Friend and her jokes at my expense

[GuyForksAndKnives]

My friend makes odd jokes. Well I think they're odd. Examples:

I had on some body spray from Lush that smells like bonfire toffee. I said I'd also used the same flavour shower gel and body lotion. "God do you smell that bad you have to use all that?"

She also makes jokes about my height. It's not ok to joke about being ginger, about skin colour or other attributes so why is being 5feet 1inch hilarious and a source of jokes?

AIBU for not getting it? She does it with others too. "You know David that long streak of lightning" for example.

Is she Australian? A lot of Aussies do this and I struggled with this kind of humour when I was living there. I realise it can be intended as affectionate, but I was also teased for being short and for a slightly crooked front tooth (called ‘fang’- I later had my teeth straightened). It just didn’t feel funny and made me feel rubbish but it was very common!

No she's from Yorkshire but I have an Australian friend and I know what you mean, but he's not as bad as that.

Whoever up thread accused me of being insecure is talking crap btw.

She is not a friend. The wellies thing I might be a bit meh but mocking things you literally cannot change is not friend behaviour, they are supposed to be the ones lifting you and being your cheerleader. You don’t have to be friends with someone like this.

Every time she says something like that, I'd be tempted to say:

"I'm sorry can you say that again, I'm not sure I heard you right" or

"I don't understand, can you explain what you mean"

and if she says "Ha, never mind it was just a joke, where's your sense of humour", I'd be replying

"Oh, but I didn't get it, can you say it again for me".

Forcing people like that to explain themselves, particularly in front of others isn't something they usually enjoy doing and may make her think twice about doing it again.

Or, you could just own it and say:

"Maybe, but I like it - do you want to try some" or

"You've mentioned I'm short/ginger so many times now, I think you must be a bit jealous" etc.

I'd also be wondering what kind of friend she was - but that is a whole other thread!

Depends how she’s doing it.
is it part of a ‘jokey’ relationship you have? Me and my close friends have quite a bit of banter and insults at each other - although one went a bit OTT at one point so I told her that particular one upset me and she hasn’t said it again.
You def need to talk to this friend and say you’re not comfortable with this type of humour.
i think saying ‘you’ll be driving in wellies’ isn’t rude - might not be hilarious but it’s no insulting or mean.

Now that wouldn't bother me at all 🤷‍♀️

She's puerile. She's not going to get any better at this stage so I'd just pull away - or next time just tell her that you're fed-up of her juvenile shite and she can piss off.

I don't have jokey relationships with people. That doesn't mean I don't have a sense of humour however. I just can't bear joking around and messing about.

Presumably she know this about you so deliberately tries to wind you up? Juvenile.