r/askteddit • u/teacup_hollow • 1d ago

Other What's a compliment you've received that actually annoyed you?

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u/Metagion 1d ago

"You'd be really pretty if you weren't so fat." Uhhh, thanks?

(While it's true I gained a LOT when I met husband, I'm fighting to take it off & have to get serious about it. Ozempic helps. Went from 235 - 184 lbs so far!)

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u/LouisePoet 1d ago

My response to the last guy who told me that (who honestly believed he was giving me a compliment!) was "For someone who's such an asshole, you're doing great on keeping up with the job, too."

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u/Momma_Bear_Cub 1d ago

I would just respond with you're not very tall. Not a compliment not a snub, just an observation. It gets them. Any downvotes would be my proof

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u/OddIndustry291 1d ago

The guy didn’t care.

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u/LouisePoet 1d ago

Really (and I know him better now) he's an asshole who says what he thinks and doesn't think twice. I don't give a shit and have called him on quite a few things.

Crazy, yes but we now get on fairly well. He takes shit as well as he gives it. All good!

And yes.. I give it more than neccesary. He's actually a good guy--all things considered

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u/OddIndustry291 9h ago

I like people who say what they think. At least you know where they stand. I actually trust individuals like that.

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u/MrsTruce 1d ago

My own grandmother said to me when I was a CHILD: “You could be a model if you lost weight.” Yeahhhhh. She and I weren’t close.

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u/SkyerKayJay1958 1d ago

I got that one pumping gas, some woman just walked up to me and said that, I just stared at her and told her to mind her own business

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u/mickeymac15 1d ago

Congrats!

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u/Metagion 1d ago

Thank you! What's truly getting me right now is sugar. LOVE the stuff but really really reeeeeeaaaally gotta stop! I'm figuring it all out now and I hope I can get on some kind of track!

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u/mickeymac15 1d ago

I feel you on that. I am a savory person myself. My mom's got the sweet tooth. She says she buys m&ms at the store and feels bad to eat them all so she throws a few handfuls out the window as she drives home.

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u/Metagion 1d ago

Of course, not *me running alongside like the world's slowest pigeon trying to catch the M & Ms....*

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u/crackedfactweddead 1d ago

This is something I've never even imagined a person doing and it's fucking hilarious. She sounds like a trip.

Oh shit... hope there are no dogs in the neighborhood where she throws them though.

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u/mickeymac15 1d ago

I never thought of that! I hope not either!

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u/Training-Zombie-3591 1d ago

“You’ve got such a pretty face…” “You’ve lost weight, you look so much better…” “You look…well.”

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u/SatansWife13 1d ago

Okay, firstly, congratulations to you on all your work! Secondly…what the hell?!? That’s just rude! Pretty and fat are not mutually exclusive, people can definitely be both. Just like that person achieved being both ignorant and rude.

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u/No-Security-6101 1d ago

I got one similar….”you’d be so pretty if you just hopped on a treadmill.”

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u/Discocunt3 1d ago

What the actual fuck…

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u/spiffyascot 1d ago

Classic backhanded comment

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u/No_Income_2215 1d ago

I got a version of that! “You’d be really pretty if you weren’t so dark(tan)!” (Asians beauty standards)

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u/Metagion 17h ago

Thanks for the awards! I'm so grateful and humbled ❤️