Things that make you go 'Nooooooo !!!'

Emp_Fab

Is that a visual thing or a touch thing ?

Axe_meister

My father chopping my hand off and throwing me down a ventilation shaft at cloud city!

Sambostar

Chewing tinfoil is pretty nasty when your teeth are mostly made of mercury.

Emp_Fab

That crunching sound you get when scoring glass with a wheel cutter.... ughhhh !  If the skin on my hands is rough and dry, I can't stand the feel of my own hands - I end up holding them, fingers apart (so they can't touch) whilst I'm searching for some hand cream.  Thinking about it, my mum felt the same way about rough surfaces - leaned behaviour is a hell of a thing.

Snap

Greasy fingers, or silicon on them (worse). Since I was a kid its got me, sends me up the wall if I can't get it off.

Chewing foil, especially if it hits a filling, yack

alcxam

I've got a toothbrush with some rubbery soft bits that go down the outsides of the bristles. I f*ckin' hate it when the rubbery bits squeak against my teeth...

57Deluxe

certain grades of foam rubber

cut hair round neck/down back/in clothes after a hair cut

RocknRollDave

Emp_Fab said:

Is that a visual thing or a touch thing ?

Touch. They feel really icky, sends that chill through you.

Dopesick

Never really got the cotton wool thing, but the thought of a totally bone dry sponge scraping against me - like my arm or my back - makes my skin crawl. Horrible.

Also people mushing up broccoli in gravy. Fucking horrific.

holnrew

Emp_Fab said:

If the skin on my hands is rough and dry, I can't stand the feel of my own hands

Same here. When I did shelf stacking in the chilled section my hands wide get so dry. The cardboard boxes would absorb all my skin oils and the cold would stop them sweating. It was horrible. Just thinking about it made me moisturise my hands

Ravenous

Ducklings attempting to cross the road in heavy traffic.  Just NNNOOOOOO!!

fields5069

I hate the thought of ice being chewed.

My wife's the weird one - she has an aversion to holes, like anything with lots of holes grouped closely together.

My daughter can't sleep without socks as she can't touch the sheets with her feet.

Philly_Q

holnrew said:

And I have a mild phobia of buttons. Since I was a kid. No cardigans for me

I can relate to that.  I can deal with the fact that I have to wear a shirt for work, or that jeans have buttons, but I'd never choose to wear a "smart casual" shirt, or polo shirt, or cardigan.  There's something about the look of buttons which is really repellent, especially those shiny pearly/semi-translucent ones.

Bellycaster

fields5069 said:

My wife's the weird one - she has an aversion to holes, like anything with lots of holes grouped closely together.

You must buy her a nice new Colander for her Birthday

vale

fields5069 said:

I hate the thought of ice being chewed.

My wife's the weird one - she has an aversion to holes, like anything with lots of holes grouped closely together.

My daughter can't sleep without socks as she can't touch the sheets with her feet.

i chew ice but other two i can relate to.

the holes-close-together thing always reminds me of apples, etc (or rotten flesh!) that have been eaten from the inside out but just have a few maggot or wasp holes on the outside. so when you pick it up it collapses into itself & squishes, & when you cut into it it's full of maggots, wasps & rot.
that's probably the valid basic elementary evolutionary fear behind that one:
if it isn't in tact, don't eat it. or you will end up full of maggots & rot.

socks, winter always. summer unless it is murderously hot. feet very sensitive. lots of nerve endings.

Sambostar

What's the chemistry with cottonwool though, why is it so common, can you explain it, can I understand it, will people protest about it, or will it be one of those things that just gets brushed under the carpet again?.

CabbageCat

Shoes shuffling on short carpet. Dunno if it's all shoes but Ugg style ones hurt my fillings.

And metal cutlery scraping across a plate to scratch up the last smears of sauce. It's like a fury button.