Keep it in my soul

Apr 2, 2023 8:59 AM

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I work with a guy who reminds me of Henry Cavill. Handsome guy. I told him that he reminded me of the actor, and he said it made his weekend.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"I wish I could get compliments the way women do." The compliments women get:

3 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

A lot of y'alls issue is you DON'T BELIEVE IT when you do get a compliment. Also bros need to compliment bros. Women do it to each other all the time. Men you can do it too! Tell your mate he's looking fresh as hell today!

3 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

I try to compliment people on choices they made, not for things out of their control. Their shoes, or hair color. Not being "pretty".

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Looking pretty is in great part also a choice. I do things to look better and it also feels nice to be complemented for it.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, but when you tell girls they’re pretty, we know there’s some sort of catch or ulterior motive.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I started a new job 4 years ago and toward the end of the 3rd week a female work colleague complimented my shirt, 3 women got out of their chairs, left their desks to come and join in admiring it. If I ever feel down I just have to remember that Thursday back in March 2019. "You wear the best shirts" they said "You wear the best shirts".

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

That first part is explicitly why she doesn't do commercials anymore

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Well, had the basement dwellers just left it at "pretty" and stopped well before the "lemme wrestle them mommy-milkers" creepiness.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And yes, I realize there is a contingent of socially stunted people who believe since she has fans, "she should appreciate the compliment".

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A man dying of thirst in a desert might have a hard time understanding the woman drowning in a lake is so upset and vice versa. That said, women also have to deal with sharks in the water trying to put shit in their drinks, so it's not exactly even.

3 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

Yeah, I'll happily take a relative lack of compliments over having to deal with catcalling on the street.

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Men like giving compliments and clearly enjoy getting compliments .. why don't men compliment each other?

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

All those in the extremes have their problems and many aren't in the extremes where they fit the frame of this idea.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Eh, it was my Mum.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I don’t think a genuine compliment opposed to douche hats hitting on you or the compliment itself being the only way your gender is quantified sometimes is comparable.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

I'm a bigger guy, and I told a girl I'd like to slim down. She told me that I look great as I did.

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Some girls prefer chubbier guys 😉

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I had a small child call me a cowboy once because of the hat I was wearing when I dropped off food to their house and it's one of my favourite memories.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Someone yelled "nice butt" after me once. It was before I had kids. My oldest is 18 now. And I know it's not the same for women because catcalling is scary when you feel you are prey. It was nice for me.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Now try being a woman and only be "complimented" by men to try and sleep with you. At least that one compliment from the opposite sex was genuine. Not to mention when women give men compliments, we usually get hit on or stalked. Please stop acting like all the compliments women get are better and posting how lonely it is for you men. Start complimenting each other, and end this stupid cycle.

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

3 years ago | Likes 78 Dislikes 3

Last weekend a woman who wasn’t my wife said I had a nice butt! Best compliment since that day in college when a strange girl said she liked my shirt!

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Compliments are often directed at women in an attempt to get sexual favors. One time I had a guy oozing all over me. When I kept pushing his hands off me and stopped him from kissing me, he chased me out of his apartment insulting me and changing course, telling me I was ugly and fat and no one wanted me. I had to run down the street to my car, barefoot and carrying my sandals. This shit happens a lot. I get you guys want more compliments but please don't compare the experiences.

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

And people don't realize this is an "Orphan Crusher" meme. This exists because guys are so fucking toxic to each other that we're starved for positive attention.

3 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 3

How close the problems are between the sexes. Women “any asshole can complement my tits, please see me. Men “won’t someone please completement my tits? Please see me.”

3 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 3

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About 7 or 8 years ago I had gone a few days without shaving when a colleague told me I suit a beard. Not shaved it since. Made my decade

3 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

From a Trans woman's perspective - there's either nothing, compliments by other women which is always great, or chasers. And you DO NOT engage with chasers.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Perhaps I misunderstand what you mean by nothing. What kind of compliments, and from who, do you feel you're missing?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nothing in the sense that nobody (wants to) interact with you in any way, meaningful or not - because of being trans

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

People don't avoid you because you are trans, they simply avoid you because you are unattractive. Either decide to look like an attractive woman or a well built and handsome man. You see for yourself if you look like a freak people will just avoid you. Stop trying to go against responses that evolved over thousands of years and play the game by its rules, not yours.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Ok. I appreciate you taking the time to respond to a random weird question on the internet. You reminded me of a friend of mine, and I mentioned what you said. She kinda opened up, like leaves on a lotus flower. It all made my day hearing it, so thank. :') have a good one.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Someone said I was funny once. I constructed my online identity around that.

3 years ago | Likes 411 Dislikes 1

Username checks out

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I once managed to finish someone's sentence correctly when I was small, I haven't been able to stop doing it for over two decades since.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And now you get fake internet points doing what you do best. Life is sweet.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Someone told.me I was knotty once and now.i ruin the internet for you folks

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Comedy is all I have going for me. I’m short, look pretty average, got a beer belly, dicks pretty nice thank god but that’s not really a selling point. More of a relief for a girl.

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Someone said I was affable and it was the nicest thing I’ve heard in years

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And the other three times?

3 years ago | Likes 46 Dislikes 0

You'll have to rummage through my comment history. They're in there somewhere.

3 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

That's funny. Now don't spend it all in one place.

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Well now they'll have to change their name.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

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Hilarious!

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3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Hilarious

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well they say you've either got to be funny or good looking. I'm the best of both though. I'm funny looking.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

My brother smiled and nodded to our cousin when I sang a "hey, what song goes like this?" That was 2001

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Similar experiences

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Funny and handsome? Dude, you’re on a roll

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Happened to me too, some years ago. It was the subject of my first Imgur post, IIRC. I’m not far off 50 now, but still hoping to catch one more compliment over the next 10-20 years before I shuffle off.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Are you me?

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This is why i try to compliment people when im out. Men, women, whatever. "Tough guys" usually are the best - they brighten the most.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I think you're doing a stellar job and I would exclude you from my guillotine of shortening royals by a heads length +5 should the time come for that, my liege.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Hey, thanks for not chopping off my head, kind Imgurian :D

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ha! lol

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Dude, stop being hilarious.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I thought it was "stop making sense"?

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

When I have nothing to say my lips are sealed…

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If I someone sometime comments that I'm beautiful, that person always wants something. Usually it's a very drunk person in a bar that thinks I am ready to go to his place. So, as a woman I do not trust anyone who calls me beautiful. And besides, as I get older, all compliments disappear.

3 years ago | Likes 246 Dislikes 11

Rough, if I'm drunk and call you beautiful I mean it

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 34

It has nothing to do with whether they mean it or not.

3 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

I'm just saying, I've called women beautiful plenty of times when I was drunk without trying to get them home. Sometimes people catch you by surprise and it's just a knee jerk reaction not a play or pick up line

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

Yeah and some ppl who get that all the time get sick of only being seen on a shallow surface level. It can have a negative association after being objectified repeatedly.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Completely.

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Well, I hope our generation can change all of that. You're beautiful.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

When I compliment people, I require myself to do it without other motives. I don't want to be throwing fish lures at someone's walls, I want to put something nice outside them and walk away.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Unfortunately because of this entire structure, it's hard to even offer a platonic compliment to a woman without it being seen as being creepy too.

3 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 2

Aim for casualness. "You look nice today" then just walk away

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Women seem to like specific comments about specific items or features like hair, makeup, nails and clothes. Like "you dyed your hair, that color's good on you", "your outfit is cute today" or "your skin is so supple.. almost translucent, like the moon reflecting on a still pool. I feel almost as if I could push my fingers right through it. Life is beautiful.. but fragile, is it not?"

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And the only people who post this meme are those who think women owe them sex when they compliment them

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Beauty is nice to look at, but not talk to. Interesting is nice to talk to. Some people have both, and they are captivating, but I'll befriend someone without the former before I ever befriend someone without the latter.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

as a fat hairy girl, i'm just over here like... y'all got compliments? lol

3 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

I remind myself that by human standards, I may not be beautiful, but I'm one hell of a sexy hippopotamus.

3 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Wait, how is your reply so long?

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Comment limit is now 500 characters.

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

James Blunt will always think you're beautiful.

3 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 1

And that's why he got scurvy

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's true

3 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

i can confirm this, sadly.

3 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 1

Incase nobody has told you this today, you're beautiful

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Everytime I tell my mother to take care when she goes out late, she answers jokingly: "Don't worry : I'm not listed on the market anymore!".

3 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

I don't even bother with compliments anymore. If you walked in my bar it would probably take 6 months of you coming in till I even say hi or ask your name. I've never talked to anyone at my local bar they generally come talk to me. Even still I keep a giant wall up since the incident last year. Not everyone is a weirdo at the bar,always ask the bartender,they hear everything.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 5

you still type good though.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

@MustonVillain puhutko Suomea?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I got a compliment once that has always stuck with me. Was leaving the post office and passed a black man who was heading in. Smiled at him as we passed, he smiled back. 3 steps later I hear "Excuse me, Ma'am?" I stopped and turned around, and he had a huge smile on his face and walked towards me, hand out (to shake) "I just wanted to say that you look so beautiful today, my name's Quincy, *shook hand* I said thank you, he said "It was so nice to see you today" and we parted ways. It was SO 1/

3 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

polite and genuine, it caught me off guard and honestly it made my day. It happened 15 years ago, I still remember his name. Most compliments about being beautiful feel like pickup lines. This guy just wanted to say something so bad he stopped and turned around, was so polite and just his SMILE! you could tell he really meant it. Best compliment ever. 2

3 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

Yep, most of the time, you can tell when it’s really genuine and coming from a good place.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I love this website. Wholesome stories attached to some of the most depraved usernames. I hope you're next week is great. You've managed to brighten my mine already with the story and the username.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

XD yeah this is the ONLY site I have a crazy name on, when they updated the site to allow for name changes I swapped to this as a joke, but I couldn't bare to change it back because so many people thought it was funny. Hubby was lookin over my shoulder once and saw it, I was sure he would roll his eyes and groan but he had NOTHING to say, just snorted. Thanks for the well-wishes it is going to be a crazy busy week for me! hopefully, all goes smoothly!

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Not to mention you’re somehow at fault if you don’t appreciate the compliment. As though their ‘nice’ comment should be rewarded by you. I’m sure if ever a gay man hits on one of these dudebros they are the very model of grace and appreciation.

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TBH, I was pretty flattered when a gay guy thought I looked good. Still made me blush. (As a straight man.)

3 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 2

are you a dudebro that compliments women on their looks several times a day?

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

The point is genuine compliment vs “transactional” compliment.

3 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

But I am happy for you. It is always nice to feel appealing

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Women love being honestly complimented without ulterior motives. we remember that too

3 years ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 1

I feel like most single guys will always have an ulterior motive. Not targeted at anyone specifically, they are just open to trying to further a relationship with any decent looking person.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Is decent looking a requirement? Asking for a friend

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

From personal experience, compliments seem better received when it's something specific, like hair, makeup, or clothing. Those are the compliments I remember best too.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You're pretty. My ulterior motive is that I want you to be happy.

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Aw, yiss

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Do y'all guys compliment other men often? I always find that really wholesome and I think integrating that really helps with mutual confidence.

3 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 2

*at the urinal* "hey, nice dick bro"

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Yup - work an office job in construction. Came from the field. “You are looking fucking handsome today sir” is common in the field and the office. It falls somewhere between tongue and cheek and earnest. But the motivation is always the same. To pump that dudes tires, maybe he has a big meeting with a client today, maybe he has a big date tonight. Whatever, It’s wholesome AF and comes from the heart.

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I was wearing a hat at the grocery store once and a guy saw it and said “sick hat!”…that was awesome. I find more and more it’s tough to utter a single word to people in public either for lack of opportunity or the feeling that no one has time for chit chat with a stranger. It ain’t the 50s.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My friends and I do compliment each other, but very rarely on appearance, rather on more important characteristics or achievements. I remember, when I was home on Christmas leave from the military, almost twenty years ago, a woman I knew told me I was "almost handsome", so there's that.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

THIS. Guys need to start complimenting each other - & also call out our friends that maybe expect to get 'rewarded' for complimenting women. If we want safe, platonic compliments, we need to give safe, platonic compliments.

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

told a random dude he had nice eyes once, he walked away pretty fast looking back at me and kind of scared.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That would help boost men's confidence/esteem AND teach men who aren't interested in sex with other men that compliments aren't just something you give to people you want to have sex with.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

When this subject comes up, it always makes me think of this post.

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Do you have a link?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sadly I do not. I first saw it on here.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

as a guy it's still strongly socially stigmatized. I try to compliment the men and women around me for looking nice but only when something

3 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

And amongst your friends? Talking to them about it and incorporating it there might just be a little easier than just go up to strangers.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

changes, like a fresh haircut or a new style they havent tried before.

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I cant speak for the women's side of this, but as a guy, one time I was getting dressed and picked a nerdy t-shirt i really liked just to wear to the store, and thought "This is a really cool T-shirt, I hope people dont think its stupid looking on me". Later,, while checking out, the cashier casually complimented it and it made my day. This was like 3 years ago but yet I dont even remember what i ate yesterday.

3 years ago | Likes 351 Dislikes 1

Same, and i can't remember why i went into the garage

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I decided to wear a pink shirt one. Somebody said I looked like I washed a white shirt in a red load. Never wore the shirt ever again.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I've got a deloreon baseball shirt from universal that was recently complimented on by a guy dressed like a cowboy. I'll probably remember this for the next decade

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It’s the same for women, we appreciate genuine compliments too! I was in LaGuardia several years ago and having a shit day because of delayed and rerouted flights (surprise surprise) and this badass woman walked by me and exclaimed “your boots are dope” and I remember it with glee to this day.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My grandmother gave me a shirt with a generic funny phrase on it that often brought in compliments, I wore that thing to oblivion...

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

By FAR my most complimented shirt from both men and women is my Kirby t-shirt. People love nerd clothes.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

When someone makes a bold fashion choice it costs you nothing to compliment them for it.

3 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

I've got an alapaca shirt that gets me more unsolicited compliments than I've received in my entire life put together.

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

When I was in college, I was considering growing facial hair and hadn't shaved for a week to see if it was going to be full enough to try anything. My buddy's girlfriend told me she thought I looked better with a beard (it hides my bad case of babyface.) Now I haven't been clean shaven since I was 19.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I remember being complimented on a Chicago Cubs Millennium Falcon t-shirt back in 2016 and yet I forget where I parked in the lot.

3 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 0

Have you been wearing it every day since?

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I once spent an absurd amount on a nice motorcycle jacket. I was leaving a locker room when someone entering said, "oh, nice jacket." My brain shorted out not knowing how to process compliments. "Yeah, it is." Pretty sure I had to sit down and contemplate my life before riding home.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Doesn't your partner ever tell you that you look nice?

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Nope.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Lol "Partner." I'm so single I got a ticket in the carpool lane with 3 passengers.

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