First impressions

Talib Fiasco · 02-03-2014 07:45PM

People who are no craic...no enthusiasm...make no effort to be appealing...have poor body langauge etc. Especially girls. They could look incredible and you're like 'jackpot' but after speaking to them they might as well be Linda Martin with the clap.

geckovision · 02-03-2014 07:50PM

Smithwicks Man wrote: »

Hard to believe that smoking could be such a deal breaker for people considering how many people smoke.

Yeah, it's not really a character trait. Says more about that person really and the kind I'd usually avoid - those with a superiority complex, who are self righteous..

Capt'n Midnight · 02-03-2014 07:52PM

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dark crystal · 02-03-2014 08:00PM

Smithwicks Man wrote: »

Hard to believe that smoking could be such a deal breaker for people considering how many people smoke.

Yeah, I wouldn't judge someone for smoking, either. Doesn't say anything about their personality at all. I know loads of really sound smokers!

GarIT · 02-03-2014 08:06PM

Fat people, blatant Idiots and smokers, people with stupid tattoos, people who talk ****e, moochers.

stefan idiot jones · 02-03-2014 08:25PM

Any hat on a man (bobble hat for cold weather accepted)

Jewellery on a man

Skinny jeans

Pointy shoes

Hipster haircut

Immaculately groomed beard (knacker style)

Tracksuits

Football shirts

Any crap that you've put in your hair

Hoodies

Shirts that are too tight

Big scarfs

Burberry

Smokers

Shufflers gait

Too pale (how much nutrition can you get out of a Spar?)

Shifty looking eyes

Autumn leaf coloured trousers

Basically, scum, students and hipsters. You stand out a mile. Just walk away son, walk away.

Femme_Fatale · 02-03-2014 08:31PM

Extremely judgemental, fussy twats. Like on this thread.

"Hoodies", "people with stupid tattoos". FFS. God it's arrogant. People who go on like that clearly think they're better than everyone else. And if they genuinely cut contact with people for all of these "flaws" (which I doubt) then they must have no friends.

Tend not to dislike people on first meeting though, even if they have habits that I hate, like constant interrupting/being super self absorbed. If that stuff keeps cropping up on meeting though, then I start to avoid.

woodoo · 02-03-2014 08:38PM

Shouty people.

anncoates · 02-03-2014 08:42PM

I don't like certain clothes as much as anybody and would joke about them and I personally hate tattoos but I'd hardly make a lasting judgement about somebody on the basis of either.

SamAK · 02-03-2014 08:43PM

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

Basically, scum, students and hipsters. You stand out a mile. Just walk away son, walk away.

Jesus christ...you just accounted for the vast majority of humanity there.

Joker.

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Extremely judgemental, fussy twats. Like on this thread.

I stand by my 'people with tracksuits tucked into socks' comment. Unless they're on a bicycle.

Fox_In_Socks · 02-03-2014 08:43PM

Very loud and intense people.

I can't handle them at all, and shut down.

Joe prim · 02-03-2014 08:47PM

Senna wrote: »

Those earrings on fellas that pull the ear lobe and produce a wider and wider hole

Amazing, you can make your hole wider by pulling on your earlobe?Are they connected, like your heart and your big toe? Human anatomy, wow!

KyussBishop · 02-03-2014 09:33PM

People who don't just interrupt you, but regularly interrupt and finish your sentence for you (or reply to your unfinished sentence, making assumptions about what you were about to say) - replying at length - and then getting it wrong so that you have to explain "ah no, I actually meant...", at which point you finally finish your sentence after a really long and annoying diversion/waste of time.

FizzleSticks · 02-03-2014 10:04PM

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Says I To Bridey · 02-03-2014 10:13PM

People who can't take a joke and have to be the ones to get the last word in, even turning something lighthearted into something personal just so they can be on top or the 'winner'. Just ends up leaving things awkward and people annoyed and ruining a bit of harmless craic

02-03-2014 10:14PM

Smithwicks Man wrote: »

Hard to believe that smoking could be such a deal breaker for people considering how many people smoke.

It's not so much the act of smoking, rather the smell it leaves behind.

Can't help being put off by it, it is what it is. I actually know very few smokers, lots of ex-smokers though.

MJ23 · 02-03-2014 10:18PM

amoXx wrote: »

One-Uppers. Nothing worse then a person who can top anything anyone else shares.

I fell and broke my wrist while on holiday in Spain. I couldnt drive for a month after I got home.
"I broke my two legs while walking to the North Pole, couldn't walk for a year after I got back"

Go away.

carlmango11 · 02-03-2014 10:29PM

MJ23 wrote: »

I fell and broke my wrist while on holiday in Spain. I couldnt drive for a month after I got home.
"I broke my two legs while walking to the North Pole, couldn't walk for a year after I got back"

Go away.

I hear people on the Internet complain about "one-uppers" about 48 times more than I actually encounter them in real life.

And often I don't think they're one-upping, moreso relating to the story I've told with something similar. I've probably done it plenty of times unintentionally.

FunLover18 · 02-03-2014 10:29PM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Extremely judgemental, fussy twats. Like on this thread.

"Hoodies", "people with stupid tattoos". FFS. God it's arrogant. People who go on like that clearly think they're better than everyone else. And if they genuinely cut contact with people for all of these "flaws" (which I doubt) then they must have no friends.

Tend not to dislike people on first meeting though, even if they have habits that I hate, like constant interrupting/being super self absorbed. If that stuff keeps cropping up on meeting though, then I start to avoid.

anncoates wrote: »

I don't like certain clothes as much as anybody and would joke about them and I personally hate tattoos but I'd hardly make a lasting judgement about somebody on the basis of either.

Sense of dress does usually say a lot about people though, it's a factor in how they wish to be perceived by others and how they perceive themselves. I've never cut someone off because of their dress sense and plenty of my friends have dress senses I wouldn't agree with.

However on meeting a new person it is one of the few things we have to go on. For instance my own example was people who wear wooly hats or scarves indoors. Hats and scarves are to keep you warm, is how I see it and the idea that someone would wear them as accessories is ridiculous to me. A red flag (term used in the OP) is a sign of warning, take care, which is how I view accessorised hats and scarves, it doesn't necessarily mean "run away, run away now".

czechlin · 02-03-2014 10:31PM

I tend to give people a few chances although in some cases the first impression is just too strong.

When I meet someone for the first time I really don't appreciate uncomfortable familiarity bordering with an extreme nosey-ness. I like my personal space.
Also rudeness, arrogance, patronising and bad hygiene might be a red flag.

It can depend on the circumstances. I think there were a few situations in which I didn't make the best impression either

Whatsisname · 02-03-2014 10:31PM

I agree with the one uppers. Have a really good friend whose awful for it, we do the same course but in different colleges so obviously they're both gonna be taught from a different angle.

"Oh, we're starting to use that program for our next assignment."

"Really? they don't teach ye anything do they? we did that ages ago."

Grr

Smithwicks Man · 02-03-2014 10:50PM

carlmango11 wrote: »

I hear people on the Internet complain about "one-uppers" about 48 times more than I actually encounter them in real life.

And often I don't think they're one-upping, moreso relating to the story I've told with something similar. I've probably done it plenty of times unintentionally.

I hear about it 49 times more

Senna · 02-03-2014 10:56PM

Joe prim wrote: »

Amazing, you can make your hole wider by pulling on your earlobe?Are they connected, like your heart and your big toe? Human anatomy, wow!

I know you're trying to tell me something here, I just can't work out what it is.

P.s. I forgot stupid people, can't stand stupid people.

StinkySocs · 02-03-2014 11:03PM

Girls with big front teeth...don't know why, but I'm always really cautious around them, never trust a girl with big front teeth....:D

Muise... · 02-03-2014 11:05PM

StinkySocs wrote: »

Girls with big front teeth...don't know why, but I'm always really cautious around them, never trust a girl with big front teeth....:D

once bitten, twice shy?

December2012 · 02-03-2014 11:12PM

I don't like interrupters but I'll give em a break if it's a first meeting - could be nerves.

But subsequently I detest those people.

amoXx · 02-03-2014 11:17PM

carlmango11 wrote: »

I hear people on the Internet complain about "one-uppers" about 48 times more than I actually encounter them in real life.

And often I don't think they're one-upping, moreso relating to the story I've told with something similar. I've probably done it plenty of times unintentionally.

I've no problem with people doing it every now and then. I do know a few people who will do it for almost any story they hear and believe me that gets old very fast.

FiachDubh · 02-03-2014 11:17PM

People with irregular speech patterns- I never know when to come in and I feel awkward and clumsy.
If you take a 15 second break between sentences don't hush me when I open my mouth.

anncoates · 02-03-2014 11:33PM

FunLover18 wrote: »

A red flag (term used in the OP) is a sign of warning, take care, which is how I view accessorised hats and scarves, it doesn't necessarily mean "run away, run away now".

Racism. Rudeness. Spite. Arrogance. Accessorized scarves and hats.

Sounds reasonable.

02-03-2014 11:43PM

FunLover18 wrote: »

For instance my own example was people who wear wooly hats or scarves indoors. Hats and scarves are to keep you warm, is how I see it and the idea that someone would wear them as accessories is ridiculous to me.

Is this red flag limited to woolly scarves? What about a floaty one like this?

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