Poll: Well, that's mean...

[Sexy Street]

I have recently been thinking about the mean things people will say to get you riled up, or feel hurt. So maybe some group therapy will be good to the soul. So, what is the meanest thing someone has said to you?

I think the meanest thing someone has said to me was "You disgust me". It was my dad and he was yelling at me over the two C's I had just gotten .

 

[Jedamethis]

Well, mostly I don't mind words. If you stoop to insulting me your opinion isn't worth shit.

 

[Kwaren]

I get riled up when someone questions the quality of my craftsmanship.

 

[Disaster Button]

Words have always affected me, even more than physical harm.

Sadly, my dad is an EXPERT at targetting a person's weakness or insecurity and exploiting it in an arguement and proceeds to make you feel like trash if its not going his way. I don't think he means it, its just how he acts if he feels he's being challenged, but it always upsets me terribly, always has.

 

[Radeonx]

Not really.
I was yelled at constantly for being a terrible, disappointing, waste of space by my mother for most of my childhood so I've gotten a pretty thick skin in terms of insults.

 

[Levi93]

Wow thats pretty sad, if i had your dad hed probably turn into a demon with my 2 Ds and about 3 Cs i got at GCSE.

OT: im not much affected by words, if somebody doesnt like me or trys to insult me I just give them the whole "I dont really care" although I'm still pretty shocked that your dad said that so I don't think this applies if a family member did somthing to upset me.

 

[Jedoro]

I get called an asshole pretty much every day I'm in public, so nothing really gets to me. It's not my fault I answer questions with brutal honesty, stand by what I believe and am stubborn as hell about it.

Okay, maybe it is, but I apologize for nothing. If you want polite conversation, keep a polite topic.

 

[AvsJoe]

Sure I get affected by words. So do most people.

About 8 months ago I was insulted by a potential roommate. Specifically she used the phrase 'scum like you'. It resonated strongly enough that I still remember it.

 

[RatRace123]

When someone questions my competence, I hate it when people think I don't know what I'm doing.
I got this a lot in school, it wasn't incompetence it was laziness.

 

[Danzaivar]

The angrier and more serious a discussion gets, the less I'm able to take it seriously. At the point insults get thrown I'm just having too much fun to care.

Which is probably a defence mechanism from some repressed event I can't recall, but hey! Beats getting all sad like some of you guys.

 

[MassiveGeek]

Mm. Not really anymore, before I used to care a bit too much about other people's opinion and didn't want to piss someone off, but now I'm pretty much past that.

Not entirely of course. The meanest thing someone has said to me has to be the time when one of my friend's friend told me my friend was dead - and it was my fault.

This went on for a week, I felt like crap. >_>

He of course wasn't dead. His friend was just a fucking psycho.

 

[Stoic raptor]

No.

I used to be really affected by words. But after a specific period in my life, I learned not to be affected.

A very valuable lesson everyone should learn, I think.

 

[moosek]

Remember that scene in the '09 Star Trek when Spock loses his shit and beats/chokes kirk?

I'm more like the Kirk in that situation.

 

[teh_Canape]

Spoiler: when people try to get me on my nerves, I just play this card

this is me, giving a fuck

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I turn it all into humour.
And then I riposte. Because countering "you are a sickening waste of life" with "your mother interferes with donkeys and has a hairy lip" is just funny to me.

 

[AssassinJoe]

I just remind myself that the world is full of idiots, including me! And I don't listen to an idiot's insults.

 

[Phlakes]

I'm not a stone wall, I'm a triple layered, ten foot thick solid diamond wall. On fire.

 

[El Poncho]

No, I just laugh at them like their being stupid.

 

[omicron1]

I don't tend to take strangers' insults very seriously. Family members, though... that can be harder. And even phrases that may be completely above-board and innocent, I sometimes infer negative things from. I was hung up for years over my father's response to the one class I ever got a D in, desperately trying to do well enough in school (above a 3.0 average GPA) to appease his presumed (but not actually present) wrath.

Psychology is a funny thing that way...