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

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HappyWithLife · 03/10/2010 13:46

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?

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kdk · 04/10/2010 10:48

Oh god - all of the above - along with "I could have been a contender' type stories and odd hobbies - and men who when you try to explain why, because they have exhibited one or any, say "I knew you were going to say that blah blah" or start accusing you of being a snob/having ideas above your station etc etc.

BUT as someone who at the moment isn't working, I'd probably describe myself as doing a bit of this, bit of that .. so maybe not that one!

SolidGoldBrass · 04/10/2010 11:57

If all his XPs have been vile unreasonable bitches. Actually this is a major red flag, not just a 'yuk' - people who have had a succession of 'horrible' partners are either horrible themselves or like to wallow in their own martyrdom.

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HappyWithLife · 04/10/2010 12:26

The same guy that 'exchange saliva' with me also checked the label on my jeans to see if I was lying about what size clothes I wear Shock. So a big no no is signs of controlling behaviour. Any signs. Even a sniff of it, a hint. No, definately not. Never.

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mummyilubyou · 04/10/2010 12:34

Happy Shock Shock at checking label

where do these twunts come from???

I have only been on a few dates since separating, just getting back into it so no real horror stories like these

but odd behavious - ever come across cuking a spoon whilst chopping an onion?? Struck me as a bit odd when date did this when he cooked for me once

also wore a check lumberjack shapeless shirt under a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches to a dinner out which in retrospect I hated (not up there with saliva-swapping or skid marks on the sheets though I must say)

mummyilubyou · 04/10/2010 12:40

try behaviours and sucking Blush

Flamesparrow · 04/10/2010 12:50

No stinky ones.

Oh and no settling.

I have discovered that it is not a one off thing to just click with someone. But I need passion too. I'm now refusing to settle for one without the other.

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HappyWithLife · 04/10/2010 12:53

Not picky, just setting standards Flamesparrow. I've 'settled' in the past and it's just not good enough for me anymore.I'd rather be alone than in a sub standard relationship.

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HappyWithLife · 04/10/2010 12:59

The last bloke I dated came to my house for a couple of days with his kids as he lived quite a long way away. The kids went out, and he asked could he take a shower. I went to get a towel (we hadn't even made first base at this point) and he emerged from my bedroom completely naked. I was mortified...there he was, hands on hips, puffing out his chest, naked as the day he was born. I'd never seen him naked as it was early on in the relationship (he was sleeping in the spare room with his kids as I wasn't happy sleeping with him in front of the kids early on in the relationship). I didn't know where to put my face. The kids were due back any minute (mine as well as his) and there was this hairless, badly endowed man parading on my landing. Call me old fashioned but I'd like the first time I see a man naked to be in the bedroom, either slowly undressing or ripping each others clothes off. Yuk yuk yuk.

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maledetta · 04/10/2010 13:16

I really shouldn't be reading this while eating lunch (heave...)

Yes Antalya, what the hell is it about Steves? I would run for the hills if I met another one (guess what DS's father is called?!)

Poor grammar and spelling.

Internet profile heavy in the use of the word "adrenaline". So you snowboard and bungy jump and go white water rafting and surfing and wakeboarding, whatever that is? This just makes me think: a) is all this a substitute for having a personality? and b)how are you ever going to have the time to pursue a relationship then?

Having a very traditional mother; ie one whose main purpose in life seems to be running around after her adult son, baking him cakes, doing his laundry etc....

HerBeatitude · 04/10/2010 13:19

ooh ooh, just thought of another oen:

implying that I'm stupid

a) because it's inaccurate Wink

b) because it's a huge red flag

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HappyWithLife · 04/10/2010 13:23

This isn't a man-bashing thread by the way fellas....it applies to men dating women as well as us women dating men. For instance, Mr Naked-in-my-house-on-first-date told me that he found an ex girlfriend's dirty knickers stuffed down the side of his bed, complete with very used soiled sanitary towel still stuck on [vomit emoticon]. So come on, dish the dirt.

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HappyWithLife · 04/10/2010 13:25

Ooh, another one for me too...saying 'good girl' when we're in the middle of sex. Yep, had that too.

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HerBeatitude · 04/10/2010 13:35

What exactly were you doing? Grin

On second thoughts, don't tell us...

elastamum · 04/10/2010 13:39

This is just hilarious Grin

MILY was that the man that just didnt do it for you???

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HappyWithLife · 04/10/2010 13:47

HerBeatitude...nothing out of the ordinary. Just...ahem...moving south as it were. But every time I changed position or suchlike he would say 'good girl'. I was expecting him to pat me on the head. Wrong on so many levels.

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HappyWithLife · 04/10/2010 13:48

I just burst out laughing at the skid marks on the bed sheet! That's going to keep popping into my head now Grin

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mummyilubyou · 04/10/2010 14:39

Elasta, you got it Hmm

gettingeasier · 04/10/2010 15:26

Happy rofl at checking your clothes label and as for Mr Naked man ,dear God !!!!

I have clearly led a very boring sheltered love life Grin

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HappyWithLife · 04/10/2010 15:58

Sheltered/boring would be lovely gettingeasier. I seem to be a weirdo magnet. Mr Naked Man wouldn't have been quite so bad if he'd had a gym body, but seriously...pasty white skin, not a hair anywhere and I mean anywhere, and an extremely small apendage. The only flash of colour on his body was the vivid purple varicose vein on his scrotum! (I'm shuddering at the memory)

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HonestyBox · 04/10/2010 16:14

Oh my gawd, I'm Shock at the naked man strutting on your landing like a prize cockerel.

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HappyWithLife · 04/10/2010 16:19

There was nothing prize winning about his cockerel!

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electra · 04/10/2010 16:26

Mine are;

a sympathy with views that are right wing - or any expression of racism / otherwise unpleasant prejudice (I was once going to go on a date with a very good looking guy until I discovered he supported the BNP!) Likewise men who make sexist remarks are a no-no

really inexcusably awful shoes

bad breath

HerBeatitude · 04/10/2010 19:08

LOL at your nekkid man being hairless. Had he had a back sack and crack wax?

lilac21 · 04/10/2010 19:21

Can we count really pointy elongated toes in the inexcusably awful shoes bracket please? Just like the estate agent who sold me this house wears, lovely guy that he is, just dresses like an estate agent.

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HappyWithLife · 04/10/2010 19:52

No waxing, just naturally hairless. It was like looking at a pre pubescent boy. Eeeww

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