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Reasons men have given you the ick part 2!

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CircularMotionDementedThrustingGuy · 03/08/2025 09:47

Thread number 1
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5383729-please-tell-me-times-where-youve-got-the-ick-with-a-guy?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

i don't know how many more experiences will be shared but I'm hoping to continue the thread because thread number one has given me so so so many laughs.
I still have a lot of ick stories to share so without further ado..

Went on a date and the guy had what I can only describe as white string on his lips. I kept licking my lips in the hope he'd twig but to no avail I ended up saying DUDE you have a massive white string when you talk can you wipe it off.

didn't go down well and didn't see him again.

I had a ONS with a work colleague when I was 17 from a supermarket Saturday job. He kept referring to his.. Achem.. package as THE BIG DADDY.
it wasn't. That was a humbling experience.

please share yours!

(also it's same OP I've just got a shiny new username)

Please tell me times where you've got the ick with a guy | Mumsnet

Lighthearted!! Just that really. I love hearing these ill start: went on a date with someone and we played shuffleboard and after every turn of...

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OP posts:
Brendahollowayreconsider · 07/08/2025 10:59

MyDadWasAnArse · 07/08/2025 10:57

My ex did that when I was in the bath. He brought a magazine in too. He was actually downstairs at the time and we had a downstairs loo so he definitely did it to piss me off.

That's disgusting on so many levels.

BySassyGreenPanda · 07/08/2025 12:16

MyDadWasAnArse · 07/08/2025 10:57

My ex did that when I was in the bath. He brought a magazine in too. He was actually downstairs at the time and we had a downstairs loo so he definitely did it to piss me off.

I think it's their way of showing their contempt for the woman.

lololola1987 · 07/08/2025 16:23

BySassyGreenPanda · 07/08/2025 12:16

I think it's their way of showing their contempt for the woman.

My abusive ex did this after we separated. He would let himself in. Shit in the downstairs loo and not clean up after himself.
Did this whilst we are still married so the ick was there anyway.
leaving him was the best move ever.

BySassyGreenPanda · 07/08/2025 16:39

CircularMotionDementedThrustingGuy · 07/08/2025 06:53

🤣🤣🤣🤣

oh lord

He put the 'ick' in chicken. 😩

MsDDxx · 09/08/2025 10:48

BakingMuffins · 03/08/2025 10:23

When we were having sex he kept saying I want to get you pregnant. Can I get you pregnant?

Over and over again. We were not TTC and I instantly stopped and thought WTF.

I jumped up and never had sex with him again.

That’s just a “breeding kink” I expect and that he didn’t actually mean it 😂

MsDDxx · 09/08/2025 11:13

missmushroom · 04/08/2025 22:51

Still be a fun thread though.

There’s not enough men in here to make it much of a reading to be honest.

Maybe the thread should have been titled to include women as well?

Dontsayyouloveme · 10/08/2025 23:29

Oh another… at 54, he didn’t know how to jump start a car ffs!

LillyPJ · 11/08/2025 05:56

Dontsayyouloveme · 10/08/2025 23:29

Oh another… at 54, he didn’t know how to jump start a car ffs!

I'm much older than that and I'd have no idea how to. When that happened, did you show him how to?

Dontsayyouloveme · 11/08/2025 09:47

LillyPJ · 11/08/2025 05:56

I'm much older than that and I'd have no idea how to. When that happened, did you show him how to?

I certainly did.. I also told him he’d need to keep his car running fur a while to get some more charge into the battery. I also suggested he bought himself some jump leads.

it was the ‘my car battery has died.. I’m on the side of the road, what do I do now?’ Ick ick ick

DiamanteTissueBox · 12/08/2025 10:39

Firstly thanks to this thread for the new username, there were a few contenders from both threads but some icks were too much to repeat 🤢

When I was about 15 there was a boy I fancied in my wider social circle and it was starting to look like he reciprocated as we would hang out with each other more and more when the group met up. Bearing in mind this was the 2000s when you had limited amounts of credit you topped up on your phone as a teenager and every text counted. One day I found out I'd run out of credit even though I should have had plenty to last the rest of the month. Went into my sent messages and found crush had taken a candid photo of me on my phone, then MMS'd it to himself!!!! Couldn't get over that ick and in true teenager fashion just tried to avoid him in group settings after that.

Also from teenager days, had been chatting with a friend of a friend on MSN (ha) but hadn't met him in real life yet. Upgraded this to a phone call one day, but I could hear the occasional splashing... He was in the bath. I couldn't not picture him with Matey pirate bubble bath and a rubber duck. Blocked.

In my early 20s I met up with an old school friend where it'd been a bit "will they won't they" back in the day, as we'd bumped into each other at a street food market and had a lovely if brief chat. He said he had his own place and invited me over for a cuppa and a catch-up. Turns out he'd inherited the house from his granny when she'd died a year ago, but he had left everything as it was, frilly doilies and all. With the exception of the entire house absolutely reeking of weed, which presumably was not left over by poor, recently deceased granny...

Brendahollowayreconsider · 12/08/2025 10:46

DiamanteTissueBox · 12/08/2025 10:39

Firstly thanks to this thread for the new username, there were a few contenders from both threads but some icks were too much to repeat 🤢

When I was about 15 there was a boy I fancied in my wider social circle and it was starting to look like he reciprocated as we would hang out with each other more and more when the group met up. Bearing in mind this was the 2000s when you had limited amounts of credit you topped up on your phone as a teenager and every text counted. One day I found out I'd run out of credit even though I should have had plenty to last the rest of the month. Went into my sent messages and found crush had taken a candid photo of me on my phone, then MMS'd it to himself!!!! Couldn't get over that ick and in true teenager fashion just tried to avoid him in group settings after that.

Also from teenager days, had been chatting with a friend of a friend on MSN (ha) but hadn't met him in real life yet. Upgraded this to a phone call one day, but I could hear the occasional splashing... He was in the bath. I couldn't not picture him with Matey pirate bubble bath and a rubber duck. Blocked.

In my early 20s I met up with an old school friend where it'd been a bit "will they won't they" back in the day, as we'd bumped into each other at a street food market and had a lovely if brief chat. He said he had his own place and invited me over for a cuppa and a catch-up. Turns out he'd inherited the house from his granny when she'd died a year ago, but he had left everything as it was, frilly doilies and all. With the exception of the entire house absolutely reeking of weed, which presumably was not left over by poor, recently deceased granny...

@DiamanteTissueBox don't know why I'm getting Norman Bates vibes about grannies house.

DiamanteTissueBox · 12/08/2025 10:49

Brendahollowayreconsider · 12/08/2025 10:46

@DiamanteTissueBox don't know why I'm getting Norman Bates vibes about grannies house.

I didn't stick around to find out! Imagine going upstairs and finding granny's clothes still laid out on the bed...

OneAmusedShark · 13/08/2025 08:34

Testerical · 06/08/2025 22:19

There is no suitable emoji for this. I mean, that’s just … no. I almost feel a bit sorry for this person. 99.95% of sexual partners would run like the wind after seeing that behaviour.

I found a suitable emoji for this!

🤮

OneAmusedShark · 13/08/2025 08:51

Brendahollowayreconsider · 12/08/2025 10:46

@DiamanteTissueBox don't know why I'm getting Norman Bates vibes about grannies house.

🤣🤣🤣 this made me lol so much I needed to visit the smallest room!

ChaliceinWonderland · 29/09/2025 22:17

Oh my god, these are crackers!!!

CatsCatsCatsLoveThem · 29/09/2025 23:01

pinenuts75 · 04/08/2025 21:47

I dated someone a few years back and he refused to have a number 2 in the toilet, his poo would swirl around and go down the plug hole the heat of the water broke it up, he said it was a waste of water, he might as well do it while he has a shower 🤮 we weren’t together very long.

Thats just nasty. Other posts have had me laugh and cringe in equal measure.

CatsCatsCatsLoveThem · 29/09/2025 23:20

CircularMotionDementedThrustingGuy · 05/08/2025 21:16

NOOOOOOO did this actually happen!!

my Christ imagine trying to explain that to your date I am picturing this on the local Facebook page

'woman rescued by the fire and rescue service, rumours say she shit herself, we have contacted her for comment.'

This did make me cry laughing. Can you imagine the explanation, erm well funny story erm....😂can this thread be moved to classics, the writing very funny and well written.

Neverforgetwhothisisfor · 30/09/2025 00:00

I have so many

eg

  1. the man who walked with his arms and legs swinging together rather than on opposite sides (eg left arm forward at same time as left leg)

  2. the man who had such small equipment that I didn’t know he’d started DTD

  3. the man who in the cold light of day turned out to have buck teeth

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