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.

Anybody who tickles others.

The posts on a pier where they disappear into the sea.

used bath water left in a bath

myself / yourself instead of me / you

tis

methinks

threw up in my mouth

the (usually male) admiration for ‘sassy’ female characters on tv / movies / adverts. They’re almost always young and beautiful but acting ‘bad ass’ - it’s so opposite to being an actually tough woman. It’s an intolerable ick.

The way everyone mostly still sniggers like it’s naughty if someone says the c word on tv / in a movie, especially if a woman says it

Sat / stood instead of sit / sitting. “I was sat” - no, I was sitting or I sat. Same for stood - saying “I was stood in the queue” is equivalent to saying “I was ran for the bus.” So many people get this wrong now.

Gotten

bananas

banana-flavoured or scented things

banana-coloured things

knives scraping on plates

the sound of snot rattling in a nose

treating pets like people. I find it intolerably disrespectful to the animal

grass

open-mouth excited grins on photos

fake laughs

people laughing cutely at their own absurdity, usually women

women who go on about being weak or diminutive - “I’m only 5,1” so …”

people being cutesy in general

car seats

Cuppa

Cliched descriptions in novels, “a steaming mug of coffee” / “a single tear rolled down her cheek.”

veggies - that makes my skin crawl. They’re vegetables!

biccies / hubby / holibobs etc.

noise-leaking headphones on public transport

Dogs on public transport (unless assistance dogs) - they often look terrified and usually end up sitting on the seat which is not hygienic.

In fact, dogs / cats on beds and sofas.

The smell of laundry that hasn’t dried properly but has been put away. It makes me gag.

Chuffing / chuffed

Flabbergasted

Traumatised when it’s just something like getting caught in the rain

Selfies where people look nothing like they do in real life and pull expressions which they’d never pull. I find it hard to look at them the same in RL.

Soggy pasta and cleaning it out of the pan later, the gloopy water it leaves behind

Wine glasses with fragile stems

weak handshakes, especially from sweaty hands

Was a light jacket mentioned in that trial?

When people use the word tummy instead of stomach. Even worse when they’re a nurse or working in the medical field. “tummy ache”

Worse than that: Belly.

People who don't pronounce 'th' sounds. Completely unfair of me I know but it immediately makes me think they're 'fick'.

People who drag crockery across the table instead of picking it up

That will go down well with Irish MNers...

Accents are different. Irish, cockney are dialects not just sloppy speech.

I know what you mean, when people are just lazy - although, for whatever reason, some people apparently cannot pronounce 'th'. I suppose, if they've only ever grown up in a community where everybody speaks that way, it's an alien sound and may not be essentially different for them than for the many English people who simply cannot say (or even distinguish) the 'ch' sound, as in Loch or bach.

When I was at school, there was a boy with the opposite issue: his 'f' sounded like 'th', so he would say "One, two, three, thour, thive" !

I think it was 'trendy' for a while to insert f or v sounds instead of th? Catherine Tate made an entire character around 'am I bovvered?'

The skit being around the fact that it wasn't an accent or speech impediment but just lazy 'teenage' speak.

And it hasn't gone away for a lot of people.

One person in particular I know infuriates me as she'll say fick, fumb, funder, bovvered, but pronounces Thursday, three, thirty correctly and for some bizarre reason says 'howhether' instead of however. When howhether isn't even a word!

But it proves she can pronounce th sounds and it's not dialect but sloppy speech which only applies to some words.

The fact she's homeschooling her DC who all speak just like her as have no external parties correcting the sloppy speech infuriates me even more.

Is that the case with all the ‘D’ ones? Dearest Daughter etc all sound so middle class and twee, I can’t imagine people saying such things outside of MN world !

It's not that deep. Nor literal.

It was just a way for MNetters to be able to identify who the poster was talking about instead of coming up with pseudonyms.

I am v v old and used to use parenting chat rooms and message.boards and it the "D" came from them

Ah OK. I didn’t realise that. Imagine I’m a similar age but MN has been the only parenting chat I’ve used.

@ColaWars I hate beards too. DH grew one once despite my protests. I was really clear 'as long as you have the beard we have no sex'

So the beard didn't last. Every now and then he goes too long without a shave. Same rule gets wheeled out.

Icky

Yup, same here. And a couple of years ago he had a man bun as well, that was a dry spell let me tell you.

@ColaWars a man bun! The horror !

People who lick their fingers before handling paper, or worse, shop assistants with my groceries and the bag they go in. Haven't they heard its flu season? Not to mention covid. Just so unhygienic, it makes me squirm. 🙁

Happened to me only yesterday in a shop, even though the carrier bag was paper.😒

I understand the ick but my fingers are weirdly shiny or dry or something and I often cannot turn pages, open plastic bags or separate banknotes unless I wet my fingers. I'm not sure what else I can do except luck then.

Glad you said this because I always thought it was just me being a weirdo. I can’t stand it when they go round community centres to interview “ordinary” people around election time. Eurgh I have to turn it off or rush from the room.

Spag bol, defiantly instead of definitely, delish. Gives me hives!

Even better fried with bacon and put in a sandwich with brown sauce!

I can't stand the smell or taste of mint unless it's mint sauce, and anything apple like apple washing up liquid - that makes me heave! I also detest fabric softener/conditioner - give me scratchy laundry all day!