What are your definate 'No-No's'?

[HappyWithLife]

I'm sure I'm not the only one with a tick list of must haves and must not haves when it comes to prospective dates. A lot of them are quite tongue in cheek and moveable (hair colour etc) but what are your definates?

My definate 'NOs' would have to be smoking/heavy drinking/poor hygiene...pretty standard stuff but do you have any more obscure ones?

Football yobs
Bad teeth
Inability to discuss current events
Being rude to waiters, bus drivers etc
Poor table manners
White socks and black shoes
Vegans
Hard core religious evangalists

more like ear picking gettingeasier - a handy little scoop for earwax

big bellies
hair in weird places
tattoos
jewellery of any description at all
lives with his mum
has a v demanding job and lots of hobbies and has barely any time for me
rudeness especially to waiters etc
excessive drinking
makes v suggestive comments on dating website before he has even met me
wants to have children
bad table manners
smoking

Not in any particular order, btw

Looking back on this, I wonder if there is anyone out there who can meet my impossibly high standards

OK this is just for starters off the top of my head and incorporating other's contributions.

Before and/ or during date:

Smoking
Seriously overweight
Heavy drinker
Violent criminal convictions
Brings his pit bull on the first date
Tattoo on knuckles saying HATE on one hand and LOVE on the other
Wants to go to the crap restaurant because it?s cheaper than the nice one
Bad table manners
Bad manners to waiters etc.
?Traditional? views (ie sexist, racist, misogynist and all round twat)
Inability to hold coherent conversation ? extreme ignorance of anything outside his own experience
Poor personal hygiene (BO and/ or halitosis and/or stinky feet)
Unchecked runny nose
Whinges about his ex the whole date
Answers his mobile phone and has animated conversation during date
Don?t want to shag him by the end of the date
Doesn?t bother to see me home / safely en route at end of date

After first / number of dates:
Unkempt dirty house/ bedroom/ bathroom
Porny pictures on the wall
Athena man with baby poster on the wall
--shit?on the wall (this usually only happens with terrorists mounting dirty protest)
Attempts anal sex the first time we go to bed
Attempts fellatio the first time we go to bed
Wakes me up at 4AM so that he can shag me again the first time we go to bed
Hasn?t made me come by breakfast time
Hasn?t bothered to get anything in for breakfast even though he knew a shag might be on the cards

And I don't think I'm particularly demanding.

"Wakes me up at 4AM so that he can shag me again the first time we go to bed"

HerBeatitude, I would love if someone did that to me!

Herbeatitude... That list could turn me gay!!!

EEEEEEWWWWWWW

think you and me have got pretty much the same list - though I would add 'inability to spell/over use of text speak/inappropriate use of pet names ie calling me sxy, hunny or any such - particularly before we've even met/assuming single mothers are 'up for anything'/crap or juvenile sense of humour/greasy hair/combovers/slip on shoes ....

And should they not have/do any of the above - the next big no no is being crap in bed/unable to hold a conversation or having no idea how to kiss ....

And I don't thing I'm demanding either - just have certain standards!

Arsenold- it depends, on a first time I think it's too pushy.

ah I see -if it happened in combination with some of the other things on your list I'd be inclined to agree!

Turning up uninvited at my house, late - I had a guy do that a couple of days after our first date, it was about 9pm so pretty obvious what he was there for. He phoned me up and said I'm outside can I come in? I said no.

Naming his parts, especially with a silly name. At the age of 48 a man shouldn't be calling his penis 'tiggy'

Agree with most of the above, also, experience from internet dating - suggesting I bring my kids on a first date , asking me for more pictures - of the more revealing kind, talking about their kids, telling me their kids personal details when I have yet to meet them, saying they are lonely, cancelling a date because they are scared, calling me hun, darling, sweetheart, or any other patronising term, giving me a pre-written 'works on 'em all' line to get my attention, telling me they want to 'take me to heaven and back'.

At dates - corduroys, socks and sandals, not offering to buy the first drink (I will then reciprocate), food in teeth, severe dandruff, acne, driving like a loon or having a 'custom' or flash car. Also lateness beyond a few minutes with a good excuse and eating smelly food on a first date. But the best one was 'I'm glad you are wearing short sleeves, at least I can see you don't self harm!'

'I'm glad you are wearing short sleeves, at least I can see you don't self harm!'

ROFL at the checking out whether you self-harm bloke.

I suppose he's got a point, but it's not a great conversational salvo is it?

He worked in a mental health hospital in his defence, but STILL!!
Oooh, and not getting back to you after a date within a few days. Checking out your other options?

Tiggy is not a great part name.

I have come across 3 - yes 3 - Percys. And one Peter.

More please as have never had a date been single 10 months and now wondering if its for the best !

I also rule out anyone on an internet dating site who has their children on their profile page.

Oh, may be able to beat the self harm guy. One guy used the bed sheets as toilet paper, big skiddy right down the bed. True story, grim and run make a polite excuse.

wellies

am off on a 1st date this eve with apparently v nice bloke:

texts in plain english - check
nice voice on the phone - check
happy to travel to me for the date - check

but omigod if he has a long fingernail think I may run screaming

Religious beliefs.
Woobollocks beliefs
Racism/sexism
Drug use/tedious drug user anecdotes even though he's given up
Tedious drinking stories
Long monologue about how he's looking for commitment and doesn't want 'timewasters'

ANYONE who describes himself as 'genuine'. This is dating-site shorthand for 'unattractive, desperate and resentful'.

Great thread!

I needed this to remind me why I'm still single!

My personal top ones are:-

nasal/ear hair that is out of control
noisy eating, that washing machine/grunty noise that my ex used to make
not knowing how to behave in a restaurant (one guy actually scraped the plates and stacked them)
tattoos especially names
bitten dirty fingernails
jobs that include a 'bit of this and a bit of that'

leaving shavings round the basin

oh there are so many

oh SGB I'd forgotten about tedious stories about a time that you weren't there, about people you don't know, about drinking/drugs/rugby trips