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    irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months 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 · 2 months 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

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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

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      • corroded@lemmy.world
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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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            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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        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 👿

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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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      • 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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      Several nurses have commented on my veins. Like to the point where I felt like I was getting hit on.

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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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      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 😭

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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 (pronounced in English)

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          Probably something more boring like Bathsheba

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          Ezekiel 23:20

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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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      First girl I ever kissed complimented me on my nice looking hands at the teenybopper bar. Weird at the time, took me a couple of decades to realize women look at our hands, think of us touching them.

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