Unreasonable and petty things that put you off a person

[touchtheceiling]

NC, penis beaker, wailing michaelangelo etc

Just wondered if anyone else can relate to this - I seem to be easily put off people due to very petty things in the scheme of things.

For example, last month I had to pick up a male colleague on the way to a work meeting. I had to go in his house to help carry some things, which meant going through his garden. He had washing on the line, including his pants. I don't know why but this made me lose respect for him and feel a bit embarrassed for seeing a colleague's pants (not sure if I was embarrassed for me or him). He didn't seem to notice though. He's in his late 50s and I really didn't want to see his pants under any circumstances!

Another was a guy I was seeing years ago. On one occasion he tried for a kiss and I wasn't expecting it, and seeing his lips pierced ready for a kiss when I was completely off guard just disgusted me. It put me off and I didn't see him again

Once something like this has happened my view of them is tainted. Is this a known thing or am I just an unreasonable cow?

Men with long hair wearing suits for work, like they’re clinging onto something they blatantly aren’t anymore.

Any painted on or tattooed eye-brows that are obviously so. It always looks ridiculous.

People occupying the aisle seat on a train who stand up and give you the window seat instead of just moving up. Also people seated on crowded trains that expect people who’ve stood up the entire journey to wait and allow them off first.

People you know have no interest in / understanding of politics posting anything political on Facebook.

People posting memes / advice about staying home and washing your hands on Facebook. If people aren’t doing this, your meme isn’t about to change their minds, you’re just showing yourself up as a narcissistic virtue signaller.

People on Facebook writing and posting ‘comedy’ songs about staying in and washing your hands played on acoustic guitars. It’s not funny and you are a twat.

Eeee this has given me a right laugh. Some of you must walk around in a constant stake of anger if baseball caps and leggings

And leggings give you irrational rage **
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I don't trust blond men.

Men with tapered eyebrows 🤔 men in flip flops. Men in skinny jeans. Leave it to the teenagers please... And men in "boy band" chelsea boots.. Again leave to the teenagers

My ex used to moan all the time about being ill, when he was actually really poorly I had sympathy for him but it was all the bloody time! I have since met another guy, haven’t met up with him yet but he seems exactly the same - don’t think I’m going to be taking things any further with this one!!

Thought of a few more.

Women wearing toe post flip flops that are four sizes too small for them, so their inevitably deeply crevassed, callused heels hang over the backs, often at an angle. Usually complemented by long, raptor-like claws curling over the front and a barnacle-encrusted little toe sticking out the side.

People who turn up to a yoga class, not just in the obligatory purple elephant print trousers and white belly top with a stripy scarf artfully twisted around their (grimy) neck, but have clearly been walking along the high street barefoot for the last five years because they're 'so alternative' and then put their skanky black feet on my mat. Or worse, walk into a meditation class being held in the fucking prayer room of a Buddhist place of worship with their filthy feet.

Regarding children, the ones who have luminous green snot pouring down their face onto their upper lip, never, ever have any tissues or hankies and their parents don't seem to see it. By November, underneath the green is a lovely shade of red from where the face has been permanently covered in gunk.

And the older children who have learned helplessness and adopt a pathetic whispering tone emitted without moving their lips. And then when you have asked them very nicely three times because you can't hear them or lipread, just cry at you - but still won't tell you what the sodding problem is. Adults that make you play 'guess the missing words' in sentences are the older version of these children.

And anybody who covers their mouth deliberately when speaking needs to have their arms gaffertaped to their sides for a week on the first offence and placed in a Hannibal Lecter style trolley for subsequent ones, particularly if they also turn away from you.

Photos of newborn babies in buckets
Crushed velvet furniture
Nom
Badly photographed plates of horrid looking food
Words on walls
Ugg boots

@Scarletoharaseyebrows

YES YES YES THE NEWBORN PHOTOS!!!!! They are fucking creepy Whyyyyyyyyyyyy do people do them?!

Photos of newborn babies in buckets
Crushed velvet furniture
Nom
Badly photographed plates of horrid looking food
Words on walls
Ugg boots

That is a great list. The baby in flowerpots photos belong in houses that have the word love on their walls! Even worse are fake ugg boots!

SO....... the current craze for starting sentences with a totally superfluous SO! It drives me crazy and it’s cropping up everywhere. Even worse are the people who reply to a reasonable question by starting their reply with ‘LOOK’ and yes I do mean David Cameron! It implies that we’re all so thick he has to spell everything out for us.

People who come to my house and pointedly brush non existent dog hair off their clothes when they stand up. Firstly the dogs are not allowed on the furniture, secondly you knew we have dogs when you came. If you don’t like it, don’t bloody come!

Older people who live in villages (usually bungalows with lawns manicured to within an inch of their life) who twitch curtains and leap out of their houses, puce with rage if you park within a meter of their driveway.

If it's not about parking they watch for kids accidentally stepping onto their un-fenced lawn from the pavement and fly out raging about trespassing.

Anyone acting hyper conservative about protecting "their little bit of England". Likely to give themselves heart attacks with the amount of rage and venom boiling around inside.

Op I totally understand, I am the same! The ick definitely puts you off someone but what I have realised in life is that the off putting thing doesn't apply to everyone.
For example, seeing someone's pants could be quite nice if it was the right person. I think the ick is our subconscious warning radar.
Biggest icks for me:
Anything that dismisses or doesn't show respect for me whilst I'm talking to them ffs - other person answering a call whilst we are in mid conversation etc. Rude.
A guy constantly on his phone.
Bitten nails.
Small hands.
Hairy back/neck/chest.
Not making eye contact.
A guy who collects things to the point of obsession - star wars, lego etc. I mean come on, grow up. If you are doing this you are lacking in the bedroom imo.
Beards are disgusting - thick beards and esp if they are long. Bit of stubble is nice though.
I could go on, just goes to show though that thank god we all go for different things.

@jesuis
Agreed, I have a neighbour like that, just appeared at my side to inform me not to let the dog sniff his plants; told him to put a fence up if he’s so bloody precious, you know like the one I have 🙄

flapattack23 I HATE this. I know a woman that cannot decided ever what she should have to eat. On the few occasions we have eaten out together she never fails to ask me what she should have. How she hasn't starved to death yet i'll never know, why does someone else have to decide what you eat? Shes not asking for recommendations, eg we would be in Nandos with the kids and she knows the menu inside out. Annoying.

@FlapAttack23
Anything that’s mega self indulgent at the cost of adding to another s workload or mental load like thinking loudly out loud “oh what shall I wear... what should I eat.... oh maybe this.. no ... hmmm.. “ STFU

I’ve never examined my irritation enough to put a reason to it, but this exactly!!! If you don’t know, how the fuck would I?

People who have no desire to learn to drive.
People who wear active wear as 'leisure' wear.
People who 'make memories' 🤢.

people who pronounce 'th' as 'ff'

long hair on men but especially ponytails - almost always full of split ends

signet rings

saying they're going to "the little boys' room"

strong SE accents (don't mind on a platonic level but massive turn-off)

Totally irrational and prejudiced, what can you do?

JKScot sniffing his plants , that's taking oxygen from his side of the garden, obviously

@Jesuis
🤣🤣🤣
This is a man who washes his car every single Saturday at 8am EVERY week
without fail!
People who constantly wash cars in rain, snow
People who think they own the street outside their house
People obsessed with wheelie bins

People who tell ridiculous, unnecessary lies. Like saying they don’t shave their legs anymore but then 3 weeks later say they time their morning alarm so they have an extra 5 minutes to shave their legs.
They lie so often so much that they can’t keep them straight.
What are the BIG LIES you’ve told???
I don’t like liars which is not exactly petty I guess.

JKScot4
See also people who posted, with complete seriousness, that you should WASH YOUR HANDS after touching a wheelie bin because COVID! Apparently they never did this before

Yes it is a worry, the run on buying soap, did they not have soap beforehand? 🙄

I actually can’t stand anyone of an adult age doing the constant posing selfies.... grow up... and the constant filtering of said selfies so everyone comments on how wonderful or beautiful they look 🤮

People who say "I know, right?".