# What do you find creepy that others don't? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 15, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874 "2008-11-15T17:03:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![SecretPanda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@SecretPanda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretPanda)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874/101 "2008-11-17T19:05:36Z")
Sunflowers. Absolutely, truly the definition of obscene. Their height, colour, size, those seeds - uurrggghhhhh. Bizarrely, small sunflowers are sort of acceptable, and sunflower seeds are yummy. But big giant grotesque sunflowers … they need to go. Now. Please? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874/102 "2008-11-17T19:18:06Z")
> [@SecretPanda](#): > > Sunflowers. > > Absolutely, truly the definition of obscene. Their height, colour, size, those seeds - uurrggghhhhh. > > Bizarrely, small sunflowers are sort of acceptable, and sunflower seeds are yummy. But big giant grotesque sunflowers … they need to go. > > Now. > > Please? Well that is because Sunflowers are the close relatives to Triffids of course. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874/103 "2008-11-17T19:26:20Z")
> [@freckafree](#): > > I’m glad I’m not the only one who is totally creeped out by that photo, even though I know it’s fake. Definitely something I would like to “unsee” if I had the opportunity. > > Monkeys creep me out. Apes somewhat, but not as much as monkeys. It’s something about monkeys’ faces – the lack of expression in their eyes. It’s called lotusboob, and no matter what gory, twisted crap I’ve seen on the internet, none of it fazes me except for lotusboob. I’d give my left arm to be able to unsee it. Besides that, I’ve always gotten a very uneasy feeling when movie or video game characters go through some type of trauma that should injure them a lot more than it did. I cite Tony Stark hitting the sand dune at about 200 mph in _Iron Man_ and Lois Lane being nailed in the head with the heavy steel door of the sinking boat _Superman Returns_ as examples. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874/104 "2008-11-17T19:31:35Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] It’s something about monkeys’ faces – the lack of expression in their eyes. [/QUOTE] You want creepily expressionless, try fly and mosquito eyes. Better yet, don’t. Bee and wasp faces don’t have quite that same blank hideousness - not even dragonflies do, really. If sunflowers equate to a value of 10 for **SecretPanda** , fly eyes are about 500 on the same scale. ---
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874/105 "2008-11-17T19:38:30Z")
The inflated flappy arm things they use at car dealerships that are ostensibly to attract attention, but they freak me out so much I will never, ever give my business to a store or company that has one. The way they move is just SICK and WRONG. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![cruel\_butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@cruel\_butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cruel_butterfly)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874/106 "2008-11-17T19:59:34Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > Drunk people. I was going to say something similar. I don’t mind people just being drunk and happy or drunk and slurring their words and stumbling about. What freaks me out are people who, when they are drunk, are energized to the point of violence. I’m just not into volatility. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874/107 "2008-11-17T20:01:31Z")
> [@Bacon\_Salt](#): > > “Those little eyes so helpless and appealin’ > one day will flash and send you crashin’ through the ceilin’” > Uggghhhhhh bad touch bad touch bad touch bad touch. > > My dad has a collection of clips from the Dean Martin show and they sing that song several times, usually with actual little girls piled around the singer. [And sometimes, they decide that’s not weird enough.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upS7YyHCnJA) (Warning: wind-up doll army) Given Dino’s lecherous, alcoholic stage persona you’ve got to wonder what the hell the parents of those children were thinking. > > Also, loose strands of hair. Mine, yours, hers. If I feel a strand of hair on my body, I will get into weird contortions trying to find it. Of course at the rate I shed, this happens at least once a day. And god help you if you leave clumps of hair in the shower for me to find. Ugh!! I’m currently curled up in the fetal position nursing a double scotch on the rocks!! Thanks for that. I’m gonna have to go back to therapy now!! ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874/108 "2008-11-17T20:10:28Z")
The South Park episode featuring Britney Spears after they shot the top half of her head off. The stump of her head with its broken jaw kept talking. It was freaking disgusting and I can’t get it out of my head for days after I see it. Centipedes freak me the hell out, too. They’re so fast! Yuck. _Shudder_ Blech. Oh, and the thought of drinking milk freaks me out. When I was little, my mom used to make us drink milk out of these glasses with ET on the front. I always thought ET looked like a walking, talking lump of overcooked red meat, but mom had it in her head that ET was my favorite character for some reason. I didn’t want to disappoint her because she was trying really hard to be nice to me, so I acted like I was thrilled when she got me one of those glasses from McDonald’s. Apparently I was too convincing, so I was forced to drink milk out of this ET glass for at least two years - it was like drinking out of a meat bowl, especially if the milk was warm. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874/109 "2008-11-17T20:28:00Z")
> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > I hope you don’t make a habit of eating sandwiches from Starbucks or Seattle’s Best Coffee. I absolutely do not eat sandwiches from Starbucks or Seattle’s Bests. I basically only eat sandwiches I make myself _or_ sandwiches that are made in front of me. I honestly don’t know why I have such a problem with pre-made sandwiches. I’ve never had a bad experience with one, and I like to think that I’m not insane. For whatever reason, I just have very specific rules about the sandwiches I can eat. Oh and I hate watching basketball players chew their towels. My sister is in the habit of chewing on her t-shirt collar when she’s thinking and it makes my teeth itch and sends chills down my spine. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874/110 "2008-11-17T20:45:13Z")
People putting my name into song lyrics that don’t normally contain my name. I have no idea why I can’t stand this. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874/111 "2008-11-17T20:59:18Z")
Antique black and white photo portraits. When I look at them I think “Dead people! These are all dead people! DEAD PEOPLE!” And I don’t mean the post-mortem photos from the turn of the century, I mean the regular, everyone is alive, wearing their Sunday best, posing for the photographer portraits. Gah! My family photos from the 1890s make me shudder. I think it’s because back then everyone looked so serious and somber rather than doing the smiley “Cheese!” thing. Black and white wedding photo of my _smiling_ grandparents circa 1934 = not creepy. Black and white “serious” great grandparents’ wedding portrait, irca 1898 = DEAD PEOPLE! DEEAAAAAAD PEOPLE!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: I used to date a girl who was afraid of blue people. Smurfs, Blue Man Group, whatever. If they were humanoid and blue, she was terrified. (I couldn’t see Monsters Inc. with her because Sulley was “too human… and BLUE!” but Cookie Monster is okay.) ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874/112 "2008-11-17T21:06:50Z")
> [@Freejooky](#): > > The lady on that show _Cold Case_. Never watched an episode, but occasionally I see a commercial and she makes my skin crawl. I don’t know if it’s the way that they pile up all of her hair above her tiny face or what, but [she looks like a muppet](http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/10/coldcase.jpg). We don’t have cable, so I haven’t seen that show in ages. Our new TV has an HDTV tuner so we get more channels through the bunny ears now. That woman scares the shit out of me too, but I totally know why: her face is so Botoxed, it _doesn’t move_. She can’t frown (we think that’s why they’ve been hiding her forehead with hair) and she looks like she can barely smile. So she looks like a talking deathmask or something. Her voice is trying to be all emotive but her face is expressionless. :eek: Ladies (guys too), for the love of Jeebus, DON’T freeze your faces with that shit.! ---
**Author:** ![Henrichek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@Henrichek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henrichek)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874/113 "2008-11-17T22:19:49Z")
> [@mlerose](#): > > The inflated flappy arm things they use at car dealerships that are ostensibly to attract attention, but they freak me out so much I will never, ever give my business to a store or company that has one. The way they move is just SICK and WRONG. > > _shudder_ [These](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onZHpGYFPls) things? I didn’t know they existed for real. ---
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874/114 "2008-11-17T22:36:28Z")
> [@Henrichek](#): > > [These](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onZHpGYFPls) things? I didn’t know they existed for real. A google image search tells me they are called Inflatable Sky Dancers, but I think they should be called Freaky Arm Things. ---
**Author:** ![Henrichek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@Henrichek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henrichek)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874/115 "2008-11-17T22:41:20Z")
> [@mlerose](#): > > A google image search tells me they are called Inflatable Sky Dancers, but I think they should be called Freaky Arm Things. Family guy named them “wacky waiving inflatable arm flailing tube men”. ---
**Author:** ![beanpod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9adbd/32.png) [@beanpod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beanpod)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874/116 "2008-11-17T23:21:19Z")
Benicio del Toro > **[Benicio Del Toro](https://www.imdb.com/media/rm1222876928/nm0001125)** > > Benicio Del Toro in Reptile (2023) ::whimper:: I don’t understand why he’s a sex symbol. I just don’t understand. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874/117 "2008-11-17T23:30:11Z")
Fan art and photo manipulations of celebrities. I saw a piece of fan art today of Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel holding hands romantically and…I…really wish I hadn’t. Ew, creepy. ---
**Author:** ![wunderkammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874/118 "2008-11-17T23:36:53Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > My other strange one is _sandwiches_. Sandwiches that are made at home are fine. But any _pre-prepared_ sandwiches gross me out. And sandwiches that are frozen? Make me want to vomit. Oh, and sandwiches that come up with a dip. I don’t know why I have such a thing about sandwiches, but they seriously bother me. Me too. Hot, toasted sandwiches are fine. Just perfectly normal food. Cold sandwiches are fine if I make them myself. Also perfectly normal food. But let them out of my sight for more than an hour or so? Put them in a baggie and pack them for lunch? What was once perfectly normal food is transmuted into inedible creepiness. Don’t even get me started on _other people’s_ sandwiches. Or sandwiches on soft white bread. Or (shudder) the sugar and butter sandwiches that one of my kindergarten classmates used to bring to school… ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874/119 "2008-11-17T23:47:32Z")
> [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > Fan art and photo manipulations of celebrities. I saw a piece of fan art today of Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel holding hands romantically and…I…really wish I hadn’t. Ew, creepy. I’m sure I’ll be sorry, but, again, I can’t help myself…can we see? ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-find-creepy-that-others-dont/472874/120 "2008-11-18T00:45:27Z")
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