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 😂)

From a drunk lad trying (and failing)— to chat me up at a sport association dinner ( many, many years ago)

“You’d make a great prop forward!”

When I was young I had a newspaper round and I handed a bloke his paper as he was stood in the garden and he said "Thanks son".

Never had short hair again.

I quite like being told I scrub up well: DDad told me that on my wedding day which, coming from him, was absolutely a compliment.

An acquaintance telling me I had a wholesome appearance was a slightly odd one, though. Skin like bran flakes?

My favourite was a job interview where I was told "most people here are real experts in their fields and as such can seem a bit intimidating. Whereas you're the sort of person that's much more relatable to Mr or Mrs Average..." Ouch!

From my uncle - I was really worried about you as a teenager but you’ve grown into your nose

Same uncle while me and dsis were getting ready for a night out - you look great in that dsis. And what are you going to wear badger (I was already dressed in my outfit)

Posting that you were told your cervix looked good/young/like a virgin/whatever, is not a back-handed compliment. It is a a thinly disguised stealth boast 🙄

I was told I had a lovely cervix too!

Those bastard nurses I bet they say it to all their patients.

"Your house doesn't look big at all but it's much bigger inside" - old friend of my Mum's at Mum's 80th birthday party in my house.

Are you feeling left out @Happenstance ?
😂😂

If it helps, I'm sure your cervix is fab too 😂😂

Wholesome appearance?

I remember when I was a teen I had one of the cadet adult officers 'compliment' me on my robust frame? He was telling one of the other girls that they should "eat more and "aim for a strapping frame like Plink here"

So many things wrong there but fortunately I was robust enough to take it as a compliment 😂😂😂

I had a smear and a new coil fitted recently and neither the doctor or the nurse complimented me on my cervix!
A school Mum said 'You're not a bitch are you?'
I took it as a compliment because that was one of my Mum's favourite names for me growing up!

An old boyfriend once told me I had 'arms like Madonna'. He said it was a compliment and he meant they looked toned.

I was highly unimpressed

Laid in bed with DP (now DH) when we first got together 17 years ago and he says to me

'You look so pretty in the dark'

Luckily I just laughed and he was mortified when he realised what he'd said!

Neighbour to my granny: You're looking good Sheila. Mind, the wrinkles don't show so much when you're fat...

"Can I just say how beautiful you look. I nearly didn't recognise you." From a former colleague on a Saturday morning when I was in jeans, ponytail and no make up. Exactly how bad do I look normally!?

I won a competition to do some plus size modelling a few years back, and I was ever so excited because they were selling some of the clothes on the Debenhams website, therefore, my picture was on the Debenhams website. Since I'm not an actual model, I'm a porky middle aged software tester, this was super exciting for me. I'd shared the link on my fb page.

Woman I knew (acquaintance - not friend - slimming world leader ) brought it up in the meeting, and said something along the lines of 'Sugarbum has been seen on the internet this week. Modelling clothing no less. I'm glad they're using average looking people and not ones with good figures so we can see what things look like on ordinary people'.

I do get what she was trying to say and to a certain extent I agree with it, but to say it to me that way in front of a room full of people, I was just like

oh. Ta.

From an ex bf
"you're not the best looking girl i know nor the smartest, but still there is something special about you"

"you scrub up well" all the time

Professor " you have the best confused face Ive ever seen"

Another male friend after watching legally blonde "she reminds me of you" - Im still puzzling over that one. :)

Im Indian so as far from Reese witherspoon as anyone could be.

Dd told me that I was good at making cakes in the olden days. Double back handed in one sentence.
Do I win a prize?

"Gosh, you're more intelligent than you sound!"
I've a Black country accent 🙄

Moknicker I think Reese Witherspoon has one of those faces though. This is going to make the compliment worse. We had a persian cat, who had big blue eyes, teeny nose and a big smile and we thought she looked like a cat Reese Witherspoon.😆

You look so pretty in the dark 😂😂😂😂

@Moknicker hope that ex didn't last long

Got told by my ex I reminded him of ugly betty..... He then explained the actress who plays her..But still
Cheers dickhead

@Happen - I agree, I agree!

DH once told me I looked lovely in the dark

The first time he stayed overnight I got up in the morning and put my glasses on. I wear contacts every day so he hadn't seen me in glasses. he said, "Wow, I'd never have guessed you wore glasses! Usually specky people LOOK specky without them, but you don't!"

DD told me on my birthday that her friends were disbelieving of my advancedage...She went on to explain its because her dad looks youthful and they probably couldn’t believe that he was married to someone as old as the age I’d just reached. Cheers, DD.

Had a great aunt who told me that my being "so overweight" would prevent me from getting wrinkles when I was older