Overheard at Toddler Group..........

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2 mums of foreign extraction (Polish/Lithuanian) remarking that the 'new' mum must be foreign as she was lim and pretty and her baby was cute. They then noticed my DS (brown hair/eyes) and said he could not be English as he was so good looking . I said he was mine (English, tall, blond, hefty) and they quickly changed the subject! I should have challenged them but they were both skinny and reasonably attractive.

AIBU to think that they were bloody rude and not all us English are fat/pale/ugly?

she was slim not lim of course!

Strangest thing I've heard in a long while

And why wouldn't you challenge such open racism because they were both 'skinny and reasonably attractive'??

Hardly had a counter argument did I?

I know a couple of eastern eurpoean men who are of the opinion that all english women are butt ugly, fat, pasty, hairy and lazy

gosh those silly foreign types - why you would never catch the Brits using such sweeping stereotypes ...oh now - hang on ...

You had no counter argument against their racist remarks...why?

i'd have bit there head off! that said I have noticed that te local Polish Mums are waaaaay blunter than the brits, its almost funny! I have to bite my tongue, but there is bluntness and rude, this was rude

why were they speaking english then????

Bloody forriners.

Not saying it is right, but people stereotype others all the time. People from other countries are no different.

I'd have been chuffed they said my DS was good looking.
If you have a problem, you should have pointed out to them how rude you found them at the time

Well I have noticed that Eastern European women do tend to be slim. It's only my limited experience obviously but I wouldn't be surprised if statistics show obesity to be higher in Britain than most Eastern European countries.

They were rude though. It's not technically racism.