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[bliumchik]

Well, there goes another one. This time Stan and Avi showed up (WITHOUT MY FIREFLY DVD RAR). They joined the growing number of people who react to "How were we?" with "Uh... well, uh, the ACTING was great, haha!" and thus we come to the conclusion that the play is only comprehensible to pregnant females over the age of thirty five, which would certainly explain why Ms Surbey chose it.

It is strange and a little scary how natural I look in fifties gear. Whoah.

Also, three different people told me I was funny today, which kind of makes me go meep (in a good way, but...)

Does anyone else have this problem with compliments? I mean... I just don't know where to put them. I don't know what to say. There's always the pressure to either return the favour, or be all modest about it (which is fair enough as I'm not exactly going to go "Yes I agree, I'm the funniest person I know" am I?) and I end up just saying thankyouhaveaniceday.

Comments

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Would it help any if I have this exact problem with compliments? Just what are you supposed to do with them? I just quietly let them die, but I don't think it's the right answer; it's just a convenient and safe one.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

That's comforting. ^_^

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

I have a similar problem with compliments. I think my most frequent answers to compliments are either just ignoring them entirely or 'uhm, okay.' and moving on to something else.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

*awkward*

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

OMG I do that too. It's not that I don't like recieving compliments, feeding my ego is generally a good thing in my book, but at the same time, they make me really uncomfortable, because I just don't know how to react. I mean, "Thanks, man!" is a good response and all, but it often feels weird and insincere.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

I know!

And, whoah, okay, it seems I'm so very not alone it's not funny XP

[ali-lou.livejournal.com]

Compliments are awkward but I'm always like "Thankyou, I love your (insert appropriate thing)"

Draws the attention away !

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Yeah but. That only really applies if somebody is complimenting your clothes.

[ali-lou.livejournal.com]

No way

"You are so funny"

"Thankyou, your hair looks really cool by the way"

or try this

"Your acting was awesome in Running Up A Dress, you were so convincing as the new mother, that 'yes' was my favourite line of the play"

"Thankyou, yeah I practiced that really hard. You are such a nice person I really appreciate you coming"


Okay fine, that sucks

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

LOL. The second one works, but the first one seems a bit out of the blue, you know? It sounds like you thought "Okay I should compliment this person now". If you were talking about hair in general, or just appearance, and they complimented something in th way you look, you can compliment something about how they look and it doesn't sound weird. But... yeah.