What makes you cringe/gag?

[REDVAN]

Ok this is inspired by the shower drain thread... because thinking about that is nasty.

So the traditional response would be nails running down a chalkboard.

For me, it is Styrofoam scraping against itself or a cardboard box, it just sends shivers down my spine! *shudder*

You guys have any weird things? I had a girlfriend who couldn't see random dots without having a freakout. eg/ the nose of the A&W bear made her look away.

Edit to add: I hate the smell of Cheerios on someone's breath. Gross.

[Jayems]

1. Someone biting: ice cubes/popsicles/ice cream

2. Thinking about accidentally missing your face with a razor, and it gets stuck on your fingernail. So, basically, accidentally shaving your fingernail.

3. A chick in a cow suit chasing kids and peeing on porches.

[Russic]

for some reason I've always been incredibly bothered by the thought of closing my teeth on a piece of cotton. Shivering just thinking about it. As for gagging I can barely hold myself together when I get a whiff of a smokers breath in the morning. It's the odour of smoker breath mixed with that sour smell that has had me recoil on the ctrain already twice this week alone.

[Jiggy_12]

Fresh powdered snow crunching under your feet.

[rubecube]

+1 on the styrofoam and cardboard rubbing together. Also the way some fabrics rub together.

[Sainters7]

Dont ask me why, but when I have really dry skin, and it accidentally brushes against a really hard surface, lake pavement. Like if I'm walking in bare feet in my front yard and my dry heel of my feet brushes against the driveway and it makes that scraping sound, it just makes my skin crawl. I think its from years of watching my dad pick the dead skin off his heel with his fingernail when I was a kid.

[rubecube]

The sound of someone chewing with their mouth open.

[JackJack]

All I would like to contribute to this thread is

rudecube...love the sig!

[foofighter15]

for me its skin getting cut.

[JiriHrdina]

For some reason I really hate the sound a fast food pop makes when you get to the bottom and there's nothing left. The sound of that plastic straw sucking up nothing. Ugh. Grinds me to the bone.

[Coach]

Metal on metal. Like a metal spoon scrapping KD out of a metal pot. It actually makes me want to throw up.

People spitting and then sucking it back in. Grossest thing someone can do

[Muta]

Nails being clipped.

Cilantro.

Bryan Hayward's 'commentary'.

[KevanGuy]

If a cashier in a drive-thru touches my hand when I'm paying or getting change it brings me to the edge of vomiting. I have to keep Purell in the car specifically for those situations.

[Blaster86]

Compound leg fractures. When ever one happens in sports I change the channel every time they try and show it because I will start to feel sick.

[chid]

I hate the smell of those rubber Halloween masks, I cannot stand Halloween or shopping when those gross masks are on display, the smell makes me gag.

[flip]

Chicks with muffin tops. Nuff said.

[Dion]

The smell of cigarette smoke makes me gag. What makes me cringe is watching a mother with her baby in a stroller lighting up a cigarette.

[Draug]

Originally Posted by Jiggy_12

Fresh powdered snow crunching under your feet.

No joke?

That is one of the sounds I find so peaceful and relaxing. As a kid, I had a paper route. Delivering papers at 5:00am, just after a fresh snow, was so peaceful and quite. Its one of my happy places.

Sounds I cant stand? Loud eaters, ice chewing, ticking of nails on a desk (or similar) from someone tapping their nails, knuckle cracking... I am sure the list goes on.

Chalkboards, etc, dont bother me.

For smells, I hate the smell of parmesan cheese and feta cheese.

[RougeUnderoos]

Man, I have a lot of the ones already listed. Maybe I should see someone.

Just reading "nails on a chalkboard" made me clinch both fists and then shake them out like I had writer's cramp.

A spoon scraping KD (or anything) out of a metal pot makes me put my fingers in my ears and leave the area.

Cilantro is the worst spice ever and one bite of anything with cilantro means all politeness is out the window -- "I can't eat this and I don't care how long you spent cooking it or how good it is but I will puke".

[Gallick]

Biting into the wooden stick of a popsicle makes me freak out.

I had an ex who could not stand the sound of a metal fork or spoon scraping against someone's teeth as they eat, even if they were across the room.