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 😂)

"God you look so young, you look about twelve", . Infront of a garden filled with guests.

Dd when she was about 12 - "my friends think you're quite nice looking.... for your age". Gee, thanks.

Because everyone wants to look like their 12 year old selves 😂😂

Someone asked me once if I was Jewish. Bcause apparently, I looked like Amy Winehouse who, according to him, had a very Jewish nose. Not sure where the compliment was?

Again, so many things wrong with that compliment including a bit of anti-Semitism. I did ask if it was a complimemt and he said yes Needless to say... our conversation was pretty brief after that.

Our service has gone ‘paper light’ and we now undertake bookings electronically. Sat in woman’s house she says to me “ You do really well with that iPad for someone your age’

Aged aunt who says exactly what she thinks....

1992 I’m pleased you two are getting married. You don’t spoil two houses’

2018 ‘who would have thought that your marriage was the one in the family that lasted. Certainly not me.’

Was told in a pub once, "You look like a poor man's Brooke Shields."

Errr, thanks, I think!

"You're not as fat as my cousin". Thoughtful pause. "She's enormous"

"That sort of shapeless rectangle type of dress really suits you".

Love being a shapeless rectangle!

I was recently asked "have you had botox? You have , haven't you?". Er no, I fucking well have not. I'm just decomposing at a slower rate than most.

MiL, 'well Just, I may not like you but I have to admit you seem to make Mr Just happy'. Er thanks

I once had some surgery and one of the nurses was talking to me about wound care. She mentioned that she was supposed to speak to me about things I could do if I wanted to minimise scarring then said 'but I can tell that you're not the sort of person to worry about that sort of thing'. Thanks

MiL, 'well Just, I may not like you but I have to admit you seem to make Mr Just happy

Gosh! You'd think the fact you made her son happy would be enough for her to like you already! Strange MIL (I have one like that).

'You've obviously put on a stone. It makes your face look nicer, less old.'

Thanks mum.

Aunt to me on my wedding day... "gosh you are lucky to have found a dress that suits your unusual figure".

One of the summers I was at university I worked in a hotel dining room. I soon realised that the staff were not very posh. The woman who hired me, looking at my old fashioned, romantic name (think Araminta, Henrietta) approved: "I've never heard of that before; that's real classy" .
Later in the summer I had taken several standard (to me) phone messages - name of caller, time, date, subject, number to call back - for the catering manager. He informed me glowingly that I 'was gonna make someone a real nice secaterry' one day. I had also passed on to the callers the correct pronunciation of his well known, regional surname.

This was said to me in all sincerity by my bf when I was 17 and he was a very sophisticated 19 yr old
"I'm glad you're not very pretty... it means other boys won't fancy you".

Cheers for that one!

An ex once said to me that he liked me because "I was a big girl" meaning my size.

I was a size 8 at the time....... I'm still confused 30 years later!

My aunt used to call me whenever her toddler son needed to take medicine (my eldest was also a toddler at the time, and I'd mastered the swaddling in a towel technique). She once thanked me and said "I wish I could be a hard Mum like you...."

An ex boyfriend once said to me 'You dress really nicely for a big person'. I was a size 18 but even so....thanks!

I was reading the book Forget Me Not and Buttercup to ds5, it's a story about a young elephant and his friend, a warthog, who everyone laughs at because she's ugly and bristly but he thinks she's beautiful because he can see the goodness within. Ds turns to me lovingly and says, yes......... mummy you're my Buttercup. Umm thanks 😑

Those aren’t bad trousers for a figure like yours. I’m my tall, willowy sister loves me -neither of those things-- really.

@BridgetJonesDaiquiri you're probably right but I've never heard the song and he didn't know anymore words and at 21 I was wounded

@PlinkPlink cannot deny it was definitely cringy! Not as cringy as the woman who posted the other day after her date with the bloke though!

Oh so many to choose from!

Middle aged male neighbour (I was in my teens at the time) “well, you’re better looking than you used to be.” And to add to the joy of the compliment, he was totally blootered when he said it.

A very well-meaning older male friend (I’ve form here) “You’re clever and your friend is pretty.” Erm, cheers?!

Same bloke advised me to “find myself a nice sensible boy who doesn’t go for looks.” Reader, I actually had a boyfriend at the time. Whether or not he went for looks, who knows?

I’ve yet to be complimented on my cervix though 😁

Bit creepy from your middle aged neighbour

Alot of these seem to come from aunts, MILs and exes 😂😂 I can't help but feel some of these BHC's might have contributed to the latter gaining their status 😂

GimmieBread, was he trying to tell you he thought you had big boobs?

Pink Pink, yep, he was quite creepy!