The only avatar I knew of you was the Etruscan Lady before you changed it. Besides, I had the gut feeling that the term "snow work" has a negative meaning. Here's the thing, I'm long around in this forum to have figured out that you are the very opposite of a gullible or naive lady. Thus I don't waste my time buttering you up to get on your good side. What I rather try and want to do is present facts in the most unbiased way possible, express my honest take on certain topics, and be polite by doing so. In too many discussions and forums, people don't show much decorum. Anyway, we had good conservations and also not few disagreements. However, to me, there is nothing creepier than making fake compliments or trying to flatter people in an insincere way. So, before I make a fake compliment to a woman or a man for that matter I keep my mouth shut. It's a matter of self-respect and the respect of others to refrain from behaving like a sycophant or worse a slimeball.
R.E., I'm trying very hard not to respond in a negative way. I'll say it again. It was a JOKE, a bit of what I thought was witty repartee. In my experience men often pay compliments out of politeness, whether it's here, in Italy, France, etc. It doesn't mean they want to have an affair with you for heaven's sake. The response a lot of women are more comfortable with than just saying thank you is to make some sort of witty come back. Haven't you ever heard the phrase, "Oh, I bet you say that to all the girls!". It's old fashioned Americana, what a woman might say to a man who paid her a compliment, a way of saying oh, you don't have to say that just because it's the polite thing to say.
Forget it. Maybe in Germany you don't do that sort of thing, so you have no idea what I'm talking about.
I must say, though, you must have some trouble with British and American media content if you can so misread my original post and then get so incredibly pedantic on top of it. You'd think you were going to challenge me to a duel at 6 AM.
That's a JOKE TOO, HINT, HINT.
Also, don't go looking for insults. If I want to insult you, you'll know it. Italians are very direct that way, and New Yorkers too. No subtle innuendo; more in your face.