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Skanky behaviour.

111 replies

whatisforteamum · 18/04/2025 22:05

I could overhear comments about my tea drinking.
I will drink cold herbal tea rather than throw it away.
Apparently it's skanky.Got me thinking what's low standards.?
For me it is
Wearing dirty clothes or shoes.
Poor hygiene especially dirty hands nails or teeth.
What are yours that give you the ick.

OP posts:
Moopsie · 18/04/2025 22:07

Cold tea isn’t it.

Poor personal hygiene or having a dirty house. Behaving with a lack of self respect and being vulgar. Those are the only things I’d consider truly ‘skanky’.

whatisforteamum · 18/04/2025 22:30

I don't think it is either.🤔

OP posts:
FleaBeeBob · 18/04/2025 22:36

Blowing snot out one side of your nose is skanky

whatisforteamum · 18/04/2025 22:40

Good god that is grim.🤮

OP posts:
TheOccupier · 18/04/2025 22:46

Spitting.
Coughing or yawning without covering your mouth.
Eating Mcdonald's.
Energy drinks.
Not changing bedsheets regularly.

whatisforteamum · 18/04/2025 22:47

The occupier yes I agree.

OP posts:
Goldengirl123 · 19/04/2025 08:16

People say ick

BallerinaRadio · 19/04/2025 08:17

People that start threads with the sole intention of just belittling and knocking other people and being unnecessarily unkind 🙄

TheCountofMountingCrispBags · 19/04/2025 08:26

BallerinaRadio · 19/04/2025 08:17

People that start threads with the sole intention of just belittling and knocking other people and being unnecessarily unkind 🙄

Do you never make value judgements about anyone or anything? If you don't you are either Mother Theresa or a bot.
Human nature is what it is. No-one is perfect. Very few have poor personal hygiene, or need to pierce a child's ears for poor MH reasons.

DriveMeCrazy1974 · 19/04/2025 08:34

TheOccupier · 18/04/2025 22:46

Spitting.
Coughing or yawning without covering your mouth.
Eating Mcdonald's.
Energy drinks.
Not changing bedsheets regularly.

Wow - you seriously class eating a McDonald's or drinking an energy drink as skanky behaviour compared with the other things on your list? What on earth is skanky about eating or drinking?!

iseethembloom · 19/04/2025 08:44

When people taste food as the food is cooking (to check the flavour or temperature) and then put the wooden spoon (or whatever it is) back into the food…

… and others start wailing, ‘ugh, that’s so unhygienic’… I find this sort of virtue signalling extremely ‘skanky’.

Grayson Perry pointed out that some aristocratic behaviour… having ‘naff’ ornaments (porcelain boot / shire horse) not changing bedding as often as you might, or wearing clothes that might have a bit of food on, is closer to the ‘working class’ (whatever that means these days) than the middle classes. I think he was spot on with this.

Summertimeblahness · 19/04/2025 08:46

Spitting
Farting in public

Who did you overhear saying that?

Summertimeblahness · 19/04/2025 08:47

@iseethembloom I love Grayson.

Catlord · 19/04/2025 08:53

That's not skanky, I love cold tea. It's a cheery surprise when I've forgotten a cuppa.

Skanky behaviour is spitting in the street. Cat calling, throwing litter. Sneakily vaping indoors making the place reek of artificial ice lolly scents.

KimberleyClark · 19/04/2025 08:55

I like cold tea too. I make it with skimmed milk, that way you don’t get congealed fat.

To me skanky behaviour is coming down to hotel breakfast in your PJs and dressing gown.

Left · 19/04/2025 08:56

Who is calling you skanky, that’s so rude ☹️

BeansCounter · 19/04/2025 08:57

TheCountofMountingCrispBags · 19/04/2025 08:26

Do you never make value judgements about anyone or anything? If you don't you are either Mother Theresa or a bot.
Human nature is what it is. No-one is perfect. Very few have poor personal hygiene, or need to pierce a child's ears for poor MH reasons.

Yeah, but there's a difference between making snap value judgements, we all do it, and then wanting to discuss how superior we all are about it.

This is the problem. People think that their opinion is the most important, their way of life is the right way, and make judgement.

Unless it's endangering you, make your judgement (ps. they don't care) and move on. Let's not make threads that pull other people down. We're not all going to agree anyway 🤷🏼‍♀️

iseethembloom · 19/04/2025 09:55

Spitting and littering are gross and so is constant loud swearing.

Bigearringsbigsmile · 19/04/2025 10:01

Going to the supermarket in your pyjamas and dressing gown
Wearing skin coloured unitards in public
Sitting smoking outside the front of your house
Not keeping your body clean
Moving your new boyfriend into your home with your children straight away

cherrypiesx · 19/04/2025 10:11

Loads of things messy cluttered home not washing in the morning or at night slurping drinks sleeping in the same bedding for weeks a time i have to have clean bedding every 3 days.
Spitting littering moveing men in within months.
Shoes on in doors.
The list goes on.

Ginmonkeyagain · 19/04/2025 10:23

The people who left bin bag full of old food and other rubbish ourside our flats so it got torn apart by the foxes over night ... then left the mess. That's skanky.

whitewineandsun · 19/04/2025 10:33

Ginmonkeyagain · 19/04/2025 10:23

The people who left bin bag full of old food and other rubbish ourside our flats so it got torn apart by the foxes over night ... then left the mess. That's skanky.

Yes, yuck.

I wish I had the time and energy to change bedding every three days let alone every week!

Greycatclub · 19/04/2025 10:36

I don’t think I’ve heard the word skanky in the last decade 😂

B1anche · 19/04/2025 10:59

I get the feeling I'm definitely skanky by MN standards...🙄

Whoarethoseguys · 19/04/2025 11:00

People who say skanky and judge other people

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