What's the strangest compliment you've recieved? For me, it was one time when a preteen kid told me I looked like Emma Watson. I'm a guy. What's one of yours?
Posted Aug 28, 2009, 1:16 AM UTC
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An Indian man in a gas station once looked at me and said, "You will bear many sons with ease." Then he glanced down at my hips with a smile.
I didn't know how to respond. Yeah, I have sizeable hips, but what a thing to say to a 16-year-old. I think I just mumbled an awkward thank-you.
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I totally want to use that as a pick-up line.
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Wait, Indian from India, or Native American? Hearing that from an old Native American man would be cooler, in my opinion.
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Indian from India, sadly. I'm in love with Native Americans so that would have indeed been cooler.
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That's a pretty awesome one. My favourite: "Strong woman. Good hips. Ten, twenty children."
I've also been stopped about half a dozen times by very, very old men who explain that I have the face of the virgin Mary. Smooth pick-up line, old dudes.
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Were they Irish? For some reason I'm picturing the old men with thick Irish accents.
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In there culture this is probably okay and a very nice compliment. /speculation
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Yeah, later on I thought about it and figured it might be. Maybe not so normal to just up and say it like that, but a compliment all the same.
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Or maybe he just gets really bored at work and likes to fuck with white people. I don't know.
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For the longest time I thought you were talking about Indians from India.
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I do mean Indian from India.
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And you know she's not how?
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You are right, I never thought of that possibility.
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I, a tall scrawny white guy, was walking through the city when a group of four black guys approached from the opposite direction. Three of these guys were built like football players and were wearing sparkly pink mesh jerseys like we had to wear in gym class (except sparkly and pink).
The little fourth guy was tiny with a shaved head, wearing cats-eye sunglasses and a pink feather boa looks me me up and down and says "Oooo-WEE! I LOVE a man in khakis"
I was caught off guard to say the least.
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You could spin this into a positive if you like Richard Dawkins.
edit: Strangest compliment is probably, "You have a 'I'm gonna kick your ass' kind of voice".
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And it would be all the more better IMO if Emma Watson turned out to be atheist like Dan.
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She's not. And why would that turn you on? Everybody's probably wrong about everything. Literally nobody knows. The universe as we know it could be a pile of dog shit for some cosmic being.
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No one should be downmodded for their beliefs. theres an upvote.
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Everyone told me I looked like Macaulay Culkin growing up. I'm a girl.
Probably it did not help that I quoted Home Alone incessantly until 1997.
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A girl I don't know and have never seen before stuck her hand down my boxers and pinched my ass.
The large grin on my face identified that as a compliment.
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There's the difference between men and women right there.
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I once had an old hippie go totally nuts, just going on and on about how my feet "hadn't been ruined by society".
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Every time I donate blood I'm told that I am "a good bleeder". I fill the pint damn fast but really, do they need to say it EVERY time?
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They'll probably say that until they can get over how awesome and fast you bleed.
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I always get "Oh wow! You have such great veins!"
One of them actually held up my left arm and went "Hey! You guys! Look at this one! It just pops out there... don't even need a tourniquet."
The veins of my arms are very close to the surface by my wrists and on the insides of my elbows. My left arm has a spot about the size of a dime where the main vein just sits there being blue and pale looking. Yeah...
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I got hit by a car and had to have surgery. When I woke up the doc told me I had the hardest bones he had ever seen. He had broken an 1/8 inch thick titanium screw off in my bone. I'll always have about an inch of titanium logdged in my left humerus bone marrow. How that happened I'll never know.
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I'd say that unbreakable bones is a hell of a lot better than the ability to die faster than others.
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I was riding my bike downtown and a guy rolled down his window to yell at me, "your filth excites me!" I was confused for the rest of the day as to whether I should shower or feel flattered.
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My boss, on my last day of work: "Well, it's been great working with you. Great job! There's something I need to tell you, though... you have a perfect 1910 face!"
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A friend once told me 'I never knew you were intelligent. You really don't look it'.
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you have long eyelashes.
Im a guy
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Wow, lucky you.
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I used to hate it when I was a kid. I even plucked my eyelashes from time to time! Now I just try to live with it.
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Been told that too. Guy, and I do have long eyelashes.
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you look like a beautiful girl if you have long hair.
I'm a 6 foot guy.
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"Dude! What's happening? Your hair isn't as poofy as normal?" Unfortunatly this was the exact beginning of my love affair with hats.
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I've gotten that one. I feel your whatever-that-feeling-is.
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Mine's not that strange...
In high school, I took my exgirlfriend to prom. She looked amazing and I wore a fitted tux. We looked pretty damned good. Anyway, I took her on a horse carriage ride around the hotel and park. One kid who was crossing the street with her mom and friends broke away from them, ran up to us and said "I just wanted to you, I think ya'll look beautiful!". She giggled and then ran away. She must have been about 8 years old.
I think the compliment was meant for her, but hey, I put alot of effort into that night too.
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Kids say the damnedest things. Cool. :]
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To this day... strangest thing ever "Are those your real eyes?"
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Your moustache looked better yesterday
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"Nice ears" by an unknown girl at a bar.
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Sounds more like an insult, depending on the tone.
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I've had a stranger tell me I look like Johnny Depp (I wish!) and another stranger say I look like Peter Frampton.
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Admittedly, good looking dudes.
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Someone once told me that I have a unique voice and that I should be on the radio. Also an old man once told me that my head looked like an acorn squash.
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Have you ever considered that, you know, that wasn't a compliment?
Well, I did, but that kid was always pleasant towards me, so I assumed he wasn't making fun of me. He's a noob in an FPS game we play, so one of the reasons we chat is for tips how to play better, etc.
It had to have been a compliment. You know who else looks like Emma Watson?... http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/10/6/128677918460759115.jpg
To be fair she looked pretty man-like in that photo, usually she is incredibly hot.
Maybe he's coming on to you