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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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Theminer · 11/02/2024 18:53

belvitas · 11/02/2024 18:40

"I can't
imagine you with a baby"
said by a colleague when I was pregnant with my first baby. She was the main reason I didn't return to that job. Utter bitch.

"you look tarty, like
mutton" said by MIL when I was heading out for the first time after having a baby.

How is the comment about the baby bitchy?

CoffeeMama1 · 11/02/2024 18:54

I was told "you'd be really attractive if it wasn't for the neck up"

AmandaHoldensLips · 11/02/2024 18:56

"Gosh! You're very brave to wear that colour with your skin tone! Sod what everybody else thinks, eh?"

wellhello24 · 11/02/2024 18:56

sanityisamyth · 11/02/2024 18:40

I was raped at uni, 500 miles from home. I phoned my mother for some support and she simply said

"At least he didn't strangle you afterwards."

And then hung up on me.

She gave me a hard time about driving me to the airport for the trial too - was only told a few days before that it was taking place (3 false starts in the end before he skipped the country) but it meant that she would have to cancel her overtime shift.

That was only the tip of the iceberg too.

Wow. Just wow.

CarterBeatsTheDevil · 11/02/2024 18:57

Someone who I was very fond of (and who wasn't bitchy at all but who was older, ND and had I think slightly misunderstood what was ok in our friendship) asked me, very seriously, "How does someone get as fat as you are?"

We were eating pudding at the time and what I now wish is that I had stuck my spoon into his pudding, eaten a spoonful of it, and then said, "Like this"

PurplePim · 11/02/2024 18:58

I used to organise quite a lot of well attended social events for a hobby group I was part of. One of these was around the time of my birthday, and people had signed a card for me and got me a small gift. A woman who I'd known for at least six months wrote, "I'm not sure who you are, but happy birthday anyway!" She's been rude to me every time I've seen her since, but behaves entirely differently with other people. Very odd woman and I've no idea what her problem is.

Fallenangelofthenorth · 11/02/2024 18:58

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This can't be in the UK surely? I'm trying to think which country it could be.

wellhello24 · 11/02/2024 18:59

Dacadactyl · 11/02/2024 18:30

I know. Its frightening how many people get offended at absolutely nothing, or who twist things to think people are having a dig at them!!

There are about 5 comments on this whole thread that were actively nasty (the racism one is just beyond awful) but other than those, I don't see bitchiness in many!

Says a lot about you tbf.

CarterBeatsTheDevil · 11/02/2024 18:59

PS I am very overweight, though I think not so overweight that it's totally incomprehensible

urrrgh46 · 11/02/2024 19:00

My mother when I phoned to tell her I'd been scanned and had a missed miscarriage (she didn't know I was pregnant) "was it planned?" I staggered the reply that it had been a happy accident to which she also replied "oh well at least that's something - it would have been much worse if it had been planned". I have other corkers from her...she's a bitch.

DistinguishedSocialCommenator · 11/02/2024 19:02

Tippexy · 11/02/2024 16:44

I don’t understand how this was insensitive. If anything, I’d lean towards it being a compliment!

Ok, you are the second person that has asked. I did not want to say this as really felt for my co-worker with the ring - the diamond was tiny. I hope that clears it.

If there were several and or large ones, we would have got it but just to say something like that, not just me but others too felt it was out of place and the ring ownner curse the other worker behind their back

Some really funny stories here, but I cringed as well.

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SnowflakeSparkles · 11/02/2024 19:03

Argh I wrote mine and it got deleted!

But essentially, when I was 18/19 I worked in a coffee shop and on my first shift, caught a girl regaling our colleagues with something I had said (perfectly innocuous and just being nice to her) in a mocking way. I was mortified at the time being young and shy but even then I realised it was very much a her problem.

She did turn out to be heavily disliked by the rest of the team and even her 2 “friends” bitched about her incessantly, and her them.

Not aimed at me, but the other bitchiest thing I have ever seen happened Around the same time. I had become best friends with another girl who worked there and we were out at a big club.

She had suffered since early teens with anorexia severe enough to be hospitalised and in a specialist unit. She really came along during our friendship in terms of her relationship with food and our many nights on the town, and she had put on a little bit of weight which was great.

Anyway at said club, we were out in the smoking area and this young man and woman (think it was a gay man and his friend) for some reason still unfathomable to me to this day, decided to ask her if she was pregnant.

I mean, we were both standing there, drink and cigarette in hands. It was incredibly rude and if the answer had been yes, well what would they have done? They must have just been spoiling for some drama.

We are no longer in touch now, but I often think of her and hope she is okay. What a fucking blow that must have been to someone in her position.

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

Missingmyusername · 11/02/2024 19:06

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".

That says more than her about you!

GoldfishFins · 11/02/2024 19:06

Fallenangelofthenorth · 11/02/2024 18:58

This can't be in the UK surely? I'm trying to think which country it could be.

Yes UK.

SinnerBoy · 11/02/2024 19:08

SnowflakeSparkles · Today 19:03

I mean, we were both standing there, drink and cigarette in hands. It was incredibly rude and if the answer had been yes, well what would they have done? They must have just been spoiling for some drama.

He's what I would call an unwiped arsehole.

DrunkenElephant · 11/02/2024 19:08

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DistinguishedSocialCommenator · 11/02/2024 19:11

Not bitchy comments but this happened to my OH

OH about 18/19 had a car when his workmates did not and all of them were a lot older than him, in his opion at the time as most were close to 30 or a bit older. As my to be OH waited in the front room where the front door entered the house - his mate opened the door and let the lady through to the other room used as a sitting room- it was a cold day and the woman had a head scarf - my OH said "whos that old bag" - it was his mates sister - thankfully his mate took well and OH apologised to him immediately

A couple of moneths ago - a lady that I only see behind the till at my local supermarket was in Matalans and she had a reallr big belly but has a small upper body - I genuinely said, "hello, congtas when is the baby due" - the lady sias she is not pregnant - I felt so awful and said sorry striaght away as it was not meant to be like that

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neilyoungismyhero · 11/02/2024 19:15

I worked as an evening waitress in a motel back in the 70s after I'd had my second baby. A nasty piece of work Under Manager looked at my very nice leather coat one night and told me he didn't think someone like me could have afforded such a great coat. My then husband probably brought home 3 times as much as he did but I kept quiet.

He told my friend who had just bought a brand new car that he thought the green colour was vile - quick as a flash she replied...I wouldn't worry sunshine you'll never the able to afford one like it anyway.
None of us worked because we were hard up we just liked our own money.

DistinguishedSocialCommenator · 11/02/2024 19:16

some really awful ones here - so many people around that are not necessarily bad people but just dont think before opening their mouths. Having said that, some do sound like nasty people.

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WhatchaLookingAt · 11/02/2024 19:17

When I was early 20s, we used to occasionally stop over at my bfs house (now dh) when back home for the holidays. His mum had a habit of just coming into the bedroom unannounced. I hadn’t been up long and was just about to start doing my make up when his mum barged in the bedroom with her cat in her arms. She took one look at my make up less face and said in a cutesy voice to the cat “ahh, see, xxxxx looks just like the rest of us without make up on” followed by “I’ll leave you to make yourself look beautiful”
Cheers for that mil👍🏼
(You won’t be surprised to know that for the last 5 or 6 years , we have had v.low contact with her)

ThinkAboutItTomorrow · 11/02/2024 19:17

My DM, in her defence I think this was a missed early sign of dementia but....

Told her sister her new grandson 'looked like something from lord of the rings'. Worst part was the baby did have a hint of Gollum to him, but still, best left unsaid.

Happy to say he's now a teenager and quite good looking!

idrinkandiknowthings · 11/02/2024 19:17

My dad was being introduced by his brother-in-law to his new girlfriend. He shook her hand vigorously and said, "Eee, I haven't seen a good looking woman come out of Wigan yet!". She was from Wigan.

My dad also once said to me, "You are quite pretty, you're just a bit bulbous" and to my sister, "You eat a lot of salad, don't you? I'm surprised you're so fat". He made us howl with his filterless dadisms, we miss him hugely.

ThatshallotBaby · 11/02/2024 19:17

When I was a teenager I was staying with my aunt, we were going out and she offered to lend me a jacket. I said ‘Thank you, but I don’t want to be lamb dressed as mutton’ Grin

GoldfishFins · 11/02/2024 19:17

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Honestly no, we kind of stood there in stunned silence at the time although the 3 of us that heard it reported it directly and all 6 of us in that team got questioned by management regarding it