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deal breaker
大煞风景

Date: Jan 12 2012

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“Writing ‘LOL’ in a text is a deal breaker for me. So is using multiple exclamation points.”

- Actress Olivia Wilde talks about judging guys on their texts. (Us Weekly)

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a problem you can’t get past

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A beautiful actress like Olivia Wilde shouldn’t have any trouble finding a date. But she might have trouble finding a date she really likes. Her requirements for the perfect guy include rules for how he should text! She says that writing ‘LOL’ in a text or using multiple exclamation marks is a deal breaker for her.

Do you remember when Jeff told Ella that having a kid was a deal breaker? He meant that he didn’t want to date someone with a kid. For Olivia, having a kid is fine, but putting too many exclamation points in a text is just not OK. Everyone has their own set of deal breakers!

A deal is when two people make an agreement or promise about something. For instance, a teenager might make a deal with her parents to babysit her younger sibling once a week in exchange for some extra spending money. When you break a deal, you end it or don’t fulfill it.

In relationships, a deal breaker is anything that makes it impossible for you to date someone. Deal breakers can be big things like not wanting children, or being selfish, greedy, or mean. Or they can be small things that you just don’t like, such as talking with a full mouth or wearing ugly shoes.

What are your deal breakers? Does it annoy you when people use lots of exclamation points in texts or emails?

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“They want me to work nights, but I have school at night, so it’s going to be a deal breaker. I will have to quit.”

“John is nice, but I can’t stand his friends. For me, that’s a real deal breaker.”

“Martha’s biggest deal breaker is when a guy dresses badly.”

Winners

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	A deal breaker is an issue, which is very important and can't be overlooked when negotiating a deal. by candycandice
	A deal breaker is the catch that a particular individual can not overlook and ultimately outweighs any redeeming quality the individual may possess. by Talia Do

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manu_wj

Italy

Kropeczka running is my big passion, not every day I can go and not every day for 20 kms. Sometimes I can do 12/15 km, others 25/30, it depends about what kind of training I have to do and what kind of race I have to prepare.

If it’ll be a race of 10 km, so short training but fast or long or very long races like hal marathon 21 km or marathon 42 km. Smoking doesn’t affect me at all (or so I want to believe).

Kropeczka

Poland

Julito, I wish you find a strenght to stop smoking. It will be good for your health and your relatives… I supose…

Manu, your habits aren’t strange but I’m suprised that you can run for 20km a day. probably you have big lungs to accommodate a lot of air and smoke together :)

julito

Argentina

Dear Kropecza, Iknow, I know . i smoke ,not a chain-smoker though. This is one of my shortcomings .I think that there will come a time to stop , my health and pocket will appreciate it.. lol

manu_wj

Italy

I love smoking, drinking and running for 20 km a day, is something strange with this?

Kropeczka

Poland

Julito has a right. I hate smoking, this is for me the worst deal breaker.

julito

Argentina

Going through English,baby´s profiles ,I thing that smoking is a real deal breaker

manu_wj

Italy

thank you Snoopy a Ryo, how could I do without you…? lol

snoopyboy

Antarctica

you don’t like pets Ryo?... I thought you were an aminal lover?

khaethe

Philippines

no comment

snoopyboy

Antarctica

Manu_WJ a dealbreaker is anything about a person, especially of the opposite sex that doesn’t appeal to you. it could be a bad habit, her views on things, differences between you and her , or maybe her appearance, anything you despise about her, anything about her you just can’t seem to bear.

snoopyboy

Antarctica

Kostleya what if the man wasn’t wearing any shoes, his toes all well kept and not hairy. what if he was wearing sunglasses?

manu_wj

Italy

deal breaker, i’M SORRY, i’VE READ THE TEXT, I’ve read your comments but I really don’t undestand the meanings unless it means writing lol, or ;) or :D or things like these…

s it right?

snoopyboy

Antarctica

Deal breaker where to begin? Me personally I’m kind of a stick-in-the-mud when it comes to “SexTing”or Texting generally, it’s very convenient and discreet I admit. Now here’s what I don’t like about the whole texting thingy, it’s not a big deal but it is one of my deal breakers. (Scenario) If I meet a girl and we exchange telephone numbers before we part, and the next day I call her phone ,she never picks it up, and as soon as I text her, she replies… that is a deal breaker!. I know I might sound old-fashioned, but at least let our first phone conversation be verbal, something about a girl’s giggling and tone of voice over the phone just turns me on (:, it’s like an aphrodisiac to me, sometimes I just close my eye and savor a nice female hypnotizing voice whispering into my ear lobes, what kind of guy wouldn’t like that?. After that, you can text me all the texting Lingo acronyms you want, but from time to time let us have a verbal conversation.

That was the texting side of “deal breaker” for me. Also, If a girl seems to swing on the physical appearance or materialistic lane too much, it’s definitely a No-No. When I ask you what’s your ideal man should be like, I don’t expect to hear your Christmas wish list: “He needs to have a good job, he needs to have his own car…a nice one, his own place, sexy”. Think about it ladies, do you know how many men can meet those criteria? If my personality traits don’t appeal you then you don’t deserve my money or any other assets. You’re a deal breaker. I’m not your sugar daddy.

(Olivia Wide…that girl is steaming HOT, yes capital letters…she has curve all over her body, even on her face ..look at those dimples, but I would dump her if she doesn’t answer my calls ,but always replies to my text messages)

jesse.silva

Brazil

For me looks like something that is hard to urderstand ow have no matter with the original situation.

An example of this is the fact of a man older than 35 can be elected president even with no graduation but a man under 35 with a doctor degree can’t. So it is a deal breaker for the doctor becoming a president (in this case the deal breaker is the age)

I guess that is the point.