Random Argument Man said:
There's a thin line between jokes at someone's expense and starting to lack respect and insult someone. I have a few friends and members of my family who thinks that they are making jokes while they're just pissing me off to the point they're about to meet a baseball bat.
A good example? My brother came from Montreal for the Holidays and he's a cook. My family pointed out that I gained some weight (while they don't know that I've stopped smoking). My brother takes it a bit further. He started to tell that he made grand recipes that were easy for him and then he told me "well at least I make my own stuff while you only eat pizza pockets". My brother and my dad thought this was funny. Me, I didn't think so. I rarely eat fast-food and I only eat something in a micro-wave when I have to. I make my own cooking. To be told that I don't do much and I'm lazy bastard like that insults me.
It's something that I started to see more ever since I came back to my hometown and made me remember why I moved out in the first place. Respect is something important for me and little comments like that will piss me off.
Fair enough. I have a friend that I literally had this exchange with:
Me: "You're really annoying me."
Him: "No, I'm not."
Another one like that:
Me: You know, there's a line."
Him: Yeah, and I haven't crossed it."
He just goes out of his way to make innocuous comments because he knows they'll stick in my head for the rest of the day and eat at me (I had a bout of chronic depression a couple of years back, and I'm still coping with some after effects). Such comments include: "You know, I could tell it was you just from the way you walked", "you think scowling all the time makes you look mature, but you just look like a douche" (I don't scowl to look mature, it's just what I do by default. I can't help it.) "There's nothing good about liking alcohol" (fuck RIGHT off, you puritanical douche)
Beyond that, just a general lack of caring as to what happens to me, as showcased by "Ha-ha! You got stabbed!"
From anybody else, I could deal with this stuff. I've known him for a very long time, however (hence why I haven't lamped him) and it's just worn into a nerve...
