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Things you can't stand for no reason whatsoever?

418 replies

UnChristmassy · 10/12/2020 10:58

I have a real aversion to silicone. For some reason the thought of it makes me feel like I'm going to throw up, I can honestly get to heaving point 🤢 I've no idea why, it's not the feel of it. I just can't stand the thought of it.

It's the same with bottle tops, like the screw bottle top on a bottle of coke. The tip is always so scratchy and it gives me shivers.

Anyone else have random things they cannot stand but can't really explain?

DH thinks I'm a freak 😂

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HitthatroadJack · 10/12/2020 12:19

there was a poster outraged about a legging SUBSCRIPTION website, fabletics.

They sell full length leggings TheVamoosh
You can cancel after the introductory offer too

www.fabletics.co.uk/womens/bottoms/leggings/full-length-leggings

movingondown · 10/12/2020 12:20

I really hate holding a piece of chalk. Oh and those soft bristle hair brushes, they give me proper shudders and goosebumps! Even thinking about them makes me shudder!

Oh and collar bones freak me out.

IntermittentParps · 10/12/2020 12:20

That bloke Rylan (?) Presents It Takes Two. His face! I can't work out what I'm looking at.

Blocks and things (yoga blocks etc) made of that chopped-up and moulded-together foamy stuff. Make my skin crawl.

I agree about Morrissey, but I think there are plenty of good reasons not to be able to stand him.

Cottagepieandpeas · 10/12/2020 12:21

Re jumpers...,wearing a jumper without a t-shirt underneath.
Urgh.

Human hair also pretty bad, if not attached to the correct body part.

Firstruleofsoupover · 10/12/2020 12:22

Polystyrene. I cannot touch it. So dry, so squeaky.
Thin women talking about calories and what happens if they have a sniff of cake - to me who is a solid 13st.

Pool filters, am scared of those. Or anything happening below me in a pool. I once jumped backwards out of the deep end because a sub Aqua session had started shortly after I got in and I wasn’t aware. I think perhaps I was chomped by a shark in previous existence.

Plussizejumpsuit · 10/12/2020 12:23

Fleece material

Frenchdoors1 · 10/12/2020 12:24

20IntermittentParps

That bloke Rylan (?) Presents It Takes Two. His face! I can't work out what I'm looking at

Yeahhhhh, DH and I are puzzled too.

DappledThings · 10/12/2020 12:24

The word sweater. It's a jumper.

Zakana · 10/12/2020 12:24

The feel of green baize, making me shudder now, could never play pool or snooker.
My OH chomping, he can make even soft food sound crunchy and I have no idea how 🤷‍♀️
Poor table manners
Polystyrene such as packing peanuts and the mahoosive bits with new white goods etc
Listening to someone having a sneezing fit, like 10 sneezes in a row, well, this only applies to my OH actually, he makes such a bloody production over a simple bodily function!

There are probably loads more, those are just for starters!

SpudsandGravy · 10/12/2020 12:25

@Flibbertigibbet2211

Human hair when detached from its owner (particularly in bathrooms). For some reason I don't have the same psychological reaction to animal hair - that's a minor inconvenience because it's messy, but it isn't disgusting to me.
Funny you should say that. I'm exactly the same, but the distinction had never occurred to me before!
FairfaxAikman · 10/12/2020 12:26

Velvet/velour - even thinking about touching it gives me the boke

Scrambled eggs - can eat it in any other form but scrambled is 🤢

The word "hungry". I just hate the sound of it.

unmarkedbythat · 10/12/2020 12:26

Using 'shitting' and 'pissing' to refer to defecation and urination. I swear a lot. I am known for my sweary tendencies. I do not know why this bothers me so much. I can happily hear "pissing down with rain", "he was shitting all over the rest of the team by doing that", that sort of thing, but someone describing toilet activities using those words makes me want to vomit.

PeskyRooks · 10/12/2020 12:28

I don't like feeling or hearing other people's heartbeats. I just don't like it! If I lay my head in DH s chest I don't like hearing the heart. I
The other day dd had been running and said mummy feel my heart! It made me shudder a bit!
I didn't even like hearing my babies heartbeats when I was pregnant apart obviously from being glad they were ok.

NorthDowns · 10/12/2020 12:28

Pigeons urgh hate the sight of them & even more so if they’re shagging. Cannot stand it! Gives me utter rage.

todayIdrankmilk · 10/12/2020 12:31

Dd former nursery. Staff who worked in the baby room who would smoke on their break and then come back and pick up the babies when they stink of cigarettes and perfume. It doesn't mask the smell.

tanstaafl · 10/12/2020 12:33

@Frenchdoors1

Noisy car and motorbike exhausts.... Can't bear it for even a second... Grrrrr Angry
This. And that was before I had hearing aids. Sad
todayIdrankmilk · 10/12/2020 12:33

@PeskyRooks

I don't like feeling or hearing other people's heartbeats. I just don't like it! If I lay my head in DH s chest I don't like hearing the heart. I The other day dd had been running and said mummy feel my heart! It made me shudder a bit! I didn't even like hearing my babies heartbeats when I was pregnant apart obviously from being glad they were ok.
I thought this was Just me Grin I find heartbeats really creepy too.
TheDogsMother · 10/12/2020 12:36

Yes yes to the idea of chewing cotton wool, I've never done it so no idea why. Also pulling wet hair out of a plug hole. Abandoned bits of wet cloth lying in the gutter (a lost glove or similar). Vacuum cleaner, wood saw or other high pitched noisy machinery going for too long. It just drills into the centre of my brain. Those headbands bands that are put on bald baby heads. Morrissey, 100% agreed but I think this is entirely rational.

Frenchdoors1 · 10/12/2020 12:43

Really!

If I'm talking to someone in the street and this happens they look at me like Hmm when I say I hate it.
If I'm in the house and I hear them it makes my stomach go funny.
I don't know if there is a name for this.

Scolha · 10/12/2020 12:44

Tea towels.
When someone hands you a manky tea towel to dry your hands that looks like it’s never had a wash. 🤢

Frenchdoors1 · 10/12/2020 12:45

*33tanstaafl

Frenchdoors1

Noisy car and motorbike exhausts.... Can't bear it for even a second... Grrrrr angry

This. And that was before I had hearing aids. sad*

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Shutupyoutart · 10/12/2020 12:52

Polystyrene makes my teeth hurt. I cant bare the sound or feel of it. The sound of squeaky balloons, or anything squeaking at all really.i hate bananas too love the taste of them but can't stand the texture and wont even pick one up with my hand same with mushrooms.

YellowHighlighterPen · 10/12/2020 12:55

Flashing Christmas lights especially outdoors. Anything more than a gentle twinkle is just ugly ugly ugly and wrong.

MeepleMe · 10/12/2020 13:06

Breaking or cutting polystyrene makes me feel all horrible. I also have a hatred of loose human hairs, I get this fear that they'll get stuck in my throat, a bit like when you swallow half of a strawberry lace but half is still in your mouth, bleurgh.

N0tthe0nlyfruit · 10/12/2020 14:34

Touching velvet with dry hands. Have to wet my hands to do it.