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Your most trivial 'dealbreaker'... (lighthearted)

357 replies

CogitoErgoSometimes · 13/03/2015 15:40

It's Friday, I read this article... Groom Dumped Over Failed Maths Test ... and wondered what relatively trivial failing in someone meant they didn't get that second or third date.

Mine was that he collected ornamental boxes and lined them up on his coffee table set-square perfect.

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AWholeLottaNosy · 16/03/2015 22:23

Another one. I turned up to dinner wearing a halter neck top ( I'm quite busty, just for background information). He said, ' I see you've brought your friends with you'... Wanker!

AWholeLottaNosy · 16/03/2015 22:25

Calico, please what are ' penile spikes or spines'. I have literally no idea what they are???

Chillyegg · 16/03/2015 22:27

Told me not to wear green eye shadow he didn't like it!
Fucking never spoke to that knob again!
I was 16 reader and went to school with as much as i possibly could get away with

Gingermum · 16/03/2015 22:48

Bland - he also rang me up and sang: 'Three times a lady' down the phone.

CalicoBlue · 16/03/2015 22:49

Awholelottanosy they are little spikes just under the gland on the shaft of the penis. I have never seen them on any other man.

CupidStuntSurvivor · 16/03/2015 22:51

Spikey penis?? Was he part cat?

CalicoBlue · 16/03/2015 22:57

No, he was Irish.

Googling it, I think he may have had something called Hirsuties coronae glandis. But it was spikey.

SillyPops · 16/03/2015 23:02

I ditched a guy after about 3 dates when he announced he never has, and never intends to eat curry. Non-negotiable in my book!

Another guy took me out for a posh dinner, he was already sat at a table when I arrived. He looked great, was really dressed up, and I was super impressed as I'd only seen him very casual in the past. When we went to leave I looked down and he was wearing WHITE trainers! Are we in the 90's?! I never returned his calls!

I dumped one guy after he was incredibly rude to his mum on the phone when we were together. If he can't respect his own mother - how will he ever respect me? (Phone call was to do with her saying she'd take his clothes to the dry cleaners but she ran out of time)

AWholeLottaNosy · 16/03/2015 23:04

Calico did you find out before or after you had sex with him...?

MadeMan · 16/03/2015 23:19

"...they are little spikes just under the gland on the shaft of the penis."

Calico, was he the 30-storey-high son of Godzilla, or Godzooky?

Momagain1 · 16/03/2015 23:19

Calico, I am dying of curiosity but scared to google ven the sciency sounding term!

Momagain1 · 16/03/2015 23:24

Aaaaaaaaaaack! Why did I look? Ick ick ick

AWholeLottaNosy · 16/03/2015 23:35

Momagain, I just knew it was going to be something hideous which is why I didn't google it...

BitterChocolate · 17/03/2015 01:58

Spikes on a penis! Shock

bringonthetrumpets · 17/03/2015 02:03

Went out with a guy who seemed pretty nice. Had a nice flat, great job, pretty good looking, and we had good conversations. Went out on date #4 where he proceeded to get absolutely plastered with his friends, fell over on the sidewalk, made me drive him home (to be fair, his car was pretty nice...but that's beside the point!), and then once we got back to his place he went into the bathroom with just a t-shirt on to pee with the door open and farted extremely loud at the same time.

Dunzo.

Met a guy first year of Uni from an English class. Went out on a date with him and one thing lead to another... turns out he was a virgin and after I unknowingly deflowered him he told me that he loved me! Byyyyye! He then wrote a really messed up essay about me without using my name but kept looking at me whilst reading it out to the class. Things were pretty awkward for the rest of the semester.

One guy put my picture as his profile picture on FB after 1 date. Creepizoid!

I'm from the States but I studied abroad in the UK. Met a guy in the group I was placed in from Boston who had painfully weird ears. Went to the student pub with him just because I didn't know anyone else and I just couldn't handle him using the term "quid" (repeatedly for some reason) after being there for only a couple of days. He was trying waaaaayy too hard. He also followed me around campus like a sad puppy for a long time. Ack.

KenDoddsDadsDog · 17/03/2015 07:25

These are bloody brilliant !

GingerPhoenix · 17/03/2015 07:36

beards, I will never date a man with a beard. Icky horrible things that get food stuck in them and smell (yes, first serious partner, I'm thinking of you)

slithytove · 17/03/2015 09:16

Apparently up to 48% of men can have that penile spikes thing and it's a variance of anatomically normal.

Is it just me who feels sorry for any bloke who has it :(

squizita · 17/03/2015 09:18

Someone with very rigid food ideas. I'm not talking veggie, kosher, halal or whatever. I mean diet/protein powder/clean eating obsessives.

Had a controlling weirdo ex. The first warning sign was he was vegetarian and paranoid people were slipping him meat (always a quibble even in veggie restaurants in Brighton!), low carb, took all these powders from health shops... Confused worked out obsessively. Told me I could eat what I liked "until we get married" on the 3rd date. Err thanks. Hmm

I'm not exactly a slob. At the time I weighed 7 stone cause I danced hours each day (drama/stage school girl) and I still eat well now.
...Mind you when he told me women in long term relationships don't wear heels and threw sone of my shoes out, I LTB. Paranoid freak. He was also 10 years older than he claimed ... I was 17 so it was a bit dodgy.

Nabootique · 17/03/2015 09:31

No, MadeMan. Then he would have looked like Punch and I wouldn't have agreed to the date in the first place!

milknosugar1987 · 17/03/2015 09:36

Had a nickname for his penis, and referred to it during sex by this name, as though it was a third person in the room. Hmm How much do i regret sticking around long enough to find that out?!

DrMorbius · 17/03/2015 09:37

Off subject but when I first used to work in the Middle East some of the Asian guys had an operation where semi precious stones were inserted around the head of their penis, as a female pleasure thing. I found this out because I remember walking around a corner and half a dozen guys were in a circle looking at the guy in the middle, with his d**k out. To say I was shocked was an understatement. Then they explained it as if it was normal :-(

QuietTiger · 17/03/2015 09:41

Another bad "didn't get past first date" for me, was a guy who I met online and went for a meal with. After the meal (where he said, you'll have to pay, I don't have enough cash), we went to the pub for a drink. WHAT was I thinking?!

It turned out that there was some big football match on and he wanted to watch it. He bought me a pint, shoved it in front of me, said "drink that, keep quiet and don't talk, I'm watching the match", .

I got up and left. He didn't say a word as I did so. Oddly enough, I declined a second date!

SlightlyJaded · 17/03/2015 09:41

My friend finished with someone when she discovered he called his mum 'Mammy'. In a non Irish, non Ironic way.

Fuck. Right. Off

HazleNutt · 17/03/2015 09:46

He was wearing long johns. Not the fancy thermal underwear that you can buy nowadays, but light blue saggy cotton long johns, just like my grandpa had. And it wasn't even that cold!

I've also dumped several picky eaters, because I like to both eat and cook - they always claim they're not though.
Oh me, I eat everything! Well, of course not any of this forrin stuff, and no funny sea creatures..or fish...or anything green, or any vegetables really..no, no herbs or spices..
So basically meat and potatoes?
Oh no, I eat everything!