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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Irish people ask me what part of Ireland I’m from. I must do an amazing Irish accent despite being Scottish and have never visited there. I blame the fact that central Edinburgh doesn’t have a strong Scottish accent and lots of Londoners/Americans study here.
I was once told that I ‘look like I’m going to ask someone to the Sadie Hopkins dance’. I assume they just meant I looked nice/dressed up, but it just struck me as interesting phrasing. Random people just tend to talk to me; a couple weeks ago I was at the gas station and an older guy struck up a conversation and commented that it was nice to see someone smile ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sounds like they may have been referring to the "Sadie Hawkins dance" which is a middle school highschool dance where the girls ask the guys to be their date. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_Hawkins_dance
there was a comment thread where there was something along the lines of "when my roommate peed you could HEAR how his urethra was wider than a normal person" and I don't know how to feel about it
I've had several people throughout my life tell me they like my earlobes. Had a friend as a kid, and her adoptive dad was obsessed with them. He was a very quirky and funny person, it was never creepy but still weird.
74 Comments
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 83 pts · 1y
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.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 1y
Embrace the joy, Goddess.
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee · 18 pts · 1y
I’m 38, male, chubby, can’t grow a beard for shit.
Raisins are wank. You’re “a goddess among mortals”.
prex@aussie.zone · 16 pts · 1y
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?
ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 1y
This is standard in US-style carrot cakes
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 1y
Raisins in cinnamon rolls is the true crime
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
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.
prex@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 1y
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.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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.
Stovetop@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 1y
She is correct. You are absolutely divine for excluding raisins, you radiant goddess, you!
AA5B@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
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.
grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
She's right. Cooked raisins are an abomination. You're a hero.
coaxil@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
raisins are an abomination
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 47 pts · 1y
corroded@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
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?
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 1y
ahornsirup@feddit.org · 6 pts · 1y
That's just how you eat rice with chopsticks? How else are you supposed to do it without making a giant mess?
USSMojave@startrek.website · 15 pts · 1y
Western folks don't usually hold the bowl and utensils so close to the face
Stovetop@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
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.
AA5B@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
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
Iapar@feddit.org · 36 pts · 1y
jayambi@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y
you did get laid that night, right?
toofpic@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
"I'm the vessel, fuck me. It's as close as it gets."
whaleross@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 1y
That I have a nice phone number.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 1y
I have an evil one. It ends 666 👿
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
My old work number used to have a 404 area code. I work in tech. It was a fun inside joke.
Stovetop@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Well, you've just unlocked a new goal of mine: move to Atlanta...
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
0666 here
spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Now kiss.
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
DrainKikoLake@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 1y
An ultrasound tech once told me that I have a cute spleen.
logicbomb@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Nothing looks cute on an ultrasound. Humans are hardwired to see babies as cute, and even they don't look cute on an ultrasound.
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 1y
AA5B@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
One complimented my bladder, so I guess that spleen seems mighty good about now
meekah@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y
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.
Kualdir@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 1y
What 😭
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
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.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
they just do that sometimes, it's normal
source: dad was a nurse
TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website · 22 pts · 1y
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 1y
“I can tell you’re not a habitual cocaine user”
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 1y
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."
Kualdir@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 1y
Average dutch person
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y
"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"
frostysauce@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y
"Whoever did your circumcision did a really good job." :/
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y
I need more context 😭
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Yeah. Let's see the model cock, sir
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 1y
Nurses tend to like the veins in my left arm so I've had a few comments on that.
Gerudo@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y
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"
RBWells@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
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.
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
Got laid once because of my veiny arms so, not only nurses like them.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 1y
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.
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
Ok Ezekiel.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
Ezekiel 23:20
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
I wish I had a name like that. Instead I have one of the more common and much more generic names.
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 1y
Jesus (pronounced in English)
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
Probably something more boring like Bathsheba
garbagebagel@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
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.
essell@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
This is sometimes what happens when someone grows up around someone who is volatile or unpredictable.
Natural adaptation.
Could that be why?
garbagebagel@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Oh. Well that tracks, yeah.
hexabs@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Baseball, huh?
crusty@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
harmony@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 1y
"You have the most beautiful intestines!" And several other similar things as I was checked for cancer.
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
It's like the saying goes: true beauty is on the inside.
Jerb322@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
I "chew sexy"....was eating pizza at a girlfriend's house.
SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social · 6 pts · 1y
What a weird thing for her dad to say.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
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.
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 1y
Being complimented by the urologist on my shaving for a vasectomy.
steeznson@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
Irish people ask me what part of Ireland I’m from. I must do an amazing Irish accent despite being Scottish and have never visited there. I blame the fact that central Edinburgh doesn’t have a strong Scottish accent and lots of Londoners/Americans study here.
PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y
I was once told that I ‘look like I’m going to ask someone to the Sadie Hopkins dance’. I assume they just meant I looked nice/dressed up, but it just struck me as interesting phrasing. Random people just tend to talk to me; a couple weeks ago I was at the gas station and an older guy struck up a conversation and commented that it was nice to see someone smile ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
elfin8er@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
Sounds like they may have been referring to the "Sadie Hawkins dance" which is a middle school highschool dance where the girls ask the guys to be their date. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_Hawkins_dance
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 1y
there was a comment thread where there was something along the lines of "when my roommate peed you could HEAR how his urethra was wider than a normal person" and I don't know how to feel about it
stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 1y
This is disturbing
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 7 pts · 1y
I have the perfect hands to be a surgeon.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
And the feet of a hobbit?
TheFANUM@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Her "you look like Kevin federline"
Me "well fuck you too"
Her "what?! He's hot!"
Me "I stand by my statement"
proudblond@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I honestly forgot he existed
selinson@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
"You have a beautiful brain" while looking at MRI pictures of my head.
Konstant@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
M137@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I've had several people throughout my life tell me they like my earlobes. Had a friend as a kid, and her adoptive dad was obsessed with them. He was a very quirky and funny person, it was never creepy but still weird.