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To ask you what silly things really gross you out?!

146 replies

MostlyAmbridgeandcoffee · 12/08/2019 21:54

Mine is the gross water that accumulates in the toothbrush holder - yuck yuck yuck!!!!!!!

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Minai · 12/08/2019 22:25

Cleaning out a toddler or baby’s sippy cup that they’ve used during a meal. The backwash makes me 🤢

BoswellsBollocks · 12/08/2019 22:27

Just reading these is turning my stomach 🤢

MaMaMaMySharona · 12/08/2019 22:27

The thought of biting on wool. We used to have to wear wool mix jumpers at school and a girl in my class would always chew her sleeve - even thinking of it now has sent my teeth on edge Sad

tryingtobebetterallthetime · 12/08/2019 22:28

I can't stand it when someone has little globs of saliva in the corners of their mouth. It is hard for me to even talk to them. Yuck, just yuck.

InvisibleToEveryone · 12/08/2019 22:29

Fish.

Eurgh, horrible gapey things.

Worse because the kids like going to the fishery and feeding them, and they're like trying to get out and slapping and gaping and eurgh....

Whoopstheregomyinsides · 12/08/2019 22:29

Getting my sleeve wet accidentally while washing up

Tink1990 · 12/08/2019 22:29

Everything you have all said tbh! Im easily grossed out. Not by jelly tho. Grin

HarryDaylight · 12/08/2019 22:30

People who eat with their fingers and then lick them, then go back in for more NOOOOO
People who pick at bits of their facial skin and fingers and eat it when I'm sitting opposite them on the tube NOOOOOOOO

HazelBite · 12/08/2019 22:30

The smell of onions, freshly cut, and the smell on peoples breath when they have been eating them.

EskewedBeef · 12/08/2019 22:31

People licking their fingers. After eating, to turn pages, and worst of all to open a dog poo bag. The thought of licking your fingers when you're looking at a freshly laid turd 🤢

boring485 · 12/08/2019 22:34

Cannot cope with facial hair/ especially beards. Honestly make me heave 🤮🤢
Cannot stand long natural nails either. Just the thought is making me ill

Millymollymandybestie · 12/08/2019 22:34

Tuna 🤮

StormcloakNord · 12/08/2019 22:34

The way mayonnaise based sauces (garlic mayo etc) go yellow and hard and gooey/sticky when its left out on a plate all night.

Boke boke boke.

boring485 · 12/08/2019 22:35

@EskewedBeef I actually gagged at a local dog show when a lady did this with the bag 🤮🤮

ShellsandSand · 12/08/2019 22:35

The smell of tea when fresh air touches it.
People picking their back teeth after eating crisps. Agree with loose hairs, especially when you throw water into the mix like one on the draining board. Yellow heads on people, I just wish they would bust them and dry them out. Seeing mucus on the street. The skin on top of a milky coffee that's been left to cool. There are so many things that make me nauseous. Gross.

haverhill · 12/08/2019 22:36

I can’t watch anyone brush their teeth. Bleurgh.

HarryDaylight · 12/08/2019 22:36

My overweight breathless neighbour who chainsmokes and constantly coughs up great wet wads of mucus in between fags.

toadabode · 12/08/2019 22:39

Loose hairs on any wet surface
Being touched by a shower curtain

WhoopiGoldbergsCat · 12/08/2019 22:42

I also hate jelly.
Especially when it's on a pork pie or something savory, makes me feel sick that people actually eat this stuff!

Rainbowknickers · 12/08/2019 22:45

If someone has toothpaste on the sides of their mouth
Eating and spitting/drooling at the same time
Spitting in the street
Blood/snot
For some reason if someone cuts their toenails it makes me go funny if I see them in the bin
Skid marks in the lav bowl

I’ve just typed all that with one eye open and gagging over every word

shudders

Tillygetsit · 12/08/2019 22:45

When people talk about snotty eggs. Really puts me off 🤮

ems137 · 12/08/2019 22:46

The sound of brushing teeth. I have to leave the bathroom when helping younger kids do their teeth.

Kids eating bananas when they go a bit slimy and mushy. I call it banana snot. My first child didn't eat a banana until he was around 3 because I couldn't face the fear.

When kids have slobbered all over an ice cream cone and it's all soggy. Even worse is when someone else actually eats it.

Socks on carpets.

PivotPivotPivottt · 12/08/2019 22:46

Holes (trypophobia)
Old plasters
Stickers
Labels, especially the ones on duvet covers and pillows. I have to cut them off and even just doing that makes my blood run cold. I stayed in a caravan recently and could feel the label of the duvet in the corner near my face, had to flip the duvet so my daughter had that side.
Buttons on duvet covers, freaks me out when I wake up and the duvet is upside down with the button side near my face.
Beds (ok I'm seeing a bit of a theme here!) without sheets or pillow cases. I can't even sit on my bed if it's not got any sheets on.
Skin rashes
Slugs and worms
This one isn't silly as I'm sure it grosses anyone out but even just the mention of someone picking their nose makes me feel sick. I've read a lot of posts on here where people say they pick their nose and eat it Envy. Why an adult has to do that is beyond me it's rankEnvy

HarryDaylight · 12/08/2019 22:49

Sloppy wet kissers NOOOO Gross.

BuckingFrolics · 12/08/2019 22:50

Dirty toilets like in the "before" bogs in sue and Aggie type programmes. I simply cannot look.

Skin on cold custard.

Wet wool. How can you? And yes to a pp about damp sleeves when washing up.