This is an awful thread, but so far no one has mentioned mine.
I can’t even bear to think of my fingernails bending back. The usual circumstance of this would be digging in the sand and then nails hitting some object and bending ugh ooh sorry I can’t go on.
Replays of American football, wherein the announcer states "You can see his leg bend the wrong way right here. Lets look at that again . . . "
Also, front teeth on chalky chalkboard. Sidewalk chalk gives me the willies too.
I would have to say seeing some guy getting nailed right in the family jewels. I think all guys cringe when they see that, sort of this the beer commerial where they show a bunch of different cultures of guys watching a soccer guy and every guy winces at the same time when a player gets socked right in the twigs and berries.
Like Gravity said, chewing on yarn. Honestly, just writing that literally made shivers go down my spine. Simply thinking about yarn between my teeth never fails to do it. I have no idea why this is.
Tanaqui
A thousand slimy things crawling on a slimy sea.
Eurgh, I can’t stand slimy things they freak me right out :eek:
Anyone talking about eye injuries
Spitting. When people make that noise, I gag.
Undercooked eggs
People chewing on their hair
Flicking of fingernails
Double-Jointed people showing off
Biting down the wrong way so your teeth match up wrong.
The very thought of childbirth
Those very odd solidified spit balls that people get on their lips that sometimes attach to the other lip or any other time that thickened saliva is visible when someone is speaking.
Dragging forks along teeth
Seeing someone lick a sharp knife
Cutting too hard on porcelain plates
Clipping my dogs toenails
Cleaning out that bag of gizzards from the thanksgiving turkey
Touching someone elses socks
Wet paper that clings to you
Feeling your hair going the wrong/rough way
Weird thing
Wet peanut butter. I love peanut butter, but soak some in water and the puke-juices start flowing
The feel of my teeth being dry. Like when the dentist dries your tooth with that mini blow dryer. UGH! Just thinking about it makes me break out in goosebumps!!
The feel of dry cement when my fingers are wet. Sliding my hand or fingers over a piece of paper.
The fingernails on a chalkboard never really bothered me, but the sound of a dry finger rubbing brand new tupperware or tupperware-like containers.
This thread. :eek:
That chick on the sitcom “The Nany” Fran Dresser? or something?
I don’t have a problem with most of the stuff people mentioned here, including the fingernails on etc. In fact, I had to go try chewing on a towel to see if it was as bad as advertised. (It wasn’t.)
Now this doesn’t make my spine shiver, but it does make me feel ill at ease and frustrated. The smell of wet pavement. Something about that odd, dusty smell has always made me tense. Which is really strange, now that I think of it.
Also, I’ve never enjoyed the dentist’s suction device. Especially when it catches the inside of my cheek.
Do you think there’s some sort of instinctual unpleasantness about having an unnaturally dry mouth?
After having had a very unpleasant experience during which I obtained a Compound Fracture of my Right leg. I get the Willies watching the “Hobbling” scene in Stephen King’s Dolores Clairborne movie. Watching Sports when they replay an injury freaks me as well but I cannot bear to watch that scene.
The sound of ceramics grinding against ceramics (especially UNGLAZED ceramics). I shudder just thinking about it, and learning to grind with my new mortar and pestle was an exercise in controlling my reactions.
Light bulbs.
I can’t stand changing the things, especially the long flourescent ones. The glass is so thin, I keep thinking it’s going to shatter in my hands as I’m gripping them, and I’ll see all these tiny shards of glass slivers embedded in my hands and little streams of blood are pouring everytwhere and i cant pick them out beccasue i’m geting too shivery and cant control, yself and get all ashakvy and nervous and panclkiy
Oooh, I wish I hadn’t read this thread. But now I must add to it. First, I’ll second the fingernails on chalkboard, the teeth on Popsicle sticks, and the teeth on eating utensils things.
My own are:
Soggy bread. I don’t care if the moisture is from condiments, tomatoes, something else on the plate, if any gets in my mouth it’s instant gag reflex.
Bare feet touching me anywhere, but especially touching my bare feet.
The sound of cracking knuckles, mine or anyone else’s
The idea of a spider or any other many-legged insect falling onto my head. That’s its own tiny nightmare.
When people erase with a pencil eraser that has already been worn flat.
When someone writes or colors on paper with a felt tip marker that has started to go dry.
These two things make me homicidal.
Someone kissing the back of my neck with their legs wrapped around me.
It’s a good kind of shiver.
While my brother and I were at a movie, he took small bits of a napkin and rolled them up and put them in the popcorn. Then he laid in wait for me to take a fist full and shove it into my mouth. I cant believe hes still alive. Or that he could refrain from laughing until he saw the result of his labor. Since then, chewing on paper (just the thought) gives me the creeps.
So does licking the remainder of ice off a wooden popsicle stick, yuck.
Have had my left shoulder dislocated. Just thinking of that sends shivers.
My teeth are itching just from reading this thread. Which makes me wonder why the heck I read the whole thing.
You know when you’ve just washed your hands or done dishes or something like that, and your hands aren’t actually wet but they’re still kind of moist? Touching newspaper with my hands in that state absolutely makes my hair curl. This is a problem for me, as I work at the newspaper and am a frequent hand-washer.
People who lick their fingers when turning pages. Ugh.
Even worse than the popping noise is the sound they make when twisted into balloon animals. Eeewwww!
I don’t know if anyone else will remember this, but when I was kid there was a segment on Sesame Street [at least I think it was Sesame Street] in which a girl went to the ER after breaking her arm. They filmed the whole thing, I guess as a way to prevent kids from panicking should it happen to them. When the doctor is setting her arm for the cast, there was sound of the broken ends of the bone clicking back into place. To this day, I can still remember that sound and it makes my skin crawl. I broke my arm when I was 10, and when they set it, it made the exact same sound. Thank god I was sitting down at the time or I probably would have fallen over.