Worst compliment you've ever gotten.

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  • Naomi0504
    Naomi0504 Posts: 964 Member
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    "you're cute"

    it's the worst

    Right there with you, except I hear that "You're cute. If it weren't for the red hair and freckles you'd be totally hot!"

    I also hate You're cute. What am I, 7?
  • juliewatkin
    juliewatkin Posts: 764 Member
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    Oddest compliment was from my employer years ago (still my employer) who compared me to an American Standard poodle because they have long legs and are really smart.

    Also an odd compliment that I totally loved was from some random woman at a GoodLife gym who came up to me after I finished squatting and told me I had a great *kitten*. It was all 'bouncin' and behavin' from the squats. Odd and a bit lezbionic but I cherish it to this day.
  • TX_Rhon
    TX_Rhon Posts: 1,549 Member
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    "You've lost 30 lbs?!?"

    me: "Yes I did."

    "Are you going to try for 50? I'm sure you can breath easier now."

    Yes folks.......that was a conversation with my mother!! Welcome to my world of passive aggressive comments :)
  • grum84
    grum84 Posts: 428 Member
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    The other day, I was wearing a cropped top, and went out quickly to the convenience store, and while I was paying, this guy came up to me to ask if I had had surgery. I knew my surgery scars were tiny and not visible, I tried to ignore him but he was in my face and asked me again, so I said "no", and he said "Are you sure, cuz you look CUT". Is that a compliment??? Did he mean I have abs? The cashier told him I was married (I'm not) and the guy insisted my "husband" must be lucky to have such a "cut up" wife. I just rolled my eyes at him and walked out. Men, don't tell women they look "cut" or worse "cut up", it sounds scary.

    That was totally a pickup line for your abs, but just a really bad one. Will cross that off my list of ones to still use.
  • sizzle74
    sizzle74 Posts: 858 Member
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    On Saturdays I work out for 2 1/2 hours. The last thing I do is Zumba. (stairs, body pump class, then Zumba) An older lady said to me once as we stood waiting for Zumba to start "Wow! I cannot believe how much you work out! Why aren't you super skinny?????" :embarassed:

    Even though she later told me she was sorry and that it wasn't meant to be an insult....she said it again a few weeks later. :ohwell:
  • BondBomb
    BondBomb Posts: 1,781 Member
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    "You're really pretty for a black girl"
  • SweetLilyR
    SweetLilyR Posts: 283 Member
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    With my daughter, I had an all-natural, at home water birth. I had worked hard at overcoming my fears and gained so much confidence in myself and my body...

    An hour after my daughter was born, after an absolutely amazing and perfect birth, my mother turned to me and told me, "I didn't think you'd go through with it because you've always been such a wimp about pain."

    Umm...thanks for believing in me, Mom. :grumble:

    In her defense, after my son's perfect home birth, she told me how proud she was of me and that she never would have been able to have 2 drug-free births. I guess that makes it all better? :huh:
  • archoo_letsdothis
    archoo_letsdothis Posts: 90 Member
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    Oh and this one : There's this actress who looks exactly like you !!
    me : oh yeah?
    the lady : yeah she is very fat , but her face looks pretty. ... I mean her face is pretty like yours. I mean...
    me: yeah I got it. thanks .
  • Brige2269
    Brige2269 Posts: 354 Member
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    You're pretty in the face. I've gotten that one many a times. :huh:

    Worse one, at my highest weight, one day, I was wearing a light pink top and white pants, my boss smiles at me and says, "You look like a marshmellow peep" (Yep, I let her live that day, cos I'm nice like that!)
  • Going4Lean
    Going4Lean Posts: 1,077 Member
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    "What would it take for you to swing the other way for one night."

    Really?

    That wasn't a compliment, it was a bribe.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
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    "If you lost 20lbs, you could do porn."

    :angry:

    that's kinda awesome actually, as a way to strike up a conversation with somebody and see if they have a sense of humor. :happy:

    Respond with: I retired, so I let myself gain a little since then

    What are you doing back on the boards, missy?!

    sorry!!!!

    -backs out slowly-

    It's good to see you back, yoovie. That was a long suspension.
  • ScouseNerd
    ScouseNerd Posts: 119 Member
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    I got this.

    Former boyfriend. I was 18 and secretly very self-conscious about gaining a couple pounds (ie. finishing puberty). I'm sitting on the couch, he was on the floor watching TV. He turns around and squeezes my thigh with both hands, pretending to growl;
    "Look at this leg. I could just eat this leg. If the world ended, I could live off this leg alone for like a month. Well, maybe 3 weeks. I get hungry"

    Yay.
  • KelARita7
    KelARita7 Posts: 2,694 Member
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    You're pretty but your sister is HOT.
  • Cazco29
    Cazco29 Posts: 20 Member
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    'Pregnancy suits you, how far along are you?' - nope, that's just my stomach :frown:
  • dawningr
    dawningr Posts: 387 Member
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    One B**** actually told me that I have nice WIDE child bearing hips.

    my friends DOCTOR told her this
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,742 Member
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    On Saturdays I work out for 2 1/2 hours. The last thing I do is Zumba. (stairs, body pump class, then Zumba) An older lady said to me once as we stood waiting for Zumba to start "Wow! I cannot believe how much you work out! Why aren't you super skinny?????" :embarassed:

    Even though she later told me she was sorry and that it wasn't meant to be an insult....she said it again a few weeks later. :ohwell:

    Ouch :-/ When I reached my all-time high of 307 lb, I managed to get back down to 272 through walking a few miles every night. Several random (overweight, all of them) older ladies along my favorite walking route would comment stuff along these lines. "With all that walking I can't believe you're not skinny!"

    Thanks. A. Heap.
  • spirit05
    spirit05 Posts: 204 Member
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    You don't look as swollen as usual.
  • rainunrefined
    rainunrefined Posts: 850 Member
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    Not really a compliment, but...

    Me: Oh hi *so and so* How are you?
    Them: Uhh do I know you?
    Me: Yeah we met a couple different times at *such and such place*
    Them: Oh I don't recognize you, you have a very forgetful face.

    WAIT... WHAT?!
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,742 Member
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    'Pregnancy suits you, how far along are you?' - nope, that's just my stomach :frown:

    No one should ever say this ever. Like not even in a Lamaze class. Wow.

    I worked with a girl who had terrible Crohn's disease and was a size 0. Her body shape and medical issues caused a little belly bulge even though she was tiny/petite and thin. WEEKLY someone would ask her about her "pregnancy". Sooooo wrong!!!
  • NadineSabbagh
    NadineSabbagh Posts: 142 Member
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    any time I'm single my extended family is like, "it's ok, you'll find someone, you're so smart and funny and your face is so pretty!" as if I am sooooo sad about being single. no need for the backhanded compliments! :angry:

    Oh yeah...I am very familiar with the "pretty face" compliment. UGH! I used to work with a much younger woman who was very traditionally "hot" and she would say stuff like that to me all of the time. I really don't think she meant anything mean by it but it was irritating.

    seriously. If they didn't mention "face" it would be a compliment, but they just have to go and make it backhanded!

    Yes!! There's absolutely no need for 'face' to be in that sentence! :P

    I once saw something written about me - 'she's fat, for a hot girl.' (I don't understand why it wasn't 'she's hot, for a fat girl', but meh.) I wasn't ever meant to see the comment, and the guy who wrote it would never have said it to my face... but it gave me a tiny bit of pleasure when I confronted him and I watched as he tried to squirm his way out of it :P

    I was auditioning for the part of Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar once, and I was nervous as I was up against some gorgeous girls, all of whom were very slim and looked the part. So my flatmate decided it would make me feel better by saying 'you know though, you'd suit the part much more than them because, in those days, Mary realistically would've been quite chubby.'

    Some guy, who claimed to be in love with me, decided to have a big heart to heart about his feelings for me one day. This included him telling me that I had one of the most beautiful faces he'd ever seen but that there were some things he'd change to make me his 'perfect woman'. He couldn't understand why I didn't want to be with him.

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