Best compliment you ever received...

I wanted to say yes so badly.

Random librarian girl at the uni just two days ago

And yes, I got her number. Well... both of 'em. :D

Also, my ex, who is emotionally unavailable says that I'm her "Mr. Big." I explained to her that that would make me the emotionally unavailable one, and she said exactly. My mind still reels from that.

said by some guy (who was not ashamed enough to change his behavior).

Not especially. I think she was referring to me as her ideal which she can't confront.

exactly which one are you spencer?

but lauren you are a great person!

What, it tastes good with mustard and swiss cheese?

that was even better than hearing that Robert Christgau liked some shit I wrote

but all my best compliments have come from my kids

Said in hate, not admiration, by two separate women. In my view, they were the evil ones, but I was still flattered.

One day im going to see your name in lights, my dear girl.
I'm going to be standing the tallest and clapping the loudest.

some highlights:

"i really like your clothes"
- from a gay friend

"you are one of the sweetest people i know"
- from a girl i used to have a crush on

In that context, it's rarely a compliment. It actually means "I don't like you in the same way you like me, but I also think you are too weak to hear that, so I'm gonna call you sweet instead."

Recently some guy said "thanks for staying as constant yet varied as Meryl Streep and the rain." hahahahhahaawtfomg

Not everyone would interpret that as a compliment, but I did.

she probably wouldn't say the same thing now that we are older and so much wiser.

it doesn't get much better than that.

was this meant in the sir mix-a-lot sense?

the other day i was walking up st. mark's place and some guy started singing "she's a brick house" as i walked past.

That is indeed a high compliment.

yeah, me too! i was so flattered, i had to repay my gratitude.

let's just say the fortune cookie got laid that night.

I went to the business of someone who happens to live in my neighborhood. They said, "Hey, you're that really ballsy woman!"

Ballsy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PNRPouqD_M

He said I'm balllllsy!

WHY did they say this?

Because I don't have a car!

that is pretty ballsy of you....i guess?

Did Mama Cass choke on it?

omg from upthread

Back in high-school, in mandatory art-class, while I was struggling to get something or other out of a lump of clay, my teacher came over and said: 'You're a good thinker, aren't you?' And I answered: 'Yeah, I'd like to think so' And he said: 'Yeah... that's good, because you can't really use your hands for anything...'

craphanded compliment

does this mean abbs is both cerebral and ballsy

surely it does

Once while getting fired the boss told me that sometimes people can be both extremely intelligent and completely useless.

why did u get fired?

well out of the two options imma say it was the latter tbf

Some dishes didn't get washed when I was closing up shop and the owner decided to blame me rather than the other person who I was working with, who she claimed told her I lied about having done the dishes. I don't think the coworker actually said this though because she is my friend. I think the owner convinced herself that my friend said this to justify her own intention of firing me. She fires people all the time.

Also I'm a useless barista.

suspicious of ilx people who equate 'best' with demoralizing, sarcastic backhanded compliments, just because they referred to intelligence

Ftr I know it was an insult and I don't think she actually thought I was intelligent

the contrast of intelligence with lack of commonsense is also entirely trite and predictable so it is hardly 'best' in the epigrammatic sense either

Maybe it wasn't my best post

lol

i was going to say the other day that treesh along with wins is the best new ilx poster in recentish memory, not a backhanded compliment although admittedly there aren't many other candidates

toandos wrote this on thread solitary posts that effortlessly summarize the spirit of ILX on board I Love Everything on 20-Jul-2012

nakh ur unreadable btw

^ this is the best and indeed only true compliment i have ever received

i've been called cute, charming, funny, charismatic, bright, etc., by a lot of people throughout my life, yet i still think i'm pile of festering garbage that was brought to life after getting struck by lightning. week old chinese takeout noodles for hair, body made up of fish bones, empty liquor bottles, fast food wrappers, mysterious goo, the whole deal. the best compliment you can get, is the compliment that comes from the man (or woman) in the mirror.

The most memorable compliment I ever received was when I was 16 years old.

I was in a campground, where a church-sponsored group of teenagers, including myself, had gathered so that we could start out on a backpack together the next morning. One of the adult leaders asked me to go fetch something and I set off to get it. When I came back the adult, whom I'd never met before that hour, said, "I notice you have an excellent hiking stride!" It was so off-the-wall I knew it was completely genuine.

^ this is the best and indeed only true compliment i have ever received

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gotten a few really amazing ones in the last few years. I'm the type that often holds myself to high standards so when I get them I often sound surprised and ppl think I'm being false-modest but I'm really not!

the biggest one I remember was being at a Jesus Christ Superstar rehearsal and the guy playing Pilate was absent. Instead of skipping the song, they wanted to sing through it and asked if anybody knew it. I'd basically been dying to play that part for years but I'd been missed auditions so I wound up in the ensemble, and figured at least it'd be fun to sing the song once.

So I sang through it like I'd done in my own home a bazillion times, thinking it was nothing special, and I finish, and I hear audible gasps from two of the castmates and a 'wow' from another and I finish and everybody starts cheering. at least two came up to me afterward to tell me how great it sounded. almost cried right then and there, it meant a lot! I wound up playing Pilate when he dropped out.

recently at work the head of our dept was looking to align me to a really near-impossible project load and it wound up not happening cos it turned out to be too unrealistic and she told me 'hey it's just cuz you're so good that I wanna give you all the work' and talked about how I'm good at developing people. Felt nice, but at the same time I'm like 'this means I"m gonna get given a lot more responsibility soon doesn't it'.

this is the best and indeed only true compliment i have ever received

I'm not tryin' to jerk you around nakh, but, yes, you are readable. Sorry to disappoint.

once a girl called me a free spirit and it took me so much aback i still think of it

- a lovely elderly Greek lady came up to me at a tram stop & asked me if I spoke Greek. I said no, and she said I looked very Greek. Which may just mean "big schnoz & dark eyebrows" but I took it as a compliment

- English woman at a party once told me I reminded her of Julia Sawalha :) Which, tbf in the early 90's I always got hey u look like Linda Day from Press Gang so it wasn't a new concept - *but* she said she was friends with JS in high school so I took that to be legit gold stamp Official. Like not just looked but ~behaved similarly~. I fucking loved Press Gang so that kinda made my life back then :D

- cute boy in sixth grade held down the bubble tap for me to drink out of after I kicked a huge fuckoff game winning goal in kickball. i was so surprised I forgot to drink & the water ran right down the front of my jumper but still

also once after i gave a presentation d4phn3 c4rr said to me "oh i see you're one of those people who just bullshits about not knowing what he's doing"

vg that last one would have for me been a lifepeak

I'm quite proud of the "inane and unfunny punning" I received recently.

When ppl break up with me they tend to lay the compliments on thick

wisest/harshest thing a girl has ever said to me during a breakup: "i think you think you can get anything you want by talking"

that was a paraphrse, the lost original better conveyed that she thought i had been correct right up to that moment