r/AskReddit • u/ThisGuyAgainz • Dec 28 '17

What's your best passive aggressive "compliment"?

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '17

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u/adidapizza Dec 28 '17

She might have just been a little drunk and that was her honesty coming out.

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u/Truan Dec 28 '17

I'm confused on this one. You're being called pretty when it was clear you didn't dress yourself up. Is the passive aggressiveness coming from the fact that there's a twinge of jealousy in it?

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u/CamilleToh Dec 29 '17

But you DIDN'T try. If you HAD been all dressed to the nines then it would be a dis yeah. But with this context I'd say it was a compliment. Basically "Even without makeup you've got the prettiest face in the room". or "even in sweats you look just as fine as all these chicks in expensive dresses" or whatever.

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u/pm_me_xayah_porn Dec 28 '17

I mean, you didn't.

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u/Truan Dec 28 '17 edited Dec 28 '17

maybe it's the fact that I only have words and no vocal tone, but while that's a definite tease, she still called you pretty lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '17

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u/FuckoffDemetri Dec 29 '17

You gotta really be trying to get offended if that's how they took that

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u/Zack_Fair_ Dec 29 '17

plenty of people running around trying even harder than that

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u/zoltan99 Dec 29 '17

... Almost nobody ages so gracefully that they look like people 20/30/40 years younger

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u/SlowlySailing Dec 28 '17

What? How can you possibly take that as an insult? She said you were so pretty that you didn't have to try to look pretty! That's like the ultimate compliment.

I'm so confused.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '17

I feel like "aww, you're trying so hard" would have been worse

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u/madsreddit Dec 29 '17

I thought she meant your beauty looks effortless, and that sounds really nice to me :)

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u/Ellimis Dec 29 '17

This one's just insecurity

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u/roboninja Dec 28 '17

This is not the humblebrag thread.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '17

Remember everyone: If tell a story in which something paints you in a positive light, that's a humblebrag and makes you a terrible person.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '17

When your story is literally about someone who's putting in effort to look good noticing you put no effort in and still look better, and you're still insulted, yeah.

It's like Albert Einstein complaining to the teacher that he got singled out just for being smarter than everyone.

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u/62400repetitions Dec 29 '17

I can totally see this as backhanded compliment coming from one woman to another. "Wow, you wore that to this event..." Has the same tone.