Nicotine and bacteria

[venta]

Not the kind of thing I usually go in for, but let's give it a whirl: idea stolen from tooth_fairy.

You comment here. I pay you a compliment.

The first rule is that you must accept the compliment. No trying to wiggle out of it.

The second rule is really more of a suggestion: If you see someone you know in the comments, it'd be awfully nice if you paid them a compliment, too. This is optional, of course. But it would be nice.

Edit: I'm at work, I'm quite busy. So I might not get round to answering for a while. This isn't because I'm thinking holy crap, how do I say something nice about that total failure who just commented ;)

Comments

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

What a good idea, I'd be more than happy to be complimented.

[venta.livejournal.com]

You're an entertaining person to talk to; enough so that an otherwise rather inferior dinner passed very pleasantly :)

[alien8.livejournal.com]

are we going to have the biannual shouty 'how are you' at the WGW this month? :-)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Traditions have to respected, y'know!

[maviscruet.livejournal.com]

All right then......... I'm interested in what you'll say to me....

[venta.livejournal.com]

You have interesting things to say: enough so that I enjoy reading your journal despite having never met you.

[maviscruet.livejournal.com]

You read my live journal? But I'm not on your friends list.....

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I used to feel odd adding people I didn't particularly know as friends. I think I've got over it now, but there's still a clutch of journals which for historical reasons I read manually. If you see what I mean :)

[maviscruet.livejournal.com]

Ahhh I see. Fair enough feel free to add away.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I don't normally do memes but this one sounds good ^_^ yes please

[venta.livejournal.com]

You have a talent for explaining relatively complicated scientific concepts to people with no specialist knowledge clearly and painlessly. Since there often seems to be an inverse relation between depth of knowledge of clarity of speaking on the topic, this is a rare skill.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks :)

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

Aye, giz.

(And I get out of having to compliment anyone else 'cos I don't know any of 'em; excellent! I have seen this meme elsewhere but haven't reposted it; I'm crap at that kind of thing. I did consider posting an "honest, heartfelt personal attack" detourning of it, but thought that people might not believe me, & might end up offended.)

[venta.livejournal.com]

I know what I want to say, but am struggling to express it coherently (and in a way where it actually sounds like a compliment)... for someone with a fairly non-standard lifestyle and beliefs, you're an incredibly sane, balanced and level-headed person. There's no reason I can see why this should be unusual, but empirically it is. Very.

Bluntly: you have an extremely good weirdshit to batshit ratio.

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

Heh-heh, that is very complimentary, thank you! :D

I do think it's accurate, too -- but it's nice that you noticed. ;)

[davefish.livejournal.com]

weirdshit to batshit ratio.

I like this metric, I may have to use it in future :)

[uitlander]

Tickle my ego baby

[venta.livejournal.com]

You're great at making the rather dry facts of archaeology interesting without once resorting to Time-Team-style drama.

(I fear my compliments are all sounding a bit feeble; think it comes of trying to actually fit them to the person rather than just writing "gee, you're fun to be with" for practically everyone.)

[beckyl.livejournal.com]

Pre-emptively, I'm going to compliment you, then you can return the favour if you want. You appear to live your life to maximize good memories, and minimize regrets, and you have provided entertainment on many a dull afternoon with questions that have made me think and analyse some of my unthinking assumptions about the way the world works.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Speaking as someone who's always gone for the safe[*] option of normal employment, I'm completely in awe of your ability to start your own business and just run with doing something cool. I'm sure running a business isn't easy, but mostly what impresses me is having the motivation and confidence to even think of taking it on.

On a not-related-note, it'd be nice to see you. Fancy an evening out some time ?

[*] For, given the history, low values of "safe" ;)

[marjory.livejournal.com]

I'm feeling very needy!

[venta.livejournal.com]

I love your ability to to describe perfectly ordinary events or objects in new and innovative ways, without apparent effort or particular (obvious) intention to entertain. There's something about a deadpan delivery which doesn't seem to expect a laugh that makes it much funnier.

The one that springs immediately to mind as an example is your directing my dad to your house at Christmas time and referring to a small shrub covered in fairy lights as "the rather Liberace bush".

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

If you wouldn't mind?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Since I've barely seen you in years, I'm not entierly sure what interacting with you in person might be like :) However, I always look forward to seeing a comment of yours on here, as they're always interesting and freqently highly entertaining.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Many, albeit belated, thanks!

I hope you enjoyed paying the compliments; I enjoyed receiving mine and feel safe guessing that so did everyone else.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Paying the compliments was an interesting experience, actually. In each case, the requester was someone I was perfectly happy and willing to compliment, but attempting to go for something slightly less banal than "I enjoy your company/reading your LJ" in each case did cause me to pause and think a bit. Why do I like this person ? Or, in a few cases, what do I know about this person. An interesting exercise.

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

Me please :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

You're one of the most smiley people I've ever met, and you seem to spread of sort of infectious happiness :)

(I'm not sure I ought to use the word 'infectious' in a compliment, it doesn't sound very nice!)

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

that's a good infectious :)

thank you :)

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Am I too late?

Far too late, I'm all out of nice things to say about people.

[venta.livejournal.com]

You'd be one of my top people were I choosing a quiz team, but I think that's more self-interested than complimentary :)

Thinking about you makes me happy, because I associate talking to you with laughing a lot. You're a genius of comedy timing and dry delivery.