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.

Copper Coins, also agree with the poster that said raw tomatoes

+1

Salad on the same plate as hot food.

Socks with sliders in public. In your own home is fine, but out and about on the streets, just thinking of all the dirt that'll get all over your socks.
People with no manners - but that's more a cause of infuriation rather than an ick.
Brown shoes with grey trousers
Track suit trousers at 'half mast' with the persons arse hanging out
Putting on make up in public
People actually saying that food is "yummy"
People calling an electric train a "choo choo" usually when talking to children - also referring to a dog as a "doggy" or to geese as "ducks".

The word 'supper'.

'Gifting' as a verb. No!!! Why is this recently a thing??!

The sound of handdryers in public bathrooms. So unnecessarily loud.

People who wear so much perfume, or bad perfume, that you can smell it once they've walked away.

Hair extensions.

Men with hairpieces.

Eating croissants does not need to be messy.

If you do I do, I put one pointy end in my mouth and force the rest in with a (preferably silver) soup spoon.

For porridge one should, of course, use a large calibre funnel.

I agree with lots of those! Not all of them though (are you in a constant state of ick?) Loved the one about hairdressers handling your hair in a feeble way. I dislike being stroked in a feeble way too.

Carveries and buffets. Particularly the latter.

I have a weird aversion to watching people sprinkle things with their fingers, like sprinkling seeds onto porridge or grated cheese onto a lasagne. It's the shape of the hand and the motion of the fingers, gives me the shudders. Weird I know!

What's wrong with using a spoon? 🤣🤣🤣

How do you eat soup or cereal haha!

I don’t like David Attenborough documentaries

I was on a bus once and the woman in front had really greasy hair and nits so big you could see them.

Yes - men in flip-flops!!

Why, I don’t know, but it makes me think something is very wrong in their lives!! Total ick.

I hate seeing giant windmills.

There is a word for it called megalophobia.

There is a huge one near the motorway and I didn't know it was there and I was literally shaking and nearly crying with it near. I had to put my sun visor to the right of my driver window.

I know it's absolutely batshit and just strange. But they give me a fear!

Chicken and eggs as part of the same meal.

Yes! I love swimming but once paid an absolutely extortionate amount to be a member of a posh Virgin active so I had access to a lovely pool with gorgeous changing rooms. I cannot handle the gross council ones and hate doing my children’s swimming lessons

What about Chicken Foo Yung?

I am exactly the same. The whole raw tomato thing makes me want to heave. I mean who wants to touch or eat rubbery red skin, seeds, and juice. Come on!

Cream Cleanser type stuff used in bathrooms.

A man I know who instead of 'I am going to have a bath/shower' will say ' I am going to get cleaned up'. Makes me feel sick, for some reason?

Quite possibly not an 'ick' but I don't like walking into a restaurant and seeing people reading menus.

I just can’t enjoy it - there is something that puts me off eating the chicken and seeing the egg, knowing that the egg came from a chicken. I know it sounds strange, but in the spirit of the original question it gets me every time!

Me too.

Oh god! I HATE this 🫨

People taking their shoes off on a plane and walking around in socks/bare feet, especially in and out of the loos.

That's vile 😭😭😭😭