outrageous things that somebody thought it ok to say.

[dolf]

we've all come across people who are entirely lacking in tact, who think that everything is their business, who never hold back on sharing whatever opinion they have on everything.

the mother in law who points out you've gained weight, the co-worker who looks at your classes and points out that of course men never desire the bespectacled, the guy who on the first date says he'd find you perfect if you cut your hair and shrank your arse.

what's the worst you've heard?

 

[pointless]

my father. too many to list and not really any of your business anyway.

 

[neci]

neighbor came over to the house and called the boy down the street a no good half-breed. the kid is 12.

 

[Aquagal]

My first pregnancy, married, I started showing about 4 months in and told a coworker. She asked, "Are you going to keep it?"

*blink blink*

 

[thør]

Anything that comes out of Don Young's mouth.

 

[Aquagal]

A date I had many years ago in Cali, some douchebag from NY, looking at my polished nails, "Only prostitutes paint their toes".

 

[IrezumiKiss]

All I have to say is that the election of a black person to the highest office in the land plus a lot of booze brought out (and still brings) a good deal of suppressed ugly feels in certain people I thought were cool.

 

[dolf]

My first pregnancy, married, I started showing about 4 months in and told a coworker. She asked, "Are you going to keep it?"

*blink blink*

ha!! I had the same. i'm talking to my pals, joking about babysitting rotas, and she comes out with that. I felt like kicking her in the face.

 

[Adre]

A date I had many years ago in Cali, some douchebag from NY, looking at my polished nails, "Only prostitutes paint their toes".

I'm guessing he didn't get laid.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Co-worker: "Has anybody ever said anything about the number of soft drinks you drink?"

Me: "Yeah. My ex-wife."

 

[thør]

my father. too many to list and not really any of your business anyway.

This, we have in common.

 

[KingOrfeo]

My first pregnancy, married, I started showing about 4 months in and told a coworker. She asked, "Are you going to keep it?"

*blink blink*

Could've been worse. I would've said, "Are you going to eat that?"

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Could've been worse. I would've said, "Are you going to eat that?"

I'm sure that you would eat a human baby

 

[Aquagal]

I'm guessing he didn't get laid.

He said it afterwards.

 

[dolf]

He said it afterwards.

ouch!

 

[bluebell]

Co-worker: "Has anybody ever said anything about the number of soft drinks you drink?"

Me: "Yeah. My ex-wife."

You clever thing.

 

[lovetoread]

Sitting in the cube next to me while I am elbow deep in repairing a machine the newest man got off the phone and said "women know nothing about computers".

 

[bluebell]

I found out that yesterday at my grandmother's funeral, my dad made a very public mention of how many "gentlemen friends" my grandmother had after my grandfather died.

The person who told me said they blinked and lost a few minutes because they couldn't believe he had just said that out loud.

A real peach, my dad.

On the other hand, after my mother passed away, I was incredibly surprised at how many vipers came out of the woodwork to tell me nasty things about my father and my parents' divorce. People are weird. I've blocked it out because they are all nuts anyway. Plus, I have no illusions about my father. He's an asshole and has never pretended to be otherwise. I can't fault that. I can wish he wasn't an asshole but that's stupid since he always has been and always will be, so why waste the energy on being shocked about it?

 

[RawHumor]

We were at a bar & grill one time and my dad said to the female bartender "You have such pretty hair. Why do you wear a wig?"

 

[Learnsmith]

The fiancé of one of my writer friends is clearly far dumber than his partner. We were at a party, talking with an Asian girl who tells us she's from Kentucky. He proceeds to launch into his best impression of a racist pan-Asian accent in front of God and everybody. And somehow, he's MY friend. I mean what the fuck.

 

[Aquagal]

ouch!

It's weird how the most insensitive things stick with us after all these years. What they said didn't hurt, because they weren't true. I think it's the shock of someone actually speaking without filters.

 

[parodyluvr75]

I'm usually pretty quick to respond back, I can't say anything negative someone has said to me that has had any lasting impression. I'm very thick skinned and most insults of that nature are motivated by something other than what's being commented on.

One of my exes was manipulative in that way, but I find it hard to recall anything specific because by time we were through, I found everything he said to be lies and garbage.

The worst thing I recall hearing was to a woman with severe nevus flammeus, the marking covered most of her face and big sections of her body. The guy was first trying to hit on her, when she politely declined, he began telling her how ugly she was and other stuff. how dare she refuse him.

I butted in and insulted him until he stomped off.

People like that piss me off.

 

[MNGuy]

Many years ago I had a young manager and an elderly gentleman that I worked with. For some reason when we worked on a problem and found a solution, he would refer to it as the 'final solution.' After about a half a dozen times, the elderly gentleman showed the young man is tattoo on his arm and lectured him on what the phrase 'final solution'
meant to him.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Phil to me when I rang in to say my Dad had died. "Well I suppose you can have two days compassionate leave but then you need to sort yourself out".

And this is just one of the many reasons I'd like to set fire to his face and put it out with a shovel.

 

[Learnsmith]

Oh, I forgot, he also prefaced his statement with the words "You don't sound Oriental at all!"