Strange things that give you a kind of "ick" in everyday life

[CariahMary]

I don't mean getting the "ick" about a sexual or romantic partner. And I don't mean being put-off by things that are actually pretty grim. I mean random things that you inexplicably find a bit off-putting in everyday life.

For me, I get a kind of "ick" when I read other people talking about food on forums MN I honestly had no idea why. It's so odd, I really like reading food descriptions in books but in forums I find it really off-putting.

In the real-world, I also really hate opening other people's fridges. They always smell weird (different from my own). I have to hold my breath.

Men in sliders or flip flops 🤮

also adverts where there’s a close up of food and it’s oozing the filling etc. like a doughnut or a lie filling or something. I don’t know why but it gives me the ick

Socked feet on Facebook posts (“Enjoying a cuppa in my Christmas socks after a hard day’s shopping) accompanied by pic of woolly feet in front of TV. Urghhhhhhh

People flicking their long hair in enclosed spaces (trains, planes, theatres) so it nearly touches me.

Pictures of food (eg on supermarket lorries) where the food is larger than real life.

Hearing people eat. They don’t even have to be particularly loud; I just hate it.

People who add the word ‘out’ unnecessarily after a verb eg, swapped out, adopted out.

I love dark chocolate but would hate eating off DP's fork. And I can't bear sharing a water bottle with DP, let alone anyone else. I know it's illogical given that we share so many other things!

May you live long enough to have an old tongue yourself and still enjoy ice cream!

Tepe brushes. DH leaves them lying about in the bathroom….ugh.

Sorry I know I am unreasonable because people can do what they like but…… Xmas decorations up too early makes me shudder.

All the yummy mummies near me with their matching prams, puffa coats, bobble hats and giant coffee cups. It’s a uniform. Throw in a daschund and that’s even more ‘extra’.

My DP flosses his teeth and leaves all the detritus to harden on the basin. It's absolutely revolting.

What????

These are all absolutely brilliant. And so true. So much ick in life.

Silly cow at work, who became an assistant manager, cannot express herself properly, with either grammar or enunciate words correctly.

(We used to be friends until I realised she was a vile and racist bully. We stopped being friends way before she became management)

I am very polite and professional on the surface but when we have team meetings, she pronounces think with an F and says myself and other manager's name, instead of Manager's name and I. It gives me an unreasonable amount of rage.

Also refers to everyone as "Hey guys!"

What a muppet.

The word "ick". Referring to dogs as anything other than dogs, e.g. doggo, pupper, any of that cutesy shite. Treating dogs or cats as if they are actual children and worse, expecting the world to do the same. Referring to children as "smallies" or "littles".

Also: cold water. Whenever I buy a bottle of water I have to wait for it to warm up a bit. I buy bottles of sparkling water and never refrigerate them so it's always room temp.

I worked with an English teacher (i.e. teacher of English) who was like that. She'd actually write 'would of', 'should of' etc on the board. Imagine my annoyance.

Is there anyone who just doesn't really get an 'ick' for anything? Not judging at all, I get it in theory but I just don't really feel it? Am I the unusual one here?

If relevant I'm also genuinely not especially judgemental, but I don't necessarily mean the two things are linked, just that I don't often get aesthetic or moral or social 'ick' at all. I'm defo not any kind of superior being at all, far from it, I have all sorts of other weirdness I swear just no ick!

Generally I agree with you. I can't relate to all the complaints about what getting the ick from what men wear or what people eat or beards or any of that stuff. I have likes and dislikes of course.

Ooooooh they should know better!

I'm not saying I'm perfect by the way, I make mistakes. I do think someone higher up should try to educate themselves a little more (I don't mean if someone is dyslexic or the like) but I think it irritates me more because she is a horrible person.

You would not believe the things she's done to get ahead.

I keep thinking of new things! Weird feet. At yoga I try to position myself so that I don't have to see other women's weird feet - bunions, crossed toes toe pointing upwards...

What, what????

Watching people eat in films or TV programs/YouTube. The noises, the slopping mouth 🤮 weirdly, I don't find it so bad in real life, but I can't stand it on the screen. For example, the scene in Devil Wears Prada where Emily eats chocolate pudding in hospital makes me feel physically sick, I have to fast forward it.

V neck T-shirts on men. The lower the V, the greater the ick (looking at you Joe Swash).

Agree re the cutesy names. Would add people putting on high pitched baby voices to talk to their pets, also in baby language. A friend of mine does this, right in the middle of a conversation. One of her cats walks by and she breaks off mid sentence to talk to it in a helium voice. Makes me cringe from the inside out. The cat usually ignores her. Gotta love cats🤣

In fairness I have seen a fair few women at the lights doing a good impression of a Pompeii archaeological dig before examining their 'finds' with similar academic endeavour.

Seeing someone eat with their mouth full

And yet it's impossible to eat with your mouth empty.

People putting their suitcases straight onto the bed, even if it's a hotel bed. Or even worse, jumping onto the bed to lie down with their shoes on.

The absolute worst is at the end of I'm A Celebrity where they show the contestants going to their hotel after they've been evicted from the jungle and usually jumping straight onto the bed in their sweaty, filthy clothes. I know they've been living in a jungle for three weeks and are excited to sleep in a proper bed but for the love of god have a shower first!

Men (it's always men, l've never heard a woman do it) doing that scratchy snorty thing in the back of their nose/throat.
There was once a young lad sitting at the next table to me in the staff room at work doing it repeatedly while he was eating and l had to get up and leave before l shouted "Ffs, just blow your nose, will you!?"
Ditto noisy eaters. Guzzling and smacking their lips while they're shovelling in food like it's their last meal.
I look after my neighbour's dog and he's an incredibly noisy eater. He's brachycephalic, poor thing, and can't help it, but sometimes l have to go into the next room while he's having his dinner.

Men wearing those awful vests in summer and displaying lots of chest and armpit (and sometimes shoulder and back!) hair. There were a couple (separately) who used to come to my checkout and l couldn't look at them.
Oh, and the ones who bent over showing off hairy lower backs, underpant elastic and (even worse) the top of an arse crack.