Saturday 16 November, 2024

Gallery: Your worst ever dates, as told on Twitter

Ever been given your date’s eyebrow as a souvenir? Check out the world’s worst romantic encounters in 140 characters…

THERE ARE BAD dates… and then there are dates where a man gives you his eyebrow as a token of affection.

Journalist Rhodri Marsden innocently sent out a tweet yesterday mentioning an awkward romantic encounter. A deluge of replies came back describing other peoples’ dating disasters – so many that Marsden, a columnist with the Independent, was inspired to collect them on social media site Storify.

As well as rogue eyebrows, the romantic failures involve everything from motorbikes to Aran jumpers. You can see the full collection over on Storify, but here are a few of our favourites. And if you’ve got any of your own, just tweet them to @rhodri…

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