Accidentally Offensive

[Clo]

Sweet sincere 7th grader to me today:

"Miss, you actually look skinny today!"

:stare:

Describe a time where someone meant to compliment you and ended up breaking your soul instead.

[Jinx]

So she said what's the problem, baby?
What's the problem?
I dunno, well maybe I'm o-ffen-SIVE


Accidentally Offensive by Counting Crows

[Formalhaut]

My schoolfriend last week said to me:

"You seem really happy today! Too happy infact. Why are you happy Jordan? Why?"

Um.. because I am happy?

[Futan]

I can't think of any for myself but my sister for a while would get comments like "You look good! How far along are you?" She was not pregnant.

[Chris]

Hohohoho! Asking a woman how far along she is...! :D

I've had so many accidentally offensive homo comments directed towards me, it's not even funny.

"Are you sure you're gay? You seem really normal." :-/

[Formalhaut]

Hohohoho! Asking a woman how far along she is...! :D

I've had so many accidentally offensive homo comments directed towards me, it's not even funny.

"Are you sure you're gay? You seem really normal." :-/

Brilliant.

[Cloudane]

"You look so much more friendly when you smile! You should smile more often! :)"

I get that it's a compliment and an encouragement and saw it that way, but not without a quick thought of "oh, you're saying I don't normally look friendly"

[Quindiana Jones]

"Wow, you look fantastic. I didn't recognise you." - Tony Stark, Playa.

[fire_of_avalon]

I just have to share something I did a few weeks ago. One of our first patients was a blind woman and she came in for her appt. about 30 minutes early so I was frazzled.

I said "Okay ma'am, we just have some other forms for you to look over."

"..."

[nik0tine]

That's kind of like the time I was at a restaurant when a man in a wheelchair came in and the hostess said "sit wherever you'd like".

[Bunny]

That's kind of like the time I was at a restaurant when a man in a wheelchair came in and the hostess said "sit wherever you'd like".

I would have parked my ass in the god damn kitchen

People generally don't compliment me because I'm unapproachable or something.

[Araciel]

SuUUUUure that's why.

EDIT: oops

[Jiro]

I've had a few older people (anywhere from like 30+) ask if the university caters to people like them. They often phrase it in a way that makes themselves sound old or whatever. I don't usually pay enough attention to how they phrase it so I end up saying "Yeah of course!" and they feel like I'm just validated their suggestion that they're old and decrepit. On the plus side, they'll be dead soon so I don't have to feel guilty for long, right?

[Criminally Vulgar]

i keep yawning when people are talking to me.

[Shorty]

My boss after me showering for the first time in several days: "NICE HAIR WASH"

She legitmately meant it as a compliment but I felt like she was calling me out for having greasy hair before :aimmad:

[Jinx]

My boss after me showering for the first time in several days: "NICE HAIR WASH"

She legitmately meant it as a compliment but I felt like she was calling me out for having greasy hair before :aimmad:

Why didn't you shower?

[Quindiana Jones]

Because she's a skank.

[Shorty]

Because I was too busy down at the nudist hippy commune dancing in the moonlight.

edit: also because I'm a skank.

[Quindiana Jones]

Like I said.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

I've had a few older people (anywhere from like 30+) ask if the university caters to people like them. They often phrase it in a way that makes themselves sound old or whatever. I don't usually pay enough attention to how they phrase it so I end up saying "Yeah of course!" and they feel like I'm just validated their suggestion that they're old and decrepit. On the plus side, they'll be dead soon so I don't have to feel guilty for long, right?

As I'm currently going back to school, about to turn 32, and apparently about to die and crumble to dust, all of this. :stare:

[~*~Celes~*~]

my grandma used to say "that shirt makes you look thinner" gee thanks -_- though she used to tell me all the time that I'm fat because she was told by her shrink that it's "unhealthy to hold such thoughts in"

[drotato]

A while back, when I was still pregnant, I was talking with a guy I crushed on for a while. He said, "Man you were so hot last year, I'm so glad we're finally talking."


My response, "..... Wait, last year?"

[Cloudane]

my grandma used to say "that shirt makes you look thinner" gee thanks -_- though she used to tell me all the time that I'm fat because she was told by her shrink that it's "unhealthy to hold such thoughts in"

Hah, my grandma does exactly the same things, bless her. The irony being she's not exactly thin and light herself.

[Cuchulainn]

I'm never offensive accidentally.

[Unbreakable Will]

A while back, when I was still pregnant, I was talking with a guy I crushed on for a while. He said, "Man you were so hot last year, I'm so glad we're finally talking."


My response, "..... Wait, last year?"
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I usually end up being quiet in conversations people randomly start with me at work, making me look like an uninterested dick when really I just get caught off guard that someone is attempting to speak to me. People at my work are usually so busy we don't talk.

[Futan]

I just remembered one. I've had 3 people tell me that I remind them of Sheldon from Big Bang Theory. All 3 times I was just silent in response. Still really have no idea how to take that. Lol.

[Jinx]

my grandma used to say "that shirt makes you look thinner" gee thanks -_- though she used to tell me all the time that I'm fat because she was told by her shrink that it's "unhealthy to hold such thoughts in"

Hah, my grandma does exactly the same things, bless her. The irony being she's not exactly thin and light herself.

My grandma told me dark hair makes me look like a slut.

[Pumpkin]

I once told my boyfriend that now that I'm used to his arms, they seem bigger. I meant it as a compliment. He still hasn't let me live it down.

[Cuchulainn]

I once told my boyfriend that now that I'm used to his arms, they seem bigger. I meant it as a compliment. He still hasn't let me live it down.

u sure u didnt say balls by mistake?

[Quindiana Jones]

I once told my boyfriend that now that I'm used to his arms, they seem bigger. I meant it as a compliment. He still hasn't let me live it down.

I honestly have no idea what anyone could possibly mean by saying that. xD

[Pumpkin]

I meant his arms look bigger then they used to. And he insists they aren't any bigger. So I said now that I'm used to them, they seem bigger.


Foot -----> mouth

[Quindiana Jones]

As in, he looks stronger or fatter?

[Cuchulainn]

i still think you musta said balls.

[Pumpkin]

trying to say more muscular.

[fire_of_avalon]

SHE MEANS HE'S SKINNY.

[Cuchulainn]

balls

[Quindiana Jones]

I would find it weird if someone complimented my balls. I'd still thank them, though. Gotta be polite!

[Rye]

"Now that you've cut your hair short, your butt looks HUGE! Unf unf, lay it on me! /smug"

[Futan]

"Now that you've cut your hair short, your butt looks HUGE! Unf unf, lay it on me! /smug"

How could that possibly be offensive? :kakapo:

[Laddy]

I don't get compliments. :stare:

[Pike]

Yeah I'm with Laddy. And if people want to insult me they lay it on me straight.

[Futan]

I don't get compliments. :stare:


Yeah I'm with Laddy. And if people want to insult me they lay it on me straight.

You two both look so much prettier/handsome-er under low light.

You're welcome.

[Quindiana Jones]

"Hey! I bet you were a real beauty before electricity!"

[Laddy]

I don't get compliments. :stare:


Yeah I'm with Laddy. And if people want to insult me they lay it on me straight.

You two both look so much prettier/handsome-er under low light.

You're welcome.
Fuck you and I'm fucking gorgeous. :love:

[Futan]

I don't get compliments. :stare:


Yeah I'm with Laddy. And if people want to insult me they lay it on me straight.

You two both look so much prettier/handsome-er under low light.

You're welcome.
smurf you and I'm smurfing gorgeous. :love:

I give you a compliment and that's what I get in return?! :whimper:

[drotato]

LADDY, YOU ARE SMURFING GORGEOUS. PIKE, YOU ARE A SEXY BEAST. THERE. I SAID IT.

[Futan]

LADDY, YOU ARE SMURFING GORGEOUS. PIKE, YOU ARE A SEXY BEAST. THERE. I SAID IT.

Now you're gonna get cursed off.

[drotato]

Probably... :(

[Laddy]

:love:

[Futan]

:love:

Oh fu, man. Fu. :P