subtle ways to say "fuck you"

[strictlymomdancing]

I just got an email from someone I'm having a bit of a disagreement with (won't go into details, but work related) and it is signed 'take care'.

And it just makes me think she's telling me to fuck off.

What do other MNetters think?

It just got me thinking, what other ways are there to say "fuck you" in a subtle way?

My sister lives in the states and its common over there to say "bless your heart"

And we know Mrs Brown - "that's nice".

Anything else?

I use

Very well

Or if really want to tell someone I'm sick of them

So be it

:o I loved this tweet I saw a while ago:

‘I hope you get the restful holiday you deserve’

“Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of any further assistance”

“If you still don’t understand the situation after I have explained in terms a child would understand”

I have fond memories of the day that my sociopathic boss was leaving for the day and would br back after the bank holiday weekend.I said See you next Tuesday!

She knew what it meant,I knew what it meant but I was only stating a fact of course soo

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Hard of thinking

I'm totally stealing that!

I'm another one that uses Kind Regards all the time and mean it in a nice way. Oh dear - never knew it was some passive aggressive thing.

But what's the point of being passive aggressive anyway. Sure you can't say Fuck Off in a work email but you can be clear that you're pissed off.

Also if someone signed off "Best" to me I wouldn't think anything of it.

I do most of my work communication by email, with clients who aren't nearby so I rarely see them. I'm as polite as possible and often carefully edit emails for the right tone.

"Kindly" would be the kiss of death either from me or to me. "Kindly send that whatever you said you'd send" is incredibly rude!

If I really want to say "fuck youuuuuu" I tend to be icily polite, rather than chatty. I may resirt to "As I said in my earlier email..." if I'm fucking fuming!

But I'm self employed and can't afford to piss people off.

What's the alternative to 'kind regards' as an email sign off? I use it all the time and I'm worried now that it's perceived as a 'fuck you'. I don't really understand the whole passive aggression thing, is it specifically British?

My hate is when I get a birthday card where they have just signed it and not even written my name. It happens each year and it goes straight in the recycling bin.

There are people, for instance those who are into the New Age, who would use 'take care' and not mean anything wrong by it.

This is less so in email maybe, and I haven't used them as much as I should, but I like:-

'Good luck with that'

and

'Knock yourself out.'

I have fond memories of the day that my sociopathic boss was leaving for the day and would br back after the bank holiday weekend.I said See you next Tuesday! She knew what it meant,I knew what it meant but I was only stating a fact of course

I so want to do this to someone now!

"OK."

Said in the tone of DI Perez (Shetland).

I'm sure 'Kind regards' is fine. It's just 'Regards' that's passive aggressive. (I hope)

This thread strikes fear into my heart. I know I have difficulties with communication, and am trying my hardest to learn. I tend to understand things literally and have to learn all the code phrases rather as if learning a foreign language. And now you've given me a whole load of other things to worry about.

"Good luck" can be genuine or very rude, depending on the situation and your relationship with the person.

Another thing I tend to do (which I can because I work from home) is compose a polite email while shouting "because you didn't listen to me when I told you this wouldn't work, you MASSIVE TWAT" etc at the screen. Makes me feel better but you do need to check what you've written carefully before pressing send.

That Irish one: "I hope the weather keeps fine for you".
Used to great effect by the SIL who used to email me on my birthday with : "Happy birthday, I'm really busy at work. M." --- a great example of a martyr resentfully doing wifework.
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Kind regards is the usual sign off.

Regards is a big fat fuck you.

I thought everyone knew this!?

Write Fuck You at the bottom and change the colour to white then you've said it but they don't realise

"sounds great" or "sounds nice" rather than just saying it's great or nice, because it actually is terrible but you're trying to make it sound nice

Best one I ever saw was from a senior official to a much junior colleague(I was cc'd in for my sins!!)

"This issue, again?" Oh, Bob, you are tenacious"

Thing is Bob took it as a compliment 😂

I quite like using 'there we are then' as the sign off to verbal disagreements. Amazing how many people don't know that acronym!

I use ‘regards’ instead of ‘kind regards’ and everyone who knows me knows I’m saying fuck you.

I also do the please see me email dated xx/xx/xxxx and then I attach said email and sign off regards.

And the I’m sorry you feel xxx, also ‘there appears to be some confusion’ read ‘what is the matter with you how do you have a job when you can’t even fucking read’.

I like to ensure me emails are deadly polite.

Whilst reading this thread, I have just received an email with the word 'kindly' in it . I bloody love English and how it's possible to be sooo insulting, just by using one 'nice' word.
I really want to send a reply congratulating the sender on their skilled use of passive aggression, but obviously I can't because then it would mean admitting that I recognize the insult and am pissed off with their tone, which can never be publicly acknowledged in Britain.
Are other countries like this in how they communicate in writing, or is it just us? My sils (not British but from different countries) are much more direct when they speak but I have no idea what their stroppy emails would look like.