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What’s the most random compliment you’ve ever received?

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K8Davidson · 28/05/2025 18:57

I was having blood test yesterday and the phlebotomist said I had excellent veins. I’m not sure what makes veins excellent, but I was glad to hear it!

What’s the most random compliment you’ve ever received?

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NCDailyGame · 28/05/2025 19:00

I very often get the vein's one, apparently they are ‘juicy’. I think the most random ‘compliment’ I’ve ever got was “you do an amazing impression of being sane”.

Tontostitis · 28/05/2025 19:06

If you cut your head off you'd look like a teenager. Said by my 14 year old daughter. Sort of a compliment I suppose. I was 36.

Hoppinggreen · 28/05/2025 19:10

"you are not what I expected from an English person"

theDudesmummy · 28/05/2025 19:11

At a doctor who was looking at my x-rays yesterday: apparently I have various age-related problems with my vertebrae, all or any of which could be causing my back/hip pain, BUT I have "the hip joints of a 19-year-old"!

SabreToothTigerLily · 28/05/2025 19:12

'You've got a lovely shaped head' (said after I lost my hair to chemo). It gave me the confidence to go wig free.

Allthesnowallthetime · 28/05/2025 19:12

"you have got so fat!"

Said to me in a country where being fatter was considered a compliment.

BurningMrs · 28/05/2025 19:14

Was told I was very solid and sturdy “like a peasant”.

cantthinkofausername26 · 28/05/2025 19:17

My nan told me I’d be a really good model, she then continued with “because models don’t have to be pretty, just unusual looking” thanks nan!

Favouritefruits · 28/05/2025 19:17

Lucky you! My veins always have doctors/nurses uttering under their breath 😂

weirdest compliment I’ve ever had was how I was a ‘good pusher’ during the birth of my first son!

Brentinger · 28/05/2025 19:17

Overhead a gay man saying I was beautiful to our mutual friend, after my first night out post maternity leave, with grey roots and bags under my eyes.
I have and never will consider myself beautiful so that compliment was most random!

Daleksatemyshed · 28/05/2025 19:31

@K8Davidson yes I've been told this too, it's a weird compliment!

arcticpandas · 28/05/2025 19:35

An elderly lady told me this week that I looked like the actress who played Barbie in the movie. Very strange because I wear no makeup and was in trainers having been to the gym. So far from Barbie you could come in other words but I think she meant it as a compliment 😄.

vinavine · 28/05/2025 19:39

Got told in a positive way I had the bloodwork of an 18yr old boy. I'm was a 36 yr old woman! Never knew what it meant

smileymylie25 · 28/05/2025 19:39

That I have a textbook cervix….whatever that means 😂

Sidebeforeself · 28/05/2025 19:52

Often told at work that I am so calm that others felt calm and safe being around me. Little did they know I was inwardly ranting most of the time!

Ferro · 28/05/2025 19:54

That I had sexy handwriting, whatever that means.

FutureMandosWife · 28/05/2025 19:55

Currently losing weight - I look slim from the side

ProfessionalWhimsicalSkidaddler · 28/05/2025 19:55

smileymylie25 · 28/05/2025 19:39

That I have a textbook cervix….whatever that means 😂

Mines 10/10 according to the consultant. I said thanks 🤣

Butterbeanbutterbo · 28/05/2025 19:56

a (gay, male) colleague once said that if he wore dresses he would choose one like the one I was wearing. Every time I go to put it on I think of the comment

frazzled101 · 28/05/2025 19:57

I was having a coil fitted and was told I have “gorgeous innards!”

Zanatdy · 28/05/2025 19:57

It’s something they say every day. It means it’s easy for them to do the blood test. I don’t have excellent veins, makes their job harder and means I get stabbed more than once.

nextholidaypending · 28/05/2025 19:57

I was told I have great muscle tone, during a smear test 😆

feelingbleh · 28/05/2025 19:58

I was complemented on how clean my colon was during a colonoscopy 💅

feelingbleh · 28/05/2025 19:59

Zanatdy · 28/05/2025 19:57

It’s something they say every day. It means it’s easy for them to do the blood test. I don’t have excellent veins, makes their job harder and means I get stabbed more than once.

Don't burst her bubble

PluckyBamboo · 28/05/2025 20:00

"Oh, what a lovely full bladder" during an ultrasound 😳