So you’ve secured a first date – the time and place are set, you’ve stalked them online and chosen the perfect outfit (with a little help from your friends).
Now it’s time to get down to business, just make sure you don’t say any of these seriously off-putting lines:
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Have you ever seen the film Two Can Play That Game?
In this 2001 rom-com, marketing professional Shante Smith (played by Vivica A. Fox) lays down some essential relationship rules for women having ‘man problems’.
And the best bit? Her 10 day programme that shows women what to do when you catch a man ‘doing you wrong’.
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1. Which three dishes can you cook without a recipe?
2. What is your government name?
3. Lemon and Herb or Extra Hot?
4. Open in a new tab or open in a new window?
5. Where do you see yourself in five years?
6. Which three words would your most recent ex use to describe you?
1. “You should embrace your black side more” Like… how?
2. “You look like Rihanna/Beyoncé/Halle Berry.” No I don’t, at all, we just have a similar skin tone.
3. “I bet you can’t eat spicy food.” Wait… what? *chews on scotch bonnet*
4. “Are you Turkish/Indian/Brazilian?” Nope.
5. “Can you cook jerk chicken/jollof rice/curry goat?” You know our parents eat other things… right?
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1. The gym (especially an Easy Gym)
2. Your house (this is a Netflix and chill location, not a date location)
3. Nandos (any restaurant where you have to get up to order is not an appropriate date location)
4. Morleys/Chicken cottage/Sams/IKEA’s food court/Subway (see above)
5. A football match (unless you are both *avid* football fans)
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1. He wakes you up to remind you to wrap your hair
2. He brings you food without being asked to
3. He plans date night without being prompted, and gives at least 48 hours notice
4. He loved you before you knew how to contour your face… and before your eyebrows were on fleek
5. He shows you off like a new pair of Yeezy Boosts on launch day
1. He asks to borrow your Oyster card
2. He thinks Nandos is an appropriate date location
3. He rides a Segway
4. He argues with people he doesn’t know in the comments of celebrities’ Instagram posts
5. He wears a bucket hat in the club
