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You meet the one. They're perfect for you. Then youve got the ick so badly you eant to set fire to yourself. What petty thing did they do?? 👀

552 replies

mumofoneAloneandwell · 14/06/2026 16:58

Vomit Puke GIF by The Late Late Show with James Corden

Eaten tuna 🤢

Monstrous food eaten by those with poor morals.

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hididdlyho · 14/06/2026 23:54

I used to work with a guy who always ate a tin of tuna and an avocado for lunch as it had some sort of ideal nutritional balance. Tbf he was a lovely guy, but what a car crash of a meal!

auserna · 14/06/2026 23:54

We had one lemonade each and he asked the waitress to split the bill.

valentinka31 · 14/06/2026 23:56

wizzywig · 14/06/2026 19:14

Cold soggy beard after really good oral sex.

That is one of the worst concepts I have ever heard of in my entire life 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈 I really really wish I hadn’t ever considered that 😂😂😂😂😂😂🙄

RogueFemale · 14/06/2026 23:57

Wore a stupid tiny hat (on huge head) on holiday in Italy.

Poltice · 15/06/2026 00:01

Other way round but a male friend ended a relationship because she dried her washing on a rack positioned over the cat’s litter tray.

Pansykavalier · 15/06/2026 00:03

hididdlyho · 14/06/2026 23:54

I used to work with a guy who always ate a tin of tuna and an avocado for lunch as it had some sort of ideal nutritional balance. Tbf he was a lovely guy, but what a car crash of a meal!

Why do you consider it a car crash? It’s both nutritious and delicious…

NedsAtomicWheelieBin · 15/06/2026 00:04

Wore a t-shirt in bed with no shorts. He looked like winnie the pooh but with his floppy weiner hanging out the bottom 😩

NedsAtomicWheelieBin · 15/06/2026 00:06

Another guy got a cob on because I went off to talk to friends while he was playing pool. I asked him what was I supposed to do, hang around the pool table saying "great shot" and he said yes.

See ya.

baroqueandblue · 15/06/2026 00:08

Someone eats tuna and you "want to set fire to yourself"? Yes I know you don't mean it literally, but it's such a needlessly violent image to use to indicate your own pettiness, and it sounds like you've got far bigger problems than men who 'give you the ick' 🙄

Kokonimater · 15/06/2026 00:10

He told me he liked shooting. I thought he meant clay pidgeon shooting. No. Shooting animals in Africa.

Heartofglass12345 · 15/06/2026 00:12

My husband of 13 years has grown a moustache, I feel like it’s grounds for divorce tbh. I sit in the back when we’re in the car (had to separate my 2 kids 🙄) and I can see the wiry hairs poking out to the side when he’s driving 😱

OhBotherSaidPoo · 15/06/2026 00:13

Shittyyear2025 · 14/06/2026 17:21

Booked his car into the main dealer to replace a headlight bulb.

Yes I know it was included in the fancy new car deal but it took days to arrange, time out of work for both of us to drop off (and time out of our weekend to pick up) for the sake of an £8 bulb.

Oh, and getting his mum to book a GP appointment for him.

Valid

EstoyRobandoSuCasa · 15/06/2026 00:15

shuggles · 14/06/2026 23:33

As I said, it's just committment issues.

Nah, sometimes something relatively minor can be extremely off-putting and kill off any romantic attraction you might have felt for the other person. Off course, its far more likely to happen when the other person isn't right for you anyway.

I remember a bloke writing that his girlfriend's terrible, off-key singing in the shower was somehow music to his ears, which surprised him. He was very much in love with her, but I imagine that if he wasn't and was having doubts about their relationship, he might have cringed and felt "the ick" when he heard her singing.

DixonD · 15/06/2026 00:16

Shittyyear2025 · 14/06/2026 17:21

Booked his car into the main dealer to replace a headlight bulb.

Yes I know it was included in the fancy new car deal but it took days to arrange, time out of work for both of us to drop off (and time out of our weekend to pick up) for the sake of an £8 bulb.

Oh, and getting his mum to book a GP appointment for him.

Land Rover quoted me £400 to do that 😂 (I didn’t ask them to!).

Frugalgal · 15/06/2026 00:17

wishingonastar101 · 14/06/2026 19:24

his jizz looked like asparagus cuppa soup. bye.

Huh??

DixonD · 15/06/2026 00:19

DixonD · 15/06/2026 00:16

Land Rover quoted me £400 to do that 😂 (I didn’t ask them to!).

Can I just add that this was a 2010 Land Rover with old school bulbs that cost less than £10 to replace, not a fancy LED headlight (which should never need replacing by the way, if they do, you’re looking at neatly £1k or more).

Kokonimater · 15/06/2026 00:22

Met a guy in a pub after chatting on a dating app. As I walked in, he was standing at the bar with a bottle of champagne. I walked up to him and said hello, then he turned to the barman and said ‘can we have two glasses, please?’ and the barman said
‘No mate, you didn’t buy it from here’.
cringe….

EstoyRobandoSuCasa · 15/06/2026 00:23

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That woman might have been me. I was a young child when I believed that, though. I remember staring at a "drinking yogurt" in the supermarket and wondering it if would go down the food tube or the drink tube.

namechangeforthispo · 15/06/2026 00:31

my first sort of relationship when I was 17, he was about 3y older…

his nails.

long and dirty. Why tf I didn’t run the first time I met him I will never ever come to understand.

Went round to his house where he lived with his Mum and step dad. Smoked in his room! Yellow walls, pillow looked like it had been the same one since 1991.

used to make a whole pizza and when I asked for some he’d get moody and bite them down to the crust and then give me the crusts.

fuck knows what I was thinking. He’s a walking disease.

ScrambledTofuNeedsKalaNamak · 15/06/2026 00:35

Aberdyfi · 14/06/2026 17:46

I very nearly walked away from an otherwise perfect man after the first night we spent together, because the tops of his feet were really smooth. I gave myself a good talking to and got over it.

Oh my DH's feet (toes in particular) are gross. I've actually told him not to put them near me when we are being intimate.

It's like when people bite their fingernails well into the nail body, his toes are like that.

It's a shame really, because I love a really handsome, manly foot, but I ignore his feet because he is aesthetically beautiful in every other way.

SleepingStandingUp · 15/06/2026 00:44

EstoyRobandoSuCasa · 15/06/2026 00:15

Nah, sometimes something relatively minor can be extremely off-putting and kill off any romantic attraction you might have felt for the other person. Off course, its far more likely to happen when the other person isn't right for you anyway.

I remember a bloke writing that his girlfriend's terrible, off-key singing in the shower was somehow music to his ears, which surprised him. He was very much in love with her, but I imagine that if he wasn't and was having doubts about their relationship, he might have cringed and felt "the ick" when he heard her singing.

if we having doubts, absolutely. but that's the point, he wouldn't be thinking she's absolutely the one, totally perfect and then dump her cos she catawauled in the shower. it's like someone who said a yellow jumper. it might put you off on a first date if you decided he had no style and that mattered to you, but if you're in a happy relationship as per ops OP, then the yellow jumper won't make you fall out of love. it'll either be something you dislike and actively try to change / subtlety hint at etc. or something you coke to find endearing. if the yellow jumper does make you dump him, it's just a final straw.

obv discovering someone has opposite morals, like enjoying shooting or Nigel Farage, is a "were never really compatible but didn't know"

HumphreyCushionintheHouse · 15/06/2026 00:45

Piknik · 14/06/2026 23:30

Had been on a few dates and we were at a restaurant that had a live DJ - mostly playing chill/ibiza/buddha bar type music. Date disappeared for ages and then suddenly (I actually feel sick writing this), he was on this little stage with the DJ and had the mic and launched into an Elvis Tribute Act thing.

I can't even.... He got really into it and was singing in a proper 'In the style of Elvis' voice.

I could feel my heart racing with sheer horror and just wanted to leave but was sort of rooted to the spot. Everyone was embarrassed, me, the other diners, the DJ. It was hideous. He sang two whole fucking songs and kept looking at me and smiling.

Elvis. FFS. He was 24

I cried on the way home. It was all the shame coming out. He sulked.

Haha……Was your date called Ferris Bueller?

shuggles · 15/06/2026 00:46

wishingonastar101 · 14/06/2026 19:24

his jizz looked like asparagus cuppa soup. bye.

That's not the ick. Being turned off by normal male bodily functions simply means that you may not be attracted to men, which is OK of course.

ScrambledTofuNeedsKalaNamak · 15/06/2026 00:50

Piknik · 14/06/2026 23:30

Had been on a few dates and we were at a restaurant that had a live DJ - mostly playing chill/ibiza/buddha bar type music. Date disappeared for ages and then suddenly (I actually feel sick writing this), he was on this little stage with the DJ and had the mic and launched into an Elvis Tribute Act thing.

I can't even.... He got really into it and was singing in a proper 'In the style of Elvis' voice.

I could feel my heart racing with sheer horror and just wanted to leave but was sort of rooted to the spot. Everyone was embarrassed, me, the other diners, the DJ. It was hideous. He sang two whole fucking songs and kept looking at me and smiling.

Elvis. FFS. He was 24

I cried on the way home. It was all the shame coming out. He sulked.

If the two songs were In The Ghetto and American Trilogy, YABU 🤣

SqueakyFromme · 15/06/2026 01:01

HelenaWaiting · 14/06/2026 23:50

Cooked a perfect dinner, took our wine into the living room, dimmed the lights ... and put Barry Manilow on. Bye!

I love Barry !