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Reasons men have given you the ick part 2!

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CircularMotionDementedThrustingGuy · 03/08/2025 09:47

Thread number 1
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5383729-please-tell-me-times-where-youve-got-the-ick-with-a-guy?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

i don't know how many more experiences will be shared but I'm hoping to continue the thread because thread number one has given me so so so many laughs.
I still have a lot of ick stories to share so without further ado..

Went on a date and the guy had what I can only describe as white string on his lips. I kept licking my lips in the hope he'd twig but to no avail I ended up saying DUDE you have a massive white string when you talk can you wipe it off.

didn't go down well and didn't see him again.

I had a ONS with a work colleague when I was 17 from a supermarket Saturday job. He kept referring to his.. Achem.. package as THE BIG DADDY.
it wasn't. That was a humbling experience.

please share yours!

(also it's same OP I've just got a shiny new username)

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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...

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OP posts:
CircularMotionDementedThrustingGuy · 03/08/2025 14:26

Piknik · 03/08/2025 13:58

Anyone who puts lol / laughing emojis in a text - especially when there is nothing remotely funny being said. Text speak in general actually. 'u' instead of 'you' gives me instant ick.

Once, years and years ago, I eventually slept with a guy I'd been out with a few times and as he went to 'enter' me, he said 'Open Sesame' and that was it for me. Instant ick. He also had a box of tissues by his bed in one of those decorative 'tissue cases' with bejewelled diamante all over it. It was like being in Aladdin's cave.

Open sesame!?! What is it about entering a vagina with these men showing themselves up. He was putting his dick into a vagina, not waiting for a lift to the 40th floor!

OP posts:
Chattie89 · 03/08/2025 14:44

I once dated a guy, he was good looking and very neat and tidy, ie short haircut and clean shaven. We were DTD for the first time, and he took his top off and was COVERED in body hair. Like really long almost silky black hair EVERYWHERE, I could not see his nipples or belly button or his balls. All over his shoulders and back and bum as well. I had to hoover my bed when he'd left.

I've never seen anything like it before or since, including on every beach and swimming pool I've ever visited.

Whowhatwhere21 · 03/08/2025 15:06

CircularMotionDementedThrustingGuy · 03/08/2025 09:57

I have another one to add.

I was seeing a guy for a bit and I genuinely liked him. Had his shit together. Handsome. Good job. Funny.

we went to his bedroom and I was about to DTD with him for the first time. (Had done everything else just not PIV)

he has a stack of hair bobbles on his bedside table. Dude had a short back and sides. The cynic in me asked if they were for another woman..

he vehemently declined and said that he likes to endure tightness around his balls whilst having sex and proceeded to tie his bollocks up as if they were a ponytail which made them swing away like a grandfather clock.

that was another time I dried up and left.
was gutted. Liked him n all.

This happened to a friend of mine fairly recently! They finished up on the foreplay and were shuffling to get in to position, She lent over to grab her bobble off the bedside drawer that was there at the start but it was gone. It happened a further 2 times and on the last one, thats when she finally saw the bobble round his balls, and also another one around the base of his penis! So he'd been swiping her hair bobbles while she was distracted and wrapping them around himself 😂

LouH1981 · 03/08/2025 15:16

Not proud of this but when I was 17 I had a huge crush on a lad in the year above.
We eventually got together at a party and he became super, super clingy.
This was August and he was due to leave for uni in the September. He kept going on about how I should move up to uni with him (bearing in mind I was still in 6th form and we’d only been together about 2 weeks) then as if the clingyness wasn’t enough, we met up one night and he was wearing these revolting brown shoes. And that was it. Major ick.
Broke up with him that night. Lied and told him I couldn’t manage a long distance relationship but really it was the shoes I could no longer cope with. He cried, a lot, I went home and that was that.
In hindsight, as a 44 year old woman who has been with my (now) husband 25 years, he was probably a really nice guy 🙈

LouH1981 · 03/08/2025 15:17

Chattie89 · 03/08/2025 14:44

I once dated a guy, he was good looking and very neat and tidy, ie short haircut and clean shaven. We were DTD for the first time, and he took his top off and was COVERED in body hair. Like really long almost silky black hair EVERYWHERE, I could not see his nipples or belly button or his balls. All over his shoulders and back and bum as well. I had to hoover my bed when he'd left.

I've never seen anything like it before or since, including on every beach and swimming pool I've ever visited.

Omg, I mean I love a hairy chest but this is something else, lol! 🙈

LouH1981 · 03/08/2025 15:27

Let’s not forget ladies, those 2/3 days after ovulation when our husbands just simply have the audacity to exist 🙈
Saved by the mere fact that 2/3 days before ovulation they wear their work trousers or just simply exist 😉

lololola1987 · 03/08/2025 15:42

He turned up in a Chicago Bulls basketball vest with a black woollen polo neck underneath. We live in the UK.
He had to go.

MyDeftHedgehog · 03/08/2025 16:08

Purple nylon Y fronts

Changedit2025 · 03/08/2025 16:28

He turned up to our second date dressed as a cowboy.
Another one called his mum by her first name.

Ick to both!

WhineAndWine1 · 03/08/2025 16:32

@CircularMotionDementedThrustingGuy yes there was none of that. He was just so wet (at least one of us was 🤣🤣)

SonK · 03/08/2025 16:34

Chattie89 · 03/08/2025 14:44

I once dated a guy, he was good looking and very neat and tidy, ie short haircut and clean shaven. We were DTD for the first time, and he took his top off and was COVERED in body hair. Like really long almost silky black hair EVERYWHERE, I could not see his nipples or belly button or his balls. All over his shoulders and back and bum as well. I had to hoover my bed when he'd left.

I've never seen anything like it before or since, including on every beach and swimming pool I've ever visited.

Omg I had the exact same encounter once but couldn't DTD and made an excuse lol

Could it be the same guy...

CircularMotionDementedThrustingGuy · 03/08/2025 16:44

Whowhatwhere21 · 03/08/2025 15:06

This happened to a friend of mine fairly recently! They finished up on the foreplay and were shuffling to get in to position, She lent over to grab her bobble off the bedside drawer that was there at the start but it was gone. It happened a further 2 times and on the last one, thats when she finally saw the bobble round his balls, and also another one around the base of his penis! So he'd been swiping her hair bobbles while she was distracted and wrapping them around himself 😂

ive just shuddered at this, I wonder if its the same guy!?

if he's in the south east it's a possibility!

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Phoebesparrow · 03/08/2025 16:44

I once went on a date with a guy who was obsessed with his ex wife (she'd left him but they hadn't divorced at this point)

Our first date was spent hunting down a tracker that he could fit in her car and him ranting about how much it was costing him to get his dd (aged 10) to go to school (seems he paid her £20 if she managed to walk through the school gates in the morning,not so much do a full day at school,just walking through the gates was enough and had done this since she started)

The second date (I know!) was spent getting updates on where her car was going right-that-second (the doctors) and going through her itemised phone bill to see who she'd been phoning (mainly the doctors,the council and their child's school)

He also claimed to be part of some mafia and knew everything about me

I dumped him and as far as I know,she got a new council house in a new area,he gave up their old house and moved in with her

hoverbotchangedme · 03/08/2025 16:45

Met the sexiest man you have ever seen. Made Henry cavil look average.

went on a first date to a summer fair with stalls and happened to bump into his mum and dad. Okay a bit awkward but whatever.

went on probably 7 lovely dates, he always paid was very romantic always picked me up in his year old pristine Range Rover which was immaculate.

date 8 we were going to an outside movie but 10 minutes in it poured down and he invited me to go back to his house.

arrived at said house, it was immaculate and huge and beautiful. I thought I’ve done well here. He invited me up to his bedroom and oh my god you couldn’t see the floor. It was like that episode of friends when Ross goes to that really hot woman’s house but it’s an absolute shit tip and she’s throwing food to feed her hamster/rat

Pizza boxes on the floor, stunk of farts, ridiculously dark apart from the tv light that was on as his brother was playing PlayStation in said bedroom while he was sitting on fucking bunk beds.

As if that wasn’t bad enough he said to his brother “I thought you was going out mate” and his brother said “no mum couldn’t give me a lift as you have her car again”

this was then followed by his mother making an appearance and her asking if I was staying the night because she will happily get the brother to sleep elsewhere if I want to. I made my excuses and left.

he was 28 at the time

HellsBells67 · 03/08/2025 16:48

A guy I was seeing for a second date got absolutely blind drunk very early on in the date. Had to bribe a taxi driver to take us back to his, lay him on the bed on his side and I stayed awake all night as he was vomitting. Went home the next day and ignored all his calls, totally not interested in seeing him again. Several months later, my mother rings and asks me if I'm sitting down. Demands I sit down. Sat down. She proceeds to read a front page advert from the local weekly newspaper. He's taken out an ad as he recalls I grew up there and my parents still lived there, doesn't know my surname but knows where I went to school and my age etc, can anyone please contact him with my address! 😬

CircularMotionDementedThrustingGuy · 03/08/2025 18:14

HellsBells67 · 03/08/2025 16:48

A guy I was seeing for a second date got absolutely blind drunk very early on in the date. Had to bribe a taxi driver to take us back to his, lay him on the bed on his side and I stayed awake all night as he was vomitting. Went home the next day and ignored all his calls, totally not interested in seeing him again. Several months later, my mother rings and asks me if I'm sitting down. Demands I sit down. Sat down. She proceeds to read a front page advert from the local weekly newspaper. He's taken out an ad as he recalls I grew up there and my parents still lived there, doesn't know my surname but knows where I went to school and my age etc, can anyone please contact him with my address! 😬

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Reasons men have given you the ick part 2!
OP posts:
Missedthis · 03/08/2025 18:28

I have another. First date with an online person.

Turned up and he had long fingernails. Which he kept tapping on the table 🤢

I spent the whole date trying not to stare at his hands.

Piknik · 03/08/2025 18:28

@HellsBells67 - You are not, by chance from the SW London/Middx/Surrey borders are you?

CleanQueen123 · 03/08/2025 18:42

Going back to the previous thread, I've had two "London eye" guys 🤦🏼‍♀️ the absolute silence and lack of expression on my face soon made it clear that I was not enjoying their efforts!

I also got the ick with an ex when a friend of mine referred to him as "Fagin". Once you've realised your boyfriend looks like Ron Moody from Oliver you can't unsee it. I persevered but I then discovered he was incredibly loud in bed. We'd only DTD with people in earshot until that point. We got a free house about 5 months (!) in and my god, the grunting and groaning! Finally dumped him when it turned out he was a raging homophobe who thought gay men shouldn't adopt or have children via surrogacy because they'd abuse the children...

R0ckandHardPlace · 03/08/2025 18:44

Lovely younger boyfriend, had been seeing him for a few months but he’d always stay at mine when we had a date as he had a lodger, and he didn’t live locally. Eventually I agreed to go and stay at his house instead. When I went into the bedroom he had a Fernando Torres duvet cover on his bed. I didn’t see him again.

MoonWoman69 · 03/08/2025 19:03

Remembered another one!
Back in the mid 80s, me and my mate used to go to a little nightclub in our nearest market town every Friday night.
Met a bloke a few years older than me. Hooked up (never DTD!) for 3 Fridays and I was becoming a bit smitten. He was a bad boy type, knew everyone, bought drinks etc; I was young and easily impressed. Sat chatting and kissing on the 4th Friday and he said "You've probably seen me in the newspaper". I went all wide eyed, thinking he was famous for something. Yeah, he was! Twoc-ing cars! I broke it off with him on the 5th Friday, I'd no sooner got the words out of my mouth and he promptly turned to my mate and said " Do you want to go out with me instead?"!!! Her reply was the loudest FUCK OFF! I've ever heard!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Testerical · 03/08/2025 19:07

Some of these are comedy genius. Mine is nowhere near as good, but my biggest ick was a man who used the word “bummies” when things were disappointing or didn’t turn out as expected. I was absolutely willing him to say fucking hell. It was so twee and (rightly) suggested prissiness in the bedroom and intolerance to any form of rule breaking in general.

chasegirl · 03/08/2025 19:35

A guy I dated at uni, stayed over at his place first time. Next morning I noticed a couple of small brown marks on his quilt cover. Odd I thought but passed it off as maybe chocolate until he noticed them and said he'd farted.

Bit grossed out but maybe it was an accident as they were small marks. Gave him another chance, went back yo his a few days later, quilt was covered in little fart marks, both sides!!! He'd thought to turn the quilt over but not actually wash it 😫💩😫 an excuse about needing to finish an essay and left.
Then realised he was a massive misogynist, he actually admitted it, judged women for acting like little school girls with knickers round their ankles

HellsBells67 · 03/08/2025 19:36

@Piknik no, am in Edinburgh. Hiding!

AnotherNaCha · 03/08/2025 19:47

AuntMarch · 03/08/2025 11:40

My ex keeps putting cry/laughing emojis in texts that aren't remotely amusing, like not even trying to be funny. Between that and the constant nowe clearing noises I might actually have killed him if we'd stayed together.

e.g. "Can DC bring his headphones when we go on holiday 😂"

"I'll bring DC back around 4, they want pasta for lunch 🤣"

I'm half expecting one when he lets me know his poorly parent dies.

I don’t know what’s wrong with me as I find that rather endearing 😂