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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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blacktiger · 12/08/2019 22:54

Macaroni cheese. Looks like sick, smells like sick. No idea what it tastes like as I've never gone near it.

Em308 · 12/08/2019 22:54

Chopping up raw chicken 🤢. Any other raw meat I'm fine with but raw chicken meat, no!!!

QueenoftheBiscuitTin · 12/08/2019 22:54

The odd fly that comes in the window. I can't relax until it's fucked off. They gross me out.
Pruned fingers after going swimming and having to touch anything with them.

TeaAndChocolateBiscuits · 12/08/2019 22:56

I've had to stop reading this... It is making me vom 🤮
To add though... I can't stand people brushing there teeth. The sound, the spit ... Bluuurrgh

tryingtobebetterallthetime · 12/08/2019 22:56

Just thought of another one. Fish bones. I can't stand them. If I get a bone I feel sick. I can't eat any more of the fish, at all. It is really difficult if I am served fish when eating out. I try to behave, but bones just don't work for me. The worst was being served a whole trout at friends. The host offered to fillet mine, but it still had bones and it was torture for me to eat it.

fairydustandpixies · 12/08/2019 23:00

Polystyrene - evil, squeaky, spawn of the devil.

And cotton wool...runs and hides....

ISayWhatNow · 12/08/2019 23:01

Swimming pool changing room floors with puddles everywhere and bits of hair. I literally cannot use them. So much so that I am a member of a v expensive gym because their floors and showers are always spotless.

Basically, other people's wet places. Just cannot.

topcat2014 · 12/08/2019 23:01

So many of these 'normal' ones are also mine.

But I love the fact that a PP put eels.

That is so niche (and also one of mine)

catspyjamas27 · 12/08/2019 23:05

Plasters on the floor of swimming room changing rooms vom

el1zabeth · 12/08/2019 23:06

Seeing anyone lick blood off a minor cut and especially if they make a sort of juicy sound with their mouth when they do it

HennyPennyHorror · 12/08/2019 23:09

The noise the ketchup bottle makes as it expels air.

People picking their teeth. GO TO THE BATHROOM YOU DISGUSTING BASTARD. Mil I'm looking at you. it doesn't matter if you make a stupid shield with your hand...we KNOW what you're doing!!

Shop assistants licking their fingers to get a bag.

HotChocWithCream · 12/08/2019 23:10

Oooh I have a few!

  • carpets in bathrooms
  • a mat around toilet
  • people who lick their fingers
  • bars of soap in public toilets
  • beards /women with facial hair
  • seeing hair stuck out of people’s ears
  • bushy eyebrows and mono brows
  • people with missing front teeth
  • pulling excessive built up hair from my hairbrush
  • false teeth
  • greasy hair
  • men with long hair (anything past Kurt Cobain length freaks me out). If it’s unkempt it seems dirty/ greasy which disturbs me. If it’s all blow dried and cared for then it seems overly feminine which also freaks me out.
  • those terribly long fake nails that look like bird talons (I can’t help but think of the hygiene implications)
  • spray tans (IMO the wearer is slug like - effectively leaving a trail wherever they go)
Thurmanmurman · 12/08/2019 23:11

The smell of tinned sweetcorn 🤢 also eating a piece of pasta to check it’s cooked but before it has any sauce on 🤮

Badwifey · 12/08/2019 23:11

Toilet backsplash Envy

Feet... just in general Envy

Long real/fake nails (ugh so filthy looking)

Old money

Public toilets

Badwifey · 12/08/2019 23:13

Hand towels in other people's houses Envy

gottastopeatingchocolate · 12/08/2019 23:13

My child's wobbly tooth!!

Iamtooknackeredtorun · 12/08/2019 23:17

Touching anything when my hands are wet.

However I am someone who suffers with watery eyes in the wind. I hate it but nothing seems to stop it.

NapsAndTea · 12/08/2019 23:20

@MostlyAmbridgeandcoffee 🤢 that toothbrush water is the worst!

penguingorl · 12/08/2019 23:21

Wrinkly foreheads! It's awful because obviously it happens randomly when someone does a certain facial expression and isn't their fault! I feel really guilty if I think I've visibly reacted, and also like I must be very weird!! I would love to know if anyone else is so grossed out by this!

userxx · 12/08/2019 23:23

@LaMarschallin That's brought back memories, If the watery stuff ended up on my plate I couldn't and wouldn't eat the food. Point blank refused. Ketchup doesn't seem to be as watery these days.

LenoVintura · 12/08/2019 23:25

Kids with missing front teeth. Couldn't look at the pics of wee Prince George last week because he's lost so many teeth. Then they go through a period where they have some adult teeth and some baby teeth all at the same time < shudder>.

RussellTheLoveMuscle · 12/08/2019 23:25

The big bag of chicken's feet in my fridge for my dog. I can barely look at them.

Watching her eat said chicken's feet.
She has to eat them outside. The thought of finding one buried under a cushion...Envy

HandsOffMyRights · 12/08/2019 23:28

Mayonaise
Tuna
(when combined it is worse).

Sharing a drinks bottle with anyone, knowing spittle could be inside.

Said spittle in corners of mouths/people spraying me with spittle when they talk

Bags of 2ps in an arcade and the smell on my fingers

Buffets and double dipping

Cushions and fabric sofas in self catering/hotels

Peanuts in bars/sugar lumps - all messed around with

Any food made by small children's fingers

HandsOffMyRights · 12/08/2019 23:30

. Wrinkly foreheads! It's awful because obviously it happens randomly when someone does a certain facial expression and isn't their fault! I feel really guilty if I think I've visibly reacted, and also like I must be very weird!! I would love to know if anyone else is so grossed out by this!

Me.. I feel the same (mind you, look at my list - I'm hardly a barometer of normality)

EskewedBeef · 12/08/2019 23:39

Seeing someone fully rest their head directly onto a train or plane seat, their hair rubbing right into that fabric. I've developed neck muscles like Hercules's to avoid having to do this. I think a travel antimacassar should be compulsory.

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