Backhanded compliment? The things men say (lighthearted!)

Loulou54 I must have been a similar age when I called in on a man I used to work for about 10 years previously. He walked back to my car with me still chatting and said "I used to fancy you, you know" Well I had known and I think he meant it as a compliment, but I was left thinking "Used to? What's wrong with me now?"

DH is always saying about anything I’ve made or done, “Not bad. Considering,”.... Grrrr. I could cheerfully knife him!

'should pad' should be 'shoulder pad'.

Back in the seventies (big should pad time) I bought a really expensive trouser suit. When I first put it on my husband said 'Victoria Wood' would look good in that!

Maybe the correct response would be “have you looked in the mirror recently?”

I worked with a colleague who was notorious for her 'compliments'. "Your hair looks nice- from the back." " That outfit is lovely. I wouldn't have the nerve to wear it if I was that big." "You can't be 40. I thought you were much older" and many, many more!

We had a builder in some years ago - I was always in jeans and jumpers. One morning I had to ‘dress’ for an appointment and as I came downstairs, he looked up and said ‘bloody hell, you don’t half scrub up well!’
M-in-L also had a way with words - whatever I showed her she always said ‘well, as long as you like it’. Not a nice person.

My husband used to say of a particular outfit that I looked as if I was something dug up at Pompeii! It was a lovely terracotta top and trousers with a cream design and he is an ardent classicist so I took it as a compliment.

Thank you for making me laugh Nanafizz.

When I was at school,many years ago a friend said to me “your hair looks nice today, what went wrong?” ?

My m-i-l had it down to a fine art, at a wedding she said to me, lovely suit dear, I didn't know they made them that big.?

When I was about 43 and waiting for my friend to arrive to meet me for a drink, a man walked from behind me, had a look at me and said ‘you must’ve have been good looking back in the day’!! I must’ve looked better from the back than the front!! Ha!

Reminds me of a joke

Wife says to husband ‘ I think my bum looks big in this dress what do you think?’
Husband says ‘ I think you’re right, it does’

Wife says ‘ you never say anything nice about me, isn’t there anything good you can say?’

Husband thinks for a bit and then says ‘ you’ve still got excellent eyesight’

My mother in law used to say "You stink nice!" She was German.

shysal ??

The young man who later became my husband once told me that I wasn't bad looking in the dark!

Not my husband but my daughter when asked if a top suited me said " well it's alright for you mother but I wouldn't wear it "

Could be worse!