OLD. What makes you immediately swipe left?

[TwistinMyMelon]

I may get flamed for some of these, but I'll start:

Tattoos (just not my thing)

Men holding big fish

Men with pictures of what is clearly their ex (or current) wife/girlfriend

Bare chested selfies with urinals in the back ground

Anyone who says "live, laugh, love"

No pictures of them at all, or group pictures

Slightly sinister/psycho sounding profiles

I keep screen shots of my most shocking OLD encounters...this one still wins. Bear in mind I'm in my 40s check out his age

Anyone looking for "a partner in crime"

Bore off fuckboy!

Yeh...I've reported all the photos poking fun think that's pretty tasteless nasty behaviour to be honest. Very very puerile. I only hope those women who think they're funny for doing it are getting similarly negatively dissected on their looks on a mans forum somewhere - if they think its ok. Not cool and quite grim. Teach your children not to bully no doubt as well.

I'm surprised people are posting photos on this thread and mocking the people in the photograph. How would you feel if you found your photo and profile on a website somewhere with people mocking it?

Agree. Anonymised excerpts from bios / messages is one thing, their actual pictures is going a bit too far

There’s a bloke round my way who decided to use a photo of him standing in front of Auschwitz as his Tinder photo

Evening! Let's remember that one woman's dirt is another woman's treasure..., or failing that, please don't post pictures of real life people just to poke fun at them. Thanks.

This is the problem with internet dating. People focus too much on looks rather than shared interests and personalities. You may dismiss someone who is a nice guy, has a good job, is a good father, simply because they've taken a selfie in a bathroom.

Taking a selfie in a bathroomand selecting that as your profile picture is not about looks, any more than choosing a picture with a car or a fish is.

It's still being dismissive over something very trivial though. I mean 2hat basis for a relationship is someone taken a picture whilst fishing? Honestly this kind of carrying on is what teenage girls do.

They didn't just take a picture while fishing. They chose that picture to represent them on a dating site.

You are presented with dozens of men one after the other and have to select whether they look interesting or not: yes or no, based on that one picture. That's how it works - unless you have the time and energy to meet and have a lovely chat with every single one of them and find out what their character is like.

To be fair, the radiator guy sound hot.

I’ll get my coat.

Well in my opinion these swipe type dating sites are not a serious way to find a proper relationship then. You need to also have some written information to go with as well.

Well then avoid them :) But this thread is about those sites. Hence these answers.

In real life, though, people do usually approach and talk to one another based on superficial looks, too. It's only after that initial choice that you get to know them better. Same as with OLD.

I am with you in one way, though, in that I think it is worth trying a date with someone who's not an obvious choice. But I'd still be put off by a moustache. Just a pet hate!

Yes, but Genie, most men seem to put no text on their profiles thereby requiring you to judge them on their fish/drugged animal/car selfie shots. Which is why I auto-left-swipe textless profiles.

Crikey I hope my photo pssses mister. It was about the message not the looks

Yep, it's the dead fish thing for me...."I'm really attracted to a man holding a dead fish" said no woman......EVER.

Apologies all and particularly to the OP. I shouldn't have posted the first pic (albeit a household object!). Didn't mean to derail an otherwise reassuring and funny thread. It's a fairly weird experience and I'm reassured by how odd everyone finds it.

I've become quite expert at analysing the subtext to these over the years and have compiled a bit of a mental thesaurus of what some of these status clichés actually mean.

University of Life/School of Hard Knocks = didn't get any tertiary education, bit of a chip on the shoulder about it and would be intimidated by a woman who did have any. Don't expect to have conversations with me about politics or culture and bear in mind I'm a Brexiteer.

Open-minded/cheeky = looking for no strings sex and kink.

My kids are my world = don't expect me to stick to regular arrangements and be aware that you'll be a fair way down the pecking order beneath my kids/my ex/the lads at work/.

Free spirit = looking for no strings sex/don't expect me to stick to agreed arrangements.

Physically active, hope you are too = anyone with a dress size of 10 or over need not apply.

Dipping a toe in the water of online dating and having some fun = I'm still not over my ex and am trying to shag around like bilio for a bit while I get her out of my system.

Adventurous and up for a challenge = I'm having a mid-life crisis and spend all my disposable cash on cycling/rock climbing/golf/motorbikes. Please don't expect to take priority over all this action.

I like nights in and nights out = I'm thick as fuck and don't have the imagination to do anything except go to the boozer or fall asleep in front of Netflix.

Looking for a partner in crime/co-pilot = I expect you to be a passive facilitator and fit into my life, no questions asked. And probably cook for me and have sex more or less on demand.

... one more for you .. this morning I had a pic sent with 'man' sat in his bed.. no picture of head just in pants and vest...!still lives with parents and .. wait for it.. up for fun!!! Form an orderly queue ladies 😆

I don't want to sound picky .. but I'm a professional woman on the wrong side of 50🙄 ..just why??

It's still being dismissive over something very trivial though

Yes and? Should we be willing to meet every single man who has a profile on tinder just in case he's much nicer, smarter and funnier than his awful profile suggests?

@usernamefromhell

Nailed it.

I swiped right on my chap because of his Mamil pic - I wanted a man who had his own interests. The rest of his profile was positive, no cliches. He was also happy to chat on text for a while which was what I wanted before voice calls/meeting. It was the best swipe I ever made

I feel the need to point out that the fish in the pics, if they are being held and not on a line are generally alive and get put back in the water. I appreciate though that this isn’t enough to make the men attractive enough to swipe right on

I'm not into men who bother animals in any context tbh