Backhanded compliment? The things men say (lighthearted!)

An old boyfriend said " my perfect woman would have your personality and Angelina Jolies looks'.

And another one! A friend of a friend who is known for gushing compliments particularly when drink has been taken effused about how gorgeous and young looking two friends were,then turned to me and said,"Batty, at least you have personality." ?

I've just remembered one! My mum would look at photos of me as a young girl,sigh and say,"you used to be so pretty."

In a music club in my twenties a bloke came up to me and told me I looked like Ronnie Wood!

I wasn’t impressed but the chap was mortified and apologised profusely. He said that Ronnie was his idol and it was meant as a huge compliment. I did have an angular face and sticky - up hair so there were some similarities I guess .

Rather like Lizbethann's 'homely', my future husband's family described me as 'wholesome'! I was not flattered.

A few years ago, when I was around 56, I took some of our grandchildren to the park across the road from us. I was pushing one of my granddaughters, aged about 7 at the time, on one of these swings that looks like a flying saucer. She said "You're very strong, granny" , which made me smile, but immediately followed up with "Most people your age couldn't even push this swing once".

My Grandfather said to my cousin; "You don't look much like your Mother, she was such a pretty girl"

My Dad to Mum when she was walking about trying to get him to notice she had just got back from the hairdresser " Oh, have you just got back from swimming?"

I used to work in a nursing home & one of my (favorite) ladies said to me "you'd be ever so pretty if you wasn't so fat!" ? My DH also comes out with classic one liners. Going through the checkout at Tesco a few years ago he was packing as I was getting ready to pay & the girl asked him if he needed a bag for life to which he replied (looking at me)" no thanks I've got one there!" The poor girl didn't know how to react! He'll often say something that causes me to look at him with my mouth open & he just says "Oh, did I say that out loud?" I wouldn't change him though! ?

I was working in kitchen and MIL joined me. We chatted then out of the blue she turned to me and said "you do have small breasts don't you".
I was astounded and said nothing.

As she was small, dumpy with big bosoms I always wish I'd said " but I'm tall and athletic." We never got on after that.

Prior to lockdown, I was visiting a friend who was looking after one DGD and was going to pick up the other one from school. The little one opted to stay with me, and then said - "You can stay till Dotty comes back and then you can go away"

When I was 15 my next door neighbour, who was a dear family friend and a lovely man, told me I was "homely". I am sure he meant it as a huge compliment, but how many 15 year old girls want to be called "homely" !!!!!!!

That is what she said Squiffy! She also kept the polythene on the seat cushions of her new sofa!

Shysal That was to keep them safe from harm or fading! ??

MIL thanked me for the smocked velvet cushions I had lovingly made for her. She then told me I was lucky to be able to make presents to save money. She then hid them inside some cheap orange faux fur covers.

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FannyCornforth is it possible we are sisters? My DM used to say when I went to the hairdresser 'have a lot chopped off and then it might look nice'.
123kitty DH is not very well so I don't want to wake him and I can't sleep - your DGD has made my eyes stream and I'm shaking with silent laughter under the covers! My now AC in the first week at school said 'I was crying and my teacher was giving me a cuddle but I didn't feel much better because she didn't smell like you, she smelt of perfume'. . I smelt of baby spit up, I presume!

Years ago, when my youngest sister was just 4, she came visiting with my mother. She was in the kitchen and said "I do like this house", as it was a dump I was amazed, till she followed it with "Isn`t it lovely and dirty?" To be fair, we`d recently had a fire in the kitchen and hadn`t redecorated yet, plus there was a hole in the ceiling.

Laughed at so many, but at 4allweknow 's reply especially.

A male colleague at work once said to me “you look like a rock chick in those boots - they don’t suit you at all”.

Wednesday and Saturday disco in the pub/hotel was called grab a granny because of the large number of older divorced women, usually drunk so an easy pick up.My friend was actually quite a nasty person as I later found out.He always referred to my friend as your wee friend whatshername in a patronising way even though he had known her for years.
The other thing I found nasty was when he became a Samaritan.
He told me the people who rang for help couldn't have been very nice people.Surely if you had any friends you would speak to them and not some stranger he said,so they must have had no friends!

i dread to imagine what a, grab a granny night, is !

My best compliment from my DH was when I'd come back from having my eyebrows waxed and tinted. He took one look at me and told me that I looked like Saddam Hussein when they pulled him out of the hole! It's a good thing I'm not easily offended

Our Mum to my sister:
"I shouldn't really say this to you, but you look really nice" ?‍♀️

I passed an acquaintance as I was going to the shops and she commented that she’d just seen my daughter. On being told she must be mistaken as my daughter was still at home her reply was ‘Well she was the image of you .... very plain but she had a lovely smile! ? ? ?

I once went to a party in a lovely black jumpsuit and a lady said to me in the toilets. “You look amazing in that outfit, I wouldn’t be seen dead in it, but you look great” I said “thanks, I think!!”
(I did actually look amazing, those were the days)