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What's the biggest turn-off you've ever had from a potential BF?

282 replies

1a2b3c4d · 27/11/2015 13:13

So I was sitting with a gentleman friend watching some violent git on tv murder his ex, beat up his GF... and then the inexplicably forgiving GF crawls into bed and waits for him in a sexiful and alluring manner.

Clearly my response was 'WTF is wrong with her, this is sexist nonsense'...
to which gentleman friend replied to the effect of 'domestic violence is ok if it only happened once, they made up' etc.

No, it is not ok. Keeping well bloody clear of him now!

Any other big turn-off experiences?

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M4blues · 27/11/2015 17:26

He couldn't name the Chancellor of Exchequer.

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Inexperiencedchick · 27/11/2015 17:26

"You have eaten more than last time"

It kept me questioning myself a lot :(

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ExasperatedAlmostAlways · 27/11/2015 17:27

The first time I slept with him we were doing it doggy position but rather than thrusting in and out he kind of just rocked side to side. I just slowly looked round at him like this Hmm

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Elendon · 27/11/2015 17:27

When OLD I got a message from a man who said he loved my profile and would I take a look at his. I did. It was pretty mundane stuff, though he looked very posh in a James Bond type of way. Then I got to the end of the profile there was this line:

"I expect to have sex every day."

Reader, I blocked him.

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IfNotNowThenWhenever · 27/11/2015 17:33

He talked about his mum all the time. And he said "poo" instead of shit.

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M4blues · 27/11/2015 17:41

Inexperiencedchick, you have just reminded me of the first date where the guy said to me,
'Umm, wow, you have a healthy appetite!' In a clearly PA way. Dickhead! Mind you, I knew more than one girl who would eat before going out to eat so they could order and eat dainty little portions without starving. Who perpetuates this shit?

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Pheobe1 · 27/11/2015 17:43

Got into his car on the first date, I turned round and saw a child seat in the back, he then admitted that he had borrowed his wife's car as his was in the garage.

Or the one who on picking me up for a first date produced a picture from his wallet of a model in a wedding dress. He then showed it to my mum and told her that was the dress he imagined his future wife wearing.
whilst they were discussing the dress I was legging it out of the back door to my mates

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PissPotPourri · 27/11/2015 17:48

Ifnotnow I'd have liked him. Clearly respects women, and I'd dump someone for saying shit instead of poo...hate unnecessary swearing!

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IfNotNowThenWhenever · 27/11/2015 17:52

I think he's single..I'll set you up Grin

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IfNotNowThenWhenever · 27/11/2015 17:52

About his mum..I do mean a LOT. Like, lying in bed..

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Inexperiencedchick · 27/11/2015 18:06

M4blues I usually have a little snack before going for a date.

That time I've been caught off guard as I thought I'm only going for a walk with him. After little walk he said lets go and have some dinner. So we went, and after eating the dinner he managed to say that, I wasn't pissed off, probably surprised... And kept asking myself: "why would you say it to someone you would like to build a relationship with?!"

Still no clue...

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flamingnoravera · 27/11/2015 18:29

I cooked a dinner for the man I had been interested in for ages and who had pursued me for as long. He had impeccable taste in art, design and all things beautiful (but I dont include myself that). He announced over dinner that he was a "national socialist". I coughed and panicked, I assumed he had got socialist muddled up with National Socialist and laughed.

Of course you are not really a nazi, I giggled. "Oh yes", he said. I hate ... (and proceeded to reel off a list of all the groups in society that he hated). I still did not believe him. Until the next day when he screamed abuse at a pregnant black woman walking by my car.

He. was. dumped. I consider myself to be a lucky escapee.

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PissPotPourri · 27/11/2015 19:14

Oh Ifnotnow. Probably a little more than simple respect for women then...maybe not! I still wouldn't kick him out of bed for the poo thing though.

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LonelySatsuma · 27/11/2015 19:26

So many creeps on this thread! Grin

I'd bagged tickets to a really hard-to-get-tickets-for gig, and mentioned it to a guy I'd met through work (and who seemed nice) who jumped at the chance to come with me.

Boy, was he a fucking miserable, tight-fisted git.

I happily bought him a drink in the pub beforehand. Bought him another on arrival at the gig. Equality, and all that. Then bought him another. And another. No offer of one for me, who had bought the tickets. He even had the cheek to complain about the price of the drinks that I was paying for, then he moaned about the band we went to see (he'd previously said he loved them...turns out he'd barely heard of them), then wanted to leave early and got a strop on when I said I wanted to stay until the end. Said he'd love to leave early and come back to mine to 'hang out' and 'talk' properly . I said as I barely knew him I'd would rather 'hang out' at the gig as arranged. he had a a tantrum and walked out. Fucking left me there, the prick.

Then texted the a few days later - not to thank me for the tickets and drinks and company, but to ask me if I could get tickets to another gig.

Pricky prick prick.

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M4blues · 27/11/2015 19:26

M4blues I usually have a little snack before going for a date.

Me too, but only for stamina and to stop me getting too pissed too early. I never did it so I could appear to have a tiny appetite. How is not eating considered attractive anyway?

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VoyageOfDad · 27/11/2015 19:44

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Elendon · 27/11/2015 19:51

Ah, so she was kicked out of bed for eating crisps then?

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tinyme135 · 27/11/2015 19:58

I haven't been on many dates but I remember one where I met him up town and he decided to smoke weed in front of me. if he was trying to please me it completely failed.

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Blueberry234 · 27/11/2015 19:58

Picked me up in his converted escort with a large exhaust and bucket seats p, I cringed

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Seeyounearertime · 27/11/2015 19:59

After reading the whole thread..... I give up.
I'm off to the monastery if anyone wants me..... Grin

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WanderingTrolley1 · 27/11/2015 20:00

Decently dressed until my eye roved towards his foot attire.

White sports socks killed whatever attraction there might have in its tracks!

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MadeMan · 27/11/2015 20:04

"White sports socks killed whatever attraction there might have in its tracks!"

Yeah unless you're playing tennis, or you happen to be a Michael Jackson tribute show, it's best to stick to the darker socks.

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MissFenella · 27/11/2015 20:08

when I text to say we could meet in bar 'Haha' he replied with sweary text calling me all sorts - he assumed I was being funny.

I just said - its the name of a bar but I won't be bothering to meet you again please delete my number.

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MissFenella · 27/11/2015 20:10

He showed me a photo ID and i realised he had a lollypop head

I can still recall it and I shudder

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Lordamighty · 27/11/2015 20:11

Sticky out belly button.

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