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

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.

"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.

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

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

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

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

"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...)

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.

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

No high-five, sadly.

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.

X-post colette post pix now please!

IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

rabies, I think you're super badass.

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

*flexing muscles*

"But you ARE awesome!"

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

Oh lord that's cute.

"and you're a mighty horse!"

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I think you just shat on her parade.

Wow, thanks for ruining that one for me.

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

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

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

after which the gay thread would get kind awkward and silent

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sure, jerk

xpost lol fair enough nabisco

rabies is to avoid bats

Good advice.

Boy, I can't think of one either.

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!

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

"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.)

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

they said that aloud

Was it l0u1s jagg3r?

and how can you be semi-voracious

the questions just keep piling up

yeah lol @ semi-voracious

bi-voracious

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.

hahaha

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

voracious curious

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

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.

a Killing Joke that never fails