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What absolutely ridiculous and inconsequential things have put you off a partner?

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InstrumentsofTorture · 03/01/2024 17:34

I don't mean completely acceptable reasons like poor hygiene, lying, flakiness etc. I mean things that the poor other person could not possibly have anticipated would mean the end of their relationship.

For me it was many years ago when I finally finally got together with a lad I'd had a crush on for about 3 years. About 2 months after we started seeing each other he invited me to his house. Which is where he committed the unforgivable sin of picking up a broom and sweeping the kitchen floor.

That was it. 3 years of obsessing over him and, just like that, a bloody sweeping brush came between us.

OP posts:
Pudmyboy · 04/01/2024 13:47

SausageAndEggSandwich · 04/01/2024 12:14

Came round to my parents house to pick me up (I was 18). My mum invited him in, I suppose to check him out a bit, fair enough. Anyway we had a little dog at the time & at one point he was kneeling on the floor petting her going ooooh aren't you a good girl. Eurgh.

This would have been a big plus for me, but I love dogs!

TooOldForThisNonsense · 04/01/2024 13:47

Highlandflapped · 03/01/2024 18:17

Went on a dog walk for a first date. His dog rubbed its bum on the floor ‘Oh, have you got an itchy Mary?’ He asked the dog.

There and then I vowed he’d never get anywhere near mine.

HOWLING 😂😂😂

these are brilliant

BoomBoom70 · 04/01/2024 13:47

ilovepixie · 03/01/2024 22:15

Wore a dinner jacket with jeans.
Ate with his fingers
Sat on a chair at a restaurant the wrong was round
All different men

Sat on a chair at a restaurant the wrong was round

😂😂😂😂

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Somatosensational · 04/01/2024 13:47

A short-term boyfriend visited my house and asked if I had any 'cocoa'.

maddiemookins16mum · 04/01/2024 13:48

These posts have been the best laugh I’ve had all year.

maddiemookins16mum · 04/01/2024 13:49

HoldMeCloserTonyDancer · 04/01/2024 13:22

Was that the cardigan with the big wooden buttons like a toddler?

Let’s just hope they weren’t those little ladybird buttons (showing my age here!).

SausageAndEggSandwich · 04/01/2024 13:49

Pudmyboy · 04/01/2024 13:47

This would have been a big plus for me, but I love dogs!

I loved the dog dearly but crawling around on the floor petting it when you're supposed to be making a good impression on my parents. Lol

Plus he wore loafers. I'd forgotten that 😂

goodgriefsean · 04/01/2024 13:50

Wore a gap yah style pukka shell necklace (in his defence this was in 2004 so not uncommon but it put me right off).

chinchin77 · 04/01/2024 13:51

When on our second date said ´ I would love to wash your hair one day'

Before or after you murder me? Was my immediate thought...🙄

Moccasin · 04/01/2024 13:52

Pissing myself here 😂

Mine was someone I’d met online but when I met him IRL he had really smooth chubby little hands. Never some him again even though he was a nice guy because of his toddler like hands.

Another would say sweeties instead of sweets and pussycat instead of just cat.

chinchin77 · 04/01/2024 13:55

@Moccasin I also had on a first date at a pub 'would you like some chippies'

FFS I'm in my 50's not a toddler. Immediate ICK

CheekyLittleElf · 04/01/2024 13:56

He held his cigarette like a woman and didn't know how to inhale it properly.

I suspect he was only smoking to keep up with the crowd but he looked ridiculous.

(We all did really, at the grand age of 14 smoking in the bushes down the lane)

TooOldForThisNonsense · 04/01/2024 13:56

chest hair peeping out above the shirt collar
drinking peach schnapps

Pudmyboy · 04/01/2024 13:56

Dick was also very very long and very thin and had a mole right on the end, so it looked like an unsharpened pencil. 😂

mindutopia · 04/01/2024 13:57

I dated a guy once who had a really squeaky high pitched laugh. It was super awkward. His friends even called him 'the hyena'. He was a nice enough guy but ultimately, not my type, but I have to admit, it did kill the mood a bit to hear his high pitching braying next to me in the cinema. 😂

Startrekkeruniverse · 04/01/2024 13:57

Icantbedoingwithit · 03/01/2024 17:51

Crossed his legs like Lily Savage when sitting. No.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

GonksAreNotJustForChristmas · 04/01/2024 13:58

chinchin77 · 04/01/2024 13:51

When on our second date said ´ I would love to wash your hair one day'

Before or after you murder me? Was my immediate thought...🙄

😂

Paul Spector?

WalkingThroughTreacle · 04/01/2024 13:59

Pudmyboy · 04/01/2024 13:04

Don't mind red shoes, but Dad's Army as foreplay???😮😯😂

Corporal Jones: "They don't like it up 'em".

Cocolapew: "and on reflection, neither do I".

Pudmyboy · 04/01/2024 14:00

housethatbuiltme · 04/01/2024 13:14

He had a pet bird that was fiercely possessive (attacking people who went near him) and would masturbate on him... he saw no issue with this.

This is not inconsequential!!!!

DeeLusional · 04/01/2024 14:00

Neighbourscrooge · 04/01/2024 13:30

Dyed his hair black to hide the grey but used a very cheap brand so it always had a weird deep red tinge

On holiday kept his passport in one of those faux leather Holders with Passport written on it in gold

Went to his 80 year old mums every night for dinner and to drop off his laundry

So tight he turned his fridge off to save on electricity so never had food in the house

Farted as he walked and used to laugh to cover it up

Found out his shoes were built up so when he took them off he lost about 4 inches in height

This all the same guy, or several different guys?

Startrekkeruniverse · 04/01/2024 14:03

AffIt · 03/01/2024 18:17

I went for dinner with a lovely, funny, devastatingly handsome man who proceeded to eat AN ENTIRE SAUSAGE off his fork like a character from the Beano.

Never saw him again.

🤣🤣🤣

Paulisexcluded · 04/01/2024 14:05

Whistled my dog.

teddycoat · 04/01/2024 14:07

Small womanly hands
Super tight jeans that made his legs look like parsnips
Using the word skellington instead of skeleton
All man buns (they always have super greasy roots but really fried ends)
Talking about his ex on a first date
Cardigans

Andthereyougo · 04/01/2024 14:09

Icantbedoingwithit · 03/01/2024 17:51

Crossed his legs like Lily Savage when sitting. No.

Snap! Then ordered tea and cooked his little finger drinking it. Quick exit by me.

Fullfatandfortyplus · 04/01/2024 14:10

He ordered a tuna nicoise with a soft yolk on second date. Second and final date for me.

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