A woman complimented my haircut in 2015; I will die with this haircut now.
A girl said I had nice teeth once around the same time. Never really even thought of my teeth, at all, so it stuck with me. Still got all of ‘em, too! I’m packin’!
Oh. I guess I should be glad no woman ever complimented my teeth in 2001 or so.
Normalize complimenting men. The current ratio is probably 10 to 1. Maybe they would be less miserable and angry then.
I told a guy at Universal Studios that I thought he was cute and he just beamed. Made him so happy. I also like to compliment when guys have nice beards; works every time. Btw I’m a guy.
Btw I’m a guy.
Nice beard!
The current ratio is probably 10 to 1
In terms of compliments you give, what’s the ratio? Be part of the solution.
I compliment my friends all the time. It’s an easy way to support the people you care about.
Agreed but the in-between where men think all women wanna bang them is gonna be rough
I’ve been complemented before in passing by someone and not felt the overwhelming urge to immediately engage in a relationship with them. Surely, context and place matters, and it can get confusing sometimes… But I think a “sorry, I was just appreciating ____” occasionally might be worth the net gain.
… And you can phrase something in a way that isn’t misinterpreted. Its situational. I’ve certainly told women a color suits them or complemented a look, hairstyle, what have you… Making certain to filter it in a way that is as complimentary as it can be without toeing that line. Its not that hard and frankly it’s worth seeing someone light up a bit when they get some positive reinforcement.
If I could stop being a socially anxious bitch I would, but I debate in my head for 5 mins and by then the guy has already walked away 😅
Same things with girls honestly, I just struggle. But I feel like I’ve gotten better in college about saying compliments to people.
Oy, lets normalize treating women like human beings first?
Porque no los dos?
Never will understand why someone saying something positive about y must immediately mean x is excluded and should be maligned. Its a disgusting tactic typically taken by cults and ner-do-wells who benifit from the rift being widened.
Edit: it’s uplifting to see that people are tolerating that behavior less. I think it’s high time we started building better bonds with people in our communities rather than letting some hatefarm drive more rifts into it.
I loke oranges
Fuck you you apricots hating piece of shit.
Mandarins out of nowhere with a chair!
Bah gawd that man has a fambly!
Let’s normalize not driving rifts into conversations that otherwise didn’t have them… And maybe not turn every conversation into a virtue signaling shitshow.
Women get too many compliments, men get too few. That’s why I steal compliments from women and give them to men. Nice tits, by the way.
why is complimenting tits not appreciated again?
everyone likes tits, men like tits, woman like tits, babies like tits. literally everyone
A woman told me in '99 that if I put my hair in a bun I’d look like a heavy metal bass player. We’ve been married for 25 years and I will have a bun til I die.
Now that’s metal!
I’m a woman who indiscriminately showers compliments on people everywhere I go. It’s a nervous habit I have, to shift attention from myself to others.
I can also read the room and determine when my compliment-showering begins to annoy people. Because there’s something slightly autistic/ socially awkward about the way I compliment people everywhere all the time.
But at first people do appreciate the compliments because perhaps there’s a shortage of compliments in the world.
A compliment from a pretty girl will permanently change a man.
LOL I guess I’ve permanently changed hundreds of men 😂🤷🏼♀️
Uh…what about an ugly one? 😅
Beauty is subjective :p
But yeah big mood.
It’s still nice. Honestly, the reciprocation of appreciation/affection is its own glamour filter. The girl who thinks I’m hot is made hotter as a result.
Thank you for doing this.
Too much can seem like love bombing, but genuine compliments are so rare!
I’m an awkward love bomber, for sure. But I think my colleagues have figured me out and they let it slide. Thankfully I can read the room and dial back the love bombing, then search for different ways to direct my nervous energy.
Are the compliments genuine, or are you just saying them to be nice?
They are genuine compliments. But I get autistically-fixated on the thing and every time I see the person I lose my mind over how amazing their xyz thing is, and I’m really harmlessly weird with over-complimenting people 😂
The compliments are for makeup, shoes, hair, fashion, I even compliment people on their personality traits, intellect etc 🤣🤷🏼♀️
You’re really good at giving people compliments. Keep it up!
OMG that letter “a” in your username sparkles like no other!
I remember my friend’s ex telling me my ass looked good in a pair of shorts. Almost ten years ago now…
I love it. In this world the lows are so low, when someone notices something about you enough to say something nice like that then it becomes something we want to hold on to forever.
I wish everyone who reads it would have as positive of an interpretation/association.
The 2020 panel reminded me, my old barber did hair in the alley way being the building next to a dumpster. Something about that was kinda badass.
E: *during COVID. I mean, he’s not just some crazy unhoused gentleman with sheers that I have cut my hair regularly for few bucks…
Honestly? Having an unhoused gentleman regularly cut your hair next to a dumpster is way more badass.
Also how I got my favorite color shirt.
Cute, lame and pitiful.
I love it
Exact thing happened to me ~2018. Haven’t changed it since. (Though my growing bald spot may ruin it in the next few years)
The only reason my hairstyle has changed over the years is because of thinning hair.
I used to have such thick, soft hair, people would joke that I was actually growing fur. Everyone loved to scruff my hair and I got compliments all the time.
But now I’m in my 40s and the family balding curse has caught up with me. My hairline is receding, a bald spot is starting to show, and I needed to change up my style to avoid looking 20+ years older than I actually am. Eventually, I’ll just give up and let it do its own thing, but I need to experience my midlife crisis first. 😉
My brother had a similar thing, and decided to just start shaving off everything and embracing the baldness. He’s been rockin’ the bald look ever since quite happily.
I considered that, but I apparently have a really lumpy, scrotum-looking scalp. I do NOT look good bald. So… I gotta put up with what’s left of my hair as long as I can.
I need to experience my midlife crisis first.
I feel you brother. Boy, if only I’d known what I had when i had it, ya know?
In 2001 a girl said to me that my sports jacket “was the kind that girls like”.
It was my dad’s old jacket from 1970’s and it is the only summer jacket I have worn ever since. Luckily the base color is black and the cut is pretty timeless.
EDIT: Put back the missing “my” from the first sentence.
Guy who is extremely confident he will not go bald.
But 2005 wasn’t twent… oh.
Jokes on you barber, I’ve been bald since I was 25. I couldn’t get a different haircut if I tried.
You could try styling some different hair…
I like the cut of your pubes
People don’t think it be like that but it do.
C’mon, at least get the quote right. You get an extra conjugation of “to be.”
