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To ask for your most minor, irrational ick?

415 replies

trekking1 · 28/03/2024 22:39

The thing that men do that is completely normal to most people, but gives you the ick?

Mine is men wearing long socks with shorts. I'm sorry I just can't

OP posts:
BronwenTheBrave · 29/03/2024 07:11

sparepantsandtoothbrush · 28/03/2024 23:14

Using their index fingers to type on their phone instead of their thumbs

Bastards!

perhapsbutno · 29/03/2024 07:11

Men who are cold. Literally, not emotionally.

Have dated two guys now who didn't wear winter coats (not a money issue). They wore light jackets and were shivery/cold/shoulders hunched, and it unlocked a new ick. Random, I know.

Sparkleandshine231 · 29/03/2024 07:12

Guardian800 · 29/03/2024 07:05

Sounds like you are the problem 🙃 not the men.

I couldn’t disagree with you more. LondonPlease has posted the most sensible thing I’ve seen on here in weeks.

TammytheFaceGhost · 29/03/2024 07:15

Whistling, or blowing raspberries. Cannot STAND either of those noises.

Cathbrownlow · 29/03/2024 07:25

You'd have to be a certain age for this one:

Men who walk like Thunderbirds puppets.

YouwouldthinkIhavemoresense · 29/03/2024 07:25

IndecentPropolis · 29/03/2024 06:51

Angry bottoms 😂😂😂😂😂

🤣🤣🤣

Guardian800 · 29/03/2024 07:25

Sparkleandshine231 · 29/03/2024 07:12

I couldn’t disagree with you more. LondonPlease has posted the most sensible thing I’ve seen on here in weeks.

All I would say is it takes "two to tango". You can't place the blame for failed relationships on one person. Clearly she has a problem making and maintaining long term relationships and now won't take any responsibility. just an observation 😳

YouwouldthinkIhavemoresense · 29/03/2024 07:26

TammytheFaceGhost · 29/03/2024 07:15

Whistling, or blowing raspberries. Cannot STAND either of those noises.

My FIL whistles loudly outside the front door as soon as he arrives at our house … it’s to let us know he’s here. He rings the doorbell about 15 times repeatedly too.

Annoying is an understatement.

RichPetunia · 29/03/2024 07:26

I had a male shop assistant called me m'lady. Repeatedly. Don't know what he was trying to do, but all these years later it still rankles😀

Mookie81 · 29/03/2024 07:28

Men who wear ridiculously skinny jeans/trousers, especially if they have a big bum and thighs. Even more so if they're fat and not even in shape with it.

MurderousCheekbones · 29/03/2024 07:33

Worked with a guy who was never ill or sick - he was 'poorly'.

Ick ick ick.

moreminieggsplease · 29/03/2024 07:36

Ankle grazer trousers with smart shoes and no socks.

VampireWeekday · 29/03/2024 07:39

Men who are sexist or try and explain feminism to me. I was with an insanely good looking man the other day (not a date, I hasten to add) and then he launched into a long explanation of how pornography isn't that bad for women because it doesn't cause men to be violent to us. Attraction instantly over.

KeinLiebeslied54321 · 29/03/2024 07:40

Calling things 'icks' in itself makes me feel 🤢.

KeinLiebeslied54321 · 29/03/2024 07:41

Mookie81 · 29/03/2024 07:28

Men who wear ridiculously skinny jeans/trousers, especially if they have a big bum and thighs. Even more so if they're fat and not even in shape with it.

Change that to women and you might just get jumped on. 😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️

HelenHywater · 29/03/2024 07:42

A man I was seeing said the word "yummy".

ick.

BreedingHeifer · 29/03/2024 07:44

User8643733 · 28/03/2024 23:05

Small children with a repulsive chesty cough in public. (Before anyone gets triggered, I have one of my own and it drives me up the wall as well)

Aso, small children with a line of snot from nostril to mouth. There is a year 5 at my DS's school who still sports a snot line on a regular basis. Wipe your nose, child.

KeinLiebeslied54321 · 29/03/2024 07:46

HelenHywater · 29/03/2024 07:42

A man I was seeing said the word "yummy".

ick.

Depends what it's in relation to:
food - fine,
people - nope,
other random things, e.g. a handbag - nope.

Hotpinkangel19 · 29/03/2024 07:49

Cactusleopard · 28/03/2024 22:54

People claiming to be "a bit OCD" about something.
No.... there's no "a bit OCD".
Obsessive compulsive disorder is a genuine recognised and diagnosed condition that can be completely debilitating to the people who suffer with it.
There isn't a month that goes by where I don't hear someone say they are a bit OCD about this or that. No. You like it done that way and have a preference. But if its not done that way... nothing happens to you. You might wrinkle your nose a bit and that's it.
If it were any other mental health condition you were claiming to have and essentially mocking or belittling then in this day and age you would be put in your place, but for some reason people are OK with saying it about OCD.

Completely agree.

Sparkleandshine231 · 29/03/2024 07:51

Guardian800 · 29/03/2024 07:25

All I would say is it takes "two to tango". You can't place the blame for failed relationships on one person. Clearly she has a problem making and maintaining long term relationships and now won't take any responsibility. just an observation 😳

Youve made your damaging assumption that she ‘clearly’ has a problem with relationships based on one post?

I think you’re being wildly judgemental and a little bit naive. I disagree with you and think her view on life is a damn sight better than yours!

Grow up you sound about 12!

sparepantsandtoothbrush · 29/03/2024 07:51

How bizarre that my ick is the only one that's got people acting defensive 😂 You do realise the OP used the word "irrational"?

People using index fingers to type on their phones give me the ick. Yes it's irrational but it still gives me the ick!

inabubble3 · 29/03/2024 07:55

Those who emotionally dump on you when you first meet. Then they can’t/ won’t reciprocate. Absolute mood hoovers.

Skinnny office hands and fingers that bend sideways (I know they can’t help it). Really quite fancied a guy then noticed this and that was it for me 😂

Noisy eaters. Eating with mouth open.

BreatheAndFocus · 29/03/2024 08:04

Jeans that hang too low so you can see their bum crack 🤢
Hairy backs and shoulders, especially if they’re very pale as it always remind me of the hair you get on a joint of pork 🤮 🤮 🤢
Men in sandals
Arse scratching

StormySpanielz · 29/03/2024 08:05

Cactusleopard · 29/03/2024 07:08

Not normally. Last 2 times I heard it used it was

  1. Somone typing who missed a capital letter off a person's name as they went. I was sitting with them helping draft the email and I got "oh, hang on, let me go back and put a capital letter for his name. I'm a bit OCD about that". I mean, it's not OCD it's just basic grammar. And the 30 other spelling errors in your 2 short paragraphs mean you are going to go back and make corrections anyway.
  1. Somone who was washing their cutlery in the work sink. It was their own rather from the draw and they were going to be putting it back in their bag as soon as they were done. "Can I have the tea towel to dry my fork? I'm a bit OCD about it" like we thought they were going to put a dripping wet and soap covered fork straight into their bag.

I think the second example is a good use of ‘a little bit OCD’. They bring their own cutlery to work, wash and dry, then keep it safe somewhere so no one else can use it. It seems quite particular and vaguely neurotic. Most MH conditions exist on a spectrum. Of course this example is probably not associated with the distress or harm of serious OCD, but it’s not completely different. Why do we have to be offended by it.

But yeah the first example is just having decent standards about basic grammar 🤣

PurpleWhirple · 29/03/2024 08:12

Missymarple · 28/03/2024 23:40

The gross, pubey beards 🤢 And when they look all proud of themselves and stroke them constantly, like it's a huge achievement to just not shave for ages and have this thicket around their mouths🤮

😂 amazing
I work with so many of these dickheads