to do the Mrs Brown 'that's nice' comment to someone showing off? What do you do?

[kentishgirl]

Casual acquaintance at the weekend was telling me about doing something amazing - and then had to one-up themselves when I commented on it. This is not the real story but along these lines

Her: look at this photo of me skydiving out of an aeroplane
Me; Wow that's amazing. What an experience!
Her: Meh, not really, after all last year I climbed Mount Everest
Me: that's nice.

What do you say to show-offs?

My mum used to say in a really flat voice 'fancy that'.

T'was a real downer.

Oh really? Lovely.

Vague voice "Did you? Hey do you know where my pen is, it's my favourite, the Dalai Lama gave it to me."

It would pass right over my head as I have never watched that sh1t.

Well sky diving, plus climbing mount everest, I'd just let them show off a bit. Have you climbed any mountains recently?
Whats wrong with just being nice to people?
and stop watching such godawful tv

Grockle did no one care when you did your charity skydive?

My dd watches it and she does it bloody winds me up

YANBU. Go for it I say. If they don't get the joke then at least they'd be a bit peeved to hear you describe it as 'nice'.