What the hell was your friend thinking? That's an insensitive backhanded compliment if I ever heard one.

Listen, any friend who has such poor judgement to offer such a lame statement is NOT somebody who has a whole lot of credibility in my book. It sounds like something that only someone really insecure/manipulative or really stupid would say. It says way more about him than it does about you, Ozze. Don't dwell on it -- it wasn't constructive.