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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?

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Lurkingandlearning · 12/02/2024 07:18

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".

Crikey that’s quite sinister 😳

PleasePleaseTellMeNow · 12/02/2024 07:26

livvymc · 11/02/2024 23:00

Sorry, am I misunderstanding? Your OH was in a friends house and called a woman who walked in to the friends house an “old bag”?!
Apologies if I’ve got that wrong but I think it’s a bit rich to start a thread about bitchy comments if your OH would say that about someone!

That's what I thought too. What a vile, misogynistic thing to say.

Tilleuil · 12/02/2024 07:30

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.

Yes, you’re rude.
You could have just said that she was stunning.
And what happened was the mix of genetics happened to produce a child that is considered aesthetically pleasing.

Anewuser · 12/02/2024 07:30

Mine is 30 years ago. My then friend came to visit me and my newborn. When I told her his name (a normal one by the way) she said “he’ll hate you when he grows up.”

Daffodilsandtuplips · 12/02/2024 07:39

How can you afford that!
Said to me by the local Queen Bee on the school run. DH and I had been looking at a detached house near to where she lived. She and I had the same type of three bed semi on the same estate and I needed one with a downstairs loo. And only the detached style had them. I was in the playground waiting for dd at the end of the school day and told another friend that we’d been to see this particular house. Queen Bee was stood next to us and overhead, she couldn’t help herself “No. 23? How can you afford that!”.
I told her not to worry, we decided not to buy it, we were looking for a four bed instead.

Downunderduchess · 12/02/2024 07:40

RestingMurderousFace · 12/02/2024 00:20

A woman once informed me that I looked like I could be one of Rod Stewart’s girlfriends. I decided to take it as a compliment, much to her annoyance. 😆

Well he’s never had an ugly girlfriend has he? So really the jokes on her.

Thelionroars · 12/02/2024 07:40

2 years ago I'd just given birth to ds and sat at home with my best friend having a chat sat on the sofa. DH uncle comes over to meet ds. Uncle says all the pleasantries to my face and leaves. At the door I hear him say to my DH "which one was your wife again"

Like the one who's breastfeeding his baby! 😂not like I've been married to DH for 13 years! Me and my friend thought it was hilarious though but I think uncle meant it to be bitchy. x

airforsharon · 12/02/2024 07:47

PrincessHoneysuckle · 11/02/2024 16:56

"You look.about 4 months pregnant"
"Has everything gone back down OK?"

Dh grandparents to me when we visited post partum and I thought I looked ok

Held it together until we left then sobbed uncontrollably

Ouch :/

I had very similar from my Mum, 4 days after giving birth via c section to twins. She looked me up and down and said bluntly, "you look like you've still got one in there".

I was so tired i'd been hallucinating during the night, and was in awful pain with an infected section wound. I'm normally one to take comments like that on the chin but it nearly finished me off.

15 years on and i still bear a grudge 😂

Downunderduchess · 12/02/2024 07:55

Geez, people can be absolute cunts sometimes! Some of these comments are truly vicious.

LeSoleil · 12/02/2024 08:06

quisensoucie · 12/02/2024 06:28

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

The only thing I can guess is there is a famous or mildly famous person called Camille Grammer who made derogatory remarks about Louis Vuitton’s Pony’s teeth on a programme called Red Horses or Black Horses. Heard of Louis Vuitton, not the others though. Just a wild guess.

WinterLobelia · 12/02/2024 08:06

wellhello24 · 11/02/2024 17:48

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

My father is a total fat shamer and has been all my life. (As has my mother).

He lives abroad and when he saw me for the first time IRL (at 8 months pregnant) he said with a tone of disgust 'You look like a telly tubby'. My parents also call me a hobbit- but apparently it's okay to say because they also look like hobbits. They have often said how good it is that the DCs inherited DH's long and lean shape.

My beloved DS1 the first time he heard them call me a hobbit (he was about 11 I think) drew himself up with indignation and bellowed at the top of his voice; 'THERE WILL BE NO FAT SHAMING IN THIS HOUSE'.

I am not quite sure what triggered my childhood - adult eating disorders... can't possibly guess. 🤔

Calderadust · 12/02/2024 08:07

Xmastime2023 · 11/02/2024 17:27

These are all very mild, were none of you teenagers? 😂

I know!

Soffana · 12/02/2024 08:10

Izzieloo · 11/02/2024 17:08

a friend said I love your top . I had one
like that absolutely loved it I gave it to the charity shop five years ago so yours has lasted well .

Why is this a bad thing to say?

Calderadust · 12/02/2024 08:15

At a social gathering I was getting a lot of attention from a man my friend fancied. She decided to publicly humiliate me by bringing up my promiscuous sexual history from when we were teenagers, like it was a funny joke to tell, it was obviously to put this bloke off me and onto her.
The best part was, I had no intentions on him anyway, being married!

BreakfastAtMilliways · 12/02/2024 08:16

wellhello24 · 12/02/2024 07:15

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.

The obvious esprit d’escalier riposte to your boss’s comment is, ‘No, I’m not a bitch’. So much easier to think up later on though.

wellhello24 · 12/02/2024 08:19

BreakfastAtMilliways · 12/02/2024 08:16

The obvious esprit d’escalier riposte to your boss’s comment is, ‘No, I’m not a bitch’. So much easier to think up later on though.

That would’ve been perfect! 😄 Said with staring eyes to mean “like you!” 😜

Overwhelmedmum1 · 12/02/2024 08:21

”I’m not being mean but from what Dan said, I thought you were going to be much prettier”.

I was 19 at the time and my friend Daniel had started dating her. She was 30. I know it shouldn’t have, but that comment really scarred me.

Calderadust · 12/02/2024 08:24

A friend showing us group of girls her incisions after a serious surgery. We all doing the kind thing by reassuring her said 'they aren't bad, they will fade, you won't see them in a month.'
Bar one who blurted out 'OMG you look like you've been attacked by a shark!' She is renowned for being tactless and I don't think it was malicious but fucking hell!

Emotionalsupportviper · 12/02/2024 08:26

tuvamoodyson · 11/02/2024 17:38

‘And just because I’m letting you, doesn’t mean I like you!’

Trouble is - if @XenoBitch is anything like me, these ripostes don't occur to us until 2.00 in the morning when we are still weeping . . .

PieAndLattes · 12/02/2024 08:36

‘I can’t believe you’re dating Davey McRavey*. He’s way out of your league.’

  • Name changed to protect the innocent. And no, he wasn’t way out of my league, but he was way out of hers 😜
Emotionalsupportviper · 12/02/2024 08:43

togrt · 11/02/2024 18:22

Honestly I've been on the receiving end of so many bitchy comments.

My grandmother is something else, me and DH had been married about 6 years and we had a child together. When she had a few drinks she said to DH, 'why are you with togrt for? Don't you want a women with a bit of experience?' And winked at him and tried to make a move. This wasn't a one off, for about a year afterwards she kept making suggestive comments when I wasn't around (and when she hadn't been drinking).

Another time, just after I had my baby (and was about a size 10) she said I should watch my weight as I was looking a bit porky.

Another one, we turfed our garden (real grass ) and my sister turned round and said to me, 'its a shame we all can't afford fake grass, it will have to do I suppose. As she had just fake grassed her lawn.

Do we have the same grandmother?

Mine hated my poor mam and made her life a misery. She was also convinced that if I hadn't been born my dad. would have "come to his senses" and left my mam. I however, had trapped him.

She treated me like muck from the start, and when my siblings came along showered them with gifts while leaving me empty-handed every visit. Parents complained when she'd left the house, but neither said anything to her (she was pretty scary).

And as I got older I got such remarks as "I don't know how you're so ugly - the rest of the family is so good-looking*. When I got a uni place as a mature student, she actually snorted with contempt, then laughed, "You'll not be able to manage that!" (I did manage, and very well indeed, thank you.)

My God - the tales I could tell, but it brings too much back. 😓

*sadly for me, this is true

vidflex · 12/02/2024 08:45

Met friend for a night out. I was wearing a dress that I'd recently bought. When she saw me she said "oh my I love that dress, I'd never have the guts to wear it though, I'd look like mutton dressed as lamb at my age". I'm five years older than her

Emotionalsupportviper · 12/02/2024 08:46

Getthethrowonthesofa · 11/02/2024 18:29

My late mil; I was getting ready to go out, was in my early twenties, wearing a short skirt , but not very short, just to just below mid thigh, it was like a cream pencil skirt. I said right I’m ready, do I loook ok, she said you look like you should be standing on a street corner.

we then just stared at each other. I was so shocked.

I simply turned around and walked out the room without a word.

One of those moments where you are too taken aback to think of an answer, then later wish you;'said "Well - I'm sure you'd know."

JustWonderingIfImNormal · 12/02/2024 08:46

Following my emergency C-section my sister said to me ‘a lot of people think you aren’t a REAL mum if you’ve had a caesarean and not given birth naturally’.

wellhello24 · 12/02/2024 08:48

JustWonderingIfImNormal · 12/02/2024 08:46

Following my emergency C-section my sister said to me ‘a lot of people think you aren’t a REAL mum if you’ve had a caesarean and not given birth naturally’.

Only the incredibly dense would say something as profoundly stupid as this