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.

I don't like seeing spitting. It used to be so common in the UK that markets had signs saying "No Expectorating". Pubs had spittoons in the 19th century. Sportsmen (and it is always men) don't NEED to do it. They are just pigs.

I saw an ad for a candle with the smell of geranium and tomatoes. I like both, but not the smell. Ewww.

People walking about and you can see
their bellybutton. Massive ick - they gross me out!
also people eating an ice cream - the whole tongue licking motion is 🤢

People who only half tear off the opening of a tissue box so you lacerate your hand trying to pull one out.

People who constantly "tend" their food... chewing a mouthful but moving everything around the plate at the same time.

People eating crisps crunching away but at the same time their free hand is delving around to the bottom of the packet... why, just take one from the top.

People driving in merge lanes which "zip" but instead of everyone zipping nicely one by one in turn someone always pushes ahead as an extra car.

Feet in trainer socks.

Communal bars of soap on bathroom sinks. (Prefer liquid hand soap)

I don't think I've ever heard of someone else who also hates this. I totally agree. The combination of warm shower room and toothpaste and even worse pee reminds of campsite toilets. I absolutely hate it!

Underwear on show with low rise jeans. Awful 😖

Toilets in bathrooms - they should be separate.

Wow! My people! Thanks for making me cry with laughter unexpectedly. Many of these I felt like the only one who suffers.
Hand dryers. Anyone who says they’re better. Often placed just over where a child stands when they follow you to the loo, setting off an unnecessarily disruptive series of events. Dyson has some karma.
As well as the squeak from anything washed in a dishwasher. And the people who say it’s more eco than washing up. Who actually believes that?
People who believe obvious crap because they don’t think.
Eating on public transport. Yuck.
Sayings like “it’s a no-brainer” WTAF?!

I was on my honeymoon when there was a topless girl walking around Tulum with thong bikini bottoms on. She may well have been completely naked. Not very classy is it 🤣

Putting my bare feet on the wet poolside area and swimming pool toilets 🤢

When people say “an historical”. What?!

People referring to little children as having ‘a wee boyfriend’ or similar.
Noisy eating- massive ick not just little!
I don’t like the feeling of someone walking close behind me, it gives me sensation of being followed and I need to step aside and let them pass.
People sniffing repeatedly- blow your damn nose!

It's mostly words and phrases that give me the ick when I see them. Cuppa and 'fell pregnant' are particular hates.

Also DH tooth flossing in the front of the TV. Worst. Noise. Ever.

Anyone who litters.

Well, gives me the rage rather than the ick.

People who say 'marshmellows'.
And while we're about it, marshmallows. On hot chocolate. And bloody great whirls of cream on top. Stop it. Save the whipped cream for a cake.

We have a rule in our house that you have to close the bathroom door and open the window if you brush your teeth. We all hate other people’s mint smells!

On that note, people brushing their teeth and spitting out toothpaste on TV and in films - I can’t look and it’s so unnecessary.

Disgusting! I can’t touch them at all.

When I was a child and on holiday (1970s), my brother and I used to look out for kids wearing track suits with normal shoes. (That's 1970s track suits and leather lace-up shoes.) We still occasionally use "track suit normal shoes" as a mild insult.

People preparing food in sandwich bars with their hair loose. Sometimes they will have a pony tail but two artful dangly bits hanging out of their white cap. It's still hair, and it's hanging over the food!

Eggs. This seems to be getting worse as I get older and I can barely look at runny or raw egg now.

People, usually men, doing the three-part-gob in the street. You know how it goes: 1. Hawking it back 2. Hawking it up into the mouth 3. Spitting it with great force onto the street. Literally makes me feel sick.

Being asked when you buy a drink if you want ice cubes and then the server puts the ice cubes in with their hand.

This last one is a bit gross - at work there was blood spatter all up the toilet door, as if someone had swung out a very loaded tampon and it spattered. And they just left it like that. It's gone now, so maybe the cleaner noticed it. But come on people, don't leave bodily fluids on the toilet door.

Mamils.
People using the term ‘at the minute’.
Speech affectations, such as vocal fry and forced campness.
Touching newspaper with damp / just washed hands.

Women with long, fake fingernails with points/square edges.

Men with long finger nails.

Anyone with dirty fingernails.

Ripped jeans.

Pale leggings on those who really should not be wearing them.

Standing on wet floors around swimming pool.

Wearing socks in the kitchen and feeling a crumb under your foot, ditto being barefoot - I try to wear slippers at all times.

Loading the dishwasher and getting food waste on my hands from the plates.

People who lift drinking glasses up from above putting their fingers around the top of the glass where you are about to drink from. Dirty glasses in general.

If my pre-teen son borrows my phone and then when I get it back, it’s all covered in his mucky fingerprints.

Crumbs in the butter that’s been scraped back on the side of the butter tub.

Drying your hands on a towel that’s wet from someone else drying their hands on (family).

At the hairdressers when they start blow drying when you’ve still got all the cut hair still over the gown and it’s blowing everywhere.

Probably loads more.

Taking stuff out of the dishwasher at work and it's still covered in food, because some people don't remove food from the plates before putting them in.

Another anti-vote for beards. Ugh.

Bradley Cooper. I do not know why. I've been known to throw up in my mouth when confronted with him.