What's the most backhanded compliment you've ever recieved?

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  • ParaSempreAmor11
    ParaSempreAmor11 Posts: 105 Member
    "You lost so much weight omg your so skinny you look so good but you have no *kitten* now"... UMMMMM STFU you blind? my *kitten* is the reason why i need 2 jean sizes bigger ok so im pretty sure its just the right size :drinker:
  • RobynLB
    RobynLB Posts: 617 Member
    An Indian co-worker: "You've gain-ed the weight!" In a congratulatory tone. I guess he thought that was a good thing being from a place where skinny isn't a fashion statement.
  • ferb03
    ferb03 Posts: 82
    From my mom just this week: You looked really skinny today. That woman standing next to you on the hill was so fat, she'd make anybody look thin.
    OMG! I am sorry your mother is so cruel, you have my sympathy. Mine was the same way and I hope I am never so insulting to my kids.
  • HaleyAlli
    HaleyAlli Posts: 911 Member
    Whenever I grow my hair out, my family says they liked it short. Whenever I cut it short, they say they liked it long. I have learned to stop listening to my family.
  • cindl24
    cindl24 Posts: 178
    A few weeks ago, a co-worker from another department said to me, "Wow. You look great. Why are you back so soon after having the baby?"

    Uh, hello, I am not and was not pregnant, that was the OTHER girl in my department. I guess the compliment side would be that she's 15 years younger than I am, so it is good that I look young enough to be her, but dang, she outweighs me by a good 50-60 pounds!
  • saraann4
    saraann4 Posts: 1,296 Member
    Not even really a compliment. I was talking to a woman about weight loss and another woman chimed in, "how much weight have you lost?" I think at the time I said 50lbs. She replied, "You haven't lost that much, have you?" Looking at her completely dumbfounded, the woman I was talking to replied "oh yes she has!" Made me feel like I don't look like I've lost that much. The topper was last week when she told me I didn't need to lose anymore weight and didn't want me to look sickly. I've got at most 70lbs more to go.
  • HeatherPH
    HeatherPH Posts: 125 Member
    My sweet fitness fanatic of a sister-in-law once said to me, "you're really pretty. You could look awesome if you got really toned! Why don't you do it? You should!"! Needless to say, I was ridiculously offended, despite the fact that I know she's a sweetheart and really wouldn't have meant it as an insult (I'm sure I could look awesome if I was toned, but that doesn't mean I don't look fine as I am!).
  • RobynLB
    RobynLB Posts: 617 Member
    You look great. For your age.

    Haha, this. I'm trying to handle it with some grace...I wore a fabulous red dress to a party last night, and when a woman I'd just met complimented my outfit, her friend said "yes, great fashion shouldn't be limited to the young"! I bit my tongue, and replied "thank you, I so agree." I'm glad that I was only on my first glass of wine-loose lips sink ships.

    I just turned 29, so I am starting to get this from teenagers and twenty year olds. "I hope I look as good as you when I'm 29." Ahhhh.... I'm not even thirty!
  • saraann4
    saraann4 Posts: 1,296 Member
    after droning on and on about a dress sale. " Allison, im not telling you have to change your entire wardrobe. im just saying you should try and incorporate some more feminine things. i mean, you have a feminine hairstyle and sometimes wear lipstick *sigh* but so do transvestites." - my mom.

    *laughs*
    i still dress like a vagabond.
    im cool with it. .
    its all part of my charm.

    "I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch." -Gilda Radner

    That's my mom too!
  • ladyluch99
    ladyluch99 Posts: 264 Member
    Well, let's see....

    "you're getting so thin, your husband is going to have to shake the sheets to find you"

    "Sharon, it's ok to have a meal once in a while, you don't have to just waste away"

    "miss no butt"

    "she disappearing"

    from my boss when I asked him if he was having ice cream "I don't know, I'm trying to do what you're doing"

    These are just a few of many.
  • shrinkatizationofme
    shrinkatizationofme Posts: 3
    "Your *kitten* could rival that of Nicki Minaj's, keep at it. *smiles idiotically*"
    I hate my lower half -_-
  • BonnieandClyde29
    BonnieandClyde29 Posts: 1,026 Member
    guy: "are you a fitness model??!!"
    me: "no, why?"
    guy: "Well, if you lost some more weight you could be."
    me: "f**k off!!!"

    yeah pretty insulting...i was pissed the whole day, and this is after i've already lost 20lbs
  • WeekndOVOXO
    WeekndOVOXO Posts: 779 Member
    When my ex-wife and I were dating I asked if she thought I was handsome. To which she said, "You're the funniest guy I've ever known".

    Talk about an ego crusher LOL

    LOL.

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  • DollyMiel
    DollyMiel Posts: 377 Member
    Not really a compliment, but a lot of these made me think of something from the other day.

    Friend: I don't like the cold! Go away winter!
    Me: Aww, I'm the total opposite, I love it.
    Friend: Oh, I'm not fat enough to stay warm though.

    Wow, thanks....
  • Kenzietea2
    Kenzietea2 Posts: 1,132 Member
    My mother in law was talking to my new baby and said "you are sooo lucky, your dad is soo smart and your mom... well.. she's pretty"
    All because I haven't finished school (I am 22 and have a semester to go, I am taking a little time off to stay home with my baby). I wasn't reading into the comment, she meant it. She told my husband I am also jealous of her beauty. (LOL...she's my mother in law??)
  • UncleMac
    UncleMac Posts: 13,748 Member
    Coworker... "Something's different... When did you shave your goatee?"

    Me... "Two years ago."

    Coworker... "Oh... Did you lose weight?"

    Me... "Yeah, I did."

    Coworker... "That must be it."

    I think she was trying to be complimentary but I'm not quite sure...
  • bellarox13
    bellarox13 Posts: 95 Member
    Conversation with mother in law ( I had lsot 30 pound at this stage) -

    Mil - So are you going to start losing weight?

    Me- Yep I have already started, have lost a bit and can even fit my engagement ring back on.

    Mil - So you have just lost water weight.

    Me - *silent*

    (wish I would have thought of a comeback fast enough, like yeah dipsh*t, 30 pounds of water weight!)

    She loves to make snide little comments in her loving voice, nobody notices except the person she is making the remark to.
  • ErinShannon
    ErinShannon Posts: 158 Member
    "You could have been a model if you hadn't of let yourself go"...gulp! :sad:
  • Oishii
    Oishii Posts: 2,675 Member
    My mum: Those jeans look lovely on you. Don't be too upset when you get too big for them again.

    Thanks for the vote of confidence, mum! My mum is lovely, but sometimes it's like she totally fails to realise how you'll feel when she says something like that.
  • triciaburton
    triciaburton Posts: 1
    Makes me laugh every time I think of it: "I thought that was you, but then I thought, 'No - that girl's too thin.'"
  • ryansgram
    ryansgram Posts: 693 Member
    You're so fat you can't even tell you're pregnant.
  • 2012GBFAN
    2012GBFAN Posts: 124 Member
    I love you but....WHAT THE HECK! REALLY?
  • agamy4
    agamy4 Posts: 31 Member
    "You'd be gorgeous if you were skinny." lol
  • WeekndOVOXO
    WeekndOVOXO Posts: 779 Member
    Not a backhand compliment, but regardless:

    Me: *points at moms book with a buff *kitten* guy on the cover* That's my goal.

    Mom:

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  • withtimecomesmiracles
    withtimecomesmiracles Posts: 339
    "I mean, it's an impressive amount of sit ups you just did, but that's probably because you're less flexible from your back so it's easier."
    - my PE teacher.
  • MireyGal76
    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
    Wow honey, her thighs are bigger than yours!
  • ihateroses
    ihateroses Posts: 893 Member
    Saw a couple old friends after I gained a bunch of weight in college:

    "Oh hey, we heard you gained a bunch of weight....but you actually carry it really well!"

    :ohwell:
  • rdianemu
    rdianemu Posts: 132 Member
    The first time I lost over hundred pounds, my dad looked at me when I was home from college and said you're almost not fat. Love him, but he doesn't always think before speaking.
  • koalahugs
    koalahugs Posts: 34
    "You're getting too skinny now."

    Say whaaaaat? It used to be that I was too fat. Now I'm too skinny? I don't see it.. Where's the middle ground?!
  • juliakitten
    juliakitten Posts: 11
    "You are hot...for a black girl." Sad but true.

    :O That's so rude!

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