my definitive ranking: the sICKness list

things that give me the sickness (a la Millie MacIntosh) 

basically, the year was 2012 and horray henrietta Millie MacIntosh was stomping the Chelsea and Kensington streets in her boho-chic, fluffy gillet, teeny weeny shorts and feathered fedora. A woman who donned many iconic phrases, that have earned her name in the literary canon along with the greats. She may have been the woman whom called out her bestie and then boyfriend (now husband and baby papa) Hugo for hooking up whilst donning a delicious 1920s get-up, toasting 'here's to friendship.' Gosh they do not make them like this anymore.

the star of our show!

2012 was the year of an increasingly vivacious social calendar for the UK: The London Olympics, the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, David Cameron leaving his daughter in t'pub!

poor sod not surprised she's clinging onto her mother like that

However, an unsung author of history was emerging at this time. Amongst this rich cultural tapestry, Millicent McIntosh was weaving her own brightly coloured thread into pop culture lore.

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=poetry in motion

The Tosh has many an iconic moment in her roster, from calling Spencer Matthews a baker boy (due to his Kiera Knightly inspired baker boy cap), marrying Proffesor Green for the shits and gigs, and expressing faux surprise that her dog did not like MIC's Victoria Baker-Harber, given that "he usually gets on with other dogs". 

However the it-girl of the upper class also broke boundaries and class divides alike when she coined the great equaliser, the one social phenomenon that unites girlies worldover... Millie invented the ICK. That's right. You might be shocked to learn this, given that the ick is thought as a recently new term to name an age-old phenomen. The ick essentially describes turn-offs that could put you off a suitor for life. However back in a 2012 epsiode of Made In Chelsea, 'ar toff Tosh coined 'the sickness' to describe what we would now call 'ick behaviour'. Please see video below:

Millie describes 'the sickness' as anything remotely small that can put you off a new lover for life (in Millie's case, a guy with bad shoes). Might this be the earliest verbal evidence of the ick, before the ick was officially established? Pseudo-ickism. 

Technically, a 1997 episode of Ally McBeal coined the ick when describing an incompatible match. However, later examples of the ick include 2017's Love Island's Olivia getting the ick and using an infectious analogy to describe the penetrative nature of the sickness. 2020's Love Island Leanne also fell victim to the ick, from 'sexy side dish' Mike. And as Leanne and her girlies clarify, once you get the ick, there is no going back.

We all have sickness. So I thought I would break the stigma and talk about MY icks in this working document. 

supermarket shopping baskets inc. toilet paper

people ordering tuna melts (not me tho allow it)

'ex-presso'

ventriloquist acts

people talking too quiet

over handling food stuffs ie, hands all over a sandwhich and/or Daddy's Ketchup (awful name, worse brand) bottle

greasy hands over the tv remote/phone

laughing and saying 'yeah!' when you did not hear what someone said but cannot bear to ask them to repeat again

when you are the receipient of the dreaded above! ^^^

crumbs on lip

someone whose firstname is pluralised 

enjoys the Big Bang Theory

listens to macho macho male podcasts ie steven bartlett

makes thirst trap tik toks

thirst traps

uses snapchat filters 

tooooo baggy jeans

teenage relationships

the word "motherfucker"

being crude and crass

mirror selfies (unironic)