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Heh, that wasn't rambling, that was an actual explaination, don't worry. And it sounds like that guy deserves to have nothing, if he can't get his act together. If he makes dumb comments that annoy women (I've seen some of my friends do that to girls they "liked") well, he'll have to learn how to avoid that in the future. It might help him if you be honest and say what you didn't like. If it "hurts his feelings" then that's good, he'll know what he did wrong.
Otherwise he'll probably just do it again. Men have gotta learn, and women are good teachers, I tell ya. We don't learn it from our friends or fathers.
I don't quite see why you bothered though to use hints and be shy or anything like that. I can tell ya from personal experience when women do that to me it's irritating. I always come right out and say what I like about them, and why. It isn't hard. I have reasons why I like them, so I just speak my mind.
Honesty weighs much easier on the mind.
If I want to say "You know, it'd be great to go out with you sometime" and they're shocked, well, they'll get over it. Either they'll be happy I said it, (maybe they wanted to hear that) or they'll say "Nah, I don't think we should actually date or anything."
In either outcome you've made it known that you like this person, want to get to know them more, and would enjoy doing so. If they have no interest in it, no harm done. Either they're a good enough friend to keep even after that, or they're merely a passing interest and someone you didn't really know that well in the first place.
Make sense? It sounds like that's what happened in your case. You found out eventually he was too immature. But who knows, give him another chance someday, he might have grown up by then. Men do change as they get older/get more experience with women.