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I’m sure most hot-blooded ladies are turned on by the sight of Christian Bale running around with the chainsaw then talking to Willem Dafoe, but evidently not Emma, who says:
Some years back, when I was a singleton and American Psycho was in cinemas, I agreed to a date with a seemingly normal chap. When he called to arrange the data he was pretty insistent that American Psycho would make an ideal first date film. I did not agree. Somehow I feel that female mutilation, extreme violence and rape do not make the best start to a relationship. In the end I told him I would rather not go out with him at all and, after a few more phone calls to try and sell me the American-Psycho-ideal-first-date thing, he gave up. I still feel that I probably escaped a bit of a nutter.
So Helen and Olly please answer me this: What is the worst date you have ever been on, or almost been on?
It’s hard for any of us to answer this question: partly because we’ve all been in our respective relationships that dating seems a very distant memory; partly because we’re English and, back in our single prime, people here never went on dates – they just got drunk and molested each other. That was the native form, until internet dating came along and made people more courtly/completely perplexed by the whole process.
But hey, let’s kick off our own My Very Worst Date-style thread right here: readers, head to the comments and blab about YOUR own dating horror-stories. I could pretend it was for some noble purpose, but it’s obviously so we can all have a jolly chuckle at your expense. Go forth and enable.
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April 29, 2010 at 6:34 pm |
My worst date was a couple of years ago, every conversation we had come back around to death. didn’t matter what we talked about it came back needless to say there wasn’t a second date!
The worst one I’ve ever heard was from my friend Michael, he took a girl on a first date to see Three Kings, he thought she was Italian or Spanish. It turned out she was Iraqi and her parents had been used as a human shield by Saddam. She didn’t stay till the end of the film!!
April 29, 2010 at 1:16 pm |
I had a similar experience to Emma except that the film was Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ, which I didn’t find out until the trailers began. Being a kindly soul, I tried to hold out as long as I could, but even I only managed to endure a mere 10 minutes of the Date from Hell before I feigned need for a bathroom and fled for my life.
April 29, 2010 at 8:46 am |
Well my first ever date, exciting? naaaah. I picked the film and managed the pick the most awful film in the world, he manages to stay awake for the whole thing, unfortunatly I don’t. I had a cold, I snored alot! He woke me up of course, but lets just say me and him dont talk so much now.
April 29, 2010 at 8:31 am |
Emma’s got the wrong end of the crap date stick here. Nothing says romance quite like a cinematic bloodbath! I have fond memories of my very first date which was to see Saving Private Ryan. We broke up a few weeks later after seeing The Wedding Singer, which just goes to show that a) we probably got our films the wrong way round and b) comedies and hot Scottish dates in leather jackets are no guarantee of lasting happiness. Then again, I was 15, and so bloody fickle that I’m frankly amazed our relationship lasted beyond the popcorn and underage drinking in the pub afterwards.