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“Thanks, I Hate It”: 50 Pics That May Ruin Your Whole Day (New Pics)
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Just when you think you've seen it all, you come across a photo of someone "storing" jellybeans in a popped blister on the sole of their foot. Using the skin pouch as a sweets pocket. Yes, really. You can't make that ish up. People will never cease to amaze. It's one (very gross) thing to do that in the first place. But we have to wonder, what would possess anyone to take a photo of it, and then share it online for all the world to see?
It's just one of many photos featured on the subreddit "Thanks, I Hate It". The page has more than 1.7 million members and is all the proof we need that people can be more than a little weird. The online community shares pics of the things nobody really wants or likes to see. Yet they take a good look anyway. Some images may make your skin crawl, others could cause a gag reflex, there are those that induce panic, and a few you can't quite put your finger on but you just know you hate them.
Bored Panda has put together a potluck of purely unsettling photos from the page. Be warned, you might not want to scroll through them during breakfast. We also had a really interesting chat with Joshua Ackerman, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. He explained why humans feel disgust and why that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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Thanks, I Hate This New Map…
LiuLiu 9 months ago
I wish I could give this all of the thumbs ups in the world - what an idiot the US looks so stupid
merlin 9 months ago
How do you do that? I'm trying to do that and can't figure out. Thanks!
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Dragons Exist 9 months ago
What the fúck? I thought it was a joke but I checked Google Maps and it actually says it???
General Anaesthesia 9 months ago
How quickly big tech CEOs started goose stepping and stiff-arm saluting.
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Rosecrucian Roeth 9 months ago
Only in Murica folks! Doesn't apply anywhere else in the world, except maybe Russia where Donnie boy's lover rules.
Motivated sloth 9 months ago
I think this is ridiculous but central and South America really missed an opportunity here. I would have thanked trump for acknowledging all of the gulf countries in THE AMERICAS because the UNITED STATES is not AMERICA. Imagine his face if they suggested it had been for south of the border as well. I don’t know who gave him the authority to rename a body of water.
Hank Woods 9 months ago
Congress and some stated have passed laws against drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Now we can drill for oil without fighting in the courts.
fly on the wall 9 months ago
Yeah, freedom fries sure caught on also. Personally if we are going to change the name I suggest " Gulf of Deception "
Quinn 9 months ago
Of course, it didn't need a name change. But since it's undergoing one anyway, then how about a compromise: Gulf of Americas (plural). Because it's, you know, situated between North America and South America.
Shannon Donnelly 9 months ago
Because Trump doesn’t share. Never graduated kindergarten, obviously
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Deirdre M 9 months ago
I am so embarrassed at what has become of my country. I did not vote for that horrible person and can't believe he is the President. I cannot what til he is gone.
Jules 7 months ago
I believe the rest of the world is thinking the same Deirdre - the US has been in a state of FUBAR since the ginger brat took up office. We feel for you ...
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Featherking 9 months ago
No no no, silly - that’s the Gulf of Mexico. Didn’t you listen in school?
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 9 months ago
Let's do it like President Sheinbaum did and call the ex-USA "Mexican America". After all, that's what it used to be called historically!
MagicJacket 6 months ago
I will never call it that. I can't believe 70 million people were so d**n stupid to elect that piece of 💩
Onyx Fyock 9 months ago
America has fallen, the strange Orange man is playing building blocks with peoples lives
Dusty's mom 9 months ago
On Google Maps there's a three-dot symbol, which you can tap to tell them they're wrong. Please do it. Often!
Ralph Vanloton 9 months ago
'Gulf of North America' would be less distasteful... Panama is the southern most point of North America.
Jackie Lulu 9 months ago
Why couldn't everyone just ignore him on this one? Changing the name is so stupid.
Lil be lil 6 months ago (edited)
Trump stupid not saaaaay.....I Trump stupid! (MAGAS talk)
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You know, you can report the name as a problem on Google Maps....
Jules 7 months ago
I think they'd been bombarded with people doing just that as I tried and that function had been switched off
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David Dooling 9 months ago
Check out videos of Permanent Amnesia on YouTube once you get tired of looking at the Gulf of America for something you can truly appreciate.
Laura Parker 9 months ago
But it’s time the whole world pissed their pants in fear at the mere thought of talking s**t about us again. F**k-YOU world!!!
Beth Wheeler 9 months ago
Who is the idiot in I'm guessing DC that came up with this idea and did this to us? Seriously it's been the Gulf of Mexico for how many years? Was it another one of Elon Musks ideas?
Shannon Donnelly 9 months ago
No, this was all Trump. Guess we should consider ourselves lucky he didn’t name it Gulf of Trump (though give it a couple more years and we might just get there).
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Wheeskers 9 months ago
What about Aunt Jemima? Y'all didn't care about her when you erased her from history. She was a proud black woman with her own brand. What do you say to her now?
m pum 9 months ago
None of the rage we have is mutually exclusive anymore. We can be pissed about all of it.
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river 9 months ago
"meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow" -- that's how you sound. get over it.
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Motivated sloth 9 months ago
Because letting someone get away with and doing whatever they want is not how you change things. Giving one person unlimited power to behave how they want never ended well. He is not the President of earth. And changing the name so they can drill the oceans without violating all the laws stating you can’t drill in the Gulf of Mexico is so shady and reprehensible. How do all of his followers that live paycheck to paycheck not see this man handing the country to the wealthy and supporting policies that will make the wealth divide in this country even more offensive. Someone tweeted once about class solidarity and omg why don’t they (MAGAs) get this??
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Spencers slave no more 9 months ago
In what way is it hilarious and genius?
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Have you ever seen something so gross that it makes your stomach churn, and you have to stop yourself from throwing up? Well, apparently that’s your body’s way of protecting you. Scientists say disgust is a survival instinct.
Disgust, wrote Charles Darwin in the 1860s, is inborn and involuntary, and it evolved to prevent our ancestors from eating spoiled food that might k**l them.
Joshua Ackerman is not one to shy away from disgusting things. In fact, he's an expert when it comes to disgust, having researched the emotion extensively. When we reached out to Ackerman, the professor of psychology from the University of Michigan was more than happy to answer some questions for us.
"Disgust is an emotion that evolved to help us manage the threat of harm from infection and toxic substances," Ackerman told Bored Panda. "We often feel disgust in response to threat cues like bodily fluids, symptoms of illness like coughs and pus, rotting foods, and waste products. Disgust creates a strong aversion to cues and drives us to avoid interacting with them in ways that might spread germs or otherwise lead us to get sick. In strong cases, it can help us expel substances we've ingested, for example through vomiting."
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Thanks I Hate This Bulls**t Language
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Thanks I Hate Spider Earrings
GhostlySnail (she/her) 9 months ago
Cool idea but if I saw someone wearing that I would probably smack them in the head trying to get it off of them haha
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Thanks I Hate Your Tattoo
While some of us prefer to steer clear of anything that might gross us out, others get a kick out of watching disturbing videos or looking at disgusting photos like the ones in this compilation. Ackerman tells Bored Panda there's a name for this...
"The concept of 'benign masochism' refers to situations where people prefer typically negative experiences," he says. "For people like this, they don't tend to like the full experience of disgust. Instead, they get enjoyment from the physiological reactions created in the body and mind when they feel 'just enough disgust,' which is more likely to happen when looking at pictures or watching videos than when actually touching or eating gross things."
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Thanks, I Hate Mr. Bean Inserted Into Classic Painting
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Thanks I Hate Tattoos With "Shaking" Effects
We asked Ackerman if it's possible for someone to train themselves to be less disgusted. He explained that disgust reactions are acquired, or learned. Through a learning process, you can train down these responses, he says.
"Whether this is a good activity or not depends on your goal. If you work in a field where you regularly encounter disgust cues (such as sanitation or a hospital), feeling lower levels of disgust can be helpful for getting your job done," said the expert.
"In many cases, people also will naturally become desensitized over time in such situations, even if they aren't intentionally trying to feel less disgust. However, if you train yourself to feel less disgust in a wide variety of situations, this can be counterproductive. Disgust works to help people avoid disease-causing germs and toxins. Feeling less disgust can potentially lead people to stop avoiding these dangers and thus to get sick more often."
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Thanks, I Hate Shrimp Nails
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Thanks, I Hate This Apartment Building
When researchers looked into the link between disgust and COVID, they found that those more prone to feelings of disgust fared better during the pandemic. Ackerman explains that this is because disgust is effective at lessening the probability of illness.
"If people experience disgust to true signs of danger, like someone sick with a contagious illness such as COVID, this can motivate those people to avoid social interactions and other encounters likely to spread germs," he explained.
"Compared to many respiratory diseases, COVID is a little tricky though, as many strains were often accompanied by asymptomatic spread and symptoms less likely to create disgust in others (e.g., fever, feeling terrible). Without cues that elicit disgust, people don't have the same emotional trigger that helps them avoid contagion."
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Thanks I Hate Cats With Pancakes
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Thanks I Hate Beardless Momoa
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Thanks, I Hate This Book On How To Market Your Baby Online
Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine compiled a rather wild survey that I, for one, am happy I didn't take part in. They came up with 75 potentially disgusting scenarios and then asked more than 2,500 people to rate their level of disgust for each one.
Not that you asked, but some of the gross examples include finding a chicken fetus when cracking open an egg, learning that a friend tried to have sex with a piece of fruit, hearing about someone eating rabbits and birds that had been left for dead on the road, looking at genital sores, seeing people eat raw fish heads on TV, and finding out a neighbor likes to poop in his backyard.
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Thanks I Hate Slowly Dying Through Toxins
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Thanks, I Hate Life
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The study found that most of the things humans find disgusting fall into six categories. Each one is related to how likely they are to possibly transmit disease.
According to a press release, "Of all the scenarios presented, infected wounds producing pus were rated as the most disgusting. The violation of hygiene norms—such as having bad body odour, was also found to be particularly disgusting."
The survey results also showed that there were differences in how men and women reacted to each of the disgusting scenarios. Women rated each and every category more disgusting than men. "This is consistent with the fact that men are known to indulge in riskier behaviour than women, on average," reads the press release, adding that the categories women found most disgusting were risky sexual behavior and animals carrying diseases.
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Thanks I Hate This Shirt
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Thanks I Hate This News
"Although we knew the emotion of disgust was good for us, here we've been able to build on that, showing that disgust is structured, recognising and responding to infection threats to protect us," said lead researcher Professor Val Curtis.
Co-author of the paper Micheal de Barra said the results show that people have an intuitive sense of what to avoid in their environment. "Our long coevolution with disease has 'wired in' this intuitive sense of what can cause infection," explained de Barra.
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Thanks, I Hate Snoots
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Thanks, I Hate This Image
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Thanks I Hate This Resistorachnid
So next time you want to gag when someone coughs in front of you, or you see maggots crawling on rotten meat, ask yourself what your body is trying to tell you. Your feelings of being grossed out might not be so useless after all but rather nature's way of protecting you.
Which of the images on this list gave you the ick? Don't forget to upvote them and feel free to tell us more about what you find most disguting in the comments down below.
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Thanks, I Hate Skeleton Sewing Machine
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Thanks, I Hate The LEGO Human Centipede My Kids Made
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Thanks, I Hate Cracked Tongue
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Thanks I Hate It: A Roof
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Thanks I Hate These Nails
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Thanks I Hate Whoever Drew This
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Thanks, I Hate Saving Jellybeans For Later
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Thanks I Hate Mario Lopez Wipes For Men
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Thanks, I Hate Cold Pasta And Strawberries
#34
Thanks I Hate It Tick Trilogy
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Thanks I Hate It So Much
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Thanks I Hate This Person's Pizzas
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Thanks, I Hate My Son’s Stuffed Toys Chair
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Thanks I Hate The Pee-Stained Jeans For $600 And It's Sold Out
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Thanks, I Hate How This Person Eats This Pizza
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Thanks I Hate Creepy Bee Plushies
Sally Moen 9 months ago
My generation had Apple Grannies, which were faces carved into apples that were left to dry up and shrivel, so they looked a little like the wrinkled faces on these bees. And no, I don't understand why they were done
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Thanks, I Hate The Turcracken
#43
Thanks I Hate Christ Krispie Treats
#44
Thanks, I Hate Walmart's Darth Vader Birthday Cake
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Thanks I Hate My Shiney Hiney
#46
Thanks, I Hate This Clock
Greyling Streets 9 months ago
This doesn’t bother me, does that mean something? Why is it bothersome?
#47
Thanks I Hate It When Target Caters Juneteenth
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Thanks, I Hate More Alphabetical
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Thanks, I Hate Auto Toothbrush
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Thanks, I Hate Elly And Phant
Heather Menard 9 months ago
This is funny as hell my cats name is elephant and I call him Elly for short
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