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OMG The Ick, what gave you the ultimate ick?

289 replies

ChaliceinWonderland · 11/12/2025 22:15

So boyfriend of a year ate his toastie from the plate by holding plate to face and pushing sandwich in, no hands. I cannot therefore unsee this.
Tbh our sex life is , let's say, poor at best. This has really finished me off. I'm having the massive ick.! Regale me with your equally dire stories!

OP posts:
AquaForce · 13/12/2025 12:21

KimHwn · 13/12/2025 00:42

This is ridiculous and there were many good, legit reasons not to like this particular man. But he once said the words "ganglion cyst" in a way that annoyed me so much, I knew it was over.

It's incredible what can trigger the ick. I love these threads, hilarious and endlessly fascinating to me.

AquaForce · 13/12/2025 12:42

A shit left in my toilet was probably the worst ick. Anything related to poo and farts will do it for me. Same bloke also addressed taxi drivers as 'driver', eg ''Can you take us to AquaForce HQ please driver''.

One fell out of bed which gave me the lesser known sub category of the ick, known as the 'Irr-Ick'. This is the ick that manifests from irritation. When he fell out of bed in the middle of the night it annoyed me and I just thought, what a fecking loser..

user362905 · 13/12/2025 13:02

When he fell out of bed in the middle of the night it annoyed me and I just thought, what a fecking loser..

🤣😂

wizzywig · 13/12/2025 13:05

Im dying with laughter over 'to the chopper driver' and 'professionally northern'

Luckyingame · 13/12/2025 13:30

Fucking disgusting.😖
It didn't cheer me up, as a PP said, some of it turned my stomach.
Repeating ad nauseam - so happy my husband is 75, so happy that he is decent, old school, so glad
I never needed for anything.
There's a significant age difference between us.
When I'm left by myself, I won't let a man approach me, let alone touch him with
a wooden stick.
They are largely irrelevant to me, obviously apart from paid services for jobs I won't or can't do.

Lavendersparkles22 · 13/12/2025 13:32

Constant throat clearing.

Tiny bitten fingernails

Long fingernails

Being mean to his dog, calling her a fucking dick head etc. He said she couldn't understand so what's the harm but I hated it!

glendabrownlow · 13/12/2025 13:48

His name was Bruce, he wore a grey zip up cardigan and he called an umbrella a 'brolly'. Dumped.

NorthernDancer · 13/12/2025 14:00

Not a partner, but a long standing male friend and colleague who has recently met a woman online. When I suggested that his enthusiasm for the relationship was primarily based on the fact that he was having sex again after a long dry spell, he got quite offended and informed me "It's not about winky."

Something inside me died at that instant and I cannot think about him the same way any more, even though we have been friends for a very long time.

princesspadam · 13/12/2025 14:08

His kids were home schooled and not vaccinated
his head was flat at the back

LargeJugs · 13/12/2025 14:10

glendabrownlow · 13/12/2025 13:48

His name was Bruce, he wore a grey zip up cardigan and he called an umbrella a 'brolly'. Dumped.

Haha at the brolly. Standard lingo in some areas up north.

LargeJugs · 13/12/2025 14:11

princesspadam · 13/12/2025 14:08

His kids were home schooled and not vaccinated
his head was flat at the back

Yes I dated a homeschooler (they called it homeschool but it was home education but whatever) with no friends or family it was impossible to actually date. Kids had no bedtime or routine at all. It was impossible.

KiwiDollar · 13/12/2025 14:15

When I was a uni student, I went out this guy for a while who was very close to his family. His older sister (who was 24) came up to visit and it was the first time I had met her. We walked into town and as we were talking I noticed they were holding hands!! He saw me notice and grabbed my hand so we were all walking along holding hands! Blergh! He also shared a bed with her when she stayed! Sick rather than ick!!!

reallyneedareset · 13/12/2025 14:50

Not a boyfriend but a fairly new director at work. Walked in to him in the communal kitchen with a wad of blue roll, hands up his shirt wiping his underarms and sides with said blue roll. He has really piercing and shifty eyes. Strange, lisping speech impediment too. Bloke gives me the complete ick 🤢

Fallshealing · 13/12/2025 14:57

whatsnewpussycat34 · 12/12/2025 23:39

Baggiest boxer shorts I’ve ever seen. And they were all bobbley and loose like they were 10 years old.

He looked like Macaulay Culkin in home alone when he wears his dad’s trunks to the pool.

😂😂

Apfelkuchen · 13/12/2025 15:12

Said he had a treat for me. He’d shaved off all his pubes and was wearing a tight black thong.

Brendathebear · 13/12/2025 16:06

Oh my goodness, these have made me laugh!

My icks seem completely irrational after listening of these!

honeylulu · 13/12/2025 16:07

Apfelkuchen · 13/12/2025 15:12

Said he had a treat for me. He’d shaved off all his pubes and was wearing a tight black thong.

A "treat"? OMG some men have no idea do they?

honeylulu · 13/12/2025 16:11

Mine was with a guy I went on a couple of dates with, he was ok, we were having a nice time. Then one day he smiled and I thought oh god he looks just like the snake from the Jungle Book and I couldn't unsee it.

His 21st birthday party was coming up and he was keen for me to be there as his GF. But we went on one more date and I just couldn't stop thinking about snakey so I'm ashamed to say I ghosted him after that.

Unicornsatonalilo · 13/12/2025 16:41

My ex

And I'm bloody glad hes an ex

I'm shuddering writing this-id gone round to his for the weekend and wandered into his bedroom

He'd got changed at some point and must have pulled his trousers/pants off as one and left them on his bedroom floor,sunny side up for anyone to see

The pants where soaked in shit-I'm not joking when I say they where more shit than pants-it had dried on so had been there for a while

He left them there all weekend-he didnt seem to notice them,touch them or move them,just left them in their crappy glory in the middle of the room-we had to step over them to go to bed

They just stayed there from when I got there to when I left (I should have walked away but my self esteem was on the floor thanks to him and I sure as hell wasn't touching them)

We broke up when he cheated on me with another woman (she was his 'main' woman apparently and I was the bit on the side-nice to find out afterwards)

He rang me about 5 months after id got the ick and finished it and asked why women that he'd picked up would walk in and make excuses to leave more or less straight away

'Leaving your shitty knickers on the middle of the floor is maybe a clue'

He didnt get it,called me a liar and is still out there,working all week as a hgv driver,treating women like crap and not picking up his dirty pants

I met dp not long after and he cleans up after himself (I didnt even have to mention it,hes very clean and tidy)

Dollymylove · 13/12/2025 16:45

The guy who had I 2 dates with, back before the Internet. It was lonely hearts in the newspaper. He was a really nice guy, a bit bland, and he wore the same jumper on both dates. My friends told me that if he wore the same jumper on the 3rd date, I should dump him .
He did, and I dumped him 🤣

sandrapinchedmysandwich · 13/12/2025 16:54

MyballsareSandy2015 · 13/12/2025 08:15

First holiday together … boat trip and everyone was diving or jumping off the side of the boat … he spent about 20 minutes wrapping those foam noodle things around his body before carefully going down the steps 😳 … no going back from that …

To be fair though perhaps he wasn't a good swimmer. I think this one is unfair

Fallshealing · 13/12/2025 17:05

I'd had a few dates with a guy and invited him to mine after some drinks out. He went into my downstairs loo which directly goes from my conservatory. There's seating in my conservatory so I thought we could sit in there with a drink but as I walked through he appeared from the toilet and the smell of shit was so strong I got the instant ick. We had the drink in the lounge and I couldn't get rid of fast enough! Thing is he didn't even appear embarrassed at all, I mean I know we all have to go but that was just vile!

ThatCyanCat · 13/12/2025 17:11

sandrapinchedmysandwich · 13/12/2025 16:54

To be fair though perhaps he wasn't a good swimmer. I think this one is unfair

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The thing about the ick is that it can be unfair or irrational; it's involuntary and we don't argue with it, we simply bow to its whim. This one would give me the ick. When Cary Elwes played Westley in The Princess Bride, he was originally supposed to hold his nose and jump in to rescue Buttercup after she fell through the quicksand in the Fire Swamp. But he noted how much more dashing, romantic and manly it would be to dive in headfirst, so that's what he did (despite what a risky stunt it was). Much sexier!

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 13/12/2025 17:18

dee104 · 12/12/2025 23:50

Said he was tweaking his nipples thinking of me. I think it was the word tweaking that just sent a shiver up my spine for some reason. Couldn’t bring myself to ever see him again.

Jesus Christ. 😬

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 13/12/2025 17:24

Men can’t get their heads around the fact that, yes - they would like to be sex-ted using language like ‘tweaked’.
But women absolutely hate it.

That kind of language is so dated and very very unsexy.