I thought I would turn this around now. My biggest turn off is simply rude people. If you act like you are to good to talk to me then I feel your not worth any effort on my part!!!!

Rudeness is definitely a big turn off.
Pretentiousness and arrogance are others.

And if a date says "Comic books are stupid!" and giggles -- well then, FORGET IT!

Serious icky qualities are judgmental, rudeness, trash talkers. Smoking is a DEFINITE turn-off as is any kind of drug use. Guys who aren't interested in affection, such as kissing, holding hands, etc.

Guys who are more interested in "acting" straight then just being themselves. But also VERY effeminate guys. Especially when they constantly call other guys by female pronouns. Such as "look at her" or "ooh, isn't she tacky" when they are talking about a guy. Its cool to nelly out on occasion, we all do, but not constantly.

I had a bunch of turn-ons so it only makes sense that I have a few turn-offs.

Calebs picture major turn-on!!!!!

a smoker on a hot day

men with hairy backs at the pool

girls with a paunch and sporting a tight midriff

BLUSH

Actually, I was just thinking it makes me look chubby. Still, if it gets a "turn-on" quote then I shall be a happy camper.

Hmmmm...

A bore is a total turnoff to me, even if he was as hot as Matt Damon or Rokk Steady. Of course, if a bore is THAT hot, I'm willing to tolerate it longer... but eventually, I'll be all "Do something STUPID, you!!!"

Actually, I think some guys who smoke are TOTALLY hot... but I hate pipes and cigars. I wasn't above a little drug-use in my younger days (sheepish grin!) but I do think we reach an age that is very silly for any kind of continued drug-use.

But my biggest turnoff is joyless whiners.

Which is why I am single I guess. There's LOTS of joyless, whiney 35 year-olds getting high EVERY day around here... and I find that boring!

Nothing turns me off.

arrogance, obnoxiousness, intolerance -- all big turn-offs.

also:
Chewing with your mouth open

garrulousness

Cryptic single-word postings! {grins, ducks, runs}

No, seriously ...
~ Not keeping up in conversational tempo. I can't penetrate or interpret long silences.
~ Being rude, period, but especially if it's with wait-staff and others trying to do their jobs.
~ Dissing someone's extensive vocabulary. Especially mine.
~ Seeing someone showing off erudition for the helluvit and not calling them on it. Including with me.
~ Not being willing to accept at least a good-night pluck on the cheek. This ain't 1960.

THANK you, Grey! I absolutely cannot tolerate someone being hateful to a waiter/waitress.

I had to sling hash during college.
It's VERY obvious when you're with someone who has never had to wait tables for a living...

Drake -oh yeah -chewing with the mouth open or SMACKING drives me nuts and is SOOO unattractive.

I'm sure I would treat Lash VERY well if he were serving me!!!

Thankfully those days are long past me, Caleb! But I'm certain you'd treat me well in any scenario.

Prim & proper people
Snobbery
Joylessness
Rich summer residents who let you know how rich they are. Some of them are ok.

Oh MOST ASSUREDLY!!!

*blush and a big grin*

I have only limited experience in dealing with people in the entertainment industry in L.A., but based on that limited experience, the biggest turn-offs for me are narcissistic self-involvement, insincerity in praising others' work and shameless brown-nosing to those might be able to help your career. Yuck.

liars, cowards, arrogant and the unimaginative ....blech!!!

Give me a decent bloke who isn't afraid to speak his mind, and has a mind to speak!

A hairy chest and brown eyes helps too....

Icky old dudes in their, like, 30s are a TOTAL turnoff!

Unless they play a teen on TV like Luke Perry.

Beehive hairdos

That's a terrible thing to say to a trendy teen!!!

Someone should have had the courtesy to tell you the 'trend' died over 40 years ago. Short and spiky, that's where its at now.

Sonnie I have brown eyes and a hairy chest!!!!

People who go out of their way to take what you say the wrong way.

The overly-easily offended.

People who are never wrong in their own minds and can't laugh a good Bwaa-ha-ha at themselves.

Oh, and the Dutch, of course.

Hey Rick didn't you recently get married Congrats man and its great to have ya here!!!!

rickshaw1,

you are talking about me, aren't you? and you mean that I am always wrong when you said "the wrong way", right?

Sorry, I couldn't resist the above response.

as for my turn-offs: arrogant people is number one.

And speaking of wait staff. I have to say, I've never waited, but I have worked as a bank teller. And since then, I have all the patience in the world when I see a service worker when it is busy but he/she is working. Likewise, I do a slow boil if I am kept waiting for even a few seconds if the service person is just goofing off. If you are just talking about last night's date and I come to your open register, you need to stop talking and wait on me. If you are talking business, you need to at least say "I'll be right with you"

Snob, arrogant, ignorant, overconfident...

I finally felt good when I beat that egomanical guy at the Heroclix tournament - the biggest upset of them all...everybody was very happy because he has been hassling everyone saying that he was going to be "the undefeated champion ever". He even refused to shake my hand...so alas poor sportsmanship. I lost many games more than winning..let's say my record is 10-100, at best. Everybody has been rooting for me to win...that felt good. Let's hope that I will be able to keep it going.

Way to go superboymddjr! I just hate those jerks at tournaments. We get them at the two locations here that old the HeroClix games and they just ruin it for everyone else. Their the same kind of people who think playing a team of Fire Lords is imaginative. My record is probably about the same as yours and I've all but given up going to the tourneys here because of the pricks. Just not worth the hassle.

well even though I dont do well in Constructed DC and Marvel tourneys...but I do well in Sealed DC...because I have pulled out so many good ones...that's how I got my LE Garth Ranzz. so next month, I plan to do that again with LE Rokk Krinn...I hope so!

Hey, Icefire. Yep, i did get hitched, and so far i love it. Thanks for the welcome as well.

rickshaw1,

congratulations to you and your spouse. Health and Happiness always for you both

>What turns you off?

Connecticut Light & Power, when I don't feel like paying my bills...

Hmmmm, i am also turned off by other people that

"Know what's best for you, and you will follow it or your life will be miserable, and you wont count for anything!"

One more thing and then i will let others have the thread, lol.

It is not yet even labor day, much less halloween, and already the damn stores are selling $#!+ for christmas. Christmas.

The one holliday that is not supposed to be about money and already they are trying to get into our pants...pockets.

the scummy fecal matter-s! Man, that really hacks my woody.

Come on Rickshaw1, tell us how you really feel!

Hey, I am no longer naked! is that a turn-off?

bipolar chicks turn me off -- I've had enough of them in my life already...

You don't say.

Message Boards that are down when I'm on vacation are SUCH a turn-off....!

YAY!!!! My post went through!!!!

I'm SoooooOOOO happy and NOT turned off!

Guess I better head over to the 'What turns you ON' thread....

There's a what turns you on thread?

Man, do i foresee trouble, lol.

You have NO idea.

lol

Trouble is our middle name!

Danny Trouble Blaine

Jeffey Trouble Prime

M. L'Trouble Lash

That sounds like a triumverate of evil!

I like to refer to us as 'the Nymphs of Naughtiness'!

LOL

Oh we got trouble! Right here in Legion World!

Oh, BTW...

((((((((((((((((((MLLASH)))))))))))))))))))

I haven't cyber-hugged you in a long while.

Thats funny, my middle name is Snuffleopolgous.

My parents never turn their backs on me.

Bumping this up for some newbies to tell us a little bout themselves. Nothing will be used for blackmail purposes, we swear.

1) Smoking
2) Tattoos
3) Piercings

Yeah, I'm a square.

Rudeness, close-mindedness, no sense of humor, selfish, judgmental.

But...but I thought we had something...special...>sob<

I'm intolerant of intolerance. So I'm turned off other people but also feel bad about myself at the same time.

Smokers breath. I'm not sure if it's a turn off, but if I'm retching in front of someone it's pretty much giving that signal.

Small mindedness. Inability to see things from someone else's perspective.

People who drone on. I could go on and on about the people I met over the years who just can't stop talking about some trivial thing that seems so important to them, but it's really just not something I could spend an evening having to fake interest over. The first person I met who was like this...

The usual collection of hypocrites, fibbers, self absorbed, hater folk that everyone doesn't like.

People who don't know how to type a short post. They're the absolute pits, and I wouldn't share an internet with them.

My turn-offs have not changed in 12 years.

People who are stuck in their ways

OK. I have added smart asses.


When people call me a smart ass, I always say "Better a smart ass than a dumb ass!"

Joyless whiners are the worst.

Also can't stand know-it-alls and people who can't stop giving advice.

People who can't handle when you're not in the attention-giving mood.

But of course the worst of all are people who just aren't kind.

Smart asses...lawyers...what's the difference?

People who constantly second-guess your motivations.

People who only remember you when they need a favor. And don't know how to ask graciously either.

95% of all internet denizens.

But not you. You're perfect. Never change.

Ultram (Tramadol)

TMK (and Al Gordon, worst of all).

The Justice League, every time my creator Professor Ivo's plans fail.- Amazo

Everyone. Bah!! - the light switch at the Mission Monitor Board

E flat.

But...what are your motivations?

Same turn offs as 15 years ago. 15 years? Really?

Excessive body hair.

People who pass gas in public.

Close-minded, judgmental bigots and hypocrites

and people who try too hard to be "cool"

That includes egomaniacal, misogynistic, homophobic, bully-boy male rock singers who deliberately contrive to sound like Mickey Mouse with constipation, only because they think they'll be perceived as "hip" (a word which, by now, has become a synonym for "cool.")

I think I know who that is, and I do hate him

also, people who perpetuate toxic masculine stereotypes

figgy pudding.

flakiness

Relentless Christmas build up...in November. Give it a rest.

People who demand pictures of you, without first sharing any of themselves. Boo, faceless profiles!