Backhanded compliments

[PlinkPlink]

When I used to play rugby, we went on a night out in the local town for a piss up a spot of team bonding.

One of the ladies, who had never really bothered speaking to me (so I didn't bother either), turned to me and said "You know, Plink, you're actually alot more interesting than I thought you were."

😂😂

Granted, she was drunk but I'm curious and want to hear -

What backhanded compliments have you received? The more outrageous the better! 😂

(This is obviously lighthearted 😂)

As a teenager, I went on a date with a bloke I really fancied, wore a skirt and everything! Halfway through the evening, he told me i had legs like Kevin Keegan 😏. He insisted it was a compliment, but it wasn't quite the image I was aiming for!

Sorry Jock
That's hilarious!
I get told that my very handsome bearded teenager looks like me..I'm hoping it's not the beard

My aunt was complimenting my dd (who was 3 at the time) on her looks. She declared 'maccy she really is beautiful, you'd never have thought that a plain Jane I.e. me could have produced such a beauty!' Er thanks Aunty Renee!

I was recently complimented on my excellent command of English - I'm a native speaker and the kind soul who complimented me is not. I suppose she meant it kindly.

Haha spider, that's a nice one. I think the backhand was probably to the rest of us English who no speak right! 😂😂😂

Did you know that back handed was synonymous with left handed? At one time people used the phrase left handed compliment (misses point of thread completely)

Yesterday, from the gp while she was trying & failing to insert a coil "You have the cervix of someone who's never given birth", I have 5 dc (all vaginal deliveries). I new them bringing it forward was a bad sign!

Friend looking at old picture of me “wow you look so much better now!”

Bra - 😂😂 interesting

Bernard - I wish my pelvic floor muscles were the same as someone who's never given birth 😂😂 complimenting your cervix... what do you say to that? 😂😂

"You'd be really pretty if you lost weight" .. fuck off.

My great aunt to my Grandmother on my wedding day: "Anna looks so beautiful, she really hides that light under a bushel doesn't she" - so I look shit the rest of the time! Thanks, Auntie!

"wow when you take your glasses off you're actually really pretty!"

and as feedback on a university peer-marked essay "I commend your grasp of the English language as a non-native speaker"...erm...English is my mother tongue ha!

From the host of a birthday 'gathering' at her house, to the entire room- 'I love the fact that we all know eachother well enough to get together without having to worry about getting all dressed up'. In fact, she was VERY dressed up and I certainly was in my 'going out' clothes (but not over dressy) so, I suspect what she meant was 'it's OK that you scruffy lot came over without making the effort.

SIL second time she met me 'Oh you scrub up well' 😠😠
I did have the good sense to refuse to be one of her bridesmaids, as I suspected she would, she chose the most unflattering dresses possible.

your SIL!

Sounds like there's more to come there!

Lena I get the glasses one too. Short sighted so my eyes are smaller with glasses. My OH jokes about my beady eyes all the time

A bit like the glasses one above: "you look really pretty with your hair down - like a completely different person."

The nurse when I was having a smear, “you have a lovely cervix.” Erm thanks??

School reunion, one woman said "wow, you DON'T have fat arms!".

She is notorious for such things though so it just made me laugh.

"Gosh, that's done you really well that coat - you've been wearing it every winter for yeeeeaaars!"

Translation: buy a new coat you peasant

Slapliment

I was ill, DP commented that I looked like a burst couch. But then gave me a hug saying, "but you're my burst couch." Aww. 🤗

MIL was bemoaning BIL's continued bachelorhood. The trouble, you see, was that "he keeps going for these really glamorous girls, and they're very high-maintenance. I wish he'd just go for someone like ".

Thanks, MIL!

DH used to sing some song to me when we were first going out - it went “you look so beautiful....to me”. The inference of course being that his love for me gives him permanent beer goggles.

He never got it. But he did stop singing it!

These are great 😂

Who knew cervixes were such a talking point? 😂

Cel982 😂😂😂 bloody charming!

Diana - cringing at the singing... awkward 😂😂

My ex MIL who was refusing to talk to me for some reason best known only to herself suddenly said “well you ARE a good Mum at least” as though she’d been sitting fuming about my shortcomings and that was the only positive thing she could think of about me.

@DianaPrincessOfThemyscira

Was your DH not singing that old Joe Cockers song “You are so beautiful” that goes “you are..so..beautiful (semi pause) to me”

If so, I think you should just take it as a compliment