Compliments can make a whole person's day, sometimes their life. The right words in the right moment at the right time can shift the emotional balance of a person. Remember, it doesn't cost anything to be nice, as these men will attest.
Reddit user, u/entremediopod, wanted to hear about the coolest compliment when they asked:
Men of Reddit: what compliment do you most like hearing?
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I usually prefer when they compliment something I've achieved myself: "I can see you have been working out", "Nice clothes, you are really stylish"... etc, than stuff I have no control of, like my hair, the colour of my eyes etc.
A Regular Sam Elliott Over Here
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Over a decade ago I was playing COD4 with some buddies in team death match.
There was a guy chatting with us and he was trying to tell our usernames apart by our voices and he asks "Who's the one with the deep voice" and all my friends call out my username.
I know it's not a compliment and it's f-cking weird but sh-t if that didn't make my day and it has stuck with me all these years.
Hearing It Every Day
My wife often says my presence bring her comfort and safety.
That pretty much makes me feel good
Pushing Others To Do Better
The last compliment I received was circa 2017 when an older woman told me that my getting in shape was a big inspiration for her.
I guess I'll go with that.
Choco-Brown
A girl told me once that I have beautiful eyes.
I have the most generic brown eyes possible.
It left a deep mark on my soul.
The Ultimate Compliment
"You respect women better than anyone"
That's the best. A girl who I worked with years ago gave me the ultimate. "I love how you love women." It made me feel like I was doing something right.
Practical And Helpful
"Thanks - that was really useful."
Nothing makes me feel better than being noticed for being skilled and helpful.
A Father To Remember
You're a good father.
If that's the compliment you really really want, you're gonna work for it. And if you're working for that compliment, you're probably a great father.
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I love facts and statistics. It's always good to know the popular averages.
How Much?
jesus GIFGiphy"If you earned $180,000 per day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn’t have as much money as Jeff Bezos."
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Teeth
"Of the 335 million people living in the United States, approximately 23 million adults are completely edentulous (have no teeth)."
toothfixingfiend
"My guess is it's become quite common to get full dentures, including pulling out teeth for them. That's like 8 percent of the population, and I basically never ever see people with visibly no teeth. But I know several who have full dentures and probably see a lot more without realizing it."
Ok-Control-787
Speed Racer
"Racing car drivers in the 1950s, 1960s and even into the 1970s had a lower survival rate than WWII fighter pilots. Meaning those racing drivers were statistically more likely to die than those flying in battle. Crazy."
Haunebu52
"To add to this my interesting statistic is that there’s still around 240k WWII vets still kicking. But 234 die on average every day."
thegrandpineapple
100 Trips
"I'm an Uber driver with around 750 trips, so statistically I've been alone in a car with around 7 or so psychopaths."
KeyParticular8086
"I did Uber a few years back, maybe did 100 trips. I often wonder what is the worst thing ever done by any of those passengers. Aside from the drunk girl who peed herself on St Patrick’s day."
420buttbabies69
DUI
drunk drivers GIFGiphy"The average drunk driver drives under the influence more than 80 times before being arrested for the first time."
Sleepy_potato21
I feel 10X smarter already!!
"don't go there"
Fishing Fail GIF by ConesulfozGiphy"Protected fishing zones in Europe are more overfished than unprotected zones. People hear 'don't go there' and then go there."
let-123
Right and Left
"My favorite statistic, as a left-handed person myself, is that southpaws die, on average, 13 years younger than right-handed people. I had always heard this attributed to the fact that power tools are generally designed for right-handed users, making many of them awkward and dangerous for left-handed people."
"But the real explanation is far more interesting. See, until the middle of the 20th century, being left-handed was heavily stigmatized, and often viewed as a sign of the devil. Teachers would not allow their left-handed students to actually use their dominant hand."
"This actually proved to be somewhat effective. So as left-handedness became more accepted, lefty children were no longer forced to use their right hand, but older people who were naturally left-handed but forced to use their right hand continued to identify as right-handed."
"Because of this, the average age of self-described left-handed people was significantly lower than it would be if not for the previous generation being forced into right-handedness. And when the average age of a group of people is lower, the average age of death tends to follow suit."
Daniaghju
1% to 27%
"Some EMS agencies in Arizona and Nevada have been using CCR (cardiocerebral resuscitation) instead of the standard CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation). Basically starting by doing 200 chest compression non stop instead of 30 with 2 rescue breaths."
"Within a year of implementing it, EMS providers reported that their save rate went from 1% to 27%. This last year that number has gone up to around 50%. Furthermore, the saves are no longer just getting a pulse/heartbeat back, the people are now more often neurologically intact."
poizunman206
On the Waves
"The most dangerous world record to attempt is the water speed record, with an 85% mortality rate. The reason being that at the speeds they reach (300+ mph), air resistance is so strong that if the boat tilts even slightly too far up, it will completely flip and crash into the water at insanely fast speeds. And as you can imagine, it's pretty easy to tilt too far up when you're constantly bouncing on waves."
AppleEnslaver
Drainage
"It would take 1.2 million mosquitoes, each sucking at once, to completely drain the average human of blood."
ofsquire
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People are just creepy in general. So this should be weird.
Call Dateline NBC
Keith Morrison Chin Touch GIF by Dateline NBCGiphy"'Enjoy the rest of your night at the dance. When you go out to the parking lot, I'm going to kill you.'"
"Didn't see him again for the rest of the night and had an escort to my car, but dude was creepy as f**k."
ThePhiff
Old Navy Issues
"I was 7 years old and in Old Navy with my mum and sister. They went to try on clothes and I didn’t know that and had a panic attack trying to find them. Some older woman said she’d take me in and raise me and not to worry. For some reason I thought it was better than being alone forever at least. I was with her for a bit until I saw my Mum walk out of the dressing room. To this day I think about what if I left with her…"
Still_loading_1
I gave him one...
"I was on my way to my friend's house when a man(probably homeless) walked over to me and said 'Give me some money, I am hungry.' I said I don't have any money to which he replied 'you have two $5, give me one.' I don't know how he did it but I had exactly two $5 bills in my pocket, I gave him one."
SuvenPan
Dead Eyes
"As a child, I lost track of my mom while walking around after spotting a friend. It was a tiny town; the kind where you know everybody at least by sight, so I didn’t freak out, just went looking for her. I asked an arcade owner if he had seen her, and he said: 'Yeah, she went inside to the back. Why don’t you go in to look for her?'”
"My stranger danger alarm went off like crazy inside my head. I just said ‘no!’ and ran away. I swear this dude had dead AF eyes. Turns out she was just about a half a block ahead and was walking back to me. I never told her about the creepy man, and I regret it to this day thinking he might have actually lured a poor kid in."
Ihlita
Ya hungry?'
Cookie Monster Eating GIF by Sesame StreetGiphy"I'm walking through a parking lot between cars when right by my ear I hear an adult man ask in a syrupy-sweet voice 'Hey, cookie, ya hungry?'"
"I turn in shock/disgust to see he's sitting in a car with a little girl, sees me and says incredulously 'I was talking to my daughter.' My sister who witnessed this laughed til she cried."
Amish_Cyberbully
It's like humans can't hear themselves. Have we no censor?
'do you want any chips'
chips GIFGiphy"I feel bad, there’s some legit scary stuff here, by comparison mine seems significantly less 'eerie.'"
"Walking home from work and a bloke screams Up in a car, slams the brakes and gets out. I assume I’m already being done over and accept my fate (it was a long day at work, I didn’t have fight back in me). Anyway, the bloke jumps to his boot (trunk?) swings it open and just screams 'do you want any chips' I said no thanks mate, and off he angrily sighs jumps back in his car and buggars off."
davetrials
my family needs me!
"Not a stranger, but my brother stood up in the middle of a catatonic seizure and said these 3 things: 'Where am I? I have to get back to work in a few hours. My family… my family needs me!' - while looking around the room confused, and as he said that his eyes rolled back and suffered a second attack."
"He was 12 when this happened, and no, he didn’t have a job or a family of his own. I was there in the ER room when it happened while he was being attended by nurses. When he finally recovered consciousness a few hours later, he didn’t remember a single thing that happened that night and had no idea of the things he said."
AndyVilla14
Tuck and Roll
"I was in an Uber and the driver asked if had any kids and I said no. He was shocked and I asked why? And I kid you not he said 'I’m shocked no guy has ever tried. You’re a beautiful girl, I know I would have.' In that moment I was considering tucking and rolling out of the car but we were about to hit the highway and I didn’t want to be late for my flight 🙃."
Brilliant-Divine
Hey, you’re a great person!
"One day in high school, I was walking to Burger King and thinking about how much I didn’t like myself. When I got to Burger King, this homeless man inside yelled out to me across the restaurant 'Hey, you’re a great person! You’re a great person.'"
"I casually said thanks and left, like I wasn’t both stunned and creeped out. Reading through the comments, I see a lot of similar experiences with homeless people knowing what you’re thinking or details of your past. Amazing and creepy."
7Birdies
there was nobody there...
anatomy preach GIFGiphy"I'm a doctor. When I was working in psychiatry, a schizophrenic patient in the Emergency Department who I was clerking in asked me who the man in the turban behind me was (there was nobody there). I asked him to describe man and he described my grandfather who had been dead for several years perfectly."
amarghir1234
People really need to read the room before speaking. Good night.
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