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Whats the most t bitchiest comment you have ever heard?

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DistinguishedSocialCommenator · 11/02/2024 16:29

At work, local gov environment - we sat nattering on our desks and a colleague walked in from a client visit and wished one of my work-mates, "Congrats on your engagement

That was fine until my co-worker stuck out her hand to show of her diamond ring set in white gold I think it was.

The workmate who walked in said, "is that real." Honestly, she was being serious and had not noted what she had done by her insensitive comments

Have you got something to share that was insensitive?

OP posts:
LuckyPeonies · 12/02/2024 00:57

3 months post-partum, my mother (who had been very critical/insulting all my life) looked at me, scowled, and said: ‘you must lose weight, or (husband) will find himself a slim woman’. I was not even overweight. 🙄

However, she gained an enormous amount of weight post meno, so I had much quiet Schadenfreude.

sanityisamyth · 12/02/2024 00:58

@PrincessHoneysuckle very much trying to!! I tend to grey rock and keep her at arms length!

Lilacanemone · 12/02/2024 01:20

“DS is a good looking boy”. Looking at DH and me with a puzzled look “I wonder where he gets it from”.

toastwithmarmalade · 12/02/2024 02:56

Witnessed 2

  1. Two consultant Dr's say about a newborn these exact words: "thankfully baby as your (Mum's) looks, but let's hope it has Dad's brains". I was horrified and felt desperately sad for the Mum that people who work in health care could be so crass, condescending and rude. Shockingly her dh heard the comment and agreed!! This was not long ago. I gave Mum much reassurance but I'm sure she will never forget that comment.
  2. Also in health care, though a care attendant, say a disgusting comment about people who experience infertility. Won't say more as what she said was vile and I wouldn't want to hurt anyone here who is going through that.

Experienced personally a friend said she hoped I had infertility or a miscarriage as I always seemed to land on my feet and it would be good to see me knocked off at some point. She was sadly very jealous. She chose not to go to Uni, though she was exceptionally bright, and seemed to resent those of us that went. I finished Uni and went onto a graduate job, passed my driving test and purchased a vehicle and small flat. While she had much money saved as she lived at home and had no Uni costs, she stayed in her parents' bungalow, never learned to drive etc. Her resentment built and built. She went on to marry someone I dated...make of that what you will.

Foxyaus · 12/02/2024 03:06

Said directly to me "You are fat and ugly, no one wants you around"
Said by a man, in front of his wife and about 20 people in a busy bakery.
Because I spoke to him.
She said nothing.
Some people are just mean.

That80sgirl · 12/02/2024 03:13

Maybe if you didn't have mental problems and had a breakdown while pregnant your son wouldn't have been born severely autistic

I cant help you ive got my own life to live(me asking for help saying i was suicidal)

Both comments by MIL witch

KysMumma · 12/02/2024 03:14

When my now 2yr old was about 7months we(me, my partner &baby) travelled abroad to stay with the inlaws who i hadnt actually met yet other than on facetime, and the first day we were there my mil started asking me am i doing anything to lose weight as i had put weight on through & after pregnancy that i hadnt lost which wasn't a priority for me at the time as i was just adapting and enjoying motherhood but i was overally aware and wasnt happy within myself, but she started doing exercise and telling me to do this and that, that its easy, or that i should join the gym. She also started going through old facebook photos of me and pointing out how slim i use to be which im also well aware of, as i reminisce about it alot lol. But I just felt so embarrassed and awkward and thought it was so rude, but she speaks and understands very little English so i couldnt really explain that to her, also didnt want to react as it was our first time meeting, I also dont think she thought there was anything wrong with what she said as she did ask me if i had lost any weight a few months later! Its conflicting for me because other than the weight comments and being slighty over bearing with my child (thats a whole other story) she is a lovely woman and would do anything for us. But yeah thats probably the rudest thing someone has ever said to me.

Mamaraisedadoughut · 12/02/2024 03:32

My mother- when I was being sent through the 2week pathway for symptoms that my GP told me could have been cervical cancer (I think everyone was a bit cautious as Jade Goody was still quite fresh in people's minds)

I was telling my mother what the GP had said, and I was a bit worried.

She said "You'll have to let me know what happens, I can't have DD see you disintegrate and die infront of her eyes. I'll take you to court if I have to, she needs shielding from that"
I was only 22, and I didn't hear from her for over 6 months. She didn't call or text to check on me, so just literally disappeared.

Underthesea65 · 12/02/2024 03:38

Years ago when I was in Tesco with my then baby daughter. Was at the counter and a couple of the women who worked there were saying what a beautiful baby etc she was. One of them then turned around to the other and said, well she definitely doesn't get her looks from her mum. I was absolutely mortified and cried the whole way home.

ThirtyThrillionThreeTrees · 12/02/2024 04:05

RosesAndHellebores · 12/02/2024 00:52

I think MIL tops it. After miscarriages at: 17 and 12 weeks and losing a little boy at 27 weeks (we had one three and a half year old). "Such a shame you can't perform".

It was 27 years ago. I have yet to forgive her.

What an absolute bitch!

That must have hurt so much.

I was called an barron bitch once, about a month after I had an operation and found out that children would never be a possibility. It was after I dared to tell a friend's now ex to stop shouting abuse at people in my house.

Some people are so cutting but it says so much about them.

marriednotdead · 12/02/2024 05:29

Many bitchy comments come from my mother who is over 80. On a good day she can be amusingly witty but often it’s just poisonous. Have started biting back.

My auntie (her sister-in-law) had DCs from her first marriage. Mother has labelled auntie as stupid, largely because she was a SAHM and later worked in lower paid jobs like dinner lady and cleaning. Auntie’s DCs have made similar choices. Mother sees herself as intellectually superior has stated more than once that she’s so glad that she doesn’t have thick children like auntie.
We all adore auntie, she’s a ray of sunshine and we feel very protective of her and fight back on her behalf- could never tell her how mean mother is behind her back as she would be heartbroken.

They are both widows now and living a long way away so after uncle died, one of auntie’s grandchildren bought her a smart phone so that they could FaceTime her- she’d never had a mobile before but she is doing pretty well with it.
Have been trying for years to get mother to do the same but she refuses.
Last time I mentioned it I got the dismissive- ‘oh no, it’s too hard for me to learn at my age’. She went very quiet when I said ‘well auntie’s doing perfectly fine with it!’

Heybearu · 12/02/2024 05:33

A ballet mum (we have since left and mums at other hobbies much nicer!) Having seen me struggling to get my autistic daughter into class having a transition meltdown- happy and fine ince taking part.

Pointed looks at the mum next to her.

'Are you coming to the show?'

Yep

'How do you think shes going to cope?' (Said slowly with a Bitchy Look back at the mum next to her)

It was like being 14 all over again. Hate women like that.

Snuggleyou · 12/02/2024 05:36

“But what about the papers” said in front of me by a female middle aged teacher to another teacher, after I’d been indecently assaulted by another pupil. Yes well by all means protect the reputation of the sodden school.

Letsgotitans · 12/02/2024 06:16

XenoBitch · 11/02/2024 16:47

One that was aimed at me. Left a pub, and everyone was hugging each other goodbye. One lady, who I considered a friend and I thought was pretty decent, hugged me and whispered into my ear "just because I am hugging you, doesn't mean I like you".

Omg that's not bitchy that's creepy! What a psycho!!

quisensoucie · 12/02/2024 06:28

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 11/02/2024 16:33

Camille Grammer made a really rude comment about LVPs teeth on rhobh.

Could you translate that?
No idea what/who that means!

TomatoSoupDragon · 12/02/2024 06:34

At a friends dinner, with other women I didn't know. They were talking about some school mum in their class.

"Do you think she's attractive"
"Yes, she is beautiful, but she's northern and so in a crass kind of way"

So, obviously, they felt intimidated by this woman's looks as they are all so insecure, so had to find some kind of fault with her.

ArcticBells · 12/02/2024 06:36

wellhello24 · 11/02/2024 17:48

My boss when I was heavily pregnant “wow are you having a litter of puppies?”

How can you be offended by that? Don't you have a sense of humour?!

Anycrispsleft · 12/02/2024 06:40

Foreign DH and I were at his brother's birthday party where I was meeting a lot of the extended family for the first time. DMIL introduced me to her sister who spoke a few words to me in the standard version of their language and then as an aside said to DMIL in dialect "how's her language?" And DMIL replied "not so bad, but her grammar is terrible." Yeah, my grasp of dialect is surprisingly good though MIL! She's actually all right, she's been great to my kids, it's just the sisters get really bitchy when they're all together.

glittereyelash · 12/02/2024 06:56

A women asked me how did I have such a good looking child. She said my husband couldn't be that good looking because why would he be with someone like me. Luckily I'm not easily offended!

Tatonka · 12/02/2024 06:59

glittereyelash · 12/02/2024 06:56

A women asked me how did I have such a good looking child. She said my husband couldn't be that good looking because why would he be with someone like me. Luckily I'm not easily offended!

Good grief. This thread is a good laugh, I wonder if people are intentionally this rude

FMLWTF · 12/02/2024 07:02

“You’re quite big but you’re all in proportion” smiled a frenemy at uni. It was said 25 years ago and it still stings. Also, I was a size 12… 😔

PermanentTemporary · 12/02/2024 07:03

The ones that kill me are the ones that sound nice on the surface but contain a grenade.

Friend at college talking to me with a big smile "I said to him that Perm is such a complete idiot but soooo sweet with it"

Mother of very close friend C who was getting married, shaking my hand in the reception line "oh Perm you look lovely, C said you'd really ballooned recently"

Im actually still in touch with C and we have a kissy kissy Facebook relationship but I don't make any effort to see her. To be fair her mother is obsessed with weight so I do blame the mum for passing it on more than C for saying it.

Todaysproblem · 12/02/2024 07:08

Lilacanemone · 12/02/2024 01:20

“DS is a good looking boy”. Looking at DH and me with a puzzled look “I wonder where he gets it from”.

Oh dear, I remember saying the same thing to my sister when they had their daughter. But she looked stunning from birth - Clements twins level. The daughter is now 17 and I still don’t understand what happened there.

wellhello24 · 12/02/2024 07:15

ArcticBells · 12/02/2024 06:36

How can you be offended by that? Don't you have a sense of humour?!

Yes I do have a sense of humour, but that wasn’t particularly funny. No one likes to be told they are massive, pregnant or not. I was carrying an awful lot of water with the baby so was very big. My baby was also big because I developed gestational diabetes. When pregnant hormones are raging so you can feel extra sensitive especially about your size. Im
not close to my boss. It was an insensitive, unsolicited remark, a bit like yours just now.

wellhello24 · 12/02/2024 07:17

Todaysproblem · 12/02/2024 07:08

Oh dear, I remember saying the same thing to my sister when they had their daughter. But she looked stunning from birth - Clements twins level. The daughter is now 17 and I still don’t understand what happened there.

How do you not see that’s an offensive thing to say? Ffs some people just have no emotional intelligence

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