Lovely words in the playground

[Jae]

Today, what were 1-3 things you genuinely enjoyed hearing? Whether it was a compliment, something that made you laugh/smile, or an idea of somebody elses...post it. Feel free to add whatever you want, or who said such words. It's always nice to reflect on anything positive.

1. "Since I couldn't even come close to knowing where your words, thoughts, or actions may have been derived you are probably the most individual person I know. You don't seem to base yourself off of anything, especially nothing stereotypical." Me and a good friend were having a nice philosphical discussion on just where individuality has gone in this day and age. Yet to finish the conversation.
2. "Go run an extra lap." Not so pleasant considering the shin splints, but it was pretty funny. Humiliation in P.E. is becoming a daily for me..ha.
3. At the risk of starting controversy, I'm just going to say a documentary suggested by my step-brother. Mostly, I just enjoy discussing similiar interests with my step-brother especially considering we hardly talk.

now yourself :smallbiggrin:

[Amotis]

I got a "compliment" today.

"Hey, you should do porn."

"Uh...thanks?"

[Zarrexaij]

"You're funny."

The only good thing I can remember said to me all week. :smallfrown:

[Mauve Shirt]

Badminton Instructor "It's easy to confuse the rules of badminton with the rules of tennis, badminton is ridiculously complicated. Your partner needs to lighten up."

Less-good thing was "You play well and are getting better at piano, but you really should concentrate on adding more classical music to your repertoire." What is it with piano teachers and classical music? There are other styles you know!

[Brickwall]

All three replies have been pretty negative, despite the fact that this thread seems to have a positive goal.

I'm having a good influence on you people. :smallamused:

I have nothing to add here. I alienate people, so I don't get compliments or sentiments. Sorry to disappoint.

[North]

This was said to me from another guy at work after I convinced a woman to get two cell phones for her kids. Not just for safety but as a lesson in responsibilty for them.

Your evil and have no soul. You could actually sell ice cubes to eskimos. Can you teach me?

:smallbiggrin:

@ Amotis, Id consider that a compliment. Especially depending upon the circumstances prior to the comment.
:smallwink:

[Pyro]

My friend said "cellar door" to me recently. Apparently Tolkien that is was the most beautiful word in the English language. I don't know if its true, but I find it hilarious.

[phoenixineohp]

'Sexy Minx'
I greatly enjoy hearing that one. :smallbiggrin:

[Ya Ta Hey!]

"...let the stormy clouds chase
everyone from the place!
Come on with the rain,
I've a smile on my face..."

Oh, and I found a hundred dollar book I had lost.

[Semidi]

"The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.."

We did Ode to a Nightingale by Keats in one of my Lit classes. I've read it many times before, but I don't think I can get tired of reading that one. The line I quoted is my favorite line amid lines and lines of jewels.

[Raistlin1040]

"Get a haircut!"

"Shave your moustache" (It's not even a moustache. It's just a group of thin black hairs, like dark peachfuzz.)

"I'm sorry, I already have a boyfriend."

My week has been sad. :smallfrown:

On the slightly positive side, one of my teachers said to the class, in a totally non-joking, you-can-do-it voice to come back and see her when I have my PhD.

*adds positive bent for PxP*

Umm...hmm. Well, I got a "That's awesome!" from my guitar teacher when I was showing him how much I've been practicing.

[phoenixineohp]

Today, what were 1-3 things you genuinely enjoyed hearing? Whether it was a compliment, something that made you laugh/smile, or an idea of somebody elses...post it. Feel free to add whatever you want, or who said such words. It's always nice to reflect on anything positive.


I think you are missing out on the positive bent here. That's three iffy and one positive... :smallconfused:

[wadledo]

This happened this morning when I was resting on a heater in the library trying to dry myself off.
:haley: "Wadledo, your hairs on fire!"
:elan: "What about me being hot?"
:haley: "No, your hairs actually on fire!"
:miko: "Ah, put it out, put it out!"
:sabine: "What's happening?"
:haley: "Wadledo's hair is on fire!"

By this time I'm out of the building and standing in the rain watching my hair steam.

I'm fine though, just some contact burns.:smallbiggrin:

[Jae]

I think you are missing out on the positive bent here. That's three iffy and one positive...

:smallconfused: Oh, what I posted was only one positive? The only iffy one that I see may be numbah 2, but it really was funny. And one lap isn't a big deal. And if three was ever debatable, I genuinely enjoy speaking to either step-brother. They live hours away so the conversation is valued.


All three replies have been pretty negative, despite the fact that this thread seems to have a positive goal.

'Twas intended to be... this forum is a cynic! :smalleek:

But really.. despite my good intentions and determination today I've failed to cause anything positive to anybody but myself. I'm feeling slightly guilty so nice stories are appreciated even more :smallbiggrin:

[Trog]

"You won" after playing a board game at the local board game meetup. Beating Thes (who always wins at these things) and some other guy who also usually wins. Not the greatest, but compared to the rest of my crappy day 'twas good.

[phoenixineohp]

:smallconfused: Oh, what I posted was only one positive? The only iffy one that I see may be numbah 2, but it really was funny. And one lap isn't a big deal. And if three was ever debatable, I genuinely enjoy speaking to either step-brother. They live hours away so the conversation is valued.


I meant in response to Raistlin1040's list. I quoted you to provide the positive context. I think that yours were nice. :)

[Gaelbert]

2. "Go run an extra lap." Not so pleasant considering the shin splints, but it was pretty funny. Humiliation in P.E. is becoming a daily for me..ha.
:

Maybe you should be careful of your speech more, perhaps.
On a completely different subject, it was downright hilarious hearing my P.E. teacher tell a student he was 'just kidding' about an extra lap.
I saw this on a t-shirt: "If you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the precipitate."

V@: I was just assuming, because it turns out that most punishments do come as a result of a misspoken word or two. Not that you in particular would do anything like that.

[Jae]

Maybe you should be careful of your speech more, perhaps.
Excuse me? I don't recall ever stating on here that I did or did not say anything that was or was not school appropriate. Where exactly is this reference coming from? :smalleek: :smallwink:

And see, I'd have to say that would be a lot less funny. Especially if he/she was unable to participate in practice later that day due to leg pain which still has not made him/her any stronger.

But, I mean, completely hypothetically speaking. Not that I have ever met any such student.

[Em Blackleaf]

A lot of people were complimenting a picture of a scene out of The Diary of Anne Frank that I drew.

I can recite all the lyrics of The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny by Lemon Demon (http://youtube.com/watch?v=xwBK31tC5QM) from memory really fast and some of my friends thought that was cool (others were afraid, very afraid).

I don't know if this counts, but I finally understand the math I'm doing. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside to know that I can do geometry. ^_^

[Thes Hunter]

"You won" after playing a board game at the local board game meetup. Beating Thes (who always wins at these things) and some other guy who also usually wins. Not the greatest, but compared to the rest of my crappy day 'twas good.

I DO NOT!!!!!!!!11!!!!!!

[Trog]

I DO NOT!!!!!!!!11!!!!!!

Oh yeah. That's right... I beat you. *does a little victory dance* :smallcool:

[Skippy]

A girl told me today I am really cool playing guitar. That made me feel the happiest man on Earth, since she is the love of my life. Of course, she's rejected me like three times now, but it doesn't matter. I play guitar in a cool way.:smallbiggrin:

[Mattarias, King.]

:smalleek: I suggest not taunting the angry sword-woman. That thing is huge. I meant the sword! the sword! :smalleek:

Uhm, I got a "Yay!" from my girlfriend when I told her she could come over on Valentine's. :smallsmile: Also, an "Awesome idea!" from a friend who then quickly rushed off to edit a PrC he was building. He's yet to contact me again about that. :smallconfused:

[Zombie pixe]

lovely words...

"mangovenated" which caused much hillarity for the rest of the day

"yes, its now three times as fast and four times the size" was told to me last night by the guy who came to fix my hard drive, im still gleefull now :smallsmile:

ummm...

[Kaelaroth]

I asked "Do you like me?"

And then, the most gorgeous word came back: "Yes".

:smile:

[Charity]

I DO NOT!!!!!!!!11!!!!!!

Yeah we you do.

[rubakhin]

Somebody (a platonic friend) sent me a nice thing for Valentine's! A little keychain, a pin with Russian on it, and a long letter. I was so touched that I lost my head entirely. Then - someone had sent this as a gift - I got a book of Russian short stories and was blessed thrice over - because I checked the index and saw that there was a short story by Yevgeny Kharitonov that I had been going crazy trying to find, and a short story by Venedikt Erofeev that I had been going crazy trying to find, and something else that I forget what but which ultimately caused me to my lose my head entirely for a second time. Then, the day after that, from a whole different person, I got a book of Polish modern short stories in the mail, with a short story by Iwaszkiewicz that ... and so on and so forth, another three Polish writers that I had been wanting. Suffice it to say that I lost my head entirely for a third time. After that, I found out that someone just happened to have a film stock splicer lying around that I could have (don't ask why I needed one of those, but in the future it will be vital) and I lost my head entirely for a fourth and final time.

These aren't "words", exactly, but I am most sincerely chuffed. Every day I wake up and think of the kindness of others and want to weep and kiss hands and feet like in a Dostoevsky story. I feel that I couldn't be luckier if I had been born a prince.

(Plus, people over at the Relationships thread are doing nice things for me, but to think about it I die of embarrassment and happiness, so I find it difficult to talk about that. :smallredface:)

[Jae]

I was just assuming, because it turns out that most punishments do come as a result of a misspoken word or two. Not that you in particular would do anything like that.

I would never! I'm insulted at the assumption. My vocabulary is clear from any unacceptable word or innuendo. I'm as clean as an angel hypochondriac.

However, if I were to say anything inappropriate chances are it would be a complete and utter accident. I would probably not even realize I had said the word. Hypothetically.

[Agamid]

1. one of my closest and dearest friends telling me that she never wanted to see her slime-ball boyfriend ever again

2. the energex truck pulling up in front of my house to fix the power that had been off for 6 long, dark, boring, hungry (stupid electric stove!!) hours.

3. That lovely dull thumping sound that Avie makes when she falls off the couch ^.^ makes me smile every time i hear it

i know... only one of those three things are words... but they're all sounds..

[Blayze]

I can recite all the lyrics of The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny by Lemon Demon from memory really fast and some of my friends thought that was cool (others were afraid, very afraid).

Just make sure to tell your friends that you're not alone. I, at the very least, can also perform such a feat. Ideally, you should direct them to this post and proclaim in a loud, clear, menacing voice...

"There's more than one of me out there!"

Edit: And as for the words I enjoyed hearing today? Well, so far they've been from my own mouth.

"What day is it today? Is it Friday? It is Friday. When am I back at work, self? Why, that would be Tuesday, old chap. Excellent."

[Cobra_Ikari]

Lovely words? Not really. But I've been hugged today, and that is a far more beautiful thing than many words I could hear.

*hugs everyone*

[Shademan]

my brother promised not to kill me yet...
so i figure thats kind...

[FireFox]

my significant other telling me i rock more then Malcom Reynolds

[Cobra_Ikari]

my significant other telling me i rock more then Malcom Reynolds

Now that is one hell of a compliment. *grins*

[Aereshaa_the_2nd]

I was told "You Pwn" by a friend of mine after skiing down a double black diamond hill.
:smallcool: awesomeness.
It was really, really fun.

[Felixaar]

"They don't pay you guys enough," - For the matter, I am not a whore.

"Hey, cool jeans!" - I love my new jeans and am glad other people do.

And I'd have to go with the entire song "Can you feel the love tonight?".

[MisterSaturnine]

To start, there's these song lyrics: One from Bright Eyes, and one from the Leonard Cohen, the God of Sad Music. I'll spoiler for length, and 'cause I like spoilers.

"And so I thought I'd let you know
Yeah, these things take forever,
I especially am slow
But I realize that I need you
And I wondered if I could
Come home."

For 'ol Lenny, there's all of I'm Your Man, of course, but I'd like to put my favorite verse from Chelsea Hotel #2 down here:

"I remember you well
At the Chelsea Hotel
You were famous, your heart was a legend
You told me again you preferred handsome men
But for me, you would make an exception
Then clenching your fists
For the ones like us
Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty
You fixed yourself, you said,
'Well, never mind,
We are ugly but we have the music.'"

Then there's the words in my signature.

My favorite thing anyone's actually said to me, though, was in response to me asking for the purposes of a story I was toying with what animal they thought I was most like. They responded quickly with, "a wolf." I asked why, and they responded, "because you look uncomfortable walking on two legs." :smallsmile:

[Jae]

Oh man Bright Eyes never fails to make an impression on me in 35 words or less :smallsmile: Whether positive or negative, I'll be thinking about it.

Now and again it seems worse than it is, but mostly the view is accurate
You see your breath in the air as you climb up the stairs to that coffin you call your apartment

My favorite.

[MisterSaturnine]

I like him quite a bit. One of my little mottos for life is the last few lines of Road to Joy (I could've been a famous singer/If I had someone else's voice/But failures always sounded better/So let's **** it up, boys/Make some noise!), and I Must Belong Somewhere is, essentially, a lesson in how to write descriptive imagery.

I can't resist, I'm posting the lyrics from I'm Your Man. Hopefully, it'll make future posting on this thread more positive (wait, I'm trying to spread positivity? The world really is coming to an end).


If you want a lover
I'll do anything you ask me to,
And if you want another kind of love
I'll wear a mask for you,
If you want a partner
Take my hand,
Or if you want to strike me down in anger,
Here I stand:
I'm your man

If you want a boxer
I will step into the ring for you,
And if you want a doctor
I'll examine every inch of you,
If you want a driver
Climb inside,
Or if you want to take me for a ride
You know you can
I'm your man

Ah, the moon's too bright
The chain's too tight
The beast won't go to sleep
I've been running through these promises to you
That I made and I could not keep
Ah but a man never got a woman back
Not by begging on his knees
Or I'd crawl to you baby
And I'd fall at your feet
And I'd howl at your beauty
Like a dog in heat
And I'd claw at your heart
And I'd tear at your sheet
I'd say please, please
I'm your man

And if you've got to sleep
A moment on the road
I will steer for you
And if you want to work the street alone
I'll disappear for you
If you want a father for your child
Or only want to walk with me a while
Across the sand
I'm your man