Marilyn's photos - Nov 4 2025 - Things to Never Say
It turns out to be more complicated that just listing 15 tactless things you should never say to anyone. Things like:
I told you so
You’re wrong
You’re being too sensitive
As I just said before
Calm down
What I enjoyed was finding the alternates/synonyms for these expressions. That’s because they too are insulting. Here are a few for “I told you so” - I’ve pasted these in and notice they are all in caps. That says something in itself:
Looks Like You Learned the Hard Way
I Had a Feeling This Might Happen
I Thought That Might Be the Case
Well, That Wasn’t a Surprise
I Had a Feeling You’d Come to That Conclusion
It Seemed Like That Was the Likely Outcome
I Was Wondering When That Would Happen
I Knew That Was Going to Happen
Next, l took a look at “You’re wrong” - an extraordinarily blunt expression. Here are some “ouch” phrases to compare it with:
I enjoyed the article that compared “You’re being too sensitive” to: Stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about. Here are the synonym phrases. Aren’t synonyms equally insulting. So many choices to make it you are looking to inslt someone.
You’re overreacting
You’re being dramatic
You’re blowing things out of proportion
You’re making a mountain out of a molehill
You’re exaggerating
You’re taking it too personally
You’re overthinking
There is something fascinating here. These phases have more potential than insulting things to say. They could be book titles, song titles, and summaries of plots - accusations and judgement from which human drama flows.
Time to give them a new life. Something like this:
Galileo, as I just said before, you’re overthinking the stars. I had a feeling this might happen - you’re now in house arrest.
Here’s a piece of whimsy from the watercolour class. This was a watercolour of Echinacea flowers that was turned into a little fantasy landscape in Flaming Pear’s plugin Flexify.
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