# Left-handed compliments **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 16, 2008, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824 "2008-09-16T12:04:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824/21 "2008-09-16T16:23:51Z")
“You’re not as fat as you used to be.” ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824/22 "2008-09-16T16:23:53Z")
> [@Sublata](#): > > “You’ve lost **so much** weight! Look at Sublata, everyone! Hasn’t she lost a **WHOLE LOT** of weight?” You’ve got to love those people. I just smile at them so big while I’m mentally stabbing them with my pencil.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824/23 "2008-09-16T16:24:40Z")
Your handwriting is so neat, it’s like you’re right-handed! ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824/24 "2008-09-16T16:26:23Z")
> [@Sublata](#): > > “You’ve lost **so much** weight! Look at Sublata, everyone! Hasn’t she lost a **WHOLE LOT** of weight?” Back when I was successful in my Weight Watchers regime, a co-worker referred to me as “a shadow of my former self.” ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824/25 "2008-09-16T16:31:17Z")
Theres always the old For a fat girl you don’t sweat too much. Then statistics show about 9 percent of the population is gay. And 9 percent of the population is left handed. Nice that god makes it so easy to pick them out. ---
**Author:** ![Kalea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b487fb/32.png) [@Kalea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalea)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824/26 "2008-09-16T18:16:31Z")
“Those pants don’t make your butt look _nearly_ as big!” ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824/27 "2008-09-16T18:21:06Z")
To me, the funniest ones are the ones where the person catches themselves _right before they say it_. Someone once told me I was “light on my feet,” and I actually _heard_ her throat clamp down as she tried to go on to say, “for a fat guy.” ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824/28 "2008-09-16T18:27:14Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > From a lady: “You’re pretty big. For a white guy.” Yes, it’s exactly what you’re thinking. I got something similar: “You’re much bigger than I thought you would be.” Thanks…I think. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824/29 "2008-09-16T18:36:58Z")
You’re so well spoken… ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824/30 "2008-09-16T18:41:29Z")
Your d\*ck is much bigger than all your friends’. ---
**Author:** ![CAT\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@CAT\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAT_1)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824/31 "2008-09-16T18:45:00Z")
At one of the very few thin periods in my life I heard this from my niece. She was 18 at the time, so should have known better. It was 1987. “Aunt Cat you look so thin!”…then she whispered in my ear, “You don’t have Aids do you?”! 😕 :smack: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824/32 "2008-09-16T18:55:27Z")
A friend was being hit on by a co-worker. Later, at a party, my brother-in-law sees the guy and his wife. “My God, did you see how ugly is wife is? No WONDER he hit on you!” ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824/33 "2008-09-16T19:05:23Z")
I once was told by my landlady, “Your hair looks so good! I saw you the other day and I thought, that can’t be her!” Um… thanks? ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824/34 "2008-09-16T19:20:49Z")
My then step-daughter was looking at some of my old high school pictures and exclaimed " wow you \* were \* really hot, I would have dated you! " She caught what she had said and grinned and said " don’t worry Mom still thinks you’re hot " Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824/35 "2008-09-16T20:33:02Z")
> [@Sublata](#): > > “You’ve lost **so much** weight! Look at Sublata, everyone! Hasn’t she lost a **WHOLE LOT** of weight?” I’m sorry, I must be dense. I recently reached my goal weight after losing 27 lbs. Why would this be considered a left-handed compliment? I WANT people to notice the new me! ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824/36 "2008-09-16T20:58:57Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I’m sorry, I must be dense. I recently reached my goal weight after losing 27 lbs. Why would this be considered a left-handed compliment? I WANT people to notice the new me! I think it’s the emphasis on the large amount of weight lost. Sort of the equivalent of, “Hey everyone, remember how FAT he/she used to be!” ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824/37 "2008-09-16T21:05:56Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > A friend was being hit on by a co-worker. Later, at a party, my brother-in-law sees the guy and his wife. > > “My God, did you see how ugly is wife is? No WONDER he hit on you!” LOL! I had a roommate in college who thought she was beautiful and therefore was so stuck-up she could never get a date. Then comes me - comfortably curvy, dating someone steady long distance, and yet always with a bunch of guy friends calling to hang out. “Guys must love hanging out with you since they don’t have to worry about you starting to like them or something.” ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824/38 "2008-09-16T21:07:28Z")
> [@CAT\_1](#): > > At one of the very few thin periods in my life I heard this from my niece. She was 18 at the time, so should have known better. It was 1987. > > “Aunt Cat you look so thin!”…then she whispered in my ear, “You don’t have Aids do you?”! 😕 :smack: :mad: OMG :smack::smack: :eek: 2 smacks and an eek! ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824/39 "2008-09-16T21:09:45Z")
> [@jali](#): > > You’re so well spoken… I hate that one! Cause you can just fill in the “for someone who looks so dumb . . .” ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824/40 "2008-09-16T21:16:07Z")
> [@melodyharmonius](#): > > snip … > > From my own mother: > “You’re just so good at writing resumes. Must be all those times you had to look for jobs.” > > Your turn! I am posting to say that this is the quintessentially typical parental thing to say (though in my personal case I’d expect it from my father not my mother) When I saw the title of the thread I wondered what kind of compliments are given to left-handed people (such as myself) because I have never received one (except indirectly, when people say things like “Lefties are better cricket players”) But I am flattered when somebody at least _acknowledges_ that I am left-handed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-handed-compliments/463824.md?page=3)