Stupid little things that just look so horrible

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This has probably been done before, I know, but this is the thread where you talk about things that just look nasty to you, for no apparent reason.

To start off: men who wear shirts but nothing else, so they're naked from the waist down. It just looks EW.

I suddenly thought about this when getting dressed this morning. When my dad gets dressed, it's in the following order: socks, shirt, pants, trousers. A hairy man wearing just a shirt and a pair of socks looks SO disgusting to me, and one with just a pair of socks on is nearly as bad. Shudder.

(his favoured underwear is the satiny posing pouch, which is almost as frightening)

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 13 March 2003 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Old people eating ice cream in the rain.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 13 March 2003 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Those stupid little rat-dogs.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 March 2003 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

penises.

― Wyndham Earl, Thursday, 13 March 2003 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

and testicles.

― Wyndham Earl, Thursday, 13 March 2003 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

and definitely pubic hair.

― Wyndham Earl, Thursday, 13 March 2003 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

You all know my answer already.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I must admit I am quite fond of the sight of my man in just his shirt and socks...

But while we're on the subject: girls (or indeed boys) in those stupid short trousers and boxing boots... NO MERCY.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Overalls on anyone but old men.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

new nissan micras

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Chapped lips. I have a problem with people who breathe through their mouth and don't drink enough water and/or apply lip balm to counteract the mouth breathing.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

You all know my answer already.

-- Nicole (nicolew1...), March 13th, 2003.

N. ?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Olives. I like olives, but the classic pimento-stuffed Spanish green olive always looks horrible to me because I had one as a toddler and it startled me (I thought it was a cool-looking grape).

Square pizza, esp. the long sheets of it in cafeterias.

That pudding-like skin that can form on the top of a mug of coffee if you use cream. The skin on actual pudding doesn't bother me, presumably because I don't drink pudding.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh God and those cars that have become more popular lately ... what the hell are they called, the boxy SUV-looking things. PT Cruisers? I did a double-take the first time I saw one, it looked like a demented milk truck from a video game.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a problem with people who breathe through their mouth and don't drink enough water and/or apply lip balm to counteract the mouth breathing.

Mouth breathers = creepy. Especially when they're sitting next to you on the bus and there's almost total silence except for that "wwwhhwowho....hmahmamhamh....whowhwohw.....mhhmamhamaha...".

*shudder*

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

wwwhhwowho....hmahmamhamh....whowhwohw.....mhhmamhamaha...

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I have to admit: I am a mouth-breather. I get chronic hayfever, and so my nose and sinuses are blocked up for most of the year.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Whenever I'm listening to music on earphones, I inevitable get briefly yet intensely paranoid that I'm breathing really loudly indeed and everyone can hear me.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Embarrassing things: singing along to the music on the headphones. Then remembering that I'm at work, and realising that everyone is looking at me.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Tarnished sequins.

Spilled talcum powder.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:24 (twenty-three years ago)

lowri turner

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

humble pie.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Those grimy cloth tackle box things--are they called creels or kreels? Help me, fishermen and women of ILX. Also, old beanbag chairs..

Caitlin--Fritz started a thread once about men wearing shirts but nothing else. He had a funny name for it.

― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

ILXoR Theme Songs (Again)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

N. ?

No - beards.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Specifically N.'s George Michael beard.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned, , have you been secretly killed and replaced with a First Evil Ned? Wtf???

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I can only assume this refers to A Certain TV Show?

(I am not evil -- or, er, first, I guess -- but I do have a sore throat and feel a bit achy and cranky today, so clearly I am venting my spleen. ;-))

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

isn't wearing just a shirt called Doing A Donald?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Pleasence? Sutherland? Trump? (Though I assume you mean Duck.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I am not evil -- or, er, first, I guess -- but I do have a sore throat and feel a bit achy and cranky today

You've lain with a Daemon woman, obv. and gotten a case of Evil mono.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 13 March 2003 15:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Yup, that's my Wednesday nights in general.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 March 2003 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

ugly = suburban 'business districts' that are merely shoddy looking built in a day strip malls plopped down one after the other with no consideration for how I feel about it.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 13 March 2003 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

"It is well that strips are so horrible, lest we grow too fond of them"

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 13 March 2003 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Grown ups with pacifiers and/or diapers
Frizzy perm mullets

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 13 March 2003 17:46 (twenty-three years ago)

American Flag themed sweaters
Calvin peeing stickers on big new shiney trucks
A spot on a light-colored shirt

I agree about the "pudding like skin"

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 13 March 2003 18:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh God and those cars that have become more popular lately ... what the hell are they called, the boxy SUV-looking things. PT Cruisers?
Oh I saw a much worse one yesterday; I don't know what model it was, but I saw that it was a Honda. I don't mind the PT cruisers really, but this thing was HIDEOUS! I actually watched the people on the sidewalk all make disgusted faces as it drove past.

And Matt, I feel the same exact way about headphones. It's such a shame, 'cause if it weren't for the "everyone can hear me breathe!" feeling I'd be wearing headphones constantly. Also I feel like I'm walking funny when I wear them, but it could just be that I walk funny all the time.

― Dan I., Thursday, 13 March 2003 18:49 (twenty-three years ago)

http://money.cnn.com/2002/12/11/pf/autos/honda_element/Element.03.jpg
*SHUDDER*

― Dan I., Thursday, 13 March 2003 18:50 (twenty-three years ago)

And they look much worse in real life.

― Dan I., Thursday, 13 March 2003 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Those fancy new-fangled cars with their fancy schmancy "Look at me, I'm so new and technological" white signal lights in the back. You know, the reverse lights.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 13 March 2003 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan I, You should have just linked that photo instead of posting it. Some of us can't take that sort of thing.

― Sarah MCLusky (coco), Thursday, 13 March 2003 18:52 (twenty-three years ago)

didn't we have a whole thread about the doing a donald?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 13 March 2003 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)

PT Cruiser update: saw four of them today in the same parking lot (an odd grocery store). One of them was the worst of the bunch, by far: silver, except for 70s-esque wood paneling which was only on the door. Like these just ... hunks of fake wood ... plastered to the sides of the doors.

I hardly ever care one way or the other about cars, but that just made me twitch.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)

people eating yoghurt or other white gooey things

― minna (minna), Friday, 14 March 2003 06:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Those fancy new-fangled cars with their fancy schmancy "Look at me, I'm so new and technological" white signal lights in the back. You know, the reverse lights.

I would post this on "things that made you LOL" but there's too much context to explain.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 14 March 2003 07:03 (twenty-three years ago)

forearms and young men's beards.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Friday, 14 March 2003 08:24 (twenty-three years ago)

men who have too much hair under their arms, causing it to stick out everywhere, wearing tank tops.

bleh.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 14 March 2003 08:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry Sarah! Forgot those 9600s are still in use in some areas...

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 14 March 2003 08:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Also I have a thing about people who eat in public places that aren't designated "eating" areas (e.g. restaurants, park benches). I especially hate it when people open packages of food in a store and eat it before they get to the register. I mean, can't you wait?!?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 14 March 2003 08:37 (twenty-three years ago)

eat it

eat them? uggh, brain not functioning.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 14 March 2003 08:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I especially hate it when people open packages of food in a store and eat it before they get to the register. I mean, can't you wait?!?

ooooh, i know! that's evil! but i see it so often. it makes me sad.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 14 March 2003 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate looking at people who smell their food before they eat it. I want to smack them in the face.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 14 March 2003 12:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I especially hate it when people open packages of food in a store and eat it before they get to the register.

And the worst thing is that everyone who does this is so nonchalant about it, as if it were perfectly normal to open a can of Pringles or whatever and start chowing down right then and there!

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 14 March 2003 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

porky pig style!!

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 14 March 2003 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Also I have a thing about people who eat in public places that aren't designated "eating" areas (e.g. restaurants, park benches).

I don't get how a restaurant isn't a designated "eating" area? Or is it only if someone takes their food to the bathroom with them, or eats it while exiting the restaurant?

― marianna, Friday, 14 March 2003 13:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I think restaurant and park bench were her examples of ok eating places.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Friday, 14 March 2003 14:39 (twenty-three years ago)

When someone has lost a hair but it's still resting on the back of their shirt or coat or just dangling.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 March 2003 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

beef curtains and/or pastrami flaps.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 14 March 2003 14:45 (twenty-three years ago)

BEEF CURTAINS ROX U R ALL GAY!

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Friday, 14 March 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, that makes sense, I have never thought of a park bench as a designated eating place. :) I am crazy!

― marianna, Friday, 14 March 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

pilled blue socks

― minna (minna), Friday, 14 March 2003 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah I mean I see ppl taking their carryout lunches over to park benches all the time... that's normal.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 14 March 2003 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Extra-long press-on nails worn by someone who spends their day typing

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 14 March 2003 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought this thread was going to be about me.

Mouth breathers = creepy
Hm. Some of us had a series of operations in our youths to try to enable us to breathe through the nose. I can breathe through mine tolerably well on a good day now, but almost any hint of a cold and it's back to mouth only.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 14 March 2003 18:10 (twenty-three years ago)

pants that say bootylicious or bling bling or angel-baby-princess on them

― cordelia, Friday, 14 March 2003 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I especially hate it when people open packages of food in a store and eat it before they get to the register. I mean, can't you wait?!?

God yes, that's horrible. Even worse: people who let their kids do this.

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 15 March 2003 09:55 (twenty-three years ago)

The Audi "TT". Ugly horrible squat little thing, especially in silver. (this in no way influenced by thee fact that they always seem to be driven by the type of motherfukcer who drives right up to yr rear bumber & flashes his lights @ U to get out of his way b/c he's obv so much more important that u even though there are cars to yr left (US - right) and u can't move over. Gah.)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 15 March 2003 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

people who bite their cutlery or make it touch their teeth while they're eating.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 15 March 2003 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Urgh Ronan that makes me feel queasy!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 15 March 2003 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

The PT Cruiser and the Audi TT and that Honda thing all cower in the horrific visage of the PONTIAC AZTEK.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 15 March 2003 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

In real life I think seeing old people kissing and cuddling is sweet but in the soaps, on the television? I don't think so. A few weeks back my friend Heather and I were on the train. We saw this elderly woman playing with her husband's hair. Heather's son says "she's looking for the nits mummy." T'was hilarious.

― ali (ali), Saturday, 15 March 2003 19:26 (twenty-three years ago)

women

― , Saturday, 15 March 2003 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh god, I hate people who allow their teeth to scrape against their spoons or forks--my mother does this. YOW! I also hate ponytails. The look of them literally makes me gag.

― Mandee, Saturday, 15 March 2003 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I especially hate it when people open packages of food in a store and eat it before they get to the register. I mean, can't you wait?!?

I had a dream just last night that I was doing this. Walking around the grocery store, freely eating the fruit. I was also in the grocery store searching for my kidnapped daughter, which is probably the weirder part of the dream, but I really focused on the fact that I was just eating all the food when I woke up.

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 15 March 2003 22:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I have done this once: I am epileptic, and when my vision goes (hard to explain - they call it tunnel vision) I have found that a sugar rush helps (i.e. I have never had a grand mal after taking this action), so I eat a bar of chocolate as soon as I can, and once I started eating it while paying. I suspect most people have less compelling reasons.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 15 March 2003 22:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Eating chocolate at the checkout because you're worried you might have a fit is probably forgivable. Letting your small child start eating a packet of crisps whilst you're waiting in the checkout queue makes me think: "raise your kids properly, goddamit!"

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 15 March 2003 22:34 (twenty-three years ago)

John Howard

― Fred Nerk, Saturday, 15 March 2003 22:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Nuts.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 15 March 2003 22:50 (twenty-three years ago)

...which kind?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 March 2003 23:25 (twenty-three years ago)

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