Fuck a baby, gimme those CORGI PUPPIES!
I'm shocked that Wal-Mart doesn't care about poor people.
My favorite: "you are astonishingly brave". I take that compliment out and reapply it to myself whenever I'm feeling otherwise.
I enjoy conversing with you.
The best compliment I ever got was in middle school when I was an outcast among art nerd outcasts. I was working at a group table ranting about something or other (I tend to go on tirades a lot) and one of the super popular boys sitting at my table looked at me and said, "You know, Schadenfreudeing, I wish more girls…
How about:
The greatest compliment I have ever, ever been given was, "You are one of the few sane people in the world." Which is pretty good because I often feel so weird, awkward, and insane, but if I'm in the minority of sane people well that might explain the feeling of weird.
I love your necklace!
Sorta-appearance-related-but-pretty-great: my best friend and I on the train heading to a club. Full goth/deathrock makeup, platform boots, teased mohawk, &etc. A very professional-looking middle-aged black woman telling us that she loved our look because we were so happy and confident about it, and didn't mind…
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I'll take #3, thanks! He loves cuddling on the couch with me :)
Eh. I've been worse things.
My boyfriend is a feminist, vegan, high-end coffee house barista film studies major who knows all of the music you don't and claims he's not a hipster.
I just saw my research on agreeableness and pay cited on Jezebel. *swoons
Reading comprehension check:
It's because he saw "white male" and, to trolls, that's a fuckin' Bat-Signal.