TheMrWobbly wrote: »

I was going to add some older ones but had a new one today - stopped in McDonalds for my free latte and the guy behind me in the queue made a comment;
Him - "They should put a width measurer on the door to stop fat f****** getting in here"
Me - "Good idea, we'll do it straight after putting the anti-ars*hole lock on your front door to stop you getting out"

Wish I was that quick off the mark with witty retorts! ;-D

When visiting London I got on a tube train and these two loud obnoxious American girls started talking about how disgusting fat people are and that fat shaming is a good thing while looking at me. I felt so embarrassed and upset. No need for it really. Am too shy to ever say anything back

Goredoll90 wrote: »

I've had chavs drive past on their little bikes shouting things and whistling while I've done the school runs on a morning. I usually see them as coward and shrug it off.
My husband's 93 year old grandfather usually likes to make a comment or two lol Last Christmas we were saying hello and he looked me up and down and said "I thought you were losing weight"

Old folks are the worst, they just don't give a feck anymore lol I work as a home carer and get comments all the time, usually something like 'oh, you're a big girl'. Before Christmas, I was off work sick for a week and when I went back one of my clients looked me up and down and said 'well it didn't slim you anyway'! PMSL I don't take it to heart as they're not being malicious, their social censors just don't seem to work the best anymore.

Qakie wrote: »

I was out on a date and my date saw his friends after the date.They asked him if he was with me and he said " no way in hell,can you see the size of her, she ain't my type".You can imagine how I felt as I could hear what he said.

Oh God people can be terrible

miko482 wrote: »

This is my fourth year living in the UK, though I'm originally from the US. I live near a pub, in a town with a big university population and lots of pubs. Last week after dinner I popped out of the house to run some errands. Coming down my street were two girls, one of whom said "Cow" and threw her cigarette towards me. It landed at my feet thankfully, but ffs, the negativity in here seems to be on an upsurge lately.

Terrible

My school years were Hell, like those of every overweight goth/geek curly-haired girl out there.

Thankfully, as I've matured, all those comments have helped me develop my "I will cut you if you dare speak to me" face, and that tends to be enough. If things are getting difficult (as they did when I saw some old family friends after being at uni and gaining a lot MORE weight due to a medical condition), I make a conscious effort to put my shoulders back and lift my head, for I am a queen and I will not have peasants speak to me that way*.

*It's also important to retain your humility. I achieve this through a running joke I have with my partner, who will cover my eyes every time we walk past the bakery aisle whilst loudly screaming "YOU CAN'T BE TRUSTED".

Mate told me I looked like I'd given up. I had. So then I sorted myself out.

Only really from the occasional old relative that'd say something like "you've put on some weight". It does wonder what motivates them to say something like that - do they think I hadn't noticed?

Also I used to live in Greenwich and run along the Thames path and a couple of times I'd have people (usually youths) run alongside me as if trying to show up the overweight guy that's running. Fortunately I'm faster than I look so would just increase my pace and ask them if they could keep up for 5K. In all cases they had to give up pretty quickly and hopefully were embarrassed when they went back to their mates!