h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"Oh, ooh, ooh" he said "you look thinner but your breasts are still the same size - that's AWESOME"

I'm not entirely sure about that as a compliment ...

That's just the sort of thing that Mr Vip would say (if I ever lost any weight, of course). Men, eh?

It's a compliment. You can't expect him to be pleased if his favourite chest becomes a casualty of health, now, can you?

(S is paranoid I'll lose bottomage as I slim. He's very unkeen on the idea of small bottoms).

Definitely a compliment! A former colleague of mine was trying to lose weight but panicked when she discovered she lost weight in the wrong parts of her body (her boobs, who weren't very prominent to begin with, even).

Well, it amused me enough to post it here. (I suspect it has more to do with the cantileverage in my new bra, but there you go).

I'm curious to know what other Compliment FAILs or Compliment Ho Hums that other researchers' favorite members of the male sex have let rip with.

S, on viewing my hips and thighs, 'oh, look, they've got silvery lines all over - how pretty!'

A previous boyfriend, 'well, I wouldn't want you to be REALLY good-looking, or other men would notice you.'

Awesome, both of them.

Bless....

Actually loved your use of "cantileverage" given that I have seen this definition of cantilever: "projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only" ...

I've had some doozies, but most of them don't have anything to do with my body. And most of them were spectacular fails.

Oh, go on, MR, share. It'll be cathartic.

Oh, okay.

One ex: "My cousin really didn't like living there. Heck, I wouldn't like living there. There were lots of hippies there. You'd have loved it." Huge fail, there. Not surprisingly, we broke up not long after that.

I wouldn't dare comment on the Weddell's physique.

The bravest I ever got was "Throwing crockery doesn't turn me on, you know", but it failed to save the rest of the dinner service.

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Last husband: "Why don't you wear skirts?"

My reply: "Because I hate my legs"



(I was expecting a compliment about my *cough* lovely legs. But as one wasn't forthcoming, it was obvious to me that he didn't like my legs either.) I know they're not my best feature, which is why I flash my chest a lot. So why ask why I don't wear a skirt? Men. Pah.

I couldn't take the compliment seriously that I had "pretty hands" - my nails are always broken and my cuticles generally in a terrible state. So, in my opinion, even objectively, that couldn't have been a sincere compliment.

We women are so self-deprecating.

Surely the greatest compliment a boyfriend can pay to his girlfriend is to become her husband.

F to me after we'd been married many years and I'd started expanding -- "Don't worry about it. I like your fat ass." Another time, early in the marriage and after mentioning that my right breast is larger than the left one, he commented "You do a good job of not walking lopsided."

Lopsided!

I hope you know there's book material here, Mrs Zen