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 😂)

A hairdresser after doing my hair and after the MUA did my face for a work xmas party.

“You look quite pretty”

Oh no @Roomba

That's so cringey!!!

4 year old ds today:

"Mummy you're so lovely. You're the best. You're so much the best that you're past your best!"

"I bet you've got really nice pink bits." Said to me by a drunken man trying to chat me up.

I dated him a few years later!

You look beautiful Mummy...beautiful as a frog!

I've also been as beautiful as a jammy dodger. These were DS2 at about 3 or 4. My eldest told me (whilst I was kissing him goodnight) that my hair was 'all soft and dangly...like a mop'.

PlinkPlink I'm creased at them 'complimenting' you on being robust ...that's exactly like I get - although I'm so bloody girly just because I'm tall it's a case of yes ScattyScorpian has the same shoulders as a man
Bastards!!!!!

My 10yo Dd had the nerve to say to me tonight "Well mum, this dinner is a lot better than yesterday's anyway" What a cheek. 🤣

As a teenager, my best friend was trying to reassure me that I wasn't too like my dad:

'People say you look like your Dad, but I don't think you do, because he's dead skinny.'

I have a friend who regularly drops back handed compliments although think she’s just a bit clueless. Told me my new house which is a terrace had a nice little garden like her first house

I remember crying once on a night out after some lad told me I look like Sonia from Eastenders. Cheers for that.

My 97yo granny greeted me recently with a warm hug, and a less warm ‘Ahhh I can still see my Skittles in there somewhere’. Wot, in amongst the ‘hot mess’, hey?!

And memorably a nurse once told me that I’d have made a dreadful drug addict, due to my uncooperative veins!

Loving some of these. My Chinese/American friend says backhanded compliments don’t seem to exist for their culture. No one even pretends they aren’t directly purposefully offending you. Especially observations on people’s bodies!

It was suggested to me that I get a hormone test as my eyes were so big. I know my eyes are big but more like, say, princess beatrice, not like marty feldman. tsk. cheek.

@littlemisscomper, my mum has really thin hair and it's very short now but she used to go the hairdressers and say cheerfully, I'd like a trim and no insults please! as she'd had years of them telling her her hair was really thin, really flat, really greasy......... it wasn't that bad.

Oh and my lovely late FIL told me that he was happy I had meat on my bones, because he said, every kid wants a squidgy mum to cuddle into (I’d just given birth). Lucky I wasn’t one of those ‘sharp, bony, skinny’ ones.

He added that in his day (in rural Croatia, 1940’s), men sought out the robust-of-thigh ladies at the local dances. Better for sex, fertility and trudging behind the ox and plough, apparently.

So there’s my sliding doors life, I guess?!

“who does your son get his good looks from? Nither you or your husband are that attractive...”

A friend sent around a soppy email after her hens party about what great friends we all are. Everyone got complimented individually, others got "such a kind person", "so smart", "wonderful mother" etc. Mine was "you make me [the hen] laugh with all the dumb things you do".

I had just started seeing now DH and Mil said to me "it's a shame you don't want children as you have nice big childbearing hips" erm....cheers.

I have had many over the years, the joys of running pubs!

However, my personal favourite remains my (then) boyfriends friend. My going out shoe strap broke and the road we were all crossing had just been resurfaced. He gallantly offered to carry me over (yes he was pissed!). He carried me and put me down and said "Blimey, you dont look that fat"

My aunt, when I was a teenager - "it's so great you're finally through the ugly duckling phase!"

I didn't know I had been in the ugly duckling phase

😂😂😂😂 Sonia from Eastenders

'You know Darkside if you didn't have a double chin you would be really beautiful ' I was 22 years old, 9 and a half stone wringing wet (I'm 5'10) god knows what she would make of me now!

going for a mammogram- the nurse said ' oh you have very perky boobs' (for your age).

ummm..... thanks?

An ex once told me 'you actually look quite slim once your laid down and all the fat is spread out' haha

DH thinks this is the best backhanded compliment (which he heard on the radio years ago) is:

For a fat bird you don’t smell too bad !

I always take ‘you scub up well’ as a compliment (without any backhand!) - it’s only given when I’ve made a huge effort and am reallly glad this hasn’t gone unnoticed!!

My 20 year old daughter recently lost weight and was so proud of herself. Bumped into an old school friend in town who straight away commented :

'Wow, youve lost a lot of weight, youve only got one chin now!"