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irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago

What's a weird compliment you got?

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What's a weird compliment you got?

irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago
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    Just last week, someone left a note for me saying I’m a “goddess among mortals” for making a carrot cake without raisins.

    I’m an overweight 40-year-old man with a beard. She hadn’t seen who made the cake, so she was just making a guess that the baker was a woman, but still. Funny experience.

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      Embrace the joy, Goddess.

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      I’m 38, male, chubby, can’t grow a beard for shit.

      Raisins are wank. You’re “a goddess among mortals”.

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      Who the fuck puts raisins in a carrot cake?
      I have honestly never experienced an abomination. Not that there is anything wrong with raisins, but in carrot cake?

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        This is standard in US-style carrot cakes

      • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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        Raisins in cinnamon rolls is the true crime

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        The recipe I used actually suggested raisins in the cake and walnuts in the frosting. While I don’t mind either on their own or in other things, carrot cake is supposed to be creamy and smooth. If I wanted crunch or chew, I’d choose…I dunno, german chocolate or something.

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          Walnuts on the frosting is fine with me but a lot of the ones from the shops used to put them in the cake - not so good.

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            I did also leave the walnuts out because my son is allergic, so there’s that. But left to my own devices, I’d rather have the walnuts on the side.

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        Most carrot cakes I’ve had contained raisins. I don’t think it’s chiefly an American thing but it definitely seems common enough.

        I hate it. Anything that dramatically breaks up the texture of a food like that is a culinary mistake.

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      She is correct. You are absolutely divine for excluding raisins, you radiant goddess, you!

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      Oh shit, you are a goddess among mortals! Carrot cake is one of my all time favorites so I keep trying it despite being disappointed every time that someone put raisins in it. It’s just mean.

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      She’s right. Cooked raisins are an abomination. You’re a hero.

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        raisins are an abomination

  • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    “You eat rice like Chinese person”

    From the lady behind the counter as I was watching some bullshit on my phone and eating mapo tofu

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      I’m not even sure what that could mean. Maybe using chopsticks instead of a fork? I’ve always just eaten food with whatever utensil is typically used for that type of cuisine. I think most people, Chinese or otherwise, eat Chinese food with chopsticks, don’t they?

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        I think it was that I had picked up the takeout container close to my face and was using the chopsticks to shovel rice into my maw as I watched some video.

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          That’s just how you eat rice with chopsticks? How else are you supposed to do it without making a giant mess?

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            Western folks don’t usually hold the bowl and utensils so close to the face

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              Yeah, I’ve definitely gotten looks for picking up bowls close to my face in the west. Normal for my household, but not normal elsewhere.

              Even for not-chopstick dishes like soup or pasta or something, I just find it easier to hold the bowl close to my face, rather than having to lean forward so much over a table just to not make a mess. That shit is how people learn bad posture.

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        Based on the post context it probably came across either as a backhanded or possibly with a racist sounding context. Like a woman being told she can use a wrench like a man comes across as sexist.

        A ton of people in the US eat nearly every type of food with a fork, spoon, or knife. I have to go out of my way to ask for chopsticks most of the time, and most of the people I see eating at other tables are using forks.

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      I keep meaning to make sticky rice at some point. I also tend to eat rice with chopsticks at Chinese restaurants, but anywhere else the rice is too loose

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    “If your humor was a person I would fuck it”

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      you did get laid that night, right?

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        “I’m the vessel, fuck me. It’s as close as it gets.”

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    That I have a nice phone number.

    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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      I have an evil one. It ends 666 👿

      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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        My old work number used to have a 404 area code. I work in tech. It was a fun inside joke.

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          Makes me wonder if someone out there has a phone number of 404-746-8363 (404-PG-NT-FND)

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            Well, you’ve just unlocked a new goal of mine: move to Atlanta…

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        0666 here

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          Now kiss.

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    An ultrasound tech once told me that I have a cute spleen.

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      Nothing looks cute on an ultrasound. Humans are hardwired to see babies as cute, and even they don’t look cute on an ultrasound.

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        So they gotta have one hell of a cutie spleen

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      One complimented my bladder, so I guess that spleen seems mighty good about now

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    My female colleague told me the other day I’d make a great dad because my tattoos are all black and white and that would be great for kids because they could color them.

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      What 😭

  • The Giant Korean@lemmy.world
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    Several nurses have commented on my veins. Like to the point where I felt like I was getting hit on.

    • Schlemmy@lemmy.ml
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      I had a teacher once that got turned on by veins. I found out after graduating because I met her at a bar and she was horny as hell from seeing my forearms. I use to climb a lot so veiny arms are part of the deal. So, a compliment about my veiny forearms was… special.

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      they just do that sometimes, it’s normal
      source: dad was a nurse

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    From my ENT: You’ve got a very well maintained nose.

    Uhm, thanks?

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      “I can tell you’re not a habitual cocaine user”

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    As I was sitting at my desk with some tea and a stroopwaffel, one of my coworkers commented that I “really knew how to live.”

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      Average dutch person

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    “You like like a modern interpretation of some Greek god of spice” I had a spig of rosemary tucked behind my ear and a shirt that reads “why so salty”

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    “Whoever did your circumcision did a really good job.” :/

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      I need more context 😭

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      Yeah. Let’s see the model cock, sir

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    Nurses tend to like the veins in my left arm so I’ve had a few comments on that.

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      Oh I get this one. It’s usually along the lines of “the blood bank would love to have you” or even “I could find your veins blindfolded”

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        Yeah I got “wow, I could hit that by throwing a dart from across the room!” I am a favorite of phlebotomists, and I guess could be a successful junkie.

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      Got laid once because of my veiny arms so, not only nurses like them.

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    Compared to pretty much every other response, this is real bland, but I recently had a librarian at the community college I attend tell me something like how my name is a nice name.

    It’s not a special name in any way, just a run-of-the-mill Biblical name tons of people have. For obvious reasons, I won’t tell what it is, but this is the first time I’ve ever gotten a compliment about my name.

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      Ok Ezekiel.

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        I wish I had a name like that. Instead I have one of the more common and much more generic names.

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          Jesus

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        Probably something more boring like Bathsheba

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        Ezekiel 23:20

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          deleted by creator

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    I don’t know how weird it is but I’ve been told a few times that I have a “calming presence”. It’s a very nice compliment, just don’t understand why or how.

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      This is sometimes what happens when someone grows up around someone who is volatile or unpredictable.

      Natural adaptation.

      Could that be why?

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        Oh. Well that tracks, yeah.

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          Baseball, huh?

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        I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

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    Being complimented by the urologist on my shaving for a vasectomy.

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