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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:
ImInACage · 11/02/2024 20:21

Had an emergency crash c-section in which
DC and I both nearly died. I went out for lunch with two colleague friends to introduce them to the baby. One said "I knew you'd create some sort of drama" and another said "too posh to push hey? Maybe you can be a proper mum to the next one". Both knew exactly why the section happened and both knew that we'd had IVF following a lengthy infertility battle and DC was likely to be the only baby we'd have. I'd considered them both friends, but I dropped them after that. I sobbed and sobbed when I got home.

Royalsingingseal · 11/02/2024 20:22

MIL standard ‘what made you buy/wear/cook/hair colour/ anything’ with a look of horror. Constantly

coffeetoffeechocolate · 11/02/2024 20:25

To me this week ... I had an appointment with a physio for severe PGP. Physio blamed my condition on being "so inactive". My GP had recommended that I reduce the amount of walking I do as I was averaging about 8,000 steps a day and already in severe pain at 25 weeks. I had scaled back my exercise and was no longer carrying heavy loads but certainly not inactive! I can't be anyway, as I have a very active 2 year old at home!

The physio asked if there was anything worrying from my 28 week hospital appointment. I mentioned that I was a bit concerned as the baby's measuring just below the 90th centile. For context I'm only 5'1'' and under 50kg when I got pregnant. She then looked me up and down and said, "Well, your excess weight gain won't be helping" 😮

I've only gained 5kg so far and am literally all bump. Was so shocked I didn't say anything in the moment but afterwards was raging!

sexyandy · 11/02/2024 20:27

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".

Oh I need to hear the follow up to this!!! What happened from that point forward

AngelinaFibres · 11/02/2024 20:28

ImInACage · 11/02/2024 20:21

Had an emergency crash c-section in which
DC and I both nearly died. I went out for lunch with two colleague friends to introduce them to the baby. One said "I knew you'd create some sort of drama" and another said "too posh to push hey? Maybe you can be a proper mum to the next one". Both knew exactly why the section happened and both knew that we'd had IVF following a lengthy infertility battle and DC was likely to be the only baby we'd have. I'd considered them both friends, but I dropped them after that. I sobbed and sobbed when I got home.

I had my first son by c section. He was breech and completely stuck in my pelvis from 35 weeks so had elective section at 37 weeks. NCT group leader phoned me a couple if weeks later and said " Oh dear, never mind you can do it properly next time".
Woman at the toddler group " Well it's okay for c section people. You get a tummy tuck at the same time". I was skinny because I'd had hyperemesis throughout the 9 months and only weighed 7 stone the day after he was born.

sexyandy · 11/02/2024 20:29

2024mustbebetter · 11/02/2024 17:28

My sister and I were visiting our Mum in the local hospital which is out of town. As we were leaving there was an older man who looked us up and down and said ‘Well you two obviously never go hungry’ Ouch. We we’re totally gobsmacked! Anyway we got in the car and set off and there he is on the main road and he tried to thumb a lift off us back to town. We slowed down and let him know in no uncertain terms it wasn’t going to happen…

Should have said 'sorry, no space for you. We are too fat'

sexyandy · 11/02/2024 20:31

Wristfolds · 11/02/2024 17:40

Years ago now. Woman who knowingly slept with my (now ex) H came into my workplace as a b2b client (as part of a bigger team, she was new on a temp contract and we all knew the other team v well professionally). While we were being introduced I cut off her boss and breezily smiled ‘Oh no, Sally and I go waaay back!’ She went bright red, we moved onto the meeting with no more preamble and I greatly enjoyed imagining the innocent queries she’d have to field on the drive back…

Not really a bitchy comment

pimplebum · 11/02/2024 20:34

None of these are shocking

Fat comments from elderly relatives are standard

The op comment is not insensitive making a joke about someone's mum not realising they were dead is insensitive

Saying a diamond is big is not insensitive

verylongday · 11/02/2024 20:34

A 'friend' of mine said " you're quite stylish for a big girl". She's now an ex friend

mrsDracoMalfoy · 11/02/2024 20:34

Xmastime2023 · 11/02/2024 17:27

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

Sharing our clothing sizes as a 17 year old. I had size 8 best friends and I was a size 14, in my head none of us noticed tbh. But one bitch who wasn't my friend asked if I was ashamed. In that single moment I was. It still remember it at 38 but I'm not bothered by it coz I'm still a 14/16. She was an ugly cunt any way.

MirrorMirror1247 · 11/02/2024 20:39

A woman I used to work with years ago was talking about another woman she knew and said "she looks like she has Down's syndrome".

I really wish I'd been brave enough to interrupt and show her a picture of my little cousin, who has Down's syndrome.

JayniSummers · 11/02/2024 20:40

My husband was due to go on a works do , a weekend retreat with a colleague who , and I kid you not was a six foot blonde ex lingerie model , also Russian . I was feeling fat and frumpy and said as much to a friend ( using the term loosely) and that I'm feeling a little jealous and anxious about my husbands work colleague.
" Oh don't give it a second thought"she said " it's not like HE is going to get ANYONE GOOD-LOOKING IS IT " - one sentence put us both down , genius

Ginflinger · 11/02/2024 20:46

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".

Good lord!

DratThatCat · 11/02/2024 20:47

DH came into work to meet me a few years ago, a manager saw him and said "He's your husband? He's YOUR husband?"

DH is the better looking of the two of us, but still, that stung.

ladygindiva · 11/02/2024 20:48

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

This happened to me too after my first DC. I was gutted 😭

iamsmaller · 11/02/2024 20:49

My mum once said about my sister to me " xxx is the pretty one, but everyone likes you".. Two with one stone ..

Pudmyboy · 11/02/2024 20:53

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.

Oh that's truly awful, so sorry for you, I hope you got support elsewhere 💐

Bishopsgirl · 11/02/2024 20:53

Visiting an elderly Aunt of my new dh a few weeks after our wedding. She'd been invited but had gone into hospital at the last minute so couldn't attend. I'd never met her before but took her expensive flowers and the wedding photos, hoping to cheer her up. She looked at the photos and insulted all my family, then told me "you're fat like your dad". I told her my dad was a wonderful man and I was proud to take after him but inside I was devastated. Needless to say we didn't visit her again.

sanityisamyth · 11/02/2024 20:55

@Pudmyboy not really. I'm pretty sure I've got PTSD but more from what my sister did to me which was a million times worse.

Ribenaberry12 · 11/02/2024 21:10

I once bought a colleague a bottle of wine to thank her for doing me a favour. She left on a side in the staff break room for 6 months gathering dust. Still don’t know why she didn’t just give it away if she didn’t want it.

Once a group of us were talking about what we’d change if we could change one thing about our physical appearance. I said something and a colleague said “Oh really, that’s not what I thought you’d say.” Gobsmacked!

canttellyouwhereorwhatido · 11/02/2024 21:18

My lovely sil (but from a different culture) sat on the end of the bed FAR too early in the morning .. squeezed my 41week pregnant leg and declared:

You are so very very fat ..

She didn't speak English so I got away with saying 'and I want to stab you through the heart until you are dead '

but actually said 'thank you' in her language because I know that 'fat' is not degrading in her culture it means healthy and 'wealthy '

Okeyd0key · 11/02/2024 21:19

Upon hearing about my miscarriage person said happily ‘least you know you can get pregnant’

StillStuckInTheShed · 11/02/2024 21:20

Liverpool52 · 11/02/2024 16:40

When I explained to fellow student at uni that I wasn't going out that night with the course because my husband was home this weekend (works away alot) she looked me up and down (was wearing my usual jeans and blouse) and said "do you make an effort for when he gets home".

I would've said "Yeah, my birthday suit... best thing about it, maximum result, minimum effort."

a222 · 11/02/2024 21:20

‘you look well’ makes me want to go insane

RenoDakota · 11/02/2024 21:22

My daughter had been invited to a swimming pool party at a classmate's house, out in the sticks. When I asked queen bee mum what time 'we' should get there (as in me dropping her off) she hissed "I wasn't inviting YOU".
I wish I had said something like "well, how the hell else is she supposed to get there, you stuck up bitch?"