Backhanded compliments

Courtesy of an ex who specialised in backhanded compliments: Your hair looks like a big loaf of bread (???). You look like a porn star.

Courtesy of a one night stand: Your hair is nice........but it gets EVERYWHERE doesn't it?

Courtesy of my mum, the one person who should be nice to me and think I am lovely as a princess: For a not bad looking girl you look terrible in photos.

R said (to me): I was so flabbergasted I forgot to punch her, and just laughed instead.

I'd like to have seen that loaf of bread.

Mind you I am wary of the dangerous ground I am walking upon. It would probably be safer if I didn't come home tonight.

The best backhanded compliment I ever received was from this sweet little old woman on Halloween. I was dressed as a maid - I must push the fact that despite keeping my gothy makeup and fishnets on, as I hated going anywhere without, it was a regular maid costume, not a French maid outfit - and the woman said, "You look very pretty tonight, especially if you were going to stand around on Van Buren St".

Van Buren St. is basically the Times Square (pre-Disney/Guiliani) of Phoenix, Arizona.

You know, I can't think of any backhanded compliments per se -- I think people either find something worthwhile, bizarrely enough, or they just come right out and rip into me. Maybe I'm not worth the effort. ;-)

Actually that's the best compliment anyone's ever given me.

I always thought those were compliments. But maybe they actually qualify as backhanded?

Grate thing Dr Seuss said: "Writing The Cat in the Hat was like spending a year in a tunnel of love with a witch."

Fuck you ELECTRIC SCRAPER WOMAN.

And fuck you again for making my teeth unimaginably shiny.

"Anna, you'd be great as the wacky British neighbour in some American sit-com."

Thanks Gav, offend me with a smile why don't you?

guy (to my colleague): where's James, you know that tall skinny guy
me: I'm here
guy: wow, I wouldn't have recognised you, you've put on weight
me: er thanks

(I guess it's good to know I'm not such a skinny wretch anymore)

also matt dc is a really good poster to invoke here, that sense of a poster who carries authority not because of expertise per se but just because he wears his taste so well. [..]

― Tim F, Saturday, 26 January 2013 12:16 (3 hours ago)

"wow, your look is very 'thrift store'"

Buck Swope: What?
Becky Barnett: YOU HAVE TO GET A NEW LOOK!
Buck Swope: What? You get a new look.
Becky Barnett: I have a look alright. The look I have is just fine.
Buck Swope: What's your look?
Becky Barnett: Chocolate love 100%. You don't have to lash out like that Buck, I'm just trying to be your friend.

"You make me want to laugh without even trying."

You wear it well
A little old fashioned but that's all right

you're _______er than you look

You have a lot of energy for someone your age.

that's funny... you should have a blog

Did anyone ever tell you that you look just like ____?

every time i get a haircut i get "you look clean". :/!

holtby looks a bit like ryan gosling but without the mystery ryan gosling thing

― r|t|c, Monday, 28 January 2013 21:24 (5 minutes ago)

"I was reading in the paper that they've just announced the new face of John Lewis and it's this awful skinny guy with messy hair and a scraggly beard. He looks dirty. Honestly, fashion advertisers make the women look amazing but they always pick terrible-looking male models. Why don't you become a model? I'm sure you'd make lots of money."

THANKS MUM!

She says this approximately once a year.

LOL yes i got a similar line

that man will have stirred mums of beardos all over the land

"Look, I have a lot of time for (person)..."

"It's got a lot of potential"

"you don't seem like a simpleton"

"You look like Monica Lewinsky... she is pretty" (said years and year ago by my now mother in law).

"I can see what you're trying to say"

ice cold

"You could be on television! Like, public television."