108 Times Women Got An Ick So Niche They Had To Share The Ridiculousness Online
Everyone has their own, often very specific, dating preferences. Hobbies, worldview, appearance, income are all common areas of contention, but a few people discover that they might sometimes have strong opinions about even rather mundane things someone does or doesn’t do.
A woman made a post stating “I need to hear the weirdest thing that’s ever made you ick on someone,” so people shared their examples in the comments. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote the most interesting takes and, if you feel inspired, add your own preferences to our comments section, down below.
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i have a few with this one guy idk why i stayed but the biggest was we were on facetime and his mom comes over and goes “how are your toenails do you need me to trim them yet?” WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOUR MOMMY TRIMS YOUR TOENAILS WHAT.
Why? Why did you have to say that? Now I can't unsee what my twisted brain created...
Load More Replies...I thought the Mom was asking the girlfriend over FT if she needed her toenails clipped. Also still a dealbreaker!! haha
Load More Replies...Could she have been trying to embarrass him. My mom would've been relentless.
He spent the night at my house and while I was doing my nighttime face wash/tooth brushing routine , he told me to get in the bed and stop pretending like I brushed my teeth every night…. Because nobody did. I thought everybody did…
Yes, we do. Well, everyone we want to stand within 6 feet of does, anyway....
Mindset is everything. I was raised in a way that made me think personal hygiene was an annoying chore, so of course skipping it felt good. Since I've come to think of it as self-care, it's something I WANT to do.
i went on a vacation with two friends for two weeks.... i can tell on one hand when they brushed there teeth in the evening in those two weeks....
I had this happen too, except we were sleeping in the same bed (platonically). I had to sleep on my side away from him because his breath was so foul.
Load More Replies...After I told him my fav books he said he doesn’t enjoy reading anything fictional because why would he waste his time in an imaginary setting…… he was also a huge marvel fan
AFTER my first husband and I got married - like 5 months after - he proceeds to look at me at Christmas and tell me I used too many big words and I needed to stop trying to outsmart him in front of people. We were separated very shortly after because wtf.
Which one? I'd be put off by him rather than OP, but maybe that "big words problem" is more common than I'd have thought?
Load More Replies...I was told something very similar to this by a guy once and it did give me the ick.
I swore I would take this to my grave because im still embarrassed... I was talking to this guy name Zach for 6 months before we did anything. I had just met his son and our date went so good so why not 🤷♀️after doing the deed, he gave me a high five and said " really good job, ill be sending you a text with a survey attached so I can know how I did. Always love to hear feedback." I barley got in my car before receiving the text... the first question was " How did Big papa satisfy you today, please rate 1-10? " I have never blocked and deleted someone so quick in my life. 😳
Hopefully someone out there will find it funny and play along.
Upon meeting him for the first time, he asked if we could stop by his house real quick to pick something up. He invited me inside, asked me to cook something for his 5 kids cause he doesn’t know how to cook and they were hungry. I took an uber home lol
Cheese-its on a bicycle! Apparently he's looking for a mother for his kids.
1st date and not mentioning 5 flipping kids
Load More Replies...Jeez! That's insane... Parents need to teach their kids how to take care of themselves. I had a hard childhood, but I was taught how to properly cook, clean, and sew. My mother was bound and determined that we would learn how to survive on our own and not be dependent on our spouse or partner for basic skills.
He was jealous of a tampon. Was worried it would… “stretch things out” and he’d be too small. News flash- he was too small. And he talked like a baby when he would say my name lololololol
Took a nap…. In his bed…… With his….. Mud covered boots on….. UNDER THE COVERS!!!
We went for a walk at a nature place after we had dinner. We came upon a bunch of squirrels just minding their business. Me (A known animal love that feeds birds out of my hand was quiet observing them.) suddenly, he clapped really loud and the squirrels ran off. I said what did you do that for? And we got in a fight about how we are in their habitat and he said no it’s our habitat. The clap really gave me the ick. He never heard from me again.
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Load More Replies...I hate when people are loud to animals. Except my dog. She likes it when I sing to her.
we were about to kiss after an awesome date and when I was .5 inches away I could see buildup on his teeth like he never brushes them. body rolled away and asked as. gently as I could about it. he said he doesn't believe in toothbrushes
I knew a woman who would never brush her teeth. Like they were seriously fuzzy. She had hookups all the time. Not sure how the men could stand it.
Had a friend who had a similiar interaction with someone she kissed a few times. Most interactions, she explained, happened in low light. When she saw what was going on in his mouth and described to us by saying two rotten teeth and a microphone (to the beat of the Beck song Where it's at-two turntables and a microphone)
I gave ONE compliment about how pretty his eyes were in the sunlight. He proceeded to send me several pics a day of close ups of his eyes in different angles in the sun like a Twilight character. Block.
Kinda cool. Us dudes don't get a lot of those kind of compliments, I admit he could've handled it smoother but still kinda cool though.
i woke up at 5 am to a noise in my room and it was him going through boxes and stuff i had under my bed
He had to eat a grilled cheese with a glass of milk IN BED before falling asleep because it's what his mommy did for him growing up.
Mommy's boys are the worst. Never marry one unless you're interested in a 3-way relationship with your MIL.
He told me to stop using big words to confuse him. Diligent. I had used the word diligent.
I can still spell antidisestablishmentarianism, though I've never used it in a sentence (and it's been about 50 years since I last wrote it). Though I did once tell someone that their rash looked like ancylostomiasis. Joys of growing up in the 70s and having lists of words you had to learn how to spell (and what they mean - don't look up ancylostomiasis after eating).
I made hard-boiled eggs and he couldnt figure out how to get the shell off so he put the whole thing in his mouth with the shell and ate it. Hearing the crunch was one of the most painful things I've experienced.
Egg shell is one of the worst things you can find in a sandwich. You can't spit it out 'cos you've got a mouthful of half-chewed sandwich in there; you don't want to chew any more cos you'll break it into even smaller pieces; you don't want to just swallow cos you might choke...
Guy took me to Olive Garden and ordered a Dr. Pepper without ice because and he whispered it to me "you get more in your glass". Then got mad when I said you know refills are free?
I don't get ice either, but it's because I prefer my drinks at room temp (except for beer)
So do I, and how many ice do you have regularly in your beer? / jk
Load More Replies...We went to ramen, he told me about his semester in Tokyo and proceeded to fake burp between sips bc “it is a compliment to the chef”. The chef literally said “nah man”
Went on a first date at a sushi restaurant. He dipped his finger in the wasabi and put it straight in his mouth, he gaged and was dumbfounded to find out it wasn’t guacamole 😑
Because everyone knows that guacamole goes perfectly with sushi. 🙄
My ex-husband ate an entire blob of wasabi, insisting it was guacamole. Then he got mad at me, even though (a) I told him repeatedly what it was and (b) I am deathly allergic to avocados and had expressed that to the server so there shouldn't have been guac anyway.
This is the same man who loved "foreign foods" (his words) and then would order essentially chicken nuggets at every restaurant. I.e. sweet and sour chicken without the sauce and BBQ on the side.
Load More Replies...That reminded me of a few years ago when I was at my local convenience store getting my breakfast burrito (they're very good there; everything is made fresh, including the tortillas) when the guy in line in front of me pointed at the container of cilantro and said "Put a bunch of that parsley on mine." The lady working behind the counter didn't understand very much English, so she loaded him up without correcting him. I often wonder what he thought of his burrito with the the half cup of cilantro when he was expecting parsley.
I think lots of people have made this mistake though, to be fair. "No idea why it's here, but I like avo! ... I'm dying 😭"
Some twenty-three years ago I also made this mistake (but I used an utensil, not my finger.) I thought my brain would leave my skull through my nose. Since that moment I'm a sincere fan of washabi.
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We went to Olive Garden where he proceeded to play Falling in Reverse on full blast on his phone while we sat and waited. I was mortified.
So on our first date I discovered he would snap his fingers at the end of every sentence where a period would technically go. Never talked to him again. That’s on period 🫰🏻
Asked me how I was going to hide my tattoos in a wedding dress, called his mom like four times at dinner to tell her how much he liked me (it was our first date 🫠)
Call (or fake-call) your father and tell him you don't think there will be a second date.
He told me that his daughter’s favorite holiday was Christmas. When I asked was he getting her a tree, he said “no, she can see the tree at her grandmas house when she visits her mom”. He didn’t have Christmas NOTHING in his house for his daughter. And he has custody. Yeeucccckk. Put some magic together for her!
Maybe Christmas was her favorite holiday because she gets to visit her mom and grandma
Exactly what i was thinking, it's her favourite holiday because she gets to spend it away from him. Which is sad.
Load More Replies...He told me he didn’t have $ and so I offered to buy our jimmy johns and then on our walk out of his apt he asked his roommate “hey want anything?” And I told him I’m not buying his and he said that’s ok I will….. like wdym???
He thought every woman in the world got her period at the same time
Just wait till they find out it affects them too, just not as obvious.
Load More Replies...If this was a thing, all the men on the planet would be in big trouble, but have absolutely no clue why.
I WISH, this would be kind of awesome, ngl. Let's synch up, ladies!
He made a huge deal about trying sushi. When he took a bite he made nasty faces and was just so dramatic, he ran outside and through the window kept looking up to make sure I could see him “throwing up” and feel bad. He was 40 btw. 😭
He talked about how his sister is the most beautiful woman in the world and how he wanted a girl who would be willing to fight other girls for him in public like his sister
I had boyfriend once who compared everything I did to how his sister did things and it was baffling. Even to the point of telling me I was taking my contact lenses out wrong because his sister didn't put as much solution in the lens case as I did.
Sounds like his only knowledge of women was from watching his sister.
Load More Replies...He sang Creep as it was playing during Guardians of the Galaxy in a full theater while staring at me the whole time. I was mortified
Okay this is a reasonable ick but I went to his place for the first time and he had poopy underwear on the floor in his bedroom. Not judging an accident at all but why was it not in the trash…. Why was it on the floor in his bedroom… I left so damn quick
When meeting someone, the last thing my brain is capable of is thinking about thier shiit. So to see this, I would picture that and it's too soon to bounce back from. Eventually you'll go into a bathroom after someone who you're dating poops but still. C**p on underwear on a floor is too much too soon.
Caressed my hand and told me how pretty my nails were.....while having the dirtiest fingernails ever. No way was I letting him throw my PH balance off 😂
He carried a drawstring backpack on dates with just a chapstick in it.
That's a lot of chapstick to carry around! But perhaps he wanted to keep his lips really soft for those 'Australian Kisses' (like French Kisses, but downunder....)
he took me to panda express and offered to teach me how to use chopsticks, when he found out i already knew how to use them he was moody and distant the rest of the date
I told him I liked his laugh, so he would over exaggerate his laugh everytime I said something remotely funny. I never told a joke again
I was a plus one date at a wedding and when the groom was walking down the aisle my date stuck his hand out for a high five (??) and the groom ignored it and I was just so embarrassed the whole night
In answer to @MalayDragon (who was downvoted enough to cancel the reply button and never got an answer): The few weddings I went to had the couple walk in together, often following directly after the pastor. Traditions differ. 🤷
My husband and I walked together. Not out of any tradition but because we wanted it that way
Load More Replies...Something like this happened to me at work in front of others. I decided that I am not going to feel embarrassed because of the other person's ignorance. So I made a grand gesture to shrug my shoulders and high five myself. I laughed to myself about it after and sure that nobody else cared n e way
showed me a video of him & his guy friend kissing while drunk & asked if i was jealous 😭
If he didn't quickly put this behind him and continues to revisit it could be one of two things. 1. He is very secure in his sexuallity and has a really great (or not so great) sense of humor. Or 2. He likes his best friend. Gay man here BTW.
He took me for a nature walk (not the ick part) but he brought his ukulele and played his rendition of “Hey There Delilah” over and over again. We got lost, so it was like two hours of this. Non stop.
I didn't mind it initially, but it was overplayed on radio to death to the point where I'm now like "HEY THERE DELILAH, MIND IF I FORCEFULLY PLANT THIS SHARP THING THROUGH YOUR EYEBALLS?" ... sorry. That song does make me rage unnecessarily nowadays.
Load More Replies...Told him my fav song was “Where Is My Mind” by Pixies. He said it was weird and sad, and insisted that he’d show me “good” music. Then he played Uptown Funk.
I can't hear that song without picturing that scene from Fight Club
He brought “dinner” over for us and it was ONE SINGLE alfredo tv dinner … then he tried to eat it in my bed.
He thought the orange chicken from Panda Express was too spicy and I quote "makes my tummy feel sad" and grabbed his stomach while making whining noises.
he tried to have a locked eyes moment with me while backing up his truck and hit the car behind him
Called himself a CEO in his bio. He was a barber
Sang “hey there Delilah” to me while my back was turned, I went to turn around to be like “awwww” and he said “DONT LOOK AT ME!!” like okay babe…won’t ever look at u again
We were playing mini golf and he was keeping score. At the end when I asked him who won, he ate the paper.
This one depends on context. If he was serious because he really didn't want her to see it, that's weird. But if he did it as a joke I could see it being funny.
Called his mom while we were arguing to tell on me.
Went on a third date with a guy. He kissed me goodnight, turned around, gave me fingers guns and said "that will give you something to think about."
He want to the bathroom and I heard the toilet flush. He came out of the bathroom without washing his hands. When I called him out for not washing his hands, he was annoyed I brought it up and said “okay mom” in a mocking tone then went to wash his hands. He was 25.
He had a hyperfixation with Texas. He talked about Texas the entire time. Elevations, populations, you name it. He’d never been to Texas before.
giant clumps of his earwax would fall out bc he didn’t clean his ears… i left him
I'm pretty sure that your supposed to let it come out naturally. I use the cotton swabs myself, but supposedly you aren't supposed to.
Gave me a letter when picking me up for the first date and told me I couldn’t read it until he left. Whole date was small icks like not making a reservation, asking me to drive. Opened the letter when he left and it started with “if you’re reading this our first date went well”
I went out with a guy that was objectively out of my league. Well off, very attractive... and he had the personality of a wet piece of bread. We went to the Olive Garden and he couldn't find anything he liked to eat because he "was a meat and potatoes man" and then proceeded to talk about himself for 2 hours but only with prompting because he couldn't carry a basic conversation on his own. I was so disappointed 😭
guy asked me out on a date to the movies. we were getting movie tickets and when the worker said $32 he looked at me…to pay and said she’s got it. i said no i don’t ☺️and walked away
On our second date he got heartburn so badly he cried and asked me to hold him
When I get heartburn, the LAST thing I want is to be held. Toss me a Tum, please.
He said that he spend a month in London and “picked up their accent” then the accent suddenly started to “slip out” towards the end of our date…
Well, considering there's over 300 languages spoken in London, quite apart from the various dialects, that's pretty impressive to pick up the accent so quickly.
That to me is insulting. Knew a guy whose grandparents were English. He proceeded to speak in an English accent even though he had limited involvement with them. I called BS on him and told him that because my grandparents are from Poland and who had very thick accent doesn't mean that I have it too so I gave an example of it. Think Baron Trump "I go to school now? My suitcase!
The way he “jogged” across a cross walk. He didn’t speed up at all. His steps just bounced higher like he was Mario skipping on rainbow road
ooooo it’s my time to shine.. so this guy i was dating came over to hangout and him and my dog were bonding, which i loved because my dog was reactive & didn’t really like majority of people. so my dog & him were snuggling on the couch and in that moment i thought “how sweet” even took some pictures of them etc. well he ended up spending the night and the next morning he woke up covered in my dogs hair & it instantly grossed me out, like ew why are you covered in dog hair.. i ended things that same morning because i was so grossed out that he was covered in MY dogs fur but i told him i just didn’t see this going anywhere😂😂😂😂 he was confused on why i was ending things so abruptly. then 5 hours later i regretted my decision, came to my senses and told him i want to keep talking and im sorry for trying to end things i just “felt scared to get hurt”. 9 years later he’s now my husband & i told him recently why i got the ick that day and we laugh about how ridiculous i am🤭
Not always. My daughter's dog, who hated pretty much everyone, loved the guy who is now her ex-husband right away. My daughter even let him keep her in the divorce because she clearly liked him better.
Load More Replies...I told him I like haircuts with bangs (on myself) and he GOT BANGS.
He pretended he could speak Italian and then proceeded to speak gibberish from time to time thinking I fell for it
He kept talking about himself in the third person.
He did the “oh you got something on your shirt” trick and flipped my nose. Instant cringe
He told me he was going to sue me for the DUI he got on the way home from our first date
I’m a lesbian so take it w a grain of salt but when I was in hs I dated this dude who brought his guitar to my house and *badly* serenaded me w Blake Shelton songs while I awkwardly sat and listened for no less than 45 minutes.
I'm wondering if it was at this moment the OP realized she was in fact gay.
I was just on a dating site. They allow you to record your voice. So one man recorded himself singing, badly. Why would you do that? Do you just not realize you can't sing?
I always hated having guitar playing friends. I mean it's cool and all but when they take it out ALL THE TIME and sing the same songs over and over it gets old.
He didn’t believe in the letter C and would use S or K to replace it in words
he asked me to remind him to brush his teeth...
He made me laugh one time by cartwheeling in front of an automatic door and that was the only time I laughed. Every single automatic door we walked in front of after that, he cartwheeled and it made me SO MAD lol
What's it with these "men" acting like 4yo kids who figured out new thing for the first time 🤦🏼♀️
“She said she liked it, I’ll just keep on doing it over and over!”
Load More Replies...he said “this is expensive” at a burger king
First date. Took me to Olive Garden and did a back flip in the parking lot randomly on the walk inside
There are a lot of Olive Garden stories in this list. That was their first mistake. 😁
Load More Replies...They wore those shoes that separate the toes individually
I knew a doctor who showed up in those. I told him it was unprofessional. Some others disagreed with me. But I think they're unprofessional. No one wants to see your doctor come in wearing those!
This guy I was talking to snuck ice cream sandwiches in my bathroom to eat them so I wouldn’t know. He ate 3 in a row.
He didn’t swing his arms when he walked - reminded me of Lurch
He sat down on the floor to tie his shoe in the restaurant…
sent me a selfie and asked “could you imagine waking up to this everyday?”
He insisted on doing the Thriller dance the first time he met my parents. He didn’t have the CD (this was back in the day) so he did the dance in complete silence.
He paid for my meal and boxed up my leftovers… and took them home FOR HIMSELF.
I kind of lose interest when they use "your" instead of "you're"
My husband stood up on his tip toes the other day when he was upset. Still thinking about it
Blinked one eye at a time. Still one of the strangest things I’ve seen
they bent down to grab their dogs leash and the dog started running away and they chased the dog in the bent down position.
He says melk instead of milk.
That's from a regional dialect in the US. I'm from the Midwest and I find myself saying 'melk' occasionally.
My late father used to say “malk” it was a regional thing and my mom teased him for it all the time.
We were driving with the windows down and his earlobes kept flapping in the wind..
He spelled Minnesota as “Minasoda”
He wore driving gloves
We were on the verge of breaking up but he farted and it smelled really bad and I just got up and said I can’t do this anymore
My ex girlfriend showed up in a Mike Meyer Jason Mask at the Olive Garden ages ago…Halloween is fun right?
He said ‘damn there’ instead of ‘damn near.’ As in, ‘I am damn there fell asleep standing up.’ He also spelled the word doubt, ‘doupt.’
It’s not the weirdest but when I saw he a had a ton of fedoras on the wall of his closet I got the biggest ICK. They were right under his bow ties.
I got the friend ick when she said I owed her $1.86 🤣
I dont like owing people money however small the amount is. While I dont expect or ask my friends to give me back money I lent especially if it is a small amount, I would not mind they ask for money they lent back. You never know what they are going through, maybe they were $1.86 short to getting something they needed.
The small fries that OP ate costed $1.86, I guess.
Load More Replies...Surely that saying is from further South, maybe around Stratford on Avon or so? 😉
Load More Replies...wore his socks floppy. like the toe part would be an inch or two from his actual toes 😭
He was wearing slides that were too big so his toes overhung the front and he would grab the front with his toes while he walked
this isn’t even weird i feel like this is really valid but he couldn’t get his tires lined up to enter a car wash and the worker had to come out and help him
Wore leather gloves to my grandmothers funeral. I literally could not focus on my grief lol
His sock was hanging off his foot so weird when we woke up I immediately left
He screamed at the wrong time at a concert.
Instead of sweet dreams he said “sweat dreams ♥️”
I broke up with a guy because his voice didn’t match his physique. Imagine Channing Tatum but with Jesse Eisenberg’s voice (Bird from Rio)
Wow, some of these are so shallow and mean! Imagine men saying they'd dumped women for these kinds of reasons!
DJ said make some noise and he made noise
He wore flip flops on our first date and they got wet and made farting noises the whole date.
He lost his phone the day before so he had to use his iPad. The iPad had a satchel so he wore it acrosss his back to pump my gas. He leans on my car and farts. I had enough.
I couldn’t get over the fact his name was Cliff. I hated saying it 😂😂
I dated him for three months and it was during winter time and then when the weather warmed up I finally saw him in a pair of shorts and realised he had knock knees and I broke up with him as we were sitting there at lunch. And I had to come up with something quick and remotely plausible because I couldn’t let him know I was that shallow
It is, but most people have something they find really unattractive and can't handle it.
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He wore moccasins on our first date. Mind you it was summer.
I’m a huge steak lover so we went to a steakhouse, I got a 6 oz (I usually do 12) so he got the same, he could barely finish it.. he looked like he was struggling he was so full.. something about a man who can’t finish a 6oz steak gave me the ick lol
Did he eat all the table side dishes too, or bread? That would do it…
He got a text and promptly turned his iPhone sideways to respond using the big sideways keyboard
He was moving a rug for me. Picked it up and accidentally farted. Instead of ignoring it he said “oopsie—I tooted”
He bought a brand new Kia soul and was proud of it
Seriously? Maybe his 1st new car, all he could afford, regardless he is better off without you!
I'm 57. I've never been able to afford a brand new car. Good for him and fúck you!
Most of these were interesting and seemed spot on, but the ones at the bottom were just showing that the writer was self-unaware and petty and the date himself luckily escaped a bad relationship.
Right? The other parties in the bottom posts dodged bullets/cannons/missiles etc. The posters of them need to wear signs or something so normal people can nope out of that rubbish.
Load More Replies...One of my icks is when they drive dangerously or do stunts while driving thinking that it is impressive. I cant see myself with someone who can easily put my life in danger. I dont care how much of a "pro racer" you think you are, I just want to go home safe and whole.
I had an old neighbor who would do this to anyone. Redneck to the core including a Ford logo tattoo. I honestly don't know if there was a s****l component to it or not.
Load More Replies...Most of these were interesting and seemed spot on, but the ones at the bottom were just showing that the writer was self-unaware and petty and the date himself luckily escaped a bad relationship.
Right? The other parties in the bottom posts dodged bullets/cannons/missiles etc. The posters of them need to wear signs or something so normal people can nope out of that rubbish.
Load More Replies...One of my icks is when they drive dangerously or do stunts while driving thinking that it is impressive. I cant see myself with someone who can easily put my life in danger. I dont care how much of a "pro racer" you think you are, I just want to go home safe and whole.
I had an old neighbor who would do this to anyone. Redneck to the core including a Ford logo tattoo. I honestly don't know if there was a s****l component to it or not.
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