couldn't stop giggling. It made him sulk. I couldn't help it.

Unfortunately, any sexual attraction I had, completely evaporated. Fortunately, his flight home was the next morning and I didn't have to spend days with him. We never met up again.

OP posts:
localnotail · 12/04/2025 20:22

ThisFluentBiscuit · 12/04/2025 20:02

What, those great big white ones I linked above that everyone wore in the Nineties? I'm sure Nike does some better ones, but I find that style just awful anywhere outside of sport!

I'd pick trainers over any cheap crap from Next etc.

I dont understand why you call the trainers you posted "big". When you said "great big ones" I thought you are talking about those huge Fila trainers that were trendy a while ago.

Always, lets not derail the thread. Sorry OP!!

HonoraryMummy · 12/04/2025 20:29

I dated an older man who I thought had overdone the hair dye. No biggie...until we were in a hotel room, our first night together, and after he had broken a sweat (ahem!) he removed his toupee! And draped it over the bedside lampshade.
Another date was gorgeous, fit, well educated, charming...until he removed his tight black poloneck revealing a very hairy body. Like an actual gorilla.
Then there was the sexy French guy with the micro-willy - like a little worm.
I'm sure I've given someone the ick too. I once had a massive period gush on a hot date. I was so embarrassed I ghosted him.

Crikeyalmighty · 12/04/2025 20:40

I only wear my Rieker boots, a variety of Skechers or summer sandals - I’m sure my footwear probably wouldn’t pass muster but at 63 I value comfort first and foremost these days

NeilDiamondsBlowDry · 12/04/2025 21:55

@ThisFluentBiscuit
similarly has anyone ever seen a man shoving so much sandwich in their mouth that they force it in with index and middle finger in each side?

ThisFluentBiscuit · 12/04/2025 22:20

NeilDiamondsBlowDry · 12/04/2025 21:55

@ThisFluentBiscuit
similarly has anyone ever seen a man shoving so much sandwich in their mouth that they force it in with index and middle finger in each side?

I haven't, thank God!

Eating enormous mouthfuls of food is just as rude no matter if it's a man or a woman, imo.

Pupinskipops · 12/04/2025 22:46

PollyCreo · 07/04/2025 19:44

The long nails are worse than the luggage thing 🤮

I briefly dated a guy who didn't eat meat or vegetables. And he walked and talked really slowwwllly

What is there left to eat if you don't eat meat or veg 🤔

NeilDiamondsBlowDry · 12/04/2025 22:47

@ThisFluentBiscuit agree but I have only seen men doing the chipmunk sandwich 🐿️

Crikeyalmighty · 12/04/2025 23:35

@Pupinskipopssandwiches with cheese or egg or fish maybe?

OldCottageGreenhouse · 13/04/2025 00:54

Stichintime · 07/04/2025 17:51

He used his little finger to pick things up, like cups etc.

That…..? That is what made you end an entire relationship?

I often think about married couples like my parents who were married 50 years until death did indeed part them, and wonder if they’d have made it 6 months if they were like many people are today with such disposable attitudes towards relationships.
I’m not saying people should just ignore the fact that they have no longer have any attraction to the bloke but surely if you had genuine, real feelings for that person then whatever it was that gave you ‘the ick’ wouldn’t give you any kind of ‘ick’ at all, no?

LillyPJ · 13/04/2025 02:07

OldCottageGreenhouse · 13/04/2025 00:54

That…..? That is what made you end an entire relationship?

I often think about married couples like my parents who were married 50 years until death did indeed part them, and wonder if they’d have made it 6 months if they were like many people are today with such disposable attitudes towards relationships.
I’m not saying people should just ignore the fact that they have no longer have any attraction to the bloke but surely if you had genuine, real feelings for that person then whatever it was that gave you ‘the ick’ wouldn’t give you any kind of ‘ick’ at all, no?

You can have the ick without ending the relationship! Or do you think in 'the good old days' nobody ever got irritated or repulsed by anything their partner did?

PeaceBeStill · 13/04/2025 09:16

When I was 16 I dated this guy who looked like Kurt Cobain (who I was obsessed with). He was so kind, sensitive and a really good listener… but everytime he kissed me or I was close to his face, all I could see were his gigantic pores on his nose and the massive black heads that filled them! Still to this day, (I’m 37) I have never met anyone with blackheads that size! After a couple of months I just couldn’t take it anymore 🤣 I was either going to tell him and get some pore strips or leave – so I left!

Sulu17 · 13/04/2025 09:25

I dumped someone because he was ok until he put on a jacket with massive checks all over it, and he started whistling 'here comes the sun' loudly as we walked down the street. I did make my mate laugh when I told her later.

PleaseDontFingerMyPouffe · 13/04/2025 09:39

Well this thread managed to stay light-hearted for 14 pages which has got to be a record!

NeilDiamondsBlowDry · 13/04/2025 10:40

@Sulu17 I hate whistling so much

Stichintime · 13/04/2025 11:44

Its ok OldCottageGreenhouse, we weren't married, I was 15!

SpikyCoconut · 13/04/2025 12:28

ThisFluentBiscuit · 12/04/2025 17:48

I hate them too, they're horrible. Only acceptable while doing sports. But I get the ick when adults wear trainers in place of actual shoes, whether male or female. It's so childish. Adults wear shoes, unless doing sports! And don't get me started on people who wear flip-flops in towns and cities...they should be beach/pool wear only!

I always feel odd if I wear trainers to do anything other than sports, which is very rare but now and again I've thought something I was wearing would suit trainers. I just never feel right! Hadn't ever really thought aboht it and I am now wondering why?!

Sulu17 · 13/04/2025 12:43

Thought of another one! Was in a pub with a lad, didn't like him much anyway. We decided to go on somewhere else. He turned to me and said 'c'mon gorgeous'. Ick.

Pigtailsandall · 13/04/2025 14:24

Ah I've had such good giggles reading this thread!

My main ick was a gorgeous man I met at a bar on a beach holiday when I was 27. We made plans to meet by the beach close to the guesthouse I was staying at the next day, and when he arrived, he was shirtless (unlike the night before, obs) and I immediately spotted something odd. When he got closer I realised that his shoulders were COVERED in curly brown hair. It was like he was wearing shoulder pads, the tufts were at least 2 inches high. I felt like gagging. He wasn't particularly hairy otherwise!

An Internet date told me that he could get me free tube travel (wink wink) as he worked for Transport for London if I was a "good girl". I made excuses and left. He kept texting me for a few weeks.

I got ick by poxy by a friend's bf years ago. He was an odd skinny dude with a pot belly. He hiked his trousers up really high (a la Simon Cowell). They were several sizes too big and he used a rope instead of a belt. When I asked about it he just smiled condescendingly and said he liked to be prepared for anything. What, a mountain rescue mission in central London?

Also dated a guy who always had massive holes on his socks. Amd they looked filthy. I was 21 and my standards should have been higher.

Loreli1983 · 13/04/2025 16:42

I have had such a giggle reading this thread. Some of your stories have had me crying laughing. My ick is not so funny but I was so very disappointed...
I'd fancied a boy in the year above me at school for a good couple of years. He was tall, handsome, popular, good at sport, trendy (all the important things when you are 14!) and all the girls fancied him. I'd get butterflies just passing him in the school corridors and if he smiled at me it would make my day! Anyway when I was about 17 we saw each other out in the local nightclub and I finally got my chance to kiss him - what a let down!! He tasted of stale cigarettes, kissed like a wet fish and worse, literally seconds after our lips met He asked I wanted to go outside!!! Ewww no thanks! I'd built that moment up for years and it was so underwhelming.

ShitaBrick · 13/04/2025 19:18

The final nail in the ick coffin of my marriage was when ExDH took me to a fancy hotel for a night, hoping some
time alone might improve things.

However, my fanny slammed completely and permanently shut the following morning. ExDH perused the lovely and extensive breakfast menu, but he didn’t want anything on it. He then (ick ick ick) asked the waitress if they had any Rice Krispies.

Unsurprisingly the answer was no. How the waitress kept a straight face I have no idea.

ThisFluentBiscuit · 13/04/2025 19:34

SpikyCoconut · 13/04/2025 12:28

I always feel odd if I wear trainers to do anything other than sports, which is very rare but now and again I've thought something I was wearing would suit trainers. I just never feel right! Hadn't ever really thought aboht it and I am now wondering why?!

It's because adults wear proper shoes. 🤭

aquascorpio · 13/04/2025 20:29

I have two new ones to add after watching this thread in hysterics.

recent ex… whenever we were “doing the deed” if he thought I was close to orgasm, or if I said I was, he would - without fail - say “are you going to come on my cock?” It icked me so much by the end that I would often kiss him or orgasm without telling him I was going to just so I didn’t have to hear it.

Another ex, many years ago… he sweated LOADS during sex. I also developed recurring ear infections when we were together. I then realised it was because whenever we were having sex, my ear was getting filled with his sweat. 🤢

SickOfUselessManagement · 14/04/2025 10:06

Not me but a work colleague, 60s now. On holiday in Ibiza, met a famous (then) footballer. Looked like one of Harry Enfield's scousers. Said he had orange nylon underpants and they had a ladder in them.

SpikyCoconut · 14/04/2025 12:14

ThisFluentBiscuit · 13/04/2025 19:34

It's because adults wear proper shoes. 🤭

I am sure I even walk funny in them! I was given a pair as a gift, expensive ones too, from an ex DP. She suggested I wore them to the pub one night, with a pair of jeans and a blouse, I felt very awkward! Trainers are for sports? But I know some folk wear nothing else on their feet!

AJLOAL · 14/04/2025 12:35

This is the funniest thread ever!

Some years ago I thought it would be a good idea to go on a week's holiday abroad with a 50 yo guy I'd been dating for a couple of months (I was 40). Nice guy, attractive enough, attentive, rather well endowed etc but as soon as we got there, he bought an old man's fishing type of hat and it instantly gave me the ick and put me right off. I couldn't bear to been seen with him let alone get jiggy!
I couldn't wait to get home and have stayed dating younger men since!