Top 20 dating icks people can't stop talking about

Some icks are personal. These 20 are universal. If your date does any of them, you already know.

The classics

1. Running for a bus — the little arm-flap. Instant ick.
2. Chasing a dropped ping-pong ball at a pub — the crouching, the "sorry, sorry, sorry".
3. Saying "the missus" or "the wife" — you've been dating three weeks.
4. Loudly explaining the film you're both watching.
5. Ordering for you without asking.

The digital ones

1. A gym mirror selfie with a caption like "grind never stops".
2. Only posts group photos where they're pulling the same face.
3. Uses "lol" as punctuation in every text.
4. Their Spotify Wrapped is 90% one song.
5. Bio says "fluent in sarcasm".

The behaviour ones

1. Being rude to bar staff.
2. Talking about their ex in the first 20 minutes.
3. Calling their mum "mummy" at 32.
4. Splitting the bill down to the penny after saying "I've got this".
5. Explaining crypto.

The unhinged ones

1. The way they hold their fork.
2. Wearing a suit to a Nando's.
3. Saying "banter".
4. Their laugh sounds like a car alarm.
5. They call themselves a "foodie".

Take our ick quiz to see how your date scores across all of them.