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whats the most offensive thing anyone has ever said to you?

166 replies

mummyof2girls · 08/09/2005 22:17

i was told by my ex that i looked like a summo wresler when i was heavly pregnant and wearing a thong. what a bastard!

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Bouj · 09/09/2005 01:12

I was at a nightclub with a good friend, and we were talking, and perhaps flirting with a few well known (well in Aus anyway!) sporting types. When my friend rejected the captain (older quite legendary player), he made a comment that she was nothing but a prostitute and which I was shocked. He then turned to me and said "Don't worry love, you've got nothing to worry about - you are far too ugly to be a prostitute" This was from a man I had had a crush on as a kid... Still hate him when I see him interviewed.

moozoboozo · 09/09/2005 01:19

I get "Oh, you'd be pretty if you lost some weight" quite a lot.

Someone told me I looked like Jade Goody once as well. That was v. offensive in my book.

nightowl · 09/09/2005 02:14

well there was a time when i told a man very nicely (i was in a bar and he wouldnt leave me alone) "ive got a boyfriend" he still wouldnt leave me alone and was getting touchy feely so at the end of the night i very bluntly told him to piss off. when me and my friend went outside to wait for a taxi in front of lots of people i know, this idiot came past in a minibus and yelled "SLAAAAAAAGGGGG" at me. nice.

then there was the time when dd was about 5 months old, i had been out and met someone i thought seemed a nice man. i already told him i couldnt go on a date with him until the next week due to babysitters, he knew the situation. (that my ex had left me pg) but because i took more than five minutes to answer his text he sent me "youre leading me on you bitch, i hope you have a lovely life bringing up two kids on your own". ouch!!

christie1 · 09/09/2005 02:25

I think it was the 20 something colleague in my office who said to my late 30 something self, as I was explaining that I was satisfied with my career choices in life (bascially to forgo them for sake of time with kids) " oh, I hope I never get complacent like that".

bobbybob · 09/09/2005 05:24

"nobody likes you and nobody wants to work with you"

curvy · 09/09/2005 09:21

Another MNer describing her friend

"She's really big, about 1 and a half times the size of you"

SPARKLER1 · 09/09/2005 09:23

My best friends dad asked me when my baby was due - dd was three months old ./ Man did I want to slap him.

allsorts · 09/09/2005 09:50

2 days after having DS,MIL came to see him.I was wearing a pinafore type dress and on entering the house and looking at my stomach area she said "Are you sure you have'nt got another one in there"
God,I had only just given birth 2 days earlier and I had'nt put on that much extra weight whilst pregnant.

alexsmum · 09/09/2005 10:10

i was in a communal changing room in french connection when i was about 17, i was about a size 14 at the time. the older woman next to me said' that's a fine bit of flesh you've got on you love- i bet you have trouble getting something to cover you'. i was SO upset and rushed out without buying anything.

if it was now i hope i would tell the offensive old bitch where to go.

lucy5 · 09/09/2005 10:14

Do you fancy a bit of pube bashing love? MMM, let me think? Im afraid I had to turn that offer down. [vomit emoticon]

rummum · 09/09/2005 10:19

Its probably not the worse... but MIL said
"your looking better than you did"
I pointed I'd had a chest infection and yes I had been ill and had 2 small children to look after.. with no help from her...

AlmostAnAngel · 09/09/2005 10:23

snap with moozaboo!!
got you could be a model if you wernt fat!! [is this meant as a compliment!!?]

codsicle · 09/09/2005 10:25

bouj who whowhowhowhowhow

beatie · 09/09/2005 10:35

Not terribly offensive but rude, presumptious and fairly amusing.

When I challenged a well-to-do, fit, retired, lady for using a parent and toddler parking space in the Waitrose carpark right next to the town centre, she looked me up and down and said "Well, at least I shop at Waitrose"

DH was meeting me in town so we quite childishly went into the supermarket and tracked her down and made sure we noisely reached across her to pick a bottle of wine off the shelf.

acnebride · 09/09/2005 10:39

jampots and bouj!

Bouj, [soft whispery voice] you know you want to dish.

rickman · 09/09/2005 10:53

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MoozoBoozoHasGotAnIckleBotty · 09/09/2005 10:54

Rickman, He sounds like a prick.

chloe55 · 09/09/2005 10:56

Silly really but when I was about 14 I had a cute little t-shirt with cherries on (remember scratch and sniff?), a girl I looked up to said "ooh, I used to have a t-shirt like that........when I was five!" I was mortified, it was in front of a boy I really fancied too - hated her ever since!

ickleharpsichordcarrier · 09/09/2005 11:44

my FIL told me (at a family weding) that I should stop being so selfish and thinking about my career so much and give dh what he wanted (a baby) as I wasn't getting any younger (32...) - this was after 2 miscarriages within the previous 12 months, that he knew all about.
when I told him I was thinking about not going back to work after my ML he told me that we (i.e. me and dd) would be a huge burden on dh and it wasn't fair on dh.
FWIW I get on with him fine and these remarks were just water off a duck's back tbh. Don't need to justify our decisions to him after all.

slug · 09/09/2005 12:08

Guidance counsellor at secondary school, while discussing university options, told me (A grade student) that I should do a secretarial course instead so I would have 'something to fall back on'.

milward · 09/09/2005 12:13

my mother told me that as I was "just a housewife" why would anyone like a doctor or a professional of any sort listen to what I had to say!! I had been talking with her doctor about my concerns over her serious health problems that she was refusing to be treated for as she didn't think she had anything wrong.

biglips · 09/09/2005 12:18

when my supervisor called me "Fatty" (he was calling me that when the manager wasnt there) when i was heavily pg and he had be calling me that for a while and one day one of my colleagues was sitting next to me and the supervisor came in and said "morning fatty"!! so i turned round and said "dont you DARE call me Fatty again", he went and didnt speak to me for the rest of the day.. hee hee hee!!

KBear · 09/09/2005 12:22

Someone in the toilets of a pub said to me recently "why would you go out wearing glasses?". I thought I must have misheard so I said "what?". She said it again, incredulous that I would be seen DEAD in glasses. So I said, "because I can't f*ng see, of course".

Also someone once said to me "you're either putting on weight or you're pregnant". I said, "lucky for you I'm pregnant or you'd feel quite embarrassed for being so rude". This was someone at work that hardly knew me too.

Kidstrack2 · 09/09/2005 12:29

When my neighbour also a friend said to me that my Ds was so quiet and reserved because he had no brothers or sisters to play with! What the Hell just because she has four kids doesn't mean to say I have to have them too because my ds is quiet, and now after having a sibling (sister) who is now 2 and ds now 6 guess what.... he is still a quiet lovely boy and her four are not so quiet! Think she's a bit jealous at times of my sons good behavior and her dss are always getting into trouble!

Katemum · 09/09/2005 12:29

Before we had children my fil said to dh and i 'don't have children they ruin your life, well they ruined ours anyway'. I was gobsmacked.

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