I’m sure my wife wouldn’t mi…
Oh, hi honey! I’m kidding. No, I don’t mean it. Please put down the hammer. No! Not the computjhjhjkklj’l;l;l;
I like to think that I’m a fairly tolerant person, and I’m apparently able to put up with just about anything.
Unless you’re a snob.
Oh. Must be a younger thing - I haven’t seen any women that would be sporting a Mud-flap Girl. I really must get out to the "hip and happenin’"places more…
nah. 
If a woman talks about an ex-boyfriend or two who smacked her around, I know we’re unlikely to get serious. She may find a kind, considerate man fascinating, in a museum kind of way, but I couldn’t offer enough chaos for her life.
That might seem crass, but I don’t mean it that way. A woman who dumps (or, more likely, is dumped by) an abuser is likely to attract another mean, controlling, violent man. She’ll probably need counseling to learn to stop the cycle.
Amen! I’m dealing with this right now and have not “broken it off” so I guess it really isn’t a deal-breaker but it sure is a becoming a major turnoff in regards to continuing the relationship.
MeanJoe
Life is a treadmill. Life with someone who never initiates sex is a StairMaster. Do you really want to work that hard for the next 40 years?
How would you know about this soon enough to have it qualify as an immediate turn off, though?
There’s a glory hole / rest stop / airport bathroom joke somewhere in here…
Small hijack… I sell (among other things) smokeless tobacco in the US. This subject came up with our Copenhagen rep. According to him, snus is like 10 times more popular in Scandinavian countries than it is here. Once, I asked him what the difference was between Skoal “Bandits” and Skoal “pouches,” and he said the difference is the pouch size. “Incidentally, they have about a half-dozen pouch sizes in Norway.” :eek:
Joe
Well obviously, there are physical turn-offs. I would immediately reject a smoker, for example. But for non-physical things in a physical-only relationship? I’ve done some thinking about this. I had a sexual-only thing with this really hot guy for a while. After a couple of ahem encounters, I noticed that he appeared to have some sort of white-power related tattoos*. But while this would be a complete turn off for dating someone or being their friend, it just didn’t affect me on a visceral level. I had an internal intellectual debate about it, but this was over ruled by the sheer amazingness of the sex.
*I asked him about them but didn’t really understand his answers - he said something about his whole family being white power, even his dogs. His dogs btw were dalmations. I tried to explain that races don’t even really exist biologically, but he didn’t want to talk about it. I’m not sure I would even consider him really white, he had a white skin color but he clearly had at least some hispanic background.
I know these are not necessarily reasonable turn-offs. I’m a very fat guy, and I know that that may turn many people off. I don’t care if you don’t like me because I’m fat. I don’t like YOU because :
You smoke. I hate the smell of cig breath immensely. My wife smokes maybe one cigarette on New Year’s Eve - she knows that she may not get lucky that night.
You are actively politically conservative. Whichever party you identify with is irrelevant. I am very liberal, but not a Democrat. I support total freedom, in general. The more regulations you favor, the less I like you.
You are religious. My wife is a spiritual atheist - she does not believe in god, but thinks that something outside of our perceptions may be out there. That’s fine. My father-in-law is a wonderful man, who I’d be proud to be compared to, except that he’s hard-core Methodist. My sister-in-law, his daughter, has rebelled against him in the extreme - she was an atheist for years, but has become a pagan, and gone so far as to lead a coven. Sorry, that’s just as bad as your dad.
You are less intelligent than I am. I might be a genius. I might not. But I’m definitely SMART. If you’re not able to at least compete with me while watching Jeopardy!, then good-bye.
You are not REASONABLE. I hold my beliefs and opinions securely. But, despite my attitude in this post, I am an eminently reasonable man. I am great at seeing all sides of an issue. If you are a black-and-white, rigid person, I’m not interested.
I’m sure there are more, but my eyes are glazing over…
Joe
[edit]Oh yeah, this is important :
You can judge how truly “nice” someone is based upon how they treat the waiter. Treat him or her less poliely than you would treat me, and I’m gone.
Liking Kitties is a big plus…
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Joe
Heh, heh, heh.
Saw a guy in a parking lot yesterday. He appeared to be compensating for his receding hairline by growing the length out. This would have been a non-issue if not for my concerns that he might contract whiplash for all his incessant hair flipping. He flip, and then check his look in every possible reflective surface. Pathetic.
Alright, so I didn’t answer the question earlier so I’ll give it a shot now.
Instant turn-offs:
Make-up at the gym - It is a gym, not a night club. Nothing wrong with looking good but looking good should include getting sweaty while working out. Next stop, vapid Paris/Lindsey/Barbie bucket for you!
Talking on your cell phone at the gym - Die bitch, die. I don’t care how hot you are, you have now been dropped into my “vapid Paris/Lindsey/Barbie” bucket.
FUPA - Sorry but no. I like women with curves, I like women who are thin. I like women who are tall, and I like women who are short. I like medium/large boobs and I like a-cup boobs. I think I’m reasonably open minded but the FUPA just immediately turns me off.
Bad dental hygenie - Self-explanatory. Toothbrush and toothpaste, please!
Gossip - Lesson learned from past relationship, my ex would bad-mouth to me about all of our friends. She would bad mouth friends “behind their back” to other friends. It was just such a negative vibe and I slowly became sucked into it and found myself not liking myself or the attitude I had. So now I’m probably a bit sensitive to it in others more than is reasonable.
Baby-voice - If you talk to everyone with your voice unnaturally raised an octive as if you were talking to a two year old, into the bucket with you.
That’s all I can think of for now.
MeanJoe
What means FUPA?
sigh
FUPA. Fat Upper Pelvic Area. AKA pussy gut. 
This actually isn’t as bad as speaking only to certain people with your voice unnaturally raised an octave. For example:
cell phone rings
(normal voice) “Hello, this is Amber.”
pause
(three octaves higher) “Oh! Hiiiiiiiii, Chad. What up?” :rolleyes:
You don’t really mean this, do you? If she’s better at jeapoardy, does she get to drop you?
Another vote for being rude or overbearing with the waitstaff, or unambiguously flirting with the waitress. (I haven’t yet met a man who flirted with the waiter, but it’s probably only a matter of time.)
And you can tell a lot about a person by their car radio pre-sets.
This is getting exhausted, but I’ll chyme in with a few more. These are social turnoffs as much as dating turnoffs for me:
You use a car to get around the city. If you live in the burbs or the country or something, fine. But when you drive two miles from your urban apartment to an urban restaurant, my respect for you plummets, especially considering that you’ll spend as much time looking for parking as you would taking the bus (or as much cash as you would taking a cab).
You wear ridiculously overpriced clothes. I’ve met a few women who will spend as much on a pair of shoes as I do on monthly rent. Sorry, that’s not classy; it’s pretentious. (AFAIC, the sexiest shoes a woman can wear are Chuck Taylors, but I’m a little weird).
You judge other people based on their tastes/opinions when they don’t affect you at all. I’ve been in social settings where someone’s walked in with an iPod and was greeted with, “oh, you’re one of them.” Why do you care if he has an iPod? He wasn’t blasting his music at you. He even turned the thing off as soon as he stepped in. I’ll fully admit to being a beer snob, but if your honest-to-god favorite beer is Bud Light or Pabst Blue Ribbon, more power to you. This ties in with…
…You choose your preferences because they’re “cool”. Like I said, if PBR is legitimately your favorite beer, great. I’ll even honor the argument that you drink it because it’s cheap. But if you’re drinking it because it’s what all the cool kids drink, that’s just lame. And this counts double if you choose your preferences because they’re not cool. Sorry, that went out in high school.
You have unyielding beliefs. Maybe it’s because I know a lot more of them, but I personally find hardcore atheists nearly as annoying as religious fundamentalists. At least the latter generally accept that it’s a matter of faith, but no science has ever proven the nonexistence of a higher power. Science may be the best tool we’ve got, but it can’t prove or disprove everything (if only because our current technology isn’t good enough). Saying something doesn’t exist because science hasn’t proved it is as nearsighted as saying it doesn’t exist because it wasn’t in the Bible. Apples still fell before Newton came along. [/rant]
You expect others to accommodate the strict boundaries you’ve set for yourself. You’re a vegan? Great. I respect that. Hell, I was a vegan for seven years. But don’t go out to dinner with 15 people and throw a hissyfit when everything has cheese on it. Either plan in advance or suffer quietly.