Small things that have given you the ick when online dating

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Does anyone else fancy a laugh about the traumas of online dating (lighthearted) and that feeling of getting the ick mid-date?

I had a really silly one recently where I went on a third date with someone. I was already in the minds about him.

Anyway, we'd done an activity then went to get food afterwards and it was ordered on screens. The previous date I had paid and so it was already agreed that he was buying me lunch.

All good.

So, we got to the bit where the screens to order food were. I'm used to doing this in McDonald's for my kids 🤣 and always usher them to go ahead and put their food order in. So I suppose unconsciously I was expecting him to let me go first?

What he actually did was RUSH to the machine ahead, of me JAB in his order so hard he nearly broke the machine and just kind of....stood there. I sort of waited for him to offer me the screen and he didn't say anything. So I silently put my order in.

It seems such a small thing, and it is a small thing. But it took me back to being a child ans having a sibling who will rush to get on the swings before you 🤣

Thankfully I never slept with him but I can imagine how it would have gone.

Has anyone else got the ick from something as petty or is it just me?!

Another motorist was tailgating my date's car. My date slowed right down on purpose, waited for the motorist to try and overtake, then hit the accelerator.

I can't decide if this is an ick or a very fair reason to go off someone - but definitely an instant ick.

There wasn't another date.

Here's a list of shallower reasons I've had the ick:

• Saying "uwu" in text conversations
• Calling me "dear"
• Mixing up "you're" and "your"

Got asked out by a guy that I knew through friends and said no. Thought that was the end of that. He was on a mutual group chat and I asked for recommendations for my business website from the group. He made a load of suggestions and told me it’s his line of work, and he could cut me a cheap deal, if I’m free at any point to meet to discuss it. I ignored a couple of his one to one texts but as I was working in his area the following week, I said I’d meet him after work for a quick drink and discussion. As soon as I got there he said he’d booked a restaurant, insisted he’s already paid and our booking was in ten minutes. I felt uncomfortable but went along, had food, insisted on paying my half which he refused to the point of being offended. Was looking for excuses to leave on the way out, when he grabbed my hand, and I pulled it away. Then told me he loves me and had loved me for a long time, to which I said, we really don’t know each other and clearly you have the wrong idea about what this is. He said, it’s a date. I said no, it’s not a date. He said it 100% is a date, you even let me pay for dinner. I said right I’m going to go home now, he said, but when I met you I thought you’d be the one to have my children. I said, I don’t want anymore children, and it’s not a date. He insisted on walking me back to the station. I asked him if he’s very desperate to have children, and he said yes, he’s getting older and it’s his last chance. I said, what if you fall in love with someone and they can’t have children, isn’t it important to marry someone you love no matter what is ahead of you. He looked thoroughly disgusted and said “YOU are a healthy young woman aren’t you, why wouldn’t you be able to have children.

for fucks sake

I blocked him soon as I got home

Not only did he coerce every step of the way, but he refused to alnowldge it was not a date, and was clearly looking for a last shot incubator for his unborn children, no matter how much I insisted it wasn’t a date, he was determined we were going to have kids 🤣

I went on date once with a guy who mid date told me that he loved being pissed on! I mean why would you bring that up on date 1!

Instant ick.

What the actual f have I read?

Enjoying this thread, making me feel normal!

Mine is pretty standard and was before any date - matched with someone on match.com mid 50s with a shirtless photo.. username horndog69 NO THANKYOU

Now that's EWWWW.

Is that a man saying... uwu....

Holy hecking crap.

Aren't you glad he did though?

Imagine 3 months in and you find that out. Wasted time.

Yep saw one this week 50 something user name cuntmuncher

🤢🤢

I’m half-afraid to ask, but what is ‘uwu’?

That was like a second date I had recently in which he revealed he was bisexual and enjoyed naked wrestling with men while on drugs. I was welcome to join their druggy wrestling parties apparently.

I think this is my husband 🤣

To be fair this is me, just not in public, only when I’m alone 🤣

I had one who had the contents of his bathroom cupboard laid out like surgical instruments about to be used in an operation.

And another who suddenly announced he wanted to wear a cock cage and be cuckolded.

And one who felt it was too much commitment to be expected to wish me a happy birthday.

One who bought me a sandwich and made a point of saying, "The next one's on you." He also had disturbingly long fingernails on one hand.

One who had no job and declared he wanted me to give him "a cuggle".

And one who told me repeatedly that he was going to fuck my brains out, while my brains remained very much in situ.

Etc., etc.

Christ, not all the same guy I hope!

Yep, it was a man! (A young man, but still...)

He also loved Disney and had a picture of him wearing cat ears but it was the uwu-ing that really icked him for me.

@Mumlaplomb is he from Hull? 😀
@songaboutjam but what does uwu mean?

No - there must be another one 🤣

It's an emoticon that's supposed to represent two closed eyes and a jaggedy smile. One of those "cutesy" ones that is heavily associated with a certain subset of Internet users (mostly hardcore anime fans and furries - and sometimes young teenage girls).

It's widely despised - kind of the Jar Jar Binks of the online world. Sometimes people use it "ironically", i.e. for a joke or when satirising certain Internet speech patterns. I myself like to annoy certain friends with it. But this guy was 100% serious in his usage.

Was her date Boris Johnson?

Still laughing at maggot man
I was mid fifties the last time i went OLD

several guys who on profiles have jobs and when you meet them have long term health conditions which means they are not working , no I'm not going to keep you on my wages,

the ones who's pictures are ten years out of date be honest

one profile the pic of him in his obviously hoarder kitchen nope

one guy i met spent most of the first date telling me how his last GF had tried to scam him out of his money no other conversation i just said look mate this isn't working

saying this I met my current partner online dating from date one he was a gentleman we both had interests in common, (motorbikes and live gigs music) good job ,yes at first he was totally the opposite looks wise of what i usually went for but the slow burn sometimes pays off (10 years later)

I would love to see the opposite version of this thread horror meets from a male perspective

Okay don't come for me but this is meant to be uwu sound. It makes me cringe a woman saying it, let alone a date....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PqIMNE7QBSQ

A very apt quote: "I wish I had the confidence of an incredibly average white man"

Why white?