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  • Posts: 4,966 Member
    My wife calls me her "Beast."

    I'm okay with that.

    I think around here that's called an NSV
  • Posts: 101 Member
    "You look better with some weight on you, it makes it so you don't have so much of a horse face." Excuse me, a horse face? To be fair though, this person has asperger syndrome, I think she was genuinely trying to be nice.
  • Posts: 999 Member

    Gastric bypass isn't the easy way. They have to work just as hard.

    Sure lol

    If that were the case, no one would get it or gain any of the weight back.
  • Posts: 1,572 Member
    My Dad throws so many at me I've forgotten! :smile:
  • Posts: 121 Member

    I enjoy a little sparring from time to time, but in this instance I feel outclassed. I would like to suggest one thing before we close. I've never met you, but it's clear you are an intelligent person. Maybe you over think persons' intentions. Maybe you need to decock, and unload your fu pistol.

    I will take that under advisement (minus, perhaps, those ones like how I would be pretty if I were shorter, lol). My handy little pistol doesn't get as overused as it did when I was in my 20s, but it is still an indispensable tool, especially when it comes to choosing the people I have around me IRL. But, yes, I do sometimes unfairly dismiss people for using the same old platitudes again and again without ever thinking about, or seeming to think about, how they actually sound to people or what they're actually saying. There is no smiley for a tip of the hat, so just pretend I put one here.
  • Posts: 90 Member
    "Have you lost weight? You look really good. Don't lose any more weight or you'll be back to skin and bones again. That was ugly."

    From a rotund woman who said it with a rather disgusted expression. Why the hell would anyone want you at a specific weight like that? I'm not doing it for anyone but myself, my opinion is what matters.
  • Posts: 290 Member
    My dad looked at me the other day and said, "You're losing some weight! I have too? Can't you tell? We probably weigh the same thing now!"

    Did I mention that my dad hasn't lost weight, doesn't look like he has lost weight, and weighs just under 300lbs? Sadly, he was serious. This isn't the first time he's claimed we weigh the same or that I weigh more. I'm currently at 215lbs.
  • Posts: 30
    "man you lost a lot of weight, but you're still fat!" lol i can't help but laugh it off.
  • Posts: 102
    man you look great since you lost all that weight but now your head looks big....

    Thanks, I think....hahaha
  • Posts: 2,019 Member

    Gastric bypass isn't the easy way. They have to work just as hard.
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    Sometimes harder. I respect all weight loss struggles.
  • Posts: 1,841 Member
    From my inlaws- "You're almost hot enough to fock!" :huh: Okay, thanks.
  • Posts: 533 Member
    My ex-boyfriend: "You're so fat; you're a whale." :noway:
    His parents: "You're not fat anymore!"
  • Posts: 167

    You wrote, " . . . right now you're hideous . . ." . . . WRONG. Maybe they are thinking "You are so pretty, but you'd be prettier if . . .".

    Your lawn looks so do good, but it might look better if you fertilized it. See how that works? It all boils down to your attitude.

    I don't see how anybody can defend these comments as anything other than rude. If a person *asks* what they can do to look better, whatever is said is fair game. But an unsolicited comment that you could be prettier if you lost weight - which clearly implies that you aren't sufficiently pretty now - is absolutely rude and hurtful *even if it's a fact*. Factual correctness doesn't make the speaker less of an *kitten*.
  • Posts: 882 Member
    "You look thinner. Have you been sick?" From a co-worker.

    Gee, thanks.

    Haha! I got this one today from someone i hadnt seen for 6 months. He did then go on to say that i looked well so I didn't slap him.
  • Posts: 16,356 Member
    You're not nearly as big as you were in Montana.

    I laughed but I tend to get a long life out of my panties by not getting them in unnecessary twists.
  • Posts: 227 Member
    From someone who saw me in shorts for the first time: "OMG! (tone of disgust) JEEZ your legs look like BODYBUILDER's"....

    yeah.. I ride horses, hike, run/walk, etc and I have strong legs. but I decided to say "WOW THANK YOU!!!" and took it as a compliment. I've seen some sexy women that lift, if my legs look like theirs then :drinker: :blushing: :wink: :smile:
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