What is it about calling people ugly?

No idea about the use of the word 'ugly' but I'd have considered reporting the arse in the BMW, I'd have been scared sh1tless.

If someone said "Don't smile you fucking ugly c unt" to me, I don't think I would have been able to stop myself packing up laughing. What a total arse.

I haven't noticed the "ugly" thing myself - maybe it's a rural thing? ?

It must be Sophs ? He sounded very un-rural though, he had a real london accent.

I wish I'd reported him actually, the school thought I should but I didn't have the presence of mind to get his registration. Grrr.

I used to get called 'ginger' a lot in London, although I think a big bloke once called me ugly and ginger on a bus when I tried to get out past him (he also said I was fat, which was a bit hilarious as I was 8 months pregnant at that point, so he did have a point)

I was called ugly all the way through school (which explains a lot about my current mental predicament), I hate that word with a passion and will only use it about myself. Never ever anyone else as it can be so destructive. I find it more offensive (along with words like stupid) that the swear wordy names people say.

That blokes sounds like a right royal prat and a half. Nobber.

It's just awful, I can't believe your story, what's with the taking the belt off thing too? I daren't imagine what he thought he might do with it.

Being called ugly, ginger, fat by anyone is just shocking really.

A) you're not ugly at all

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b) IMHO that sort of thing happens far more darn sarf. People oop north tend to be better behaved and - shock - friendly.

What a cock. I agree with Soph, though, you should have just laughed. What a big man he sounds.

Crikey, sounds scary, shame you didn't get his registration. With any luck he still had the rage and drove like an idiot in front of the police at the accident. Not sure I've noticed an increase in ugly being used other than a by a real charmer in the antenatal clinic at the hospital who said she hoped that her baby wasn't X's as it would end up a right ugly cow. Niiiice!

That must have been really scary. I think its just a lazy insult - you can apply it to anyone to make them feel crap (whereas if you wish to be rude about size/hair colour etc you actually have to use a brain)

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I hope MrsB meant his seat belt, not the belt holding up his trousers.

I hope MrsB meant his seat belt? ?

I think it just shows a shocking lack of control on the part of someone clearly in the wrong and not articulate enough to think of a constructive means to express their opinion.

To call someone ugly is such a vicious thing to do. It attacks the person on a level over which they have no control and makes the argument really personal rather than just about an action.

Whoops, yes, seat belt. Ugh, if he'd taken off his belt belt I'd have deffo called the police, registration or not!

I actually worry for his family/colleagues though. he had major inner rage (that became outer rather swiftly ?)

? How funny. Sorry. So he wasn't going to drop his trousers and show you the moon then ? That would have been VERY scary.

Weirdly a similar thing happened to me recently (though he didnt call me ugly ?)

i was in a filter lane going left, lights at the end of the filter, on green, and had been all the way on the approach. it was midnight, and there were no other cards around apart from the one in front of me, also going left. as we approached the (green) light, he slowed to a stop. i sat behind behind him and waited, then waited some more, then finally gave a short hoot. he immediately threw open his door and stood in the road calling me a fucking cnut, and that he knew fucking well it was green you fucking fucking etc so i wound the window down and said to him if you knew it was green why did you stop knowing i was behind you? his reponse? "YOU FUCKING CNUT" I started to laugh which enraged him even more, so i just drove around him, luckily giving him a wide enough berth that his kick aimed at the side of my car went nowhere. i rang the police. not sure what happened, nothing i d imagine. weird.

Because at some point in the past Mr Big Mouthy Wanker had only one insult which was to call someone fat. Then one day somebody he called fat said they might be fat but could lose weight, whereas he would always be ugly. So now Mr BMW uses ugly as an insult because he can't think of anything original.

I had a slight "altercation" a few weeks ago when a man decided to walk out in front of me and then sit on my bonnet. (Don't ask) He told me I had a fat arse. I think he also called me a lesbian. ? Then his mate spat on my car. Which was nice.

I'm thinking about not driving to work any more. Nearly every day, some hurrying, angry idiot nearly causes a crash. I've had enough of it.

*** me, road rage is a terrible thing. I agree with Sare ref calling people fat "well I can lose the weight, you can't change your face" etc.

Thinking of Churchill:

Woman: Sir, you are drunk; very, very drunk
Churchill: Madam, you are ugly, very very ugly
In the morning, I shall be sober

I don't know but I had a few altercations in London and was called a fat, ugly biatch and cnut. Which was nice. Even if totally true. ?

Yes, yes, your eyes are working, you can skip the optician but how about getting some sense of proportion and anger management?

I know Zeb, it's the total lack of proportion thing that frightens me. You can really see it's not much of a step from that to these awful senseless killings over daft stuff like parking places and 'disrespect'. sigh.

I have never seen such utter, incandescent rage over something so so insignificant. the fact he saw fit to say all that to a woman who clearly had a baby and a pensioner in her car, right in front of a primary school, just shows what an utter numbskull the guy was. And yet he probably went home to his wife and kids and didn't think any more about it.

Think yourself lucky MrsB that you were only driving to school. My husband was jsut about to propose to me when someone called me an Ugly Cnut ? That made me agree to marry him alone even though i didnt want to, just in case it was my only chance, what with me being so ugly ?

? oh yes pans, I still harbour fantasies about putting that into a script one day.

I have mailed and fb-ed you. do mail me, go on, treat yourself ?

On a slightly different note MRh told me off the other day for saying someone was unattractive (who is, she looks witchy) to him, not the person involved. As if you should never say that, even when the person is unattractive. You would have thought I'd wished her dead or something.

But i've not heard of ugly as an insult,as in your case, especially to a non ugly person... but your situation sounds very scary, well done on staying calm.

If he responded like that to you smiling you should have started singing...

U.G.L.Y you ain't got no alibi, yo ugly!