What's the most polite insult you've recieved?

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  • silentnemesis
    silentnemesis Posts: 45 Member
    "you're too skinny, you can see your ribs."

    except for me, it wasn't a compliment at all ~_~
  • ShallaLovee
    ShallaLovee Posts: 341 Member
    other than my one rude grandmom, she compli-insults me all the time.

    Exactly how my mean old hagg is! LMAO I call my gma the old meany because unless she knows I'm working out she always says bad stuff about me. The most polite insult has to be "to be a girl of your size your cute" o.o -.- gee thanks.... Then when they give you nicknames... Gah my aunty calls me "Chunky" my chunky... Or when your mom tells you your just a built person that's not fat thats muscle or your just very "hippy"
  • bethygirlie
    bethygirlie Posts: 311 Member
    "Wow, you look good....maybe now you'll be able to get a man."

    Said to me by an aunt, I hadn't seen her in a long time and she didn't know I had a boyfriend. She has never been married and is pretty thin, so I held it in but wanted to say "What's your excuse then?"
  • AliDarling
    AliDarling Posts: 373
    other than my one rude grandmom, she compli-insults me all the time.

    Exactly how my mean old hagg is! LMAO I call my gma the old meany because unless she knows I'm working out she always says bad stuff about me. The most polite insult has to be "to be a girl of your size your cute" o.o -.- gee thanks.... Then when they give you nicknames... Gah my aunty calls me "Chunky" my chunky... Or when your mom tells you your just a built person that's not fat thats muscle or your just very "hippy"

    I've gotten the "hippy" bit before. "Don't worry, a lot of guys like girls with hips."

    ummm okay....
  • rmf626
    rmf626 Posts: 47
    My dad had Alzheimer's. For some reason, he had an obsession with noticing people who were not at their goal weight. One day we were out at a crowded restaurant...me, dad, my husband, mother-in-law and my 2 kids. In the middle of dinner dad looked over at the table right next to us and said, "Wow, look at her, she's FAT!" in this really loud voice and then went back to his dinner. OMG, we were so mortified. He would never, ever have said anything like that before his decline. I had no idea what to do. I may have made it worse, but before we left I stopped over and apologized and told the woman that my father had Alzheimer's. She nodded and looked away. I STILL feel bad about this and think about her sometimes...I send apologies to her wherever she is.

    ******

    Different story. My son had a MRI when he was 8 yrs old and he was given a mile tranquilizer to help him relax so he'd be still during the procedure. As he was coming around afterward, my mother-in-law was holding him on her lap. He pushed her away and reached for me saying, "Mommy hold me you're softer." I melted and didn't mind a bit.
  • amp187
    amp187 Posts: 374
    That **** was pretty dark
  • jesekelynne
    jesekelynne Posts: 42
    I have a couple of beauties from my MIL..."I don't know why you are so fat you barely eat." and my favorite "You shouldn't get pregnant until you lose weight, your too fat to get pregnant" I was pregnant with twins!
  • runnermama81
    runnermama81 Posts: 388 Member
    After our oldest daughter was born my husband and I both lost about 20 lbs. (We are both pretty short so thats a lot for us) Everywhere we went people would say "Phil! You look so great! Have you lost weight? Oh hi Joy" Grrrrr.....drove me insane.
  • marstanley
    marstanley Posts: 9 Member
    I was pregrant and some gal I barely knew wanted to know what was wrong that I was gaining weight.
  • alladream
    alladream Posts: 261 Member
    I play with a dog downtown quite a bit and have chatted with the owner a lot of times. He recently introduced me to his two kids as they waited in a car, as 'his friend who is a man'. I am in my profile photo, wearing the pink tights, and I am not transgendered, have an average female-sounding voice, wear long skirts every day, so I have no idea what he meant or why they believed it. *shrug* I don't even know if it's an insult or just odd--
  • juliezum
    juliezum Posts: 92 Member
    This actually is one of my fondest memories. My son, who's now 16, was about 6 at the time, and we were lying on my bed chit chatting. He said, "Lacey is skinny." (Lacey is his cousin, around the same age, and very tiny) To which I replied, "yes she is." He continued..."you're not skinny." I responded, "no, mommy's not skinny." He added, "But I won't say you are fat, because that wouldn't be nice." I thanked him and agreed that that wouldn't be nice. So innocent and sweet. This is the one and only polite insult that I will forgive and well, cherish!
  • CarleyLovesPets
    CarleyLovesPets Posts: 410 Member
    You look really skinny/pretty in your pictures, you're so photogenic!

    Uh... Thanks?

    If you lost weight you'd totally be 10.
    You're the prettiest big girl I have ever seen.
    You're big but you hold a lot in your boobs so it's okay.

    and of course the...
    You hold your weight really well...
    I'm not usually too offended by that one though.
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    I was thinking about this thread this morning and came up with a dozy.

    My maternal grandmother always called me Peggy (one of my cousins and her favorite grandchild). It's not like she didn't see me often enough to not remember my name, either. She didn't have any mental illness or forgetful; it was her way of putting down my mom and me.
  • runnermama81
    runnermama81 Posts: 388 Member
    To all the moms who take "you look great for having x many kids" as an insult, i think its not all about weight at all. There are some women who just stop wearing makeup, combing their hair, and wearing real clothes after they have kids. I think when they see an obviously busy mom take care of herself they are impressed. At least thats how I look at it:)
  • bridgetpesce
    bridgetpesce Posts: 5
    You look amazing for having two kids. Umm, and if I didn't???
  • BaristaX
    BaristaX Posts: 151 Member
    "hey, have you lost weight??, you aren't sick are you?"

    I have had a good amount of people ask me that, the first 2 or 4 times, it was funny, but after the 6-7th time, it gets pretty annoying.
    I just wanted to yell out "yes! you can lose weight and not be sickly!"
  • curvygirl77
    curvygirl77 Posts: 769 Member
    You are very pretty to be a black/dark girl. ( I have also had black men say this to me)

    Wow! you have very pretty hair, is it all yours?

    Are you "all black"?
  • rmf626
    rmf626 Posts: 47
    That **** was pretty dark

    :)
  • Girl_Bomb
    Girl_Bomb Posts: 195
    You definetly didn't look 200lbs

    Like, you weren't that big befor, well you were big but not like fat, FAT

    And just recently,

    You look different, you look pretty
  • reynoldsaram
    reynoldsaram Posts: 28
    I heard this gem a couple weeks ago: "I would ask you out if you wasn't knocked up".

    I'm not pregnant, and at any rate, no thank you.
  • tjham1
    tjham1 Posts: 45 Member
    I lost weight down to goal after having two kids.
    My mom said "Quick, let me take a picture of you while you're still skinny!" Sadly, she was right and I did get fat again.

    Lately, I have been on MFP and lost a lot of weight. At a family reunion, everyone was oohing and ahhing over how great I looked. Most were actual compliments and not back handed. I still was embarrassed. Later, one overweight person, who I get along with fine so I don't think she meant to be hurtful, said 'Wow, I can really tell the difference in your neck!" She meant my double chin. Ouch.
  • Mendelianparakeets
    Mendelianparakeets Posts: 45 Member
    Oh, and this happened in middle school, so these days I kind of shrug it off as everyone just being an insecure little dbag about everyone and everything around them, but it did kind of get to me at the time...

    I was at a dance and this kid who I could never quite read went up to my date, patted him on the back, and said, "She's hotter on the inside."

    I mean, like I said, this was middle school so I'm not going to really dwell on something that happened when everyone was super awkward and insecure but I don't like social events as it is because I hate how I look, way to make it 1000x worse, kid.
  • roguestates
    roguestates Posts: 223
    You are very pretty to be a black/dark girl. ( I have also had black men say this to me)

    WOW that's a lot of internalized racism to even think that.
  • sairbear8
    sairbear8 Posts: 19 Member
    "You'd look great with some makeup."

    Gee. Thanks.

    Also, "You've lost weight. Somebody's in love."

    Because apparently the only reason I'd want to be healthy and happy is for someone else. Um, no.

    It's okay, though. I take the complements and shrug off the rest. ^_^
  • trunkfish
    trunkfish Posts: 81 Member
    'You used to have such a beautiful body' - said by a well-meaing person who's the size of a truck.
  • ShellysRoad
    ShellysRoad Posts: 95 Member
    "You are so small on top, that's what makes your *kitten* look huge."
  • momofpre
    momofpre Posts: 23
    1. Weight must be distributed well because you dont look the HEAVY.
    2. Dont worry about being big as long as your healthy (WHAT!)
    3. Even though your bigger you still look good to me!

    So many crappy remarks I cant remember them all
  • RF3377
    RF3377 Posts: 97
    The other week a guy added me on facebook, having some mutual friends I accepted. Within a matter of minutes he was telling me I was pretty but I should really lose weight as I was chubby. He also told me I should go to the gym because I didn't have a nice body.

    Like seriously? Why even add someone and then say something like that it's beyond me! I told him I had already lost 46 lbs and promptly deleted him.
  • momofpre
    momofpre Posts: 23
    OMG someone actually said that--they should really stop and think before they speak or just shut up
  • matthewslater2012
    matthewslater2012 Posts: 9
    You can get away with it as you're tall...

    It doesn't show so much on you...

    Big Fella....

    :-)

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