To think being compared to Mira Hindley is quite offensive??

[PandorasFox]

Sitting in the hair dressers today discussing what I wanted doing and the hairdresser said "You actually have a bit of a Mira Hindley thing going on!" everyone burst out laughing, I laughed nervously (that gobsmacked, didn't know what else to do) and then another hairdresser said "oh yeah you do! you do look like Mira Hindley!" as if it was a compliment!

I didn't say anything but am now kind of wishing I did? or aibu?

AgentZigZag it was when they published the later photos of the two boys.
You know the early ones where RT looked like Damien, Son of the Devil and JT looked like a narrow eyed,pointy eared goblin.
I know the press wanted those horrid pictures shown to further inflame us all.
But the later photos, when they were still young, they just looked like boys.
I think that was the one he was referring to.
I hope it was just a physical resemblence -though I don't see it

What great customer raport building! A friend of mine once told me I looked like Myra Hindley on my student union photocard. I did have blonde hair at the time but that was about the only similarity. But somehow it stuck and I got called Myra for about 6 months afterwards.

What a strange hairdresser!

No, Myra Hindley had other characteristics besides being murderous...

Maybe if you think she's hideous and so the hairdresser thinks that IYO you are hideous and that's the way you're taking it...it would be offensive. But Y'dBVU to be upset for the other reason.

Even though Hindley did have other characteristics quirrel, rightly or wrongly, she's mostly defined by the disgusting, heartbreaking things she did to children.

It wasn't a compliment and the OP isn't taking it the wrong way.

What stupid twats! Comparing a customer to a child serial killer . She is hardly a celebrity in the conventional sense is she! They are doing no good for the business of the hairdresser. I would write and complain to the manager, and not go there anymore.

Being compared to an ugly serial killer, with souless eyes, very very very offensive, its like being compared to Hitler or Bin Laden. Hardly a complement. Do they actually know who Myra Hindly was and what dispicable crimes she committed Mabey they are too young to have a clue and just think she is another celebrity

HarrietSchulenberg, me too. What if you and me are the same person and we don't realise it yet. We've never been in the same room together so it's a possiblity.

It sounds like the hairdressers have a "bit of a mindless twunt thing going on".
More Meany Sods than Sweeney Todd's.

Oh come on... we put these 'slants' on serial killers and the like, make them as foul in our minds and in our eyes as their acts have been.

I can't be the only person in the UK to have looked at the Bulger killers as children and thought how much they looked like any child on the street. If you saw a child like them, you wouldn't bat an eyelid. The same for Myra Hindley, too much eye make-up and a bad incident with the peroxide, which really didn't suit her. I'd be more offended if my hairdresser said I had the look of Joyce Wildenstein.

I do think that we give in to hysteria sometimes, and it makes us look a bit daft. I mean, we're adults, right? So if a hairdresser makes a stupid comment, we just take it on the chin or do we say something? I know what I would do, it's not as if you don't have a lot of time to think of a great comeback or even some plain speaking.

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Wooo weird.

If your hairdresser insults you or on a previous visit has styled you a la Myra then it's quite simply time for a new hairdresser.

I understand that one might think that what she'd done would be the overriding characteristic but the OP is taking it in the wrong way, because I don't believe for one moment that her hairdresser was making out that she was like this horrible person in anything other than appearance!
If she said, "the way you argue is like Myra Hindley", or something else based on personality, that would be offensive.

I think it's one of those times quirrel, where the person saying it should have kept their gob shut and left it as just a thought.

You choose to say things, and usually you only say something that might hurt someones feelings after careful consideration (or a big argument ).

Maybe they were being thoughtless and are cringing at what they said, but without knowing that's the case, the OP is left wondering whether she does look like Hindley a bit, and how far the infamous image of her face is linked in peoples minds to a feeling of disgust (not that I think people are thinking of you like that OP ).

Poor OP!

I was once told I looked like Winona Ryder- bizarrest connection made ever- people make funny links.

I would hate to look like Myra Hindley, those horrible cold staring eyes. That is an insult it really is.

My Mum had a work colleague who was the spit of Rose West. My Mum said on social outings you would always see lots of nudging and whispering. No one could figure why she didnt change at least her glasses. I have seen a photo and the resemblence is scary

I was once informed I was 'about as maternal as Myra Hindley'

Which did not go down well.

Someone said dh looked like Fred west once.... he really doesn't...he wasn't offended....

Yes but quirrel, it is offensive to even say she looks like Myra Hindley in appearance alone. She was not an attractive woman.

Nobody wants to be told they look like a murderer, even if that murderer could win Miss World ten times over.

"You remind me of Myra Hindley...only in looks mind, I'm sure you are a lovely person and of course she did have a lot of good qualities, not that I can think of any right now, but still...you have her eyes" is never going to be a compliment is it?

There's that one image of Myra that is the first to come to mind for everybody who is familiar with her name. I have seen other pictures where she is quite attractive but nobody wants to be told they look like the mugshot of one of the countries most famous female seriel killers, especially not when they are sitting in the hairdressers while all the staff and customers laugh about it. And that has to be that image they meant, because that picture is the definitive one of Myra Hindley.

Change salons OP.

I hope you didn't give them a tip

i work in a shop and a regular customer looks like rosemary west but would NEVER drem of telling her
what a crappy thing to do :-(