Ok, I’m going in here for the hard sell on a new SDMB slogan:
Now you should try the opposite:
“I like the tone of your voice.”
(Or, perhaps, “I like how that sounds”; or may I offer “you sound mellifluous”)
How do people respond? Smiles and giggles? Do they offer you any variations on tone or sound?
If I said you had a sensuous mouth, would you hold it against me?
What was the film (1980s?) in which an “artist” approaches random strangers, says, “Fuck you!” and photographs their reaction? (That’s all there was to his “art.”) Was it Eating Raoul?
Even if this was a friend of mine, I’d probably spend less and less time with them if this was their idea of fun.
I think @kayaker is great.
No harm in funnin’ your friends.
You know, I think this might have been a fun experiment twenty years ago. Predicting who would take it too seriously - the sort of “personality test” people read far too much into.
These days? No. People already don’t like so many things, are offended by tchotchkes over shibboleths. Even nice people might take it badly. The place for this sort of comment is celebrity interviews with Stephen Colbert. However, you will receive my royal dispensation should you limit it to the next five people who make unsolicited calls to your landline.
What’s a landline? (Haven’t had one in >15 years)
If I said that to my wife, she probably wouldn’t speak to me for a week. I’m not taking that chance.
I don’t like the tone of this thread.
And it’s quite likely that those three now think “wow, I never realized before what a dick kayaker is. I will avoid him in future.” So congrats I guess for poisoning your relationships with others.
In that case, make it the next ten calls.
The comment is harmless, kidding between good friends who know you well. But some casual acquaintances take this sort of thing worse than you might expect.
I would find this amusing as long as I wasn’t dealing with this sort of thing all the time.
So I’m firmly in the “lighten up” camp.