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.

People who set up a new charity when there’s already several covering whatever cause it is.

That's so interesting because I actually think the opposite 😂😂

I find it really odd when people say "I'm a retired whatever" when asked about their job. I'm struggling to articulate why it irritates me, but it does annoy me.

In some ways it smacks of clinging on to some former identity or power or authority. And trying convey some residual respect from that job.
But, to me, if you're retired, you're retired. You don't have a job. You're don't do that thing any longer. You're not that thing. It matters absolutely zilch how you earned your living for the last 40 years, so why mention it?

I also think its a very middle-class thing for people with professional and respectable jobs. That's not my world. My dad wouldn't say "I'm a retired factory line grunt" and my mum wouldn't say "I'm a retired part-time cleaner and part-time dinner lady".

Sorry @Flowersforyourchocolateprettyplease 😬

People who have performative food issues. Having someone make a fuss about how much food there is, how we’ll never be able to finish it makes the food taste like cardboard.

I agree! We are not our jobs.

I don't like men's knees. Particularly when they wear shorts or tight jeans and their knees are all sort of...protruding.

I do not have the same reaction to women's knees, oddly enough. They can be as bony or round as they like, it's just men. Or maybe I tend to look at men's legs more.

Haha, not at all. Good to get a different perspective. Funnily enough it came up again over the weekend on some game show and I wanted to scream, retired what?? Goat herder, policeman, secret shopper, what???

It's clearly not rational as per strange in the thread title.

I probably take it as someone wanting to sound vague and be asked again, which is what mostly happens. Not many gameshow hosts/interviewers are satisfied with just retired.
Makes me also think, stop wasting time and say it all at once!

And breath..... 😅.

I seem to have a thing about men's shoes now that I think about it! 🤣

Men in flip flops 🤮
Men in sandals (actually anyone in Birkenstocks, they are so ugly)
Men in pointy shoes
Men in those little shiny loafers with the horse bits on that Jockeys always seem wear.

I had to unfollow a female writer because she kept talking about how good what she’d cooked was that she’d refer to ‘jizzing’ on it. 🤢

My sister has a habit of closing her eyes, tilting her head back and making very appreciative noises when eating, to me they sound like orgasm noises and it totally grosses me out

The threads here where people get massively judgmental about other people’s personal hygiene. Every few weeks there’s one about how people should use bidets etc and there’s something about someone giving that much thought about other people’s toilet routines that makes me 🤢 I don’t know why.

Saying laying in bed is just plain wrong. You are lying in bed. You can only lay something - an egg, for example. Or you can lay something down on a table, or lay something out.

My partner is like this. It is very annoying when he does it. Thankfully I'm a shit cook so it doesn't happen too often in our house. 😂

Haha I agree about protruding knees. Men's are worst but knees generally just seem - a bit wrong somehow?

Chefs with very hairy arms preparing food (seen on TV obviously)

On every single episode of every single Escape to the Country / A Place in the Sun type programme someone says the place is 'light and airy'. Arggghhh.
See also BBC weather presenters' 'spits and spots of rain' (looking at you, Carol Kirkwood). Although, thankfully, that one has died down a bit now.

Miriam Margoyles, or however you spell her name. Repulsive.

The word 'dropped' in the context of a new album being 'dropped'. Makes me shudder.

Agree with ‘laying’ instead of ‘lying’
Also ‘was sat’ instead of ‘was sitting’
’Tea’ for meal rather a drink
Animals sleeping on beds with humans - disgusting 🤮
People who refer to themselves as their dog’s ‘mum’ or ‘dad’
People who hand over glasses or mugs by holding the rim
Straggly beards

'Tea' for a meal used to be both exceedingly posh and very common. Tea, scones, sandwiches, cake - posh. A sit-down meal with meat and potatoes -working class. All taken at the same time of day, all very odd.

Is when v they say things like ‘a chippy tea’
or ‘DH is cooking tea tonight’ that I get the ick

People using 'floor' for 'outside'. It's 'ground'.

Fake nails. Esp thick, long and painted. And people tapping them. Urgh i wonder what lies beneath.
I worked with a woman years ago who had very long, curved, fingernails. She always had them painted pink, but the underneath looked like pork scratchings. Awful, even worse when she was holding a sandwich....😮

I worked on a supermarket checkout before l retired.
Some customers would ask me to help them pack their shopping, which is fine. Except for the ones with minging 'bags for life'.
Some were filthy and stinking - reeked of sour milk, or worse, were actually mouldy inside. And they wanted their food shopping put into them.
I'd be trying not to heave while l was packing their shopping.

One man used to come in with a stash of old bread bags (the thin plastic ones) which were so worn and flimsy there was barely any print left on them.
He'd hand them to me and say "They're MY bags. Don't charge me for them."

Imagine wiping your arse with nails like that 🤢🤮

I hate square false nails. Looking at them on women's hands gives me the same sort of feeling that touching chalk does. Eugh.

"Hey, Sainsbury's"