subtle ways to say "fuck you"

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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?

Everyone should know the passive aggressive sign off in an email is to leave the kind out of kind regards and if you then want to smooth things over, whilst being passive aggressive, you sign best regards. Unless you really mean best regards which then isn't passively aggressive just arse licking...

That really is the only way. You can be pissy in an email and be short and blunt but that's about it.

If they're being a pain I usually use "should you still require further clarification...." Phone, meet, refer to website on how to go F yourself....

In person - 'Oh, dear'. why the fuck are you whingeing at me and what do you expect me to do about it

By email 'Thank you very much for your kind...' Die you bastard, die

'I do hope this clarifies matters satisfactorily for you' contact me again about this and I will hunt you down like the wolf stalks his prey

'Did ye Aye' is a slap down, but can only really be used if they've just told you what they have done.

I'd put nothing in an email that could be used against you.

If you are itching to respond somehow to bring your blood pressure down - just forward their e mail back to them.
It will confuse them.

• and I doubt you'll hear anything after that, but if you do you can just say 'did I?' Och - thought I sent it to trash.

Ah stoneofdestiny I was hoping OP would start using 'did ye aye' in work emails. I wish I could
One of my ex colleagues used to greet everyone in the morning with a cheery 'what's up feckers?' Ex colleague.

‘Sorry my earlier email wasn’t clear...’

A lot of these are things I send to people and I'm not pissed off! Everyone must think I'm a bitch.

"Thank you for the update and it's great that you're all doing so well at X. PERSONY is following up on progress now, so please keep them informed and let them know if you need support. If there's anything specific that you need me for though please get in touch."

Never fails.

"K"

...winds my husband up no end, because I couldn't even be arsed to type "ok", never mind "ok". He knows that means "fuck you".

When I worked overseas my manager used to use ‘As you wish’ on a daily basis and all I could picture was various scenes from the Princess Bride!

A favourite of mine from my time in retail was when you had a proper twunt of a customer.....on handing them the receipt, you say something like "....and your receipt Sir, there we are then....enjoy your day"

If you take the first letter from the words "there we are then" what word do you get?

@DappledThings Go well! (I use that all the time now because I think it's so lovely, especially the meaning behind it)

My DP is the master of the passive aggressive putdown. One person especially pissed him off, so he signed off one email with 'you would of course be welcome at the meeting, but you may find it would be counterproductive to your agenda.

Best,
DP'

Some people don't even type out Kind Regards, just KR.

In UK, Kind Regards is a neutral sign off, but one of my US colleagues thought it was a sarcastic put down. Nowadays, I try to use Many Thanks or Thanks

'Regards' is only passive aggressive if you typically use 'kind regards'. I've seen the occasional 'rgds' which makes me rage.

'Interesting' is a good multi purpose word that can mean anything and everything.

What’s joke with see u next Tuesday,don’t get it

Being Scottish, I can confirm that "did ye aye" is a regular from me.

“Oh, that’s a shame” said ever so mildly when someone says they’re annoyed about x, y or z.

Strange. If 'Kind regards' is passive aggressive, everyone who has emailed me today wants me to fuck off, and I want everyone I have emailed to fuck off. Surprised there is anyone left in the office.

I think people might be reading in to things too much on here. They would be the same people who also hate over familiarity on emails too, so you can't win either way. Besides, who gives a shit if someone sends you a snarky email anyway. Just ignore it. Don't let them have your time.

I'll bear that in mind...

If it's not too much trouble...

I can’t believe so many people use regards as a passive aggressive sign off. To me it’s simply less formal than kind regards.

I’ve used it and received very neutral or nice emails with this sign off.

Some people really overthink things on here!!

I use a couple of these.. I have said 'With all due respect' when absolutely none is due.

When my teen DD is messaging me some nonsense that she knows I don't want to know about, I send her a 'K', she goes mad!

I have also apologised by saying 'I'm sorry that what I said upset you because it's true, you knob'.

Oh crumbs! I sign every email with Kind Regards. I didn't know I was telling everyone to F off 😳

christmaspug C U Next Tuesday 👋

If someone apologised for something, I like to say 'apology acknowledged'

I don't see how C U Next Tuesday is subtle though, its a weird thing to say and will almost certainly ask people to ask what you mean so not subtle at all.

Thank you for your thoughts.

I was surprised to hear...