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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)

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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:
Changedforsafety · 04/06/2026 19:26

NadjaofAntipaxos · 04/08/2025 17:31

Had finally been asked out by a hot guy I'd been lusting after for ages at our shared hobby. I fancied him so much and thought myself already half in love.
We arranged to meet for a day at the beach. He showed up with a little case which contained an actual ukulele. He proceeded to serenade me with "octopuses garden" and his best Ringo Starr impression.
In front of people.
I couldn't fucking bear it.

Already pissing myself this one is a belter 🤣🤣

Bleachedjeans · 05/06/2026 08:40

So glad this thread has been picked up again! Here’s mine:
My ex of many years ago had ED and it ‘worked’ less than half of the time.
He told his MOTHER all about it!
One afternoon we went to bed and we did it - successfully. As soon as we had finished he reached for the phone and TOLD his mother - in a sickly baby voice 🤮 I just lay there. Couldn’t believe it.
It gets worse….
We were still in bed a little later after cups of coffee when the phone rang. His mother.
She said to him “ Guess what WE have just done, too!” Then cackled like a demented witch!
He congratulated her in same baby voice. He thought the whole afternoon had been a great hit and the phone calls were just the icing on the cake. 🤪😂😱 I can’t find an emoji that fits…

Bleachedjeans · 05/06/2026 08:45

Changedforsafety · 04/06/2026 19:26

Already pissing myself this one is a belter 🤣🤣

lol. Reminds of the scene in the film Bedazzled with Brendan Fraser where he starts to serenade his girlfriend on the beach while strumming badly on a guitar and singing a god awful wailing song 🤣

Changedforsafety · 05/06/2026 12:06

Bleachedjeans · 05/06/2026 08:40

So glad this thread has been picked up again! Here’s mine:
My ex of many years ago had ED and it ‘worked’ less than half of the time.
He told his MOTHER all about it!
One afternoon we went to bed and we did it - successfully. As soon as we had finished he reached for the phone and TOLD his mother - in a sickly baby voice 🤮 I just lay there. Couldn’t believe it.
It gets worse….
We were still in bed a little later after cups of coffee when the phone rang. His mother.
She said to him “ Guess what WE have just done, too!” Then cackled like a demented witch!
He congratulated her in same baby voice. He thought the whole afternoon had been a great hit and the phone calls were just the icing on the cake. 🤪😂😱 I can’t find an emoji that fits…

That is so wrong I just don’t know where to start……..

Brendahollowayreconsider · 05/06/2026 12:16

Changedforsafety · 05/06/2026 12:06

That is so wrong I just don’t know where to start……..

Agreed that's a therapists dream imagine how many sessions for that.
It's all sorts of wrong.

looselegs · 05/06/2026 12:36

The guy who spent the whole evening pulling his pants out the crack of his arse....

SpagBoel · 05/06/2026 12:37

SpagBoel · 04/06/2026 11:34

Can someone please give me their opinion on my experience. We went out for food. A set meal. Doesn't eat sugar. So when the desert came I saw him take a small bit from the top. Eat it reluctantly and then put the rest of the ice cream on an empty table

Can I get some ones opinion on this?

SpagBoel · 05/06/2026 12:37

looselegs · 05/06/2026 12:36

The guy who spent the whole evening pulling his pants out the crack of his arse....

He had a wedgie?

YorkshirePuddingsGreatestFan · 05/06/2026 12:55

My male hairdresser.

I'm single. He spilt with his wife and he's on dating apps. He seems to think I'm interested in this. Even though I keep trying to change the subject he tells me all about the women he's chatting to while he's cutting my hair.

Just had a hair cut the other day and the usual waffle started. He said he was currently dating a woman. She's keen but he's not keen on her so she's "just something to do until someone better comes along."

Looking for a new hairdresser now as that's just vile for that poor woman.

Massagetimemachine · 05/06/2026 13:03

I once had a brief relationship with a guy who gave me the ick in lots of ways (me having to tell him to go back into the bathroom and wash his hands after using the toilet was a highlight). One thing he used to do quite often that suddenly popped into my head recently was, as a “joke”, referring to himself as a sweet and innocent little boy. The thought of being intimate with him just turned my stomach after that, any physical attraction was instantly dead.

Bleachedjeans · 06/06/2026 11:36

Changedforsafety · 05/06/2026 12:06

That is so wrong I just don’t know where to start……..

Thanks for responding. I know. So wrong. I was in my mid twenties. He was late thirties. I couldn’t actually speak. I think I was so shocked. I never told anyone. As you might guess, there are other ‘mother’ stories! 😀

Bleachedjeans · 06/06/2026 11:39

Brendahollowayreconsider · 05/06/2026 12:16

Agreed that's a therapists dream imagine how many sessions for that.
It's all sorts of wrong.

I know! I recently told my DD (he is not her dad.)My DD is late 50s. I’m late 70s. We were screaming laughing and it was great therapy! 😍

Neverforgetwhothisisfor · 06/06/2026 13:33

CryptoFascist · 03/06/2026 19:33

I've tried to walk like that after reading this post. It's very discombobulating!

It’s actually extraordinarily weird. Who does that?

He also used to calculate down to the penny how much I owed him for my drink when we went out for drinks.

BonBon10 · 06/06/2026 19:06

Was seeing a guy for a few weeks, just drinks and coffee to start, and the cinema, all going well. Until, we went for a dinner in a fairly nice restaurant and he held his cutlery 👍 with fists on the table, knife and fork like he was holding a flag pole in each hand, didn't slice the bread roll or tear pieces off to butter, just picked it up and chomped on it like an apple. Maybe its me 😆 🤔

Bleachedjeans · 07/06/2026 09:39

BonBon10 · 06/06/2026 19:06

Was seeing a guy for a few weeks, just drinks and coffee to start, and the cinema, all going well. Until, we went for a dinner in a fairly nice restaurant and he held his cutlery 👍 with fists on the table, knife and fork like he was holding a flag pole in each hand, didn't slice the bread roll or tear pieces off to butter, just picked it up and chomped on it like an apple. Maybe its me 😆 🤔

No, it’s not you. It was him. Sounds like a bloody gorilla trying to act like a human - and failing.

MyMonthlyNameChange · 07/06/2026 11:04

He kept typing ‘you’re’ when he meant ‘you’ll’ in text messages. As in: “I’m sure you’re be fine.”

He was also a silent cummer. Gave absolutely no indication at all. He’d just stop and say he was done. To my shame I kept seeing him far longer than I should have because he was really fit.

Another one I dated back in my late teens kept a running tally of everything he’d spent on me that month down to the last penny. He had a Palm Pilot (remember those?) and would type everything into it and then ask me to pay him back. Needless to say I didn’t and he was dumped!

sammylady37 · 07/06/2026 11:09

He was also a silent cummer. Gave absolutely no indication at all. He’d just stop and say he was done. To my shame I kept seeing him far longer than I should have because he was really fit

Oh god, I had a silent cummer for a while too. There was literally nothing to indicate he had cum, except the fact he stopped. No change in pace, breathing, facial expression and no noise. And as we were using condoms, no semen either. It was bloody weird!

MyDadWasAnArse · 07/06/2026 13:05

BonBon10 · 06/06/2026 19:06

Was seeing a guy for a few weeks, just drinks and coffee to start, and the cinema, all going well. Until, we went for a dinner in a fairly nice restaurant and he held his cutlery 👍 with fists on the table, knife and fork like he was holding a flag pole in each hand, didn't slice the bread roll or tear pieces off to butter, just picked it up and chomped on it like an apple. Maybe its me 😆 🤔

Christ he sounds like Desperate Dan awaiting his cow pie.

SunnyRedSnail · 07/06/2026 13:14
  1. This lovely guy I chatted to a few times at the pub. A few of us went back to his mate's house and he took his trainers off and OMG horrible cheesy sweaty sock smell. Truly pungent. Total ick and 10p% went off him.
  1. The super cute guy i met in a club and then when we went on a date I discovered his only interests were playing football, watching football and drinking with his mates. He was so dull it gave me the ick.
  1. Another super cute guy but with far more personality and interests. Met up a few times, he came back to mine, took his top off and OMG on his back was this awful huge tattoo of some sort of ogre with a bulging eye ball, then also an icky mole. The tattoo in particular completely gave me the ick. Apparently he got it done abroad on a lads holiday a few years before.
NegativeSpace · Today 15:23

@SpagBoel it’s a bit odd he didn’t just say he didn’t want it in the first place. The waste, and putting it on another table messing it up, would bother me but not enough to dump him if everything else was good. I’d just ask him to decline dessert & not to do that.

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