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Remarks about how you look
French friends comment on appearance far more directly than English-speaking ones. Tu as maigri — you have lost weight — is an ordinary thing to be greeted with, and so is its opposite, delivered without malice and not expected to wound. Noticing a haircut, a tan, or that someone looks tired is conversational currency rather than an intrusion. The register is observational rather than evaluative, and the right response is to agree or shrug, not to bristle. Visitors often read the first few of these as rude; they are closer to a sign of being paid attention to.