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‘What’s the most awkward date you’ve been on?’ – 40 truly cringeworthy encounters

It’s a while since we’ve been in the dating game and we really don’t miss it.

Not just because today we’d probably have to join Tinder (rather than perusing the personal ads in Time Out).

But because in our experience the mostly great first dates (not many) were heavily outnumbered by the truly awful (quite a lot).

And these people’ memories of their awkward dates brought the memories rushing back. It all began when @NateIsBack2 asked this on Twitter.

And we’ve read all of the replies (well, lots of them) so you don’t have to, and here are our 40 favourites.

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