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Posted: 4/4/2007 1:30:54 PM | I guess I never really thought about it before. Heck, if they are beautiful/pretty I'm just lucky to get my tongue untied long enough to say hello!
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Posted: 4/4/2007 1:47:32 PM | I can't believe it.......oh my gosh, i don't think women belong in the kitchen, contrary wise, I think they should sure up and be real women, real women are secure in themselves and don't need compliments. Guys compliment cause they think they are gonna get laid, I actually like a woman with an opinion amd enjoy conversation with a woman very much. An educated, intelligent, successful woman doesn't need the pretty line, point blank, bottom line....... and as for your insults, doll, I really didn't expect anything else. Your behavior was just plain silly reminds me of high school actually with the blow us line....geez ......grow a brain, dear. I just think your afraid of being secure in yourself and not needing some clingy dingy guy to tell you your pretty in the bedroom voice. and Ladies, I am great guy, intelligent, with a great career and a full time daddy on top of it all. I write music, and poetry and do random act of kindess and generosity in my the city, (the city she loves me) , Phoenix. Ok so save the jerry springer style insults and rock on  | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 1:53:23 PM | | crazy: haven't you had a woman pay you a compliment before ? what is so wrong with telling someone why they are so great. A woman can be beautiful AND be intelligent, capable, successful, happy and secure with herself - all those things. Suppose a woman tell you she thinks you are attractive, good looking and handsome, what is so wrong with that ??? doesn't negate all the other qualities that you have. | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 1:57:28 PM | | Tinkerbell ,Well good for you, though if you are telling the truth you are the exception, a nice exception, but not the rule. I am sure you know women too. Those needy women that never know what they want and are always fishin for a compliment. and ofcourse this is just my opinion, and it works for me. I learned the hard way that the majority of women are dream killers. They promise roses but give you thorns. Women that date me know my feelings. I am completely open. So when they start any sort of dramatic jive they know its over with. and its not about finding the right person. Contrary, its about being secure as a man or as a woman for that matter, and in full control of my emotions, desires, and dreams. | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 2:01:53 PM | | mimi, I will gladly accept any compliment shot my way, and you are right compliments are nice. But I don't give compliments to women I date casually. Its a litmus test, you find out their true colors fast. I didnt intend to start a fire storm, some women are truly incensed by the thought of not receiving compliments. It has atleast been an interesting exchange of ideas, I dunno, its just my opinion and to quote my hero forrest gump: and thats all I have to say about that...... | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 2:15:54 PM | Even if I think a woman is "cute" (which is the type of looks I prefer) I'll call her beautiful and pretty sometimes just so she gets to hear the one she wants to hear.
It's sad and funny that I agree with this one.
I go after the "cute" types when I can as well. And "Cute? That's something my mother would say!" 
It's a compliment. And a damn good one. Get over it!  It's not like we as guys get complients like that very often. Maybe we're not used to the variation or sensitivities of greater and lesser compliments.
In the heirarchy, I'd put them, pretty, cute, beautiful. Sexy and hot get their own catagories. Pretty is more of a temporary condition. Cute is more often all the time. Beautiful is a high one. | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 2:18:33 PM | so guys - how is "cute" different from "pretty" from "beautiful" ?????
when do you use which ????? and what does each one mean to you ?????? | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 2:19:46 PM | pretty and beautiful can be thrown out there as easily as the word love. however, in my life, i reserve the word beautiful for things that promote or create emotions inside me (such as music or certain paintings, nature, and of coures a woman but only if that woman has indeed created some sort of emotion or feeling within me that makes me feel she is beautiful).
you can be smoking hot or sexy or whatever, but it isn't the same thing as beautiful... although you can be both, hell, you can be ugly and beautiful... but everybody gets caught up on semantics and what a certain word means to them subjectively as they don't own dictionaries i assume, so yeah, mine and anyone else's post are worthless garbage - - trust your own feelings when someone says you are beautiful. | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 2:21:00 PM | It doesn't matter mimi. As long as you're not on the ugly or bich list, I think you're doing alright in life.
So, which one do you want to hear for yourself? WE DON'T KNOW! | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 2:22:04 PM | Both mean the same, it's just that 'beautiful' is more effusive than 'pretty'. Use of the word 'beautiful' sometimes just indicates a higher level of interest by the guy.
Then there's 'cute'. It's possible to be one or the other or even both. Personally, I prefer girls who are 'cute' as opposed to 'beautiful'. A girl who is both 'cute' and 'beautiful' is even better.
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Angelina Jolie - beautiful
Charlize Theron - beautiful with a smidgen of cute
Meg Ryan - cute with a smidgen of beautiful | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 3:15:33 PM | ubkobalt:
Re: Pretty is more of a temporary condition. Cute is more often all the time. Beautiful is a high one.
See, so it DOES matter afterall !! LOL | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 3:26:18 PM | Maybe it matters.
But at the same time, I can change my definition at any time.  | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 3:45:27 PM | I never compliment a woman ever.. and I suggest the same to all my boys out there.
This is great advice. Beautiful women have heard they are beautiful a million times from a million guys, so saying it makes you # 1 000 001. Now not saying a damn thing makes you different. A challenge. This at least peaks their interest a little.
I was talking to this one beautiful girl on plenty and getting absolutly nowhere as my nice guy self. As per usual. Anyway, getting one word responses when Id get one at all was boring me, so I decided to play a arrogant jerk and talk about how awesome I was. When she did the same, Id downplay by saying stuff like "oh yeah, you aint bad, I guess" Suddenly the tables had turned. She was actually showing some interest. Eventually she must have discovered I wasent an obnoxious prick because she lost interest, but at least I got that far.
If everyone just said what they are thinking then the world would be a simpler place!
Amen sister. Sadly the conversation with a attractive girl would go like "I think you are beautiful", "Yeah you and every other guy, why should I care?", "umm... I have money?" | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 3:48:40 PM | ubkobalt: LOL - funny
See, I always thought if a guy says pretty, then that means he is not all that interested. Its just a really mild interest. Except that recently, someone said 'pretty' and 'sexy' together , which kinda made me wonder. I know, I know - don't think too much about it -- its from a guy ... LOL | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 5:12:04 PM | Guys compliment cause they think they are gonna get laid
WOW! Never once in my eyes have I ever thought that. I hope your not talking about all guys in general.
Geesh, I just told my Mom the other day, (she was dressed up to go out with my dad) that she looked beautiful. Now, I hope she doesn't call me when my Dads gone thinking I want a little action. | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 5:33:41 PM | Ok, complimenting your mommy hell razer is not part of the discussion though i appreciate the humorous comment
My comments are directed at single men and single women who are not in a serious relationship.
Hot women know they are hot, they don't need compliments, they have a tape measure and a scale. plus you will get more attention from them if you don't compliment
The rest of women know there status, why get into this pychotic chain of always saying your pretty baby to keep there self esteem up....if you don't have to
whats the difference between pretty and beautiful and cute,....which one am I, which one am I.......(spoken in a girly voice for dramatic effect)
sorry not for me | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 5:39:13 PM |
I never compliment a woman ever.. and I suggest the same to all my boys out there. This is a perfect opportunity to one up a chick. Let her tell you that your handsome, but just say thanks and don't offer a return compliment. Women want to be told constantly that they are pretty, hot, sexy, skinny, beautiful, i mean you name it. But all that does is bolster a chicks ego and make her think..... well.... if I'm that hot then I don't need this loser. Thats how they think.......do you think I'm beautiful????.......come on, come on, men stop falling into their retro pychotic traps and be real men again. Oh and by the way it works good. You will score more, and faster by not complimenting a women. When their ego is in check and not inflated they are more likely to loosen up and give you the lovin you want
I presume you are joking... Either that or it might explain why you are on a dating site... lol
Pretty or handsome, to me, is someone you can look at and think is a good looking person and you wouldnt mind spending some time with them...
Beautiful, again in my opinion, is deeper, it has to be about someones personality as well as their looks....
I compliment people all of the time, both male and female. If someone at work looks really nice i will tell them, i tell my sisters they look lovely when we are all going out and tell my friends they are beautiful when they need to hear it, if they are down and dont realise their self worth i tell them that they are beautiful... | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 6:00:54 PM | CrazyRocker,
I never thought of complimenting and saying your beautiful in any way was a tool to get laid is all. I am sure there are men who think this way. (Yeah, I had to throw some humor in sorry.) But I do understand your point.
I once dated this young woman who could turn heads in her PJs. Every time I would compliment her on her looks, all she could reply was "I know", "You don't have to tell me something I know", etc....after a while of that, I never complimented her again. I think she was the type your refering to. Though it never bothered her either that I stopped complimenting.
Beautiful:
If it's someone I know, and I tell them they are beautiful, it's only because they happen to look above and beyond thier every day appearance. If it's someone I don't know and meet and they really catch my attention, because they may look stunning, I tell them. Even on POF. Now if it's my mate (when I have a mate), I'll tell them every single day more than once. (unless in the above situation)
Pretty and Cute:
To me when I say these, it's usually geard toward younger women. Unless I find them unbelievably attractive. Then they will hear beautiful.
As far as being a difference in terms, yes..slightly the way I use them. | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 6:13:10 PM | I think I'll start a thread and title it "Big or Huge" and refer to my penise.
So, is, like, being big, like, better than, like, being huge? GOSH! ***Sarcastically bats eyes**** I'm just so confused!
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Now that I'm done being a big meanhead . . . Refer to your handy-dandy dictionary and be done with it . . .
Accept a compliment and be gracious about it. Questioning a compliment is ALWAYS rude. | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 6:18:37 PM | Actually, I stumbled accross the fish site by accident on a search for something else. I like the forums alot, I haven't actually met anyone off the computer as of yet. I live in a city of 4 million. I meet potential dates everyday in real life, and I have a six year old who is always trying to set me up with the check out girl at walmart or the waitress at chucky cheese. Also 90 % of the people at my work are women.
Do you disagree with me foxy, tell me what you think about a guy, ( a guy you havent slept with) when he is constantly paying you compliment after compliment. You know what guys want when they do that. I am suggesting to single men ( not men already involved in a serious relationship) that they use compliments very sparingly. Its just a suggestion and as a rule I never give compliments. The girls I date appreciate my honesty. No compliments, no lame ass come ons, no bs, no games, and no drama. It actually works love...., it certainly does, I can't believe more men do not understand the principle. Its not a secret either. Nice cuddly guys that talk in the bedroom voice and are all clingy dingy finish last.... and that's all I have to say about that | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 7:07:08 PM | PRETTY or BEAUTIFUL... -hmmmmm, guess it depends on how many beers i have consumed   | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 8:52:31 PM |
I never compliment a woman ever.. and I suggest the same to all my boys out there. This is a perfect opportunity to one up a chick. Let her tell you that your handsome, but just say thanks and don't offer a return compliment. Women want to be told constantly that they are pretty, hot, sexy, skinny, beautiful, i mean you name it. But all that does is bolster a chicks ego and make her think..... well.... if I'm that hot then I don't need this loser. Thats how they think.......do you think I'm beautiful????.......come on, come on, men stop falling into their retro pychotic traps and be real men again. Oh and by the way it works good. You will score more, and faster by not complimenting a women. When their ego is in check and not inflated they are more likely to loosen up and give you the lovin you want
This kind of reminds me of that dating manual for women to get married, "The Rules". It's so funny because in that book, women are instructed to do the same (except in reverse, to guys) as what this poster has recommended to guys. I can't help but kind of chuckle at this because if we had a world where both men and women were pulling these "one up" games on each other, I think we'd see a lot more single people who will never get together with anyone, than we do today! Both guys and girls are hoping to "score" (whatever that means to you) with the opposite sex, and in the end no one would, because they're expecting that no one else is playing their game.. Too funny! | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 8:57:55 PM | | Oh just take the compliment already. Don't turn it into a Seinfeld episode. | |
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Posted: 4/4/2007 9:12:56 PM | I always use beautiful if I'm so much interested in someone.. If i'm not interested then I use nice...  But pretty is a thought too.. Incase I only want someone in my bed for the night... LOL | |
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