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Please tell me times where you've got the ick with a guy

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yeahhhhmate · 31/07/2025 21:07

Lighthearted!! Just that really. I love hearing these

ill start:

went on a date with someone and we played shuffleboard and after every turn of his he would loudly exclaim 'GO ON THE TSG' (his initials) he also did it after random sentences like 'I'll get this drink, YES THE TSG)

another guy would say WOOP WOOP and BOOM after every sentence. He ordered a steak and said to the waiter 'I'm going to have the steak please, well done, (another ick) WOOP WOOP

Another guy we were DTD and he kept thrusting in a complete circular motion and I quite literally dried up and left

another DTD time and the guys top lip and nostrils would spasm / quiver - I could get past that though.

please tell me yours, I could do with a laugh!

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momtoboys · 31/07/2025 23:11

I have just gone through and read this thread twice. I am screaming with laughter! Good thing I am alone. I love posts like this!

MondeoFan · 31/07/2025 23:12

FWB situation that had been going on a while I always went to his and always noticed how his bedroom was really tidy and clean better than mine at my house.

getting to the stage where I was falling madly in love with him. Got in hid bed and noticed blood on both pillowcases (so where to put my head?) said to him ewwww what is that to which he replied “oh I had a nosebleed about 4 nights ago” wtf he didn’t think to change his bedding or at the very least the pillowcase before I came over?
even though I was madly in love with him that one thing gave me the ick and caused me to end it.

Crazymayfly · 31/07/2025 23:12

The circular thrusting thing - who told men that’s good? I appreciate the effort but it just leads to nasty cystitis!

Yeah I’ve had that and tried to keep the relationship going - also a nice man. But he would kiss in a weird way and keep his eyes open staring at me. Felt very odd. And the tongue thing whilst he kissed? It was a bit reptiley…… stayed together far too long but the ick got stronger.

The day the ick became too much was the day he told me he thought Donald Trump was amazing… I thought he was being sarcastic but he genuinely loves DT and started talking like him. 🤢🤢🤢

TheAmusedQuail · 31/07/2025 23:15

I noticed after a while that they had really weird, lizard looking eyelids. Urgh.

With another ex, when he was driving and we were approaching our destination, he would announce landing, as if he were flying a plane. FFS

Farting in front of me. Not cleaning his teeth first thing in the morning. Ick

Twilight7777 · 31/07/2025 23:15

cadburyegg · 31/07/2025 22:06

Just remembered this. My ex husband had a weird thing about keeping his toenail clippings. I once found some hidden behind a book in a glasses case.

He also referred to his willy as his “purple parsnip”.

When I discovered all his accounts on the dating apps, one of his usernames was “BillyBigBalls”.

🤢🤢🤢🤮

Sportsdaywinner · 31/07/2025 23:16

Absolutely crying at London Eye 😂

Itsnottheheatitsthehumidity · 31/07/2025 23:16

Not a date or even a love interest but a new colleague, male, thought it was ok to hug me after the second time we met.

Dude! We are not even friends!

Twilight7777 · 31/07/2025 23:18

milkandhoney2 · 31/07/2025 22:17

Asked if I wanted to eat some “cish and fhips” on the prom. In a baby voice
no, I would rather walk myself into the sea

😂

Rumbleinthecrumble · 31/07/2025 23:18

Not the posts to read when you have a sleeping baby next to you 😂 I have so many to contribute (different men):
• Told me he wasn’t sure what to wear so Mumsy picked his outfit
• Reached across and tried to pull out a hair from my head as he had some food stuck and didn’t have any floss with him
• Realised he had tiny Donald Trump hands and just couldn’t unsee it (kept staring at them in disbelief and then found it hard to keep a straight face)
• Was staying over at a guy’s house who told me off for flushing the toilet and said “in my house if it’s yellow we let it mellow” whilst wagging his finger at me
• Bombarded me with messages prior to meeting which I was getting uncomfortable with particularly as he would get cross if I didn’t reply straight away. Then he told me that he’d told his dog that he’d found her a new mummy 🤢 Nope 👎

Gemma987 · 31/07/2025 23:20

Constantly saying he couldn’t wait to get ‘naughty’ with me 🤢

shuggles · 31/07/2025 23:20

ScaredOfRat · 31/07/2025 21:37

I was having great sex with a man I was really into. He went down on me and lifted his head up and said in a really clinical way, “Do you like sucking, licking or probing?”

Total ick.

You dislike a man for asking what you enjoy during sex? Men are specifically asked by women to communicate better and ask about sexual preferences, this man listened, and you disliked that?

INeedAnotherAlibi · 31/07/2025 23:21

Had been chatting to a guy online and met for a date. The moment we met, I thought his voice sounded familiar..I realised he sounded like Timmy Mallet! 😬 I knew instantly there was no chance of it going any where. Got through the date and he was super keen. Like he asked for a second date that same afternoon and when I said I had plans he suggested the next day! Nope. 🚩

ChaliceinWonderland · 31/07/2025 23:22

He was meeting me for a date in an armani cafe in an Italian city..
I was seated already, he approached and... fell up the kerb. That was the beginning of the end... next date he cooked us raw pasta. When i found out he took all his washing to his mum, it, was, over...

SootysCaravan · 31/07/2025 23:23

Shayisgreat · 31/07/2025 22:18

A ONS said "wrap your lips around this" while holding his cock and I completely dried up - it felt like he was playacting porn.

Definite room for ambiguity there. I’d have been asking which ones 😮‍💨😅

Justtryingthis · 31/07/2025 23:23

In the spirit of the London Eye man…
I wasn’t really that into him. But I hasn’t had sex since a breakup so.. you know…
He stopped over at mine on a day we were both working the next day.
He set an alarm for 4.30 am!! So he could start the ‘foreplay’ 🙄
I am not a morning person at the best of times so managed to pretend to be asleep until about 6am. All the time while he was stroking me from head to toe in what he thought was an erotic fashion.
I eventually gave in.
He then went on top, got on his haunches, like squatting, and went for it. Really really fast. Never before or since has anyone shagged me like that.
I broke it off soon after, massive Ick.
I bumped into him in town about 18 months later and all he could talk about was his fiancé and how I’d ‘’missed out’ 🤮

shuggles · 31/07/2025 23:23

@MondeoFan getting to the stage where I was falling madly in love with him. Got in hid bed and noticed blood on both pillowcases (so where to put my head?) said to him ewwww what is that to which he replied “oh I had a nosebleed about 4 nights ago” wtf he didn’t think to change his bedding or at the very least the pillowcase before I came over? even though I was madly in love with him that one thing gave me the ick and caused me to end it.

I think stuff like this just seems like committment issues, which is probably what "the ick" really is (I'm not even sure what that is, I've never experienced it).

Blood on bedsheets isn't great, but ending a relationship over that?

Agapornis · 31/07/2025 23:25

InstantIck2 · 31/07/2025 21:39

One man I really liked kept referring to his penis as “he” and “him”

One guy referred to my vag as "she" - "she might like that". It confused me no end for the three times he actually went near my vag.

neilyoungismyhero · 31/07/2025 23:27

I've got a really bad stomach bug. It hurts to move or cough at the moment. This is doing my health no good at all- too painful.

JohnTheRevelator · 31/07/2025 23:27

Absentmindedsmile · 31/07/2025 21:58

After an average first date. We kissed. I was actually trying to get rid of him but he wouldn’t go, kept hovering, like a skinny giraffe with big teeth in a polyester blue v neck jumper, .. . I was thinking I can’t stand here awkwardly much longer, then he started aggressively licking and nibbling my top lip 👀🤢 w.t.f

'Like a skinny giraffe with big teeth in a polyester blue v neck jumper' 😂😂😂 This cracked me up!

Squigface · 31/07/2025 23:29

morethanspice · 31/07/2025 21:52

My ex used to get words wrong and one epic mistake he used to make was “cleaverage” instead of cleavage”🤣

Oh god. That reminded me of my ex who pronounced “manger” in Pret A Manger like it rhymed with banger and said the whole thing really fast.

whereisit1 · 31/07/2025 23:30

Game0fCrones · 31/07/2025 21:36

Someone I knew from work and flirted with when we went out with friends. Dated, finally got back to mine to do the deed after much build up and he sat on the bed, took each item of clothing off slowly and folded it neatly, including socks and underpants. The event was ... sedate. Ive never been so bored or relieved that something was over. There wasnt another date.

Exact same thing happened to someone I know. Sadly she was in too deep and they are now married 🤣

CalliopePlantain · 31/07/2025 23:31

He used the phrase ‘in point of fact’

Jellybean23 · 31/07/2025 23:32

His father was as thick as a plank. Then I noticed similarities in his son.

cadburyegg · 31/07/2025 23:32

Ohnobackagain · 31/07/2025 23:04

@cadburyegg I get that people are distracted by purple parsnip but - a toenail collection? Maybe he and @Iceandfire92 ’s ex were secretly comparing notes - 🤢

About a year after he moved out I was clearing out a cupboard and found yet more toenails scattered throughout. He’d obviously put them in a container and at some point they’d spilled everywhere 🦶

SharpLily · 31/07/2025 23:32

shuggles · 31/07/2025 23:23

@MondeoFan getting to the stage where I was falling madly in love with him. Got in hid bed and noticed blood on both pillowcases (so where to put my head?) said to him ewwww what is that to which he replied “oh I had a nosebleed about 4 nights ago” wtf he didn’t think to change his bedding or at the very least the pillowcase before I came over? even though I was madly in love with him that one thing gave me the ick and caused me to end it.

I think stuff like this just seems like committment issues, which is probably what "the ick" really is (I'm not even sure what that is, I've never experienced it).

Blood on bedsheets isn't great, but ending a relationship over that?

But that's kind of what 'the ick' is. Something we know isn't seriously bad or an instant no-no in the way that being aggressive/blatantly racist/downright nasty is. It's silly things that probably wouldn't bother others but that cause a visceral (over?)reaction in you.

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