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!
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Billionaires. You don't get that much money without seriously ruining some lives.
The more pessimistic side of this..."you're poor now, but your reward waits in heaven," messaging allowed religion to keep people mired in poverty and economic status quo for thousands of years. I don't care about how hard it is for a rich man to get into a fictional paradise in death, I care about taxing the s**t out of them in life.
Load More Replies...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."
People monetizing their kids on YouTube.
Exploitation, that's what it is. The kid should be able to say no when they are old enough instead of being stuck having a camera shoved in their face and having their most embarrassing moments filmed and viewed on the internet . Can a kid report it to CPS that they are being forced against their will to do this? Just asking
Spitting. I feel physically ill when I witness someone hawking and spitting in public or see spit sitting on the pavement.
The "hawking' thing, actually drawing snot down into your mouth, always makes me feel nauseous. Use a farking handkerchief, for dog's sake.
Ugh, yes. Somehow it's become semi-normal here in The Netherlands for dudes to hawk tuah on the sidewalk where-ever they go, just regular men who could've been my father. SO disgusting.
And it's almost always guys who do it. I've lived on this planet for 60 years & have never, not even once, seen a gal do the hawk-and-spit in public.
Load More Replies...A real problem here in China. Actually slipped on the indoor stairs once because someone had just spat on a step.
And some youngsters think they are cool when spitting. Like they try to reinforce 'respect and fear'. Hate them.
It's funny how saliva is just fine in the mouth (french kissing and such) but the moment it leaves a person's mouth, it's disgusting. No judgement, I agree
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.
Not washing your hands after going to the bathroom. Nasty.
For those who need to hear this, rinsing your fingers quickly doesn't count.
YES! WHY DO PEOPLE THINK THAT'S ACCEPTABLE AT ALL?!?!
Load More Replies...Who does that? I mean, i wash my hads always, even after just being outside for few minutes, let alone bathroom.
I don't know why you're being down voted. If that's what makes you feel good, you do you.
Load More Replies...Hand sanitizer is only supposed to be used on physically clean hands. It kills germs, it doesn't wash actual dirt off your hands. If you have physical dirt (and you know *what* kind of dirt it is after using the toilet!)on your hands, the only thing that rubbing hand sanitizer on your hands will do, is spread the dirt evenly all over your hands. If you have sensitive skin then use a moisturiser after washing.
Load More Replies...I used to work with someone who washed her hands *before* (but not after) using the facilities, as they "felt gross" from working at her desk. Another did the "get the fingertips wet and then immediately dry them off" method after urinating, because "they don't really get dirty" from just wiping after peeing. As if there isn't bacteria/fecal material on the handle of the toilet, the back of the door, etc etc
The number of men I notice not washing their hands after using a urinal in public toilets is too damn high! I often imagine myself following them to inform the people they're with.
We don't have an employee bathroom where I work and every time a member of the public leaves the bathroom without washing their hands I am disgusted.
People are often quick to blame men for this, but trust me, at my last job where we had to share a large bathroom with several stalls probably 2/5 women did not wash their hands. I'm glad this job was a place I wore gloves and sanitized often (as well as actually freaking washed my hands!!!) I just felt it was worth mentioning.
The sound of people chewing.
The clinical diagnosis for not being able to tolerate chewing sounds is called misophonia; it's a condition where specific sounds, like chewing, can trigger strong negative emotional reactions like anger, annoyance, or anxiety in an individual, often causing them to feel overwhelmed or distressed by the sound.
You're not alone in this. I can't chew a banana. I have to swiftly crush it against the roof of my mouth.
Load More Replies...Puckering bubble gum! I hate hate that soind! If it's a child doing it I could understand but when adults are puckering the gum, I flip out! I have misophonia so...
Watching people eat in general, except when you're at a lunch table or whatever
THIS!! Even only knowing that there's no music or tv on before eating together makes me panic in advance
Recently a coworker asked me why I ate lunch in a dark corner of the classroom, 15ft (about 5 meters) from everyone else. I realized I got in the habit because my previous coworker ate with her mouth open in the most disgusting, sloppy, noisy way possible.. even talking with a mouthful of food. If I didn't move far away as I could (without leaving the classroom) I could not eat as it was so unappetizing... 🤢
Children with food on their face. And snot.
The drooling never stops lol my toddler is a freaking river and it gets everywhere
Load More Replies...One of the reasons I never had kids, makes me feel physically sick to see it.
Food not so bad, it happens to the best of us but snot bubbles or hard snots 🤢
For child, I can forgive. Grown ups with food and suff on face-no!
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.
Employers paying new hires more than tenured employees. Having drastically different pay rates for people with similar credentials doing the same job.
This is happening to me all the time. I am senior who is paid less then juniors because I have been longest in the company. Get that logic!
In my industry, the only way to get a raise is to find a new job. Which we do, frequently.
Load More Replies...The company I work for did this... They raised the starting wage 15% company wide. All of the tenured employees received a pay raise UP TO the new hire rate for their position IF they made less than that. Us salaried employees got a whopping 2% raise.
They believe they "save" company's money this way. The thing is, employees with experience in the company will find out, sooner or later, that newcomers have better pay. They will feel betrayed, used and disrespected (because they are). And they'll leave. Good luck with training new people for highly skilled positions.
Same here, I've been doing my job type for 25 years the new people definitely make more than 1 do and it sucks!
In the government office I worked for, we were losing employees in the mid-salary range of a particular classification because positions in other departments were paying better. We begged HR to raise salaries for all of these folks to help retention. HR made us go through a lengthy job study but only ended up raising the starting salary and the top salary. Nothing for the people in the mid-range. Retention went down the tubes when employees that had worked there for 5+ years found out they were making just pennies more than new hires.
If you are unable to pay your senior employees the same, or more than, the going market rate for a new employee, then you do not have a very good business plan. Your profit is coming at the expense of the people who make your business possible.
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5 foot long eyelashes.
Not gross. But super-long nails on the other hand... How do you even keep them clean?
I don’t know how they even keep their eyes open. And they aren’t cheap. They just make you look cheap.
I'm still surprised that false eyelashes ever came back into fashion. They're a pain to deal with and can cause infections or allergic reactions. The super thick or even "fuzzy" style lashes I've seen lately are just ridiculous.
They look stupid for everyday wear, should be only used for costume dress ups if you want to be taken seriously.
I saw a mom at the beach just this passed summer with these monstrosities on her, her kid was misbehaving and when she went in to give him an earful he pulled on those fake things. Yikes
Yep! Looks ridiculous. Like having a damn paint brush on your eyelids!
Unkept beards.
Knew a man who bought expensive hair conditioner for his beard, Didn't use it on his hair, just his beard.
"Unkept" is actually a legitimate, real word. It means pretty much the same as "unkempt", except "unkempt" is generally used to refer to a person or a person's appearance specifically. "Unkept" can be used for everything, from a lawn ("His lawn had an unkept appearance") to a cat ("Preacher needed to be brushed as his black-and-white fur was very unkept") to concepts ("It was an unkept promise") to, in this case, beards.
Load More Replies...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.
People. Seriously, we are gross.
I wish I could up vote this a million times. The longer I live the more I realize how gross and stupid a vast portion of the population really is
except you though, right? you're a beacon of irreproachable goodness, of course. zero faults, right?
Load More Replies...Normal is just the average of all the weird. So yes. And no.
Load More Replies...It is not green, your ideal Booger color, but it is close enough for the joy to commence. You now have in your hand, between your fingers, a potentially edible Booger. You place this Faux Booger just under a nostril. It should stick. If not an easy stick, apply a single drop of water and re-rub a bit. And it should stick. You entertain your victim with the glorious Faux Booger on your face. Victim notices said Faux Booger. You say, “Oh, that???…no problem,” and you proceed to remove the F.B. and then….pop that F.B. right into your mouth. Fini And…my work here is done.
Speaking of Boogers - - - - I have a Booger Practical joke, but too long for one post, so I will do it in two... You like Boogers. You like practical jokes. You have been waiting, your entire life, for a good Booger practical joke. I have heard your call in the ether. I am here to respond. And the answer: Cooked white rice. Yes, cooked white rice is the answer. So, you order your moo goo gai pan from the local Chinese Cuisine establishment. This comes with the nice weirdo white cardboard package of the glorious white rice. You open that package. You take out a single glorious grain of that white rice. You have a thumb. You have an index finger, You take that single grain of glorious white rice and begin to rub it between your thumb and index finger. Not too hard, you need to work it just right. Just slowly rub in there. Check it, oh, every thirty seconds or so. You should get a nice orb of that rice, which has now turned a nice shade of gray.
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.
Mildew! I hate that smell too. It sometimes feels almost impossible to get rid of it from clothing. I've accidentally forgotten a load of laundry in the washer overnight before, and ugh, you've got to re-wash it, generally with some white vinegar, and even then you might not get all the mildew-smell out.
If you have access to tea tree oil it really helps. We had a long rainy period so my clothes weren't drying properly, I'd have to re-wash to get the mildew out and adding a splash of tea tree to the white vinegar makes a huge difference.
Load More Replies...For whoever needs to hear this, if your clothes go sour wash them once more with generic mint listerine.
I generally can't use a lot of dish rags since they stink! People don't rinse them properly and then they don't wring them out and let them dry properly. Not to ment they are often used too long to begin with. They should be switched out and washed often.
The smell of mildew makes me wretch. Growing up, my mother would wash the laundry, then stack all the wet shirts on top of the washer overnight before hanging them the next day "so they aren't wrinkled" 🤢
Long nails.
I'm ok with them if they're clean and well kept. Chipped polish or acrylic nails that are overdue for a fill get me. And unkempt cuticles.
No matter how good looking a woman may be, the manicured nails ruin it for me, especially french and like the picture shows.
Lip fillers.
Ugh, the ones that look lumpy or overfilled like hotdog lips.
Load More Replies...Hm, not gross, just tacky if overfilled. And can lead to health issues.
It absolutely is gross. Those fillers aren't "absorbed" and expelled, they just redistribute around the face.....and then people go and do it again, and again, and again. As for the overfilled ones....it's like someone caught a glimpse of a nasty case of hemorrhoids and thought "oooo, that's what i want my mouth to look like"
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Spitting, coughing without covering mouth. I have multiple sclerosis. Get sick really easy.
After the recent pandemic, we should be more mindful of this. It’s the reason those old laws against spitting in public were created. Spit is a bodily fluid, and can carry and spread disease when people are exposed to it—-and they don’t have to touch it to be exposed. Back in the day the concern was for the spread of tuberculosis. Now it could be anything, like a new strain of COVID. A lot of old laws aren’t really to be laughed at. The people who created them often had a very good reason, usually a threat to public health, to enact them.
Omg, doing that in crowded places, like public transport! So vile! no one wants your germs, spit and slime!
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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.
I use one of those net-ball-scrubby things (I think they're made of nylon?) and I literally wash it after I finish washing the dishes with it XD It gets a regular soak in vinegar as well, and I switch to a new one every other week. I cannot STAND when I look at a scrubby or a sponge and SEE bits of food stuck to it. I use a regular scrubbing-side dish sponge for washing my pets' dishes and bowls, but that bad boy ALSO gets washed and rinsed after use, and I microwave it to sanitize it every day. And I replace it every other week. I can handle a lot of gross things (I have four pets, and they produce a variety of bodily substances from every orifice) but food residue on sponges/dish-cleaning tools just squicks me out. I'm with OP on this one.
I have a separate scrubbie-sponge for my dog bowls, too! I know everything gets clean in the end, but I'll be damned if I'm going to wash the "people" and "dog" dishes with the same sponge knowing all the horrible places dog mouths - regardless of any attempts to prevent it - end up (dead bird, squirrel poo, their own butts, etc...) !!!
Load More Replies...I saw a friend do this. My ex was working an event, catering it. Musician friend of hers came in and did the dishes lightning fast. Meaning...you know, barely. Made me wonder if folks who have horrible hygiene are literally people who just die younger because of all the extra bacteria people in their lives.
In the Netherlands it is common to use a brush. You can rinse it off with hot water. Or put it in the dishwasher.
We got cloth sponges. It is great! And after washing dishes it is hanged and on second day (or after washing dishes used on raw meat) it goes to dry and once a week or so they all go in the washing machine and get high heat treatment. It is great!
On colder days when my dad walks the dog he’ll sometimes hold the dog poop bag in his hands to warm his hands.
Gloves? Just to handle a dog poop bag? The whole point of poop-bags is that you turn the bag inside-out on your hand and use it to pick up the poop, then turn the bag right-side out with your other hand (poop neatly contained inside) and tie it up and toss it. Putting on a pair of gloves every single time one of my dogs poops would mean I would go through several pairs of gloves in a day. XD Seems wasteful. I wash my hands after I pick up the poop, of course, even though (theoretically) it never comes into contact with my hands directly. EDIT: I'm an idiot. I live in SoCal where it's never really "cold", so I forgot that mittens/wooly gloves exist. >_< I apologize! I'm leaving my original comment up so people can see what an idiot I am XD We don't have seasons here in SoCal, sooo I kind of... forgot that other places get actual snow and stuff and people would need gloves to keep their hands warm XD
Load More Replies...He was TWO sanitary layers. All common people wash their hands coming home from outside, picking or not, with gloves or without them.
Load More Replies...I don't see the problem. The poop is in a sealed bag. There was never direct contact; assuming everyone knows to put the bag over their hand, pick it up, and turn the bag inside out. Tie. No contact. ...By this logic, anyone who handles specimen cups are overexposing themselves to the biological matter in the cup; if its properly contained, they're not handling the specimen, theyre handling its container. Same for a poo bag. Its gross at face value, but not actually in practice. ...until the bag breaks. Then yeah, gross. 🤢
Smacking gum. I hate it. And loud chewing/swallowing noises.
God, I hate that sound. When I am in the bus and someone is puckering the damn gum, I just want to yell them to stop! I have misophonia so I can't stand that sound.
As someone with misophonia, I feel the strong urge to punch people who chew, smack or make other 'wet' sounds.
YES. Pretty much the only thing on this cursed rock that makes me (almost) violently angry.
The gum chewing itself doesn't bother me so much, it's the ones that chew it like it's the first thing they've eaten in weeks that get me
Not washing hands before a meal. You have been in filth and you are going to touch your food with those hands? Yuk.
Wash before eating, wash before cooking, wash during cooking if you've handled raw meat (especially pork or poultry) with your bare hands.
Definitely this! And, if I'm making something for people other than just my husband and myself (i.e. a side to take to a family gathering, etc), I always use disposable gloves, too! Maybe I've worked in heathcare too long, but there is something that just feels wrong about touching other people's food with bare hands. I also use them for other weird things, like cleaning my dogs' ears or trimming their nails. Thank goodness I don't want kids, because I can guarantee that I'd be wearing them for every diaper change, too.
Load More Replies...and welcome to why our society is filled with listeria, salmonella and e. coli. Because the workers don't wash, the company does not compel them to...and that whole thing about not cleaning the equipment or the plant. Literally killing people rather than taking 15 seconds to wash hands and equipment. Humans. Yuck.
Sitting on a warm toilet seat.
My weird quirk is absolutely hating sitting in other's "butt warmth" regardless of the seating surface. It's not normal or rational, but I'd rather stand than sit in a just vacated public seat.
Ack! Same. Why oh why is it always warm and moist? Like your sitting in a fart. No thank you.
Load More Replies...Or a WET toilet seat. Or cold toilet seat, or a slimy toilet seat.
Once went to a restaurant that had padded heated toilet seats wrong on so many levels !!!
My mom installed those heated toilet seats in my childhood house/where she still lives! I cannot even put into words how abhorrently gross it feels to sit on them. Even though I KNOW it's electrically-warmed and not "warmed because someone else's heiny sat on in 10 seconds before you sat down", it STILL feels absolutely awful.
Load More Replies...Okay, I went to a friend’s house and he legit had this toilet seat that had a seat warmer (and a bidet!) Knowing it was supposed to be warm actually made it pretty nice.
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.
We wash with washing up liquid in the UK and leave to dry in a dish rack. Can't say I've ever tasted soap.
You wash dishes in hot water to sanitize, along with soap to degrease, as long as you THOROUGHLY wash them, that is. You rinse them in cold water specifically to get the soap completely off. If you're washing a lot of them and the water becomes dirty, you simply empty, rinse, refill the basin, and start over with fresh hot water for the rest of the dishes! Can you tell I lived in a lot of apartments that didn’t have dishwashers when I was single? My biggest pet peeve is when I have just filled the basin up with clean hot water and soap, and the first thing my husband puts in it is the damned greasy frying pan he just cooked something in. I love the fact that he cooks, but I was the one who had to teach him how to properly hand wash dishes when we got married (he was just dipping and swishing them in the water and putting them in the drying rack without rinsing them. Ugh), including that you wash your more delicate stuff, like glasses, first, then your dishes, then your godawful plots and pans—-unless you run a new basin of water for the. This is apparently the lesson he always forgets. TBH, we just need to buy a dishwasher. Of course then, he won’t rinse the dishes enough before loading it, so….
Dishwashers are better if they are loaded correctly, and if the filter is cleaned on a regular basis.
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Leaving the toilet seat up when flushing.
It leads to what they call a 'Fecal Fountain' with small particles of faeces being put into the air and landing elsewhere in your bathroom - toothbrushes, hair brush, make up etc..
In Europa we have separate toilets sometimes with their little lavabo for hand washing and extra bathrooms with big lavabo, bath, and shower. To have wc next to your bath or lavabo is unhygienic.,
Load More Replies...My toilet lid is always down when flushing. The only time it is up is when we are actually using or cleaning it. A lot of people don't realize that bacteria flies around when you flush.
Alot of people just don't believe or understand how nasty that is.
Talking while eating. You get to see the inside of their mouth, and its disgusting
Just eat and swallow the food and then talk 🙄.
Spitting, especially loogies. I literally almost throw up when I see someone doing it.
Where live tobacco-chewing people nowadays: I supposed they are extinguished after Civil War?
Load More Replies...Someone spit one near me once and I threw up on them. You have no manners, that's what you get
I once worked in a bar where people would spit in the ash trays. I almost threw up every time I had to clean them, if the boss was not around I'd just bin them.
Sometimes, you have to get rid of something. But, you can spit, act about it, and generally make it seen, heard, known. Or, you can look for a drain in the ground, and silently have yourself relieved of some ... whatever you coughed up. But, ... you can do that without anybody noticing, and that often, it isn't anyway.
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.
I suppose it could be considered gross by some, but it still seems pretty miraculous to me.
It just seems funny how childbirth is as painful today as it was for my mother's generation 60 years ago. Would it be this way if men gave birth??
It is insane to expect your husband to see it without a serious impact on his sexual feelings.
Licking their fingers to turn a page. Turns my stomach!
Or when counting paper money. Or when trying to open a plastic grocery bag...
Yes. Habanero powder on the books' edges can work sufficiently, but anger might be a by-result, too. And you shouldn't do that if you have pets roaming over your books, because to them, it might be even more painful and even dangerous. But, any page smearing droolfinger, deserves.
This! Soo much! Imagine doing this for any other reason. Lick fingers, here's your bread slices. Lickes fingers here's your phone. Suoer gross! I have co-workers do this with paper so often they have stains on corners. And then there's the tobacco chewing halitosis that leaves ita stink. Barf
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!
Some TV chefs that are always so keen to get their hands in, like when dressing a salad or just mixing stuff, rather than just using a spoon like a normal person, but then leave all their jewellery on, make me cringe every time.
Paula Deen is bad about that and makes me wonder who cleans her jewelry after every video she films especially if she has been messing with raw meat, fish or eggs
Load More Replies...That's why you either wash your hands or use the hand sanitizer all the time and regularly clean your rings at home.
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?
How do you propose I STOP my cats from getting onto the countertops? XD I gave up on that decades - and three cats - ago (and I tried EVERY method.) Now I just, you know, WIPE OFF THE COUNTERTOPS before I cook/prep. And it's not like I'm putting food directly ON the countertop itself anyway.
I've had cats, usually three or more at any one time, for over forty years, and never allowed any of them onto kitchen work-surfaces. Shout and clap every single time they try it is all it's ever needed. Yes, they do sometime still get up if they think you;re not looking, and I'm sure when we're not home, so some hygiene measures are still needed, like yeah, I always use a clean chopping board and never the surface itself, except when baking and then make sure it's properly clean and sanitised first.
Load More Replies...That's why you buy antibacterial counter cleaners. I wouldn't kick my cat out because I don't feel like wiping counters or places she walked over. It's my cat!
No, I don't think my cats are washing their paws and butts after they use their litter box (well mine actually go to the bathroom outside mostly), but I don't care. I guarantee your cats are getting on your counters when you're gone so why fight it 😼
My cats were trained with a spray bottle to not get on the table or counters.
Water bottle at hand. I’ve been able to keep every cat I’ve ever had off all hard surfaces with the water bottle. Just have to squirt them a few times, then all I have to do is pick up the water bottle and they turn around. After a bit of that stage, they stop trying. I have a very firm “if it’s soft, you’re welcome, if it’s hard, stay off” rule. Love all my kitties and miss them.
None of my cats step on the worktop. Or the dining table. They are all indoor outdoor cats, because I live in the UK. They are trained from day one.
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.
Never thought about this one before, was just at aunts birthday last week and she took her teeth out to blow properly 🤢
Better than having her teeth come out WHEN she blows!
Load More Replies...In all fairness to this, it was only when covid hit that we realised how far our breath goes, and that this kind of thing is really unhygienic.
I've been blowing out birthday candles my whole life. But when you put it like that, I'm still gonna blow out birthday candles.
My MIL had an iced polystyrene cake with the candles on. After the birthday child (and probably every other kid) had blown out the candles, the real cake came out.
I know about the "oh my god! ALL THE BACTERIA!!!!"-hype. But honestly? I don't care. Because not all bacteria are bad and also if there are bad bacteria being blown onto the cake (there are a certain percentage of bad bacteria when you blow out candles, no doubt) I choose to think that they help my immune system staying in shape and up to date. Don't be scared of ALL bacteria. Your entire body is covered with them, inside and out.
I think it took the pandemic to make us all realize how gross that is. After that, we just started handing a candle in a small holder to the birthday person and let them blow that out, away from the cake.
Perhaps not gross, but I am repulsed by holding chalk and writing on a chalkboard. The touch, the feel, the sound, everything.
I hated that, too. Since 1st grade, I tried to evade being called to write on the blackboard. Or having to clean that mess. Always was disgusting, it smells hideous, and the stickiness of your hands afterwards is especially discomfortening. Not that it would be hard to take off, but none of our classrooms had soap, and on the bathroom wall, there were those soap grinders that gave you little shreds of an equally disgusting soap. We even ... we ridded our entire school of them, hoping for a replacement that was somewhat different, only to find out our school had been given a huge stock of these when the city started introducing other variants in public schools - "Somebody has to use up those grinders and grindsoap, let's give it all to one school and be done with!", somebody seems to have said, done, and likely, not even regretted. SO SAD.
Not gross but the sound of a dentist drill. Makes me shiver at the sound.
I felt the same until I had my first laughing gas experience. I had an entire tooth removed and didnt flinch once. So odd.
Younger people don't have this particular fear. I think it comes from the days of inadequate anaesthesia and less than adequate dentists..
I’m 44 and don’t hate the drill sound. I only ever had localized anesthesia for a root canal.
Load More Replies...All of my wisdom teeth were pulled when I was 29 with a 6 mo old baby. They gave IV sedation so I didn't know anything until it was over. My niece stayed with me and took care of me and the baby for a couple of days while my husband was at work. I found out I'm allergic to Vicodin, I would have s horrible headache and start itching within 15 minutes and have to take Benadryl and have to go to bed The oral surgeon had to give me a different pain med. I can't take anything with codiene in it.
Expecting their older kids care for the younger siblings without consideration of the older kids desires and wants.
ha ha no. Preparation for adulthood? Not all of us WANT children or will have children. So why are we "preparing for adulthood" by caring for children that aren't ours? And I hate to be the one to inform you that babysitting your 7-year-old younger sibling when you're 12 won't teach you jack SHÍT about being a "functional adult" or "understanding and accepting responsibility". As an aside, caring for younger siblings is NOT an older sibling's "responsibility" - so why are they expected to "accept responsibility"? I'd also love for you to somehow prove that taking care of one's younger siblings in lieu of the parents doing it leads to the older siblings learning to "survive on their own" - how does TAKING CARE OF OTHER CHILDREN teach a child to "survive ON THEIR OWN"? (As an aside, I am the younger child of my parents. I was not forced to care for younger siblings, since none existed. And yet I am a functional adult! Wow! How did THAT happen?)
Load More Replies...Heat/fan hand dryers in public bathrooms. Yuck.
Wash hands, use dryer, wipe hands on pants because they didn't get dry.
Why is this gross? Is there something I don't know? I always thought they were cleaner and they definitely get my hands dryer..
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aem.00044-18 Just one study (there have been several) showing that there is all kinds of bacteria INSIDE the dryers, and the dryers then blow those bacteria right onto your hands when you use the dryers. And because you've just washed your hands, you think that they're clean - so you wouldn't think twice about rubbing your eyes or touching food or scratching your face/nose if it itched. Then those bacteria travel right into whatever part of your body you just touched. And because your hands are wet when you start using the dryer, the bacteria "stick" to the wet skin. This article is easier to read than the study: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-bacterial-horror-of-the-hot-air-hand-dryer-2018051113823
Load More Replies...I always preferred these, still do, nothing to touch, gets them properly dry. Yes, I've seen arguments about spreading bacteria, but really, if you've washed your hands properly what is there to spread?
You wash your hands and then the dryer blows bacteria onto your nice clean skin. The bacteria isn’t coming from you, it’s coming from the dryer. Especially bad with the style of dryer where you put your hands in a top opening; as your hands drip, some water collects in the hand dryer, attracting dust & giving good (ie damp) growing conditions for mold and mildew spores.
Load More Replies...When people don't wear underwear under their gym clothes. I don't care who you are, you better be wiping the seats of the equipment off because you know you got your liquids on it.
I knew a guy doing a study of germs found on gym equipment. The seats of stationary bikes were the worst.
Unless someone is licking it, does it matter? I mean, yes, wipe out of curtesy, but the bacteria on one person's clothes going on someone else's clothes (or even their skin) doesn't really matter? They're going to shower and wash their clothes anyway.
Load More Replies...Have you seen the tightness of today's gym clothes? You can easily tell if someone's wearing underwear or not
Load More Replies...Kissing pets in their mouth.
People letting their dogs lick their faces or sometimes even inside their mouths. YUCCCKKK
Letting pets eat from the same spoons dishes ect, yes you can wash them but its still gross
Capnocytophaga. Look it up. It's a real thing, but they say it's rare. In the last few years, on my local news, I've seen it twice where people have had parts of their bodies amputated because of people letting their dogs lick them. One guy had his nose amputated. Don't let animals or people lick you.
If you are going out of your way to avoid every single rare terrible thing that could possibly happen to you you are going to lead an extremely boring and sheltered life. I'll enjoy mine, animal licks and all, thank you very much
Load More Replies...At the time of Covid, when in the summer you could be a little freer from the restrictions on the terrace of the bar, a woman came there with her sweet little dog. Four other women cuddled with the dog one after the other, and lots of kisses were exchanged with the dog on the mouth. The feelings of disgust and horror from this memory still haven't faded. What a parade of bacteria.
Kids who grow up around pets, tend to have much stronger immune systems. Still kinda gross though
Posting uncensored pictures,videos or text messages of other people online to make fun of them.
Biting your nails as an adult, I get that it can be self-soothing behavior, but it still grosses me out. Was in a meeting yesterday, in person, 75 people. The lady next to me was playing with her nose and biting her nails non-stop and I was repulsed.
I don't chew my nails, but I do pick at my lips, which I understand is gross, but when I get anxious, I have to find something to do with my hands, and if i'm not wearing a necklace or bracelets to play with, that's unfortunately my go-to. I try not to do it in public though, because I know how gross it is. and harmful to my lips, which are already often chapped.
Pregnancy
Like how can women be OK with this?
I just don't understand.
A lot of us aren't ;) And that's why I have two dogs and two cats instead.
It's not exactly a choice... What else are we supposed to do? Lay eggs?
dildos, safe sex, and plan b medication. You can rock the bed with your partner, just prepare pregnancy prevention (If they are of opposite gender).
Load More Replies...It's just a biology. now we are grossed out by normal body functions?
Diarrhea is a body function too. So is mucus. Are you grossed out by mucus or diarrhea? "It's a body function" doesn't preclude someone getting grossed out by it. Some people are grossed out by sweat, which is also a normal body function. It's okay to be grossed out by what you're grossed out by.
Load More Replies...I really liked being pregnant with two of my three kids. It was so nice to feel the baby in the belly and to talk to it and feel it move as if it was responding. Also, the reason my last pregnancy was awful was the hormones. I ate ALL the time and gained a lot of weight and I was so tired and in pain all the time. I am happy to not be able to have more children by now. My body just cannot carry more mini-humans. But in general I really liked being pregnant. Sure, many things about it is gross, but I didn't really think about that. I just liked to bond with the baby and was excited to meet each kid.
To be pregnant is normal and human, to be not pregnant by way Gabrielle says isn´t fine by me.
Load More Replies...Because they want kids?! That's a pretty damn good reason to be okay with it!
I think if a man had to do it, there'd be a lot less of it going on 😁
I wouldn’t say everyone finds this normal bc more and more ppl are starting to side eye it but using words like “baby” or “daddy” or “mommy” in a sexual context.
Mommy and daddy are a specific and very odd thing, but 'baby' has long been a normal affectionate term between couples, as evident in popular music for at least the last seventy years or so.
After being real mommy and daddy it is normal between loving parents.
Load More Replies...Going to the toilet in front of your partner. What the hell is up with that? So gross.
It's a natural bodily function, who cares? I will do literally anything in front of my BF. It's far weirder that humans deem their body functions gross.
Wearing sneakers without socks. Ugh! The sweat, stink.
And most people with stinky feet are nose-blind to it, you know.
Load More Replies... Shoes inside UK houses with carpet
At least on hardwood you can mop???
Everybody I know. Removing shoes is not a thing for people of my age/class/country.
Load More Replies...It seems to be a generational thing, a lot of the time. My father lives with me, and constantly complains about how dirty the floors are. The thing is he's the only one who wears shoes in the house. He puts them on when he wakes up, and doesn't take them off until he goes to bed. He even puts them back on to go to the bathroom, at night. We have an ongoing argument. He says he has to wear shoes, because the floors are dirty. I say they are dirty, because we live in a place that's usually rainy or snowy, and he's tracking in the mud. I do clean them every other day, while he's at dialysis, and I bought him slippers. The problem is he'll wear those inside and outside, too.
Or, any house ?? I (unfortunately) live in USA, and we still have a strict NO SHOES INSIDE rule. And you know what? Everyone always respects it. It's more comfy to hang out in socks/slippers, anyway...
Never on carpeting, hardwood/tile etc.....i don't really care. My dad was in a wheelchair, not really any way to avoid tracking the outside world in the house. You vacuum and mop. But....carpeting is disgusting no matter what, which is why i loathe it. We never wear shoes inside, but my wife can't stand to walk on cold floors in the winter.....so we have throw rugs down....every 3 or 4 weeks they get washed in the bathtub, and each and every time that water ends up looking like mud. Just imagine what the carpet pad under the wall to wall stuff looks like.
Using your phone in the bathroom seems very common and I don't get it at all. I have never once felt the need to use my phone there, and it never even comes into a bathroom with me (unless I use a public washroom and have my purse, but then the phone stays in my purse).
Fastest way to get a man out from the toilet is to turn off the WiFi. 😂
Back in the dark ages, it was quite common for people to have books, or magazines in the bathroom....because sometimes you're sitting around for awhile....and they just lived there, right next to the toilet, for weeks at a time. You can clean your phone, those pieces of paper just collected nasty.
Long nails. Acrylic nails are fine imo but naturally long nails that are yellow, crusty and not filed are not okay.
When my nails start getting a little long, and I put hand lotion on, I can see all that lotion that gets stuck under the nail. So, I can only imagine what gets stuck under perpetually long nails.
Load More Replies...That's funny cuz I think the ~long~ acrylic nails are NASTY but I work with a few women who keep long, natural nails and the fake ones are always 10x nastier
Acrylic nails can be fine, if they're less than about 10mm from the end of your fingertip, everything beyond that is increasingly nasty. Everytime i see anyone with those several inch long fake nails, they're some sort of unidentiful crud on the underside. Is it food? Careless in the bathroom? A combination of both?! I don't think anyone wants the answer to those questions, but please stop touching....anything.
Touching the toilet seat to bring it up or down. I need to wash my hands immediately or I convulse in disgust lol.
Could someone in this community please explain why restrooms don't have sanitizer AND soap in mens public baths? If I use the urinal, I would prefer sanitizing over washing. I mean, I KNOW where my junk has been.
Sanitizing doesn't remove urine, dirt, grease, microbes, etc; and there are some viruses with outer membranes that aren't penetrated by alcohol, so it's usually best to wash your hands properly (soap & running water, lave for at least 20 seconds before rinsing, and continue to lave while rinsing) rather than just using sanitizer.
Load More Replies...Sometimes one cannot stave off vomiting long enough to choose one's vomitorium. Vomiting is usually kind of involuntary XD and I'd rather hork into the toilet (and wash my arms and hands/shower afterwards) than just hork onto the floor.
Load More Replies...I garb a thick wad of toilet paper to move the toilet seat. Or use the sole of my shoe
Passing your vape to anyone and everyone who asks.
Family/friends talking about their poop. When they poop, or that they can’t poop, or their stomach aches and they need to poop. I don’t want to know about it.
Yeah, and when people online talk about food that disagrees with them! Ick!
People older than like 25 dating an 18/19 year old.
How about people who infantilize some adults while villainizing others on the basis that those adults aren't living up to their idea of what is proper.
Shoes in house. Like wtf??
Yes, I don't like that too. Outside there is poop and who knows what on sidewalk.
Washing other peoples dishes. No idea why but I hate touching them.
I think it's disgusting when I get food floaties in the dish water. I just can't until I find it and throw it out.
AGH I'm with you on that. I am done when I see those XD Or the strainer-thing that covers the drain. I have to tap that thing into the trash at least twice if I'm washing dishes XD
Load More Replies...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
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.
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
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.
Load More Replies...Some of you, no doubt, get sick a lot. I grew up playing out doors in the dirt, always had pets (still do), and rarely got sick. Know why? GERMS. I came in contact with germs, bacteria, and viruses of all kinds, and my body built up a strong immune system. Studies have shown that children who grow up in such situations tend to be healthier. For some of you, every little thing grosses you out. I feel sorry for you.
I did that too, but I also have narrow sinuses. When I’d get a cold that would have cleared up in a day or so, I’d then get a sinus infection. You don’t know everyone’s story.
Load More Replies...One of my major grossers is pet or human hair. Wet or dry, doesn't matter. Just can't stand it
Its not necessarily gross, but I absolutely cannot touch emery boards. I can't touch them, use them, watch someone else use them, nothing. They make my teeth itch.
People who wipe their kids snot/drool with their bare hands and then wipe it off their own clothes - seen this many times in my own family. And once I saw a dad pulling out a big nasty booger of his child's nose with his bare fingers. You can be parents without becoming disgusting!
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
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.
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
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.
Load More Replies...Some of you, no doubt, get sick a lot. I grew up playing out doors in the dirt, always had pets (still do), and rarely got sick. Know why? GERMS. I came in contact with germs, bacteria, and viruses of all kinds, and my body built up a strong immune system. Studies have shown that children who grow up in such situations tend to be healthier. For some of you, every little thing grosses you out. I feel sorry for you.
I did that too, but I also have narrow sinuses. When I’d get a cold that would have cleared up in a day or so, I’d then get a sinus infection. You don’t know everyone’s story.
Load More Replies...One of my major grossers is pet or human hair. Wet or dry, doesn't matter. Just can't stand it
Its not necessarily gross, but I absolutely cannot touch emery boards. I can't touch them, use them, watch someone else use them, nothing. They make my teeth itch.
People who wipe their kids snot/drool with their bare hands and then wipe it off their own clothes - seen this many times in my own family. And once I saw a dad pulling out a big nasty booger of his child's nose with his bare fingers. You can be parents without becoming disgusting!
