30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross

Over the course of thousands of years, our hygiene habits have improved to suppress outbreaks of diseases and protect our health. However, a handful of them somehow survived and have become quite the norm, despite being pretty gross.

People in the AskReddit community were discussing such examples in hopes that others would give them up. Scroll down to find them, and be sure to let us know if you agree or disagree with them!

While you're at it, don't forget to check out a conversation with redditor, who started this interesting discussion in the first place.

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30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross Billionaires. You don't get that much money without seriously ruining some lives.

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The redditor who started this thread was inspired to spark this discussion online when their partner noticed something gross they did by accident.

"I sneezed and wiped some snot on my sleeve, my wife found it disgusting and I thought it was normal," they share.

Fortunately, the Reddit user tells us that this was the only instance that their habits were found to be gross by others.

When it comes to their own tolerance for gross things, they say that not much phases them. "I’m pretty hard to gross out."

30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross People monetizing their kids on YouTube.

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30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross Spitting. I feel physically ill when I witness someone hawking and spitting in public or see spit sitting on the pavement.

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No one is safe from other people’s questionable habits, especially not in the office. Online printing company Instantprint surveyed 1,000 UK employees to uncover the hidden truth about coworkers grossest habits.

It was found that more than 5% of Brits admitted to cleaning their computers or work areas yearly or never at all. Meanwhile, 1 in 10 employees never wash their mug, water bottle, or glassware when enjoying a beverage of their choice. Either they have an office cleaner who does it for them, or they feel content being surrounded by some serious crumbs, dust, stains, and bacteria.

30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross Not washing your hands after going to the bathroom. Nasty.

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30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross The sound of people chewing.

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30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross Children with food on their face. And snot.

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Only 16% of respondents revealed that they wash their hands regularly at the office, and a whopping 19% confessed to rinsing them solely after using the bathroom. It’s worth being cautious about who you shake hands with!

When it comes to other gross workplace habits, almost a quarter admitted to taking off their shoes at work. And over 30% of Brits confessed to eating something from the back of the fridge that was way past its use-by date.

30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross Employers paying new hires more than tenured employees. Having drastically different pay rates for people with similar credentials doing the same job.

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30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross 5 foot long eyelashes.

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30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross Unkept beards.

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It seems that not everyone learned the pandemic lesson, as 39% of employees said that they would still come to work if they had a cold. However, it’s not all that bad, with almost 60% of respondents having tissues on hand, 41% always having sanitizer, and 30% bringing deodorant or perfume to work.

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30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross Maybe not “normal” but I am repulsed by the smell created by clothing not properly drying. The smell is on clothing that sat in the washer machine too long. Or dish towels and bathroom towels that dried without being spread out.

I smell it on people from down the isle in stores. And don’t get me started on drying my hands in someone’s bathroom and finding out the smell is lingering on my hands now.

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30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross People. Seriously, we are gross.

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30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross Long nails.

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Lip fillers.

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30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross Spitting, coughing without covering mouth. I have multiple sclerosis. Get sick really easy.

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30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross When someone else 'washes' my dishes for me and I drink from a 'clean' glass and it smells of rotting food and I look at my sponge and it's covered in food because someone thought that smearing food around my dishes with a sponge somehow made them clean you're all fired I never want to see you again.

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Smacking gum. I hate it. And loud chewing/swallowing noises.

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30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross On colder days when my dad walks the dog he’ll sometimes hold the dog poop bag in his hands to warm his hands.

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30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross Not washing hands before a meal. You have been in filth and you are going to touch your food with those hands? Yuk.

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30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross Washing dishes in a tub of soapy water and not rinsing off the soap suds. Or not scrubbing the outsides of pots and pans as well. Makes me want to vomit. I'd rather not taste stale soap and bacteria in my cup of tea or food thanks. I can always tell as well.

Holy s**t thanks for the 1000 upvotes. I've never had a post get this many upvotes.

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Sitting on a warm toilet seat.

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30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross Leaving the toilet seat up when flushing.

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Talking while eating. You get to see the inside of their mouth, and its disgusting

Just eat and swallow the food and then talk 🙄.

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Spitting, especially loogies. I literally almost throw up when I see someone doing it.

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30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross Childbirth.

We're all here because of it, and it's currently my day job to catch a baby or two per day, but goddamn is it like watching a woman's genitals go through Vietnam each time.

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30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross Wearing those big a*s engagement rings and never properly cleaning them. Especially in a hospital, nobody should be wearing anything below the elbow for good hand hygiene. I can’t imagine how many germs live between all those diamonds that now are spreading to my patients. Just take it all off, leave them at home!

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30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross Licking their fingers to turn a page. Turns my stomach!

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I see so many videos of people letting their cats walk all over their kitchen counters and I want to vomit. Do these people think their cats are washing their paws and butts after they use the litter box?

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30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross Blowing out birthday cake candles. Here let me blow my spit all over this cake, then cut it up and expect everyone to eat it.

Instead we should do a sheet cake for all and a cupcake with candle for the blower.

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Not gross but the sound of a dentist drill. Makes me shiver at the sound.

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30 People Share Disgusting Things People Don’t Realize Are Very Gross Perhaps not gross, but I am repulsed by holding chalk and writing on a chalkboard. The touch, the feel, the sound, everything.

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Note: this post originally had 51 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.

What’s something everyone finds normal, but you find it to be gross?

LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 week ago

My ex would use the same drinking glass for DAYS AT A TIME. And he has oily skin texture, so the glass would get literally BLEARY with skin oils on the first day. It would go from clear-glass to literally opaque with skin-oil. And don't even get me started on how NASTY the glass's rim looked from his lips touching it over and over. I cannot FATHOM how he could use that glass day after day without horking the second he went to drink from it. I'd sometimes grab the glass surreptitiously and I'd wash it. I sometimes gagged just from TOUCHING the glass while washing it. And - for years his Brita pitcher used to look NASTY filthy (skin oils, food smudges, grease, dust, dirt, etc.) - I would call it his "cholera pitcher" and he'd get all pissed off. When we lived together I would wash the pitcher regularly. He also thought I was overreacting for wanting to wash the pets' bowls every day so they could eat from CLEAN BOWLS. I am now free, after 23 years of skin-oils XD

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Tamra 1 week ago

YAY! I am SO happy to hear that!

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Nikole 1 week ago

You are??? Oh hooray, Lakota!

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hannahbahngswife 1 week ago

On the behalf of every Pandas, we are all VERY happy and proud that you made it. Hooray!

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Not-a-Clue (she/her) 1 week ago

Brilliant news. I often think about you and your plans to escape. So glad you've made it!

LillieMean 1 week ago

Touch screens, especially at self-service checkouts. You know how many times I've witnessed someone cough or sneeze at the screen. In the cold season, I wear touch screen gloves when using it and at other times I use hand sanitizer. Disgusting surfaces for bacteria frolicked on.

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Richard Campbell 5 days ago

that's what an immune system is for.

Icomefromthelanddownunder 1 week ago

I hate seeing someone pick up their kids dummy (pacifier) off the floor & put it in their mouth to clean it 🤢 pin it to their clothes ffs

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The Other Guest 1 week ago

I know someone who, if she was drinking a glass of water, would rinse off the dropped pacifier in it and then continue to drink the water. And yes, she also did the "clean it with my mouth" method on the basis that "it's easier to get the fluff out of my mouth than theirs." So, so gross.

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