What are some things that give you the ICK in men ? Here are mine.

[joseline]

1. A man who doesn’t have a passport and never travelled out of their country. You mean to tell me you never got out of the country ? Two possibilities. You are an extreme nationalist and think other countries are inferior. Or you simply boring. I am not into people who refuses to travel. People who refuses to travel are the grouchiest motherfuckers ever.
2. A man who drives a big ass oversized pick up truck or SUV. Not the F150s. Those are reasonable sized trucks. I am talking about those men who drive ford F250s or even Ford F650s and GMC sierras, Cadillac Escalade. You are not cool at all. You look stupid.
3. A self proclaimed passport bro. Women in the US and other western countries aren’t tolerating your bullshit so you go in the poorest areas in developing countries and seek desperate women seeking refuge and you taking advantage of that.
4. A man who is afraid to fly. Plane crashes are rare and there are millions of planes flying right now worldwide and 9 times out of 10 they land safely. They take the passengers from A to B without incidents. Even banned airlines from third world countries rarely have crashes. Lock in and face your fears fuck face 🙄.
5. A man who is a vegan or a climate activists. If you start lecturing me about how using AC or heat is damaging the planet or how eating meat is cruel you getting blocked 🚫.
6. A man who voted for trump. You supporting a predator if you voted for that orange dictator.
7. A man who does travels but only goes to all inclusive resort destinations or stick to the crowded touristic areas or even worst, uses travel agents to book trips. That’s what peasants do. Get out of my face. Say I am with a man and he says “oh let’s go spend a week in Montego Bay Jamaica at this nice all inclusive or let’s go to Punta Cana” it would be an instant turnoff. If a man invites me to a cruise or some all inclusive dystopia, I am breaking up with him through text message and I am blocking his number and I am blocking him on all social media pages.
8. a man who is rude to waiters and waitresses.
9. a man who is broke.
10. a man who has no female friends.

LOL @RedStars this really made me chuckly "irrationally concerned with men's passports" ! Brilliant!

+1 for guitar players - not just at parties, owning or playing a guitar.

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bad shoes including those horror show dessert boot things Prince Harry wears all the time.

slip on loafers with no socks.

signet ring unless you actually are the eldest son of a duke. Most commonly worn by Honorable sons of life peers or others trying to fake aristocracy.

hairy backs

hairy neck - where there is no clean break to the head hair and no clear neck skin just a continuing creep of black fur.

hairy neck - where there is no clean break to the head hair and no clear neck skin just a continuing creep of black fur

Gosh, that made me giggle!

Oh OP! You’re an absolute scream! Never heard of Grenada? St Lucia…..stop!! You’re killing me!!!

I'm guessing your quite lonely OP.

Are you American? you sound obsessed with passports, not travelling & Trump?

You’re obviously American. Most Europeans have a much better knowledge of geography and have heard of the places you’ve mentioned, I know I certainly have. Incidentally, a lot of those aren’t sovereign states, but are overseas territories, so the use of ‘countries’ can be debated.

What gives me the ick in men is less to do with what they’ve done or where they’ve been, and much more around character, intelligence and hygiene.

You rule yourself out of a lot of great men there.

My DP is vegan. He doesnt impose or force anything on us. I would defy anyone to tell with some of his meals whether its vegan, some are the exact same taste/texture/look as the non vegan alternative. Plus they are healthier
Red meat in particular is very unhealthy.

He is an empath and a deeply caring man...im very glad I dont share your ridiculous assumptions!

Who hasn't heard of Surinam or St Lucia or Grenada? I mean that's just basic general knowledge as are the rest of them.

New Caledonia isn't a country anyway as far as I'm aware. It's a French overseas territory.

Edited to add: if you are American, this would make more sense as would the bit about everyone only going to Jamaica and the Bahamas. This is website is very heavily orientated towards the UK and has a bulk of UK posters. We have a wider geographical education at school and tend to do a lot of short haul European travel which gives us a wider knowledge generally. Our news media is very outward looking and will frequently feature foreign countries showing their location on a map. It maybe different for much younger people who just live on their phones today but those who grew up in the UK watching broadcast news will have a much wider geographical knowledge than average person in the USA. Its a big country and its news is very inward looking. It really needs to be a war or a major disasater out of the USA to get into headlines.

That made me LOL too. I went to a wedding in St Lucia about 10 years ago.

And who hasn't heard of Grenada?! 😆

As has been said (by a few posters) many British people are way more well-travelled than most Americans.

I had an American penpal around 2010 to 2015, who I wrote to for 4 or 5 years, until it just fizzled out. She was a mum of 5 children, married at 18, had her first child at 19, and her fifth at 29. She had never left the USA, and had only been to 5 other states. And never more than 3 hours drive. Never even had a passport, and had never been on a plane.

She was from Newark, New Jersey, and the only states she had been to were Maryland, (Baltimore,) Delaware, (Wilmington, and also Dover,) New York (Manhattan,) Pennslvanyia, (Philadephia,) and Connecticut, (New Haven.) All within two or three hundred miles.

She was endlessly impressed and in awe at the amount of countries I had visited. About 15 or 16 European ones, 3 Asian ones, 3 African ones, and also the USA. I have also been to The Carribean.

Wasn't a big deal to me, as many people I know have been to a dozen different countries or more. (And often 2 or 3 different continents, sometimes more...) Both my DC are around 30 years old, and have already been to around 25 different countries on 4 continents.. So far. (They went to around 12 countries with us, as children, including the USA.)

The OP @joseline has gone a bit quiet. 👀

And 'you put the milk in first' 😁

You been to Dominica?? Wow

Are you shitting me? 😂

I'm from Rennes OP and have family in Nantes and Vannes. Both Rennes and Nantes are massively popular with tourists.

As you just demonstrated.

Incidentally 45-50% of Americans don't have a passport.

I bet you're one of them. 😉

@PatchouliPrincess

Incidentally 45-50% of Americans don't have a passport.

Actually. I think it's a bit higher than that. It's currently around 52 to 53% of Americans who don't have a passport.

Compare this to the British. Only around 13% of Brits don't have a passport!

What's wrong with using a travel agent? I use one to book our family holidays, they are far better at finding truly beautiful and unusual places than I am.......because that's their job.

As for red flags in men,
Men who lie
Men who think they are michelin grade chefs
Men who play golf 😴
Men who drive like maniacs
Light fingered men
Men who want to move in within 6 weeks
Men with poor personal hygiene

I'd like a nice normal intelligent man, someone who reads, and is capable of having a political discussion without ranting.

This is all just a humble brag isn't it? 🤢 ⬅️ Everyone's got the ick.

When you say light fingered men do you mean ones that steal or those that have dainty hands?

I'd have to have dainty hands on my list.😬

I once went on a date with a man who had damp, dainty hands. He had really shiny nails too and there was a bit of dirt under his thumb nail.

I still feel the ick now 😩

But in your other thread OP you said you lived in Nantes, France. Are you confused?

None of these things are the ick. That's when someone you actually know does something innocuous but enough to put you off them. Like wiping their nose on their sleeve. Or saying mmmm yum when eating.

These are just general examples of behaviour and weird people to avoid in general.

What about Auchtermuchty OP? Have you ever been there? I have…

Ohhhh me too 😆

Those who steal.

😂😂😂😂

In what world do you live that "men who steal" give you the ick?

Surely criminal activity is just an absolute no go area. It's repugnant to start with not low level 'ick'. Are you living in a1920s gangster movie or something surrounded by ex-cons?

It's like saying murder or arson give you the ick.

Ick is at the sort of level like socks with sandals or holding a knife like a pen not indictable offences.

Plane crashes are rare and there are millions of planes flying right now worldwide and 9 times out of 10 they land safely.

If this was true it would definitely reasonable to be scared! 😂

A man who is vegan is not a problem unless he imposes his view onto you.

I think the OP likes beach holidays?