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To think that there are so many passive aggressive people around...?

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prettymuchapixiegirl · 19/01/2011 10:11

Reading posts on here, it seems that lots of people come across passive aggressive people all the time. I know I certainly do.

I dyed my hair a few days ago and this morning one of the mums on the school run said: "Your hair looks much better like that, you have lovely hair now"

A friend of mine is very passive aggressive, in a competitive way about our toddlers. Saying to my one and a half year old things like "Look at you walking like a baby still, my DS walks like a big boy now, why don't you copy him?" and other bizarre things. Or asking me which brand of meat I buy and then saying "REALLY? Well we always buy organic"

There was a thread on here recently about people saying things to children instead of to adults with lots of other examples on it.

Why are so many people like that? Is it because there's a very British culture of not being able to speak our minds and to keep our opinions to ourselves, so people try and find another outlet to be "honest"? Am intrigued really....

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Chil1234 · 19/01/2011 10:20

Not sure about 'passive aggressive'... 'bitchy' is more accurate. :) The comment about the hair is a 'backhanded compliment'. The toddler walking and organic meat remarks sound like someone's trying to sound superior and is being rather snotty!

It's not a British thing - that's too general. Like a lot of northerners I tend to call a spade a spade. But then you get accused of being 'bolshie', 'rude' or 'abrasive'. No-win situation really.

Goingspare · 19/01/2011 10:23

"REALLY? Well we always buy organic" is pretty direct.

I tend to think that not speaking your mind when nobody has asked your opinion or is likely to give a monkey's can be a virtue.

Adversecamber · 19/01/2011 10:25

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