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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:
MissHoollie · 12/02/2024 08:49

Yip...
Work doo... Colleague stood next to me for a group photo...
" Ah Hoolie I love being next to you..makes me feel really pretty"
I

Calderadust · 12/02/2024 08:51

@vidflex 😂

Lorrymum · 12/02/2024 09:01

Being told I looked "like mutton dressed as lamb" when wearing my new pink jeans. I was 24!

Beahappy82 · 12/02/2024 09:03

Last week I put up a picture of my teenage daughter as she won a special dance award. A work colleague said to me that my daughter was so beautiful and that she wasn't like me! 🤣

MiniPumpkin · 12/02/2024 09:03

After I had told people I was pregnant a colleague informed me she already knew this as she noticed that my ‘nose had spread accross my face’ it’s a pregnancy thing she said. Went on at length at how big my nose was. It really wasnt. That was just the beginning. She was right cow throughout my whole pregnancy

I didn’t know she had been doing ivf. Still think she’s a total cow. 😂

Amperoblue · 12/02/2024 09:04

When I was 19 I went to the US as a nanny. I was lucky that I had a lovely family and they were really close with their grandparents, cousins etc in other states. We had gone to visit said grandparents and I'm young, doing a responsible job in a foreign country and I become aware the grandmother is making snidey comments. Things like you like "oh, you dressed up" when I was in shorts and a new vest top. I had actually given the outfit some thought as I was in Florida but their casual style in a place used to heat and warmth meant my fashion radar was out of kilter. I thought she was being nice until I realised that my new outfit wasn't at all dressy and therefore she was being a cow.
She finally said "I worked as a nurse for 30 years you know" and I smiled and she said "and my feet never spread like yours". I actually had wide flat feet and bunions because I'm hyper mobile so it was true but unfortunately Florida isn't the best place to hide such feet.
I never told my boss her mum was bitch as the rest of them were lovely but I always wonder why you'd be mean to someone in my position.

Risun · 12/02/2024 09:05

Many years ago we got chatting to a couple on holiday. On hearing which bit of London we came from, the woman looked enlightened and said, 'Ah yes, they do have a lot of council housing there'.

It still makes me smile all these years later.

MiamiWindMachine · 12/02/2024 09:05

Years back at a family party, my little cousin was playing with her toy doctor’s bag and spent an age making us pretend to be patients. She approached her aunt for about the eighth time with her stethoscope and aunt, by now very bored, said, “Oh, not me again Lucy - I’m dead now.” Her husband added, “Yes - from the neck up”.

She didn’t get it, which kind of proved his point. They separated not long afterwards.

kavalkada · 12/02/2024 09:05

"Let's go on a diet together - after that you could be normal, and I'll be perfect" - a former friend who said plenty of similar things through the years

Emotionalsupportviper · 12/02/2024 09:10

Lorac23 · 11/02/2024 19:35

"Your friend's really pretty. You're not though".

From a so called Christian at one of those "Bring a convert" social suppers.... And this, religious apologists, is why I'll stay a LONG way away from organised religion and stick with the pagans, thanks.

Although it arguably pales into insignificance next to the PE teacher who told me I was a "spastic" in the equivalent of Year 8 one lesson. Bitch. On SO many levels. I hope she's having a truly miserable old age.

I'm a Christian and have heard some very unChristian comments and witnessed some very unChristian behaviour.

One incident which didn't happen at my own church and which I didn't witness* but was told about was a remark made by a PCC member to our lovely organist. He's gay, and obviously so, and she told him to "Get out of the church - God doesn't want your sort here!"

Poor bloke - he was nearly in tears when he told me about it.

*If I'd been there I'd have pulled her fecking head off her shoulders. I find it very hard to stick up for myself, but will fight like a tigress on behalf of the people I love if anyone hurts them

HeChokedOnAChorizo · 12/02/2024 09:11

My now ExH and i were managers in a shop, we had one lad working for us about 21. As he walked round a corner he was with another lad he saw me and looked me up and down and said "speaking of mutton" then walked off laughing.

I was about 25 and wearing jeans and a t-shirt.

I was really upset as it was so uncalled for and i didnt dress like mutton, i had a young child and was normally in jeans and t-shirt. I never wore anything revealing or short skirts as i was very conscious of my body after having a baby and putting some weight on

My ExH had a "word" with him and he did apologise but he meant it and i can still remember his sneer 25 years later.

Heyhoitsme · 12/02/2024 09:11

Years ago I was a stay at home mum with two children under five. I had to go to a dinner to support my husband at work. A female colleague asked what I did. When I told her she said "what shall we talk about? Washing dishes and changing nappies"?

Pocketfullofdogtreats · 12/02/2024 09:12

Was discussing colours with MIL and SILs and I said my favourite is purple. MIL said that people who like purple are suicidal. She really doesn't like me!

GoodHeavens99 · 12/02/2024 09:14

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.

I would have said 'well, you'd know'.

Bitchy and unpleasant gets bitchy and unpleasant me back!
If they don't care enough about my feelings, then why should I bite my tongue to spare them?

GoodHeavens99 · 12/02/2024 09:15

SinnerBoy · 11/02/2024 18:28

Waitingfordoggo · Today 16:49

I used to have awful hormonal acne all over my chin for years.

My SiL is horrible and never misses a chance to be nasty to me and for years, I let it go. We used to take her and her kids for days out all the time and she never once thanked me. She'd ring up and demand that I be there in 20 minutes and then scream at me that I'd ruined her day and how awful it was for her kids, what a cunt I was etc.

Amazingly, we made it within her ordered time and she looked me up and down on the doorstep and said, "God, you're spotty!" (Think Rik being nasty to Neil in The Young Ones for the sneering expression).

I said airily, "At least I'm only ugly on the outside!" She knew I'd got one on her, but she was too thick to work it out.

Seriously, if I said she's evil, I'd be slandering evil!

Why did you put up with that?

It wouldn't have happened a second time.

ScierraDoll · 12/02/2024 09:15

Some of these aren't insensitive at all, particularly the OP. Says more about the sensitivities of the listener rather than the insensitivity of the speaker

Borka · 12/02/2024 09:16

When I was about 20 hrs into labour with DS, who was nearly 3 weeks late, the consultant said "It would be a shame to have a 10-month pregnancy and a dead baby".

beguilingeyes · 12/02/2024 09:19

I was looking through some old photos/cuttings yesterday and I found an old album review of my favourite singer, Judie Tzuke. It's from 1985 and is so awful. almost nothing about the record, all about her looks. And it's written by a man.

"The Esther Rantzen of rock, the last time I saw teeth like that Lester Piggott was sat behind 'em. The woman with the dancing dentures....The album was recorded at The Boiler Room. No comment"

Whats the most t bitchiest comment you have ever heard?
quisensoucie · 12/02/2024 09:19

MiamiWindMachine · 12/02/2024 09:05

Years back at a family party, my little cousin was playing with her toy doctor’s bag and spent an age making us pretend to be patients. She approached her aunt for about the eighth time with her stethoscope and aunt, by now very bored, said, “Oh, not me again Lucy - I’m dead now.” Her husband added, “Yes - from the neck up”.

She didn’t get it, which kind of proved his point. They separated not long afterwards.

8 times

I'm with the aunty - in fact, that stethoscope would have been in the bin after 4!

AInightingale · 12/02/2024 09:21

I've had so many bitchy comments I can barely recall them, though I do remember a hairdresser asking if she could take a 'before and after' photo.

I remember some girls looking through school formal photos in sixth form, and one exclaiming to another, 'you look beautiful...you look really different.'

Halloweenrainbow · 12/02/2024 09:25

DMs attitude to my degree-

When I told her about my dissertation topic and that I'd done well her reply was "I could have done that".

Several years later she's going on about her friends' son who got a 2:1 at uni and how proud they all were, what an amazing achievement that was because its "one of the highest marks you can get". I reminded her that I also had a 2:1 to which she replied "well, that's different".

Thank you mother for all your encouragement!

spagbolrules · 12/02/2024 09:25

I was chatting to an acquaintance and we got onto the topic of middle names. I mentioned how it's a tradition in my family for the women to go by their middle names but I didn't think I wanted to do that. She asked what it was and when I told her she looked stunned, smirked, covered her mouth with her hand, laughed sardonically and said 'oh no, definitely do not go by your middle name! It's awful! Your first name is horrible but that's even worse!'

TeabySea · 12/02/2024 09:26

WaystarRoy · 11/02/2024 16:53

i remember someone being asked if they had got their hair cut like that ‘on purpose’?

Julian Clary once asked a heckler, "Who cuts your hair, the council?"

IvanaTinkles · 12/02/2024 09:29

An old friend of mine from school (who knew my family well and knew my sister suffer MH issues) went up to my sister at my wedding and said “oh Jane it must be soooo hard for you seeing your younger sister get married, when you’re nearly 30 and not even engaged yet” in a tone absolutely dripping in malice. She is now an ex friend!

Moveoverdarlin · 12/02/2024 09:30

PurpleBag · 11/02/2024 19:04

A colleague was showing us some photos which included pictures of her boyfriend. Another colleague said 'oh he looks better than I thought he would'! Shock

Can’t help but laugh at this one. Sometimes things just pop out your mouth, you don’t realise how they sound until it’s out there.

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