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The ick = game over?

361 replies

Ella28_ · 17/06/2022 17:49

I'm dating this guy and sometimes he says completely innocent words or phrases that make my skin crawl and completely turn me off him and I'm genuinely thinking about ending it. So petty of me but I literally can't get past it. Defo gonna die alone at this rate 😂

Anyone else get the ick over the most minor things?

OP posts:
autienotnaughty · 18/06/2022 23:40

@fortheloveofcheesecake I can neither confirm or deny 😂😂

Nowomenaroundeh · 18/06/2022 23:59

This is the funniest thread I've read for ages. I hope no men are reading it.

I've had The Ick many many times with lovely men who looking back really deserved better than me.

One guy had the audacity to say "it's warm and that's the main thing" when I asked him why he was wearing a horrible jacket.
Another guy signed text messages off with the word 'kiss'.
Another ate a sandwich containing mayonnaise on a casual lunch date.
One particular rage-inducing fella suggested via text we go 'for a mooch around the market' on our next date.
One utter wimp had a cold.

FrancescaContini · 19/06/2022 00:04

ImpartialMongoose · 18/06/2022 16:35

My 'the ick' moments, each line is a different man:
When he ended his message with 'ciao'
When he would tell me what type of shit his dog had done despite me begging him not to.
When he made baby cooing noises as he sucked my nipple
When I noticed one of his ears was much smaller than the other
When he jumped up and down on the spot with glee
When he awkwardly tried be playful in the fountains on the South Bank
When he said "I went in Morrison's the other day and there wasn't a white face in there" (that was less of an ick and more like my face becoming the one on the Edvard Munch painting The Scream)

This is hilarious! OMG the nipples…

FrancescaContini · 19/06/2022 00:13

Also separate me:

He had a meltdown at the cost of two large glasses of wine in a fancy bar in central London: 14 pounds! 14 pounds!! And for WHAT? (we were on a date…mortifying)

He kept deliberately saying “edu-ma-cation” instead of “education”.

He was wearing really short running shorts and when he sat down, the tip of his flaccid penis poked out from the side of his shorts.

He bought a packet Cornish pasty from a petrol station.

He told me his hair transplant had cost £30k, and kept mentioning that his Audi had a personalised number plate.

He couldn’t get it up even after taking viagra. He had a serious porn habit.

He had never driven abroad and couldn’t understand a basic French menu.

FrancescaContini · 19/06/2022 00:13

Separate MEN

Nowomenaroundeh · 19/06/2022 00:19

I've remembered more. Also separate men.

He couldn't drive. I also couldn't but had the decency to feel ashamed of myself. He insisted he didn't need to as he lived in a city.
He had returned to college as an adult kept referring to himself most unhilariously as an immature student.
We picked me up to go for a walk on the pier. This had actually seemed like a promising budding relationship until the moment he stepped out of the car and then did a few stretches before his walk.

MrsTerryPratchett · 19/06/2022 00:22

summersunherewecome · 17/06/2022 21:03

I dated a guy last year and the ick got me when he snogged me with his eyes open....put me off and never saw him again 😐

How did you know if your eyes weren't open?

HA HA! Caught you.

TwoBigNoisyBoys · 19/06/2022 00:50

Bloody love ick threads.

I’ve always found that once you have the ick, that’s it…game over.

Ziga · 19/06/2022 00:52

absolutely pointless at some of these - so funny!

mine was when he made me dinner for the first time. Dry pasta with no sauce or seasoning and whole sausages on top. Not cut up. Just shoved on top. And he ate a HUGE portion of it. We were 28 years old, so not some young teenage inexperienced cook. Awful.

Ziga · 19/06/2022 00:53

Sorry - meant to say “poorless”! I love this thread 😂

oofmehip · 19/06/2022 00:53
  1. when opening the door, would inexplicably greet people in a high pitched voice with ‘hallo hallo hallowww’ spoken very quickly.

  2. would trot down the stairs/around the house making a spitty trumpet noise with his lips pursed, like a 5 year old, often to the tune of ‘chick chick chicken’

  3. commented that ‘you never see white/straight people in adverts any more’.

  4. said it was silly of me to pay for Netflix as I can just share his. Then quickly backtracked on his generosity and said ‘… or you could put the money aside and get me a better Christmas present’. He was loaded.

  5. said with sincerity ‘don’t worry, you’ll learn’ after opening a Christmas present he wasn’t too impressed with as I said something about being rubbish at buying presents.

  6. would send me the most revolting ‘I love you’ memes like two chubby cartoon kids in bed together - just fucking weird.

  7. oh Christ, would ‘design’ our initials on a lame app on his phone and kept sending them saying what do you think about this one..? On one occasion saying ‘think I’ll work on that one tonight’. What for ffs.

Nowomenaroundeh · 19/06/2022 01:10

Oh these keep getting funnier and bringing back more for me:

One fella told me he thought I was going cool on him but he wasn't going to give me up without a fight. The fight was him sending me a torrent of pictures of flowers via WhatsApp. I hadn't been cooling but I went ice cold then.

AmIoverbeingmarried · 19/06/2022 01:38

I just told my husband its over.

He wants answers I can't give other than I'm not happy & I don't love him anymore. I told him a year ago & stuck it out but its not worked & I can't keep going for the kids only.

AmIoverbeingmarried · 19/06/2022 01:54

AmIoverbeingmarried · 19/06/2022 01:38

I just told my husband its over.

He wants answers I can't give other than I'm not happy & I don't love him anymore. I told him a year ago & stuck it out but its not worked & I can't keep going for the kids only.

Sorry wrong thread

ElenaSt · 19/06/2022 02:02

Before she met her partner my friend tried online dating and I used to look forward to hearing how the dates went as she would be put off by the funniest things upon meeting them in person doe the first time.

She arranged to meet one chap outside a cafe and as she drove past looking for somewhere to park she spotted him waiting and it was a lovely summers day but he was carrying a large gold umbrella and that instantly turned her off!

prDeltoid · 19/06/2022 06:37

Nowomenaroundeh · 18/06/2022 23:59

This is the funniest thread I've read for ages. I hope no men are reading it.

I've had The Ick many many times with lovely men who looking back really deserved better than me.

One guy had the audacity to say "it's warm and that's the main thing" when I asked him why he was wearing a horrible jacket.
Another guy signed text messages off with the word 'kiss'.
Another ate a sandwich containing mayonnaise on a casual lunch date.
One particular rage-inducing fella suggested via text we go 'for a mooch around the market' on our next date.
One utter wimp had a cold.

‘Kiss’ 😂 Hilarious. That would do it.

LaunchingTeabag · 19/06/2022 07:33

This is a small part of an ick list I made about a man I just broke up with:

Pulled his beard hair when listening or talking to me

Wore an apron when cooking

Clapped ridiculously loudly

Once said "I'm going to lay you down and slowly penetrate you"

Dried himself in front of me after a shower. I never want to see a man dry his balls and arse again.

IjustbelieveinMe · 19/06/2022 08:25

Once said "I'm going to lay you down and slowly penetrate you"

Sweet baby Jesus and the orphans 🤣🤣

Benjispruce4 · 19/06/2022 08:35

Blimey @FrancescaContini you’ve had some bad luck! So glad they were separate men as I was wondering how you’d got to the bedroom after the short, shorts/ flaccid penis incident.😂

FrancescaContini · 19/06/2022 09:55

Benjispruce4 · 19/06/2022 08:35

Blimey @FrancescaContini you’ve had some bad luck! So glad they were separate men as I was wondering how you’d got to the bedroom after the short, shorts/ flaccid penis incident.😂

OLD provides some fabulous examples of the ickiness of most men. We obviously didn’t make it to the bedroom as the short running shorts had already killed any attraction I had felt towards him.

wobblywinelover · 19/06/2022 14:56

Loads of things over the years have given me the ick with various partners including

One guy used to shoehorn 'In any way, shape or form' into anything he was saying.
Watching same guy push his food around his plate and the way he cut it up making sure there was a variety in mouthful combinations
Another ex used to stand there and drop his hand at the wrist whenever he asked 'Do you want me to do anything darling' Wet.. totally wet
Same guy had excessively hairy thin fingers which looked like little old woman's hands with tarantulas just below each knuckle
Another guy used to give me silly faces and stare at me with bulgy eyes whenever he was telling some sort of story about his day - so weird
Another guy made up a nickname about my private parts telling me it looked like a VW beetle's bonnet - but instead he would say it in a childish way calling it a 'Beetle splonnet' in a pathetic cutesy voice. Wanker. Total ick

I always get the ick in every relationship i've ever been in and I stupidly try to ignore it telling myself to stop being so picky, but it kills off every relationship. I'd probably get the Ick with Brad Pitt or other such so called 'perfect man' example.

Staying single is best for me I think.

Inthesameboatatmo · 19/06/2022 15:23

I was seeing a guy for a few months before I noticed that he sniffed his fingers. Wtf. How did I not notice it before. That was it I was firmly with ick and couldn't see him ever again.

sammylady37 · 19/06/2022 16:22

One guy used stop snogging me to lick my nose
He also called his dick “he/him” and my bits “she”, and for the ultimate ick- he referred to my clit as my ‘love pimple’ Envy

Another man, who was actually lovely, gave me the ick once I realised the appreciative noises he made whilst eating good food were the very same as the noises he made during sex!

A friend of mine has a husband who is intelligent and capable and holds down a successful senior level job, yet turns into a pathetic creature when eating with her. I’ve been with them in restaurants and he literally asks her “what will I get?”, she reads the menu and says “they have lamb, you like lamb, why don’t you get that?”, he’ll reply “ok, I’ll get the lamb so” and then a minute later he’ll be asking her what sides to order. How she finds him sexually attractive is beyond me. One day I was in their house for lunch. She had roasted a chicken and we were having wraps. He sat there looking at the wrap, the assorted sauces, the salad and veg, and the carved chicken, and asked what to do with it all, she told him, ‘start with whatever sauce you want, then add the meat’ etc and the idiot put in a drumstick, still on the bone. So she had to intervene and she literally cut up the meat for him. He then added a few more things and then sat looking at it “what do I do now?’ so she folded it for him and handed it to him. Honestly, if I saw my sister babying her 8 year old like that I’d tell her to cop on, but this mollycoddling of a grown man took the biscuit. I really don’t know how my friend is able to fuck him, I couldn’t get aroused by someone who was that pathetic and helpless.

JadedSoJaded · 19/06/2022 16:30

As I approach my mid 40s, it’s more a case of ‘what doesn’t give me the ick?’ Apparently I’m too picky.
I was seeing a lovely looking, masculine type guy, realised over the course of a few months that he was totally incompetent. Socially inept, professionally incompetent, sexually deficient, man child. Somehow he had such poor life skills. How he’d survived to middle age I had no idea.
Another left his box of sex stuff out, I don’t think intentionally, in his bedroom. FTB with many many different anal toys, unused bondage type kit and normal and anal lube bottles. Both nearly finished. Boke 🤢🤮. Not sure what was worse. The thought that he played a lot by himself with them, or that they were left from a previous relationship and he thought he’d reuse them.

EarthSight · 19/06/2022 16:30

@sammylady37 he referred to my clit as my ‘love pimple’

That is HORRIFIC.