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To ask your favourite ever compliment?

259 replies

AnotherEffingOrangeRevel · 12/05/2016 12:06

What's the best compliment you've ever received?

My personal favourite ever has been "You've got a nice nose. Like Boris Becker".

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giantpurplepeopleeater · 14/05/2016 17:23

Best compliment - after having just watched the Inside Out movie, DS (5) told me all his core memories involved me. Grin

Whathaveilost · 14/05/2016 17:26

' I know that your my Only mum but you do realise that you are the best mum ever, and dad is pretty good as well'
DS aged 16 about two weeks ago. What made it nice was that. He wasn't after anything or done anything wrong!

daftbesom · 14/05/2016 17:28

From DH who came into the bathroom while a v pg self was in the bath: "Thaar she blows!"

Best one so far from teen DS so far: "Actually my friends thinks you're really cool ... but for the life of me I can't imagine why."

SeekEveryEveryKnownHidingPlace · 14/05/2016 17:32

Both my girls, on different occasions and unprompted whilst watching Marcella said 'she looks like mum' Grin.

MrsDOnofrio · 14/05/2016 18:20

From my best friend - "but you're the least materialistic person I've ever met". Might not be a compliment to many but it was to me.

frankie001 · 14/05/2016 18:41

Close friend died, and a few years later his son said to his mum "auntie Frankie really is a female version of dad". I cried when I was told, was a huge compliment to me

mercifulTehlu · 14/05/2016 18:54

A female acquaintance (v. nice but I haven't known her that long) said cheerfully to me this morning "You're looking very gorgeous today!" I'm pretty ordinary looking, was dressed for dog walking and don't spend much time or money on my appearance these days, so it made me smile. It sounds a bit superficial compared with some of your lovely heart-warming examples, but it certainly brightened up my morning!

gentlydownthestreamm · 14/05/2016 19:17

I was in a gay bar having Sunday afternoon drinks with some (gay) friends. After a while a man came up who was on his way out, and said to me 'excuse me, I just wanted to tell you you look really beautiful' and left. I was stunned because I would never think I was that type of beautiful, and it meant so much more because it came from an objective random onlooker who wasn't trying to get into my pants!

YodellingForJesus · 14/05/2016 20:07

'You drive better than most men' Hmm said by a big builder in a packed car park after I'd turned a van round in a very tight space. He sounded very surprised.

dancemom · 14/05/2016 20:17

A colleague I worked with over 10 years ago emailed me recently. His son was born prematurely when we worked together but had only lived a few weeks and he said that on the 10 year anniversary of his sons death he was thinking of me and how kind I had been at that difficult time ( I had given them some premie clothes and a gift basket, nothing out of the ordinary)

He said that every time he came across an act of kindness over the past 10 years it reminded him of me

I teared up as I read it and it still touches me now. Such a lovely thing.

cressetmama · 14/05/2016 20:34

Two teachers at DS school decided I was a kick ass mum.....

HackerFucker22 · 14/05/2016 20:43

"You have a beautiful morning face" which is lovely but what about my afternoon and night face Grin

anorakgirl · 14/05/2016 20:55

When ds2 was a few days old we did a supermarket shop with him yelling, ds1 yelling and me staggering around very sore below and my milk coming in. A lovely old lady stopped me and said 'this will pass and you will be the happiest you have ever been'. I cried and ds2 threw up. It still makes me well up 10 years later!

Postchildrenpregranny · 14/05/2016 21:01

DH at our wedding 'I'm the sort of the sort of guy who dances with wallflowers but today I got the belle of the ball'.makes me smile 34 years later

blueshoes · 14/05/2016 21:07

The junior male lawyers worshipped me as a "goddess" - I was a lot younger than but senior to them.

An ex-boyfriend said I was perceptive - I am.

Another ex-boyfriend said I was sensual - can be.

BorisJohnsonsHair · 14/05/2016 21:11

I went for an ultrasound scan. Both doctor and nurse said "ooh nice bladder" at the same time. I actually preened, I can tell you Grin

BorisJohnsonsHair · 14/05/2016 21:16

A friend was talking to an elderly relative and moaning about having to go on a diet. "You don't need to diet!" said elderly relative, "You've got lovely fat legs." I think in her day being thin was a sign of not having enough to eat!

Tonis2297 · 14/05/2016 21:24

Ds 3 has asd and is very truthful when he speaks (dp to ds) 'is mum fat ds' 'no mums not fat she's mum' Grin don't know if that's a compliment or not Hmm he also said to me the other week when I got my hair done 'mum your so pretty' made my day Smile

timelytess · 14/05/2016 21:30

"She's the most feminine female I've seen for years and I blush every time I speak to her on the 'phone".

Lariflete · 14/05/2016 21:33

I'd had an awful time at Uni and my then-bf (now DH) wrote me a card that said "You always say that you want our children to have my eyes, but I hope that they get your strength of character."

I kept the card and still tear up when I see it or think of it 12 years later Blush

A random lady came up to the same bf and I once in town and said that we were going to be together forever and be very happy. That was a lovely thing to say and it feels like it was a good luck charm for us.

JoyceDivision · 14/05/2016 21:37

year and years ago ...a while after leving school, being stopped in a nightclub by some girls saying 'Oh my god, we remember you from school. you were the coolest person ever!'

I was sooo not cool, my mates and I were nice, well behaved but luckily not bothered by being the cool kids, I lived in army pants, black ts, army boots, had a suede cut with dyed black hair... It cheered me up no end as I was very suprised... i look quite similar now but swapped cargos and army boots for boyfriend jeans and converse...

JoyceDivision · 14/05/2016 21:41

oh, and being the squarest bar staff ever, but also being really straight with all the customers andgenerally getting on with everyone.

I was invited to a party along with the 'cooler' prettier bar staff where loads of regulars were.

There were only a few people left later including some b;lokes who were, erm, the go to people for stuff, and when they were talking one looked over at me and raised an eyebrow and this bloke stopped him and went 'No mate, she is totally sound' really defensive.... it was very odd, and then he always used to stop and give me lifts if it was raining!

Tonis2297 · 14/05/2016 22:23

Also I got one today sitting with my gran and mum and my gran said how her and my Aunty had me talking about how proud they are of me and how far I've come with the dc especially ds who has special needs and it has been a hell of a few months Smile

The window cleaner also stated the other day ds 'would go far' as he's always being nosey and asking questions Grin 'what you doin' 'what you upto man' Grin

britespark1 · 14/05/2016 23:07

According to my youngest I have beautiful brown hair like a bear!!

Canyouforgiveher · 14/05/2016 23:14

That if I went to prison I'd become top dog!

I love this one. wish someone would say it about me.

My mother told me recently that she thought I was the best mother she knew. that was nice.

When I left my last workplace a colleague whom I liked but whom I also had some run ins with along the way said "I feel like I've lost my best friend"

I was at a wedding a while ago (and in fairness looking good) and an old boyfriend who as it happened turned out to be gay - was there with his long term partner - said to the bride (my best friend- I was the bridesmaid) "god there was always something about Canyou". I liked that.

My favourite worst compliment was from my dd years ago. she said "I think you are very pretty mummy, even when everyone else says you're not"