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August 26, 2011 4:18 pm at 4:18 pm #598936taking a breakMember
why do people say ” i hate you” when they really mean “you are SSSOOO lucky!!! i’m so jealous of you that you did XYZ!!!!!” i know they dont mean it but why say it that way?
August 26, 2011 4:28 pm at 4:28 pm #802858Queen BeeMemberI once won something at a carnival, and this girl wanted it. She said, “Why do you live?”
I thought to myself, “?????????”
August 26, 2011 4:32 pm at 4:32 pm #802859ronrsrMemberYou look pretty good for your age. I’ll let you decide if that’s best or worst.
August 26, 2011 4:45 pm at 4:45 pm #802860collegegradMemberA shadchan once told my friend “Oh you look different from what I remember you, I thought your hair was blonder, but don’t worry I’m sure the boy is looking for inner buety not outer and besides I’m sure you will wear some makeup on the date!”
August 26, 2011 5:11 pm at 5:11 pm #802861WIYMembertaking a break and Queen Bee
“but why say it that way?”
If I had to guess these types of comments started on some movie or TV show. Thats where all these sick disgusting lines and similar things start.
August 26, 2011 5:59 pm at 5:59 pm #802862amazingirl97Participantthis is a story i heard: a woman was walking down the street with her newborn baby when she met a friend of hers. her friend looked in the carriage and said your baby is the ugliest baby i’ve ever seen! the woman was so angry, surprised and sad that such a close friend of hers said such a thing. when she came into her house later on her husband saw that something troubled his wife today. he asked her, whats the matter? so she said “so and so insulted my baby and said he was the ugliest baby she ever saw!” he looked at his wife and burst out laughing. his wife looked out him like he fell from the moon. he said dont worry your friend just said that because she was jealous that she didnt have such a beautiful baby as us.
so watch your words and be careful about what you say!
this story did not happen to me i just read it in a book.
August 26, 2011 6:09 pm at 6:09 pm #802863Queen BeeMembercollegegrad, what a great boost of confidence…
August 26, 2011 6:11 pm at 6:11 pm #802864WIYMemberronrsr
I wonder about that one. Is it ever a compliment? Tough call huh?
August 26, 2011 8:36 pm at 8:36 pm #802865HaLeiViParticipantamazing, some people talk like that so as not to cause an Ayin Hara.
August 28, 2011 2:12 am at 2:12 am #802866brotherofursParticipanti don’t like it when one of my friends tells the other
“Why do u look so pretty?!” –
i don’t know what to make of that..does it mean “you’re usually ugly”, or “why r U pretty and I’M not”
August 28, 2011 2:27 am at 2:27 am #802867ronrsrMemberI know I have already quoted WS Gilbert once this week, but I the last comment makes me think of the Mikado, as Yum-Yum muses over her beauty:
Yum-Yum: Yes, I am indeed beautiful! Sometimes I sit and wonder, in my artless Japanese way, why it is that I am so much more attractive than anybody else in the whole world. Can this be vanity? No! Nature is lovely and rejoices in her loveliness. I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.
August 28, 2011 10:48 am at 10:48 am #802868kapustaParticipanti don’t know what to make of that..does it mean “you’re usually ugly”, or “why r U pretty and I’M not”
I think the second.
August 28, 2011 11:30 am at 11:30 am #802869minyan galMemberWhen my mother A’H’ was in her 40’s, she visited her home town to attend a wedding. At the simcha she bumped into a fellow that she hadn’t seen since high school. The first thing he said to her after they had been re-introduced was, “my how you have aged.”
How is that for a “compliment”?
August 28, 2011 4:57 pm at 4:57 pm #802870bein_hasdorimParticipantAfter answering the door on her first date the guy asks her
“is your daughter ready?”
August 28, 2011 5:20 pm at 5:20 pm #802871yummy cupcakeMemberi think it’s funny when ppl say “oh my gosh, i didn’t recognize you- you look so good/amazing/stunning!!!!!”
like, thanks. did i used to look THAT bad??????
August 28, 2011 6:09 pm at 6:09 pm #802872ronrsrMemberOnce again, WS Gilbert nailed it over a century ago:
There is beauty in extreme old age
Do you fancy you are elderly enough?
Information I’m requesting
On a subject interesting:
Is a maiden all the better when she’s tough?
Katisha:
Throughout this wide dominion
It’s the general opinion
That she’ll last a good deal longer when she’s tough.
Ko-Ko:
Are you old enough to marry, do you think?
Won’t you wait till you are eighty in the shade?
There’s a fascination frantic
In a ruin that’s romantic;
Do you think you are sufficiently decayed?
Katisha:
To the matter that you mention
I have given some attention,
And I think I am sufficiently decayed.
August 28, 2011 6:17 pm at 6:17 pm #802873bein_hasdorimParticipantWow! You look much younger. Is that a compliment laced w/ criticism?
August 28, 2011 8:45 pm at 8:45 pm #802874ToiParticipantpeople alternately ask my mother if shes her boss’ mother or sister. her boss is late thirtys and shes fifty.ouchy.
August 29, 2011 2:27 pm at 2:27 pm #802875miritchkaMemberor when someone asks you somethin and you respond and they say “shut up!” so why did you ask?!
August 29, 2011 8:48 pm at 8:48 pm #802876ursula momishMember“Wow, your house looks great! How long ago did the cleaning lady leave?”
August 29, 2011 9:02 pm at 9:02 pm #802877Mr TaxmanMemberI remember as a teenager hearing (mostly females) saying “I hate you” instead of I am so jealous of you / you are so lucky. Could be from an American show or sitcom perhaps – I am not sure. It’s def from the materialistic world that we live in.
August 29, 2011 11:40 pm at 11:40 pm #802878oomisParticipantMy wonderful and extremely kindhearted mother O”H, was known for her bloopers. She would say innocent things that often came out just plain WRONG.
Twenty-five years ago, when she unfortunately was sitting shiva for her sister, an elderly male friend of our family came over to pay a shiva call, and came into the room where she was about to eat lunch. She did a double take and blurted out, “OH!I thought you were my dead brother-in-law!” To which my brother quipped, “Before or after he died?” Needless to say, she only meant that the resemblance momentarily had startled her. But after the initial shock wore off, we all had a good laugh (including the “zombie”) and it has become a well-known family story.
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