What Makes You Cringe?

[caty]

The sound of certain people's voices (bush) makes me cringe.
The thought of a spider crawling over me makes me cringe.
Sometimes people send email pictures of really gory scenes that make me cringe.

I know there are more---I'll post again when they come to mind.

[WhollyHeretic]

1. Forks scraping on a plate

Bush's voice

[Shell Beau]

2. Styrofoam!

Ick! I hate the sound of it!

[QMPMom]

3. Anything to do with birds. Sounds, pictures, feathers.... anything.

[crim son]

4. chewing on tinfoil, sucking a wooden popsicle stick,

certain memories and ants. I hate ants.

[Shell Beau]

6. Have to agree with the foil one!

The thought makes me cringe!

[crim son]

7. I can't even remember when I learned that chewing on foil

is foul beyond belief. Maybe I was born with the knowledge.

[Generic Brad]

5. Seeing people lean over railings on tall buildings and look-outs

That gives me the heebie jeebies.

[FedUpWithIt All]

8. People's insensitivity.

The sound of teeth scraping on..well anything.

And the WORST...people who eat and slurp and smack with their mouths open. Makes me downright homicidal.

[bridgit]

9. i don't know why it does, but hubby somehow gets a paper napkin...

into his mouth, i never see him do it, but then he pulls it out over a sit down dinner in a restaurant like some illusionist, one long dry paper strand x(

also when he chews tinfoil, but he pays for that one cause it creeps him out too :rofl:

[Rosemary2205]

30. All involve how the herd acts around powered wheelchairs.

they start walking the way they drive. They see you coming in a powered wheelchair and just when you get to them they decide to dart out in front of you real quick or decide to go from 60 to zero in 2 steps and expect you not to crash into the back of their legs - or stand around right in the middle of the damn hallway yacking and look at you like you are the problem when you need to get by.

[Rosemary2205]

31. ooops sorry, I thought I had gone back to the END - wrong location.

[bridgit]

33. heh-heh...

:hi:

[TOhioLiberal]

10. cotton...

...in aspirin bottles. Makes my skin crawl to have to touch it.

[caty]

34. I've heard of that before,

but I don't know why it would bother anyone. To me it is just cotton in a bottle. The fact that aspirin dust might be on it shouldn't bother anyone if they are willing to swallow the aspirin. So, what about it makes you cringe? I would just like to understand it.

[GenDem]

44. I don't like it either....

it may not be 100% cotton...it feels funny when I pull it out--slippery and squeaky or something. I get it out of the bottle quick and throw it away.

[TOhioLiberal]

49. It's the feel of the cotton...

...it creeps me out. It's not the aspirin dust, either. I have no problem with things made out of cotton, so who knows?

[mwdem]

51. ...and pulling cotton material through your teeth.

For some reason, that is the thing that creeps me out more than anything else.:shrug:

[Aristus]

11. I cringe every time B*sh answers a tough question with:

"It's mah job ta tell th'Murrikan people... {fill in the blank}.

[LibDemAlways]

57. and every time he hesitates and hems and haws

while waiting for whoever is feeding him his lines through his earpiece to come through for him. Truly cringeworthy.

[CactusJock]

12. my cringe sound is velcro

i was given a wallet with a velcro fastener and had to throw it away. then i had to pretend to the giver that i'd lost it.

i wonder if there's a common link in the cringe sounds. styrofoam and velcro and (the classic) nails-on-blackboard are all annoyingly high pitched and random, maybe that's the essence of cringe...

[Karenina]

13. Admitting that I'm American. n/t

[caty]

14. Awww---don't blame America

Blame incompetent, power hungry, greedy government leadership.:banghead:

[Lyric]

15. Touching unglazed raw porcelain.

It sends chills up my back just thinking about it.

[LaraMN]

26. That drives me nuts.

At a store I worked at years ago, some of my male coworkers would come into my department with terra cotta pots and scratch them around me, because I would flip out. I can't stand touching anything remotely chalky like that. Nail files drive me nuts, too.

[Zorra]

16. When I see or hear the word "president" before the word "bush". n/t

[yewberry]

17. Flies, the sound of the Blue Angels,

animal cruelty of any kind, the way my fingertips feel rubbing against each other after washing a lot of dishes.

Yeeks.

[Skittles]

18. hearing people talking about their denal woes

*CRINGE*

[LSK]

19. the thought of having to wake up to go to work tomorrow

[BarenakedLady]

20. A dry popsicle stick on the tongue

*shudder*

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

21. Any thread that deals with circumcision ...

.. ow! (crosses leg)

[Guava Jelly]

22. right wingers

:mad:

[myrna minx]

23. Chewing with one's mouth open. Smacking, slurping and sucking food

out of your teeth. There's always someone in the office who thinks that you want to hear them mouth breath and chew at the same time. Extra cringe points if you mouth breath, smack and chew with you mouth open and your tongue flies out of your mouth like a horse! Yay! Classy!

[Rosemary2205]

29. I call one of my co-workers "Darth vader" for that

the only time he breaths in is when he's drinking and it echoes around inside the cup. It's truly annoying.

[myrna minx]

64. Oh my,

:scared: That's really creepy.

[bluethruandthru]

24. Seeing an animal hurt..

or evening thinking about it! Drinking from styrofoam cups.

[idgiehkt]

25. honestly

some of my own behavior lately. I've cringed so much lately it feels more like a twitch.

[AzDar]

27. Dental drills and EELS....(not necessarily together). n/t

[Drum]

28. Vonage commercials.

And lima beans.
Surgery scenes on "House."

:freak:

[GenDem]

32. Socks that get twisted

so the heel is on the top of your foot. Worn out socks that don't stay up or that have a hole where a toe may try to sneak out. Socks that feel funny inside my shoes or sneakers. I have a sock fetish :shrug: what can I say?

[MsKandice01]

35. The buzzing of any flying insect...

It seriously drives me to insanity.

[usaftmo]

36. The stupidity of the sheeple who vote republican.

Republican = The rich get richer while everyone else gets poorer

Democrat = The rich start paying their fair share to everyone else

With the exception of the wealthy, it makes my blood boil when someone votes republican.

Ok, I'll get off my soapbox now...

[Phoonzang]

37. Oh...alot of things.

People chewing gum loudly and popping it, people smacking food, repeated coughing, people near me who can't stop fidgeting, people on the floor above me walking around, people who repeat phrase frequently, people flossing around me....I could go on forever.

But mostly it's repetitive noises caused by a human being.

[LaraMN]

38. Odd numbers.

They make me uncomfortable. I have to do things an even number of times. A bit of the OCD, perhaps.

[CTyankee]

39. When John McCain talks his dentures make him whistle. I just

cringe waiting for the next whistling sound to come out of his mouth. He really needs to get better fitting dentures.

And people honestly think this guy could be elected President? He's gonna make Bob Dole candidacy for president look positively juvenile...

[BreweryYardRat]

40. Small roaches. Large ones send me fleeing.

[Courtesy Flush]

41. Antique furniture. It just creeps me out

[GenDem]

46. Really????

Can I ask why? Just curious.:shrug: I have a lot of antique furniture and I love it...not judging you..or anything. Just wondering if it's the big old victorian pieces that creep you out...cuz some of that can be very scary.

[Courtesy Flush]

50. Really!

Well, it doesn't creep ME out. I live in a Victorian house with more antiques than I can repair in a lifetime.

My post was a reference to Billy Bob Thornton (the picture was a clue), who is afraid of antique furniture.

Watch "Sling Blade". The antagonist (Dwight Yoakam) mentions his revulsion to antiques. This was an allusion to Thornton's own phobia.

[GenDem]

54. Oh, yeah, he's the guy who played the drunken boyfriend, Doyle.

I love that movie.....but don't remember Doyle not liking antiques. When I watch it the next time I will be looking for that scene. :hi:

[Roon]

42. Copy cat threads eom

eom

[judaspriestess]

43. that white gunk that collects on the sides of peoples mouths

YUCK!!!!!!!!!!! that freaks me out bad and also the white strings that form on peoples lips when they talk. I am sorry but I have to tell people they have that going on, its my duty

[Shell Beau]

45. That is some nasty stuff!

:puke: What is it anyway? I can't even look at someone if they have that stuff.

[judaspriestess]

47. I think its crusty saliva

I'm glad someone else agrees with me on this one.

[Shell Beau]

48. I almost just threw up!

[Initech]

52. Talk radio. Easy listening music.

Honestly, can't stand either one.

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

53. * still being in office along with the rest of his cronies! n/t

[undeterred]

55. knowing that our government does not respect personal privacy

and that they could be watching anything about any of us for no particular reason at all

[LibDemAlways]

56. The waitress serving our group of 9

at my parents' 60th anniversary dinner last night made me cringe. I needed another fork when she brought my entree because one had been removed along with my salad dish and the other had an old bit of food stuck to it. I politely asked for another and she surprised me with, "Use one of hers" - pointing to my daughter. This was a nice restaurant and that comeback really threw me for a loop.

So I guess someone treating me rudely for no good reason makes me cringe.

[Taverner]

58. The fact that the US hasn't gone metric

[Courtesy Flush]

61. I read a really good argument against it

Not political, just a salty sailor who had been around, and thought the metric system sucked.

Take a foot, or an inch. You can easily divide it into three, four, two or six. What's two thirds, of a meter? He made a good point.

[Taverner]

62. The thing is the metric system is more divisible than the English sys

[PVnRT]

65. Get a calculator

n/t

[sakabatou]

59. Bad breaks on a car

[BarenakedLady]

60. Honestly?

Fickle Fuckwads....



preying on the vulnerable




screw it. nvm...




I'm not even going there.



I cringe when people get embarrassed as part of a joke (ie, punked, Borak, candid camera, et al)

[buddhamama]

63. i react the same way

as does my son, to people getting embarrassed.

he can't even watch, he has to turn his head or walk away. he is very sensitive and empathetic.

be well, BnL. :hug: :hug: :hug: