I'd like to say I've seen it all. But then life throws me another, "well that is a new and unnecessary discovery" moment.
I'll say nothing surprises me anymore.
Especially when it comes the malignancy of humans.
I'm often left disgusted by the poor behavior of others.
Why are people the way they are?
RedditorLongjumping_Stop1120wanted everyone to share about what in life leaves you sickened, so they asked:
"What absolutely disgusts you?"
I don't even know where to begin.
People who talk over other people, or people who chose to make others feel like less for their own ego.
Sad.
Narcissist!
"People who are toxic but always play the victim to evade responsibility." ~ LycanxUriel
GiphyPearson Thief!
"Pearson and their 500% markup on textbooks." ~ SquilliamFancySon95
I just haven't been buying textbooks. Screw 'em. Most have an online component. I check it. I've outright accepted a 15% hit to my mark because that's how much the assignments requiring a textbook cost. I don't care. It's easy enough to still get a passing grade. Unless you end up in faang nobody's gonna check your GPA anyway." ~ SatisfactionNo2578
Tossers...
"When people throw rubbish out their car window." ~ tino3101
"I was walking into a restaurant today, right across from a stoplight. Before the light turned green, the second car down opens their door and drops a soggy, almost gelatinous, diaper onto the road. I was absolutely flabbergasted. Yeah, it’s gross to be sure."
"But what got me was the sheer IDGAF. This isn’t some highway ditch, but right on 'Main Street,' with people all around. (Not saying that littering is acceptable in the latter case, by the way.) What I could see of the interior was filled with black trash bags. No child seat either. Makes sense on some level, but even so." ~ Hotpreacher
Evil
"Elder abuse." ~ sirius_gray
"The chilling part about elder abuse is how many forms it takes. You hear about the neglect all the time. You hear about scammers stealing from them. The one that is less talked about is a whole medical industry. Doctors sedate seniors that are to difficult to lock up. If you want to go outside but it’s not outside time there is a pill for that."
"Save for your retirement and make sure the people who will be in charge of you know your wishes. It’s not a fun conversation but if you don’t speak up and put a plan together for yourself then it’s up to someone else. There is no guarantee they will put your best interest at the top of the list."
"Most people assume the law will protect you and the cheapest option will do. Even if your kids love you they may not have time or resources to vet the best options. Do yourself a favor and get it figured out before you end up in the position where you are at the mercy of strangers." ~ Pencilowner
Pay Attention!
"Distracted drivers. Bro, we're on a freakin' death track in speeding metal objects and the only form of organization is the line on the road. Can you please please please pay attention, I'm sure everyone on the road wants to go home to their families." ~ TheGoochAssassin
GiphySeriously!!
Why do people NOT take driving seriously?!
A car is a weapon you idiot!
Look up!
Blatant Abuse
"Child beauty pageants." ~ jeff_the_nursetrue.
"I used to be obsessed with them cause i wanted to be in pageants at that age. But now i realise that it’s practically child abuse. Quite a few pageant kids grow up wishing they never did pageants :/." ~ amyg36819
GiphyPIGS!
"People who don't clean up after themselves in public spaces, like trash all over their table at the food court, or freaking litterbugs, people who just dump full a** trash bags beside the public one, or just throw shit all over the bus stop. It's so easy to just throw garbage in the garbage, they're freaking everywhere."
"People who also put out their uncontained trash and recyclables on a windy night for morning pickup, it's not going to last the night you fool, it didn't work last time or the time before that, but by all means let nature spread your filth all over the neighborhood you god damned swine!" ~ ninjagabe90
I'm Speaking...
"When I finally try to be an extrovert and when I talk I only get awkward silence in return." ~ Background_Egg1364
"I'm a neurodivergent and this hit too close to home. So then afterwards I put on my headphones, awkwardly walk away, and contemplate the bad social interaction. All the possible social mistakes I made, whether or not I smiled too much or not enough, my tone of voice, and how I was probably perceived negatively. Then I go home and down a bottle of Evan Williams." ~ PandaMayFire
Shut Up!
"People talking on speaker phone in public." ~ Master_Tao
"Especially in nail salons... like I’m here for a pedicure and to try to relax for 5 seconds, I don’t need to hear your conversation on speaker. It’s even rude to talk on the phone not on speaker at a nail salon, it’s like my biggest pet peeve lol." ~ Snoo97809
Death to YOU!
"People who are cruel to animals." ~ Alternative_Past72
"There’s really no reason to be cruel to animals, especially helpless ones." ~ HatHot4170
GiphyLife is just chock full of insidiousness.
There really is no escaping it.
Just ignoring and surviving.
And NEVER be cruel to animals.
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Disgust is in the eye of the beholder.
For some, even the littlest, most common things can raise neck hairs and trigger a gag.
And as if that disturbing physical response wasn't bad enough, the whole experience can be totally alienating too. After all, something which grosses one person out entirely may be absolutely normal to another.
Some Redditors gathered to shamelessly name the things they cannot stand, whether that's normal or not.
TheLuckyMinecrafter asked, "What is one completely normal thing that really disgusts you?"
Those Drops
"Re-heating food from the fridge and having to peel back the disgusting cling wrap with little cold droplets of condensation stuck underneath it."
"It just grosses me out and sort of turns me off wanting to eat the thing I'm about to microwave, haha"
-- flameylamey
A Sssssspectrum
"It's so dumb. But the way some people pronounce their S's drives me insane. I feel like there is a spectrum for the S sounds."
"On the far end, you've got a lisp. Somewhere in the middle, you've got an average sounding S. Then, waaaaay on the opposite end, people pronounce their S's with this resounding ZING that just pierces straight through me and stabs me right in the eardrums."
"Long story short, it hurts my ears when people's S's are too... Essy? Ess-ish? I'm probably nuts."
-- Lost_Condas
On the Surface
"'Disgust' might not be the right word for it, but...I get super squeamish about anything touching my scars."
"Sex is really awkward because I have surgery scars all over one side. They don't hurt, but anything touching creeps me the hell out because of the stretching/slightly numb feeling. These scars are over twenty years old."
"It's so ridiculous, too, because I've suffered a lot of pain and it's just whatever to me, but this is what I'm squeamish about."
Picture It!
"That crust that forms around the nozzle of a mustard bottle, especially if it falls onto your food."
"Get off my meal, you gross-a** mustard plug!" -- BarracudaImpossible4
"Mustard Smegma" -- Takashiari275
"I can't bring myself to drink milk anymore because of that" -- Mighty_Meatball
Dried Juices
"When little kids get food/snot on their face. Makes my stomach turn." -- DrMantisTobogan96
"Worked in childcare. I used to have a running ranking system with my non childcare mates for the nastiest things I'd ever seen/experienced. Was good for a laugh."
I have been covered with every imaginable kid substance but the worst thing I ever experienced... A grandparent put their mouth over a babies nose and sucked all the snot out."
"She asked me for a tissue to spit it in and all I could see were the strings of snot between her teeth. My childcare poker face slipped for a fraction of a second." -- LikeASpectre
Homemade Quicksand
"Soggy food in the sink" -- bigdolph13
"I have found my people! My tribe! The absolute thought of touching soggy bread in the sink makes me wretch."
"Yet I could happily microwave cheese, tomato and butter on bread and let it sog and swim in a pool of butter! I would even eat it!" -- RachelArcus
Polarizing
"Fat in meat." -- ItsYourBoyReckster
"This pisses off my brother because 'that's the best part of the steak!!'"
"I usually just remove the fat part and feed it to my dog. Something about biting into a glob of pure fat makes me gag." -- AnimalLover38
Walking a Fine Line
"I love dogs. I HATE being licked by dogs." -- IdleParsley
"Dogs trigger my extreme hatred for mouth noises. Its why I refuse to own any. I can't stand it." -- Eris8510
"My friend has two very lovely friendly dogs that I adore... but one of them LOVES to sneak up and slurp your hand while you're not paying attention, just standing doing something else and I f***ing HATE IT." -- freckledjezebel
Bodily Changes
"I hope I don't get a ton of hate for this as a woman, but I don't like the way pregnant bellies look. I'm talking about the ones that are like 8-9 months along."
"Pregnant women are beautiful, it's just their bare bellies that creep me out. Somethin about knowing there's a whole @ss human growing in there gives me the heebie jeebies! GROSS."
Alone at the Table
"I can't explain why, but the smell of mashed potatoes make me nauseous. My senses are just all over the place and for some godforsaken reason, one of the triggers is the smell of mashed potatoes."
"My family likes them a lot though, and sitting at the table within smelling distance of it is just torture."
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Girl Suggests Threesome With Boyfriend, But Now Wants To Sleep With Someone Else Because He Did
Ahh, threesomes... the roulette of monogamous relationships. You spin and take your turn never knowing if this is going to end in a fizzle, some fireworks, or a freakout. Spoiler alert: unless you're both experienced players, there's been a LOT of talk and clear boundaries drawn, or both - it's pretty likely to end in freakout. Bummer, cause fireworks fam. Fireworks.
Enter our the lovelorn hero of our tale.
He let his girlfriend talk him into a threesome. At first, he thought it had ended in fireworks. Alas, getting away unscathed was not in the cards. His girlfriend soon came to him with an idea. Now that he had been intimate with someone other than her - she should have the right to be intimate with a man other than him. According to her, it didn't matter that she was also intimate with their third partner since she was another woman. There had been no discussion of this before the threesome. Had our Reddit Romeo been hoodwinked? Perhaps his lady love is just more adventurous than he previously thought and wants to try out all of her fantasies now?
In His Words:
My girlfriend was the one who suggested a threesome. At first I wasn't sure if she was serious, but when I found out she was, I was pretty ecstatic. I never thought there could be an ulterior motive.
I'd never known her to be bi or anything like that, and she still identifies as a straight girl. But she seemed keen to experiment and "open up" as she put it. So I was only happy to go along.
The other girl was an acquaintance we only loosely know, and we see her every now and again. My girlfriend knows her better than I do, and she's the one who set most of it up.
When we had the threesome, it seemed fun for all of us, and I feel I should point out that it wasn't just me who was having sex with this other girl, but my girlfriend who also having sex with her and doing stuff with her on the day.
Now here's where things get messy. About a week later, my girlfriend comes up with a new proposition. She asks me that since I got to have sex with another girl, if she can have sex with another guy. She said its only fair, since I got to have sex with a girl outside the relationship, she gets to have sex with a guy. (edit: Details in case of confusion. She suggested either a MMF (male/male/female) threesome, or just her plus another guy, whichever I'd be most amenable to)
I instantly said absolutely no, it was out of the question. I pointed out to her that the threesome was for both of us, not just me. And it wasn't just I who had sex with someone outside of our relationship, but she did as well, with the same person, so its fair and even. I said it shouldn't matter if this other person was same sex or opposite sex.
What's more, I said that when she proposed the threesome, at no point did she suggest, mention, or imply, this would mean she'd be able to try somebody else.
I feel like the whole threesome was a set-up so she could afterwards push the issue of having sex with another guy. And I'm pretty sure she has a guy lined up in mind, it sure sounded like it.
So I'm pretty obstinate about "No", she can't have sex with someone else. She thinks I'm being unfair, and maintains the position that she should be allowed to, since I had sex with the that girl in the threesome (even though she also had sex with her)
I feel like I was manipulated, used, and set up. Part of me fears she's going to go and cheat with the other guy anyway, even though I said no. For this reason I'm strongly considering ending our relationship now and going our separate ways. Although personally I'd prefer we settle this in a way without her cheating and without ending our relationship.
I'm not interested in an open relationship or a f^ckbuddy situation or anything like that. The threesome was fun, but I don't want to do that too regularly.
Oh BOY did Reddit have a lot to say about this. Here are some of our favorite responses, edited for language and clarity when needed.
H/T: Reddit