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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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Pudmyboy · 11/02/2024 19:19

The worst comment I've heard was "you'd be quite pretty if you lost a bit of weight" and the recipient (a friend) answered, "you'd be quite nice if you weren't such a nasty bitch" 😲
Sounds like the right response actually! Maybe without the 'nasty' , otherwise seems spot on as a quick witted appropriate response

Thepossibility · 11/02/2024 19:25

I was crying that no-one really loves me to my Nan when I was a teenager (I came from a really broken home) and she said she loves me the most.
I said “what about cousins?"(golden childs kids).
Nan “no not more than them. More than your brother and sisters."

Thepossibility · 11/02/2024 19:25

I was crying that no-one really loves me to my Nan when I was a teenager (I came from a really broken home) and she said she loves me the most.
I said “what about cousins?"(golden childs kids).
Nan “no not more than them. More than your brother and sisters."

JohnPrescottsPyjamas · 11/02/2024 19:29

My mother, well known in my family for her sly bitchy comments said to me, “That’s a nice top, where did you get it from?”
”Next” I replied.
”Oh, I thought Next only sold clothes for slim people?”
I was a size 12. 😖

KohlaParasaurus · 11/02/2024 19:29

Many years ago my aunt and uncle invited a couple from Germany to stay with them for a few weeks and pulled out all the stops to make sure they had a good holiday. As they were leaving, the husband said to my aunt, "You must come and visit us sometime, and my wife will teach you how to cook."

Once she'd stopped spluttering my aunt, who was an excellent cook, thought this was hilarious.

idrinkandiknowthings · 11/02/2024 19:30

Me again! Not a comment, but an old boss gave me a copy of Trainspotting for my birthday, scant weeks after I'd lost my 20 year old sister to a methadone overdose.

Tootytoot78 · 11/02/2024 19:31

My Sils ex Mil was an absolute witch, she made my Sils life a misery with her nasty remarks. I once bumped into the witch and her daughter, and she said "Oh you've put on a bit of heft" ( I was on medication)
I just smiled at her and said "I will lose this weight, you however will always resemble a trout"
(I can be a tad brutal sometimes)

NannyGythaOgg · 11/02/2024 19:34

On a counselling diploma course (no less). We were working in pairs and my partner said to me
'I wish I was more like you ... And didn't care what I looked like'

AND

Totally insensitive but not bitchy
I was having a coil fitted when my first baby was 3 months old (back in the early 80s) The GP, whilst he was fitting it said 'God, it's like a cavern in here' I'm 69 and have never forgotten - or totally believed my vagina was quite normal ever since

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.

becomingabetterme · 11/02/2024 19:35

I had a crop top on and an ex friend looked me up and down and said 'does it upset you that you're so flat chested?'. I was too shocked for words Blush

AngelinaFibres · 11/02/2024 19:40

My mother....
Walking up the street chatting " Yes you've done lots of things. You've never been very good at any of them though". Um okaaaaay.

When I moved back to my childhood home town after being a divorced single parent for 4 years " We assumed you were coming home to curl up and die".

I am an artist. I exhibit and sell my work for hundreds of pounds.Family came to the private view of the latest exhibition in posh, professional gallery. My mother wandered around and then approached me . I braced myself for some horrible put down. No comment about any of the work just " Aren't the floors nice here".
I am very glad to have found the grey rock method.

DriedFlowersLiveForever · 11/02/2024 19:41

To me - you would be beautiful if you lost weight 😔

Wrenbird27 · 11/02/2024 19:41

I showed my colleague a photo of me with my kids during covid (where we had just cut our own hair and are laughing about it) and she said 'you have really aged since this photo was taken'. I said it was only three years ago and she repeated her comment with extra emphasis on the word 'really'. I was so shocked. And I haven't!

JohnPrescottsPyjamas · 11/02/2024 19:43

At a barbecue last summer, one of our neighbour’s daughters attended and she was so obviously thin and pale that was clear she wasn’t well at all.
I couldn’t believe it when another guest - not elderly or out of touch - announced, “Oh dear. Have we got some kind of eating disorder going on here?”
And yes, it transpired afterwards she IS very poorly and frail with an ED.

WeeOrcadian · 11/02/2024 19:51

My old boss. On announcing that I would need mat leave, his first question was "was it planned?"

He's also a racist arsehole, in case you wondered

riotlady · 11/02/2024 19:57

The one that always sticks in my head is the lecturer who wrote in my uni report “I suspect riotlady deliberately looks vague to avoid answering the question”

(I didn’t! That’s just my face!)

Ducky48 · 11/02/2024 19:58

I experienced a very bitch thing with my friends last night and we are 30!

Out with the girls, we do things as a 4 usually every 2 weeks or so. Noticed they all had the same picture as their phone background and it was of them as a 3 and the only picture I wasn’t in :/

riotlady · 11/02/2024 19:59

Also bonus points to the hospital receptionist who, every time I take my son to his appointment, asks me if I’m feeding him “myself” and when I reply that he’s bottle fed, waxes lyrical about her own breastfeeding experience. Not bitchy, just quite insensitive and unnecessary!

ahoyhoyhoy · 11/02/2024 20:07

I was newish in a job, one of the youngest there. A middle aged man and a woman of about 30 said to each other, while looking right at me ‘she’s not got a lot going on up there has she?’ ‘hahaha no, except that long mop maybe!’
If someone said that now I’d handle it a lot differently, at the time I was just humiliated and kept my head down.

Highlighta · 11/02/2024 20:08

My stepmother (now ex thank goodness) on my wedding day:

"Your Bridesmaid looks so gorgeous. You really shouldn't pick a bridesmaid that is so much better looking than you."

She then didn't make it to the church ceremony, open seat next to my dad. She claimed she was so busy fixing all the 'mistakes' at the reception she missed it. Never once did she comment on my dress or how I looked.

She was and still is, a fucking bitch.

I never have had a very good self esteem and I truly believe she is the cause. There was this type of comments my whole childhood.

OneRedBalloon · 11/02/2024 20:11

I was a new staff member in a school and remember feeling like I got on well with the staff...bar one pouty/sneery colleague. Roll on our Christmas dinner night out and as she swanned past me she leaned in and said "You're actually quite pretty when you put makeup on".
I will never forget the smug look on her face as she said it.

Roseyleaf · 11/02/2024 20:12

In my first job the manager asked what dress size I was for uniform.

I told her size 12, and she looked me up and down before saying."Isn't that wishful thinking?"

HeddaGarbled · 11/02/2024 20:14

I actually think some of these are quite funny and there are a few that are like the boy speaking truth to the naked emperor.

I’ve got an example from Mumsnet. A poster, on a let’s-give-Holly-Willoughby-a-good-kicking thread, said that there was a bit at the front of her fringe which looked “brassy“. Not all her hair, not even all her fringe, just a bit of it. That’s truly dedicated bitchiness, to find a tiny flaw on a beautiful woman.

WinterGold · 11/02/2024 20:18

Whilst not bitchy, I thought this comment was wildly inappropriate and slightly stunned me.

I went into a specialist mirror shop as I was after a very specific item. I described what I was looking for and noticed the sales assistant was staring at me blankly. I apologised, laughed and said, “I’m sorry, I’m not doing a very good job conveying what I’m after, am I?”
Her expression didn’t change and she said in a very deadpan voice, “No. But I’m just keeping you talking until the police and the men in the white coats get here” 😳

DistinguishedSocialCommenator · 11/02/2024 20:18

Some comments are funny and some are seriously bitchy.
I guess the online papers may quote a few, lol.

TBH, some of what was said is shocking.

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