where time becomes a loop
― El Tomboto, Friday, 29 February 2008 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
"Hey, I'm not a dickwad! I'm a douche, there's a difference"
― nabisco, Friday, 29 February 2008 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Where's that Ourborous jpg when you need it?
― Laurel, Friday, 29 February 2008 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Do women like being called cute?
― gabbneb, Friday, 29 February 2008 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
The "cute-as-diminuitive" thing is definitely true. Tone has a lot to do with it, but generally speaking if a girl calls me cute I go "oh shit, I'm cute." This goes like x10 if it's "sweet."
have a coworker who calls me "honey" and it really grates because it makes her sound maternal and somehow superior even though we're the same age. Other coworker is much older and calls me "honey" and I don't mind.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 February 2008 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Is that because your face is pressed between the older coworker's dirty pillows?
― HI DERE, Friday, 29 February 2008 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
laurel you would probably have better luck GISing for Ouroboros if you spelled it right
― El Tomboto, Friday, 29 February 2008 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link
BLAMMO
http://teek.artspots.com/files/image/file/10664/resized/19_aris-ouroboros.jpg
― El Tomboto, Friday, 29 February 2008 22:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't mind being called "cute". I don't feel like it's a threat to my burly, he-man-like, two-fisted virility in any way.
― kenan, Friday, 29 February 2008 22:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Earlier I was GISing "headache" and I was super unhappy that I'd neglected to turn on safe search (although picture really suggested "faceache", going by the amount of face left).
― HI DERE, Friday, 29 February 2008 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
xxxxp There's a Q in that, right?
― Laurel, Friday, 29 February 2008 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
There's certainly a queue in that lizard's mouth, yeah
― Michael White, Friday, 29 February 2008 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
hahahahaha dan I know what picture you saw. I remember it from like years ago, too
― El Tomboto, Friday, 29 February 2008 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Do men like to be called beautiful?
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 1 March 2008 04:33 (sixteen years ago) link
i prefer "cute" to "beautiful"
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 1 March 2008 04:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Most guys I know don't give an F if they are called cute, and seem to just assume it means hot or desirable ("wow, you look really cute today!/in that/whatev"), which is pretty much always what I mean by it. One dude actually got a little angry with me for describing him as beautiful, though!
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 1 March 2008 04:35 (sixteen years ago) link
He turned out to be some kind of bitter ex-neo-nazi or something, though.
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 1 March 2008 04:36 (sixteen years ago) link
"beautiful" is weird. I try not to let the whole *feminine* connotation of it bother me, but what can I say, it does.
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 1 March 2008 04:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Sometimes beautiful is the only word that will do, though. Unless you're gonna really start rhapsodizing about some dude's face. "Handsome" seems to denote something else, something I don't usually find myself complimenting in a man. Or a woman!
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 1 March 2008 04:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I used to dislike "handsome" when I was younger - it seemed like the sort of word my mom's friends used to try to make me feel better about myself. Now I totally dig being called handsome.
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 1 March 2008 04:40 (sixteen years ago) link
But also depends on tone - it can have this feel of "Yeah, he has objectively nice features in spite of the fact that there's nothing sexy about him"
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 1 March 2008 04:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, there has got to be a less disgusting word for "manly" that means the same thing.
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 1 March 2008 04:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I would like to be described as having "rugged good looks"
but I am not very rugged :(
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 1 March 2008 04:42 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm pretty reactionary towards this word bcuz i heard it a lot in middle school/early in high school bcuz i was short/young looking, but most girls i know now use it as a synonym for 'hot' or w/e
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 1 March 2008 04:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't mind. Beggars/Choosers.
― jel --, Saturday, 1 March 2008 11:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha! I would hate, hate, hate to be called 'cute'. My sperm count would drop by 50%. I would interpret it as code for 'you are not remotely sexy, but I do think you're funny, like a goofy brother'.
-- moley, Friday, February 29, 2008 7:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
Fave compliment from a woman for me would probably be 'You handsome devil, you make me think bad, wrong thoughts'. I'm getting myself worked up just thinking about it.
-- moley, Friday, February 29, 2008 7:46 PM (Yesterday)
haha...I agree with this.
isn't cute just a byword for not being taken seriously? not an affront to masculinity.
― Ronan, Saturday, 1 March 2008 12:01 (sixteen years ago) link
do please read the thread
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 1 March 2008 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah someone else made that point. good.
― Ronan, Saturday, 1 March 2008 12:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm too much of a metal stallion to be affected by being called "cute".
― latebloomer, Saturday, 1 March 2008 13:10 (sixteen years ago) link
call me anything you want.
― latebloomer, Saturday, 1 March 2008 13:15 (sixteen years ago) link
sometimes not being taken seriously, but being called cute/hott, is exactly what one wants
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 1 March 2008 13:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Call me Ishmael
― latebloomer, Saturday, 1 March 2008 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I do not understand this foreign tongue of Tracer Hand.
http://americancivilwar.com/pictures/abe_lincoln.jpg
― gabbneb, Saturday, 1 March 2008 13:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Why the hell would anyone wanna be taken seriously?
― jel --, Saturday, 1 March 2008 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Can one not accept that they will only ever be awwws cute because there is no other visual option? This is my curse. Wear that curse with pride, men who are only ever called cute.
― Abbott, Sunday, 2 March 2008 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link
hey guys, did i miss anything?
― DG, Sunday, 2 March 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Summary of above 900 posts: men have varying opinions.
― Abbott, Sunday, 2 March 2008 23:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I like being called cute.
― jaymc, Monday, 3 March 2008 00:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 3 March 2008 00:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I like being called cute as long as it's from a girl who I'm not attracted to.
― jim, Monday, 3 March 2008 00:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't like it much, but it's totally my 'thing', so I should resign myself to it. Just started seeing a girl who said she fancies me because I remind her of a little boy, not sure how I should take that (I think she was joking. A bit.).
― chap, Monday, 3 March 2008 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link
call the cops
― blueski, Monday, 3 March 2008 00:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Nobody calls me shit so I'd be grateful for anything. How people can pick and choose their compliments baffles me.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 3 March 2008 01:05 (sixteen years ago) link
you got sick abs, a.a.!
― roxymuzak, Monday, 3 March 2008 02:24 (sixteen years ago) link
if it helps all you thin-skinned dudes, you can pretend that girls who call you cute are interested but first want to test you to make sure you're not some hopelessly insecure guy who can't even take a compliment.
― bernard snowy, Monday, 3 March 2008 02:46 (sixteen years ago) link
xp thanks but 'had' is probably the correct verb. It's all behind layers of sponge atm.
When you get married people stop saying good AND bad things about you, as though you're suddenly some asexual piece of cardboard.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 3 March 2008 02:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Why would a guy find it offensive to be called "cute"? "He's cute!" Big whoop.
― burt_stanton, Monday, 3 March 2008 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
It is a mystery. Some guys find it offensive for some reason.
― roxymuzak, Monday, 3 March 2008 03:07 (sixteen years ago) link
It's been shown that men who take things as affronts to their masculinity are often "omega" males or "omega men"
― burt_stanton, Monday, 3 March 2008 03:08 (sixteen years ago) link