Dipshit. It’s my favorite insult. If you call a man an asshole or fucker, many take it as a sign of strength or say, 'i just tell it like it is." Dipshit is stupid and juvenile and naive and just perfectly describes so many people.
Oh, that’s why I like “dipshit” so much. Now I understand myself better, thanks!
Your father smells of elderberries.
“Your mother was a hamster!” is pretty self-explanatory though.
But elderberries smell rather nice. Or at least the last elderberry jam I had was quite lovely. So that certainly makes for a confusing insult.
Non native here: I even saw the movie.
There are some southern or appalachian insults that I’m sure would confuse foreigners, even those who are functional in English.
Comparisons like “He’s twelve ounces short of a pint”, backhanded compliments like “I just love how you don’t care what people think”, idioms like “three sheets to the wind”. And then of course there’s “rode hard and put up wet”.
There’s also “bless your heart”. Around here if someone tells you that, it is not a compliment.
And each modifier between “your” and “heart” increases the factor of how insulting they’re trying to be by at least 2
Non native here: “three sheets to the wind” “rode hard and put up wet” are totally unknown and over my head.
“He’s twelve ounces short of a pint” and “I just love how you don’t care what people think” I got them.
“Bless (his/her/their/your) heart”
That’s not an insult as the internet has decided. It can be used sarcastically, but in my experience as a southerner it is more often a compliment for doing something nice.
You had a different childhood than mine. It was code for “they’re a moron”.
Context is king. Yes, anything can be said sarcastically. But when a child shares their candy with another child and 7 people are like “Aww bless his heart!!” It’s not fucking code. The fact that it’s usually used as a compliment is exactly what makes it so cutting as a sarcastic insult.
It’s used both ways, it’s just context dependent.
Same here. “Bless your heart” usually means thank you
That’s why it’s so insidious. When used correctly you can throw people off because they have to question, “is this person grateful or do they hate my guts?”
“He don’t know shit from shinola.” [I’ve never asked what “shinola” is.] EDIT: Another one my Dad uses (Oklahoma born and bred): calling someone a “mudcat”.
Shinola is shoe grease
Ah. Thank you.
They also make watches now apparently
I’ve never asked what “shinola” is
Does your face hurt? Because my eyes hurt.
Non-native. I got this one.
Fucktard
“Crayon eater”, this one is specific to members of the U.S. Marine Corps, it can be used affectionately, but it’s very context dependent.
I like this one
You’re being a wet blanket.
Non native here: never heard it, is implying an unpleasant feeling?
Usually it’s referring to being a downer at an event that’s typically exciting. Like being at a party but complaining the whole time about their beer/music selection.
Calling someone a Charlie.
Non native here: (without going to the link) here in South America we sometimes call a person by “Juanito” or “Fulano” they are some sort of “Jhon Doe” names and the insult being “you’re so irrelevant to me that I don’t want to learn your name” or “who is this random person that came uninvited” is not common but some people still use it from time to time. Is akin of calling someone “furniture” (yeah that used as an insult in Argentina mostly). (going to the link) it make even less sense now…
Shitist? Either that or “You have a February nose, so full of frost, of storm and cloudiness.”
Non native here: “Shitist” Shit elitist? shithead? defecation goutmette?
“You have a February nose, so full of frost, of storm and cloudiness.” Boogers?The Shitist thing is Australian I believe. I’m pretty sure it’s just “shittiest” or just now looking at urban dictionary “the most shit anything can be”.
As for the other, I just looked up Shakespeare insults haha. Apparently it’s “Your face looks cold and unpleasant, and you seem angry.” According to the page I found it.
He’d be a great snipe hunter.
That man is onto something. God bless!
This one make me rethink how I insult people really.
None because i’m not racist.
jesse wtf are you talking about
Don’t side with the racists on this one, you’re better than that.
It’s a question about languages and you’re erroneously conflating that with race. Homie, this is not the hill for you to die on; and if you ever condescend to me like that again, we’re gonna start having problems. Wanna sit there and talk about “siding with the racists” and then play paternalist at the tail end of your fuckoff statement, fuck is wrong with you?
Step back and look at the situation from the third person and ask yourself if you like what you see.
Again,
So reality checking you didn’t work; I’ll tell it to you straight: log off for a week.
Your conflation is flatly wrong. Language and race are not some linked quantity. There is no gene preventing a white man from speaking Swahili, or a Black woman from speaking German, Dutch, Russian, and Gaelic.
Were I to allow that erroneous conflation to slide, I’d be committing a type of liberalism as we (unfortunately, as of right now) share a community. Your not even considering self-crit when it’s made as clear as I possibly Can make it that you’ve got the wrong end of the hook here is another. Log out, touch grass, do better; otherwise don’t darken my inbox again. I know what ‘verbally looking for a fight’ looks like; and you’re doing it right now. Chill the fuck out and log off.
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Is that really the kind of language you want to be using in this conversation?
Oh, it is; I’ve told you twice now to quit fuckin condescending to me and tryna cracker-talk your way out of being explicitly wrong. You don’t listen; ergo, I don’t want you even THINKING about continuing to talk to me. I genuinely don’t have time for those who act like settlers and can’t accept their own errors. If I wanted to get really uncharitable, I’d start listing off every single itemized thing I find wrong about you; but I’ll leave it at don’t you ever think to reply to my shit again if you won’t get right.
Bless your heart
What?
We do need a word for these kinda comments. People who are so dull, boring and insignificant that they spend their entire time online attempting to be offended at literally fucking everything and everyone
Pwasdbaittstetoatboalfeae would be the perfect word for that
I don’t think that’s what’s happening here and I don’t know of anyone who does that. Words do offend people, that is not something you have to try hard to do.
I’m not a native English speaker and I don’t see how this could be offending. Or maybe this is some US thing?
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I’m trying to think what I need to say to get you to call me a necrophiliac 🤔
Fucking knew it.
What are you even saying?
This person volunteered to be the one we can practice using this new knowledge on, bless their pure heart
