The Reverse Ick thread…

[Firefly2009]

What inconsequential things (or not so inconsequential!) have you done to embarrass yourself and caused a partner or date to get the ick? Perhaps you got dumped or he was never seen again. or perhaps you died of embarrassment and just went into hiding.

Any adult loving Harry Potter is icky

So much name changing and fake posting on here, it's cracking me up 🤣🤣

Oh god! I just realised why I got dumped in 1994 🙈

You can’t name change on the same thread anymore – your name will keep showing up as whatever name you already posted on that thread with

A bit like people who surround themselves and immerse themselves in books, really. Just a different type of escapism. It’s just that books are more 'elite' in some circles.

Test.

I have just proved that's not true.

The previous poster was being quite defensive and suggesting this poster had some troubling formative experience with gaming (!) rather just accepting some people don’t find it attractive and that’s perfectly fine. It was a bit much to be honest

I don’t know, that’s what happens for me 🤷🏻 I have several threads where my older name is posted automatically. Sure it can’t just be me?

So what was your previous name?

Any men or women wearing crocs give me the ick.

You just type whichever use name you want in the Username bar. It just has to be anyone you have used before.

First date. Buying drinks in a bar where I thought no one would know me:

From the barman "Hello 80, last time I saw you was in Spain, you were naked and got arrested."

Yeah that doesn’t happen for me. It doesn’t matter what my current username is in settings, if I post again on an old thread it comes up with whatever name I originally posted on that thread with

I’d been messaging this fella on some dating site, decided to meet up as we’d got on so well on paper.

I turned up, and he must have been about 5”6 ( lied about his height) I’m 5”9. He definitely had the ick with me as he messaged that he’d liked to have kissed goodbye but it was difficult 🤣

Obviously NEVER heard from him again !

When I post again on a thread it gives me the same username too.

People regularly make sweeping generalisations about half the human population from a single Mumsnet thread.

Nobody has said, or even implied that men are vile creatures in either thread though.

Same!

Agreed. This is meant to be a lighthearted thread.

The one who got away/ love of my life in my twenties eventually went back to his home country due to a work transfer. He was from a ranch but had been working in London; we had loads of fun dates there. He’d been really serious about me and it was such a sudden end.

We later exchanged emails (think nearly 20 years later) and turns out he was going to propose. He didn’t in the end only because I’d said I wanted to live in London (it was an off the cuff comment I’d made because he lived there - I actually don’t like London and love the countryside). This meant, according to him, that I was a city girl and a marriage wouldn’t work out.

What an idiot.
I’m glad he didn’t propose. He got weirder with age.

@Nonomono

People who don't like games have obviously never played them, but stand from the sidelines and judge. Nothing wrong with you, he was probably a massive bore anyway

I had something similar; he said that I couldn't accept his past when actually it was his repeatedly lying about it that had got me upset. If he could have talked me through why he had made bad choices and then lied about them with any clarity at all, I would have considered he was regretful enough to actually have reflected and unlikely to repeat the patterns. The fact I recognised he had done bad things, lied to me about them, then had the audacity to complain about it to him meant that I clearly wasn't "his person". He's now with someone a lot less observant/questioning so I guess he learnt some sort of lesson about what gives him the ick

I completely agree the other thread was light-hearted and fun , this one started out that way but is now getting derailed

😂 😂 😂

Well it's human nature innit?