# What others say about you **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 26, 2007, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839 "2007-11-26T21:58:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839/41 "2007-11-27T15:39:58Z")
My sister-in-law once compared me to my brothers, saying that whilst they both had advanced degrees, I was ‘the smart one’. I sometimes wonder how she meant that. In a class I took when I still had aspirations of being a radio broadcaster, I was told by my classmates that I had a ‘great voice for classical radio’. They meant it as an insult, as they were all trying to be shock-jocks. I took it as a compliment. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839/42 "2007-11-27T15:45:00Z")
Sunday night, while at the bar watching the Bears win (how in the hell did THAT happen?) I made some comment to my husband - a friend of ours overheard and gave us a strange look. My husband just looked back at him and said, “She just ain’t right.” As in “right in the head” versus “not incorrect”. Works for me. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839/43 "2007-11-27T15:47:19Z")
I was really touched to find an ex-colleague of mine had altered her facebook “how do you know this person?” about me from “We used to work together”, to: “We used to work together. He made me laugh every single day from 2003 to 2005.” Of course, that might have been “laugh at” not “laugh with”, but that’s good, too. Another ex-colleague wrote: “Jim is my encyclopedia of everything. He taught me my work and we’ve had some real good conversations on various topics.” 'Twas heartwarming. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839/44 "2007-11-27T15:55:07Z")
[QUOTE=Lust4Life] I’ve been informed by a mate that some fuckhead that I know reckons that I have Anger Management issues that I need to address. Who the flying fuck does that pathetic cunt think he is to give ME advice on MY character? Trained as a fucking psychiatrist in the time he didn’t spend practicing to be a proffessional CUNT did he? Fucking obnoxious peice of filth that he is. ADDRESS?ADDRESS? I’ll fucking address him with my fist through the nearest plate glass window. What REALLY,REALLY gets to me is how somebody who apparently knows me quite well can get my character assessment so very,very wrong,the BASTARD!!! [/QUOTE] Oh yeah? You and whose fucking army pal? Don’t make the mistake of thinking I don’t know where you live you useless blob of smegma. Name the time and place, oh and which window did you have in mind? Tart! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![miamouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@miamouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miamouse)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839/45 "2007-11-27T15:56:27Z")
People have told me that I am ‘too nice’ and ‘a strong woman’. It took me a long time and a bunch of disappointment to be able to agree to either. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839/46 "2007-11-27T16:21:17Z")
When I was in Junior High school I was a pretty solid student, and fairly nerdy, and acquiescent to authority. For some reason, a substitute teacher claimed I was a “rebel without a cause”. Also around that time, a family friend told me he thought I was the type who would prefer driving a stick shift to auto transmission. Both of these were things I never would have thought about myself, but both led to introspection and had influence on my later years… ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839/47 "2007-11-27T16:32:10Z")
I was crabbing to my mom about my dad being too closed-minded (“He doesn’t _really_ hate gays, does he? Does he _really_ hate blacks? I don’t believe him…”) and my mom told me I was **quite empathetic** towards people who were “different” because I grew up as a fat person, thus being different myself. I told her that was interesting, and possibly true but I played the “actually, being kind to others is just the Christian thing to do, isn’t it?” card instead. It’s interesting to talk to my mom anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839/48 "2007-11-27T16:44:26Z")
My brother told me I had tact: the ability to tell somebody to go to hell and have them feel good about it. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839/49 "2007-11-27T16:53:39Z")
A friend once told me that when I try to be quiet in a group, I just look sullen. She was right. ---
**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839/50 "2007-11-27T17:01:05Z")
LOL, I keep being told by customers (in voices that indicate they mean it as insulting) that I am “very efficient.” Somehow, I just don’t take offense at it. It’s a compliment. I smile and say “Thanks!” each time I hear it. Is there really any reason to see “efficient” as an insult??? ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839/51 "2007-11-27T17:36:10Z")
[QUOTE=ArrMatey!] In a class I took when I still had aspirations of being a radio broadcaster, I was told by my classmates that I had a ‘great voice for classical radio’. They meant it as an insult, as they were all trying to be shock-jocks. I took it as a compliment. [/QUOTE] Better than being told you have a _face_ for radio! ---
**Author:** ![miamouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@miamouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miamouse)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839/52 "2007-11-27T18:53:14Z")
[QUOTE=Litoris] LOL, I keep being told by customers (in voices that indicate they mean it as insulting) that I am “very efficient.” Somehow, I just don’t take offense at it. It’s a compliment. I smile and say “Thanks!” each time I hear it. Is there really any reason to see “efficient” as an insult??? [/QUOTE] Even this is a stretch of the imagination, but maybe they were expecting warm and fuzzy? _shrug_ maybe they were all hyper and ready to be angry about something and you didn’t let them take it all out on you. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839/53 "2007-11-27T19:04:03Z")
[QUOTE=Litoris] LOL, I keep being told by customers (in voices that indicate they mean it as insulting) that I am “very efficient.” Somehow, I just don’t take offense at it. It’s a compliment. I smile and say “Thanks!” each time I hear it. Is there really any reason to see “efficient” as an insult??? [/QUOTE] Yeah, I dunno… I’ve never seen ‘efficient’ as an insult, although I’ve heard it used as one. What’s wrong with being efficient? ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839/54 "2007-11-27T19:51:55Z")
My mom took me to Borders for my birthday. I picked out a few graphic novels. She told me to pick out more. While I was trying to decide, she flipped through what I had. When I came back, she said I had a lot in common with Spider Jerusalem (from Transmetropolitan). I only protested to keep her from being frightened. ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839/55 "2007-11-27T20:33:17Z")
My glamazon roomate in university told me that when she first met me, she was totally intimidated because I seemed so quiet at first, but once I opened my mouth something razor-sharp and intelligent and pithy would come flying out. I’m still secretly smug of the fact that I (a small bookwormish philosophy major) intimidated the glamazon (a 6’ tall former model studying opera). Smirk. ---
**Author:** ![Sanity\_Challenged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Sanity\_Challenged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sanity_Challenged)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839/56 "2007-11-27T20:45:37Z")
I’m not very athletically talented, but I am pretty intense when it comes to competition. When I play something, I push myself pretty hard to become at least competitive at it. So among the athletically average, most of whom take competition a little more leisurely than I do, I tend to win a lot eventually. In college I had a racquetball class with a friend from my dorm. He had played the game before, and I had not, so he was looking forward to whipping on me a bit after I had already beaten him in pool, table tennis, Scrabble, basketball, etc. But within a few weeks, I started beating him soundly. Him: Man, you win at everything… Me: I, uh…well, thanks man… Him: …except relaxing. So true. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839/57 "2007-11-27T21:42:15Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Your mother must be so proud. [/QUOTE] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839/58 "2007-11-27T22:15:10Z")
A friend of mine once described me on Friendster: “If [she] was a Simpsons character, she’d be the [Reverend Lovejoy’s daughter, Jessica](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Springfield_Elementary_School_students#Jessica_Lovejoy).” _sniff_ that was so sweet of him… Also a school teacher once wrote that I do have difficulty working and playing with others. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2007, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839/59 "2007-11-28T01:56:28Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > A friend once told me that I’d have made a wonderful Catholic, because guilt trips are so effective on me. Not _that_ effective, apparently! 😉 > [@Lionne](#): > > A friend once told me, “You know, Lionne, everyone says you’re hot and all that, but deep down you’re a really nice person. Just gotta watch out for Oscar the Grouch.” > > He was a little drunk, but I know exactly what he meant. Really? Because I don’t think I could jam those three things into one character trait with a shoehorn the size of Nevada. What did he mean, exactly? ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2007, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839/60 "2007-11-28T02:16:40Z")
I just found out that a recently deceased, beloved aunt of mine referred to me as lazy. I think this is because I only have a bachelor’s degree and didn’t continue my schooling long enough to become a neurosurgeon or college professor specializing in 12th century Flemish basket weaving or something. That side of the family was very into advanced degrees. (Excuse me for being satisfied with a well-paying job in a growing, personally satisfying industry, with a wife, a kid and a nice house :rolleyes: ) I have had several people tell me they were intimidated by me when they first met me. I guess I am as intimidating as only a short, quiet, slightly-built nonathletic middle-aged shy guy can be 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-others-say-about-you/427839.md?page=4)