The Ick list

[vetran]

A bit sexist but what the heck. We can improve both lists!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...-ick-list.html

Our office straw poll came up with a list...

Men who...

• Know their exact weight
• Whistle
• Take pictures with their car
• Take selfies
• Order a steak in a restaurant and then struggle to cut it
• Shave their underarms
• Drink white wine
• Walk too slowly
• Wear leather jackets
• Like milky coffee
• Mention astrology
• Order diet versions of a drink
• Split the bill
• Use the menu on the chocolate box to pick a chocolate to eat
• Order a dessert
• Only wear baseball caps backwards
• Read books about getting rich
• Mansplain everything
• Have short fingers
• Have long nails
• Always holiday in Spain
• Make a noise when getting off a chair
• Talk about their ex
• Are overly touchy
• Are addicted to porn
• Have a weird laugh
• Hold cutlery with an overhand grip
• Trip when walking
• Can't clap to a beat
• Are sunburnt
• Have feet that dangle out of the end of the bed
• Push a pull door
• Say 'can't wait' when you arrange something
• Have a short neck
• Eat breakfast Take baths
• Don't read
• Are picky eaters
• Take off their necklace/chain before getting intimate
• Run for the bus
• Order cocktails
• Have lone grey hairs in their beard
• Wear Lycra
• Press their legs together on public transport
• Buy mints rather than chewing gum

• Set more than two alarms for the morning
• Drive at exactly the speed limit
• Dance out of time to music
• Smile with food in their teeth
• Open food with the label upside down
• Study religion at A-level
• Don't have ice in the house
• Buy a body wash that isn't Radox or Original Source
• Use a straw
• Play badminton/tennis
• Have a navy blue bath mat
• Have brown sheets
• Don't have a minimum of two sets of sheets or towels
• Don't swim
• Use something as a fake microphone and sing
• Have a reusable bag for groceries
• Have fewer than four pillows
• Have more than four pillows
• Use 'x' or too many emojis
• Have posters
• Put a biro behind their ear
• Take ages to get served at the bar
• Say 'perfecto'
• Apply Vaseline with their baby finger
• Say 'lil' instead of 'little'
• Can't find parking spots
• Are rude to restaurant staff
• Chew loudly with their mouth open
• Are overly obsessed with video games
• Don't wear socks with shoes
• Talk about family wealth
• Play the air guitar
• Struggle to unhook a bra
• Use excessive punctuation in texts
• Leave a laundry pile in the bedroom
• Don't tip
• Run with a backpack on (or even worse if it's the kind with a water bottle built-in with a long plastic straw)
• Coo over cats
• Are oblivious to their bad breath
• Over-style their hair
• Order oatmeal/coconut/almond milk with coffee

List compiled by Molly Clayton

Sorry ladies white wine is a joy I am not giving up for you!


From Mr Wallops list - if your man has brown sheets you know why now! The times I have cuddled the perma-tan and come away with marks on my shirt

Sorry ladies. But we have a few gripes of our own - says Harry Wallop

Women who...

• Pout in photos (It's not sexy)
• Claim having a bath is 'self-care' (Stop with the candles or dim lighting and just enjoy washing yourself)
• Can't throw away their food
• Read self-help books
• Have fake tans (Men don't want to date a female David Dickinson or risk getting their sheets creosoted)
• Take an age to get ready
• Call wine 'mummy juice'– or their work 'mumpreneurship'
• Say 'I couldn't possibly' when offered a dessert but then dig their spoon into yours (Order your own!)
• And, I agree wholeheartedly with Sarah Vine, all those who call anything an 'ick'!

come on we can do better. From WTFH we will probably have "men in tights " from NLUK "those who don't love their accountants" etc.

[SueEllen]

Not everything on the mens list is ick.

I laugh when I see workmen trying to get a cat to come to them.

Oh and on both lists should go "I am vegan"

[WTFH]

Looks like whoever compiled that list works in an easily triggered office.

For me the list is:
Don’t pass their plate to the waiting staff
Don’t listen
Wear too much product/enhancements
Don’t appreciate silence
Don’t respect others
Don’t take responsibility for their actions



I guess I like good manners in people.

[northernladuk]

Can't be bothered to comment on the list of men icks. Some of them are just ridiculous. Only thing that stands out though is the Women pouting. I despise that. 99.9% can't do it properly and just looks awful. Just smile. Nothing more attractive than a nice smile. Face like your kissing your grandma isn't attractive.

[Zigenare]

Looks like whoever compiled that list works in an easily triggered office.

For me the list is:
Don’t pass their plate to the waiting staff
Don’t listen
Wear too much product/enhancements
Don’t appreciate silence
Don’t respect others
Don’t take responsibility for their actions



I guess I like good manners in people.

In my experience waiting staff know how to arrange the items they are carrying and don't need a buffoon handing items to them. That along with talking to the chauffeur are a definate "No-No".

Hth.

[Snooky]

• Hold cutlery with an overhand grip

Really?

[hobnob]

Looking at the original list, there are some very specific items in there. (I even wonder whether it was a disguised advert by certain shower gel manufacturers!) It's fair enough for person X in the Daily Mail office to have her own preferences about what type of man she's looking for, but it's pretty much irrelevant unless you want to date her specifically.

In particular, I noticed the entry about "press their legs together on public transport". An alternative is to sit with your legs spread apart, aka "manspreading" or "establishing dominance", depending on who you ask. Again, the behaviour which attracts one person will repel another.

[gables]

Can't be bothered to comment on the list of men icks. Some of them are just ridiculous. Only thing that stands out though is the Women pouting. I despise that. 99.9% can't do it properly and just looks awful. Just smile. Nothing more attractive than a nice smile. Face like your kissing your grandma isn't attractive.

I think you're being kind (shock horror ;-) ) describing pouting as a "Face like your kissing your grandma" I think it looks more like a monkey's bum hole

[vetran]

I think you're being kind (shock horror ;-) ) describing pouting as a "Face like your kissing your grandma" I think it looks more like a monkey's bum hole

painted / tattooed on eyebrows (unless suffering from a disease).

[WTFH]

I think you're being kind (shock horror ;-) ) describing pouting as a "Face like your kissing your grandma" I think it looks more like a monkey's bum hole

You've not met NLUK.