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21 First-Date Horror Stories To Remind You That Romance Is Dead
21 First-Date Horror Stories To Remind You That Romance Is Dead
Looking for love often puts people in weird, awkward and sometimes downright scary situations.
While online dating, apps and nosy matchmaking mothers make it easier than ever to match up with hot singles in your area™, they also up the chances for first date disasters.
We asked women in our Facebook community to weigh in with their most terrible first date stories. Here are 21 of the worst:
1. “In the cool night air, with only my date’s car shielding me from the freeway, I had to relieve myself to end my gastrointestinal torture.”
“I got sick from the food we ate at a restaurant, it did not agree with my stomach. On the freeway on the way home, I just couldn’t ‘hold it’ anymore. My date kindly and quickly pulled off the road on an offramp, and I jumped out. It was desert terrain… No bushes! In the cool night air, with only my date’s car shielding me from the freeway, I had to relieve myself to end my gastrointestinal torture. When I was done… no toilet paper. My date went to his trunk and retrieved one of his custom-tailored white French-cuff suit shirts that was supposed to be dropped off at the cleaners the next morning… He donated the shirt to my cause. We left the shirt by the road side, BTW. Although totally embarrassed and humiliated, I got back into the car. Not only did my date handle the entire situation with compassion (although he still calls me Freeway), he took me back to the restaurant and raised a little hell about the incident their food had just created. We not only continued to date, we married and just celebrated 17 years in April. He still calls me Freeway!”
— Michelle, age 45, Laguna Hills, CA
2. “He grew pot, and consumed massive quantities of it every day.”
“I went on a date with a guy who seemed totally normal, and together for the first half of the date, but then he started talking about these flowers that he grew, and how the flowers told him secrets, and expanded his mind, and made him whole. Took me a minute to realize he was saying that he grew pot, and consumed massive quantities of it every day. And it was apparently his whole life. Then he ‘forgot’ his wallet when the check came. Yeah, that was enough.”
— Becca, age 36, PA
3. “It was a blind date and he brought his dad.”
— Lindsey, age 30, Jacksonville, NC
4. “The guy leaned over to kiss me and burped in my mouth.”
— Toni, CA
5. “The cows were crapping over the side of the truck onto my parents’ suburban sidewalk.”
“On our first date, I had a boy pick me up in an old Bobtail loaded with cattle. The cows were crapping over the side of the truck onto my parents’ suburban sidewalk. I married him.”
— Monica, age 44, Utah
6. “One date I went on, the guy told me that he was addicted to coke.”
— Miranda
7. “He talked like a baby. He put chopsticks in his mouth and pretended to be a mammoth.”
— Lydia
8. “[He] told me, ‘I know how to get rid of a body so no one would ever know it was me, or where to find it.'”
“He was studying a degree in Forensic Science at the time and told me, ‘I know how to get rid of a body so no one would ever know it was me, or where to find it.’ Needless to say, I didn’t pursue this romantic endeavour.”
— Rebecca, age 28, London, UK
9. “I gave him a quick peck and he said, ‘That’s all I get?!'”
“I had a date with a guy who has been asking me out for a while. We went out for dinner and drinks which he made me pay for myself (which is whatever…I can handle myself), but when we got back to the bar we had met at for drinks before dinner for him to return me to my car he leaned in for a kiss and I gave him a quick peck and he said ‘that’s all I get!?’ And pointed… downstairs. Yup buddy that’s all you get.”
— Jen, age 28, New York
10. “He read me the texts to him from the soon-to-be ex.”
“Went on a date with a guy going through a divorce. We met up and for the next hour, he read me the texts to him from the soon-to-be ex.”
— Loretta
11. “[He] referred to himself in the 3rd person the entire date.”
“Had a guy who referred to himself in the 3rd person the entire date. He ordered drinks and appetizers etc. (I don’t drink, at all). At the end of dinner he said we’ll split the check down the middle. Then he asked me if ‘Autumn wanted to go back to Eric’s place now’ to which I replied, ‘I’ll have to ask her and get back to you.'”
— Autumn, age 29, Augusta, GA
12. “He stopped the waitress from wiping it up and proceeded to slurp it off of the table.”
“It was his birthday, so I offered to take him out to a nice rooftop restaurant. The drinks came and one of them spilled on the table, he stopped the waitress from wiping it up and proceeded to slurp it off of the table and said ‘these drinks ain’t cheap’ (as though he was paying). Then he spent the rest of the night on his phone.”
— Selina-Rachel, age 23, Toronto
13. “The guy had invited me over for a pyramid scheme.”
“Went out with a guy I had been talking to for a while… He told me to come to his house for a ‘big surprise’… I get over there and there’s about 50 people I’ve never seen before on his lawn. One guy was standing in the middle giving a casual presentation… It was a pyramid scheme. The guy had invited me over for a pyramid scheme.”
— Andrea, age 24, Indianapolis IN
14. “He said, confidently I might add, ‘Look at the tits on that one!'”
“He kept looking around the restaurant instead of at me while we were on our first date. Finally I asked what he was looking at. He said, confidently I might add, ‘look at the tits on that one!’ and proceeded to point out all the ‘sexy bitches’ around. Suffice it to say, I left pretty quickly after that.”
— Ewa, age 30, Boise, ID
15. “He changed direction with the conversation and asked if I liked diaper play.”
“We were having coffee talking about the area we live in and where we grew up when he changed direction with the conversation and asked if I liked diaper play. I was dumbfounded. He went on to say he liked to wear them. I came down with a headache real quick and left my coffee sitting… running to the nearest exit.”
— Cathy, age 45, Alexandria, VA
16. “He chugged his beer, looked me up and down and said, ‘Yeah… I can’t do this.'”
“Met a guy I’d been talking to on a dating site for our first date at a bar. We ordered our drinks and he immediately paid, chugged his beer, looked me up and down and said ‘yeah…I can’t do this,’ and left me there.”
— Allison, age 24, New York, NY
17. “He apologized for slavery over dinner.“
— Tanisha, age 44, Brooklyn, NY
18. “He asked me how I felt about cutting him for sexual pleasure.”
— Ashleigh, age 22, SC
19. “It was wing night, we ordered 40 wings, he left me four. Just four.”
— Nichelle, age 22, New York
20. “The ‘gentleman’ told me that he did not believe in domestic violence as a crime since it was needed to keep women in their place.”
— Valerie
21. “[He] slapped me right in between my legs and said, ‘Now you’ll never forget me.'”
“I met him through a friend. We watched a movie, he tried to get handsy and got visibly aroused although I didn’t reciprocate. He walked me to my car and as I was leaving slapped me right in between my legs and said ‘now you’ll never forget me.'”
— Brittany, age 28, Anchorage, AK
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Channing Tatum vogues for Vanity Fair
Channing Tatum vogues for Vanity Fair
Let’s be honest. We could post a video of Channing Tatum reading a phone book, in Latin, and it would get lots of attention.
The dude is sexy personified. And smart too. The Magic Mike star doesn’t hide that much of his adulation comes from gay men. Which makes him sexier, and even more marketable (the fundies hate that!).
He’s made the cover of Vanity Fair’s upcoming August issue. As a teaser to the article, the magazine has 30-seconds of him giving a number of dance moves a go.
The actor shows off his funky chicken, pony, and robot moves. However, when Tatum starts voguing the world stops. There is nothing more perfect in human history.
Don’t take our word for it. Check out the above video.
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James Withers
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Alabama Federal Judge: Marriage Equality Must Begin in Every County. Now.
Alabama Federal Judge: Marriage Equality Must Begin in Every County. Now.
Across the South, most counties are moving forward with marriage equality.
HRC.org
Rick Scarborough Says He’s Not An Unstable Bigot, Loves Gay People
Rick Scarborough Says He’s Not An Unstable Bigot, Loves Gay People
What a difference a few days make.
One week ago today, pastor Rick Scarborough vowed to set himself on ablaze if same-sex marriage was ever made legal in the United States.
“We are not going to bow. We are not going to bend. If necessary, we will burn,” the 65-year-old pastor intoned during a conference call. “The preachers need to get out front, the leaders need to get out front, out front of these ordinary citizens and say, ‘Shoot me first!’”
After the Supreme Court issued its historic ruling on Friday morning, Scarborough released a statement that said, actually, on second thought, he wasn’t going to light himself on fire. He was just, you know, trying to prove a point by quoting a spiritual song. He didn’t mean for anyone to take him literally. After all, where would we be if we took everything the Scripture says literally?
Related: Christian Extremist Records Herself Imploding Over Marriage Equality
Now, the man of God is back again with a new op-ed published by Variety (!), and he wants everyone to know that, contrary to popular belief, he does not hate gay people. In fact, he loves them! So much so that he feels “compelled” to remind them all that they’re all going to hell.
“I believe that most homosexuals in America are like most Christians,” Scarborough writes, “they simply want to live and let live, and have no desire to impose their beliefs on others. But fringe groups on both sides of the debate over marriage are forcing a dangerous polarization in our culture.”
Fringe groups… like the two he founded — Vision America and Tea Party Unity — and the one he currently heads–the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration.
“We who believe that homosexuality is wrong are compelled by our love for homosexuals to express that belief, based on biblical revelation,” Scarborough continues. “We believe that we are expressing the purist form of love. We love them enough to face their rejection and at times their ridicule, in order to offer God’s redemption and freedom.”
Huh?
“We want homosexuals to know we love them enough to tell the truth and forthrightly state our support of God’s definition of marriage.”
Um…
“We do not hate homosexuals and we are not out to hurt them. We love them, and we love God, His Word, and His truth.”
Thanks? We guess.
“By the way,” Scarborough adds, “when was the last time a movie or sitcom produced in Hollywood depicted a pastor as caring, loving and selfless? … [T]he typical portrayal of a pastor in a movie is that of an unstable or bigoted hypocrite.”
Related: Christian Right Prepares For Arrival Of Marriage Equality By Doing Even Crazier Things
Graham Gremore
News: Hillary Clinton, Marc Jacobs, Canada Day, Rainbow Flag
News: Hillary Clinton, Marc Jacobs, Canada Day, Rainbow Flag
> New batch of Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department reveal some funny exchanges with Huma Abedin about a malfunctioning fax machine.
> The former Secretary of State also threw some shade at Nixon.
> President Obama announces reestablishment of diplomatic ties with Cuba.
> Soapy series from the ’00s The OC to become a musical.
> Happy Canada Day!
> Seattle Seahawks player Richard Sherman shows off his beach body in Hawaii.
> Marc Jacobs had an Instagram mishap that left him a bit revealed.
> Robert Zemeckis puts the kibosh on rumors of a Back to the Future remake.
> Will there be a larger gay marriage backlash?
> Another black church burns.
> Chairman of NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade reportedly ousted over opposition to gay participation.
> LGBT blog The Bilerico Project says goodbye.
> A list of all the items that get humped in Magic Mike XXL.
> Uhh: “Which is more taboo: the Confederate flag or the rainbow flag?”
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Sean Mandell
News: Hillary Clinton, Marc Jacobs, Canada Day, Rainbow Flag
All together now
WATCH: 7-Year-Old Waves Pride Flag in Face of Homophobic Rant, Wins Internet
WATCH: 7-Year-Old Waves Pride Flag in Face of Homophobic Rant, Wins Internet
You go, Zea!
Les Fabian Brathwaite
Unretouched Portraits Illustrate 19 Bare, Bold And Beautiful Women
Unretouched Portraits Illustrate 19 Bare, Bold And Beautiful Women
Alyscia Cunningham was fed up with other photographers suggesting to her that she should photoshop the bodies and skin of her clients. So she created her own photo series featuring unretouched, makeup-free women of all ages to highlight just how stunning natural beauty can be.
In January 2012, Cunningham released her photography book Feminine Transitions which features hundreds of unaltered portraits of women with paired with empowering words of wisdom. “I yearned to create something that actually celebrated girls and women in their natural state,” Cunningham told The Huffington Post.
The project includes women of all ethnicities and ages, with women ranging in age from seven weeks to 103 years old. Since the release of the book a few years ago, Cunningham has continued to photograph women and feature their portraits on the Feminine Transitions Facebook page.
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After taking each woman’s photographs, Cunningham chooses a quote that she felt resonated with that woman’s image. Every quote is an empowering message that celebrates each woman and her natural beauty.
“It is my hope that this series empowers little girls to know they are beautiful just as they are,” Cunningham said. With a broader message that “liberates aging women from hiding behind their make-up and hair color (to cover up the grays) and reminds every senior woman who feels that her wrinkles are a negative reminder of growing older, that each line is a story map of her soul and her wisdom.”
She added that she wants “every woman, young and old, all races and colors, to know that they are naturally beautiful. It’s time to stop allowing society to dictate our beauty.”
Check out the bare, bold and beautiful portraits from Cunningham below.
Head over to Cunningham’s website to see more of her work.
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REVIEW: Torobaka – Sadler’s Wells, London
REVIEW: Torobaka – Sadler’s Wells, London
Sadler’s Wells in London has a strong reputation for presenting innovative dance productions.
Torobaka is exactly the kind of production that many modern dance lovers are looking for – Akram Khan and Israel Galván collaborating together to create something exciting and unique.
Khan is a master of kathak – a traditional style of dance from the north of India. Galván is one of the finest exponents of contemporary flamenco – the dance that defines southern Spain.
Flamenco is thought to share its roots with kathak – Spain’s Romani population migrated from India (via the Middle East) in the 14th and 15th centuries – both styles of dance feature heavy use of percussive footwork and rhythmic cycles.
But Torobaka is more than just Khan and Galván coming together to showcase the similarities in their technique, what they’ve created through their collaboration is something extraordinary.
In describing their creative process, Khan and Galván count the poem Toto-vaca by Tristan Tzara as one of their main influences. The dadaist, surreal sense of the absurd seems to liberate the two dancers and three accompanying musicians, freeing them to explore new movements, new shapes, new sounds.
This style of dance isn’t going to be for everyone. The structure is sometimes hard to follow, there isn’t a lot of ebb and flow or dramatic arc to the work, occasionally it all felt just a little bit silly. But on the night that I saw it, the capacity audience at Sadler’s Wells leapt to their feet to give a standing ovation to one of the most creative, inventive, and surprising dance performances that you could hope to see.
Torobaka is being performed at Sadler’s Wells until 5 July 2015.
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Gareth Johnson
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