Rude/Insensitive Things People Have Said and Done to You

UpCork · 09-12-2015 10:25AM #1

I have a family member undergoing chemotherapy for cancer and as a result I frequent a breast cancer message board to read up on what others are saying about treatment etc.

Anyway, a very popular thread on that forum is rude/insensitive things people said and did when they were told of their friend/family members illness. I could not believe what some people had said to them.

We, as a family have had a bit of experience of that too, since my relative's diagnosis.

That got me thinking - not in relation just to illness, but what is the rudest, most insensitive thing anyone has ever said to you?

biko · 09-12-2015 10:45AM

"Please don't smoke in here"

The cheek of him, rude bastard.

racso1975 · 09-12-2015 10:48AM

Your passport photo does you justice 😠

valoren · 09-12-2015 10:53AM

Bullying, attention-seeking and pregnant sister in law started one of her 'campaigns' against me.
Was given short shrift, was formally exposed for what she was up to.

From my sister in law by text.

"Just shows how evil you truly are. Clearly you are not nappy and misery loves company.
You don't even register in our life. You are a dispicable, disgusting man. I couldn't possible think any lower of anyone!"

From my brother, face to face.

"I'm telling you now. You will never know our child".

09-12-2015 10:58AM

valoren wrote: »

The subsequent coup de grace was from my brother (a shell of his former self).

"I'm telling you now. You will never know our child".

That's worse than the abuse. That's pathetic.

UpCork · 09-12-2015 11:01AM

I once had someone say to me, "why bother having a close relationship with your Mother, it'll just make it harder when she dies". That has never left me.

Flatzie_poo · 09-12-2015 11:01AM

"The sign says no smoking, but I'm vaping."

I wish they'd put concrete laws on this one way or another...

The Backwards Man · 09-12-2015 11:02AM

I got called a stupid big thick ignorant Paddy by a train conductor once.

'My name's not Paddy', I replied.

UpCork · 09-12-2015 11:04AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I got called a stupid big thick ignorant Paddy by a train conductor once.

'My name's not Paddy', I replied.

Brilliant comeback.

XR3i · 09-12-2015 11:05AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I got called a stupid big thick ignorant Paddy by a train conductor once.

'My name's not Paddy', I replied.

why was the train conducter on the bus?

mfceiling · 09-12-2015 11:05AM

"Is it in?"

The Backwards Man · 09-12-2015 11:08AM

XR3i wrote: »

why was the train conducter on the bus?

He wasn't. I dunno, maybe I'm not using the right word, I don't be on trains very often, it's the person who checks the tickets, are they a conductor on a train too?

XR3i · 09-12-2015 11:14AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

He wasn't. I dunno, maybe I'm not using the right word, I don't be on trains very often, it's the person who checks the tickets, are they a conductor on a train too?

you don't need a ticket for the train

The Backwards Man · 09-12-2015 11:18AM

XR3i wrote: »

you don't need a ticket for the train

Good one Huey Lewis.

XR3i · 09-12-2015 11:19AM

oops look like i've had ttoo much brandy in my goffee again

corsav6 · 09-12-2015 11:19AM

Old lady: are you one of them foreigners

Me: no, I'm Irish

Old lady: well you look like one of them

Tilly · 09-12-2015 11:25AM

I think i said it in a diff thread. I went on a date with a guy. My Mam was in hosp and she's 85 so i was telling him this. She was coming out the next day but he felt it was perfectly fine to state "well she's not gonna be around much longer is she". The date ended there and then. Gimp!

razorblunt · 09-12-2015 11:27AM

You remind me of John O' Shea.
I hate Man United ... and Waterford people in general.

I don't look like him at all.

Clearlier · 09-12-2015 11:32AM

Had one tosser tell me that I shouldn't have children because there's a 50/50 chance that they'll have a visual impairment. Never mind that a quarter of my relatives are visually impaired and almost uniformly lead happy and successful lives it seems that the possibility of passing on a visual impairment is grounds for sterilisation.

corsav6 · 09-12-2015 11:35AM

Clearlier wrote: »

Had one tosser tell me that I shouldn't have children because there's a 50/50 chance that they'll have a visual impairment. Never mind that a quarter of my relatives are visually impaired and almost uniformly lead happy and successful lives it seems that the possibility of passing on a visual impairment is grounds for sterilisation.

Did you tell the tosser that if they had children there's a 50/50 chance they would end up like them? Put things into perspective for them.

BattleCorp · 09-12-2015 11:38AM

I'd a kid say to me once that "You are fat and ugly.........I'm only being honest".

Accurate description really.

09-12-2015 11:38AM

Clearlier wrote: »

Had one tosser tell me that I shouldn't have children because there's a 50/50 chance that they'll have a visual impairment. Never mind that a quarter of my relatives are visually impaired and almost uniformly lead happy and successful lives it seems that the possibility of passing on a visual impairment is grounds for sterilisation.

Revenge can be...deadly...

http://weknowmemes.com/2011/10/they-laughed-at-our-glasses-we-laughed-at-their-screams/

JustShon · 09-12-2015 11:40AM

Bit of background for this one. Had a sister who hung herself when I was younger.

Mentally unstable mother of my girlfriend at the time, who didn't like me and was drunk at the time sends this text:

"Hey, just wondering if you use a washer-drier or do you HANG your washing out to dry?"

There was almost a murder that night.

lazybones32 · 09-12-2015 12:20PM

Not trying to be zen or a 'positive thinking' fag but I try not remember the nasty things said to me. Gotta let them go.

LCD · 09-12-2015 12:30PM

Mother in law saying to my wife (in front of me) less than 2 weeks after our second miscarriage, "you wouldn't understand, your not a mother"

JustShon · 09-12-2015 12:32PM

LCD wrote: »

Mother in law saying to my wife (in front of me) less than 2 weeks after our second miscarriage, "you wouldn't understand, your not a mother"

If your mother in law is still alive / not in a wheelchair after that then you have greater self control than I do.

UpCork · 09-12-2015 12:49PM

This wasn't said to me, but to a relative.

She had just buried her newborn baby who was born with several issues and died not long after birth. She had to take her son to school about a week afterwards as husband was gone back to work. She received the usual sympathies at the gate. One woman said to her 'Sorry for your loss, but it would have been far worse if it was a girl. You already have a son'. She couldn't even answer and chided herself for a long time afterwards that she didn't just let rip.

redbel05 · 09-12-2015 12:55PM

Was out clothes shopping with my mum. Another woman in shopping (complete stranger) chatting away to the sales assistant picks up a dress and says "this one wouldnt fit me, its MASSIVE"
She then turns to me and says "this would even fit you!"

I'm only a size 12 btw... sales assistant didn't known where to look.

Hammer89 · 09-12-2015 12:56PM

At my mother's funeral, my scumbag of an uncle, who I hadn't talked to for about four years prior to that day, suggests that we keep in contact when he's about to leave. "Fair enough," I say, knowing he probably didn't mean it. I give him my phone number, and he suggests that he rings it so I'll have his number too. Problem is, he made the call and hung up immediately after pressing the green button. He didn't want the call to go through. The day that was in it, this was the lowest sh*t I've ever experienced.

Summer wind · 09-12-2015 12:58PM

When I was 9 months pregnant with my first little boy I'd very high blood pressure and was kept in hospital overnight a few times before I had him. On one morning just after being discharged from hospital my mam and I decided to go to the shop for an hour before going home. We left our car in the car park and walked to the lift. The lift was big enough for 9 people and there was a very well dressed man and a woman and a boy of about 8 years in it.
We got in too and pressed the button for the floor we wanted and the man shouted at us and said his wife was afraid of enclosed spaces and we shouldn't have shared their lift. He kept shouting that we had some cheek and I said to him I've just gotten out of hospital and would he please stop shouting. His reply was that he didn't give a f*ck about me or my child. When the lift stopped he called us a load of names and walked off with his wife who'd remained silent the whole time. His son then called me a bitch and ran off after them. It made me so sad that that boy was being brought up with this as normal behaviour.
Sorry for the long post but I've never forgotten how upset I was that day.

fleet_admiral · 09-12-2015 01:39PM

My 4 year old son patted me on the beer belly last week and said 'Daddy, did you eat too many jellies'

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