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    why do people say ” i hate you” when they really mean “you are SSSOOO lucky!!! i’m so jealous of you that you did XYZ!!!!!” i know they dont mean it but why say it that way?

    #802858
    Queen Bee
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    I once won something at a carnival, and this girl wanted it. She said, “Why do you live?”

    I thought to myself, “?????????”

    #802859
    ronrsr
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    You look pretty good for your age. I’ll let you decide if that’s best or worst.

    #802860
    collegegrad
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    A shadchan once told my friend “Oh you look different from what I remember you, I thought your hair was blonder, but don’t worry I’m sure the boy is looking for inner buety not outer and besides I’m sure you will wear some makeup on the date!”

    #802861
    WIY
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    taking a break and Queen Bee

    “but why say it that way?”

    If I had to guess these types of comments started on some movie or TV show. Thats where all these sick disgusting lines and similar things start.

    #802862
    amazingirl97
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    this is a story i heard: a woman was walking down the street with her newborn baby when she met a friend of hers. her friend looked in the carriage and said your baby is the ugliest baby i’ve ever seen! the woman was so angry, surprised and sad that such a close friend of hers said such a thing. when she came into her house later on her husband saw that something troubled his wife today. he asked her, whats the matter? so she said “so and so insulted my baby and said he was the ugliest baby she ever saw!” he looked at his wife and burst out laughing. his wife looked out him like he fell from the moon. he said dont worry your friend just said that because she was jealous that she didnt have such a beautiful baby as us.

    so watch your words and be careful about what you say!

    this story did not happen to me i just read it in a book.

    #802863
    Queen Bee
    Member

    collegegrad, what a great boost of confidence…

    #802864
    WIY
    Member

    ronrsr

    I wonder about that one. Is it ever a compliment? Tough call huh?

    #802865
    HaLeiVi
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    amazing, some people talk like that so as not to cause an Ayin Hara.

    #802866
    brotherofurs
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    i don’t like it when one of my friends tells the other

    “Why do u look so pretty?!” –

    i don’t know what to make of that..does it mean “you’re usually ugly”, or “why r U pretty and I’M not”

    #802867
    ronrsr
    Member

    I know I have already quoted WS Gilbert once this week, but I the last comment makes me think of the Mikado, as Yum-Yum muses over her beauty:

    Yum-Yum: Yes, I am indeed beautiful! Sometimes I sit and wonder, in my artless Japanese way, why it is that I am so much more attractive than anybody else in the whole world. Can this be vanity? No! Nature is lovely and rejoices in her loveliness. I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.

    #802868
    kapusta
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    i don’t know what to make of that..does it mean “you’re usually ugly”, or “why r U pretty and I’M not”

    I think the second.

    *kapusta*

    #802869
    minyan gal
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    When my mother A’H’ was in her 40’s, she visited her home town to attend a wedding. At the simcha she bumped into a fellow that she hadn’t seen since high school. The first thing he said to her after they had been re-introduced was, “my how you have aged.”

    How is that for a “compliment”?

    #802870
    bein_hasdorim
    Participant

    After answering the door on her first date the guy asks her

    “is your daughter ready?”

    #802871

    i think it’s funny when ppl say “oh my gosh, i didn’t recognize you- you look so good/amazing/stunning!!!!!”

    like, thanks. did i used to look THAT bad??????

    #802872
    ronrsr
    Member

    Once again, WS Gilbert nailed it over a century ago:

    There is beauty in extreme old age

    Do you fancy you are elderly enough?

    Information I’m requesting

    On a subject interesting:

    Is a maiden all the better when she’s tough?

    Katisha:

    Throughout this wide dominion

    It’s the general opinion

    That she’ll last a good deal longer when she’s tough.

    Ko-Ko:

    Are you old enough to marry, do you think?

    Won’t you wait till you are eighty in the shade?

    There’s a fascination frantic

    In a ruin that’s romantic;

    Do you think you are sufficiently decayed?

    Katisha:

    To the matter that you mention

    I have given some attention,

    And I think I am sufficiently decayed.

    #802873
    bein_hasdorim
    Participant

    Wow! You look much younger. Is that a compliment laced w/ criticism?

    #802874
    Toi
    Participant

    people alternately ask my mother if shes her boss’ mother or sister. her boss is late thirtys and shes fifty.ouchy.

    #802875
    miritchka
    Member

    or when someone asks you somethin and you respond and they say “shut up!” so why did you ask?!

    #802876

    “Wow, your house looks great! How long ago did the cleaning lady leave?”

    #802877
    Mr Taxman
    Member

    I remember as a teenager hearing (mostly females) saying “I hate you” instead of I am so jealous of you / you are so lucky. Could be from an American show or sitcom perhaps – I am not sure. It’s def from the materialistic world that we live in.

    #802878
    oomis
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    My wonderful and extremely kindhearted mother O”H, was known for her bloopers. She would say innocent things that often came out just plain WRONG.

    Twenty-five years ago, when she unfortunately was sitting shiva for her sister, an elderly male friend of our family came over to pay a shiva call, and came into the room where she was about to eat lunch. She did a double take and blurted out, “OH!I thought you were my dead brother-in-law!” To which my brother quipped, “Before or after he died?” Needless to say, she only meant that the resemblance momentarily had startled her. But after the initial shock wore off, we all had a good laugh (including the “zombie”) and it has become a well-known family story.

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