What makes you go "Yuk!" ?

People have more disgusting habits than animals , who don't really know any better,
Like spitting, not washing hands, using a dish cloth to wash the floor,list of human YUKS is endless

The increasing number of women who I see using public toilets and go straight to the exit door without walking their hands. Ugh. I don’t want to open the exit door after I see that. ?

My grandmother’s expression was “clean meat never fattened a pig”. ?

Cherryhatrick, you made me smile. My mother always used the expression 'a peck of dirt did you no harm'.

Dead flies! We have an infestation of them in a warm autumn and I can come home and the floor by the windows will be heaving with flies, some some wizzing round on their backs almost dead and literally hundreds dead. It makes me feel sick to think about it!

Agree about the sneezing in public. Recently there was an article about how important hand washing was and even though I was always told when I was a child, I now take extra care. Every time I´m in I head straight for the bathroom to wash my hands.

On second thoughts, I've decided I'm not a slob, too many of you are just over the top with hygiene. How on earth you think the human race lived so long must be a mystery to you.

People sneezing in public without a tissue or attempt to shield others. I have seen the video where they show you how far the germ-laden droplets travel. Ugh! One sneeze and the rest of us are ill.

Men are the worst at this. They sneeze as if a bomb is going off.

All of the above plus any kind of unwrapped food in supermkts or cafes not behind a glass screen. The number of times I've seen people pick up pastries etc with their hands - not even the tongs provided - look at them and then put them down again!!!

I know my cat walks over work surface to sit above where dish washer is as surface gets warm. When I anm there i stop him but when I am not there i know he will do it so first job we all do when entering house is spray work surfaces and disinfect them all.

People putting knives in mouths to lick in restaurants. I was always told not to do this. Cutting tongue is possible. When I see it I feel sick.

Rosieroe, I live in Central Europe and, yes, we do have unwrapped loaves. Plastic bags and gloves are always available for people to test the softness of the bread. If anyone were to do that with their bare hands a dozen elderly ladies would set upon them, telling them off for doing that. You were quite right for doing that. Just to let you know that, no, it is not customary.

Good grief Grannybiker your life must be a minefield!! Poor immune system .... try taking zinc supplement it works for me, then perhaps you can stop worrying about shopping bags on work surfaces.... if mine were put on floor...I couldn’t bend to pick them up!! ( 2 prolapsed disks). Anyway people , never heard the phrase ‘ a pound of dirt before you die’.... there is such a thing as TOO clean you know. But the dog licking thing I agree with and the teeth!!!! Aaarrrgghh!

I can't think of anything that makes me go "Yuk". A childhood on a farm, often barefoot by choice as it is a lot easier to wash cow muck off feet than to clean shoes or boots. Squeezing blow fly maggots out of cows' backs, cleaning out pig sties, helping at difficult births all taken in the stride. Gutting rabbits moments after they had been shot was a quick and relatively odorless task, cleaning chickens and well hung game birds not quite so. My mother always said we would eat a peck of dirt before we died, and it would do us no harm. I think the preponderance of allergies and intolerances in the young is down to too much weight given to hygiene.

Phoenix I have a similar story; my mother had been out with her friends and called for a fish and chip supper on her way home. After she had eaten, she put her feet up and took out her top set, leaving them on the arm of her chair. A few minutes later she noticed the dog was gnawing on a bone....only it wasn't a bone

Camelotclub . I would add Kieth Lemon

friend letting their dog drink tea out of a cup they use UGHH!!!

I once gave a young couple a telling off in our local Lidl for handling several unwrapped loaves of bread and putting them back in the display baskets. From their accents they seemed to be from Central Europe so maybe that’s what is customary for them to do at markets, but ... no.

Jeremy Kyle

The only thing specified here that completely grosses me out is the dog licking the dentures and that’s because I have a false teeth phobia! Dogs licking faces, cats on work surfaces meh! I was born and brought up in the bush in Africa, not much phases me.

I must have a strong stomach. None of these make me go yuk. And I rarely suffer from any stomach illness. BUT, I would never touch any nibbles left out in a public place and have a bit of a thing about washing my hands.

Netzin Steklis, a biologist at the University of Arizona who is working on a study of the elderly to learn more about how living with dogs changes their skin and gut microbiomes, says that pet owners have long known that animal companionship can lift our mood. “But it is not just an oxytocin story anymore,” she said, referring to the brain chemical often called the hormone of love. She suspects that the physiological effect of their bacteria in our guts may contribute to the well-known antidepressive benefit of pet ownership.
Dogs have been with humans for 40,000 years,” she said. “But we are only now looking to find out how living with them impacts our health.

Gordon Bennett! Have just cleaned the bathrooms and kitchen - my priorities - might have to go and do them all again after reading this, just to make sure!

Every day I have a bag of dog excrement placed on top of my hedge . Why not just take it home with them grrr I don't have animals anymore yet daily cleaning up after all the neighborhood cats. Not fair !!

Teddy123, I had to laugh, surely everybody picks their nose and farts. Only, most of us have been conditioned to do this in private. I live on my own now and confess to doing both.

People who bring their animals to deafacate on my property. They think picking it up absolves them of any responsibility.