“The Ick” #3

[it’s not been changed?!]

No, I don't, but now you ask, I am questioning myself, whether I might have said something to give that impression.

Haha no, you haven’t. Don’t worry !

 

[lurkingaround123]

Showing off about wearing brand names.

This but even more so when the item is clearly fake

 

[babynice]

Chatting to a guy on tinder and we agreed to meet so added each other on WhatsApp. I didn’t text him back because I just couldn’t bothered tonight to be honest. I accidentally opened WhatsApp and he sent me some random meme two minutes later. Stalker vibes

 

[wearedoomed]

Never mind the trainers.. what’s that goulish looking hand on the woman next to him? Salad Fingers.

Are they related to Jeremy Beadle?

 

[leigh213]

Maybe he meant it figuratively? Like he was sleep walking through his life and decided becoming a skydiving instructor was his thing? Or he was in a cult for a little? I wonder what’s the story

You’re reminding me of my own language partner. He was from China. It was before the internet and news became what it is today, so I had to take his word on everything … there was an enormous cultural barrier My mind was *boggled.* Their diet and education system was so foreign. He told me his girlfriend stopped wanting to see him so he made a thousand origami cranes for her. I thought it was excessive and creepy behavior so there was a slow fade (ghosting wasn’t invented yet!)
A few years later I learned that people make paper cranes in bulk in order to make wishes He’s so cute lol. I wish I could go back in time and tell myself to lean into the experience.

ETA: I absolutely signed up to the program in order to meet cute guys. He was not it, but it would be cool if I had a friend in China to visit. His hometown specialized in silk manufacturing. I still have the silk scarf he brought back for me after winter break…. The color scheme is yellow, orange, and green. If anyone knows that there is any special meaning behind this combination I am all ears

Sadly, I actually don't think he was lying, he did say it was because of a car wreck and that he kept having seizures after coming out of it, but he swiftly changed the subject that HE brought up, and I was afraid to ask more because it's definitely... delicate.

Bullet point 5 on his list makes me gag

Wait, his location is tagged as 'savage wisdom" oh gross!!! has he taken a leaf out of Alfie Deyes' book??

 

[JOHN1967]

Where would you put it. Your phone is covered in bacteria at all times anyway, probably most full of bacteria thing anyone owns

i wonder if Mamacita puts her phone on the floor. I think maybe she does.

This is food related and gave me the ick even pre covid. People that double dip or lick a spoon and put it back in the ‘share’ food. For example a pudding or some some pasta. You can’t lick the fucking spoon then put it back in the food.
No.
Just no.

Yup, this is so wrong, but if you say something, they say I haven't got Aids or anything so why are making such a big deal about it.

Tossers

 

[Mollydog]

I've thought of a few more.

One long visible nostril hair - when it's just poking out on one nostril, like a single solitary spider leg

Men explaining film plots to me. Yes, I understood Inception, just because I didn't like it doesn't mean I lacked the intellectual calibre to understand the plot and I need it explaining to me. One ex actually used to *quiz* me on what I thought the meaning was of films when they finished (always poncy pseudo profound indie-but-not-actually-indie, actually mainstream films with magical pixie dream girls like Garden State or something) and correct me if he thought I had got it wrong. I'm amazed my ovaries didn't jump out of my body.

Men who pointedly let me know that they are vegetarians, usually as I am ordering some slab of dead animal or a massive meat pie with horns sticking out, a la Desperate Dan. Actually men who are vegetarians / climate activist eco swot types / purse lips at my recycling bins. I'm sorry, I'm just a terrible person. I know that means they are better than me. It just sets off primaeval lizard brain ick in me. Like if he can't bring himself to eat a bit of steak, how on earth is he meant to look after me and club sabre tooth tigers trying to get into the cave?? I ask you

Men who collect boxed action figures and keep them in boxes on display. Bonus points if they are figures from Star Trek / horror films / Transformers

men who say they are feminists. Bollocks you are, you've just learned it's a good way to get into someone's knickers. Bonus points if they say something like 'Well, I just think the lyrics in rap music is just quite derogatory to women' or 'it would be better if we had women leaders, really' with a thoughtful look on their face


Wearing 'funny' nerd pun t-shirts / t-shirts with cartoons on past their twenties


Men who tan. On purpose

Brilliant

 

[it’s not been changed?!]

@GeorgeP123 yeah, sorry. It’s not really a bag for life is it. It’s just a regular carrier bag

 

[House of Tea]

Pear shaped men usually have hands like this as well, instant ick they’re like kids hands, no definition

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Yes, you are right!

 

[Hodgies]

My fella has a dart board in the kitchen and sometimes he plays with the door shut and I can hear him go ‘oooooooone hunnnnndreeed andddd eeeeeeeigghttty’ and my fairy shrivels up

I can't stop sniggering at this

 

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Are those the same as transition glasses?

Are they ones that get lighter or darker according to the level of sunlight?

 

[it’s not been changed?!]

It's gross intit, just the thought of swimming pool water going in my mouth

Nooo!! Stop it!!!

 

[LittleLizzy1985]

When people repost/retweet competitions to win something.
Fair play to them if they win - but it just gives me the ick

I don't even enter them because it makes me cringe that much my friend is constantly entering them though and tags me every one

I once saw a guy who told me that he snapped his banjo string shagging a girl once.

Haven't most men done this?.

 

[rosemarina]

You’ve set me off again.

 

[LunaLovegood]

Are we pals cos I refer to my ex as needle dick

ouch! Sharp and pointy

 

[it’s not been changed?!]

If I don’t reply for 5 mins this guy sends me a seperate ‘x’ to get my attention!!! I have the major ick our entire message history is
X
X
X
X
X


Not to mention he is so boring. I asked if he drove and he said he has friends & family to drive him around, asked if he had a job he said he cba for one anyone else think it’s so unattractive when a boy has no goals in life?!

How old is he?

 

[quipawiticism]

Men who say 'bottom'

Usually gay.

 

[Very traditional]

Does this count for women bc I’m having to do this also I’m giving myself the ick with my lil backpack for work

Also guilty of carrying my cutlery in my laptop bag There's none in the office and we're not allowed to leave anything on our desks or in drawers so I have too!

 

[it’s not been changed?!]

Men with child bearing hips. Or long fingernails. Or white podgy fingers. Or called Nigel.

Yes, chubby hands

 

[Emerald37]

Guys who use girly memes