What's the worst thing anyone has ever called you?

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Who said it and why?

― Fatal Beret (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

All of mine are in Arabic and don't translate well.

― Fatal Beret (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, in so many words my Aunt Ellen called me bitchtits when I was 11. That was pretty harsh.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Does "fucking cunt" still count as bad?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

actually it's a lot of fun

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

oh shit sorry

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

No, you prude. There's even a teletubby called "fucking cunt" now.

― Fatal Beret (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"indie"

― may pang (maypang), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I once overheard a stranger in a bar call my friends and I 'vacant media tartlettes', which stung.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i've been called "mediocre" and "predictable" which both stung

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Nigger.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

(Said to me by ignorant kids I grew up with, as well as one isolated run-in with some random strangers.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

For some funny reason my friend Chris calling me "sporto" kinda hurt because he was implying that the only reason anyone liked me (especially girls) was because I played sports and given the anti-jock ethos to which we both subscribed it really meant the end of our friendship which seems retarded now. I played basketball for fuck's sake and that's it! He skateboarded and got Betties that way. FUCK IT'S MAKING ME SO MAD THINKING ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!! Sorry Dan.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

All the derogatory names I have been called have hurt, I can't single one out as hurting more than the others.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

bunnykins

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"condescending prick", "bitter and neurotic". I don't think I'm bitter and neurotic, not too much, am I? I made this joke already on another thread, didn't I? Or did I? I no longer care anyway. Do you SEE?

the bitter and neurotic one was sort of jokey, condescending prick I probably deserved at the time.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Four-eyed specky cunt who's a twat

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

'banal'.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I forgot, "James from Busted" obviously wins this hands down.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"the charisma of a stone" - A teacher! When I was 13!!!! WTF?!?!?!

"morally corrupt" - a good friend of mine.

― Fatal Beret (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

'psychopath', i guess.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

'sour'

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"semi-literate & shameful" (another teacher, when I was 16/17)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, thinking of teachers:

Small eight-year-old Anna hands in (admitedly full of spelling errors) a composition about stray cats. I was temporarily in a class with children a year older and I'd worked really hard to keep up. My teacher reads it, fast and dismissivley, and then says:
"Well Anna, Mrs Smith told me you were good at English, but frankly I think you're a bit of a drip."

So Mrs Lister, once a teacher at Lane Green First School, Codsall, near Wolverhampton, I hope you are no longer teaching, or failing that, that someone will Google this.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

It's more who (my mother) and how often (seemed like almost every day until I left home) than the content, but she did keep telling me I was worthless, a complete disappointment since the day she had me and I always would be, and so on.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't think of anything that's hurt. Maybe I'm just too sticks and stonesy.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

No one's said this to me personally, but I heard Simon from American Idol say one of the contestants looked like a pencil salesman and had the personality of a rock. Pretty classic.

― B61 (calstars), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

clowngirl, for some reason it really hurt.

― LiquidTide (LiquidTide), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

A nobody.

That sounds like I'm hung up on the fear of being a nobody, like it touched a nerve. But really it's because I can only think of about three people in my life who've really laid into me. One was an ex-girlfriend, briefly, on breaking up with her. Another was a drunk or stoned girl I can't remember who I'd hardly met who rambled on about how she could see my game, how I was a wolf in sheep's clothing or something. That was kind of unsettling. But 'a nobody' wins. That was when I'd written an supposedly humourous OTT slagging off of the Upper 6th (the final year, one above us) in our school magazine. Someone in the upper 6th printed a single page thing called 'Parting Shots' that took offence and questioned who I even was.

That I can only recall three real character assassination attempts suggests to me that I spend my whole life avoiding doing things that might prompt them, which isn't very healthy and probably leads back to the wolf in sheep's clothing thing.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought the fur, paws, pointy ears, rancid meat breath, fuck-off incisors and the rotting sheepskin draped across your back led to the "wolf in sheep's clothing" thing.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Aww, be fair to Nick. He's vegitarian.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

This makes the "rancid meat breath" thing even more disturbing.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

A girl I went out with in Paris said I had "no understanding of nineties women".

Well, now it's the noughties so that's completely fucking irrelevant, isn't it, C*****??????

― Fat Alberet (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

An oompa-loompa, which was pretty hurtful in third grade.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I was called fugly in high school quite often, or "a dog" (and barked at.. long story but I was treated really badly at one point).

I found out some time ago that an ex was going around referring to me as "that stalker bitch". Which really fucking offended me, because I was nothing of the sort (I took a breakup hard for reasons unrelated to the actual person, but sure as hell never stalked the bastard).

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

There has been nothing anyone has ever called me that is worse than what I can call myself sometimes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha Liquidtide. I used to know a girl and we all called her clowngirl.
She wore shit fishnets and had annoying black lipstick smile painted on and acne not painted on.

― zenome kistachion, Wednesday, 14 January 2004 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Pompous. Which is not a complete lie, but I was pretty taken aback because it came from a girl who I considered to be the most pompous person I knew. We were probably each just jealous that the other one was getting away with it.

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"bitch ass fred durst wannabe"

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sick fucked up perverted little freak"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Put a red baseball cap on those exclamation points and it sounds like that's an appropriate description.

(xpost)

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I got called Hitler and Stalin in my college radio music director days. Not to my face, of course. And not because of my love of Skrewdriver either. I had the nerve to enforce the radio station rules. Thus I was a dictator.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

whose been called smug?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

When haven't I been called smug?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

my nickname at high school was tits, that was pretty horrible. someone once called me "hysterical" for speaking my mind, ha, funny thing is he claimed to be a feminist!!!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I was somewhat of an ugly duckling during my early teens, so for years onward, any negative comment about my looks always stung far more than it should have - but at least I had talent and a half-decent brain (or so I told myself.) Then one night a few years later, someone said something far worse - that the only reason that I got the job I wanted was because I was "pretty".

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 02:55 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah i had a flatmate who constantly called me stupid too.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I was recently called an "inconsiderate lunkhead", but it seemed too accurate to really sting. Or something.

Bryan, have I mentioned how 100% cool you are?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 06:29 (twenty-two years ago)

What Ned said up thread.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 06:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"Zero" and "Slug" both from dear Mom. Honestly can't recall anything else that hurt too bad.

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 14 January 2004 07:32 (twenty-two years ago)

My mom once told me I was a bad mother - though she retracted it later, that one still hurts like fuck.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Bryan, have I mentioned how 100% cool you are?
I certainly hope that was sarcasm! YOU MET ME FOR CHRIST'S SAKE! YOU KNOW I'M 100% COOL-FREE!

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)

P. f. f. t.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 07:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, if you had any cool in you you wouldn't be cool at all. So.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 07:59 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was seven, the headmaster at my school once called me "Bun Face" but only because he had forgotten my name (I think).

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

A drunk guy on a train in Cardiff called me "pathetic" because I don't come from Cardiff.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

A friend told me that the subject of "Nowhere Man" was "totally you!" The part that kind of hurt was that she was serious, seemed genuinely delighted to have come up with this notion, and expected me to cheerfully agree. Which I pretended to do, because I'd (jokingly) actually called her some worse things.

― Poppy (poppy), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

My mum once told 14-year-old me that I looked like a tart! That was when I had dyed my hair purple. I think it just slipped out of her mouth, she felt really bad afterwards, and I promptly used it against her in every teen angst fight we ever had.

― Hanna (Hanna), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Unfeeling.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Failing that, Tim.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, that reminds me - 'Neil'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

faggot. (every day, with varrations, from the age of 13 to 18)

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I sprained my knee in a rubbish skiing accident when I was about 14. The nice lady who came over to see if I was OK thought I was a girl. She was being all nice and helpful and trying to get the snowplough guy to come over and give me lift to the first aid stall with me shouting "I'M NOT A GIRL" while crying with pain. Excruciating at the time, even more so now.

― hmmmmm (neil simpson), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

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