Randomness

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Lesson learned today - being enamored with a jacket leads to disregarding outside temperature, which is conducive to getting a cold.

hah, I get this all the time. Except instead of a cold I risk getting heat stroke...

[genevieveryoko]

FTB, we've all been there.

[BSR]

Jacno is dead yesterday.

[Faust]

Faust 1, flu 0. I think I have super-duper immune system. My back still aches though - time for tiger balm and applicator kuznetsova.

[Mail-Moth]

At the market this morning, while I was asking for some apples and pears, an old lady standing next to me told me with a gentle smile :"You have a beautiful voice. Certainly you sing ?"

Always nice to hear.

And I like to see that there still are people to compliment perfect strangers this way, very simply, matter-of-factly.

[Faust]

That's sweet :-) I guess it's easier to do for old ladies. Many a time I feel like complementing a woman, but I feel like she's automatically thinking that I am a creep that wants to rape her. It's a sad state of affairs.

[Faust]

This was HILARIOUS. What a buffoon.

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Many a time I feel like complementing a woman, but I feel like she's automatically thinking that I am a creep that wants to rape her. It's a sad state of affairs.

Same. The opposite-gender intention-behind-compliment (pretty much strictly from the female perspective) paranoia in Hong Kong/China is one of the most pervasively bizarre aspects of life here I've yet to fully understand.

[laika]

That's sweet :-) I guess it's easier to do for old ladies. Many a time I feel like complementing a woman, but I feel like she's automatically thinking that I am a creep that wants to rape her. It's a sad state of affairs.

There's an art to giving compliments in a non-threatening, nonchalant kind of way, and personally i quite enjoy it.
ex., on a crowded subway, the guy sitting next to me says, "excuse me, but you are absolutely ____."
I smile, nod, say thank you, and he offers me his bag of jujubes (eating candy is very non-threatening, somehow). I decline, he smiles, and gets off at the next stop. Fun for everyone and totally harmless.

[Faust]

English fail: what do you call a knife that you fasten to an automatic weapon?

[munch]

bayonet? or is this a joke? :p

[Faust]

/\ yes, thank you. no, it was a total brain fart on my part.

[munch]

oh, okay, no problem. the way you put it up made me think it was a part of a joke...

the person who bought my macabre cardigan says there were postal strikes going on in england at the moment. I'm kinda worried that the cardigan won't make it.... how long should I worry? he hasn't told me it has arrived yet which I told him to

[genevieveryoko]

Same. The opposite-gender intention-behind-compliment (pretty much strictly from the female perspective) paranoia in Hong Kong/China is one of the most pervasively bizarre aspects of life here I've yet to fully understand.

I don't know FTB, it seems pretty simple to me:

start with the shoes - for example -

nice shoelaces, or

are those Ann Demeulemeester?

[Vanna]

Last night was intense. No wonder his initials are R.A.W.