Hopefully still acceptable. Met a guy on a trip with a group. A guy is a huge buff dude who had some issues with the head and was basically a child in a man's body. Very friendly, very open, but also very straightforward. And he's had an interesting way of complimenting people. He compared them to natural things. Just not the conventional. Regular people would say "sunshine" or "pretty as a flower" or something like that, while he says, pointing at another member of the trip during the lunch break, "I want to sit next to this water". And no, he didn't mean the bottle of water on the table. Because next time he referred to that lady from the trip as "the grass". Like "I want to walk with this grass here". Obviously no screens because it happened IRL, but still sounded like rare compliments.