A character of my best friend will reply to any mention of her being "senior, and thus the leader" and the like with "I AM NOT OOOOOLD!"

I almost always wears her glasses, leading to compliments like: "You look good without your glasses!" to which I like to reply, "You look good when I don't have my glasses on, too!" and then rapid backpedaling on the original compliment-giver.

The exact situation happened to me, though I am a he....cue to much MegatonPunch by the girl who took my glasses off...

The reverse has happened to me. When complimenting people (it usually happens with girls) with "you look awesome WITH your glasses on", he occasionally manages to unintentionally upset them. Apparently, many females think glasses are too geeky, as opposed to cute.

This happened to me a lot during highschool. I have to wear sunglasses to an eye condition. I was once forced to remove them... Cue every girl squealing about how I have ''such'' pretty eyes and I look so good without my sunglasses. Yes, thank you for the compliment, but I'm ''stuck wearing them'' so I get to know they think I'm ''unattractive all the time''.

This male troper received a compliment misfire this past weekend regarding his new contacts. "Dude, you look good without your--no homo" "Dude, that makes you DOUBLE gay." It should be noted that the complimentor is bi and has a boyfriend presently.

The band teacher at my elementary school was the MASTER of these. "They've really improved!" and "It's great you're finally in tune!" are just the tip of the iceberg.

I was once complimented on my eyes by a girl. It went something like this: "If anyone else had your eyes, I'd be in love." The speaker took a second to realise what she said. Note that this is about the ''only'' "compliment" he's ever gotten from a girl.

I once told my father something along the lines of, "you know, even now you've still got an imposing figure." (In addition to the fact that there was some context involved, I am an odd person and generally makes statements like these all the time.) The response was slightly offended. "EVEN NOW?" Came up. I truly did not mean to insult the man's age... I meant well... my mother laughed very hard...

When a student of mine found out about her age, he remarked "Hey, you're young! You're only 23!"

I'm sure that, as children, many of us thought that it was a compliment to tell an elderly person that he or she "looked 100" - since, generally, children think "older is better". I certainly did.

I saw one on a deviantArt profile page, the person's avatar was a clip from {{Pokemon}} of a Haunter licking Ash's Charmander. One of the comments to her page had a guy saying "Your avatar kicks...I mean, licks a**!" There was then two blank lines, followed by "Wait..."

Any ditzy airhead girl who gives me the "you're so smart" with just a hint of condescension gets either an "OK, what do you want me to do for you this time?" or a "You think my brain's big, you should see my dick. Right before I fuck you with it."

Same here, except that I don't have a dick. But I can use my fingers!...uh. Forget that last bit.

After I brushed shoulders with a friend he went on to inform me that I had skin like {{Flubber}}. Seeing my indignation, (and feeling it after several {{MegatonPunch}}es) he informed me that he meant soft and smooth and not flabby or fat. The sad thing is that his tenuous at best grasp of human languages and inability to understand socially acceptable metaphors means this happens a lot.

I ama very masculine female-bodied person, and is very sick of being told that her man's haircut is "cute," or makes her look cute. Being cute, beautiful, gorgeous, or any other stereotypically female-oriented adjectives is a grave insult, and very clearly a lie, as it is incredibly obvious to anyone with eyes that she is attempting to read as ''male''. Attempting to assure her that she looks wonderfully feminine may earn a punch in the face.

There may be regional differences at play here, so ignore me if I'm completely wrong, but where I'm from cute isn't remotely female-oriented; it's used to describe boys just as often-if not more often-as it's used to describe girls. Gorgeous is usually used to describe girls, but it's not uncommon to use it to describe boys too.

...I choose to believe you added an l, and didn't forget an apostrophe and an s.

Sorry. That was written at 3 AM.

A female acquaintance of mine, playing violin in a rock band (of which she was the only female member), once received, after a concert, a compliment by a visiting fan that didn't please her as much as said (male) fan expected. The fan just told she was very pretty. After having made all the other band members compliment about, you know, ''music''. She felt hurt by this.

This troper will go into a fit of screaming rage when told that she'd make a good wife as a compliment for her cooking. Her granny said it to her once, and was lucky to get off lightly.

Overheard conversation between a firm anti-theist (i.e. atheist with a firm dislike of religion in all forms) and a staunchly Christian conservative: #QUOTE# Conservative: Why do Muslims keep demanding special rights? We shouldn't just allow them to play by different rules because of their religion! #QUOTE# Anti-theist: I agree completely! Nobody should expect society to put up with their stupid religious beliefs! #QUOTE# Conservative: Did you just agree with me? I feel dirty now.

This troper was once singing quietly to herself when a casual friend said "Why aren't you in choir?" She found out later he meant it as a compliment, but at the time the only interpretation that came to mind was "maybe if you took choir you wouldn't suck so much".

This troper occasionally makes a ComplimentBackfire of his own semi-Zen nature. Once I told my mother that the metric by which I judge conversations is whether or not it's more rewarding than talking to my brother. Which isn't exactly a stringent standard by any definition.

One time this guy this troper was friendly acquaintances with said that she looked like a bulldog, to which she was reasonably offended. His only response was "but Bulldogs are cute!" he honestly could not understand why she was insulted. She asked people for the rest of the day if she looked like a bulldog, they looked at her weird and asked where the hell that came from.

There's people who know me but don't know I do improv. Whenever they see me do improv for the first time, they usually say to me "I didn't know you were funny!". Followed by me awkwardly saying "Uh... thanks..."

I have been complimenting a (already graduated) schoolmate for having a job. His response: "Get a life."

I once had someone tell me that if I weren't white he would want to date me. While I have no doubt he intended this to be complimentary, I couldn't help but feel...somewhat less than pleased.