Being called a “single Pringle”

Why does this person even need to refer to your relationship status?

They come across as if being in a relationship with A Man is some kind of achievement. It’s not. There are squillions of men out there.

Pringles - once you pop -you can't stop

So one answer is that - why settle for one when you're having fun

Another would be

better than being 2 peas in a pod (We juusstt waannt to beeee togetttthhherrrrr) y a w n

Or simply 'You're only jealous'

I can imagine how smug she is!
Love the idea of using "gruesome twosome" or square pair to her next time you're with her.

It seems slightly off - like a little kid, or maybe a Dad joke made by the kind of person who says heck and crumbs. (It's massively better than Taken Bacon though - gross !!)

You could burst into a chorus of '70s Lene Lovich:

🎶 🎶 I never used to cry 'cause I was all alone
Me, myself and I is all I've ever known!
I never felt the need to have a hand to hold,
In everything I do I take complete control
That's where I'm coming from:
My lucky number's one!
I've everything I need to keep me satisfied
There's nothing you can do to make me change my mind
I'm having so much fun
My lucky number's one...
(Ah-dee-ah-dee-ah-dee-ah-dee-ah) 🎶🎶

Just tell her to stop being jealous. That’ll throw her off abit as she was probably saying it to make you feel shit. Even if you’re happy being single, it will of course bother you that someone’s trying to make you feel shit. It sort of reminds me about when I had my second baby, someone I know made a dig about me going back to nappies and how she was glad she was passed all that and it wasn’t said in a nice way. After secondary infertility I was grateful to be back to changing nappies but it bothered me that she was trying to bring me down. You know this person best and you’ll know their intention behind it.

Honestly, someone who measures your worth by your relationship status or tries to put you down due to it really is no friend.

Wtf? Single pringle? Was this person 9? I'm sorry if it's upset you OP, and I definitely don't mean to invalidate your feelings, but I think it would've made me laugh my fucking head off. It says a lot more about them than it does you. I might've responded with something like 'Jeez, if being in a relationship turns you back into a toddler, I'm quite happy to carry on the pringle mingle - oh, hope you are still enjoying sex in 20 years, I know I will be'. 🤣. Not laughing at you OP, I'm laughing at the person who said it.

I couldn't care less - but I grew up in an era mentioned by a pp when skins were much thicker!

Pft, when are Pringles ever single though? Like, they're in a can of about 50, who ever eats just one, or leaves just one? P.s, if you don't put two together, one inverted in your mouth as a ducks beak and quack, you're eating them wrong.

Ugh it's shit patter regardless of whether it could be offensive or not. Is a definite justified "STFU" moment. 😒

I don’t understand why someone’s r/s status is a thing. You’re friends for … friendship. If she says it again, maybe reply with, ‘I got bored of settling tbh’

No they weren't. Why do people say such bullshit? Just because you were less likely to get called out on stuff like that, doesn't mean it was any less hurtful then.

What an absolutely horrible group of people you sound. And I'm not sure your age then gives you a free pass, especially as you seem to think it's a) defensible and b) imply that times were better then, when it's was ok to be cruel about other people.

Anyway, OP, I think it sounds smug at the very least and also a bit unkind.

It’s really not about having a thick skin.

It’s about recognising when someone is trying to get a dig in to literally make you feel a bit shit, so that they can feel better about themselves.

😂😂😂

It’s really not about having a thick skin.
It’s about recognising when someone is trying to get a dig in to literally make you feel a bit shit, so that they can feel better about themselves.

Usually it is just a joke, and even if someone is trying to get a dig in why would anyone actually care? That's what having a thick skin means, you don't take every little comment or dig personally. No-one can be made to feel a bit shit by someone else, you have to rise above it. So many sensitive souls around these days - and most of them seem to be on MN.

It was fine for my 2007 Bebo profile.

It is annoying it's along the same lines as constantly asking have you got a boyfriend yet

No they weren’t. It was mean and upsetting then just like it is now. You just chose to pick on people who didn’t stand up to bullying. You sound absolutely horrible.

op it’s really irritating and I’d wonder if the person saying it was 9.

That was to @SeemsSoUnfair

Skins were not thicker in those days. You clearly still think it’s funny. Says a lot about you.

It would have done in my younger years but nah.....its just childish

I would not be offended but it is unoriginal.

If I got annoyed by someone calling me a silly non offensive name, I'd seriously have a think about my life and how good it is to not have any real worries in life.

Bullying?! Unless the implication is that anyone single is somehow less, missing out or to be pitied, then I don't see how saying the common jokey phrase "single pringle" is "bullying".

Erm no it’s just two words that rhyme!