Backhanded Compliments

My dearest brother always has the knack to make me feel good.
He will often call at my house when least expected. Mainly
mornings. I often have no make-up on or have done nothing with my hair.
His favourite comment is. "I see you have not got round to going to the hairdressers yet" I just have to smile he just does not know he is being uncomplimentary, bless him.

MissAdventure

Ah. go on, MissAdventure, you can't leave us hanging like that!

MaggieMaybe

Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred.
Great at fighting, mint in bed.

I couldn't possibly comment, MissAdventure. But as noted by Callistemon, I haven't LTB yet.

dolphindaisy

I'm a real apple shape but with very thin legs, one day my daughter was watching me change my clothes when she said "you look just like one of those balls of wool with the knitting needles sticking out the bottom"

I'm the same shape.
My friend told me I looked like Claire Rayner with Twiggy's legs attached.

Ah. go on, MissAdventure, you can't leave us hanging like that!

MaggieMaybe

Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred.
Great at fighting, mint in bed.

These really made me laugh, great thread.

My favourite which I have mentioned before, I asked my daughter what she thought of a top I was trying on. Her reply ' well it's alright for you mother but I wouldn't wear it.'

My friend d looked at my front garden and remarked how many different plants I had. Then she said Why don't you get it all paved over.
When I showed her the back yard which is full of tubs and pots she told me it looked like Paddys market!

As a harassed young mum of 4 an older lady just made my day by saying “oh your little girls are so pretty, they’re not a bit like you are they?” Gee thanks!

MissAdventure

I have a little poem in mind, told to me by a man from Yorkshire.

Ah. go on, MissAdventure, you can't leave us hanging like that!

I'm a real apple shape but with very thin legs, one day my daughter was watching me change my clothes when she said "you look just like one of those balls of wool with the knitting needles sticking out the bottom"

Whilst having a facial the beautician said to me ‘ You have lovely skin in between the spots! ‘

I’ve told this one before but a few years ago we had builders in and I was always in black or navy blue trousers with matching tops. One day I was going out ‘dressed’ in a black and white dress and heels. As I came downstairs the tiler did a double take and said ‘bloody hell, you scrub up well’.

A colleague in a care home was hurrying through the residents' lounge when she heard one of them say "That's some b*tch, that one. Quick on her feet, though."

(The 2nd was true, the 1st not!)

Out with my daughter last week when she said Oh, there is a car for you Ma, it's ugly ..................

I complimented a work colleague once on her smart trousers. “Oh”, she said, “this diet I’m on is working well, so they’re getting too big for me. I’ll let you have them soon”.

A meal for friends after I was married, using the wedding presents for the first time, and one 'friend' said, 'Oh what lovely glasses. Easybee, who did you borrow them from?'

Of the meal: 'how did you manage to cook all that in such a tiny little kitchen?'

We invited some friends over for dinner, just a small get-together. One of my "friends" said, "We were due to go out with my sister and her husband, but we'll come to yours instead. We can always go somewhere nice another time"!!!!!

infinity that reminds me of another one! A group of us were going out and met at a friend's house. A woman who we didn't know that well was all over one of us, exclaiming how pretty she looked etc. She then turned to me and said, " Oh well, Batty, at least you have character."

In my thirties I was walking down the street when I came across a gang of youngish scruffy looking blokes. I knew there was going to be some comment from the way they were sniggering. As they drew level with me one of them said "I bet you were nice looking when you were young!!" I never forgot it, it was priceless.

popping in on friends, by prior arrangement, after having been to an event that warranted smart clothing Wow, you look so smart.....well usually when I saw them it was for weekend casual events, where dressing formally would have been the wrong thing to do

A lady asked me "How are you and your dear SON" he is my brother aged 79 and I am 62

At a family wedding years ago some evil minded bitch ( a guest the same size as a stick insect ) made a big fuss about putting on weight with all the wedding food etc. She then looked at me and commented that most people who are very overweight usually have pretty faces though.
I was obviously the exception to the rule.

I was out with a friend, helping her to choose some bedroom furniture for her marital home as she had just got wed.
She made the comment that her wife was a lot like me, and "didn't care if things matched".