[ SECRET POST #3101 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3101 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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what is this even

[(Anonymous)]

"Yesterday I happened to receive a personal compliment. (This is an extremely rare occurrence, and I hope I am the first to acknowledge the fact.) I was trying to do a maximal amount of shopping in a very narrow window of time, and just thanked the compliment payer, though in a voice that had all the audibility of a first-rate parlourmaid's (as in, barely any). He repeated the compliment; I made my thanks louder, smiled and moved on.

"At the time, I didn't think much of it, except to reflect vaguely that I must have been in unusually young looks to be called "dude" by someone who seemed to be about age 22 (vastly more pleasant than being called "sir" but that's neither here nor there). You will all doubtless recall how Mr Bennet attributed good humour to his future wife because that is the impression so often given by youth and beauty; this person's youth and open manners were enough to give the impression of beauty even though I didn't take a particularly good look. He was the sort of young man whom it cheers me up to see coupled with just such another; one invisibly salutes such a pair, wishes them well, and goes about one's business. But one doesn't take particularly good looks at such people at my age; that would feel rather rude, as if one were manifesting pretensions belonging to a station of which one had long been deprived. Presuming to pay a compliment in return would have been the sort of error that one would expect from the old lechers in one of Mr Davies' new series in the UK with a title about produce (bananas or cucumbers or the like).

"As the afternoon and evening progressed, though, I did get the impression that he was definitely SS, though I don't know why I think so. What has struck me as so sad (and I was practically in tears for most of my forty-minute commute home last night) was his repeating the compliment. Someone that young and reasonably pretty ought to be going around with other Bright Young People and not repeating compliments to aged relics. I've since gotten a strengthening cosmic vibration that I could have done him some good had I not been so distracted by my shopping concerns. I might not even have had to venture outside of my proper place.

"Oh, dear. I am depressing myself about this all over again. "

Re: what is this even

[(Anonymous)]

what's ss

Re: what is this even

[kaijinscendre]

Soulstone? :P

Re: what is this even

[(Anonymous)]

As it appears to be something you're quoting, it's likely you know "what is this" more than any of us

Re: what is this even

[feotakahari]

Whoever this person is, if he can use the Internet well enough to post on a blog, he's a lot less of a "relic" than many people.

Re: what is this even

[(Anonymous)]

So you're quoting something off someone's blog?

The blogger is an older person, and they were complimented by a younger person. Blogger dude finds that weird, and over-thinks about it in language so overwrought that it actually obscures his meaning unless you read very carefully (and even then, there are bits I don't think I get).

I don't know what SS means. Aside from the Nazi version. Urban Dictionary gives multiple definitions, none of which are applicable here.

Anyway, the lesson here is don't over-think compliments and don't try to talk like a Victorian novel.

Re: what is this even

[sarillia]

I was thinking more Georgian era myself but maybe that's because I've read more of it than Victorian.

Re: what is this even

[herpymcderp]

Sounds like some WWII Britlit to me.

Re: what is this even

[(Anonymous)]

This reads like a journal on someone's thoughts. No biggie.