Think of a few backhanded compliments.

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Here are mine:
*Your hair looks nicer than usual.
*I wish I had the confidence to act like you.

Your stench is nice.

I always tell my cats they are my favorite cats in the whole house.

- You're smarter than you look.
- I always feel smarter after reading your posts.
- That's a good idea doing your homework on Friday night when everyone else is out.

I remember hearing someone tell a girl she was pretty for a [ethnicity] girl. (I don't actually remember what she was.)

Not many people could pull of those ugly pants.

It took me a while to figure that one out

Your not so green as cabbage looking

you look like you've lost weight!

Ooo, I had a top like that, I threw it out.

you don't look anything like your reflection in the mirror

oh you look great from behind

oh so your still married

And there both your children?

More surreal than backhanded?

To a pregnant lady:
"All things considered, you look great!"*


* Note: This was said to me when I was 9 mos pregnant.

"You may be cheap, you you weren't cheap enough to not get us a wedding present."

"You're smarter than I realized."

"You're not as stupid as you look."

(this is a tough thread for me because I have no idea what are insults disguised as compliments except for the ones I have learned and my husband came up with the last one for this thread)

"That dress does wonders for your figure."

I got that quote from Wikipedia.

I always do this quite unintentionally to people, and then get terribly flustered when I realise I've upset them.

This is me, thinking out loud:

"That wig looks really nice on you...

...from the back."

I still don't get what why that was so terribly offensive.

--"everyone says they have gotten to know you better over the last few months". ...um okay...i wasnt even trying or even knew i was more open than usual.
followed by
--"it takes a lot for you to socialize"....and so you are talking to me about this because why?
followed by
--"well so we know that you at least know him"...oh gee thanks. now i feel so much better about myself. dont mind me i'll be in the corner kicking the cat!

--"i have often wondered what you do on the weekends, and then i stopped thinking about it"...the implication being that they thought of me, and then were too terrified of the thought of what i might be doing on the weekends. great.

_____ is not totally worthless, _____could always serve as a bad example.

I've been told I'm the smartest idiot in the world.

Once in school I presented a project and the teacher said, "That's surprisingly good."

LOL I'm the other way around to you. I think those things about myself, because I am aware that I'm not very clever, but people who "know" me are always blind to it and insisting that I'm really clever after all.

"That's surprisingly good" is the kind of thing that goes through my head when I stare down at something I have come up with, suddenly realise it was quite clever, and start to wonder how I could possibly have done it all on my own.

"You're really pretty for a bigger girl."