Weird "icky" things

[GrownupGirl]

When I eat food that sticks to my teeth, and then when I move my tongue over my teeth to remove it, they squeak.

Many kinds of hand sanitizers. I'll use them but them I have to wiggle and flick with my fingers until it dries.

Hand soap, except for the kind that's already foamy when you press down on the pump.

Washing dishes without rubber gloves on.

Eating one of those giant cockroaches most other people call lobsters.

Stepping into a wet substance while wearing socks.

The way the air feels chewy in early September, like it's slowly chewing on my skin but not hard enough to cause pain or injury, and the constant mild anxiety I get from it. (that's as best I can explain it)

 

[Fino]

I regret reading through this thread.

 

[Misery]

I don't like things on my plate, that are looking back at you.
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...or looking like they are about to say something for that matter.

When I see something like this, I always genuinely cannot understand how anyone sees it and finds it appetizing. At all. Yet apparently many do, I guess?

I've never been much of a meat-eater myself... mostly because of the taste & smell of most meat products. Main exception being tuna, sometimes hotdogs with cheese. These are edible though because they dont LOOK like anything. Hotdogs are, well, just a tube, and the tuna is so enormously mangled that it doesnt look like anything at all anymore... from a visual standpoint it's sort of pile of tiny fibrous chunks, it gets combined with Miracle Whip to make The Sandwich. An angelic choir plays every time The Sandwich is assembled.

But as soon as the meatstuffs start to look like anything, that's a NOPE. I mean, look at freaking shrimp, all the little legs and the aaaaaaaaaagh but people often eat the horrid things that way.


As for other things that give me the ickies, buttons and snaps on clothing. No, I dont know why.

 

[Progster]

Any kind of tobacco smoke, especially cigarettes. Several people here have said in another thread that they like it, but I don't get that. I find it disgusting.

Fish innards
Any kind of offal or innards.
Road kill, especially once it's been out in the sun for a few hours. And I hate to see animals killed like that.
Rotting organic material.
Eggs.
Tomatoes. The seeds inside are just like frogspawn.
Fat, blood vessels and sinews in meat.
Dirty, unflushed toilets.

I'm curious about durian, I'd like to try that once at least, if I could find it somewhere.

 

[Booknerd515]

-Anything even slightly red like medium rare steaks affects my gag reflex, or uncooked meat or other proteins.
-I don't like looking at certain vegetables for too long because of their colors affecting my visual sensory. Some of them have really bright or really dark colors and really odd visual textures which extremely bothers me.
-I don't like the feeling of really warm water on my hands. I prefer room temperature or cold.
-If I happen to see any uncooked tater tots because then I will want to eat them cooked. Immediately. As fast as possible.

 

[Progster]

Parasites are really icky. Surgery and medical documentaries can be icky, but fascinating at the same time.

 

[SDRSpark]

Food in the sink. It doesn't MATTER if it's the same food from the same plate that I was just eating 2 minutes ago. Once it's in the sink, it becomes about as inviting as raw sewage.

I'm extremely particular about how I wash my dishes. (I don't have a garbage disposal here and installing one is on the list because I get really uncomfortable every time I have to clean up after dinner.) I can NOT stand touching the sink drain strainer.

It's workable when I live alone, but when I'm with someone who doesn't feel this way (or at least respect it) it becomes a Big Problem. My ex fiance would put dirty dishes in the sink and run water in them...I felt like I needed a hazmat suit to even enter my kitchen. My mother was the same...she'd throw dishes on the counter still caked with food. My dad too. As a child washing the dishes was "my job" but I couldn't do it, so I was regularly punished. When I tried, I threw up at least once because of the food still on the plates.

I loved having a garbage disposal because I could just "pressure wash" the plates with the sprayer and wash it all down the sink. Problem absolutely solved. Now I don't have one and I still haven't entirely worked out how to handle the situation.

 

[Suzette]

I totally get the dirty plate thing. I don't even like touching my own dirty plate.

Problem absolutely solved. Now I don't have one and I still haven't entirely worked out how to handle the situation.

Wear rubber gloves and use a rubber spatula to scrape the plates into the trash. A rubber spatula will get off almost all of the food. Use a paper towel, junk mail or other paper to cover the mess in the bin.

 

[Suzette]

I just thought of a couple more:

Feet on my pillow. No, no no! Feet do not belong on pillows, especially where I place my head and my face will touch!

Actually, I don't let anyone put their feet on me either. One would think that this is a problem people don't actually have. But you would be wrong. Brothers, spouses and children all seem to think they can put their feet wherever they wish.

My husband says "But my feet are cold and you are warm" I managed to break my husband of this by threatening his toes with pruning shears.

My ex used to squash bugs on the walls and just leave the guts there. Gag inducing!

Speaking of bugs, I hate flies touching me (and my food)! Nasty creatures!

 

[Mary Terry]

A lot of shower ickiness. I don't like standing in the shower with bare feet. I always wear flip-flops in the shower. When I was a kid and took baths, I hated any part of my body touching the sides of the tub. I don't like the feel of the wet porcelain and the grout can be nasty-looking.

I hate plastic shower curtains that stick to my legs while showering. Yuck. I always wear flipflops when I shower in a hotel room. I don't know whose feet have stood in the shower before me.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

When I see something like this, I always genuinely cannot understand how anyone sees it and finds it appetizing. At all. Yet apparently many do, I guess?

I've never been much of a meat-eater myself... mostly because of the taste & smell of most meat products. Main exception being tuna, sometimes hotdogs with cheese. These are edible though because they dont LOOK like anything. Hotdogs are, well, just a tube, and the tuna is so enormously mangled that it doesnt look like anything at all anymore... from a visual standpoint it's sort of pile of tiny fibrous chunks, it gets combined with Miracle Whip to make The Sandwich. An angelic choir plays every time The Sandwich is assembled.

But as soon as the meatstuffs start to look like anything, that's a NOPE. I mean, look at freaking shrimp, all the little legs and the aaaaaaaaaagh but people often eat the horrid things that way.


As for other things that give me the ickies, buttons and snaps on clothing. No, I dont know why.

I get what you are saying about chowing down on what looks like an intact animal. I feel that way about chicken . . . I don't want to dissect an animal with my teeth. But I have no trouble with sushi and sashimi, particularly tuna that has a clean, fresh, taste.

 

[Martha Ferris]

Tight fitting clothes.
Spandex and other stretchy fabric.
Stuff in my shoes like dirt.
Head hair caught in my butt.
Dog and cat poop. I don't mind sheep and goat poop.
Cleaning up peoples bottoms.
Brains and eyes leaking out of heads.
Anything sticky. Hate being sticky. (Had four kids. Lots of sticky.)
Sweat.
Semen.
Chewing tobacco.
Collections of mucus in cups of homecare patients.
Maggots and other insect larva

 

[Martha Ferris]

At least the stuff that comes from babies is mostly sterile. I'm more grossed out by the stuff that comes from adults and animals!

Actually the only thing that comes out of us (vomit, poop and urine) that is sterile is urine.

 

[Suzette]

Brains and eyes leaking out of heads

I don't think this can be topped!

 

[Pieceofmind]

I'm just gonna do an all inclusive thing because of so much cross over.
- Asparagus
- Artichoke (both taste and smell, I get sick almost instantly)
- Eggs (texture, smell, and taste)
- Boxed mac and cheese that is or very similar to Krafts (I remember the weird sweet noted dull cheese on them and the disgusting cheese milk like stuff that pooled at the bottom of the bowl. GROSS!)
- Very chalky, sandy textures(makes my skin crawl for some reason, some items where I work I almost refuse to touch)
- Dirty dishes and food clumped with other food on a plate. (Bonus points if it's really goopy/slimy/saucy looking stuff and more bonus points if they are piled up in the sink)
- Stray hairs getting on me (bonus points here if they are wet or somehow find a way into food)
- Very strong perfumes and colognes
- The scent of bleach and other heavy duty cleaning supplies
- Those plastic or latex gloves people prepare food with (I have a funny story about this one. So recently for old times sake since I haven't eaten out in months me and my father went to an old favorite buffets that wasn't requiring masks which I also can't deal with but when getting food we had to wear those big, oversized plastic gloves and I was cringing to myself trying to keep it inside the entire time. So disgusting feeling and weird. Don't know how else to describe the aversion.)
- Rooms with dull, yellowish lighting to them. (I don't know why but it triggers a disgust like reaction in me especially if it is a very old style looking place. This one is a little hard to directly describe.)
- Soggy textures
- Pickles.

I don't like different food touching each other on the same plate.

For other food:
Can't stand Durian.
The texture of eggs is disturbing.
Brussels Sprouts. I call them little fart balls.

Yes I don't know what is so digusting about messy plated with a lot of food touching other food but it is on top of the disgusting list to me. The more wet, thick, and saucy the mess the more vomit inducing.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

This awful torture device. I've seen these advertised online as an alternative to eyebrow threading.

Just so you know, I hate eyebrow threading. It feels like tiny needles and razorblades. But I saw this at Dollar Tree and got curious as to how it works.

Basically there's this coil that rips out a zillion little peachfuzz hairs at once. The only way to describe the feeling is "YEOWCH!"

And then, the glutton for punishment I must be, I tried it again and again, each time screaming "EEEEE" or "OMYGAAAAAWWWWWDDD" or "YEOWWW!". Then I called my daughter in and told her to rub it up her arm. Same response.

And you know what? It doesn't even work on eyebrows. It only rips out those delicate, tiny little invisible peachfuzz hairs. And it does so mercilessly.

Never again.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

@Yeshuasdaughter So my thought is that this will not substitute for a lady's brazilian wax job. My bad.

 

[GrownupGirl]

This awful torture device. I've seen these advertised online as an alternative to eyebrow threading.

Just so you know, I hate eyebrow threading. It feels like tiny needles and razorblades. But I saw this at Dollar Tree and got curious as to how it works.

Basically there's this coil that rips out a zillion little peachfuzz hairs at once. The only way to describe the feeling is "YEOWCH!"

And then, the glutton for punishment I must be, I tried it again and again, each time screaming "EEEEE" or "OMYGAAAAAWWWWWDDD" or "YEOWWW!". Then I called my daughter in and told her to rub it up her arm. Same response.

And you know what? It doesn't even work on eyebrows. It only rips out those delicate, tiny little invisible peachfuzz hairs. And it does so mercilessly.

Never again.

That's our typical hair-ophobic society. Thinking we women need to torture ourselves by ripping out hair until we're smooth as a baby's bottom all over. Men don't need to do that, and it isn't fair.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

That's our typical hair-ophobic society. Thinking we women need to torture ourselves by ripping out hair until we're smooth as a baby's bottom all over. Men don't need to do that, and it isn't fair.

I agree. I'm a hippie in that respect. I don't really shave at all. I just wanted to try it on my eyebrows to see how it works.

 

[Metalhead]

Onions. I (really) hate onions. Passionately.