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What is an instant turn off to you?

282 replies

shitinmyhandsandclap · 22/12/2020 14:56

Following on from the instant turn on thread, what're your turn offs? Mine are:

Smokers
Dirty nails
Bad teeth
Black, shiny, pointy shoes with jeans (or slip ons)

OP posts:
wizzbangfizz · 23/12/2020 12:38

Pretty boys and anyone who breaks wind/makes toilet jokes in my company.

LadyJaye · 23/12/2020 13:01

I'm further left than my OH, who is a definite centrist, but we fall within a +/- 10% of one another on most things.

I would really struggle to be in a relationship with somebody who was more extreme on either end. Surely your politics mostly match your own ethical and moral PoVs?

For example, I couldn't share a life with somebody who believed in the death penalty.

LadyJaye · 23/12/2020 13:03

Erk, I meant to quote a PP in the post above but ballsed it up.

You get the gist.

Jaypreen · 23/12/2020 13:44

I spoke to nice man yesterday, but as he walked away I noticed that he has the hips of a woman. Most put off I was.

user1471565182 · 23/12/2020 14:16

Just had to look up Rocco Richie. Theres no chance in hell hed be a model if it wasnt for his parents.

RosesAndHellebores · 23/12/2020 14:23

TBF DH who I met more than 30 years ago is now balding, peers over 1/2 moon specs, has a bit of a paunch and a growing bald patch, and smokes a very small cigar when he gets home from work. I still love him to bits though.

user1471565182 · 23/12/2020 14:25

Yeah, how ridiculous to want to share ethics with the person you're spending your life with

Jaypreen · 23/12/2020 14:32

My nephew went to school with Rocco Richie, who was a nice boy then. I believe that he went significantly off the rails as a young adult.

Jaypreen · 23/12/2020 14:33

Now I've made that reply, I'm not sure what it has to do with this thread?

user1471565182 · 23/12/2020 14:48

Somebody was on about his crappy clothes, Jaypreen.

user1471565182 · 23/12/2020 14:49

is your nephew's family loaded?

Veeg34 · 23/12/2020 14:56
  • having children
  • eating meat
  • dirty nails
Jaypreen · 23/12/2020 17:01

Ahh !

No they weren't / aren't by any means loaded. My nephew is half French and went to the Lycee Francaise with the boy Richie

YoungScrappyHungry · 23/12/2020 17:01

No ambition
Chavviness
Right wing/racist/brexiteer
Someone with no interest in politics at all
Can't drive
Top knots
Ear piercings
Tattoos
Spitting on the street
Picky eaters

Skysblue · 23/12/2020 19:05

Body odour (including smokers)
Rudeness, especially to waiting staff etc
Laziness
Whining
Sexual touch with no kissing first. This just shuts down my body.
Being grumpy all day then suddenly expecting sex.
Sexual over confidence ie he assumes he knows what to do and how firmly etc instead of being tuned in to whatever mood I’m in today.

MitziK · 23/12/2020 19:34

Rude to waitresses.
Conspiracy theorists.
Racism and the assumption that you automatically agree with them and will laugh at a 'joke'.
Making sexually inappropriate comments without any hint of sexual tension.
Being absolutely forthright/gross even if there had been a possibility.
Anything about political correctness going mad.
Obviously perving over another woman, especially if pulled up on it, saying that it's a compliment and women are too quick to take offence these days.
Being deliberately rude as women are too easily offended, they wanted equality, so it's fine to let doors slam in their faces.
Any fat/desperate/negging comments.
Any poor me/nothing's ever my responsibility bollocks.

Supersimkin2 · 23/12/2020 19:58

Professional victim
Doesn't pay Child maintenance
chippy about background

CounsellorTroi · 23/12/2020 20:01

Lack of intelligence
Lack of sophistication
Lack of respect to people in public/customer facing roles

CounsellorTroi · 23/12/2020 20:02

And lack of humour.

praepondero · 24/12/2020 08:42

Fleshy red lips.
Long fingernails. Ditto toenails.
Ponytails on anyone older than 20. (Not that I'm checking out under-20s Shock ).
Chaps who laugh at their own jokes before anyone else has had a chance to.
Moustaches.
Shaved chests, legs etc. Excessive grooming and pampering; I like my men au naturel and masculine.
Self-obsession and self-centredness, the glazed-over look they get when the conversation shifts away from them.
Skinny trousers and pointy shoes - the dreaded estate-agent look.
Bad teeth, but I'd rather take bad teeth than the ghastly sparkling white veneers seen on some pointless celebrities.
Aftershave/powerful deodorant, I want my men to smell clean, nothing else.
The weird, puffy hairstyle sported by the Essex-types.
Interest in football.
Laddishness.
Any English accent apart from RP, Scottish, Welsh and Irish accents are lovely.
Stupidity, ignorance, gaping lack of education that's instantly recognisable. Should be number one on my list.
Lack of sophistication.

dewisant2020 · 24/12/2020 09:03

Fat
Smokers
Dirty or long fingernails
Long hair
Scruffy dress sense
Bad breath
Hairless body
No friends
Live with parents
Non driver
Unemployed
Short
Vegetarians or vegans (despite the fact I'm veggie)
Long beard
Body odour
Spitting
No tattoos
Piecings

BadLad · 24/12/2020 11:19

Vegetarians or vegans (despite the fact I'm veggie)

Why?

PrincessNutNuts · 27/12/2020 20:07

"The virus 'only' kills..."

Macaroni46 · 27/12/2020 23:22

Boasting about being fabulous in bed then turning out to be mediocre at best and / or having a really small cock (not their fault, I know, but it's a turn off for me).
As well as boasting about their sexual prowess, rolling off you, farting and falling straight to sleep, snoring loudly. Funnily enough that relationship didn't last 😂

MadameTuffington · 27/12/2020 23:25

A man who is unfit and thinks his fat wallet makes up for it :)

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