When you go on a date for the first time, what things really put you off

[electra]

that you feel you probably couldn't look past?

For me it's bad breath and when someone is waaaaaay too smooth.

I am like you expat, if for one reason or another I lost DP I would not bother again.

I can't imagine all tha shit. I have had 3 long term partners, about 5 dates in between and they were all a right royal disaster until I met DP.

Never went on a date with DP, just met him, slept with him, and that was that. Job done.

Can't imagine I would be that lucky again.

saying you remind him of his Nan!!

EEEEWWWW, no, not moist. Can't do moist men. not any level of clamminess that is acceptable. don't like to see clammy upper lip perspiration or sweaty bald head. Don't mind a bald head, just not a moist one.

And I agree LeQueen - he's got to be intelligent and articulate. Intelligence is tres sexy. I don't like dull crusty intellectuals though. Too self-absorbed.

I don't have a clue what Oliver Sweeneys are. It's a good job I am not dating.

Google them UQD they are luffley. But pricey. They last ages though. I don't inist on them, so you're OK for our no R'n'B date. Just don't wear rubbish dirty trainers (or any trainers, unless you are agonisingly cool and hip) and anything in grey with an elasticated slip on panel and we should be alright.

Someone once told me, watch how your boyfriend etc treats his mother because in 20 years time thats how he will treat you, and yes they were right!

I like long fingernails on men. To me that says 'Guitarist/Not homophobic/interesting.

Mind you reading this thread now makes me want to date, purely for the comedy value.

OK I have a new one.

A man who says OK I'll see you on xxxx, let me know when and where.

Er actually, call me passive, but I'd like you to organise that...

Solidgold - it's class! Honestly, it does have comedy value. As long as you're not looking for "the one" and can treat it as fun, dating is hilarious.

Yes but I've always wanted to ask this about guitarists and their fingernails - doesn't it get a bit dangerous when they're um... fingering you? (Sorry for the indelicate question, I've never shagged a man with long nails. Well maybe I have, but if so I can't remember it.)

If I knew that they were classical flamenco guitarists I might me able to make allowances (on manly hands) but otherwise - NOOO!!!!!

One guy who didn't get a second date:

Met at about 6ish for a few drinks. At about 8.30 we were getting on ok and still chatting so I suggested going for some food (was getting rather hungry). He said no because he had eaten before he came out- despite the fact that it had taken him half an hour to travel to meet me .

So you have your dinner at 5pm every day? Does your mummy still cook it for you? And what about the fact that I am starving because I have been at work all day? At least order a starter and nibble on it while I eat. And then don't send me increasingly hysterical texts the next day from 3 pm to say that you thought we were so comparable so why am I not responding to you?

beware of the boggie (spelling?) eaters

Stingy men.
I once went on a date with a gorgeous looking man, but he was the stingiest bastard going and constantly checked the prices of everything i ate. He couldn't understand why i didn't want to go out with him again.

Men who stop the car on the way to have a pee at the side of the road. Seriously I was . How on earth did he think he was going to get a repeat date or even a goodnight kiss after that! I suppose it was better than wetting himself.

You lot who all had dates with borderline psychopaths , how did the weirdo get to go out with you on the first place?

Bump

Well here goes; -
producing a a tupperware box full of chopped up carrots and celery "in case we got hungry"

refusing to go to a certain pub because the landlord was gay

talking wistfully about his swinging exploits with his ex (slim tall blond)girlfriend who he clearly hadn't got over

paying the bill which was twenty pounds and twenty pence and still holding his hand out after I had given him a tenner to wait for the ten pence coin.

talking about his nazi memorabilia collection.

suggesting he take me out in his boat which turned out to be a leaky dinghy then leaving me on a slipway holding the bloody thing by its rope as a passenger ferry bore down on me.

oh and - not my finest hour - having a shaved crotch with a very small willy in the middle of it.

All first dates and all true. I've had a very interesting year

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Zookeeper, funniest post I've seen in a long time .

it wasnt the same date was it then

on the date of someone I know, not me thank god, (some details changed so she doesn't kill me) - bloke started chatting about his little sister's talent for horseriding. She had won a national competition apparently, good for her, and he was talking about how emotional it had been when she won, again fine. Then, in remembering this proud day, he started crying, right there in the pub. Real tears and an element of sobbing. Friend had to pay the bill and take him outside for a soothing walk.

And he still expected a second date.

Oh dear.

I once went on a date with a bloke who spent a considerable part of the lunch boasting that he had an entire bookshelf of books in his flat. Err...

I went on a date with a bloke who spent much of the evening telling me about the "tactics" to "get" women that he'd read about in some books. He showed me some of it on the second date (why, i know) - the biggest lot of misogynistic shite I have ever read.

It didn't last.

Lol @ tears. Will someonenpl answer my q as unto how these guys got date 1 on first place