He/she could do so much better.

Gauss

I hear this said quite a bit. What does it mean?

What makes one person better than another person?

Bipolar Joe

How physically attractive they are.

davet82

it means your punching above your weight op

Spread

Reads like my old school reports

clappyhappy

Polite way of saying that the other person is a lazy, good for nothing, dutch gold guzzling, couch potato.....

Annasopra

Classism or snobbery

2ndcoming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SPogGqCgeM

Nice topical bit of Saville at the start

Real Life

one person is good looking the other isnt

shopaholic01

It implies that one partner is better looking/more educated/earns more money/ has better prospects/is more motivated/has a better personality or sense of humour than the other.

Usually, it's one of the first four.

HeyThereDeliah

Gauss wrote: »

I hear this said quite a bit. What does it mean?

What makes one person better than another person?

Some people are better looking than others, some people have better jobs than others, some people can do better but don't.
It means some people settle for less than they can get.

3ndahalfof6

Their accent (so I am told)

Gauss

The reason I ask is I stumbled across a thread in the ladies lounge where someone said she is glad she left her ex as she realises now she could do better.

So if you realise you "can do better" do you dump your OH and get that "better" person.

So much for love.

Princess Peach

I've got this! Meant I could find someone who treated me right, like any person deserves to be.

And I would say this to any good person who was being treated badly. Shouldn't put up with it out of fear of not finding anyone else.

HeyThereDeliah

Gauss wrote: »

The reason I ask is I stumbled across a thread in the ladies lounge where someone said she is glad she left her ex as she realises now she could do better.

So if you realise you "can do better" do you dump your OH and get that "better" person.

So much for love.

People often say this when they get dumped, cheated on etc IMO. It's a way of saying fcuk him I can live without him.

3ndahalfof6

Gauss wrote: »

The reason I ask is I stumbled across a thread in the ladies lounge where someone said she is glad she left her ex as she realises now she could do better.

So if you realise you "can do better" do you dump your OH and get that "better" person.

So much for love.

Maybe she met a guy called Better, and realized she could do him.

My flatmate yelled this at me repeatedly while I had a freakout over the fella I was seeing...

"You're too good for him!"
"He's not good enough for you!"
"You deserve better!"
"You can do better!"

How exactly I was any way better than the guy, I'm not sure; we're two completely different people with totally different abilities and personalities. So what exactly did I deserve and what is this "better" I can do? I don't get it either.

Gauss

budgese wrote: »

My flatmate yelled this at me repeatedly while I had a freakout over the fella I was seeing...

"You're too good for him!"
"He's not good enough for you!"
"You deserve better!"
"You can do better!"

How exactly I was any way better than the guy, I'm not sure; we're two completely different people with totally different abilities and personalities. So what exactly did I deserve and what is this "better" I can do? I don't get it either.

Yea it seems fairly arrogant to think you are "better" than other people. I think we're just different.

Gauss

budgese wrote: »

My flatmate yelled this at me repeatedly while I had a freakout over the fella I was seeing...

"You're too good for him!"
"He's not good enough for you!"
"You deserve better!"
"You can do better!"

How exactly I was any way better than the guy, I'm not sure; we're two completely different people with totally different abilities and personalities. So what exactly did I deserve and what is this "better" I can do? I don't get it either.

Yea it seems fairly arrogant to think you are "better" than other people. I think we're just different.

Gauss

budgese wrote: »

My flatmate yelled this at me repeatedly while I had a freakout over the fella I was seeing...

"You're too good for him!"
"He's not good enough for you!"
"You deserve better!"
"You can do better!"

How exactly I was any way better than the guy, I'm not sure; we're two completely different people with totally different abilities and personalities. So what exactly did I deserve and what is this "better" I can do? I don't get it either.

Yea it seems fairly arrogant to think you are "better" than other people. I think we're just different.

Gauss

budgese wrote: »

My flatmate yelled this at me repeatedly while I had a freakout over the fella I was seeing...

"You're too good for him!"
"He's not good enough for you!"
"You deserve better!"
"You can do better!"

How exactly I was any way better than the guy, I'm not sure; we're two completely different people with totally different abilities and personalities. So what exactly did I deserve and what is this "better" I can do? I don't get it either.

Yea it seems fairly arrogant to think you are "better" than other people. I think we're just different.

old hippy

Princess Peach wrote: »

I've got this! Meant I could find someone who treated me right, like any person deserves to be.

And I would say this to any good person who was being treated badly. Shouldn't put up with it out of fear of not finding anyone else.

Indeed. I used to say it about a friend of mine. Her husband is a respectable man in public but has beaten her on occasions

Killgore Trout

It's a polite way of saying they think the person is a big f****** a**h***

shopaholic01

Gauss wrote: »

Yea it seems fairly arrogant to think you are "better" than other people. I think we're just different.

Gauss wrote: »

Yea it seems fairly arrogant to think you are "better" than other people. I think we're just different.

Gauss wrote: »

Yea it seems fairly arrogant to think you are "better" than other people. I think we're just different.

Gauss wrote: »

Yea it seems fairly arrogant to think you are "better" than other people. I think we're just different.

Would you mind repeating that, please?

Gauss

shopaholic01 wrote: »

Would you mind repeating that, please?

Dodgy phone

castletownman

I hear that aimed towards me the whole time

RaRaRasputin

Good idea to say it directly to someone: it's just going to bind them closer to the person criticised.

Well, let's face it...some people are stupid enough to stick to people who are bad for them, own fault so.

Defiler Of The Coffin

If the guy was an utter scumbug (robs old ladies, shoots puppies, that sort of thing) I don't think it's arrogant at all for someone to think they can 'do better'

Napper Hawkins

clappyhappy wrote: »

Polite way of saying that the other person is a lazy, good for nothing, dutch gold guzzling, couch potato.....

Hey hey hey, now wait a goddamn minute.......I don't drink Dutch Gold..

Lingua Franca

"He got sacked from his Saturday job at McDonalds for thieving, he can't go two days without sniffing bath salts, he threw a bottle of piss at an old woman on a bus for a laugh, and he got wrecked and punched the face off you and couldn't remember it the next day. You're too good for him, and you can do better." - me to my best friend, a couple of years back. He still hung on for a few weeks.

smurgen

Gauss wrote: »

I hear this said quite a bit. What does it mean?

What makes one person better than another person?

Im not sure,probably in terms of looks,popularity etc....My ex girlfriends friend told me i was punching above my weight,funny thing was i actually agreed with her!

Wabbit Ears

Not everyone is equel and the sum of a given persons posative traits, habits and disposition can easily be far in excess of their current partners. Simples

Gauss

smurgen wrote: »

Im not sure,probably in terms of looks,popularity etc....My ex girlfriends friend told me i was punching above my weight,funny thing was i actually agreed with her!

I think that's a really horrible thing to say to someone. Did you murder her children or something?

1ZRed

shopaholic01 wrote: »

Would you mind repeating that, please?

You'll have to speak up, he's wearing a towel

smurgen

Gauss wrote: »

I think that's a really horrible thing to say to someone. Did you murder her children or something?

No, but it was probably what most people were thinking tho cause she was and is very good looking,popular etc and i wasnt at the time.i was in a bad place to be fair,not taking care of myself and struggling with low self esteem,broke college student from a poor family.since then i've changed my body completly by getting into fitness and landed a financial job in Switzerland so doing much better now, struggle with confidence tho but working on it.
Funny thing is we only broke up about 6 months ago but are still best friends. Seems like she wasn't as shallow as her friend and actually could see i was a worthwhile person.

ThinlyVeiled

Is quite often said by people who don't believe it but are saying it out of pure jealousy.

shopaholic01

1ZRed wrote: »

You'll have to speak up, he's wearing a towel

Think I'm having another slow day :D.

kowloon

shopaholic01 wrote: »

Think I'm having another slow day :D.

Simpsons quote.

Katgurl

It annoys the cr@p out of me.

I don't tend to fancy blokes who are typically goodlooking and I often have some busybodying f**k (girls AND guys) who barely know me saying to me "you must have low self-esteem, you could do much better than him" which makes no sense to me - why would I want to do 'better' (ie. be with someone who is regarded more attractive by the general public) than some guy I'm crazy about who I'm into in a big way? Particularly when the well-meanign twat telling me this usually doesn't know anything about me and I think "how the hell would you know what's better for me?"

Mind you, I totally agree when its related to somebody being mistreated. But in that case I don't think its "you could do much better than him", its "you should be better to yourself than putting up with that $hit"