Compliments

Jokes on you, me and my friends just straight up flirt as compliments like "HOLY SHIT! Who is this hot dude?"

Was just going to say that this really depends on you and your friends. Got one friend group that is all about cuddling drunk, giving shoulder massages and complimenting each other. Got another that is more about board games and being sure feet don't touch accidentally under the table. All friends are valid <3
- I had one friend kinda like that. I felt really weirded out by it at first.
  
  Haven't interacted with him in years (he was married to another close friend of mine, they got divorced and I haven't heard a peep from either of them in years sadge), but now the few friends I have that knew him as well still kinda make comments like him in his memory.
straight up gay flirt

Hmm, I gotta get my work friends adjusted to this/conditioned to do this, it's way too boring in the office.

How does one go about doing something like this?

I'll try with a nice complement, perhaps a soft whisper at the urinals.
- As long as they are close enought to know that you are not really trying to date them you are good to go

What, you women have never met a straight man before!? We honk each others' dongs all the time! It's called being interested in your friends!!!

Nothing wrong with a brojob between buddies.
- Choo choo!

We have toxic masculinity to thank for that.

Obligatory screw the patriarchy
- I'll drink to that. I can't do anything with my male friend without feeling like I have to make these kind of statements after complimenting them on anything. This shit is so internalized. If i have children someday, I will not be teaching them to be like this.
  
  You wanna be touchy freely with your best guy friends, and its not sexual go right ahead. I should be able to give my friends hugs and not feel like it's a weird thing to do.

Idk, in my friend group it's 50-50 for... "Hey, you look less like shit today, did you get a nose job?"

Or

"Good lord, stay away from me with that new haircut. I'm already nursing a semi!"

Now I'm just imaging a breast feeding semi-truck
- I feel like there is a moob joke there somewhere, but can't find it.
The dichotomy of man
- Dickotomy
  
  Dicocktomy
  
  Somebody can do better than that, lol

psh i'll compliment a guy and leave it totally ambiguous.

I'll compliment a man and French kiss him. Totally ambiguous.
- it's the frenchness. it's ambiguous because it's french :3
- I'll lovingly kiss a man, and then literally crucify him. Totally ambiguous!
- Here's an interesting one: kissing a gay guy on the cheek, or letting him kiss you on the cheek is neutral, as long as the guy is out of the closet. Hugging and/or kissing a straight guy is gay.
  
  -- from "Gay/Not Gay" by King Missile
- As long as you're in France this is not gay also if you're French it's ok, also if you have ever ate French fries it's not Gay,.
- ... or just leave it totally IamBiGayus - to be safe from the potential (mis)assumption that you are French.

I've literally never gotten a compliment from a friend. I would find it quite weird if I did.

Pro tip: if all your friends are online and you never show them what you look like, they can never compliment you nor not compliment you. Its a win win!
I updated my profile pic on teams with a professional shot after a fresh shave and a button down.

I'm normally unshaven and in gaming t shirts.

Needless to say I got lots of compliments from both guys and girls in meetings on "cleaning up good" and "looking fresh"

Felt good.
- Until you realize that they're just complimenting the fake you, not the normal, typical you.
It tends to get better with younger generations. I've gotten a lot of good and bad feedback about some changes I made during the last months but pretty much exclusively from friends and co-workers under 40.

Was never weird though. Just smile and say something like "Right? I'm trying that out. Thank you :)"

Accepting compliments can be learned.
It would be way less weird if they said:

"Hey man. You look like absolute dogshit, bro."
Do you give out compliments to your buds?

As a guy, I've gotten compliments from het men plenty of times, and there was never any confusion about whether they were hitting on me. And I'm in the military, and it was coworkers most times. "Nice haircut, where do you go? You do it yourself! Wow, nicely done!" "Nice shirt, looking good! You got plans after work or something?"

I am not a particularly attractive guy, either. I really wonder what circles all the guys that either don't get compliments or get awkward about compliments (like in this comic) run in.

Still a funny comic, not a criticism. Women are definitely way more open with their compliments to each other.

never any confusion about whether they were hitting on me.

I'm in the military

Marines: "I don't get it."

I'm so glad I have actually good friends we can compliment and joke around without feeling uncomfortable ahah.

I started wearing women's glasses and I cannot go outside without people complementing them. I go out with my gorgeous sexy partner, and people still complement my freaking glasses. They're translucent pink cat eye frames.

Probably because they draw attention from the rest of your face, jerk!
Hey, sexy glasses, Jerkface!

You can't do much about your friend's haircut, but she's got a couple of ways of getting into that underwear.

Just sayin'.

Don't let your dreams be dreams.

He can get into her underwear now too. It's 2025 bruh.

I just offer my friends head. Not gay but their haircut looks good yknow

Yeah this person has never seen men interacting with each other

I feel like this person doesn't know any women or men.

I stopped believing this when a man complimented another man.

*Cis Hetero Men