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.

When a menu says something like ‘upgrade to xxx for £1’ - for some reason gives me the rage.

Touching someone’s walking stick. I just can’t.

Anyone vaping or smoking. Yuk.

I've heard that hand dryers are actually very unhygienic and harbour bacteria. Sorry this won't help with the ick, but being eco versus hygienic, I know what I'd like to have a choice of

Spot on

People flippantly saying they have OCD because they like things tidy. I don't personally know anybody with real OCD but I know how difficult it is for them so the "oh it's my OCD" people rub me the wrong way

Interesting, I do this quite often. I know it's a bit unusual but it actually reminds me of my Mum who had a much more legitimate reason for doing as she was blind and felt safer from spillages with a mug

Black leather shoes and jeans..!

Me too.

I actively avoid walking behind a man in jogging bottoms , baggy ,shiny, grubby ones blurghhhh, you can just imagine what their chair smells like !
People brushing their teeth on tv or in front of me.
Human hairs , even my own family but my dog's hairs don't bother me at all.
A recent Sainsburys ad of a man biting into a slice of rare steak.
The contents however clean and tidy of someones handbag .
Thinking about eating at the cafe attached to my nearest hospital ,patients and doctors who have /dealt with God knows what sitting together with the general public absolutely turns my stomach.

Washing hands. I don't mind showering or bathing, but I absolutely hate having wet hands when the rest of me is dry! Obviously I still do it, I just hate every moment.

Worse - when you’re walking behind them and are forced to inhale their second-hand bubblegum scented nicotine fumes. It’s already been inside their lungs. BLEURGH.

Just made me realise that I have this, but specifically for dirty plates left interminably in front of me on planes.

Why do the flight attendants feed you, and then everyone waits like big silly babies in highchairs with messy smeared trays in front of them for ages and ages?! Uggghhh. And you cannot move an inch because then everything falls off the tiny table. The slightest bit of turbulence, everything falls on the floor. Need the toilet? Don't be silly!

I would pay more for flights with some sort of speed eating curfew. Eaten in ten minutes, cleaned away in the following five minutes. Or if the food/trays could be somehow bagged up by the passengers and made ready for the attendants to take away more easily. Such a uniquely claustrophobic experience!

People who announce “I’m just going for a wee”. Please just go. Don’t elaborate.

People who describe their taste in music as “eclectic”. We all like different types. You are nothing special.

The smell of teenagers’ bedrooms.

There's currently an ad series that's giving me the ick. It's for Citroen and the car passengers discuss films. They describe a movie to each other for guessing like charades. But it's not what they are discussing that gives me the ick. The images look very altered. Intense staring eyes and there's one boy who looks like his cheek bones have been digitally altered. Some kinda weird and utterly unnecessary AI

The stuff in the middle of custard creams and bourbon biscuits.
The word "sip".
People coming into the hotel dining room at breakfast time wearing cycling lycra. I cycle myself and have no problem with shrink-wrapped cyclists in any other setting.

I can't stand other people's horrible sweaty socks anywhere near me. Do not take your shoes off in my house!!
Also, that stupid mullet haircut in men that's currently popular, and the awful peaky blinders version with shaved sides. Extra ick points if the mullet is combined with a moustache.
And I can't bear very fleshy, pillowy lips, especially on men.

Urgh, so many of these.

I'd add anyone who makes small preferences about food into a major part of their conversation, eg endless wanging on about what does or does not constitute a full English breakfast or jam/cream first on a scone. Also anyone who says "a roast" rather than "roast beef" or "roast chicken" etc and then bores on about it.

I also hate it when someone says "a wine" when they mean a glass of wine rather than a type of wine, and I feel the same about "a tea" although I am slightly softening on that one.

The word "entrepreneur".
Trainers with the toes, you know the ones.
Blond body hair on men. Dark body hair oh yes anytime. Blond, absolutely not.

People licking their fingers if eating ‘finger food’.
When people smoke/vape particularly when their lips pucker and wrinkle around the smoking device.
Children standing or sitting in the shopping area of a shopping trolley, their shoes are probably filthy.
Manky toenails and crusty yellow hard skin on anyone’s feet.
Putting filthy handbags on tables where people will be eating and drinking. Put it on the floor or get a handbag hook.
Dunking biscuits in hot drinks.
Plus many more!

Kiss with butterfly, cat or tiger makeup. Gives me the creeps.
And Cilian Murphy's face. There's something feminine in his face that I can't stand.

Agreed! This annoys me

Oh dear this thread is chiming with my Extreme wide ranging capacity for intolerance - very few things here that don't make me shudder to some extent.

I will add my own, which is grown men, and specifically my dh, in short shorts.

My dh is a little bit vain about his legs and feet (even now he is approaching pension age though to be fair he is in good shape) and loves to go barefoot. And im no fan of bare feet, like many here. But worse, his legs are completely hairless. The excessive amount of smooth bare leg exposed by the thigh-not-knee level shorts he favours really disturbs me . I think it is because it is oddly juvenile - a look that belongs on schoolboys, preferably primay school, not grown men 😭😭😭😭

It is a massive upside to me of this weather - he's safely in long trousers now for the duration

This is literally a thread about individual people’s icks. But OMG mention you don’t like dogs and suddenly you’re the worst possible human. Chill, @Justchilling07

People that say “”host” as in they’re hosting this Christmas ,your just having people round.
Dry Robe Wankers ,that haven’t actually been in the sea

I hate it so much I never sit down. (I am, however, really careful to make sure I don't spray the seat.)