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Little things that put you off going out with someone

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TakeAwayThatCaterpillar · 20/04/2017 16:05

I was thinking today about the little things over the course of my dating years men have done/said that instantly made me think "nope, not you". They were probably perfectly nice people in retrospect...

  1. Looked mildly nonplused about a woman in a picture having underarm hair.

  2. Liked Miranda.

  3. Used the phrase "wedding tackle".

There are probably countless more. Tell me yours...

  1. Spent more than two minutes "grooming" to go out.
OP posts:
YellowLambBanana · 21/04/2017 22:25

Going back to his and finding all the walls in his living room decorated with crosses and carrier bags of stuff everywhere. Claimed it all belonged to his landlady... taxi for one !

MrsJaniceBattersby · 21/04/2017 22:26

ProfessorPickles
Kent
He was a solicitor

  • but been struck off
Hmm
LilaoftheGreenwood · 21/04/2017 22:50

Different men:

Rolled up his trouser leg to show me his eczema on date one - just on a whim you understand, not prompted by anything in the conversation

Laughed most of the way through sex Confused

Suse74 · 21/04/2017 23:01

Love this thread Grin

  1. Guy was so nervous he spilt his entire pint of beer over me.
  2. Went on a different date and the guy joked that he was considering setting up his profile as if he was a paedo. WTF !?!
  3. Same guy got out his piggy bank of change to pay for the drinks. It took ages for him to count out the coins.
  4. Same guy told me he prefers Thai women. He had seen my photo and knew I wasn't Thai. I didn't even finish the drink he brought and made my excuses. He wasn't as nice as his photo.
  5. I've also had sex with men who are silent. Not one groan.... Odd....
  6. One guy picked his nose and ate it. He didn't think I had seen him do it. But he licked his finger like a kid enjoying an ice cream. Disgusting Hmm.
  7. Lastly, caught boyfriend out on a date with someone else. Prick. The look on his face when I walked in the bar was priceless. Pure coincidence !
cleanjean · 21/04/2017 23:19

A guy once tried to give me his number once by writing on an ATM machine receipt to try to show off how much he had in the bank. Needless to say, I didn't call!

ClopySow · 22/04/2017 10:55

The silent smiler was really uncreepy in every other way, a really decent bloke actually and i really wanted to want him, but the silent smiling delicious ruined it.

SuperSheepdog · 22/04/2017 11:10
  1. He picked me up for our date with his car passenger footwear full of food rubbish, literally overflowing with banana skins and baked beans cans Confused
  2. I went to a guys house and he had magazine cut outs of women on his walls - freaky!
  3. A guy who kept phoning me hourly through the night
  4. A guy who insisted he could only sleep whilst the radio was on
SuperSheepdog · 22/04/2017 11:10

Footwell not footwear

ToffeeCaramel · 22/04/2017 11:15

Used the expression "sitting pretty" about himself. ie. "I was sitting pretty."

ToffeeCaramel · 22/04/2017 11:19

Just remembered going into an off licence. He was buying something. I picked up a mars bar and put it in front of me on the counter waiting to buy it (myself). He thought i was trying to get him to buy it for me and gave the Mars bar a dirty look. Very attractive. I stayed with him but he was a right twat and i was well shot of him when we did split

MrsMeeseeks · 22/04/2017 11:25

Racism isn't a little thing.

LaMereDuChat · 22/04/2017 11:30

Supported the Conservatives. We were students at the end of the Major years. So even the Conservatives didn't support the Conservatives by then.

Another I gave up on for having really bad ingrowing toenails. I find feet hideous anyway.

LaMereDuChat · 22/04/2017 11:32

Oh - and then there was the one who kept telling me how perfect I was... for his older, more sensible accountant brother. I was 23 and really not very sensible so saw this as a proper insult.

EastMidsGPs · 22/04/2017 12:16

In the days when you answered a newspaper and to find a date my friend met a charmer who said early on in the meeting that she was much posher than the 'birds' he normally went out with Hmm and then after buying her a drink asked if she was ready for some 'serious tonsil hockey'
Didn't help he'd lied about his height and age Grin

ToffeeCaramel · 22/04/2017 13:12

Ha ha at "wedding tackle."

waterrat · 22/04/2017 13:19

Tonsil hockey. That is brilliant.

Andylion · 22/04/2017 17:31

Constantly quoted the same line from Life of Brian - except he got it wrong. Every time.

Which line, Tacitits? (Ii love that movie.)

auntiepammy · 22/04/2017 17:42

He had claw feet and really long toenails, he once accidentally scratched my leg with his toenail in bed Envy

Swarskid2184 · 22/04/2017 17:47

Saying 'do you want to go again?' after having sex (first and only time...)

Dollymouse · 22/04/2017 18:46

Oh this is a funny thread.

Once dumped a guy because he had girls legs - just really strangely good legs - but on a woman. He also told me me the vagina was self cleaning - I said I might just get a bath anyway....

Agree that if DH passed or buggered off I'd stay by myself. I have issues with skinny jeans / I think it makes men, particularly short men, look like apes the heaviness of the calf is too much - it's not a good look unless you are a modelly waif type. I also hate slip on shoes, bug lumpy shoes, shoes that look like they smell. I think shoes are really important, sometimes I play a game on the tube - men I would sleep with based on footwear. I also think bad shoes, bad pants. Bad pants are probably even worse than bad shoes.

I am no catch myself though Grin

Mulberry72 · 22/04/2017 18:48
  • Called his Mum his "Main woman"!
  • Didn't like it that I liked football, told me "I should have been a bloke"
  • Talked about how he hoped our children wouldn't have my curly hair!

Same bloke, same date, I told him I was going to the loo and made a very sharp exit!

Met DH very shortly after that so it's all good.

Panetulipani · 22/04/2017 19:31

Not all the same person, thankfully.

Waited all of two seconds between hearing I'd split up with my ex (someone told him in front of me at a party) and asking me out, not taking 'no', 'not attracted to you' or 'not ready to get back out there' for an answer.

Spent the first twenty minutes of awkward first date talking about his parents' wonderful marriage and how he felt he was failing at life because he was several years behind on his five year life plan - that of course involved a non-descript wife (other than cup size) of meek and inoffensive personality (so as not to offend his religious parents) and 2.4 kids.

Had previously dated a friend of mine who had told me at length of his fuzzy sweater screensaver - basically just giant pink angora-covered boobs in close-up... I deliberately wore quite baggy clothing on the date. I think he was extremely disappointed.

Told me "well your undergraduate degree doesn't matter. No one will care if you cut classes to stay over tonight, or even if you fail it" (heavy subtext - you're only a girl - why would you need an education?)

You know, I usually prefer my women to be under a certain dress size... (I made a point of trying on his clothes - his jeans fell off me). He then accused me of dressing like his mother, so I casually mentioned that he dressed a lot like mine.

(On accidentally tripping over his glamour-model porn stash) 'I don't think women should wear makeup, it makes them look slutty'. Hmmmm... that and the pin-up calendar in your kitchen would indicate there is a wee bit of hypocrisy at play here.

Panetulipani · 22/04/2017 19:33

Other major turnoff - men with very long (or bitten to 2mm stumps) fingernails.

GolderAndWiser · 22/04/2017 19:36

Being sexist enough to believe in the myth of the happy hooker. Called that to a halt!!

reiki73 · 22/04/2017 19:37

Fuxfurforall, I have to say that any guy with a photo of his bikini clad sister on the back of his bathroom door is just bleurgh!!!! I think I'll have to give my list if annoyances some thought!

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