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.

Those who describe themselves as emetophobes on MN, particularly if they add that it’s been diagnosed. I’m almost quarter of a century working as a psychiatrist, with many friends who are psychiatrists, GPs and paediatricians for a similar number of years, and not one of us has ever diagnosed someone with emetophobia.

And I’m prepared to bet that the majority of those claiming the diagnosis no more have it than I do, but simply don’t like dealing with vomit. I suspect very very few are genuinely phobic about it.

Urgh I have a cousin who does this. I pointed out that its no one's first choice of a way to spend an hour, either throwing it up or clearing it up, but that doesnt make it a phobia. She didnt speak to me for ages after that, which was a win as she is the sort of person who has an intolerance or allergy to a food item when really she just doesnt like it. Anything with her is a phobia or an allergy. Yes, she is a total PITA drama queen. Dont really have to see her anymore so thats even better!

People eating or giving their kids a ‚picky tea‘ every evening; all I hear is Wosits, cheese or ham sandwiches and squash. Saints preserve

This comes from a childhood of poverty but seeing people coppering up - they might have a wedge of notes in their pocket but the counting the pennies makes me feel sad.

Eggs and tomato ketchup.. reminds me of blood in the yolk.

Isnt that just "tea" in the same way that having it at 1pm it would be "lunch"?

I count the pennies because I cant stand having a purse full of change, it makes it weigh a ton so I get rid of them whenever I can!

I like using the self-service tills so I can just dump all the coins in first and be able to shut my purse again. Unfortunately, if I'm due any change it usually comes out in the smallest coins - especially those annoying fiddly 5ps, and I'm almost back where I started.

Eggs with runny yolks. Makes me want to 🤮
Men wearing slip on shoes
Men going barefoot in shoes

I’m the same. I work in a deli and if people ask for chicken and egg in a sandwich it freaks me out!

The poster is talking about a cloth towel on a roll, not a disposable paper towel dispenser.

So is the post you're replying to - 'big cloth on a roll'.

The trick there is to make sure that your change is less than whatever you are buying costs and pay the difference on your card. But I guess that only works if you are a mainly card shopper like I am.

It's precisely because of people like you - and me - using it to get rid of our piles of low-value coins that it only contains those little coins for when it needs to give out change!!

Still much better than the rip-off CoinStar machines, though - they take something like 8% of your cash for the privilege of counting it, as well as having restrictions on how long you're allowed to use your voucher before it expires; whereas the standard self-service tills that accept cash won't take a penny commission for their trouble or restrict when you can use your cash in them.

No, I've never got this either. I'm not saying that it couldn't possibly be a genuine medical problem, but as you say, it's often essentially finding an inherently disgusting thing disgusting - which is surely just normal?

It seems a bit like claiming you have an allergy to eating pebbles or sand. You're not meant to eat them, just like you're meant to find puke gross and revolting; it doesn't somehow mean that people who clean up puke are having the time of their lives.

Some parents also claim similar 'phobias' for cleaning up baby poo - like they somehow think that it's every other parent's all-time highlight of having a baby.

Like that trend for having a wheat intolerance a few years ago. Every second woman in a restaurant was declaring "I'm coeliac" ! It messes it up for those who actually have coeliac disease.

Old people's hands - all veiny ick!

I see an icky future for you

I've tried counting the coins in but it's time consuming and it's more fun just to dump a load in and watch the till trying to digest and count it.

I'm horrified by my veiny hands every time we do the second Warrior pose in yoga and I'm looking straight along my arm.

People referring to anything, but particularly online dating, as ‘a numbers game’ - lazy and meaningless.

There's a Japanese rice dish of chicken and egg called oyakdon, which translates to 'parent and child'. I find that quite impressively cold

I'm aware

This has literally just happened and has reminded me how much I hate it when ... a newspaper / the media, etc., invent a new phrase and push it and push it to make it a 'thing'.
On BBC Breakfast they were just talking about 'porch pirates' (people who steal your online deliveries from your doorstep). Ugh.
See also 'Waity Katie' from many years ago. Pushed incessantly (and unsuccessfully) by the Daily Mail about Catherine, now Princess of Wales, before she got engaged to William.

Hard cringe.

I hate "hot choc", especially in reference to a "hot choc station". What fresh hell?! 🙄

So is the poster you are quoting.