# What seemingly innocuous things can you just NOT look at? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 27, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714 "2010-08-27T20:44:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714/1 "2010-08-27T20:44:39Z")
This is NOT a thread for posting gross things that squick most people out. This is a thread for posting normal, everyday things that millions of people think nothing of that gross YOU out particularly, so that you avoid looking at them/watching them/seeing them, etc. For me there are two big ones: I can’t stand seeing someone fold their ear forward. Seeing this causes an instant reaction which, if you were watching my face and trying to guess what I’d just seen, you’d probably think Id’ just witnessed a stabbing or something. I can’t watch people brush their teeth–it makes me queasy. What about you? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714/2 "2010-08-27T20:51:34Z")
Videos of baby tree sloths creepy me out badly - not adults, though. It’s the way the babies move that’s so freaky. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714/3 "2010-08-27T20:53:08Z")
I can’t say that I’ve ever seen a baby tree sloth! ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714/4 "2010-08-27T20:55:15Z")
Mine is a common one: Porcelain dolls scare the fuck out of me. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714/5 "2010-08-27T20:55:17Z")
I was thinking that I don’t have anything like this, but after **elfkin** ’s response I’m reminded of ferrets. Weird, man! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714/6 "2010-08-27T20:55:22Z")
I was just talking about this today and it almost made me gag then. It’s making me almost gag now typing it: Cooked leaf vegetables. Ugh. When you get whatever Chinese dish and it has those slimy, wilty, booger-looking strings of green … yeesh … I can’t go on. _Retch_ ---
**Author:** ![FrigidLizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3bc359/32.png) [@FrigidLizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrigidLizard)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714/7 "2010-08-27T21:05:39Z")
Smiling babies. I mean, I love children, I don’t mind the noises, smells, etc. that they make, it’s just that hugely happy look that infants have sometimes. I just find it disgusting, I’m not sure why. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714/8 "2010-08-27T21:07:16Z")
That “are tumors edible” question in GQ- my stomach turns whenever I see it. Any word on that pukey smiley? ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714/9 "2010-08-27T21:08:24Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > This is NOT a thread for posting gross things that squick most people out. This is a thread for posting normal, everyday things that millions of people think nothing of that gross YOU out particularly, so that you avoid looking at them/watching them/seeing them, etc. > > For me there are two big ones: > > I can’t stand seeing someone fold their ear forward. Seeing this causes an instant reaction which, if you were watching my face and trying to guess what I’d just seen, you’d probably think Id’ just witnessed a stabbing or something. > > I can’t watch people brush their teeth–it makes me queasy. > > What about you? Not buckeyes? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714/10 "2010-08-27T21:11:07Z")
> [@FrigidLizard](#): > > Smiling babies. I mean, I love children, I don’t mind the noises, smells, etc. that they make, it’s just that hugely happy look that infants have sometimes. I just find it disgusting, I’m not sure why. Hahahaa! That makes me laugh for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714/11 "2010-08-27T21:17:09Z")
Eyeballs. I don’t see how people can stand to look each other in the eye all the time. They make my skin crawl. As mentioned above, porcelain dolls. Freaky evil looking little things. My youngest sister collects the things, and she’s constantly leaving them laying around. I think that’s it, though I’ll probably realize that there are others as I read this thread. ---
**Author:** ![causticsubstance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ba8739/32.png) [@causticsubstance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/causticsubstance)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714/12 "2010-08-27T21:37:42Z")
the little nook on the top of a pomegranate that is full of those little alienish spore thingies. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714/13 "2010-08-27T21:41:34Z")
I can’t stand to have my stomach poked, and I can’t stand to watch anyone else get poked in their stomach either. This includes the Pillsbury Dough-boy. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714/14 "2010-08-27T21:47:20Z")
Bare foam, like foam matresses or pillows, make it stop. ---
**Author:** ![apollonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@apollonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apollonia)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714/15 "2010-08-27T22:16:07Z")
Sloths. I hate sloths, they creep me out, I hate their weird faces and their creepy limbs and their creepy freaky claws and the fact that never ever EVER move and THINGS GROW ON THEM and just eewwww. I can’t look at sloths. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714/16 "2010-08-27T23:10:21Z")
Someone sitting in the passenger seat of a car and propping their feet on the dashboard. I _hate_ that. If I’m driving on the highway in summertime and see bare feet on the dashboard of some other car, it squicks me right out. No idea why. ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714/17 "2010-08-27T23:14:36Z")
Spiders. I can’t even look at a picture of a spider without getting heebed out. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714/18 "2010-08-27T23:14:39Z")
> [@E.Thorp](#): > > Someone sitting in the passenger seat of a car and propping their feet on the dashboard. > > I _hate_ that. If I’m driving on the highway in summertime and see bare feet on the dashboard of some other car, it squicks me right out. No idea why. What about propped on the passenger side mirror? I have a bad habit of doing this. (Yes, I know it’s dangerous both to my feet and the driver. It’s a habit I’m trying to break.) ---
**Author:** ![Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fried_Dough_Ho)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714/19 "2010-08-27T23:16:03Z")
Jerusalem Crickets - sorry, but dead ones look like aborted fetusus. Almost everything to do with pregnancy and babies; women’s swollen bellies, new-born babies, mothers breast-feeding, and images of childbirth just make me nauseous. Kept me from ever wanting one of my own. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714/20 "2010-08-27T23:17:33Z")
Kittens. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-seemingly-innocuous-things-can-you-just-not-look-at/551714.md?page=2)