Is that even a compliment...?

[Simriel]

Umm... I sometimes take being called horrible names as compliments? Does that count?

 

[Lexodus]

Anything with "different".

Oh gee you have a different sense of humor.

This! I've found that a lot of people say this to me, and I'm left wondering if it was actually a compliment or they were just left confused by my completely irrelevant and otherwise sarcastic humor.

Or: "Nice hat, miss." by a sales clerk. Last I checked, I was a dude.

I have been mistaken for a girl soooooo many times...

 

[Kinguendo]

Umm... I sometimes take being called horrible names as compliments? Does that count?

Depends... was it at Halloween? Cos' if not then probably not, no.

 

[Crimsane]

"You get more disturbing by the minute with a side of awesome and a hint of perv."

 

[Kinguendo]

Anything with "different".

Oh gee you have a different sense of humor.

This! I've found that a lot of people say this to me, and I'm left wondering if it was actually a compliment or they were just left confused by my completely irrelevant and otherwise sarcastic humor.

Or: "Nice hat, miss." by a sales clerk. Last I checked, I was a dude.

I have been mistaken for a girl soooooo many times...

I got mistaken for a woman once, while playing cricket?!? I was confused and then the cricket ball hit me just under my knee cap, we all know kinda that pain.

 

[Jaythulhu]

"Wow, you don't LOOK old" - from a girl at work on my 30th b'day.

"Good on ya, ya bloody amazing bastard" - from my uncle, after I set up his home network.

 

[Lexodus]

Anything with "different".

Oh gee you have a different sense of humor.

This! I've found that a lot of people say this to me, and I'm left wondering if it was actually a compliment or they were just left confused by my completely irrelevant and otherwise sarcastic humor.

Or: "Nice hat, miss." by a sales clerk. Last I checked, I was a dude.

I have been mistaken for a girl soooooo many times...

I got mistaken for a woman once, while playing cricket?!? I was confused and then the cricket ball hit me just under my knee cap, we all know kinda that pain.

Ouch... but, by 'so many times', I mean that I basically don't go out anymore without being mistaken for a girl. For a couple of examples, read this: http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2611840/1/Im_Not_Laughing

 

[Pimppeter2]

"Wow, you're a big guy huh"

By a nurse when I was in the Doctors office, with my mom, and no pants on

 

[GodsOneMistake]

People kept telling me I had nice shoulders.... Umm thanks???

 

[hxcfreak]

You have eyes a like a moose

 

[Hazy]

Girl from my math class: "Your Hair Reminds me of the beach!"
Me: "My hair reminds you of fat guys eating Nachos?"

 

[mshcherbatskaya]

"Now that I've gotten to know you, you really aren't as negative as you seem."

Well, that's good to know I guess...

EDIT: Oh! I got carded at the grocery store last night for a single bottle of beer. I'm 39.

 

[Skreeee]

"Wow, you're a big guy huh"

By a nurse when I was in the Doctors office, with my mom, and no pants on

Which part of you had she been looking at when she said it? It's now a contest in my mind between being either a backwards, or just plain creepy comment.

 

[Glerken]

"Wow, you're a big guy huh"

By a nurse when I was in the Doctors office, with my mom, and no pants on

I'm sure that wasn't awkward at all...

 

[ajb924]

I told a girl she had torpedoes big enough to sink the bismarck as a compliment (I thought it was nice to tell a girl she had a nice chest.). She knocked the glasses clear off my face. I don't really understand why she took it as an insult.

I think i know why... I thonk she took it like you were talking about something you might find in her nightstand drawer...

OT: I have heard someone say this to my mom
"You should come shopping with me, you could try on wedding dresses for my pregnent cousin!"
Ouch...

 

[mshcherbatskaya]

I told a girl she had torpedoes big enough to sink the bismarck as a compliment (I thought it was nice to tell a girl she had a nice chest.). She knocked the glasses clear off my face. I don't really understand why she took it as an insult.

If genuinely don't understand why that is unbelievably rude, then you deserved deserve a smack on purely Darwinian grounds.

 

[chefassassin2]

"You're pretty normal for a Star Wars geek."
"Y'know, you're pretty smart. I thought cooks were pretty dumb."[sup]Damn near backhanded the guy who said that one.[/sup]

 

[Skuffyshootster]

"You have a nice cell phone." Gee, thanks.

 

[Neonbob]

"You're pretty normal for a Star Wars geek."
"Y'know, you're pretty smart. I thought cooks were pretty dumb."[sup]Damn near backhanded the guy who said that one.[/sup]

You should have started reaching for your cleaver. And watched him run.
I've never gotten one of those compliments. Mainly because I avoid people like the plague rats.