# Weird compliments you've received. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 22, 2012, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292 "2012-01-22T08:39:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/101 "2012-01-27T04:34:55Z")
> [@CitizenPained](#): > > From my son’s dad again: > > _You…smell like a girl._ > > :dubious: How is that weird? And why the _dubious_ emoticon? ---
**Author:** ![MsJinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@MsJinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsJinx)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/102 "2012-01-27T06:10:24Z")
A gynecologist told my friend she had a very small cervix. She took it as a compliment and debated over whether to put it in her [Match.com](http://Match.com) profile. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/103 "2012-01-27T17:19:13Z")
‘‘You might not make such a terrible mother after all.’’ Said by a male college roommate after I cleaned the kitchen. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/104 "2012-01-27T17:55:55Z")
If it weren’t for weird compliments, I wouldn’t get any at all. Someone who had known me for years looked at my bare legs one summer day, and said, “Whoa! I thought those were white tights, but that’s your _skin_! You’re _really_ pale!” “Um, yes. And you’re just noticing this now?” “Well, I guess you just don’t seem like a pale person!” I also used to get a lot of “…but you’re not a _typical_ blonde/woman/etc.; you’re smart.” I don’t hear this very often any more, so either I’m hanging around with a better class of people now, or I’ve gotten dumber. In art class in middle school, another student asked me for help with his ceramics project. He’d made a tall, skinny vase and couldn’t figure out how to seal the seams on the inside. I said, “You just reach in and press it together,” and demonstrated. He grabbed my hand and said, “Whoa! Your fingers are freakishly long!” And a hairdresser told me I have a really nicely shaped occipital bone. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/105 "2012-01-27T17:59:59Z")
Not too weird in context, but my dentist told me I had fantastic gums. That made me chuckle. ---
**Author:** ![punch\_line\_loser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e7dd6/32.png) [@punch\_line\_loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/punch_line_loser)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/106 "2012-01-27T20:44:18Z")
Usually it’s in the context. Like last week I was told that I have very nice eyes… by my financial aid advisor, who was quite literally in the middle of running the numbers on my staggering debt to my school. Several years ago, because I was wearing a small black sweater jacket that I had gotten from a former (rather tiny) girlfriend and I was told I represented “the new male sexuality.” That would have been a pretty disarming comment even if it hadn’t been said by my lifelong friend’s mom. One of my (female) roommates is fond of saying that I’m “basically gay” as a mutated form of her earlier statements about how I look better in her clothes than she does. Long story. (Disclaimer: I myself don’t equate wearing girl clothes with gayness in any way. Also, just FTR, these are jeans and sweaters we’re talking about, not dresses or lady underpants.) Am I just incredibly vain? Although here’s one of my weirdest ever that I’ll let y’all fill in the context for yourselves: “Curved ones hurt more!” ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/107 "2012-01-27T23:21:36Z")
A girl once told me I was the only geek she’d ever met who could talk to real people. We’ll be celebrating our 28th anniversary this year. She was the same one that once told me I could walk into any group of people anywhere and find something to talk about that we had in common. I used to get “you have great veins” from every phlebotomist I met. After chemo, I don’t hear that anymore. ---
**Author:** ![crookedteeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b4bc9f/32.png) [@crookedteeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crookedteeth)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/108 "2012-01-28T06:48:48Z")
From my eighth grade lesbian algebra teacher, as I’m walking in front of her down the hall: “I like the way your pants sit.” I replied, “Ummmm, excuse me?” She replied, “You know, the way they sit on your… uh, hips.” I just continued walking, picking up the pace. She was later fired for being inappropriate with a different female student. Luckily that’s as inappropriate as she got with me. When I was still shooting dope, I was once complimented on my hair. I hadn’t bathed in three days and I was wearing a bandana. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/109 "2012-01-28T10:19:02Z")
While working cashier a customer said I had a soothing voice and should do books on tape. Other quotes about me: “I’ve never been with you and found myself thinking ‘oh my god get me out of here I’m so bored I wanna stab myself just cuz watching myself bleed would be more fun than this.’” “You have a practical business life, an active involvement in you personal relationships, and you still make time for your hobbies. If anything I would say you give nothing but your level best to everything you commit to. Also, I would point out that your extra-curricular interests are varied as well. You have some tied to health and some tied to the arts. […] a bit spiritual without being preachy. […] you can probably converse with anyone about anything in basic terms and take it from there.” “You’re like a crappy santa claus.” “You’re turtle enough for me” ---
**Author:** ![FlyByNight512](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/82dd89/32.png) [@FlyByNight512](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyByNight512)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/110 "2012-01-28T18:21:17Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > “You’re like a crappy santa claus.” > > “You’re turtle enough for me” Now I really want to hear the story leading up to those! ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/111 "2012-01-28T18:33:31Z")
A dentist once told me something along the lines of, “You have very good teeth, other than the fact that they are very crowded.” (I have very crooked, crowded front lower teeth) My cousin once told my mom, “Your hair looks good today. Did you brush it?” ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/112 "2012-01-28T19:09:00Z")
> [@FlyByNight512](#): > > Now I really want to hear the story leading up to those! I don’t remember where the crappy Santa comment came from. I suspect it may have been me explaining a white elephant gift exchange. The turtle comment comes from my real life nickname, Turtle. ---
**Author:** ![Mdcastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@Mdcastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mdcastle)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/113 "2012-01-28T22:24:04Z")
I’ve gotten a lot of compliments on my hair, some from complete strangers. What’s unsual is I’m a guy. (It’s longish and dyed with henna, and i normally wear kelly green to complement it). ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/114 "2012-01-29T00:00:21Z")
From a former boyfriend, after I’d returned from a potty break: “you pee quick.” (The reason for this being that I ALWAYS have to go to the bathroom and am thus very good at making my visits brief.) And I, too, have been told that I bleed well. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292/115 "2012-01-29T05:51:45Z")
Then there’s the girl who tries to tickle me to no avail, for which she calls me “freakishly strong”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292.md?page=5)