How do you respond when someone tells you that you’d look prettier if you smiled?

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1. You’d sound smarter if you would shut the fuck up

   Why do I care about your opinion?

   Would you say that to a man?

   All of these work

2. And, your point is?

3. “you’d look more handsome if you were really, really, really far away from me”

4. I see red. It’s highly offensive and intrusive.

5. Tell him he would be prettier if he worked out more and took better care of himself

6. I generally just glare at them.

7. I give them a blank stare followed by the creepiest smile that I can muster and just say thanks in some demonic ass voice.

8. But not attracting you is one of my goals.

9. Wordless blank stare. It makes everyone highly uncomfortable.

10. “No, I really wouldn’t.”

11. « Hey, -uck you a—hole. I don’t owe you anything », with a big smile.

12. Straight faced “I’ll keep that in mind”

13. Well you’ll never get to see it.
    Or
    Well ‘insert tragic excuse here’ so excuse me for not smiling right now.

    The last time someone said ‘smile, it might never happen’ it was just after I lost my grandparents so I said ‘yeah? Well they’re dead so I guess it did happen’

14. You’d be hotter if you’d shut the fuck up.

15. i start crying right in front of them cant get any further from smiling than that

16. I say *No I’d rather not*

17. I smile a lot so I’ve never actually had anyone say this to me. Hypothetically I guess in that situation I’d be inclined to go with an eye roll and redirect the convo, but probably the comment would also make me internally self reflect a bit about my level of self discipline when it comes to the energy I’m putting out there in the world. No reason to bring everyone else down just because I woke up on the wrong side of the bed.

18. I bare my teeth awkwardly and stare them dead in the eye til they get so uncomfortable they just walk away.

19. “My grandma just died.”

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    Shuts them up every single time.

20. I give em the full gums snaggle toothed shock of their lives until they beg me to go back to looking stoic.

21. I’ve not said it yet, but I’m waiting, cuz I really wanna say “if you want me to look pretty for you, you have to pay for that”, or just “for $20, sure”.

22. Give them the Wednesday Addams face and just keep staring

23. Dance monkey dance ! 😜🤣

24. “And you were more attractive before you opened your mouth, dipshit.” Seriously, does anyone still think that is a compliment?

25. I smile

26. Ok. And?

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28. you would look better out of my sight

29. I’d really like to tell them to go fuck themselves.

30. Tell them: “Its difficult when you’re around”

31. “okay, tell me a joke”

    *stays straight faced*

32. I have a really ugly smile so joke’s on them!

33. I give them a HUGE stupid smile. Like so wide that it looks like my mouth wraps around the back of my head. A Pacman + Julia Roberts combo.

34. I’d smile and they would never do me to again. It’s like chandler from friends when I smile.

35. I’d agree but point out that at least I’m avoiding wrinkles. So it’ll even out – I’ll be prettier later in life 🤣

36. I continue not to smile

37. I do apologise that my facial expression offends you, have you tried looking anywhere else?

38. LMAO, I’ve never heard that. Not that I would love to.

    I hope people understand: Compliments don’t count if they’re not timed and placed correctly. It’s just bullshit.

    You never now if that girl could have just lost her job or a relative, or is going through bad times, or had been SA, and you telling her that she needs to smile to be look pretty is only making you an unconsiderate moron.

39. My dad’s friends were habitual offenders of this. I would also reply “it’s none of your business if I smile or not.” And “aren’t you a little old to be telling a teenage girl she’d be prettier if she smiled. Kinda creepy.” They’d leave me alone.

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41. One time a guy wouldn’t stop asking me to smile so I stopped walking suddenly and faced him, looked at him with a completely deadpan disappointed face, made a huge fake smile, and made the deadpan face again. He apologized, so at least he got it.