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

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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.

I’m thinking that!

A tricorn hat but it’s on his Richard.

A little odd but a positive, surely? He was into housework.

I was about 17 and copped off with a lad, of a similar age, that all the girls fancied. We were down a back alley having a bit of a snog and he started to get a bit....errrmmm.. fresh. I told him no can do, I was on my periods (which was true)
His response: Can I put it up your bum then?
Unsurprisingly the "romance" didn't last 🤣🤣

People who stand like that have natural 'turnout' which you are born with, and which is a prerequisite for becoming a ballet dancer. I cringe when I see people standing the opposite way, with their feet crossed and pointing inwards.

"or something "...

He had a habit of saying every thing followed by "or something". Listening to music "That's xyz... or something", no, no, no it IS xyz... it ended when we watched a film - "she was in that film about the war... or something, with that submarine... or something" , it WAS about the war, it WAS with a submarine, etc.etc.etc. infuriating (or something! 😆 ).

Oh my god this thread 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Mine was a first date (had only chatted online prior to it). He was waiting for me outside the tube stop. He saw me walking towards him and his face split into this huge goofy grin, and then he put his arms out in a hugging gesture and did this sort of up and down jig like he was the jolly green giant?!?! If it helps he was exceptionally tall which only made it worse. If you've ever watched the muppets Christmas Carol, then that little dance that Michael Caine does with his arms up at the end? Exactly like that, with full on eye contact. I swear my fanny closed up on the spot.

When l was 18 my date met me from college dressed head to foot in red. He wore red trainers, red jeans and red top, he also went in a mood because l failed to notice he had a private number plate on his car.
Another guy had this ridiculous sounding horn, oh the embarrassment when he parked up outside, my family were splitting their sides, my sister has to literally push me through the door, l wanted to run and hide and his dress sense wasn't much better.

Wrote in a daily diary
Said ‘Coolio’
Asked to be ‘little spoon’ 😖

This is the other way round but my family’s doorbell is incredibly loud and sounds like Big Ben striking three followed by a cuckoo clock. Land speed records have been broken so my DP never presses that bell.

Oh I have another one: occasionally wore camouflage ( jackets and/ or trousers), had never been in the army but liked it when people made that assumption. He also had a collection of lapel badges, pins like the US president wears, and he'd wear an appropriate one for wherever our date was- eg English Heritage for a castle, PuffinWatch for a walk on the beach, which just made him look like a employee and think of him as somehow prissy. He also kissed like someone sadly posting a deflated balloon in my mouth.

Because his surname was Salmon, and I don't like salmon ( the fish).
All I could think of was fish.

Whipped out a foot long purple feather that he tantalisingly started sweeping over my face & chest.....

Similar here, except he said "put it in your mouth then".
Nope.

I shared this before in another thread. One guy who was around 40 'smuggled' me into his house after our date as his mother didn't approve of him going out with women. I didn't know this until he was shooshing me in the hall, complete with finger up to his lips and exaggerated tip-toeing. Anyway, the real turn off was that during sex he said in a "sexy" throaty, husky tone: 'so deep, so deep within you'.

I think the poster thinks that a ‘Filet O Fish’ is rather juvenile.

He wore beige socks. They made his feet look like they belonged on a corpse.

Used the phrase “you deserve to be pampered” 🤮

He had size 6 feet and could fit into my trainers.

Was the bloke masturbating on the pet bird?

or the pet bird masturbating on him?

Either way not good, but one would certainly attract a criminal conviction

A couple of months into dating- we went for a meal and drinks afterwards. He didn't finish his meal, got it boxed up to take away so he could finish it tomorrow (he was a miserly git all around). And then proceeded to hide the meal in a bush before we went for drinks so he wouldn't have to carry it around with him. The cottage we were staying in was a 5 minute walk away from were we had eaten. Instantly lost the attraction I had for him.

Thought he was Eminem. or more specifically, Slim Shady. The sight of him on the dance floor doing all the hand movements from the video gave me such ick.
That was our last date. Shame, he was a good looking bloke.

Started seeing a guy and instead of saying "let's go", he'd say "let's make a sexual departure and fuck off".
He'd also say "fuck knows" while making the finger-in-fist gesture then pointing to his noise.
That didn't last long.

Another guy, when we were on the beach, looked at a young girl and said "I wonder how long it'll take for her to lose her lovely little figure".
Didn't last long either.

My ex used to dance (to psytrance, which someone else mentioned as an ick) and sort of screw up his face and huff and jut his jaw to show how really into it he was.
He lasted longer than he should have done.

DH came close a couple of times at the start - he has thick fingers and owned a pair of old-man pajamas - but luckily I was too besotted for the ick to get me.

I think a name would potentially give me the ick too.
No disrespect to any mumsnetters who have lovely DP with these names but I don’t think I could date a Derek, a Wayne, a Barry, a Keith or a Gary.
Conversely, although there is nothing wrong with these names at all - David or Adrian - it would make me think twice due to exes.

I was thinking the same questions 😂