Tips for ignoring rude comments?

[Blue Senpai]

I just follow the "hug a hater" philosophy where they just weren't loved as children.

[LatrellHK]

I tend to just kill people with kindness but when my friends are around they tend to wanna beat that persons arse which actually happend a few weeks ago.

I don't know if thats good or bad. But at least you got friends who care.

[Lyric]

The best advice you'll find comes from Dr. Seuss:

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

[Amadeus]

If you have time to read, and enjoy reading...well, even if you don't like reading that much, I recommend Verbal Judo by George Thompson, who is a former police officer.  He talks about effective ways of dealing with utter tossers, diffusing tense situations, and so on.  It really is like judo the way he describes it.

[Ali girl]

Knowing that when someone tries to put you down it only shows that they think you are above them.  When someone has to try and put another person down to try and feel better about there own life, it shows not only their true character, but also the simplicity  or shear lack of  compassions in their own exsistance.   

[Arch]

Latrell's method reminds me of something a friend told me eons ago. Apparently, smiling sweetly and saying something like "I'm SO sorry you're having a bad day" destabilizes jerks so much that either they don't know how to respond (and are thus speechless or ashamed) or they show their true colors even more transparently and say something openly hostile and rude that other people can hear and disapprove of.

Never tried it myself.