A compliment is always flattering, right?
Well...
Sometimes people make backhanded compliments which are really insults. But this article isn't about that.
This is about the compliments that leave you scratching your head, like the time a male friend told me I had "little, tiny, stripper feet." I was unaware strippers are known for their little feet—or that my friend might have more than a passing interest in feet.
Reddit user Majomember420 asked:
"What was the most bizarre 'compliment' you got?"
Danke
"A German man I was on a date with once tried flirting by telling me my nose was 'very proportionate to my face'."
"It was very German of him."
~ GlitteringLocality
Not To Be Confused With A Service Animal
"More than one person has called me their emotional support animal."
~ purplephysicist
Age Is Just A Number
"'You look too young to be a doctor. What are you, like 45?'."
"I was 26."
~ sfynerd
Smell The Rainbow
"'You have a really cute nose. It’s so little I could kill you with 2 Skittles'."
~ UpSchittsCreek_
Shoulders Back, Chest Out
"I did IT work in a nursing home where there were lots of residents with dementia."
"I was walking down a hall one day and a resident stopped in her tracks, grabbed me by the arm and said, 'You have the most wonderful posture'."
~ dartdoug
You Should See My Scapula
"'You have a nice clavicle'."
~ Ilikecosysocks
Like A Horse
"This older lady at my office had a weird fascination with me."
"She said 'I was watching you walk in this morning and you have a healthy gait'."
~ ekimlive
How's My Head?
"That I look like Guinness tastes. I'm an aquired taste."
~ Vivid_Ice_2755
The Deep End
"I had a college girlfriend who said my blue eyes were like looking at a chlorinated pool."
~ Viscount61
Wait, Is This A Compliment?
"When I was younger a random girl said I looked like Adam Lavine's uglier younger brother."
~ NegativeKarmaFarmar
Thanks, Kid
"Strange as in unexpected. I was running a Ferris wheel and the small boy who was in line to ride it alone looked at me—a sweaty male amusement park worker—and said, 'You’re handsome' like it was just a matter of fact, and then skedaddled up the stairs to the awaiting bucket."
~ SensualEnema
🐶💩
"'You have the most beautiful shade of dog sh*t brown eyes'."
~ AndrewKyleSmith
Ssssssss...
"That my skin feels like snake skin."
"Like... excuse me…? What‽‽"
~ Different-Weekend-95
Not A Bath Product
"'Your beard makes me want to grab your face and rub you all over my body like a loofah!'."
"It was a man at a regular, generic night club. I am a straight man."
~ Catandocaritas
What's Wrong With The Right One?
"That my left eye is really pretty."
"Both my eyes are the same colour..."
~ PlayfulMonk4943
What's the most bizarre compliment you've received?
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