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Author and cartoonist Scott Adams once noted that “Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.”

And while you can explain lotteries using numbers, and religion using philosophy, dating, relationships, and love in general are tough nuts to crack. But some still do try to explain themselves when it comes to dating, even if their reasoning is petty.

Not too long ago, folks on Reddit shared reasons—petty, yet more or less still rightful or fair enough ones, and sometimes just plain weird—to not date someone. And if you’ve been here long enough, you’ll know we covered a similar thread not too long ago, so you can check that out once you’re done with this one.

So, scroll down to enjoy some of the best and most entertaining responses to the now-viral thread, which garnered over 36,000 upvotes, and be sure to share your petty 'never dating this person' stories in the comment section below.

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#1

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group Chews with their mouth open.

eyksm , Richard Report

#2

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group “‘cUs sHe TeXteD LiKe dIs! :):):):) :p:p:p:p =))))))”

shrillysoupygusto , Tricia Report

#3

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group I can't date anyone with lip injections. It felt super unnatural kissing her. Like kissing a baboon with rigor mortis.

RealGrendel , *highlimitzz Report

#4

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group I instantly noped out of an otherwise fine blind date when she ordered apple juice - off menu - at a fancy restaurant. 19-year-old me only knew apple juice as a toddler's drink, and I just couldn't get past it.

I'm no longer that petty. But I did make the mistake of mentioning this to my wife once, many years ago. And she now makes a habit of ordering apple juice whenever we're at a fancy restaurant, just to see if I squirm.

pbspry , Glenn Robinson Report

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#5

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group I almost broke up with a girl when she was trying to be seductive and yanked my book out of my hand and closed it losing my spot.

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#6

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group My wife once told me she couldn't be with someone who wasn't around the same level of intelligence as she. I have no idea how I'm going to keep it a secret that I'm a f*****g idiot the rest of our lives.

seenthewolf , Andrea Parrish - Geyer Report

#7

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group I had a guy break up with me in high school because God told him to… I was like uh okay guess I can’t argue with that one.

GreatPancakee , Micael Faccio Report

#8

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group She said i drove slow on our date. She likes men that live "dangerously"


It snowed heavily while we were at a fancy dinner. I was in my father's car because I had just gotten back from Iraq.


She called me a week later, I said I need a woman that is more down to earth.

S*****nwithmykitten , Nicolas Vigier Report

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#9

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group Live, laugh, love style home decor.

XenophonOnTheLawn , Amina Ebrahim Report

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Zoe's Mom
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was in my late 20's when a guy told me that my living room looked like his grandma's. I had plaid sofas and collected figurines. In hindsight, I guess it did. LOL

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#10

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group People that like to “debate” too much. I’m all for having your own opinion but when someone thinks they have to be the devil’s advocate constantly? No thanks.

sylvy8991 , Mussi Katz Report

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Nathaniel
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone needs to be the Devil's advocate so you can have a well reasoned discussion and assess all the viewpoints and information. EDITED People missing the joke, I am playing devils advocate....

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#11

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group She ate pizza with her hands.No, not like you think. She would scoop up the toppings in a messy pile and like a animal, claw them up and eat them then rip the bread and eat it.We were at a fancy italian place and I got horrified.

Breadrozt , Sam DeLong Report

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PuggerWugger
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

On another note, does anyone happen to know which restaurant the picture was taken at? (asking for a friend...)

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#12

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group Into star signs and the like. To the point of being reminded what sign you are which somehow has an effect of who you and your personality traits lol

Slug212 , pxhere Report

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Nathaniel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do not worry, I am a Leo, and we Leo's do not believe in that astrology nonsense.

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#13

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group If their Instagram is nothing but selfies, especially if they’re striking the same pose in every shot. I had a match like that and it honestly creeped me out.

Ellemeno , César Report

#14

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group If they're super into Disney stuff, it creeps me out for some reason.

OkCoast9806 , DAVID BURILLO Report

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LH25
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a cousin who loves Disney. So does her hubby. For years, they would only go to different Disney Parks for vacation. I had to laugh one day when their oldest, about 10 at the time, asked if they could please go somewhere that wasn't Disney

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#15

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group They pronounce the word "expresso" when they mean "espresso", or "expecially" instead of "especially."

Grimace_aintnoshake , Kanesue Report

#16

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group She talks to people like they're a hundred meter away from her.

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#17

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group She did that thing with her voice where every sentence she said ended with a question mark.

Follow-up: Since so many people have asked, she was not Australian. She's American.

Pennaflumen , Ivan Radic Report

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#18

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group Ended things with a guy over various other reasons, but the most annoying was how many times he told me that "He'd leave me for Miranda Lambert in a heart beat". Which okay, I get it some people have a 'list' of celebrities they'd leave their S/O over, mostly as a joke. But this was like everyday, just randomly said not related to the conversations we were having at the time, and he meant it. He made sure I understood that if for some god forsaken reason Miranda Lambert walked in through the front door, I was gone.

Kiasurp17 , mirandalambert Report

#19

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group She insisted on hanging out at home. She lived with like 6 people, and they always had friends over. I felt like a bf extra on Friends or Seinfeld.

NewEnglandRoastBeef , Phil! Gold Report

#20

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group She didn't like museums.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm really, really fond of museums, so much so, I'd rather go by myself.

NicNor5560
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are so many different kind of museum out there, so many choices; they are not all boring stuff (for her) to look at and not all of them are about the past. We have one here that shows you how they mint our money. How chocolate is made. What our bodies look like inside and out. So much more.

Nemo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I once met a guy who didn't like art. It was baffling. There is so much variety and you can't find something that you like? That seems impossible. It was not that he wasn't interested in art but he actively hated it, all of it. Which painting or sculpture hurt you bro?

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Nikole
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ummm...? And here I am, wanting to live in The Field Museum for the last 30 or so years...

LostSage
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a child I was forced to go museums when all I wanted to do was play sports and video games -- museums are only good for dates and then the main attraction would still be the girl and not the museum lol

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Vicki Thill
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think she probably liked museums just fine. I was invited to an art museum on a first date. I thought he asked me to go to the museum because he knew I studied Art History. Nope. He spewed ridiculous "facts" about the pieces and was angry when an associate gently tried to inform him of authentically documented truths. I was able to look past the lack of knowledge about Art History, because who cares, but I couldn't look past him getting angry after the associate was so gentle with their correction. He got so angry, like fists balled up, and telling me that they don't know what they are talking about. Yeah, that'll be a nope for dinner and drinks.

Spencer McClure
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some people find museums to be boring and I respect that. Some people find those people weird and I respect that as well. Just don't be a douche about it to or with either one of them.

Richard Black
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How can anyone not be envlessly fascinated nmby stolen mummies, brontosauurus skeletons with the skull atvthe wrong end, and piortrairs of our slave owning foundung fathers,

Lachlan Campbell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate being in museums. All they are too me are memories of what has been lost and im already depressed enough as it is.

Deux
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ooh that museum is in my city, I'm going tomorrow. There used to be giant pools full of catfish but people used to throw coins into it so they were removed. The stuffed body of Dolly the Sheep is there.

DeadLetterOffice
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Her purgatory will be being locked inside the Louvre. With a Francis Bacon exhibit. And no Wi-Fi.

Craig Reynolds
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So? What is wrong with you? If you want a gender opposite replica of yourself, you are going to go through life quite lonely! Perhaps the smart move for you would be to look for a compatible partner in a museum!

Older
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just want to point out that the photo here is not a museum. It is the Queen Victoria Building (QVB) in Sydney, Australia. It is not a museum. It is a shopping mall. Granted, it is one that I recommend people visit. It has some pretty unique shops. There was one shop that was licensed to sell large art prints of Dr. Seuss works.

Mozzarella
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well I don’t either, but hear me out. A lot of the things in the museums probably had a risk of being damaged, although the ones on display weren’t. I also hate looking at the past, because, imo, it is a way of remembering the crimes and horrors that were committed (there were a lot trust me)

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#21

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group He ate with closed fists around his utensils like a toddler and his face right up to his food like someone was going to steal it.

Firejen , Donnie Ray Jones Report

#22

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group My grandparents were very southern. When I was a kid, I spent the night at their house and heard them…wrestling. I heard my grandpa say my grandma’s name, Sarah, but with his accent he said “Ooh Say-ruh!”

I met a girl named Sarah who was also southern. When she introduced herself as “Say-ruh” I had to nope out. It just gave me the heebie jeebies.

Sp3nc3r420 , Vladimir Pustovit Report

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RJ
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m guessing this is a post from the US, but as a Brit I’m pissing myself imagining someone trying to talk seductively with a strong Somerset accent.

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#23

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group He wore fake glasses and didn't like vegetables.

DHKillinger , Nate Steiner Report

#24

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group White spittle gathering at the edge of the mouth. I can forgive or overlook a lot of things, but that’s an instant turnoff.

Edit: Every day is a school day! Apparently this can be a sign of dehydration or linked to another condition I’ve seen called Angular Cheilitis.

PlasticFannyTastic , Ralf Steinberger Report

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Kusotare
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a massive crush on a girl until I noticed this very thing. I could not bring myself to kiss her!

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#25

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group Loud person. No. I hate it.

iamthecherryontop , istolethetv Report

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NicNor5560
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mute button is to kill off convos. Volume is because they are too loud. I would use both.

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#26

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group She had the same name as my mom.

waqasnaseem07 , Dennis Yang Report

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Nathaniel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, I agree with this one. Too weird getting hot and heavy and then saying your mum's name.

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#27

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group They are deathly allergic to nuts.

The idea of never having Nutella or Snickers again- or risk killing my partner with a kiss- is too much.

Pithy- , Cowbell Solo Report

#28

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group Only went on one date but he named his cat Creamy, and the way he said it grossed me out.

GoBanana42 , steve p2008 Report

#29

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group She had the same first name and last name as my grandpa.

Fit_Sheepherder_3894 , Simon Kellogg Report

#30

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group I broke up with a pretty hot girl when I was younger because she didn’t swing her arms when she walked. It just looked weird and reminded me of a gorilla. Really stupid reason I know, but it just looked so stupid and I couldn’t overcome it.

Macklemonster , Gareth Williams Report

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Scott Crowell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well that what you get for buying the cheaper version of the new life like dolls. Next time spring for the upgrades, like I did.

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#32

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group If they have the same name as either of my brothers or my dad lol, no.

puppersrlyf , Andrew Hill Report

#33

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group Inability to form a coherent sentence in text

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#34

I was raised as a fairly sheltered white kid in a very white American suburb. When i was around 20 i went on an okcupid date with a guy named Manuel, and although i had several valid reasons for not pursuing a third date, im ashamed to say that i distinctly recall feeling weird about the prospect of getting into a relationship with a guy named Manuel because it felt weird for me to pronounce his name. Yes, I was THAT sheltered.

Akmost 15 years later, after having lived the past 8 years of my life in a South Asian country, and 5 years into a committed relationship with a man from this country whose name as as far from white/western culture as it gets, I cringe so hard at the thought process I had at that time

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Jerry Mathers
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No cringe needed. You have grown as a person. Just the fact that you do cringe tells you just how far. Many folks never get anywhere close to that far. You pay yourself on the back for moving past the small minded, narrow view of the world and celebrate your appreciation of the differences of others.

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#35

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group My boss's daughter's ex bf broke up with her because they had a Dyson and he said he wouldn't be able to keep up with her extravagant lifestyle.

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#36

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group Wasn't my pettiness, but a girl I went on a few dates with wouldn't date me because she wanted to be the "artistic" one in the relationship and she was worried that me being a musician would spoil that for her.

Edit: wasn’t real deep into it, it was just a couple of dates. I don’t feel negatively toward her. She was a nice enough person lol. Also, music isn’t my career, more of a passionate hobby. I work in IT by day.

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Octavia Hansen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had to quit dating a songwriter (he called himself since no one else would) or I was going to have to listen to his terrible atonal C&W songs the rest of my life. No thanks!

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#37

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group Minions. Really hit it off and couldn’t look past the love of minions. Can’t stand em.

P00p_Smoothie , Mike Mozart Report

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#38

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group She had the feminine version of my name and that’s just too cutesy.

pierremanslappy , My United States of Whatever Report

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Kusotare
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of the sweetest couples I have ever known were Jack and Jacki. RIP, Jack.

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#39

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group I dated a guy and he pulled out Sudafed nasal spray. Said he had bad sinuses. I too had Sudafed and bad sinuses. Decided to cut it short so as to not breed the chronic rhinitis.

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#40

Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group Her favourite song was "The Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran.

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#41

Years ago I stopped dating someone once I realised he had weird nails.

*edited to add - weird as in clubbed fingers - so it was a medical or genetic issues - which makes my 20 year old self a vain biatch a*****e!!

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#42

I didn't like the way she ate a grilled cheese sandwich.

There were more reasons, but this was the deal breaker.

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#43

She was too aggressively normal.

Edit: I meant she was too sane and well-adjusted. Anyone like that is clearly hiding /something/.

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Nathaniel
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am not hiding anything. My mum hides though, in the basement. For some reason people think she died years ago.

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#44

Taking a long time to reply message but having read the message, and replying with one word.

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#45

Having dated two, I now have a "no nurses" rule.

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