a nice ass is just the ass from My own personal view of attractive cute things.if I say a person is cute,I mean the whole package;body,face,mind,personality.
I would mean both things… nice ass if he has a nice ass… but also he could have a nice everything which could translate to nice ass. However, I am fairly honest (though probably too much so) and, if I think they are cute, will tell them.
I tell the bf he’s the greatest and really turns me on all the time but I think he also has a nice ass 
naaah, when I say “nice ass”, i really mean “nice ass”. When I mean “nice body” i say “nice piece of ass”
there’s your distinction!
I would just like to point out these serendipitously sequential thread titles:
What is the rudest think a stranger has ever said to you?
Hey! Nice ass!
That’s actually happened to me.
I notice asses on everyone. I’m an assy kinda girl, I guess.
I think you mean ‘if’ not ‘when’ he says ‘Hey, nice hair.’
Seriously, I’m male, and I, by and large, don’t notice hair colour. I don’t notice anything. I get somewhere and say ‘Uh, did I walk here? I don’t remember it.’
But something unusual would draw my attention. Eg. a rhinoceras, green spiky hair, a nice arse (US: ass), etc.
But nice hair is generally appreciated more closer to, and rhinocerases are quite rare, so…
Well I plainly have the best of both world’s then… I have nice hair and bf called Rhino 
Davebear - I think the women in question were using “nice ass” as a shorter version of “nice piece of ass” which means the whole package. I could see doing so in context of the situation if they had a running discussion going, probably an inside joke, of sorts, which no one can ever really remember how it got started in the first place.
In general, I don’t think women say “nice ass” to mean anything else, but it is true we tend to see everything and will not notice a nice ass on a not so nice body otherwise.
I almost never say “nice ass,” but on the rare occasions that I DO, I’m referring specifically to the posterior in question, not to the rest of the person’s body, personality, taste in shoes, etc.
And I’m of the heterosexual female persuasion.
Oh, My, God. The first time I inspire a new thread and this is what it turns out to be. I guess I’m… flattered?
Oh, and by the way, it’s exquisite.
ah flight…Nice Ass!
yes we do compartmentalize, mebbe not all…but heck
a nice ass is a nice firm yummie want to touch it ass!
now wether the nice-ass-spotting-glow fades once the guy
turns around…::insert sicilian gesture here which i can’t possibly
type out::
and summertime is almost here!
time to play in the water and ahem, people watch 
wooooohooooo!!
Gotta love them Irish lasses. Double-checks to make sure he put the L in there. If all women were as straightforward, there’d be a whole lot less confsion and grief in this world.
Well, since it’s my thread, and I think Chrisk72 nailed it a couple posts down, I just gonna highjack this puppy.
Do you really consider that the rudest thing any stranger’s ever said to you? I suppose it may be inappropriate, but is it actually that rude? It’s a compliment, after all. I’m assuming it wasn’t said sarcastically.
That’ll teach ya to hang out in the sex threads, ya perv!
Why, thank you. But, I’m straight. Sorry. Or, did you mean the topic?
I don’t think it was meant sarcastically, as it was followed by, “What’s your name, baby?”
Was it the rudest thing ever said to me? No, probably not. Men have yelled far more graphic and disturbing things to me since I reached puberty. But I didn’t like it just the same, because it was yelled at me as I walked down the street by a complete stranger. If my SO says, “Hey! Nice ass!” or even just a friend, it’s okay or at least funny, and I’ll respond in kind. Some freaky-ass guy in a bar, on the street, or in a passing car? No thanks. It’s not a compliment to be thought of as just a body part.
The way I see it, it’s as easy to think something and NOT say it as it is to blurt it out. What, do these guys think I’m going to jump in the car and put my head in their lap because they say I have a nice ass? I just don’t get it.
I think this is one of the differences between men and women that men have trouble appreciating. One time, and only one time 
have the words “Nice Ass” ever been directed at me by an attractive stranger. (I happened to be bent over, tieing my shoes when an pretty blonde sitting in a convertible went by. Unfortunately, the guys that were driving didn’t even slow down.) Damn near made my decade.)
Most likely, they thought they were just having fun, without realizing how boldly they were displaying their cluelessness. It is also possible that they were taking a “WAC” (wild assed chance). The odds of you jumping in their car after they say some such thing? 1 million to one. The odds of you jumping in their car after just driving on by? 1/0 to 1. (Why not try and talk to you, if they really thought you were so hot they had to say something? Beats me.
Beats me too. I don’t think it’s that they’re so mesmerized by my beauty they simply MUST say something lest I get away – I think these guys yell at anything with boobs on the off-chance that one woman might go for it.
See, this is one of the oddities of human behavior that mystifies me. And, it definitely isn’t just you, Gundy. Almost every woman I’ve ever talked to about this felt the same way. As did every woman I’ve observed being whistled at. It’s all about the relationship to the man. If there isn’t one, it’s an insult. If there is, it’s a compliment. Same action, different results.
The best theory I’ve been able to come up with, and I’m not saying it’s correct, is that there’s some inherent belief, that all women seem to share, that men have to earn the right to see them as sexual beings. This would, at least, fit with the little I know of paleoanthropology and human evolution. I can see it being another piece of ancient baggage, carried over from the days when proto-human women would mate with any male who proved his worth. It makes no sense, to me, in modern context, though. It’s like having to earn the right to know you have both legs.
Well, that’s an exaggeration. While there may be the occasional loon who really sees only the butt or boobs, most of us guys see the whole person, even if it was just the ass that caught our attention in the first place. I understand no one wants to be dehumanized, but that’s completely different from being seen as a person with one unusually nice feature. And, that’s where the compliment comes from; it’s recognition that you surpass the norm, in some way.
This one I can answer with some confidence, based on reading a study on this, ages ago. They just want to provoke a reaction; any reaction. It doesn’t matter what the reaction is, because the whole point was just to get some attention from an attractive woman. And, yes, it does have to be a woman who has at least one attractive feature. The more the better, but these guys are emotional juveniles, so one will suffice. It is pathetic, but it’s more worthy of pity or disdain, than anger.
I wanna highjack it too, because I’ve always wondered…
What about a male ass is attractive to women? Why? What can be done with it?
Cite?
I’ve often wondered the same thing. I always felt women admiring men’s asses was a gimmick made up by the diet coke advertisers in the early eighties that somehow caught on with the general population. I’m never even sure how to identify a nice male ass. And what am I supposed to do with it once I find it? Am I supposed to want to squish it because of its inviting roundness? Admire it in various poses? Shave it? How is it ever going to be of any use to me?