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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:
SantasAnus · 22/12/2020 17:16

Over prominent adam's apples.

Sn0tnose · 22/12/2020 17:20

long fingernails and/or toenails
Overly soft hands
Skinny
Bad teeth
Smelling of weed
Spitting or snorting
Being creepy or lecherous
No sense of humour
Utter drips
Being well spoken
Certain accents
Stinginess

wobblywinelover · 22/12/2020 17:30

Greasy hair
Bum chins
long finger and toenails
scruffy clothes
BO
laziness
arrogance
too big muscles
exercise/sports freaks who are obsessive
cyclists and MAMILS
beards
weak/indecisive/wet
weird hobbies
sex obsessed
pervy/constant innuendos
boring/can't have a laugh
skinny jeans
football shirts
politics obsessed
stingy tightwads
environmental obsessives
bad breath
messy/untidy
entitled
narcissistic traits
being childish all the time
constant farting or belching
pushing food around plate in an irritating way
chewing with mouth open
spitters when they talk to you
mansplaining
men who like 'negging'
smelly penises and unkempt pubes
hairy backs
thick lensed glasses
double denim
man satchels
beige socks and brown shoes
sandals and socks
very overweight
very thin and pale

Think that'll do for now

OurChristmasMiracle · 22/12/2020 17:30

Clingy
Constant messaging and need for attention
Serial cheating.

TheWashingMachine · 22/12/2020 17:38

No to drugs and smoking, alcoholism.
Bad breath
Curly hair
Big bottoms

SailorKerry · 22/12/2020 17:41

Shortness (Under 5'8")
No body hair
Man boobs
Dad bods
Pancake arse
Red hair
Posh accent (not keen on Southern accents either)
Middle-class/Posh lifestyle - I'd never date someone not working class again. Have done it in the past and I've neve nothing but patronised and laughed at for my upbringing. They just don't get it.
Football fan
Beards
Long hair (Anything past the jaw is too long)
No tattoos
Plain taste in clothes
Non-adventurous in life
Drinker/Smoker/Drug taker
Sense of humour failure
Wide legged 'dad' looking jeans
Brown shoes
Talks about money too much
Mummy's boys
Poor hygiene
Inability to clean up after self

formerbabe · 22/12/2020 18:01

Dislike extreme political views...of either end of the spectrum

thepeopleversuswork · 22/12/2020 18:02

Stupidity
Posh accents
Talking over the top of people/Selfish conversation
Hard right or left politics
Obsessive gaming

I have very few physical red lines: I have fancied people of all shapes and sizes but I can’t go there with anyone significantly shorter than me. I know that’s awful but it’s an absolute passion circuit breaker.

CoronaIsWatching · 22/12/2020 18:04

Anything pierced that's not ears
Hairless body
Hooked nose

Spodge · 22/12/2020 18:06

Bad teeth
No socks (unless wearing boat shoes)
Wearing flip flops or open toed sandals anywhere other than the beach
Bad timekeeping

IRememberMySpaceBabe · 22/12/2020 18:09

Poor grammar and apostrophe use.....and the use of ‘lol’

SweetPetrichor · 22/12/2020 18:10

Smokers
Getting drunk...a few drinks is fine but I’m scared of drunk people
‘Lads’
Football fans
Trackies wearers
Obesity
Men who wants to always be the driver
Moral vegans

MrsExpo · 22/12/2020 18:12

Tattoos
Smoking (or vaping)
Poor personal hygiene
Smelling overpoweringly of some sort of cologne/aftershave
Not liking dogs

Sixtonskip · 22/12/2020 18:17

Long nails, loafers with tassels and overly groomed eyebrows.

TheChristmasPrincess · 22/12/2020 18:19

Misogynists
Racists and xenophobes
Chavs
People with bad oral hygiene
People who are uneducated and/or have no intellectual curiosity

Krazynights34 · 22/12/2020 18:23

I fear this could be long..
Long nails 🤮🤮
Greasy hair
Too into their looks
Too into exercise and diet so that’s all they can go about
Right wing
Up their own arse
Beards (stubble is great)
Lecherous
Tiny penis
Long fingers
Long and skinny penis
No “get up and go”
No sense of humour
Tee-totaller
Eats meat
Work obsessed
Cruel/unkind
Doesn’t like animals
Obsessive about cleaning
Arrogant (especially without cause)
Someone who games too much
Too thin
Too flabby (as in 17 stone plus)
Too tall - over 6 foot and I’ll be dwarfed
Not adventurous
Lazy
Tracksuit wearing
Thick as fuck (happy with anything above a certain level)
Weed smoker
Any kind of drug use

TenShortStories · 22/12/2020 18:27

Long nails
Grubby
Anything flashy (clothes/bling/car etc)
Bad temper
Putting other people down in any way
Boasting

hadesinahalfahell · 22/12/2020 18:29

Hip fat Envy I don't mind fat sitting around the belly, but not on the hips on a man.

U2HasTheEdge · 22/12/2020 18:30

Apart from the obvious things like bad hygiene, shit person/ offensive views etc...

No facial hair
Shaved head
Wearing trainers if not working out
Tracksuit bottoms
Gamers
Round chins
Loud burpers
Non dog lover
Emotionally closed
Clean cut looking
Porn watchers
Big drinker/partier
Never reads

TheChampagneGalop · 22/12/2020 18:34

Bad hygiene
Arrogant domineering attitude
Fat (not just a bit overweight)
Men in suits - they make then look like stiff black and white boring clones. Show some skin when the ladies are ffs

Krazynights34 · 22/12/2020 18:35

Oh and I forgot..
Porn obsessed
Crap sex
Misogynistic
Jazz music interest (as in free form)

FixItUpChappie · 22/12/2020 18:35

Lack of personal hygiene
Sports fanatics
Video gaming fanatics
Drinking too much
Smoking

Plsv87 · 22/12/2020 18:37

Being drunk (him)
Chewing nails
Picking things out of teeth with tongue
Mansplaining
Up-talking
Voting Conservative

carlywurly · 22/12/2020 18:53

Unfit
Scruffy
Lazy
Pushy
High pitched or whiney toned voice
Man children
Entitlement
Arrogance
Poor manners
Selfishness
Infantile humour
Tabloid reader
Drives a modified car
Overly groomed or vain
Racist, sexist or any kind of ist
More than an occasional gamer
A bad drinker
Lecherous

bubblesforlife · 22/12/2020 18:55

Smoking
Tattoos
Man chains or piercings
Long greasy hair
Jeans tighter then my skinny jeans
No socks look