# Name 3 Things You Like About Yourself **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 8, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499 "2009-12-08T20:39:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499/41 "2009-12-09T17:49:47Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > 1. Whatever you are, I’m cool with it as long as its basically legal. I don’t have gay friends or European friends or poor friends or whatever ------ I just got friends. If you’re fun to be around nothing else matters much. I wish more people were like you. ---
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499/42 "2009-12-09T18:01:39Z")
Wow! This is hard. I am beginning to think I may have some self image problems. 1. I am pretty of face. (I get compliments from others all the time, so I am not the only one who thinks so.) 2. I am a ‘solution looking for a problem.’ I am always trying to help others with things large and small. I must be okay at it since they keep letting me. 3. I can sing (and do). Not sure I believe that one. People keep asking me to perform, though, so I can’t be that bad, right? ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499/43 "2009-12-09T18:06:37Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > 1. Beyond a doubt the accomplishment/activity of which I am the most proud, and to which I have put the most effort, is that my wife and I seem to have been pretty successful in raising 3 pretty decent young adults. That is no small accomplishment. More people should put thought, care, and effort into raising good people. Mine: 1. Currently I really like my legs. (This is related to #3) 2. I go out of my way to make people feel at-ease (but not so much that it makes people uncomfortable—there’s such a thing as going overboard!) 3. I’m a good runner. I’m not about to break any records or win any endorsements, but I’ve run 2 races recently that I didn’t train well for and my times were good enough that I know I could do great things if I put more effort into it. My “worst race ever” was the second of 2 Half-marathons that I ran this fall, and I thought I completely imploded. I did, however, finish a good 20 minutes faster than friends of mine who considered themselves running great races. I just need to put more into it. ---
**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:** [December 9, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499/44 "2009-12-09T18:22:06Z")
> [@melodyharmonius](#): > > [ol] > [li]Name something physical you like about yourself (please avoid talking about the size of your sex organs).[/li][li]Name something you like about your personality.[/li][li]Name something you like about your activities/skills/creativity.[/li][/ol] [ol][li]Sorry if this is TMI, but despite having (and being on medication for) high blood pressure and diabetes, I am still fully functional sexually. This is not something a hypertensive, diabetic 41-year-old can take for granted.[/li][li]I don’t need to be around people all the time. People who do really freak me out.[/li][li]I’ve come up with what, if I may so so myself, is a rather ingenious and relatively low-effort way of time-shifting the NPR shows I dearly love to listen to but don’t enjoy interrupting my weekend for.[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499/45 "2009-12-09T18:50:33Z")
1. Gotta go with two here: my eyes and my smile. Can’t pick just one! But that’s literally it. 2. I am open-minded and try to understand other perspectives. 3. I have a lot of hobbies and am good at many of them: classical guitar, stained glass, baking, gardening. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499/46 "2009-12-09T18:58:54Z")
(1) Hands. (Their touch has been variously described as ‘lighter than the wings of a butterfly resting on the silken thigh of a former virgin’s leg’ and ‘softer than a warm breath of wind floating gently past a nymphet’s nipple’.) (2) Modesty. (3) I am very active in the local plastic duck racing scene, organising races down the stream at the local village fête. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499/47 "2009-12-09T19:01:15Z")
**Name something physical you like about yourself \*\* I like my smile. \*\* Name something you like about your personality.** I am in my heart a good man and I truly strive each year to be a better man. **Name something you like about your activities/skills/creativity.** I no longer have the memory I had in my youth and I lament the loss of it, but I am still a good problem solver. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499/48 "2009-12-09T19:05:07Z")
1. I’ve worked long and hard for my muscles, and it shows. 2. I’ve got a wit so quick, it’ll give you whiplash. 3. I am a very good painter of miniature figures. I’ve been told that it’s not just the quality, but the speed at which I paint that is impressive. ---
**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:** [December 9, 2009, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499/49 "2009-12-09T19:08:06Z")
> [@Chez\_Guevara](#): > > (1) Hands. > > (Their touch has been variously described as ‘lighter than the wings of a butterfly resting on the silken thigh of a former virgin’s leg’ and ‘softer than a warm breath of wind floating gently past a nymphet’s nipple’.) Cite! zomg - I am rolling in my cubicle laughing at your clever loophole - and not being able to explain to my bemused but befuddled coworkers. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499/50 "2009-12-09T20:05:06Z")
[ol] [li]I like that even though I am fat, I get fat all over in a proportional way and not just in one area.[/li][li]I am getting better at reading other people and being sensitive to how they might be feeling.[/li][li]I am a good hand quilter.[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499/51 "2009-12-09T20:14:23Z")
> [@NinetyWt](#): > > I wish more people were like you. So do I. Labels/descriptives seem such a big thing in the world that its hard to be someone who doesn’t notice them or really note; especially on the web. I have a feeling I may end up with my foot in my mouth so many times that Athlete’s Tongue is a real possibility. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499/52 "2009-12-09T22:49:53Z")
> [@melodyharmonius](#): > > Cite! Sorry, no can do. The authors of both reviews are currently ensconced in a sanatorium just outside Stratford-upon-Avon, recuperating from major _frissons_ of delight and severe paroxysms of pleasure. A request for cites would just bring it all back, and quite possibly delay any recovery for years. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499/53 "2009-12-09T22:57:27Z")
1. Eyes - blue/green/gray, and they change depending on mood and/or clothing colors 2. Sense of humor. I’m my crowd’s Dorothy Parker, queen of the one-liner! 3. I can bore everyone for HOURS with all things Scottish. ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499/54 "2009-12-09T23:04:21Z")
1. Hair (though going white) and perfect eye site here in my 40s. 2. Always happy & energetic, to the extent that a neutral response brings many statements of concern. 3. Considered to be a good enough cook that I have been asked to cater friend’s birthday parties, and my wife has been told that if she leaves me HER family still gets me for the holidays. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499/55 "2009-12-09T23:41:04Z")
1. Good hair. And I’m physically healthy. 2. Personality wise? I’m good to work for. Whenever I hire someone, I give clear instructions, take away hindrances, show appreciation, bring hot or cold drinks as needed and I pay promptly. 3. Skill: I know a lot of practical trivia. Not so much about who won an award for what movie, but I know that soap makes a screw go easily in wood, and how to make a sauce from scratch, and how to get a hornet or snake out of a room, I know my way around govenment red tape, and in fact, how to solve most practical problems. ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499/56 "2009-12-09T23:45:58Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > According to a fast web search, you may be an inventor of the word as well. In my book that qualifies as a majorly cool thing! (_o_)/ Yup, that’d be me. Most other “studies of something” have an “-ology” term attached to them, but I couldn’t find any for national anthems. Got together with a friend of mine who studies ancient languages and came up with that. I haven’t seen other anthematologists dissent (though I’m the only one it seems who uses it to the extent I do) so it stays there. Hopefully it’ll eventually make it to Websters. And thanks for the “majorly cool” shout, I rarely get that in my life. Where were you when I was in high school anyways? ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499/57 "2009-12-10T02:02:05Z")
> [@dhkendall](#): > > And thanks for the “majorly cool” shout, I rarely get that in my life. Where were you when I was in high school anyways? What years were they? Unless this is a clever way to ask me out on a date or to take a paternity test -------- in which case I never heard or Cecil Adams or the SDMB. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mookieblaylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mookieblaylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mookieblaylock)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499/58 "2009-12-10T02:07:11Z")
1. There is nothing physically to like about myself. The proof is in I’ve never had a girlfriend. 2. My personality sucks too. The proof is in the fact that I have no friends. 3. Got none of these either. I’m a dumbass college dropout who’s nothing more than a worthless piece of shit. Too bad I don’t have the spine to off myself. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499/59 "2009-12-10T02:37:42Z")
1. I am well proportioned and have something like a swimmer’s body. I am 6’1 and 180 with somewhat broad shoulders. I ballooned up briefly and that wasn’t something I was used to and getting it back down to what I consider normal feels great. 2. I am very resilient and I don’t really care what other people think and never have even as a young child. That causes some problems but it lets me do whatever I want without any extra mental overhead. 3). I can be a good writer even though I don’t always try very hard, especially here. I can write in lots of different styles if I get the inspiration to commit to something. I will try anything at least twice. I am the person you want coming up with the plans if you want any type of true adventure. I will do just about anything that sounds thrilling just to get the experience even if it doesn’t work out that well. So far, I have a 100% success rate with talking my way out of legal and police situations and that is no small feat. I am 36 though so some of this stuff has to be modified in time. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499/60 "2009-12-10T03:00:34Z")
1. My feet have always worked really well. 2. I’ve never taken myself too seriously. 3. I can capture a time and place in pictures. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-3-things-you-like-about-yourself/520499.md?page=4)