"The Ick" #5

[wafflesnwings]

I've been crying with laughter at some of the posts here (the Eminem Lose Yourself is hilarious and I'm certain that I'll be randomly cackling away to myself about it for the foreseeable).
I used to work for an American company and nearly every single man (regardless of where they were management-wise) wore trainers (proper gym ones) with a business suit - major ick. The worst was when one of the directors wore a navy suit with bright blue trainers. I never thought I'd feel an ick so badly, that it still makes my insides recoil with horror

 

[Pink blancmange]

Omg I just remembered a guy who had a massive blanket on his bed with a wolf howling at the moon on it.

Like them fleece jackets people wear with wolves/dogs/cats on them

 

[Swanseagal]

People who sell things on Facebook marketplace. I don’t know what it is, but it really gives me the ick.

 

[Murphygirl]

Years ago I was casually seeing a guy. We were texting and I asked him what he was up to. He sent me back a selfie of himself and his mum lying on a bed watching a Disney movie. We were 22 at the time. I was repulsed by him from that moment on. Maybe I'm a petty bitch but I was looking for a man not a little boy

My husband’s male cousin is early 30’s and getting married next month and has Mickey Mouse on his home screen on his Apple Watch. Gives me major ick, if my husband had that I’d be filing for divorce!

 

[Bobbleowl90]

Getting on public transport with a big food shop. Even worse if he’s struggling with the bags because they’re heavy and something falls out. Imagine seeing him chase after a tin of beans… ick.

 

[it’s not been changed?!]

Men taking selfies from this angle, topless. Do they get out of bed and think, yeh, I’m going for take a topless selfie?
he has liked me on bumble

Also, when they mention sex in their bio. I’m not a prude, but it makes me cringe.

 

[Emerald37]

Men who adjust themselves in public.

 

[Hastaggifted]

This doesn't really fit on any thread but I have to share, it gave me an icky feeling so here we are.
I saw a mum at the school gates kiss her son goodbye. She held his face, closed her eyes and kissed him on the lips. It lasted over 5 seconds. Hes about 10/11. I was stood there like .
I grab my son by his chubby cheeks and give him a whacker of a kiss sometimes but never close my eyes and he pulls away laughing. But this was just weird.

Maybe I'm weird for thinking it's weird but there we go.

 

[Pipsy]

Re men's online bios and general social media cringe. I swear it's gotten worse! Whilst some men are just cocky, more and more younger men are genuinely deluded. I think the prevalence of hypersexualised MSM and hardcore porn has convinced many men that women are more sexually driven, esp casually, than we really are. The second hand embarrassment I get from men unwittingly displaying how little they know about actual women is ICKKKKtastic! I think, you mustn't have had much real life experience with us, otherwise you'd never confuse entertainment made for men with real, living women and how we think and behave, what we desire etc. A sexual introduction alone is a great way to cock block yourself to like 95% of women and that's before we get onto the dumb, unrealistic stuff they come out with.

 

[WeeLassy12]

A new start in my work shouts out “Hasta la vista, baby” every night when he leaves. I hoped it was a one off but nope, every night. Ick

 

[it’s not been changed?!]

I give myself the ick when I listen back to a voice note I sent.

 

[LittleLizzy1985]

My husband took his trainers off yesterday and he had my 'invisible' trainer socks on and my vagina immediately shrivelled up and died! He's also started playing a new game on his xbox and all I can hear his him shouting and cheering and it's making me want a divorce

 

[ThreeSteaksPam]

this, apparently! Lol. Yes, I took screenshots

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I don’t know where to start with that room behind him. The ornate chair complete with teddy bear. The wallpaper that looks like a combination of black mould and fire damage. The Biba cushion last seen on a £5 clearance rack in House of Fraser. The dead bird table lamp illuminating nothing but a 5cm x 5cm patch of the ceiling. I just.. I… No.

 

[Pineapple glitter]

Most of these 'icks' seem to be about women not liking it when men behave in less traditionally 'masculine' ways. I find it interesting that women police gender roles in men more than they would probably like to admit.

Men have been policing gender roles for centuries. Now women are saying 'not any more' they're throwing their toys out of the pram

 

[petitspois]

Travis Barker from Blink 182. He is making me dry heave since he started his relationship with Kourtney Kardashian.
He looks and behaves like a predator and she is no better.

Yeah, Travis Barker, Machine Gun Kelly and I'm sure there are others - all stinky looking Rat Boys

 

[1001 others]

Pigeon toes!

 

[emmer_moans]

Seeing pics of the Beckham lad preparing for his wedding driving a go-cart topless
Such “I’m so sexy and cool” vibes. Also other celebs who act like this.

 

[ThreeSteaksPam]

Men who send twee emojis like this when they DM. It feels like a creep trying to lure me in with sweets, fuck off.

This x 1000. Makes my skin crawl. Along with this one.

 

[Agent Cooper]

Men who use this emojis to indicate they are shy…Makes me irrationally angry.

 

[holliebollie]

I have so far managed to get a year into a relationship with no ick (it’s honestly a miracle) but the other day he started fist pumping in the air like to the beat of the music (his child did something brave in soft play and he did it to her)… a part of me was thinking… is this the beginning?! I’ve been replaying it in my head since then Must. Not. Get. The. Ick