# What disgusts other people but not you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 6, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusts-other-people-but-not-you/563215 "2010-12-06T23:33:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusts-other-people-but-not-you/563215/41 "2010-12-07T21:37:18Z")
Circus Peanuts ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusts-other-people-but-not-you/563215/42 "2010-12-07T21:47:45Z")
Most of mine have been mentioned as well. Cat hair in my food is an every day occasion and doesn’t bother me in the slightest, nor do cat paws on my plate. Ummmm. . . .[gefilte fish](http://chewonthatblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/gefilte-fish_closeup.JPG) grosses lots of people out and I’ve been eating it since I was a wee Wook. I also don’t have a problem ploppin my bare ass down on a public toilet seat, assuming it doesn’t have pee all over it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Conqueror\_Worm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@The\_Conqueror\_Worm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Conqueror_Worm)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusts-other-people-but-not-you/563215/43 "2010-12-07T22:03:03Z")
> [@Ann\_Onimous](#): > > Skunk scent. My husband is absolutely repulsed by it, and will speed through an area\* with his mouth and nose covered if he gets the slightest whiff. While I agree it doesn’t smell like roses, I don’t mind it. > > - Legally. He stays right on the speed limit. But he wastes no time getting through. I always say you can tell who has been smoking the good stuff when they drive by a dead skunk and say, " Ya know? That doesn’t smell half bad." ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusts-other-people-but-not-you/563215/44 "2010-12-07T22:31:35Z")
Cleaning the litter box. What’s the big deal? Unless kitty has the runs, and even then, clumping litter seals everything up. Just scoop and dump into a plastic bag, takes 30 seconds from start to finish (yes, I timed it). I call it ‘sifting for buried treasure’ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusts-other-people-but-not-you/563215/45 "2010-12-07T22:40:48Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Seeing other people vomit. Doesn’t bother me in the least. > > There’s a comedic cliche wherin people are eating, and somebody will simply _mention_ vomiting, or worms, or the abcess on his big toe; and everybody will suddenly push their plates away. No _way_ am I losing my appetite that easily. I suspect this trope has little basis in reality. Yeah, we’re not easily put off our feed in my family, either. We have occasionally had to rein in the gross talk when there were outsiders having dinner with us. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusts-other-people-but-not-you/563215/46 "2010-12-07T22:42:19Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Peeing in the shower. Peeing in the shower? OK While you’re not in the shower? Uncool And someone else is? Gross. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![erleichda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4da419/32.png) [@erleichda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erleichda)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusts-other-people-but-not-you/563215/47 "2010-12-07T22:59:40Z")
Gay sex. ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusts-other-people-but-not-you/563215/48 "2010-12-07T23:40:49Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Cleaning the litter box. What’s the big deal? Unless kitty has the runs, and even then, clumping litter seals everything up. Just scoop and dump into a plastic bag, takes 30 seconds from start to finish (yes, I timed it). I call it ‘sifting for buried treasure’ 😃 I call it, “Collecting our dole from The Empress.” ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusts-other-people-but-not-you/563215/49 "2010-12-07T23:53:42Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > How else are they eaten? I must be missing something? Anybody can eat fried oysters. The raw, tuberculoid-lung-sputum-looking ones on the half shell sometimes make people queasy. No hot sauce or horseradish–just plain, slippery, gray oyster. [sub]Qualification: I haven’t eaten them in a while because I’m told they’re bad for gout. _shrug_[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusts-other-people-but-not-you/563215/50 "2010-12-08T01:12:40Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Cleaning the litter box. What’s the big deal? Unless kitty has the runs, and even then, clumping litter seals everything up. Just scoop and dump into a plastic bag, takes 30 seconds from start to finish (yes, I timed it). I call it ‘sifting for buried treasure’ 😃 It’s almost fun. I don’t really like the frequency I have to do it, however. You’d think three cats make three times the waste of one. Instead, it’s like they’re competing to see who can fill it up first. The dog can help me clean it up faster, and that grosses me out, mostly for the mess it causes. For people who like the smell of skunk, have you smelled it up close? Faraway, it is almost pleasant, close up it can cause a strong physiological reaction and involuntary revulsion in almost anyone. Good think for the skunk, too. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusts-other-people-but-not-you/563215/51 "2010-12-08T01:22:58Z")
My future MIL is disabled and completely incontinent. I’ve been changing her diapers for a while now. Hey, it needs to be done and I’ve got these two hands, you know… ---
**Author:** ![skylar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@skylar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skylar)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusts-other-people-but-not-you/563215/52 "2010-12-08T01:52:47Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Peeing in the shower? OK > While you’re not in the shower? Uncool > And someone else is? Gross. This is beyond TMI but I had an ex do this to me once. I was turned around, washing my hair, and I swear, I SMELLED it before I saw it…I went running out of the shower soaking wet. Effing disgusting. Still can’t believe it to this day…he wasn’t a weird or gross guy at all, he just did that one gross thing that one time. Bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusts-other-people-but-not-you/563215/53 "2010-12-08T02:04:03Z")
Knuckle/joint cracking. I know several people who are totally disgusted by it, but I loooove doing it. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusts-other-people-but-not-you/563215/54 "2010-12-08T02:18:35Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > For people who like the smell of skunk, have you smelled it up close? Faraway, it is almost pleasant, close up it can cause a strong physiological reaction and involuntary revulsion in almost anyone. Good think for the skunk, too. Yup, and I like it close up too. Yes, I know I’m strange. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusts-other-people-but-not-you/563215/55 "2010-12-08T05:04:30Z")
I’ve never been sprayed, but skunk isn’t a bad smell to me. It can make your eyes water when it’s fresh, but it still doesn’t smell bad - it’s like onions that way, for me. > [@FrigidLizard](#): > > Obese people in skimpy/tight clothing.; it’s not my fetish or anything, I just don’t have that “eeew” reaction I see from other people. Same thing for body hair. Yeah, human bodies don’t disgust me. I’m not sexually attracted to very fat people but there’s nothing _gross_ about your average fat person, in fact I think it’s really obnoxious that so many people are personally offended and/or nauseated by imperfect bodies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusts-other-people-but-not-you/563215.md?page=2)