To take offence when someone passes comment on me "looking like a drowned rat"

[saturdaygirl]

The title says it all really. Me and my boyfriend were drenched and my nan said we looked like drowned rats. AIBU to take offence at this?

Had to laugh - while it seems many of us have heard this innocent expression, SaturdayGirl is either just unaware or actually trolling...

If you were serious, then have a laugh at this posting (intending to spur women to buy a mac online, and no, not a mac made by Apple!) :-

www.associatedcontent.com/article/1882968/dont_look_like_a_drowned_rat_find_the.html

A quick search came up with a number of links to online dictionaries with this idiom explained, but someone even used the phrase in a marketing ploy...

NG - I would have thought that you could do a \link{http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1882968/d ontlooklikeadrownedratfind_the.html\link}properly

\link{http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1882968/d ontlooklikeadrownedratfind_the.html\try again}

I think you should burn your gran's house down - the evil bitch.

is your nan peggy mitchell?

Old people are cunts

LOL - I could have made it a link, sure, but didn't take the question that seriously.

I usually use tinyurl.com (so that redirection service at MN ignores the link as half the time it seems to just cause problems) but it was not really a serious need to prove the phrase is in common usage.

Yes, I could have previewed (but am lazy and not slept for about 60 hours, so perhaps a bit grumpy too)...

You need to nip this in the bud or before you know it she'll be calling you a 'cheeky monkey' and a 'dolly daydream.'

best pay someone to bump her off

yabu

I bet you do have rat like features.

Dreadful If you looked awful enough to warrant a comment like that, I bet any rat in the vicinity who over hear was seriously offended.

Lighten up

I am wondering which isolated corner of the UK you've been hiding in if neither you nor your boyfriend had never heard the expression 'drowned rat' before. English is a rich and beautiful language with some terrific colloquialisms. Take a tip & read some books. Watch TV. Listen to the radio. Here's a thought... maybe talk to people?

Your poor nan.... I bet she thinks you're as nutty as a fruitcake, as mad as a box of frogs, as thick as two short planks,....

lmao at dolly daydream

Lmao

Er, you're sounding a bit precious, OP

Never mind unreasonable

Is it because it is offensive to the rat?

It's a comment on the weather. Get over it.