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?!

The keyhole c-section one has reminded me of a uni boyfriend I had!

You know the advice "don't believe everything you hear in the papers"?

Obviously it is good advice, especially when it comes to celebrities etc.

However, there was a big story in the papers about successful surgery on conjoined twins (this was in the late 90s before there was much in the way of CGI, AI or even photoshop) with lots of photos and information about the procedure, interviews with the surgeon etc.

Anyway, he read the story and then said "I don't believe that that really happened"

So he therefore believed the far less likely story that several newspapers conspired to fake a story about surgery, involved a prestigious surgeon in it and then mocked up photos of two newborn babies as part of the hoax?

I still think about that now and then.

RenoDakota · Today 16:56
I love this whole thread but love this post the most. The sage advice 😄

For context, I'm GenX. There was no online anything when I was younger but the ick was a social menace even back then. As an elder, it's my duty to pass this knowledge on. It's a jungle out there Reno 😁

A side step from the jungle and into the circus for another ick. It wasn't an online bloke but a guy trying to chat me up in a bar many years ago. I don't remember (and can't imagine) why, but something prompted him to pretend he was walking a tightrope with some perilous wobbling for dramatic effect.

He also ''diddle dee dee'd'' the circus music. Terrible description but at around 12 seconds on this video you'll know what tune I'm talking about.....

My friend and I almost died from second hand embarrassment.

I love you @PumaKinPie
If you are not already, you should be a writer.

RenoDakota

Thank you. In all seriousness, you don't know how important that was for me to read ❤

Topless pics
Tongue out
Holding a fish
Calling me babe or sexy etc
Smoking in photos
In bed in pics
"Here for a good time not a long time"
"You do you"
Pics of his kids in profile (don't mind if their faces are covered)

Any wonder I'm single.

❤️

My biggest ick was from an incident I've spent a lot of time trying to erase from my memory bank. For the good of the thread however, I'll share.

A guy I'd been seeing for a few weeks left a shit in my toilet. I was unaware of it until he'd gone. I went into the bathroom and there it was. A big, fat turd lolling about in the bowl. I steadied myself against the doorframe and backed out as if I'd discovered a murder scene. 😱

Terrible business. I noticed that it was thicker than his dick. For some strange reason I thought even less of him because of that 🤔

We were finished at that point.

Mint sauce guy is the best

This wasn't a date but a bloke I knew was such a weirdo. I met him once for lunch and he was eating a bag of chicken thighs. The hot ones you get from a cabinet in Sainsbury's. He was eating them with his hands.
We were sitting outside the pub and when he finished eating, instead of going inside to the toilets to wash his hands, he tried to pretend he wanted to hug me so he could wipe his greasy fingers on my jacket?! Disgusting. I never spoke to him again.

Omg 😭

BobbyBiscuits · Today 19:35

That reminded me of my chicken related ick. I went for dinner with a bloke to an Italian restaurant. I ordered chicken cacciatore. When it arrived he glanced at it and said,

'that looks like an abortion'

Not only did I get the ick with him but I also got the ch-ick for my food as well.....😡

Omg WHY that is wrong in so many ways.

I've actually died at the sitting down wee. I've never witnessed one in my life, let alone on a date!!

One guy was very good looking in photos. But seemed to be hassling me in a hurry to meet. Told me he doesn’t stay single long quickly gets a girlfriend. That translated to me as not that fussy. No thanks. He was so annoyed that I didn’t want to know.

Many years ago I went on a date with a guy who was a big flash . He was a city trader and turned up on a Porsche.
We went out for dinner that he paid for (I later found out he’d put it on his work card as expenses for entertaining a client)

He then said he knew a nice bar nearby that we could go to for a nightcap. As we pulled up outside he looked a bit confused said’ I think it must have changed owners it looks different’ but we went in anyway - and it was a lap dancing bar now.

And he actually said ‘we might as well stay and get a drink while we’re here’ so there was me on a date with virtually naked young women grinding up against poles and straddling men all around us. And my date was desperately trying to keep eye contact with me with a succession of tits and arses passed by our faces 🤣🤣

@RosaBaby2 the best/worst online dating profiles I've ever seen were one guy who had scribbled out the face of his wife, yes, the one in the white wedding dress stood next to him, and one guy dressed as a clown. Camera up the nostrils car shots are ten a penny.

They just have no idea!!! Uggghhh

I've just been unmatched by a man who seemed very nice and normal.
Up to the point where he said he was looking for a long term relationship "with heaps of naughty, mischevious fun. With someone who was sensual, sexy and tactile. Who gave great kisses, hugs and more".

I politely suggested that we might be looking for different things.
So he called me a prude and unmatched me.

I'm suddenly seeing loads of men specifying that they are "definitely not vanilla", which just seems like a gigantic red flag to me.

Oh yes! Instant no from me!!

It's just creepy, surely you need to get to know someone

Even then it's yuck

Yep me too. Or the ones who feel the need to put in their profile that they’re very highly sexed.

I got asked if my periods were regular as he wanted children. Apparently the last woman he'd dated had wasted his time as she had endometriosis.

Arrived for a dinner date. He was already half way through eating a dinner. He'd been too hungry to wait.

He pissed all over my bathroom floor. I trod in it... in my socks.

I had a date with a guy who asked if I needed to go and turned out he has a piss fettish sounds like that guy did too 😂 was his name Alex the date sounds identical haha