Hey Pandas, What Gives You The Ick? (Closed)

Curious to know, what's that one thing that just totally turns you off or gives you an 'ick' when interacting with someone or witnessing a particular behavior? Share your thoughts!

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Child Beauty Pageants. They are just so wrong on so many levels.

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Mad Dragon

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Grizzly milk 1 year ago

Yes, last have a dozen kids compete to see who is the most beautiful and have the other 11 kids feel like c**p about themselves. What a wonderful idea! /s

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Incels. no explanation needed.

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27points

BTDubs

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MotherRobinson 1 year ago

Nuff said

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I'm probably going to get downvoted to hell by some transphobic trolls, but please hear me out:

It's not necessarily "ick", but more like "that's awful, wtf"

People who are hating on others and telling them to lull themselves for being trans. I've seen it so much in real life, on BP, and other websites. It's so disgusting.

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Lex <3 (they/them)

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Lex <3 (they/them) (Submission author) 1 year ago

Kill* not lull

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The phrase "gives you the ick". It's so cringey

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Angela C

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shanila.pheonix_ 1 year ago

same here dude

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People opening their mouths when they chew. UGGGGGGGGGH

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ⒿⒶⒹⒺ ʕ ᵔᴥᵔ ʔ

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Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago

I hate when people bite their silverware when they eat. Ughhhh a thousand shudders

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StrangeOne 1 year ago

I hate the sound some people make in the back of their throat when they bite down. It's like a "Homp" sound.

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Hey! 1 year ago

And chewing gum (or tobacco).

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Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago

If you chew with your mouth open - food or gum - I am visualizing you dying a rather nasty death.

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jade (Submission author) 1 year ago

oh my gosh honestly you guys are all right all these things make me cringe!

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wee.wee.croissant (ollie) 1 year ago

YESSS

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Any person of any gender or age saying the LGBTQ+. community is disgusting I hate it when people do that even if you think that it's still rude and disrespectful to say that

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Lemon

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Hey! 1 year ago

OK, if I understand correctly, by putting commas, you hate it when people think/say the LGBTQ+ community is disgusting. Right?

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People not covering their faces when they either cough or sneeze. Disgusting.

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13points

Keith Lancaster

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Marty Sunderland 1 year ago

And Covid is still a thing

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"Rizz" - It has replaced "flirt". "Flirt" cringed me out enough but "rizz" takes the cringe to a whole other level.

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StrangeOne

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Jane Alexander 1 year ago

By any name, some think it's harmless. I don't.

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Public swimming pools. They are often cold and have so much dirt in its grim. I've seen hair ties, actual clumps of hair, plasters, random pieces of dirt. Small children (and probably adults) pee in the pool and hundreds of sweaty dirty bodies get in every day. The water is absolutely disgusting nothing will convince me otherwise.

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12points

Lydsylou (she/her)

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StrangeOne 1 year ago

The more I think about swimming pools the more they disgust me. I'd rather go to the beach. The change rooms at the pools are also super gross. The floors always feel slimy and there stray hair every where.

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#10

The word 'moist'. It grosses me out and I don't really know why.

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11points

Caesius

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Donkey boi 1 year ago

It's how I like my cake!

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#11

Men who use coded communication with me (usually sexist comments followed by a, *wink, wink, nudge, nudge*), then get offended when I don't play along.

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11points

Austzn

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Jane Alexander 1 year ago

"You like Italian sausage?" I knew d' well he didn't mean those great sandwiches. What a creep! Lost that job and good riddance.

3points

#12

People with a lack of body care. I mean people who can do something about it, because they have a house and a shower, but don't want to do anything about it, because they are just lazy.
Smelly, dirty people. Buh.

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Roger9er

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StrangeOne 1 year ago

They probably don't smell their stench because they're so used it. My ex inlaws house always smells mildewy. Even their clothes. I think it's mildew. It could just be their house. I don't know. But whenever my daughter goes there for sleepovers she comes back with her clothes smelling like their house.

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Perverts

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Bye! Pancake_Pansexual_Panda_

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Stardust she/her 1 year ago

Tell me about it. There’s a pervert in my class who ruined my reputation amongst the teachers twice in the last 2 years because he was extra hormonal. Worst thing is that he’s also very disrespectful but the teachers hate me more than him even though I have good marks compared to him and I back off after I realise how annoyed they are

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#14

The smell of tuna. I instantly gag and feel nauseous.

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10points

Ozymandias73

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Lex <3 (they/them) 1 year ago

canned or raw? If you find a good sushi-grade raw tuna it should have little to no smell.

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#15

Don't cancel me but kids I have grown up with them and the s**t they touch and put in their mouths is just gross 🤢 sorry

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ADHD panda

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wee.wee.croissant (ollie) 1 year ago

I AGREE!!!

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#16

Small holes. Ekrkwofiwixikwnfkwiejeue help

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Lex <3 (they/them)

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StrangeOne 1 year ago

Trypophobia. Eyeless fish. Would see them all the time at this fish store. Apparently it happens when the tanks are over crowded and/or the fish are not fed enough.

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#17

When people use "seen" incorrectly. It's not "I seen this movie where...", its "I SAW this movie where...". You can say "I HAVE seen this movie" but not just "I seen it". Drives me absolutely mad every time.

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Sarah Suelzle

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Donkey boi 1 year ago

Where I grew up, 'seen' also means 'I understand. It's a hundred yeas of twisted abbreviation, from 'I see where your coming from', to 'I seen' (which I remembered hearing as a kid), to just 'Seen', by the time I was a teen.

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#18

When I am watching a movie or TV show, and a character begins playing an instrument that they clearly have never used before. I'm no expert, but when it is glaringly obvious that the motions don't match the chords/notes, it definitely gives me the ick.

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Kevin the Manager

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Hey! 1 year ago

I agree with that because I can see it too, so does my husband.

2points

#19

To this day, I cringe every time I think about the time my first boyfriend broke up with me because I was, in his words, "a really lukewarm person."
B***H, I AM NOT A CUP OF WATER.

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Rebel (Bug) Darling

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StrangeOne 1 year ago

You just weren't his cup of tea.

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#20

Donald J. Trump

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Odin Schmidt

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TheUndeadOfNight726 1 year ago

A-f**kin-men

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#21

ehem, rizz, bussing, duh, words used and spelled incorrectly, edating, and people who make one thing their entire personality

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anxiety embodiment

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Brianna Ball 1 year ago

i just love your username

3points

#22

Religious Evangelism.

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trevor

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Tamra 1 year ago

This definitely should be higher.

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#23

Mayo 🤮

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Rhifings

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jade 1 year ago

mayo is good you little booger.

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#24

People who are supposedly well-educated but use s****y grammar, or misuse words

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Freya the Wanderer

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StrangeOne 1 year ago

Autocorrect, tiny keyboard buttons, trying to keep up with your thoughts will cause errors here and there. It doesn't mean they wouldn't be able to spell it if they took the time to pay attention to their grammar.

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#25

French-kissing in public where everyone can see the tongue action. I stopped watching The Nanny because of that. Made me nauseous.

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Hey!

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TheUndeadOfNight726 1 year ago

geugh. Also love the username

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When people get mad at other people for things that THEY DO ALL THE TIME.
And when people down play others' hard experiences in life by saying something along the lines of:
"YoU tHinK ThAt's baD wEll i HaD 'x y z' hAppEn tO mE so YeaH, yoUr ExPerIenCeS aRen'T vAliD AnD yoU suCk!"

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Rebel (Bug) Darling

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#27

Spiders. They’re tiny furry demons with 8 legs and 820 eyes that will disappear under your bed in the blink of an eye.

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§• Råinbow Påndå •§

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Lydsylou 1 year ago

Especially daddy longlegs (don't know the official name but that's what I've always referred to them as) THEY DO NOT NEED WINGS the fact their legs are massively long is bad enough but their ability to fly into your face is just horrifying

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#28

The word yummy

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MZ (she/they/he)

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Hey! 1 year ago

I would put "mummy" and "daddy" in the same list.

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#29

people who use tiktok slang as their daily vocab. like legit and not ironically

pick-me's. any gender, any age, any whatever. if you are a pick me and i meet you, i will literally move to the opposite pole of the earth so i can get away from you

and using the phrase "gives me the ick".

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shanila.pheonix_

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UnimportantDog/Imp (she/her) 1 year ago

what's a "pick-me"? genuine question, plz dont downvote

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Cockroaches. They're so gross.

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5points

Sharon Ammons

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snakelovingmetalhead 1 year ago

i feed them to my lizards

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#31

That weird connective tissue on some cooked meats. It's weirdly trypophobic, I hate it.

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TheUndeadOfNight726

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TheUndeadOfNight726 (Submission author) 1 year ago

By this, I meant mainly collagen-based flexible tissues on some brisket. Sorry for not being too clear on that.

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When people put their gum on the side of their plate. I told my friends, so they always put it in a napkin or something now.

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Gorilla guy

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Hey! 1 year ago

I don't chew gum as much now that I did before but I always kept a piece of gum - mostly the one that come with the gum - in my pocket until I was finished, then threw it out enveloped.

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Bigots 🤷

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Grammarly

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Mary Stedes Abraham 1 year ago

Justin Rogers that was extremely RUDE. Well i guess your part of the family too

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#34

Soggy or mushy food that isn't supposed to be soggy or mushy. Like letting bread soak in broth. Makes me gag. Yuk.

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#35

Misogyny.

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OnlyMe

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The mildew around the floor of any swimming pool. And these floors too. They’re spikey

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3points

HelluvaHedgehogAlien

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StrangeOne 1 year ago

Swimming pool tiles, in general. But I get ya with the mildew grout. I just find the tiles to be sharp. I'm always paranoid I'll catch the edges with my toe nail.

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#37

It's really dumb but I found out people watch TV while having lunch with their families, in my house they were pretty strict about pretty much everything and "quality time" during lunch was mandatory and one of them, so it kind of puts me off.

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StrangeOne 1 year ago

I've lived in both worlds growing up and raising my own. The more I think about it, the more disturbed I am with strict family table meals. Probably because it wasn't always a comfortable experience. Being watched and monitored how I ate, what hand I used my knife and fork, where I put my napkin. Even what type of condiments I liked to eat my fries with was scrutinized. Then there was the awkward and demeaning "talks" about how I was doing with my classes and the flash pop quizzes I was thrown while trying not to talk with my mouth full. Or I would have to sit there eating while the "man of the house" sitting at the end of the table boasts how he's "man of the house". When it was just me and my mom ( when she wasn't married and having us live with a power-tripping narcissist), sometimes we'd have dinner at the table, a small meal. Or she'd just make us nacho platters and we'd snuggle up watching a show or movie.

2points

#38

Yesterday I heard my roommate saying that she does not study evolution because it is against her religion and god. She believes in creationism. The thing is that she wants to study and do research in marine biology. I was like whattt???? She also pitifully said that one of her teachers who was religious turned into an atheist after learning about evolution. The thing that icks me is that at first she presented herself as a person who is genuinely interested in science and told me that she is not overly religious. I still cannot even comprehend how can someone studying science so easily overlook known facts just for their convenience? If it was a layman that would make sense, but a science student who has a bachelor degree in biology?

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Themoonprincess

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#39

Anyone who uses the following phrases unironically or as self-identifiers: "maga", "libertarian", "freedom", "can't say anything now these days", "alpha", "female".

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censorshipsucks

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TheUndeadOfNight726 1 year ago (edited)

Also, people who unironcally(?) use the word "woke" (Idk if that's how you use 'unironically')

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#40

nails on fabric

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snakelovingmetalhead

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CascadedFalls 1 year ago

I concur. It's strange, but I really dislike it when someone scratches their jeans, the sound just doesn't sit well with me.

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#41

People who say people give them the ick. I find those people to be insufferable to be around and typically really negative in general.

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Diego

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#42

The word "ladies." it never doesn't sound condescending

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oddly_informed_raven

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StrangeOne 1 year ago

Depends on the context and who's saying it. I've gotten used to hearing it from my female manager when addressing our all female staff. But "Listen, lady" or "Hey, lady!" always sounds condescending.

5points

#43

50 year old men in a mid-life crisis:
• 20 something girlfriend
• Bad die jobs + "youthful" clothing
• Sports cars instead of kid's college tuition
• Divorce lawyer on speed dial
• Moved out, sleeping on someone's couch
• Feeble attempts at pop culture

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