After reading a thread here about qualities you find attractive in other people, what are the things that really turn you off? Mine - arrogance. How about yours? (Apologies if this thread has came up before.)

Annoying reposted threads XD

Ah crap, sorry, didn't know if it'd been done before or not. :(

i think excessive numbers of tattoos and empty-headedness are my biggest turnoffs. huh they really are opposites to my biggest turn ons

idiots

Tattoos and odd body piercings do it for me. I also have some qualms about voices.

stupidity... and arrogance in stupidity

Racists, fat arses (I mean the drunkard, overly excessive eater types), chavs, thugs, religious freaks and idiots. I mentioned this all in that other thread.

I have to go with religious freaks, they're so damn annoying.

Agreed with unholy vagrant. Also, not being able to take a compliment. You look good. "Nahhhhh." WTF?

Selfishness. Really gets me when people are all take, take, take and are incredibly inconsiderate as a result of their self-absorption.

Being unwilling to try something new. I'm a pretty open-minded person, and I generally give every new opportunity a hearty yes. I like to try and get into my boy's activities alongside him, and it annoys me when my boy won't do the same. Everything else is negotiable, but if I want to go on an adventure and you want to sit on the couch, it's not going to work.

Edit edit edit edit: Militant atheism turns me off more than militant religion, actually. I am more likely to be friendly with someone who sees me as a good person with sinful habits than someone who considers me an idiot for entertaining the possibility of an afterlife.

wewontdie11:
Selfishness. Really gets me when people are all take, take, take and are incredibly inconsiderate as a result of their self-absorption.

Indeed. Totally agree. Another thing I'll never be able to excuse or oversee is complainers. Don't get me wrong, complaining about your leg breaking is understandable/acceptable, but complaining about small insignifcant things like 'being bored' really irratates me. If you're bored do something about it!

im a jesus freak, get over it

lets see, people who stereotype, people who judge based on appearence, ethnicity, age, gender and last but not least the french (just kidding I love you guys)

fatness plain and simple. sounds a bit shallow maybe don't really care. in my opinion fat people just look grotesque, it also suggests a low willpower and a poor Self-efficacy

EDIT reading through religion is also a major turn off, coming from my own deeply scientific views and the fact that you cannot debate with them about it do to fideism.

zirnitra:
fatness plain and simple. sounds a bit shallow maybe don't really care. in my opinion fat people just look grotesque, it also suggests a low willpower and a poor Self-efficacy

EDIT reading through religion is also a major turn off, coming from my own deeply scientific views and the fact that you cannot debate with them about it do to fideism.

sortof what he said.

I cannot overlook fat and lack of intelligence.

People who have views deeply founded in religion is very difficult to argue with, I tend to just avoid them seeing how I love to discuss everything (including the paranormal, which is kinda impossible with someone religious)

some religious people actually believe in ghosts and paranormal stuff, just in a religious view

Women who curse excessively. If you can't find a more interesting way to express your feelings, then I don't think I want to know you.

Stalington:
some religious people actually believe in ghosts and paranormal stuff, just in a religious view

And I don't believe in ghosts, my views contradict everything that religion is.
But I still respect their views as long as they're not trying to preach them onto anyone else...

Yep, instant turn-off. bedcause as soon as a girl starts chatting about Jesus and salvation and whatnot, I know its a lost cause; we just arent going to agree. on anything. ever

Mairsil the Pretender:
Yep, instant turn-off. bedcause as soon as a girl starts chatting about Jesus and salvation and whatnot, I know its a lost cause; we just arent going to agree. on anything. ever

Me too, but I'm fine if they're religous, so long as they don't try to convert me.

Religion is a pretty big turn-off. Imagine that you're flirting with a playboy bunny and all of a sudden she starts quoting the bible like an old librarian...jesus christ...

*Idiocy
*Tattoos
*Odd Smells

I don't know if one turnoff is greater than another, but my big ones would be;

-Smoking
-Slutty dresser
-Low intelligence
-Race
-Attitude

I don't go for whoreish women, to me Paris Hilton has less sex appeal than Dick Cheney. I can't stand smokers, so from an attraction standpoint it's a definite no-go. I would take an intellectual woman with a compatible personality over looks any day of the week. And I am not into the inter-racial thing. I don't have a problem with other races, but I am not sexually attracted to most women of different race. There are exceptions, but we like what we like.

Other lesser turn offs for me are weight, glasses, freckles and height, but these are things I can live with. (Except red hair combined with freckles, don't ask...)

The TC will probably hate me for this:

Idiocy. Plain and simple, I can't deal with people who are stupid, incapable of logic, or ask incredibly dumb questions like "are you reading" (I'm sitting with a book in front of me).

Stupid or Mean, that's about it.

People who openly admit to being jerks.

ohh yeah, and fundamentalist people, also fatness bothers me a little, but not a ton.

a lack of personal hygiene, self centered people, and people who think they are undoubtedly right when they are wrong and wont back down, or see any reason or logic and when evidence of them being wrong is given they say it is lies.

idiots, tattoos and the inability to enjoy silence.

And hygiene, definitely hygiene.

People who eat loudly, or with their mouths open, or talk with food in their mouths.

Smoking.

-Views taken on so militantly that it narrows their mind to the point that you can't have civil debate.
-As mentioned, fat.
- Inability to break some taboos once in a while.

People with idiotic interests and stupidity. Also if say some one doesn't enjoy British comedy and finds American children based comedies hilarious, that's when I know to give up on them

People saying they don't know what Doctor Who is.

That just kills my day when I meet a lost soul like that.