‘Tell me the thing that gives you the ick that you’re embarrassed to admit’ – 21 pet peeves

Poke Reporter. Updated September 21st, 2026

As anyone who has to be around other people can testify, people can be really irritating. There’s the chewing, the loud breathing, the Jimmy Carr laugh – you know how it goes.

We’re fully aware that for every little thing that gets on our nerves, there’s someone who finds us so annoying it’s giving them a tic – or the ick, as @samsclubhouse put it.

It seems that everything gets on somebody’s last nerve, and these replies captured the mood.

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