created by Cool_Caterpillar_580 on 28/01/2025 at 15:32 UTC*
123 upvotes, 146 top-level comments (showing 25)
For me it was that I have "Pretty hands". My friend used to gush over them, we could be having a lesson and randomly she'd just grab my hands and ask me "Seriously, what's your routine?!" Very weird but also fun memory.
Comment by the-cats-purr at 28/01/2025 at 16:25 UTC
130 upvotes, 3 direct replies
I was around 13 or 14 years old visiting a friend for like the 100th time. I chose a seat in the formal living room while waiting for my friend. Her mother walks through the room and points me to their family room telling me “This room is only for guests. Family sits in the family room. “
Comment by Phil_Atelist at 28/01/2025 at 15:50 UTC
61 upvotes, 1 direct replies
"You don't sweat much for a big guy." And BTW, I am 10 lbs overweight.
Comment by s-multicellular at 28/01/2025 at 16:27 UTC
44 upvotes, 3 direct replies
It is weird because it has happened several times..,.that I look like a werewolf. Eh maybe not sure it is exactly a compliment
But I can’t totally dispute it. I’m one of those men that can grow a beard in a matter of days not weeks. And I have long arms. I definitely do look like the type cast for werewolves in movies.
But the clear trigger is my eye color. I have green eyes, dark green such that many people thought they were brown, but for some reason they have some underlying, hard otherwise to see color, that seems to glow in sunlight. That’s when people have said something “dude do your eyes glow?!” Not really.
Comment by TeikaDunmora at 28/01/2025 at 15:51 UTC
43 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Comment by Greenbunny21c at 28/01/2025 at 16:39 UTC
37 upvotes, 1 direct replies
One of my Dad's carers told me that if she needed the loo at someone else's house, she waited till she got to use mine as my loo and bathroom were the cleanest.
Comment by elitheradguy at 28/01/2025 at 15:54 UTC
41 upvotes, 2 direct replies
When I was around 12, I was told I had a good voice for ASMR. Thats how I found out what ASMR was haha. It was weird at the time, but my voice is one of the things I really like about myself so I guess Im glad other people like it too
Comment by Senor_Crocky at 28/01/2025 at 16:57 UTC
37 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I was walking with my son and a homeless lady called me a, "F#$in' good dad." It was a strangely aggressive compliment.
Comment by IFSismyjam at 28/01/2025 at 16:31 UTC
24 upvotes, 3 direct replies
I’ve had a few:
“You look like Disney Princess “ “You don’t look like a vegetarian “ “You have good birthing hips”
Comment by Nervous_Bowl5505 at 28/01/2025 at 16:31 UTC
22 upvotes, 0 direct replies
"If you were a man you'd be really handsome!"
Comment by questionnumber at 28/01/2025 at 16:35 UTC
19 upvotes, 1 direct replies
"Your arm hair is like gold!"
She grabbed my arm and proceeded to stroke my arm hair........
Comment by Complete-Finding-712 at 28/01/2025 at 19:19 UTC
23 upvotes, 0 direct replies
"You have a *highly efficient* uterus " - my midwife
Comment by cl0ckw0rkman at 28/01/2025 at 22:44 UTC
18 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Standing in line at a baseball card shop, getting ready to buy some cards. The gentleman standing in front of me turned and gave me a quick look. Than *double take* snaps back and says, " You look like you just stepped out of a comicbook"
That was nearly 30 years ago. It still makes me smile when I think of it.
So, my wardrobe at the time.
Bottom to top.
Bowling shoes I had stolen from a Bowling alley, with a 9 on the heel.
Camouflage pants. (I stole these too. From my father)
A multicolored, base red, shirt with a grey flannel button up over shirt.(got both of them from a buddy in rehab)
A five hundred dollar pair of REVO sunglasses that looked like goggles. (Yes I wore them inside. No they weren't stolen)
A black baseball cap with a skull and a potleaf on the skull.
Long hair down to the middle of my back. Both ears with multiple piercings. Long dangling hoops and studs...
Standing 6' 4" weighing around 170 pounds at the time.
He smiled and was genuine in his complaint. The clerk behind the counter nodded and when he spoke he told me, "He is right. You definitely look like you stepped out of fiction."
Comment by ne0scythian at 28/01/2025 at 20:30 UTC
14 upvotes, 2 direct replies
One time when I was donating blood, the nurse looked at my veins and moaned a bit and said my veins were "nurse porn".
Comment by buckyhermit at 29/01/2025 at 00:19 UTC
14 upvotes, 0 direct replies
In high school, someone said I was cute for a Jewish guy.
I'm Chinese.
Comment by MistressVixxen at 28/01/2025 at 18:00 UTC
12 upvotes, 1 direct replies
A random person who wasn't very familiar with English commented on one of my online photos using these words: "You have the lovely most armpit corners." I will never forget that til the day I die. 😂
Comment by Missbhavin58 at 28/01/2025 at 19:07 UTC
13 upvotes, 0 direct replies
My gp told me he was leaving the practice for a better position. He said I was one of his patients he'd remember. Asked him why and he said I was one of the most unusual and quirky individuals he'd ever met!! This was before I had a purple mohawk!! Weird and sweet
Comment by Caffeinated_Hangover at 28/01/2025 at 15:42 UTC
10 upvotes, 1 direct replies
On a similar vein, probably about my nails. Not that gender should dictate how much you care about your appearance, but I'm a guy who very clearly puts very little effort into how I look, and yet on multiple occasions and by different people I've been complimented on how neat and "perfect" my nails on my hands look, even though I never actually do anything to take care of them besides basic hygene; they for some reason just stop growing at a length that looks good I guess.
Comment by allaboutmojitos at 28/01/2025 at 16:54 UTC
12 upvotes, 0 direct replies
“You’re like a fungus. You grow on people”
Comment by grannybubbles at 28/01/2025 at 17:14 UTC
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"Welp, guess I'll pick you for my side in the bar fight later on..." -husband's petite cousin greeting 5'9" me at the redneck family reunion where I met most of his family for the first time.
Comment by Used_Platform_3114 at 28/01/2025 at 19:00 UTC
11 upvotes, 1 direct replies
“You’ve got a touch of the Downs”…. Said to me by a colleague after we’d spent all afternoon with a group of people who had Downs Syndrome. They were incredible, hilarious, kind, loving rays of pure sunshine… it was meant as a true compliment and I still wear that compliment with pride.
Comment by AddictedtoLife181 at 28/01/2025 at 17:46 UTC
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NSFW: my gynaecologist was inserting my IUD and as he was working down there he says “huh, you’ve never had kids but your cervix is so wide I would have thought you have had 3 by now” all I could say was “good cause I want kids” and we laughed. I want to be a mom so bad it was strangely comforting.
Comment by queenofquery at 28/01/2025 at 17:53 UTC
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While working a call center job talking to an older man: "you have a great voice; if you're attractive, you should work tv and if you're not, you should work radio."
Comment by JamesandtheGiantAss at 29/01/2025 at 01:25 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Waiting in line in the liquor store with my friend and this guy goes off about how beautiful my friend's feet are. He asked, "are them your real toes?" 20 years later and we still make jokes about putting on our "good toes" when we go out.
Comment by Grand-wazoo at 28/01/2025 at 15:42 UTC
16 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Hands are usually the first thing I noticed about a person, so I don't think it's that strange of a compliment.
How well they care for them, the amount of wear and tear, how they decorate them with jewelry, and how they hold them while interacting with someone can tell you a lot about a person at a glance.
They have also been a very reliable indicator of how physically attracted I am to someone based on how their hands look.
Comment by Discord616 at 28/01/2025 at 16:20 UTC
9 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I've gotten compliments on my hands too, it is kind of strange, and you don't ever expect it as a male.
