Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

What’s the most random compliment you’ve ever received?

214 replies

K8Davidson · 28/05/2025 18:57

I was having blood test yesterday and the phlebotomist said I had excellent veins. I’m not sure what makes veins excellent, but I was glad to hear it!

What’s the most random compliment you’ve ever received?

OP posts:
StMarie4me · 28/05/2025 22:53

“You have lovely muscly calves”

FormerlySpeckledyHen · 28/05/2025 22:52

‘You have a lovely complexion in between your spots’ during a facial at a health farm.

Flamingoknees · 28/05/2025 22:44

" You could be Engelburt Humperdinck's daughter" said by an elderly patient, in the 80's. She considered it a great compliment 🤣🤣

SaintNoMountainHighEnough · 28/05/2025 22:42

The look on the face of the bar tender who ID'd me when I was 34 is the greatest compliment i've ever had.

Now 41, that was the last time.

Mugcake · 28/05/2025 22:41

You have nice skin (said by a stranger in a shop)

Your eyes take up half your face (???)

You look like a white walker (GOT reference, they insisted it was a compliment but if you've seen a white walker you'll know it definitely isn't haha)

My favourite was said by a midwife after I'd given a urine sample
"WOW! Look how hydrated you are!" 😂

Ineedanewsofa · 28/05/2025 22:36
  1. Got told I looked like Drew Barrimore when I was 17 (I did not, suspect the chap had ulterior motives)
  2. Friend’s brother described me as a “nice and sturdy”
  3. Friend’s toddler said she loves cuddling me because I’m “warm and squishy”
NorthernChinchilla · 28/05/2025 22:28

When I was, through the nature of my job, talking on the phone with (another) person whose house was being raided by the police- real time- and managed to get all the salient details and calm everything down...
"If we ever have a nuclear apocalypse and the end of the world is coming, I want Northern Chinchilla on the end of the phone talking me through it"

DramaAlpaca · 28/05/2025 22:21

When I was getting my braces fitted as a teenager, the orthodontist told me I had very nice arches. I liked that.

I oncce got told I'm beautiful by a much younger colleague who for some reason known only to himself had a bit of an obvious crush on me. That was a bit weird; I'm definitely not beautiful but it did put a spring in my step.

Ohsonotscrumptiois · 28/05/2025 22:21

You’ve got the body of a twenty year old. My chiropractor yesterday. Im sixty this year.

was too stunned to ask whether he was actually serious. Feeling quite smug so I’ll just take it. lol.

NatWestPigFamily · 28/05/2025 22:20

I held a patient’s hand during a local anaesthetic procedure and spoke to him to keep him calm. When we saw him in clinic a few weeks later, he said I “was better than a general anaesthetic”.

A not so nice one was when I was 16 on a London tube alone. 2 men got on who were probably late 20’s. One kept saying I had “come fuck me eyes”.

YorkshireWelsh · 28/05/2025 22:19

That I look like Reese Witherspoon.

I wish I could see it 🤣

Reallyyyyyy · 28/05/2025 22:18

My BIL said i was like a man the other week. Dh was away and I had all 4 kids alone. Small scale farm and our joint 4 small businesses to deal with... I pointed out this was my day everyday whether dh was here or not and I enjoy all of it. Dh isn't home much as he's the face of the businesses whereas I am admin side. I also do minor admin for BILs business too. So he knows I do all this every day.

Im not like a man. Im as woman as you can get! Not many men can multi task to our standards!! He said its a compliment as I am strong. I said i blood well am. If anything women are stronger than men I more than one way!

MrsHamlet · 28/05/2025 22:17

Oh I've just remembered one.

About 8am one morning in Birmingham, a drunk homeless man told me I looked "moity foine".

RiderGirl · 28/05/2025 22:12

A colleague said "now I'm not saying that you normally look like a dog, but I was surprised at how well you scrubbed up" - wasn't entirely sure how to take that but the colleague was a really lovely guy so I'm guessing that it was a compliment 🤣

JudithOnHolidayAgain · 28/05/2025 22:10

On holiday in Goa about 25years ago. A teenage girl was selling scarves on the beach.....I bought two and we were chatting. I'm very pale skinned and she was fascinated by my skin.......she stroked my arm and said in awe "you have skin like an egg"

Original poster
K8Davidson · 28/05/2025 22:10

Lots of lovely cervix on this thread!

OP posts:
AllProperTeaIsTheft · 28/05/2025 22:08

Yep, another one with a lovely cervix here Confused

TheFairyCaravan · 28/05/2025 22:06

“You’ve got a massive bladder. You’d be great to go down the pub with for a few pints…” said to me by my pelvic surgeon when he was checking my Cystogram following surgery where my bladder had been torn three weeks previously.

ivyleafgeranium · 28/05/2025 21:58

Told at a colonoscopy that I had the loveliest colon he had seen that week. Made it sound like a highlight of his working week which was lovely but I felt a bit sorry for him.

NoSourDough · 28/05/2025 21:57

thenightsky · 28/05/2025 21:54

Oh, so was I. I thought I was lacking in something.

Show quote history

Me too! Made my week that did 🤣

TheKeeperOfTissues · 28/05/2025 21:57

My DD & my GC all have my eye colouring.
A cashier was OTT gushing about this, it was a very odd encounter. Not just an acknowledgement iyswim.
The next time I was served by her she told me she sought out and bought contact lenses the exact colour because she couldn't get over how beautiful they were 🤷🏻‍♀️
I shop elsewhere now......

thenightsky · 28/05/2025 21:54

NoSourDough · 28/05/2025 21:51

I was born without wisdom teeth and a dentist told me that I’m a highly evolved individual!!

Oh, so was I. I thought I was lacking in something.

AnotherDayanotherNameChangeX · 28/05/2025 21:54

I was also told I have perfect breastfeeding nipples! Shame they now point to the ground 3 kids later!

NoSourDough · 28/05/2025 21:54

Oh and another, a GP giving me a routine smear told me that I had one of the best pelvic floors she had ever seen and that I must do my exercises? I have no idea what she was going on about because when I sneeze a bit of wee wee comes out.

NoSourDough · 28/05/2025 21:51

I was born without wisdom teeth and a dentist told me that I’m a highly evolved individual!!