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What's the smallest compliment you've had?

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BigDahliaFan · 21/02/2025 08:31

I got told yesterday by the girl doing my nails that I had lovely long nail beds. I'm not even sure what a nail bed is but I'll take it.

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Daleksatemyshed · 21/02/2025 09:34

I've been told three times that I have nice veins in my arms when I've had blood tests.

528htz · 21/02/2025 09:53

I was told I was good for holding my arm out nice and straight for the blood pressure cuff to go on 😊

Deathraystare · 21/02/2025 09:56

Oh I guess the "lovely face , shame you are fat" type thing. Told to me by a woman with very close set eyes and a huge conk!!!

potplant · 21/02/2025 10:09

I also have lovely nail beds. I think it means that they are quite long, so even with really short nails they look OK.

I always feel a bit weird when my hairdresser tells me how easy my hair is to blow dry and how nice it looks. I can’t say oh thanks, because I haven’t done anything except sit there, and I can’t be nonchalant about it, because she’s just spent a couple of hours doing it. I look like I’ve slept in a bush most of the time so it’s nothing to do with me.

Aliflowers · 21/02/2025 10:46

BigDahliaFan · 21/02/2025 08:31

I got told yesterday by the girl doing my nails that I had lovely long nail beds. I'm not even sure what a nail bed is but I'll take it.

The nail bed is the bit of nail attached to skin 😂. My nail tech tells me this regularly so your nails look nice even wearing them short. No stumpy nails here

I was (while in labour) told by the midwife I had lovely toned legs and was I a runner. I can confirm I am not

BobbyBiscuits · 21/02/2025 10:49

I was told by a guy I was seeing that he suspected I used to be a prostitute because I was so good in bed. No joke. 🤢🤣

Aliflowers · 21/02/2025 10:49

BobbyBiscuits · 21/02/2025 10:49

I was told by a guy I was seeing that he suspected I used to be a prostitute because I was so good in bed. No joke. 🤢🤣

Creep

wheretoyougonow · 21/02/2025 10:51

Someone once told me that they were jealous that my lipstick always stayed on without the need to reapply it. I don't also anything special!

ghostbusters · 21/02/2025 10:51

I got ID'd age 35 buying booze with my weekly shop 😁

Comedycook · 21/02/2025 10:53

Long nail beds is a compliment. I have very short ones so when my nails are short my nails look wider than they look long if that makes sense. One of my friends has long narrow nail beds, so when her nails are short, they still look nice.

DorothyStorm · 21/02/2025 10:53

ghostbusters · 21/02/2025 10:51

I got ID'd age 35 buying booze with my weekly shop 😁

Ia slo had this a few times into my 30’s. The last time as i didn't have id, the manager was called over, laughed and asked me how old i was.

one time the assistant also refused to serve my husband as he could have been buying it for me. He said he was, as I am his wife. Still a no.

TheChosenTwo · 21/02/2025 10:55

I was told that I had lovely long nails beds too! I accepted the compliment without knowing wtf a nail bed was but after reading this thread I finally know 😂

I was also told I have a stylish walk - no idea what a stylish walk really looks like compared to a non stylish walk - I thought mostly we all walk the same with the exception of shufflers!

DorothyStorm · 21/02/2025 10:56

528htz · 21/02/2025 09:53

I was told I was good for holding my arm out nice and straight for the blood pressure cuff to go on 😊

This reminded me of another. Ive got great veins, said by nurses when taking blood. Multiple times. When I had an emergency after giving birth, I awoke to paramedics grumpily saying how could the mw’s not get a line in? Your veins are massive.

WhatsTheMatterDavid · 21/02/2025 10:57

I got told I had lovely ovaries on an ultrasound for a missing coil.

GroovyChick87 · 21/02/2025 10:58

Someone asked where I got my boobs done. I'm all natural.

Devilsmommy · 21/02/2025 11:00

Got told by the nurse taking my bloods that I'd done really well. I'm a huge needle phobe and I jumped the first 3 times she tried to stick the needle in. She was obviously lying but I'll take it 😂

Poledra · 21/02/2025 11:02

Had consented to donate my placenta for medical research once DD3 was done with it.. When I delivered it, the midwife said what a lovely, large and healthy specimen it was, and the researchers would be very pleased. Still weirdly proud of that, many years on!

Mumofyellows · 21/02/2025 11:18

I was told I have a great amount of space between my eye and eyebrow by a make up artist once 🤣

letslaughitoff · 21/02/2025 11:20

I like your attitude.

Olive567 · 21/02/2025 11:22

Told by a previous manager that there hadn't been any complaints about my work...and no compliments either 🙄

Adropintheocean1 · 21/02/2025 11:23

Doctor told me I had the best 24 hour ecg he’d ever seen. Got a big head about that.

evtheria · 21/02/2025 11:23

"You have eyes like a small mouse." Confused Then-bf insisted it was a compliment, but I don't quite see it that way.

Fraaances · 21/02/2025 11:26

I had a friend who was obsessed with getting her lips done. She kept asking me where I got mine done because they “look so natural”. It never occurred to her that the reason they looked natural was because they are!

TheGreatFlim · 21/02/2025 11:26

Poledra · 21/02/2025 11:02

Had consented to donate my placenta for medical research once DD3 was done with it.. When I delivered it, the midwife said what a lovely, large and healthy specimen it was, and the researchers would be very pleased. Still weirdly proud of that, many years on!

I made everyone present at my CS admire my placenta— DS had gone way overdue, and there’d been so much fretting about possible placental failure that I took its unimpaired beauty very personally.

Ribidibidibidoobahday · 21/02/2025 11:35

Don't want to show off too much but my colon was lovely and clean for my colonoscopy.