What makes you go "Yuk!" ?

What a lot of precious little flowers there are on here. In my 81 years on this mucky planet I reckon I've been subjected to most of these. Strangely enough I'm still alive and kicking.?

Jalima amazingly it was called radium malt!

Extract from a blog I found when checking the name:

In hospital back in early 1950s to get my tonsils removed we got a daily dose of Castor Oil followed by one of Radium Malt. Yeeuch, a sort of super-charged Marmite. There was a fascination with all things atomic then, Remember the x-ray machines for checking how your shoes fitted? A wonder that there isn't a whole generatio that glows in the dark. At least we were luckier than the Erics; they even got it in the chocolate

annsixty human and animal bites can be very serious. We all know about lockjaw, but sepsis is a real risk and can be life threatening. Any serious human or animal bite should be checked out quickly. Hope your D is on the mend.

radium malt sounds positively dangerous!

Was it cod liver oil and malt?

I think we were given a supplement called 'radium malt' when I was young and I absolutely loathed it! When I mentioned it to my mother decades later, she said "you should have said, I wouldn't have given it to you"!

watermeadow I'm with you about eggs - my mother used to cook us boiled eggs for breakfast and I hated slimy, uncooked whites - made me feel like gagging!

To those of you who abhor snot eaters; where do you think snot goes when it doesn't run out of your nose?

Watching adverts for toilet cleaning products (specially those horrible green gremlins) which are always shown at meal times.

A dog's saliva can contain up to twenty strains of bacteria, two of them are pneumonia and one is e coli. There is also a rare b canis which can cause fever and weightloss in humans and leads to liver and spleen problems. I won't be kissing and cuddling a dog any time soon.

May I join you Wilma? Having three sisters who must have been born clutching detol spray I stitched a sampler which they thought should not be framed and hung in the hall

A tidy house is a sign of a wasted life .

I live happily with cat and dog germs. Yuk to me is soft-cooked eggs, shellfish, bleeding meat and kids’ runny noses.

I’m with you, Wilma. One of my dogs starts off on top of the bed then wakes me up crawling under the covers when he gets cold!

I don't know about dog's mouths being clean but my D was very recently hospitalized for 48 hours on intravenous ab's after being bitten by her cat while she was trying to extricate him when he got a leg caught in a piece of furniture.
The Dr said there are few things more germladen than a cats mouth.

How can you never wash your hands?

How can you never kiss, except in private?

BYE

Wilma - I'll join your club too.
There's one thing that does make me feel 'yuk' though, and that's the sight of all that plastic waste floating in a formerly beautiful clean sea. I was once walking on a rocky coastline, and there were a few turds and used tampax in the rock pools, which used to be so clean years ago.

My dogs used to start off under the covers and then stagger out on to the floor when they got too hot!

I'll join you, Wilma! My dogs sleep on my bed and I get the occasional kiss on the end of my nose or (if I'm not quick enough to avoid it) a wet nose in the ear from my son's dog if I'm daft enough to bend over him. I read somewhere that a dog's mouth is cleaner than many human mouths and that children brought up with pets are generally considered to benefit. I'm not worried by the idea that someone may have touched something that I'm about to touch. I'd be paranoid! Mixing with germ ridden children for many years as a Key Stage 1 teacher kept my immune system in tip top condition. These days, there's an anti-bacterial wipe for every household application. These cleaning product manufacturers rely on people's fear of germs. The craziest one was the contacted hand soap dispenser. Don't touch 'the germy pump!' they warned mothers ?. Erm...excuse me...we're dispensing soap to wash our hands for goodness sake! ?

All of you what's is like being so perfect

People picking their nose and putting what they removed in their mouth. It is amazing how many men do this when sitting in their car at traffic lights.

Daisy L Your life sounds like mine!

Ethel, that's awful. Did the owner have hysterics as in laughter or hysterics as in shock-horror?

I'm sorry, but I'm laughing my socks off at some of these replies!

I'm going to start a group for the posters who feel slovenly compared to some of our members. Needless to say I think some of you take this hygiene thing too far - far too far in a couple of cases! Anyone care to join me?

Everything you have all said makes me go yuk but the worst thing happend to me was a dog that jumped up and forced its tongue in my mouth before i could raise my arms to avert it. It deposited lumps of bitty stuff in my mouth could have been bisciuts but it could have been licking its bum. Owner had hysterics

Oh, nearly forgot the time we were staying with friends, I was first down one morning, walked into the dining room where there was a patch of lino before the carpet, put my bare foot down..........straight into a poo that their dog had done! Apart from the dreadful yucky feeling, I was so mad I picked him up and chucked him outside, shouting "you dirty little ba---rd!" He was usually a nasty little sod, but he was so shocked that I got away with it!

A couple of years ago, whilst on holiday, we were passing a greengrocers where there was fruit and veg on display outside. I was fancying some of the really big, juicy looking strawberries, until I saw a woman pick one up, put it up to her nose, and sniff it, then put it back and walk away. That put me off forevermore from buying fruit and veg from accessible displays.