What weird things gross you out?

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The movie "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" grossed me out. Not for everyone. "The 120 Days of Salo" also grossed me out.

I'd be concerned about you if that movie DIDN'T gross you out! I have a similar reaction to the "baby" in Eraserhead -- especially when it was sick, and pretty much everything about Dune.

Things that gross me out --
-- Skin conditions -- really severe wrinkles, psoriasis, warts, skin tags, etc.
-- Organs -- the internal body parts, not the musical instruments
-- Skin that has been sliced into, as in surgery or a bad cut.
-- There is this frog -- don't know the name of it -- that carries its babies on its back in these little slits. The sight of those things completely freaks me out. It gets me so much that I've seen pitted concrete that looks like it, and that grosses me out too.
-- Ditto the "face" of a lamprey eel. I remember a picture of one in my 7th grade life science book. I couldn't even look at it. When I had to read something on that page, I had to cover up the picture.
-- Raw oysters -- not just the texture, but the look of them, like a loogie someone spit into a cup.
-- Raw meat -- Being a grocery store cashier, I see all kind of icky stuff come through the register -- organ meats, slabs of muscle and flesh, ground bits, pig ears that still have the blue veins in them. Turkey gizzards may be the most disgusting things I've ever seen. I'm not a vegetarian, but I may get to the point where I CAN'T eat meat anymore.
-- The way flesh gets gray when it decays, as in a dead thing on the side of the road (I live in a rural area with lots of dead critters on the road, so I see this kind of thing often)
Hmm...there seems to be a pattern here of weird creepy skin stuff. Part of the reason I never became a doctor even though medicine really interests me. And I'd better stop typing. This list of mine has made me sick to my stomach...

I hate plasters (bandaids), even ones that are clean and still in their paper wrapper. When a family member gets a cut and asks me to help them put one on, I could run a mile, although I put on a brave face and help them out. What's worse, is when they come off. My daughter has gone to bed with one on and it has been off in the morning. I feel dread about having to look for it and the possibility of finding it on her pillow or quilt (or not finding it and not knowing when and where it might turn up). I actually don't like sticky things that aren't where they should be, e.g. a label that's half come off and gotten crumpled. When I pick up a sticker on my shoe, I feel sick.

mushrooms. super mario makes them look fun, but real ones creep me out.

Dirty bathrooms, dirty dishes (I can't wash dishes for this reason), and my friend picking her nose and wiping boogers on the seat in my mom's car. She put boogers on my rug once, too. She's a good friend, but she has bad manners.

Good grief! How could I have commented on gross things without talking about how much I hate funky teeth!?!?!

I guess it's because I don't do much eye contact but rather look at people's mouths, but I notice people's teeth all the time. And those choppers had better be flawless. If you have unbrushed or crooked or discolored or missing or -- god forbid -- ROTTEN teeth, I will get completely grossed out. Some have been so bad that they made me sick to my stomach, others have given me the creeps to the point that I obsessed about them for hours. I used to work with a guy we called Fang (behind his back of course ). One of his canine teeth was working its way out of his gum, and it was longer than the rest. It just hung there, and I wanted to reach into his mouth and pull it out. It finally fell out on its own one day.

Bad teeth are particularly bad where I currently live. It's a very rural area, and most people have their own wells rather than city water. Well water tastes good, but there's a problem with it: no fluoride, so people's teeth suffer. Also, it is a high drug abuse area, i.e. lots of meth, which severely damages teeth as well.

Even my own teeth bother me. They were nearly perfect both in bite and color, but years ago, I fell getting off a bus and landed face first on the concrete. The blow broke one of my front teeth and knocked it out of line, and it has gone a bit gray from the damage over the years. The broken piece has been repaired, and most people don't even notice it, but it drives me crazy.

I can't imagine how some people won't take care of their teeth. At least run a brush across them occasionally!

condylomas. I had to scrub in on surgeries to excise them.

I know this probably isn't weird weird, but I always get really grossed out, (in fact, freaked out), when someone has to take that stuff what you mix with water and you have to sip down and it washes out your bowels before you have one of those tests. Just no way, it frightens the s**t out of me (ha ha, get it? ), and I just have to thank my lucky stars I do not have any trouble with my bowels. But that doesn't mean I might not have trouble later in life - f**k no way!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

White sliced loaf bread. It is absolutely disgusting and revolting. I hate to see it, I hate to smell it, I hate to walk down the bread aisle in the grocery store and be near it, and I most especially HATE to see someone else eat it.

Ooh, that reminds me: The texture of crumpets. Like a smoker's lung. Vile.

(US viewers will have to google <UK crumpet> and wade past all the Benny Hill stuff)

I can handle the smell, but not the texture. It's like eating paste! It sticks to my teeth and the roof of my mouth, and just gags me. And WET bread, like in French Onion Soup, bread pudding or tiramisu? Bleaurgh!! !!

Mushrooms and other fungi tend to gross me out. I also can't stand the site of cut cabbage, especially if it is purple cabbage; to me it looks like someone's brain has been dissected.

Tortellini

Just mildly.

Because they look like human ears.

Its like chowing down on a plate of desmembered human ears.

Can eat a wheelbarrow full of any kind of pasta. But I have to be desperate to eat tortellinies.

sliced cucumbers, especially if they are old and moldy.

As a nurse, I had my chance of seeing many things the human eye should never behold, like festering bedsores.

I used to suction the greenish phlegm out of people's throats with a machine. People standing in the room would gag from the site and smell of that exercise.

In the beginning it bothered me but I got used to it after a while. I suctioned through a tracheostomy most of the time, too.

Mostly hot dogs/sausages/weiners...really thick, greasy bacon. I like my bacon thin, dry, and so crispy it melts in your mouth.