What is the single greatest compliment you've ever recieved?

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Well?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

After you.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"you made my night."

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"you made my bed"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I won't cheapen the board by referring to the same compliment I've ALWAYS gotten, so...

My buddy Paul and I grew up together - as boys do, we fought, competed, etc. We're still good friends to this day, but when we were young, EVERYTHING was survival of the fittest / kill the man with the ball stuff. One candid day, we were discussing our prospects with certain girls, and he told me I was "average looking."

That may not sound like a compliment, but, having been called a 'genius' and all that, this was one of the most honest compliments I ever got, and it made me feel better than anything else I've ever heard. "Average looking" to a guy who once literally slashed me with a box cutter over a game of NBA Jam, well, that was aaaaaaaalright by me.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 12 August 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm cynical and too self-serious.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Are compliments from lovers and prospective lovers to be discounted on the grounds that they'll say any kind of shit?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.rock-city.co.uk/content/EpAEZlZAuAGNfsNFqH.shtml

"The highlight of the EP though is undoubtedly ‘You’ll Bleed When I Need You’, a floating melody with the sparse dynamics of David Lynch at his most erudite"

Stitch that.

― Gribowitz (Lynskey), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"You're cynical and too self-serious, ken"

That's the single greatest compliment I've paid ken c.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

xxpost - Kinda, unless it's something superfreakin'ridiculous

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The only compliments I've ever been able to accept are reviews. Like this one.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I was named one of the fifty most eligible bachelors in the UK.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

also someone once said I "almost remind her of the preciousness of life itself".

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Are compliments from lovers and prospective lovers to be discounted on the grounds that they'll say any kind of shit?

You mean that "I love the taste of your cum" might have been insincere?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

depends what you've eaten beforehand.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

'Almost' reminding someone of something is a bit lame. I'm not even sure it makes sense. Did they have dementia?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"you do that like a girl"

― purple patch (electricsound), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Oooh, that IS a good one!

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i know, i never get complete compliments.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

except for the self-serious one obv

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post

I didn't mean 'lover' in the narrow, cum-eating sense.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

to restrict lover to the non-cum eating kind would be narrow minded though.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone tells me I look like Sigourney Weaver's mini-me at least once a month.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"You're horny"

(I was 16, it was from a stranger, and it was in the "you're sexually attractive" sense of the word. I was thrilled)

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

A toss-up (from the same person) between:

"You should have been born in the Renaissance" and

"You should talk more! With your accent, you'll have girls coming all over you." (followed by gasps two seconds later when she realised her little slip...)

― carson dial (carson dial), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't remember any.

I only remember things like the man who told me I looked like Quentin Tarrantino. And the woman who said I reminded her of Dale Winton.
Those things linger longer.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'm proud of you. I mean it this time." -Mom, a few months ago. I probably had the best sleep of my life the night she told me that.

― LC, Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"You should have been born in the Renaissance" surely = "So I would never have had to meet you"

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I once got told by a guy friend of mine that I had nice looking feet - very feminine. Hmmm... But best of all was this girl in high school that I had a crush on telling me that I had the best eyelashes she had ever seen.

Although "I haven't been fucked like that in years - nice work!" comes a close second.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

nice work?! did you guys hi-five afterwards? ;)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i think if my girlfriend hi-fived me after sex i would propose on the spot.

― purple patch (electricsound), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I know that there must be snowboarder couples out there that tell each other post-fuck that "that was totally sick."

― LC, Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"I haven't been fucked like that in years" surely = "I haven't been fucked by someone who had no idea what they were doing and came within 5 seconds"

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought so to, but fortunately, it was a compliment.

No high-five, sadly.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"too"

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

when i lived in chicago, i had a string of compliments from the same guy, known as mr. beautiful. (i think i've told this story somewhere else, sorry if you've read it before)

i was walking down the street with a boy, and this guy with a dog grins at us and says 'beautiful, just beautiful'. i assumed he was talking about the boy, since it was boystown. but then he looks at the boy and says 'isn't she just the most beautiful girl you've ever seen?' i turn red and run away.

so he clearly lives in my neighborhood, and always seems to be walking his dog when i'm returning videos or going to 7-11. and every time, he compliments me outrageously and i blush and don't know what to say. he even stopped when i was moving out and was all sweaty and gross. (once he was on a date and thank goodness he didn't say anything, but he grinned with PERFECT teeth, and my friend asked how we knew each other, and said that his date looked jealous)

that christmas, i was visiting my old flatmate, and there he was with his dog. he stopped me, and said 'where have you been? it's been so much less fun walking the dog without thinking i'd run into you!' and i had to say that i'd moved to london, and he finally told me his name, and that was that. i didn't even think to get his number or take him out for coffee or anything. i'm a social retard.

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"I didn't know you could do THAT" was a good post-coital one, once upon a time.

X-post colette post pix now please!

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the time the elderly African gent told me I had the ass of a goddess was the best.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Thinking about that compliment, i was high at the time - maybe I should take up dope-sex again?

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Liz post pix now please!

IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

It would have to be a 'substantial' goddess, mind. Nick, did you have a successful session yet?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Two yesterday!

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Well done soldier!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

eurgh

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

liz, that is the best ever!

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I made that noise twice!

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"Well done soldier!" is the most funny thing ever to say to a 25 year old horny man after he's had a wank.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

An Italian chap once told me to pass on his compliments to my mother (for having produced such a fine specimen of a daughter). Thanks to him, I can't take compliments from any Italian men seriously.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

In fact, "Well done soldier!" is now my new best compliment ever.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I've blocked it from my memory.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 12 August 2004 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought you some belated chocolate today, Nicole.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 12 August 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I was sitting at the coffee shop across the street from my school a few months ago with my female friend when a strange man walked up to our table. He says outright, "Hey, I'd just like to say, you have a beautiful smile (to me) and you have beautiful eyes, if you just let them shine.(to my friend)" He then left, and everyone in the place was dead silent staring at us. Meither of us said anything for a good 20 seconds.

― chrisco (chrisco), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if I have any one answer to the question. Some are the shameless personal kind that you pervs are sharing happily ;-), some have been about writing or other work, a number have been from friends about what to me seems fairly simple stuff, but then there's been the type of compliment that you get when, say, you're worried that your dad is facing a dangerous cancer situation and almost out of nowhere during a talk about it he offers you the kind of compliment you never felt like you truly deserved, about your quality and the type of person you are. And yet there it was, heartfelt and straight up.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

someone telling me their work colleage put my pic up in their office cos they and others in the office, fancy me like mad. that made my day.

― splooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned otm. I can remember every time someone's told me they fancy me (probably because it doesn't happen that often) but easily the best compliments are parents saying they're proud.

Ok, back to the sexxy ones please.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, the second hand ones are the best. I think my favorite was when I'd been out for a friend/workmates birthday about 18 months ago, and I introduced myself to her flatmate. Her response: "I know, we've got a shrine to you in our house". The next day my workmate came up to my and said, "after you left, two of my friends didn't stop going on about how gorgeous you are".

The ego boost from that one lasted for MONTHS. Then I went out with one of them and it was a disaster.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

my high school librarian told me on graduation day that I live life like a revolving door, with someone else pushing. i thought that was great.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"your face would launch about 850 ships"
(It sounds really funny and almost backhanded, not in context)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, fret not Matt, you are a handsome feller indeed. However, you will forgive me if I choose not to go out with you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I was also disappointed to find out that said shrine never existed. It was actually a picture of me looking drunk, stupid and covered in comedy lipstick marks in Paris the previous New Year.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

2nd hand compliments ARE the best. lots of my GF's friends have told her they think im sexy or really good looking or whatever, and well, it IS always nice to hear. i tend to approach it with a certain scepticism though. but its still great to take it as being genuine!

― splooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Funny how most of these are based around appearance no?

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I was also disappointed to find out that said shrine never existed. It was actually a picture of me looking drunk, stupid and covered in comedy lipstick marks in Paris the previous New Year.

How is that NOT a shrine?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"you're only the 5th person to make me come"

― loggedout, Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

'You're very talented' vs 'You're so beautiful'

I've had both, and responded with confusion/bewilderment/sarcasm both times I think, eeh...

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone once asked me (in a dirrrty context) if I'd been good at pottery when I was at school (!)

... but I think that belongs more on the obscure-yet-cheesy-pillow-talk thread than the compliments one...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the greatest non-sexual/appearance compliments that can be made are affirmations of friendship. Like when someone tells you something very big that they've told hardly anyone else - it always feels good to know that someone has that level of trust in you.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone once asked me (in a dirrrty context) if I'd been good at pottery when I was at school (!)

Archel was once involved with Patrick Swayze! OMG

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Matt, I wanted to let you know that I actually have all of Bill Gates's money. And I only wanted to tell you that.

Archel surely has much better taste than that!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

archel is like the wind--through our trees

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I like my compliments succinct and direct. "I love your cock." Boom. There it is.

― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.bilbocine.com/ghost.jpg

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks Kenan, much appreciated. Yours is okay too. (xpost)

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

harold is OTM. i like that too. the 'your cock is my favourite part of your body' is always a surefire winner. especially when its being held at the time. actually, no, its more sincere when said in the pub or bar in general conversation.

― splooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Eek! It was more of a generic '...because you're so good with your hands BOOM BOOM' line than a Swayze. Even with lines like that this guy was MARGINALLY more appealing than Plastic Patrick...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"Look at you! You're mad as a hatter!" (Friend explaining to me why I was the one she entrusted with her emotional secrets.)

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I imagine the photo as illustrating Harold's story, in a way.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

His cock is made of clay.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Demi: I love your cock.
Patrick: Err... that's not my cock.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

oh xpost :)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

OK in what way is "Your genetalia is the best thing about you" anything resembling a compliment?

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Carrying watermelons for the Swayze!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if it's a peculiarly Irish thing or not but I've noticed that often when someone's given a compliment here, they usually keep it to themselves for fear of being knocked down by an almost inevitable 'ooh get her/him, who do they think they are?' or something much worse. Bigging up oneself does not generally go down too well here - it's probably our catholic guilt thing and vows of humility and shit, er yeah.

I admire those who can puff up their pigeon chests and proclaim their glories unashamedly (although I'll still call them big-headed shitehawks under my breath)

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Ally, I figure for some it presumably means they're reached the height of their ambition.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"some" = "males"

― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, you never know.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"i love your cock" isn't the same as "Your genetalia is the best thing about you" though.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

ken please read other statements besides Kenan's ok thx buh bye.

Kenan, it's refreshing to see your dim view of men and women hasn't changed over the years.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

oh oops sorry! i guess cock being the best part of the body ain't that bad either!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

It's certainly the aprt of the body *I* value most. It's nice when the opinion is shared.

― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, this IS a self-parody now, right?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

im with ken!

― splooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow.

And you people give Jon Williams shit?

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Ally's statement was misleading. Nobody said they'd like it if someone told then their genitalia was "the best thing about"them. They said "favorite part of your body." That's not too much of a stretch. I don't think much of, say, my pecs.

― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

aw splooge that's the best compliment i've ever got from you

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

you people! this country!

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

It kind of makes sense that people most value the compliments they receive about the things they're most insecure about. It doesn't necessarily mean they have base natures, or screwed priorities. Er, not that ALL MEN are insecure about their cocks. Oh wait...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish we had the emoticons right now.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

ZING.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Emoticocks, or the lack thereof.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm really insecure about my lower calves actually.. i don't know how i'd take it if someone pays me compliments to them.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Animated cocks would probably improve this board!

x-post probably

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i had fallen a few times and there are a couple of blood marks. eew

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Animated cocks would probably improve this board!

The visions in my head aren't worth posting at this second.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

OK like I've been on the interweb before and I know what 'emoticons' are, but seriously every time somebody uses that term it just makes me think of some kind of stupid Transformer toy in soothing colors with rounded corners that turns into a peace symbol or some such shit.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds like an anime designed by Mr. Van Driesen.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

some emoticons are like that actually

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

PLURBOTS TRANSFORM AND ROLL OUT

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

No, those are Care Bears.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Like when someone tells you something very big that they've told hardly anyone else - it always feels good to know that someone has that level of trust in you.

MDC OTM.

Looks wise, it was one night when I had been to see a friend's band play at the Dublin Castle with my housemate. A guy at the bar told me I was beautiful; the guy trying to chat up one of the girls we were with said to my housemate "well, you get to go home with a beautiful girl" (he had the wrong end of the stick, I mean, I was going home with Tom, but only because I live with him) and then when we were walking back a random man in the street also told me I was beautiful. This evening of unlooked for praise was somewhat undercut by Tom turning round and saying: "Does this happen to you a lot?" in tones of surprise.

Other than that:
"You have the potential to be your generations' Julie Burchill" was pretty good, esp. coming from the person it did.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

your last comment is the best by far, anna. lucky you.

― splooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I am so stoked that Ally and Tom are back posting!

(NB TOTALLY SERIOUS NOT SARCASTIC)

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

TOLLY

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I take being told that I look like Louis Theroux as a compliment now. It happens every other week. Some people have said nice things about me on ILX, and I appreciate that.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Hearing "Will you be their godfather?" was probably the greatest moment of my life.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw, now that rules. :-)

And yeah, Ally and Tom rule by definition, so rah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

These are the greatest compliments I've ever received!

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"You are some kinda music evil genius, dude."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"Nickalicious OTM."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Ally and my friend Ariel said some really nice stuff about me on my Friendster thingy. That's all I can think of right now.

― na (Nick A.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

recently I went out with a friend and some of her friends and one of them said "oh you're Ronan? *friends name* never stops going on about what a great writer you are".

Actually though now that I think about it that rings kind of hollow.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

My mate Chris told me a couple of weeks ago, a propos of nothing as we were dancing in a club, "you have more integrity than anyone I know". We were on E at the time mind you, but it was nice to hear!

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't think of many single amazing compliments.

One of the coolest things someone has said to me recently was probably 2 months or so ago when I was randomly getting back into contact with a girl I had a few flings with when I used to go partying every week, I kissed her on the cheek to say hello and she said "god that was awkward, I think you'd better do it again!". Actually I have alot of moments like that with that person.

x-post, actually on E last week one of my best friends grabbed me by the shoulders and said "NO..SERIOUSLY.....SERIOUSLY RONAN, SERIOUSLY................*GURN* YOU, YOU KNOW ARE MORE DEDICATED TO MUSIC THAN ANYONE I HAVE EVER EVER EVER MET, AND I KNOW LOTS OF MUSIC FANS!".

That was pretty cool.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll second the MDC OTM

Also, it's really cool to get attractiveness compliments from non-interested people--a guy at a bar once told me I was beautiful, and he was hitting on my friend (not hitting on me at all)! I was really kind of perplexed by that but I'll always remember it probably, because of the way he said it, I guess.

Personality/intelligence compliments are great--they're probably the best kind to get.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i took a dance class at university--viennese waltz, tango, etc. my teacher, upon seeing me mambo and samba, once said that i had "tremendous hip action."

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno about COMPLIMENT, but one of the worst things that was ever said to me, JUST YESTERDAY , someone asked me if I am slightly autistic. :/ (in all seriousness)

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

:-( How horrid!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

That shouldn't really be too offensive of a thing. I thought my son was autistic for awhile. It turned out, he was just really focused.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

that person was probably a big dummy who meant 'artistic'

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

What Mandee's not telling you is that the person said this after they dropped a box of matches and Mandee yelled "435!"

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the greatest compliment I ever got was when Cinniblount called me an manipulative, devious careerist on that Dizzee thread. First person to assume I'm not wasting my time.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

But I am like, the opposite of focused.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

All the daycare workers asked me if I was retarded as a kid. I think it was because of my haircut.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

aw, Kate :-)

I've had a good (older) friend tell me that he wanted to adopt me once, which was nice. Someone also once called me "what would happen if Lester Bangs and Robert Christgau had a baby", but a) I didn't know who Xgau even WAS back then, b) my writing - which obv is still light years away from deserving that title now - back then was really one level away from fingerpainting, and c) EEEEEWWWWW!!!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 12 August 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

A friend of mine emailed this to me not long ago - I think it's a compliment: "You're a warm combination of strawberries, and valium and Prozac and satin sheets and cozy rainy days and the smell of freshly mown alfalfa, and the feeling you get at Christmas as a child, and the soft feel of a kitten, and a carefree laugh of joy after tears of sadness......"

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish I were that! Unfortunately I think I am.. like.. a combination of freezer-burned microwave dinners, sweaty socks, that feeling you get waiting in line at the DMV.. you get the idea.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 12 August 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"You're amazing!" from a girl so impressed with my moves as we danced together she didn't pull me.

Actually, that's a fucking letdown. I never receive classic, memorable compliments from anyone. My "adoptive sister" recently told me I'm "really horrible", does that count?

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Thursday, 12 August 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"Well done, son."

When I asked dad how he liked his steak.

― Larry Appleton (Leee), Thursday, 12 August 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

My sophomore year I wrote what I thought was a not so hot paper for my 19th century Art course, and one of my professor's comments was "This is one of the best papers on Manet that I've read in years."

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 12 August 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, I would honestly not be surprised if EVERYBODY who posts regularly to ILX was slightly autistic, but maybe I haven't met enough of you IRL. Um.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 August 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The best text messages I ever received:

"You're the coolest man alive. M1ke" (sent from old housemate's girlfriend's phone the night I left Manchester for good)

5 mins later (from his phone):

"You're sexy as well."

― Barms, Friday, 13 August 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

My daughter's friends to my daughter: "I wish I had your parents." But that may be more complaining than wishing.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 13 August 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been called "the Lester Bangs of State College" more than once by folks in town. This is sort of like being the Peter O'Toole of Des Moines.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 13 August 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

compliments are funny things. given by one person they can mean everything, and by another, nothing.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

for example, i get a lot of people telling me i'm a great dancer. said by people who stagger and have drool hanging out of their mouths, it is not a compliment. but everyone else gets hugged for saying exactly the same thing.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

rainy gives the best compliments. though i don't consider myself a strong person, when she says my strength is a source of inspiration to her, i feel like a million bucks.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't like it that compliments from s/o's don't count on this thread. i really want to believe that mine thinks i'm the most beautiful girl in the world.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never been told by anyone that I'm beautiful or any sort of physical complimentary assessment like that, though on occasion people will point out specific features I have such as my hair or my eyes and say nice things about them. I would like to note these people have either been females or gay males.

I guess, then, the compliment that's meant the most to me in the past was something my mom said to me a couple of months ago, when I was trying to massage her feet. She told me she didn't know what she'd do without me, which made me feel like I wasn't insignificant for awhile.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

dee you are a cutie pie.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 14 August 2004 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone once told me that my singing sounded like Lou Reed. Christ, that made me feel pretty good.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 14 August 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

My brother the pediatrician who sees all kinds of families told me after his visit a couple of weeks ago that we were "such great parents" - that made me feel good. But OTM whoever upthread said that it matters who the compliment comes from. I always think my brother is judging me. I want his approval. So it meant a lot from him.

Also it matters what you want to hear. It can be a great compliment if someome tells you what you want to hear. A friend said that I would be chosen to be on Survivor and would probably win. That meant a lot cuz I have fantasies of getting chosen to be on Survivor and then winning. I've never actually applied.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 14 August 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Scott said I looked like I could be a member of the Arquette family. I thought that was flattering.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 14 August 2004 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

A friend of mine I haven't seen in a long time just emailed me and bugged me to visit and it felt nice, like this reaffirmation that people actually want to see me. Also another friend last night gave me shit for not keeping in touch. Probably that sense that other people wnat to keep in touch with me and not just v.v. is one of the nicest compliment type things I get.

As far as a single compliment appearance-wise, when this woman I was with was all "you don't need to do any work to look attractive."

yr. smart or yr. writing is good type compliments I feel sorta awkward and not usually 'specially pleased about unless they're from ppl. whose own writing or etc. I have a significant admiration for as well, and even then...

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 14 August 2004 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Shit, just enjoy them. Isn't it a little insulting to people who are complimenting you to judge them on whether they're sufficiently intelligent/talented/whatever to pay you a compliment? I mean no offense (I like your writing, btw), but I've always thought that if someone goes out of their way to tell me they liked something I did, the only appropriate response is graciousness. Of course some compliments mean more than others, but sometimes the least likely mean the most (which is maybe why this thread is so skeptical about s.o. compliments, which can't help seeming at least a little obligatory no matter how true-hearted they are).

Which leads me to my favorite compliment. A decade or so ago, when I was at my first newspaper job, the paper decided to put out a special holiday section. Everybody on staff could write kind of whatever they wanted on a holiday theme -- personal Christmas memories, short stories, poems, whatever. I ended up writing a short Sam Spade-type spoof involving lots of terrible Christmas puns. So anyway, the next week, as I was clearing out my desk in preparation for a move to another job in another state, I got a handwritten letter in the mail. It was from a priest who taught at a local Catholic college, and he wrote to tell me he had really enjoyed the send-up and he'd read it on Christmas Eve while drinking a glass of port or sherry or something and it had put him in mind of all the James M. Cain books he used to love and so forth. Coming when I was frazzled about my impending move and all the uncertainties that entails, it was a great little zing. I just loved the idea of this priest sitting there Christmas Eve, in his campus quarters, with all the students gone home for the holidays, reading this thing I had written, sipping his whatever-it-was, and chuckling. That made me happy. I think I still have the letter in a box somewhere.

― spittle (spittle), Saturday, 14 August 2004 06:15 (twenty-one years ago)

spittle, that is an absolutely fantastic story

― todd swiss (eliti), Saturday, 14 August 2004 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

This morning my wife told me "you're my favorite rat bastard."

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 14 August 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Just now my iPod told that I was the best boyfriend a girl could possibly have but I don't think it was being sincere.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 14 August 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

What I meant by that is maybe slightly different than how it came off. More along the lines of it being from someone who wouldn't think that about me all the time, but just this one or two instances. I get really freaked sometimes about ppl. putting expectations on me. That's actually something entirely different, but closer to the truth -- like if someone's been all critical of me at some point then when they have something nice to say its like i'll believe them.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 14 August 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard from an old high school friend this year, he'd googled my name and read some stuff I'd written. Told me I'd accomplished some of what I aspired to back in the 70s, fulfilled my dreams, etc and how much he respected me for that. I couldn't really remember being ambitious about anything then (other than losing my virginity) but his letter nearly made me misty-eyed and I'm not v. sentimental despite the earnestness of my posts on ILM/X.
OK: carry on w/the witty one liners.

― luvbug, Saturday, 14 August 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't get me wrong, I love the one-liners. I always feel like a dildo after these soul-baring posts but I just can't stop myself. Maybe I need to go to confession, or a different board.

― luvbug, Saturday, 14 August 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

whoever said this - "Are compliments from lovers and prospective lovers to be discounted on the grounds that they'll say any kind of shit?" - above is probably right and therefore annuls half the compliments in this thread

― splooge (thesplooge), Saturday, 14 August 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

today-"oh my god your cords!! they're cut on the angle!!! that's so cool! wait turn around! not bad!! very cool!"

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 14 August 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Recently: "You have such a lovely complexion. Like a sort of lightly burnt brown colour."

― Barms (Barima), Saturday, 14 August 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

im not going to believe anyones compliments anymore.

― splooge (thesplooge), Saturday, 14 August 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Your mum still loves you, splooge, it's just that...

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Saturday, 14 August 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

worst compliments (both from same dude):
"Look at how beautiful your neck is...compared to rest of you." (it's paraphrasing, but it was something at least as bad as that.)
"My, you're efficient."

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 14 August 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, maybe you were efficient.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 August 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Sheesh.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 14 August 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm just saying!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 August 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"Jel is the exception to every rule"

(though, you know I'm trying to cultivate this less these days)

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 14 August 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

You're a shining star. Don't ever change.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 14 August 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

more neck pics pls xxxxpost

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 15 August 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

mmm, belated chocolate.

lookswise: twice in 1994 i was mistaken for damon albarn, by different strangers at different locations. i still don't quite understand why.

lovers: a girl once told me, very sincerely, that she wouldn't change a single thing about me. i still feel no-one's known me as well, or'seen me' like she did, and neither of us stuck around stick around long enough to change her opinion, sadly. my girlfriend told me that something i wrote about one of her bands was the most evocative thing she'd read - that i'd nailed the people's personalities completely, found the people she knew so well. that was before we were dating, and it meant a lot. any compliment about my writing means a lot, from my aged uncle saying he finally understood a review of mine he read in the Times, to bands telling me what i wrote about them was the best piece they'd read, to editors telling me i did a good job. but when the compliments come from the people you revere that's... quite difficult to take, accept, believe, really. i hate most of my writing, to be honest, all i see are the mistakes and weaknesses when i read it, and i assume people whose writing i love must surely *see* that too.

― stevie (stevie), Sunday, 15 August 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

On Friday I got this on another messageboard, poster unknown - "nick defines the word human. Hes the biggest cunt in the world but hes funny, passionate and intelligent at the same time."

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Sunday, 15 August 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The problem with that kind of compliment is that people tend to focus all on the good parts and think the 'cunt' bit is just a laugh.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 15 August 2004 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The 'cunt' part is the key to it though. Who'd want to be an angel?

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Sunday, 15 August 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

So, I was right. *Sigh*

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 15 August 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't get you?

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Sunday, 15 August 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Or rather, it was even worse that I feared.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 15 August 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

you're funny, passionate and intelligent (not my idea), at the same time, but you're the biggest cunt, in the world.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 15 August 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my best friends told me our freshman year in college that in the perfect society my gifts and ingenuity would have been pushed in worthwhile directions at an early age, and I would possibly be finding the cure for cancer right now. He said that it was a sad commentary on our culture that my brain was focused on music and movies, when it has so much more to offer.

Nicest thing a closet fascist ever said to me.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 15 August 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I get a few of those if you weren't so lazy you could be making crazy money sort of compliments. I always try and explain my philosophy on life, but I'm not sure if I get it myself either.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 15 August 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Plus, it's just not true. I don't have the aptitude to make loads of money via gainful employment.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 15 August 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you suggesting you're more cut out for organised crime?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 15 August 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

(for some reason I always interpret 'gainful employment' to mean legal employment. I suppose this is incorrect.)

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 15 August 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, what exactly does gainful mean anyway? Profitable? I don't know that I've ever seen it used without "employment" after it.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 15 August 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Kim says:
That Brent Butt guy from Corner Gas has a sense of humour that reminds me of you

― Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 15 August 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought gainful was used in a puritanical moral sense of the word. Like subsistence living and what have you.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 15 August 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Gain´ful
a. 1. Profitable; advantageous; lucrative.

WordNet Dictionary
Adj. 1. gainful - yielding a fair profit
Synonyms: paying, paid

Related Words
advantageous, banausic, breadwinning, fat, fruitful, generous, good, lush, moneymaking, of value, paying, productive, remunerative, rich, satisfying, substantial, useful, valuable, well, well-paying, well-spent, worthwhile, yielding a return

ah, looks like some of the related words clarify the use a bit

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 15 August 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

banausic is my new favourite word!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 15 August 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

haha curtis i haven't said this in a while, but you're easily my favorite poster these days
-- fiddo centington (dubplatestyl...), December 29th, 2003.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 15 August 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"will you marry me?". the fact that someone is willing to put up with me forever is a pretty big deal.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 15 August 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't count compliments about writing generally, Sterling was sort of onto something. I mean if a fellow aspiring writer is being complimentary I'd usually think "are they into whatever I wrote about" and in the case of my peers the answer is often no so I think it's just lip service and part of the general frenzy. If I wrote about a certain artist like say Dizzee Rascal, as an example which I remember, I'd often feel people I know in real life saying "hey loved that Dizzee piece!" was in a way attempting to be a part of it or something. Maybe that's arrogant, I could probably spend all day trying to dissect why I can't take compliments about writing very well.

I guess online it's different, since it's a place where I actually know writers I think are far better than me. Praise from them I value extremely highly, and any time there's been some on blogs or ILM I've been extremely pleased.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 15 August 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I reckon Ailsa's on to something.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Sunday, 15 August 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

a very pretty girl once said to me on the first night: "i'm crazy about you. i want to give birth to your children." i do, seriously, think that she was mentally ill. or very weird anyway. never saw her again.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Sunday, 15 August 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

a girl once told me she wants to have my babies but she was drunk like a glass of ice cold coca cola in a hot day.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 16 August 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I wrote recent ones in another thread so I won't repeat them ;-)

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I wz talking about YR SISTER.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

never fails does it?

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

unless the compliment was "nice cock"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll get bored one day, I promise.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

After I complimented his playing, Joe Lally of Fugazi once said to me "oh thanks, but you're a REAL bass player."

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 16 August 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, I would honestly not be surprised if EVERYBODY who posts regularly to ILX was slightly autistic, but maybe I haven't met enough of you IRL. Um.
-- TOMBOT (social.skill...), August 12th, 2004 11:55 PM. (later)

Tom on the money, again. Considering how much I didn't like him when he first appeared on ILE, he's pretty much my favourite poster these days.

This should really appear on the "This is the thread where you brown-nose other ILXors".

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 16 August 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone sent me their last Rolo through the post. At least I think it was a rolo.

― Tag (Tag), Monday, 16 August 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom not on the money. I've little doubt that the average ILX (ILM, anyway) regular would come out higher on autism scales that the general population. But that doesn't mean that EVERYBODY who posts regularly would be classed as slighlty autistic. I think the word is really getting bandied around far too loosely these days.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 16 August 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh heavens Nick, isn't a man allowed to generalise?

In any case, I think that people who aren't even slightly *that way* are probably the ones who drift away from ILX, or don't get a lot out of it. Thoughts?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 16 August 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

On that autism test thread I scored lower than average, i.e not autistic at all.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 16 August 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Er, I admit to being slightly bemused at the idea of being slightly autistic then, I guess.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 August 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

My thoughts are that this is a very silly debate. What the fuck is an 'autism scale' anyway, other than something made up for the purposes of this thread?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 16 August 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard people argue that all men are slightly autistic because they can't multi task.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 16 August 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe that's an overreaction or maybe that's me being higher up the down's syndrome scale, I dunno. (xpost)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 16 August 2004 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I just got "Veo que tu español esta perfecto. Escribis muy bien" which has made me very happy.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 16 August 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"Your Spanish is perfect. Eat my beans."???

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 16 August 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

haha.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

"Matt DC OTM" is now permanently on my clipboard.
-- Markelby (boyincorduro...), September 6th, 2004 1:24 PM

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone said something incredibly nice to me on Friday that very few people here would understand, but apparently I was so taken aback that I looked aghast and changed the subject very quickly.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

What do you mean 'that few people here would understand'? Are you dissing us or was it some kind of in-joke?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a huge backstory to the compliment that I can't be bothered to start with and that would probably bore and/or irritate and/or bemuse people, but suffice to say that someone I have an awful lot of respect for told me they have an awful lot of respect for me too and it quite freaked me out because the situation was very odd.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 6 September 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

It was nice of Cathy to say she liked my hair.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 6 September 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

In a performance review I unfortunately wasn't told that my smart piping and sleek lines belied the power of my overhead cams, but I was told that I was "unflappable" which seems like a very good thing to be

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Monday, 6 September 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Today someone commented on my 'famous tact and discretion' which translates as 'can't give enough of a shit about office politics to be indiscreet' I think.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I said I liked your hair too! And your skirt!

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I like your boyfriend.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I already said I liked your hair, too, and before anyone else, in recent times, I think.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I think she was too busy showing people her new bra to concentrate on all the compliments her hair was receiving.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"you're not half as bad as you were made out to be."

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

more like 3/4

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"Every conversation with you is one word away from hell."

― oliver craner, Monday, 6 September 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I suppose if that word is 'agood' then that's OK.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 6 September 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

weirdly, I wasn't immediately flattered.

― oliver craner, Monday, 6 September 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

OK yes, but Cathy was first. I'm not sure about the skirt - I think it makes my legs look like sausages.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 07:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't really remember the greatest compliment I've ever received, but at my 21st a couple of months ago my girlfriend gave an amazing speech in which she said a whole bunch of things about me that she'd been holding back for fear of over-inflating my ego. It was very beautiful and touching.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my first year friends said I had "a voice like God". So I joined student radio.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah saying she'd love to move in with comes pretty damn close, now I think about it.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"don't ever lose your outlook on the world" --coming from a very great professor i had; "you're my favorite person"--my boyfriend;
and i was always touched by my mom being dorky & saying, "when i grow up, i want to be just like you."

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my first year friends said I had "a voice like God". So I joined student radio.

Heh. Never quite got a god comment myself, alas, but I had enough of a welter of comments like that that I did the exact same thing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"why is you dick SO suckable?" or words to that effect.

really. uttered to me by an ex-gf.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Was she a lamprey?

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Or, why is she the X?

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

emotional/anxious lamprey, perhaps

she busted up with me for various reasons, one of which was because i wasnt "Christian-enough" to help her on her "walk with God".

i guess me being raised loosely Presbyterian wasn't good enough.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yum yum it's cock that's tasty like that Ween album!

http://wfrc.usgs.gov/research/fish%20behavior/images/pclmouths.jpg

― Kingfish's ex (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Do NOT google image search "suckable".

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 06:53 (twenty-one years ago)

nope, shouldn'ta done that.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I mentioned Madchen's haircut on her Friendster testimonial, so I win. Not this haircut, obviously, but just her haircuts in general.

I had my hair cut on Saturday and NO-ONE has noticed yet. And it's nice as well. FIVE DAYS! It's not like I haven't seen people or anything.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll endeavour to notice it this friday/saturday ailsa!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

But I haven't seen you for about a year, so you aren't going to know how it's different from what it was like last week. But thanks :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Somehow, "Why is your Dick so suckable" and "You aren't Christian enough for my walk with God" sound a bit incongruous. Maybe she likes to BJ the Jesus.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

sound a bit incongruous.

indeed. this is what happens when you're born again when you're in your mid 20's and have massive problems reconciling that you're as horny as ever, yet you apparently have some "good girl" standard to follow now.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Kingfish, what's the answer?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Why is your dick so suckable?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it made of candy?

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

yes. it's made of several dozen "Lik-M-Stiks", bundled together.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I the only one who always hated those things? I liked the powder ok, but the sticks? Bleah.

(This is the only way I can deal with this image, I hate you, Milkman Dan)

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

My old roomie would often find me burning the midnight oil, trying to cram one more book or one more album into the day, and he once said to me, "Man, you must really love life." That was nice to hear, because it hadn't occurred to me that I did.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"You should always dance like that, everyone around you would be walking around in soaking-wet panties, fainting."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Note: everyone involved in giving, receiving, and witnessing this compliment were incredibly drunk.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

No, really?

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"you look stunningly quiet. I've never seen that. Sure some folks look shy and some are quite loud but you're like a fantastic mixture of both."

and the fact that this person wasn't even trying to pick me up made it even more startling.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"When I first met you, I thought you'd end up getting on my nerves real quick, and I guess you did, except that I like it."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"your a gangsta aren't you." not really a compliment as opposed to something this girl once said to me before she bent over.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

one girl i was hell bent on trying to have sex with (not in a creepy stalk her ass kind of way, more of we've know each other for awhile and then just started hooking up) told me while lying in bed talking all night that "i imagine you to be really fuckin awesome in bed." MADE MY MONTH.

― brock (brock), Thursday, 9 September 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

(most ironic email ever?)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

This dude in one of my classes on Tuesday was like, "So, you're like a freshman, right?" It pleases me that there is some possible way people actually think I'm 6-7 years younger than I actually am.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

This girl in Milan, who looked about 15, asked if my friend and I were models. My friend was 5 inches too short and I was two sizes too big and we laughed our heads off, but I think secretly we were pleased. I was, anyway.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha Ally, when my wife went to register for grad school two years ago, the woman in the office was convinced that she couldn't be old enough to drive!

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

! That's amazing Dan! And I'm sure that allowed you pervy thoughts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

At her current temp job, her supervisor was CONVINCED that she was 23 DESPITE having read her resume.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

(most ironic email ever?)
yea i catch a lot of shit about it. might be time for a change!

― brock (brock), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

'You're not that much of a cunt once you've had a few drinks' vs 'me and my friends all think you have excellent poise'.

These were different people.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Thursday, 9 September 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

My mother: "You are the best surprise I ever got."

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 16 October 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"you didn't turn out so bad" by a close relative.

you'd have to know more about my upbringing....

― darragh.mac (darragh.mac), Saturday, 16 October 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

I was thinking about this today, and I came to the conclusion:

"Sometimes you're so clever, it's like an itch on the skin."

― en i see kay, Sunday, 23 September 2007 05:43 (eighteen years ago)

"you're my best friend"

― Jordan Sargent, Sunday, 23 September 2007 05:59 (eighteen years ago)

Actually I got one last year that still bowls me over. It was at Terrastock in Providence and a bunch of us were all at a local hot dog place, including plenty of Noizeboarders and the like. I was at one table with Adrienne from Landing and a friend of hers, who I learned had written for Foxy Digitalis on a regular basis. At one point he notices my nametag/ticket pass and says, "So you're Ned Raggett?" I confirm it and he says something like, "Well, you oughta know something...your work is what inspired me to start writing."

I was pretty literally speechless for about a minute or so before stammering out my thanks. But I remember Adrienne saying, "Ned, you have to learn to take a compliment." Don't think I ever will, though, especially not one that big.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 September 2007 06:14 (eighteen years ago)

haha curtis i haven't said this in a while, but you're easily my favorite poster these days
-- fiddo centington (dubplatestyl...), December 29th, 2003.

-- Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, August 15, 2004 12:46 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 23 September 2007 06:46 (eighteen years ago)

^ retards

― am0n, Sunday, 23 September 2007 07:20 (eighteen years ago)

otm

― chaki, Sunday, 23 September 2007 07:28 (eighteen years ago)

A British friend of a British friend told me once at the moment when I played The Fall in a club here "the British government should pay you to play British music." It was the highest compliment I'd ever received in my entire DJ career of many years.

― Bimble, Sunday, 23 September 2007 08:07 (eighteen years ago)

7 years ago I had a particular English teacher whose name was Mister Doyle. This was the man that made me want to teach. He made me realize that English was the subject I wanted to teach.

He told me my writing was "very, very good" and "showed a lot of promise," and insisted that I "never stop writing."

I haven't stopped writing yet.

I'll be teaching next fall.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 23 September 2007 09:09 (eighteen years ago)

i hate you more than anyone else on the entire internet

-- electricsound, Friday, 21 September 2007 12:07 (2 days ago) Link

― Just got offed, Sunday, 23 September 2007 09:09 (eighteen years ago)

lolololol

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 23 September 2007 09:15 (eighteen years ago)

'You bastard, you're evil, I hate you'. At that moment I fell in love. She was already in love with me, obv.

― moley, Sunday, 23 September 2007 09:28 (eighteen years ago)

"You are the sweetest, coolest guy in the whole world" - a very pretty girl I met at Lost tonight. She wasn't even on drugs!

― the next grozart, Sunday, 23 September 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

I'm listed as a band on Drowned In Sound, despite never having played any sort of music. Almost everyone rates me 10/10 apart from my girlfriend's ex who rates me 0/10

― DJ Mencap, Sunday, 23 September 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

I was told by my new flatmate that she was the sanest person she interviewed about moving in.

I want to get the framed diploma that Homer Simpson had that declared him sane...

― King Boy Pato, Sunday, 23 September 2007 11:12 (eighteen years ago)

That first sentence wasn't written by someone sane, surely?

― King Boy Pato, Sunday, 23 September 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

So many to choose from...

― Tom D., Sunday, 23 September 2007 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

"your friendship and support has gotten me through what has probably been the hardest 6 months of my life. meeting you has been one of the best things to ever happen to me".

that made me feel pretty damn awesome, especially because i felt exactly the same way towards him.

― Rubyredd, Sunday, 23 September 2007 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

"you have a great ass"

― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 23 September 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

I was told I was 'sexy' by an older woman who 1) was sober 2) was sexy herself, and 3) wasn't nuts or desperate.

― wanko ergo sum, Sunday, 23 September 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

^ retards

-- am0n, Sunday, September 23, 2007 2:20 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Link

― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 23 September 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

"man, you really know you're shit, don't you?" - that could be taken positively or negatively I guess...

― snoball, Monday, 24 September 2007 00:06 (eighteen years ago)

Duh, "you're" = negative, "your" = positive.
I need to sleep.

― snoball, Monday, 24 September 2007 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

An Austrian girl once said I had perfect lips. She was a gemütlich lady, and I've never been more surprised or more pleased by any compliment 'cause me and my lips meant it.

― Michael White, Monday, 24 September 2007 00:13 (eighteen years ago)

My Plato tutor at Oxford told me that I "reminded him of the form of the good."

I don't think I have ever blushed so much in my life.

― Drew Daniel, Monday, 24 September 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

That's pretty much the highest platonic compliment you can give or receive.

― max, Monday, 24 September 2007 01:39 (eighteen years ago)

Unfortunately I believe it also means "I don't want to/can't have sex with you."

― max, Monday, 24 September 2007 01:39 (eighteen years ago)

in most cases there is nothing unfortunate about philosophy teaching staff not wanting to have sex with you.

― estela, Monday, 24 September 2007 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

estela otm

― horseshoe, Monday, 24 September 2007 01:50 (eighteen years ago)

and that platonic compliment is pretty untouchable.

― horseshoe, Monday, 24 September 2007 01:50 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh that is sexy!

― Bimble, Monday, 24 September 2007 01:58 (eighteen years ago)

When I was on exchange in France, I was about 16, the day I was leaving this girl in my class came up to me and said, in English: "Mark, I think you're lovely."

I assume it was a mistranslation, but it was very cute.

― W4LTER, Monday, 24 September 2007 02:06 (eighteen years ago)

what do you think she was trying to say?

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 24 September 2007 04:17 (eighteen years ago)

Greatest single compliment? My daughter's love.

― Aimless, Monday, 24 September 2007 04:25 (eighteen years ago)

only drunk people ever compliment me. but usually I'm drunk too so I don't mind

― bernard snowy, Monday, 24 September 2007 05:07 (eighteen years ago)

(although I did get a seemingly non-sarcastic "I like the way you dance" the other night that nearly bowled me over)

― bernard snowy, Monday, 24 September 2007 05:08 (eighteen years ago)

complimenting a girl's laugh is money in the bank

― bnw, Monday, 24 September 2007 05:12 (eighteen years ago)

"A very brilliant set of remarks. I have nothing more to add."

― xero, Monday, 24 September 2007 06:20 (eighteen years ago)

Someone who was clearly in need of better eyeglasses once told me that I was the prettiest person they'd ever seen in real life. Also - when I was a camp counselor one of my campers who was four at the time told me that I was his best friend, that he loved me, and that he wanted to take me home and keep me forever.

― ENBB, Monday, 24 September 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

Earlier in the year I got lumbered with entertaining 2 friends of Mrs. Dr. C for the afternoon at v.short notice. At the time I was feeling a bit gloomy about stuff in general, and thought I'd probably not been the best company for them. But they reported back that I was 'absolutely lovely' and 'very kind and funny'. That really, really, made my day/week/month/year, and made me feel masses better about everything.

― Dr.C, Monday, 24 September 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

My bf said the nicest thing to me the other night. She said something along the lines of, "Just know this - you're a rare gem of a person in this world who people love, are drawn to and never forget." I don't know whether she's right about that or not but it was incredibly sweet. She's awesome and I'm esp lucky to have her as a friend.

― a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Thursday, 7 May 2009 23:53 (sixteen years ago)

I'm confused

― nabisco, Thursday, 7 May 2009 23:57 (sixteen years ago)

Oh wait, never mind, I get it, and yes, that is really nice

― nabisco, Thursday, 7 May 2009 23:57 (sixteen years ago)

"It was completely amazing having you over - and over."

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 8 May 2009 00:02 (sixteen years ago)

Wait it was "THANKS for having me" etc. so not a compliment precisely.

Probably when I requested an assessment from my boss at a freelance job and he said that I was "unflappable".

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 8 May 2009 00:13 (sixteen years ago)

I had a woman march into my kitchen at work and ask to marry me because of the chocolate mousse, that was nice.

― Matt, Friday, 8 May 2009 00:16 (sixteen years ago)

Jon Nicholson (from Excepter): 'You guys sound like Double Leopards!' (about an old band)

My friend Betty: 'That set you played today made me feel like I was a robot on Mars.'

a romantic fling: 'That was the first A+ blowjob I have ever received. Like, you could do that in porn.'

― the table is the table, Friday, 8 May 2009 00:31 (sixteen years ago)

I can't think of anything better than the time I said my favourite animal was the giraffe and my friend/coworker said, "Yeah I can see that, they're sort of regal like you". I have never, ever thought of myself as regal. Also kind of cool to be compared to a giraffe.

― franny glass, Friday, 8 May 2009 00:55 (sixteen years ago)

Nobody’s ever made me feel like you do & I’m smitten.
From the 2 only serious relationships I’ve had to date.

― not_goodwin, Friday, 8 May 2009 00:56 (sixteen years ago)

From my dad, who I've never heard use a curse word before or since: "You're goddamn good at your job."

From one of my writing mentors: "I'll just come out and say it--this story makes me damn jealous."

― I'm not some HOOS for someone's lust to snack on! (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 8 May 2009 02:13 (sixteen years ago)

"Mr. Snrub, I am humbled by your ability to not know things."

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 8 May 2009 02:34 (sixteen years ago)

complimenting a girl's laugh is money in the bank

― bnw

lolz this was one of the first compliments my husband paid me when we first met so bnw otm

― where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3), Friday, 8 May 2009 03:05 (sixteen years ago)

"You've made me so happy and ok w myself, thank you!" type stuff from a lesbian I met, she's from a kinda conservative area and we hang out and talk about chicks etc and I'm the first person to ever just figure she was prob gay and treat it as no big deal.. dunno if that's the SINGLE GREAREST, but there's enough sex etc ones here surely

PS complimenting a girl's voice is a good idea too btw

― Niles Caulder, Friday, 8 May 2009 10:06 (sixteen years ago)

dunno. just stuff like 'youre gorgeous' 'good looking' 'you should try modelling' etc. did used to get stuff about being really funny but that was a while back. ive since buried my humour gene.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 8 May 2009 11:56 (sixteen years ago)

someone recently told me some work i did for them was 'fantastic' but im sure this was just cos they wanted me to keep doing free work for them.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 8 May 2009 11:57 (sixteen years ago)

asked to be godfather was good.

― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 8 May 2009 11:58 (sixteen years ago)

who believes all the compliments they get?

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 8 May 2009 12:20 (sixteen years ago)

"Your pumpkin pie makes me angry with pleasure"

I believed this one.

― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Friday, 8 May 2009 12:25 (sixteen years ago)

"haha look at your HAIR dude"

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Friday, 8 May 2009 12:26 (sixteen years ago)

"I don't want to offend you, but you sorta remind me of Michael Cera"

― I saved cassie breast in my iPhone (Tape Store), Friday, 8 May 2009 13:08 (sixteen years ago)

i got told i looked sort of like one guy from heroes and joaquin pheonix once. im still not sure if either was meant in a good way.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 8 May 2009 13:11 (sixteen years ago)

Joaquín Phoenix compliment compliment compliment.

It was a compliment.

― Zoe Espera, Friday, 8 May 2009 13:15 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, i was gonna say if it was from my gf then definitely

― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 8 May 2009 13:15 (sixteen years ago)

"Especially when you grew that beard and tried to rap and had the film crew following you..."

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 May 2009 13:25 (sixteen years ago)

ok, less so

― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 8 May 2009 13:27 (sixteen years ago)

haha, doesn't count. (xpost)

― Mark G, Friday, 8 May 2009 13:32 (sixteen years ago)

I think it was being asked to be best man.

But have to admit "you've got the biggest dick I've ever seen" comes pretty close </typical male>

― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 8 May 2009 13:35 (sixteen years ago)

i was told i had nice legs once, by some ladies. this was down to my bike riding. Unfortunately the top half of my body is that of an 11 year old boy.

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Friday, 8 May 2009 13:36 (sixteen years ago)

"I don't know whether she's right about that or not but it was incredibly sweet."

Don't waste the time worrying about whether you agree. She wouldn't have said it if she didn't mean it, so enjoy the compliment, which was a very nice thing to say.

― Bill Magill, Friday, 8 May 2009 13:36 (sixteen years ago)

URGENT UPDATE:

darraghmac has always been one of ilxor's wiser football pundits.

― Pete W, 08 May 2009 12:11 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 8 May 2009 13:38 (sixteen years ago)

buy into the gesture rather than the specifics.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 8 May 2009 13:38 (sixteen years ago)

xps - You're right it was and I think I'll do just that.

― a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 13:44 (sixteen years ago)

I and my boyfriend (late 20s) had a couple of family friends (60s) over, and the female half of the couple mentioned that she'd taken great care with her lipstick that day, because "Alexis always has the most beautiful lips." Random, but I loved it and think of it about 50% of the time when I apply my lipstick in the morning. It's Covergirl Outlast, if you were curious.. now I need to get some teeth whitener so I can upgrade to "the most beautiful smile." ;)

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:03 (sixteen years ago)

Someone in a band that I like a whole lot saw my band play and told me afterward that I was "badass".

― SQUIRREL WITH A PEOPLE FACE (╓abies), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:37 (sixteen years ago)

i overheard someone describe me as 'wild'. i have no idea what context they meant.

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:45 (sixteen years ago)

I have been called Wild. But probably because it's my surname.

This thread is making me think that I don't remember compliments I'm given, which on reflection seems horribly ungrateful.

― Zoe Espera, Friday, 8 May 2009 15:09 (sixteen years ago)

I've been thinking about this on and off for two days and I've come up with nothing.

― I wish I was the royal trux (sunny successor), Friday, 8 May 2009 15:11 (sixteen years ago)

ste, i know many like you: biker guys with great toned legs and upper bodies that resemble those of 13-year-olds.

and i think it is hot, quite honestly.

― the table is the table, Friday, 8 May 2009 15:14 (sixteen years ago)

Just remembered, paramedic said "you do realise you're a hero don’t you, you saved her life" and patted me on the back.
I’d come home to find neighbor on her step unconscious after losing blood.

― not_goodwin, Friday, 8 May 2009 15:15 (sixteen years ago)

I've been thinking about this on and off for two days and I've come up with nothing.

Me too. Best I've got is that someone thought I was Australian once.

― Enemy Insects (NickB), Friday, 8 May 2009 15:18 (sixteen years ago)

Maybe compliments haven't made a lasting impact on me because I've not really had any clear, consistent goals. Like, when my music teacher told me when I was 12 that I reminded him of Kate Bush I was stunned with glee cos I thought I might be a musician someday but if someone told me that now I'd be like errrrrrrrr I don't play the piano.

― Zoe Espera, Friday, 8 May 2009 15:21 (sixteen years ago)

I think the good feeling from a truly appreciated compliment just kind of melds into your general happiness and feelings about yourself -- because the spirit matters more than the words themselves. For instance,I am so so grateful that when I was sans-apartment for a couple of months this year, my friends lined up to offer their space, basically.

I had some of the nicest times ever just hanging out w people in the down-time that you don't normally see; at home before bed, weekend mornings when you don't feel like going out. I almost wonder if we should be making semi-regular live-in visits to each other, where you stay for like 3 days just because that way you can make use of the bits of time that are otherwise lost.

― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Friday, 8 May 2009 15:24 (sixteen years ago)

I guess that's what it's like to be married/co-habitate w partner? Anyway, digression....

― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Friday, 8 May 2009 15:25 (sixteen years ago)

Yes, compliments melding into general happiness. I think this goes for me. I tend not to maintain accessible mental records of favourite holidays, books, films etc. Hence not able to bring a compliment to mind, either.

― Zoe Espera, Friday, 8 May 2009 15:32 (sixteen years ago)

Actually I dunno if I want to nominate that for my SIINGLE GREATEST compliment, but it was the first thing I thought of, and it really did make me all bashful and..yadda yadda.

― SQUIRREL WITH A PEOPLE FACE (╓abies), Friday, 8 May 2009 16:18 (sixteen years ago)

rabies, I think you're super badass.

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 8 May 2009 17:21 (sixteen years ago)

Seriously can't think of anything notable that wasn't from someone too drunk to make sense / obvious exaggeration to raise my spirits / precursor to asking for something / um, thanks but you could probably raise your standards a little

― display mane (DJ Mencap), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:27 (sixteen years ago)

*flexing muscles*

― SQUIRREL WITH A PEOPLE FACE (╓abies), Sunday, 10 May 2009 05:57 (sixteen years ago)

"But you ARE awesome!"

― Niles Caulder, Sunday, 10 May 2009 06:55 (sixteen years ago)

"You remind me of James Bond" - first grade girl standing in front of me in a class line.

― Cunga, Sunday, 10 May 2009 07:24 (sixteen years ago)

Oh lord that's cute.

― a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Sunday, 10 May 2009 12:16 (sixteen years ago)

"and you're a mighty horse!"

― emsk, Sunday, 10 May 2009 21:45 (sixteen years ago)

someone once said to me "i like your walk! it is feminine but purposeful" (or something similar) and i have cherished it in my heart since

― la belle dame sans serif (c sharp major), Sunday, 10 May 2009 21:56 (sixteen years ago)

Two separate, amazing compliments given to me at the Soap Awards on Saturday night.

1. You look like Reese Witherspoon!
2. (From colleague) We were wondering, given that you always wear such fabulous outfits to work, how you were going to top it tonight. And then you arrive in that dress - wow, just wow.

Me = thrilled.

― marianna lcl, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 10:22 (sixteen years ago)

For some reason, any compliments I get are almost always for my voice- "you should be on radio," etc, which is kind of weird since I honestly don't talk much. Strangest instance of that came while ordering Chinese a few months ago:

"You sound exactly like Kal Penn!"
"Uh?"
"Really! Like, exactly the same!"
"Thanks...?"

And people are always surprised to find out I'm from Alabama, though that's less surprising since I've made a conscious lifelong effort to never develop a Southern accent.

― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:41 (sixteen years ago)

Oh, and a guy that, in retrospect, I had kind of a crush on (one that may or may not have been reciprocal) said he thought I would make a great director, which was a huge ego boost, even though I ended up having a bit of a nervous breakdown and dropping out of film school by the end of that semester.

― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:44 (sixteen years ago)

"i'm going to get your face tattooed on my back"

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:46 (sixteen years ago)

When I was 16 I signed up for a one week hike with a church-sponsored group. We assembled at a campground near the trailhead.

On the first afternoon I needed to go fetch something for a group leader and went striding off to get and bring it back. After I returned I handed the item to the leader, who looked at me and said, "I can tell you've done a lot of hiking. You have an excellent stride."

It was obviously spontaneous and completely unexpected. It gave my spirits a big boost.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:56 (sixteen years ago)

At like age 17 I was playing drums in a hardcore punk band and we opened for Against All Authority. One of the dudes caught our set and told me that I made it "look effortless" which is still the best compliment.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:59 (sixteen years ago)

You look like Reese Witherspoon!

not to shit on your parade or anything, but if i was a girl and someone told me this i would punch them in the face.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:15 (sixteen years ago)

I think you just shat on her parade.

― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:42 (sixteen years ago)

Wow, thanks for ruining that one for me.

― marianna lcl, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 20:45 (sixteen years ago)

Swear I didn't write this: http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=tre+baker&type=1

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 20:49 (sixteen years ago)

― (b)admin (roxymuzak), Friday, 15 May 2009 20:22 (sixteen years ago)

Marianna, as a girl, I can recognize that Reese Witherspoon is adorable and every guy in this forum would hit it in a heartbeat

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 15 May 2009 20:26 (sixteen years ago)

bnw is endemic of a sad trend in alternative music media
otm :(

― bnw, Friday, 15 May 2009 20:27 (sixteen years ago)

after which the gay thread would get kind awkward and silent

― nabisco, Friday, 15 May 2009 20:28 (sixteen years ago)

xpost

― nabisco, Friday, 15 May 2009 20:28 (sixteen years ago)

sure, jerk

― bnw, Friday, 15 May 2009 20:29 (sixteen years ago)

xpost lol fair enough nabisco

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 15 May 2009 20:33 (sixteen years ago)

rabies is to avoid bats

Good advice.

― SQUIRREL WITH A PEOPLE FACE (╓abies), Saturday, 16 May 2009 11:04 (sixteen years ago)

Boy, I can't think of one either.

― test drives at ur own risk i cant go with you too many bees (Abbott), Saturday, 16 May 2009 19:16 (sixteen years ago)

My husband, when we were first dating, complimented me on everything I was self-conscious abt (before he knew I was), ie my nose, my low hairline, etc. Which was a relief!

― test drives at ur own risk i cant go with you too many bees (Abbott), Saturday, 16 May 2009 19:17 (sixteen years ago)

marianna i consider you like 100x prettier than reese witherspoon tbh

― (b)admin (roxymuzak), Saturday, 16 May 2009 20:21 (sixteen years ago)

"Lindsey's such a sweet girl. I'd marry her in a second." - token lesbian at my high school. (I heard this secondhand from a friend who thought I'd be freaked out that another girl considered me marriage material.)

― lindseykai, Saturday, 16 May 2009 20:33 (sixteen years ago)

When I was fifteen, someone told me "You have the musical taste of a erudite, semi-voracious thirty-two year old record store owner."

― litcofsky, Saturday, 16 May 2009 20:51 (sixteen years ago)

they said that aloud

― (b)admin (roxymuzak), Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:08 (sixteen years ago)

Was it l0u1s jagg3r?

― test drives at ur own risk i cant go with you too many bees (Abbott), Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:20 (sixteen years ago)

and how can you be semi-voracious

― ultra-generic sub-noize persona (Matt P), Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:28 (sixteen years ago)

the questions just keep piling up

― ultra-generic sub-noize persona (Matt P), Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:28 (sixteen years ago)

yeah lol @ semi-voracious

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:29 (sixteen years ago)

bi-voracious

― mookieproof, Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:30 (sixteen years ago)

If there is a measure for voracity, then a semi-voracity would be precisely half of that. A hemi-voracity or demi-voracity would be equally acceptable as indicating half-measures.

― Aimless, Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:32 (sixteen years ago)

hahaha

― (b)admin (roxymuzak), Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:36 (sixteen years ago)

its all wrong, why would a 15 year old be complimented by the assertion that he/she has the musical taste of a 32 year old

― (b)admin (roxymuzak), Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:37 (sixteen years ago)

voracious curious

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:39 (sixteen years ago)

'I can't stop half-eating Norah Jones, Coldplay and Andrew Bird albums!'

― test drives at ur own risk i cant go with you too many bees (Abbott), Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:40 (sixteen years ago)

I was once called "a cutting edge that never dulls" by an editor. Granted, this was also seventeen years ago, so I doubt it still holds true. But, I liked it.

― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:46 (sixteen years ago)

a Killing Joke that never fails

― geekquel (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:50 (sixteen years ago)

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