Insults! Can you share the best you've heard AND manage to keep it clean?

@James72 (26790)
Australia
October 9, 2008 8:12am CST
I am not sure yet if I have made a big mistake asking for something like this to be shared but time will tell I guess. I have always been a fan of witty insults! (And the offensive ones too to be honest but for the sake of this post actually remaining it would be best if we left those ones alone!) What are some of the best insults you have ever heard? PLEASE try to keep it clean so my post doesn't get deleted! Here are some I have heard and read myself to get things started: "The difference between you and a bag of manure is that manure is useful." "If my dog had a face like yours, I'd shave his butt and teach him to walk backwards." "So, were you born stupid or did you have to take lessons?" "My god, you're so dense light bends around you."
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@jerzgirl (9291)
• United States
9 Oct 08
Aw, James - you took my two faves!! (dog face and born stupid) But, here's another one I've used in the recent past: You think you're all that, but I've scraped better off the bottom of my shoe!
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@jerzgirl (9291)
• United States
9 Oct 08
Oh - and this one to the same person who likes to brag how much of a man he is (which is usually an indicator of quite the opposite, I think): You don't have the mechanical ability to open a paper bag.
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@James72 (26790)
• Australia
9 Oct 08
But us men like to feel we are geniuses whenever we do anything jerzgirl! Even if it IS just a paper bag! I like the one about the shoe and I have met many people in my life that fit that insuklt perfectly! lol. I remember seeing a man in a supermarket once that had a T-shirt that read - "Call your village, they want their idiot back!" lol. Thanks for responding and for sharing your own versions.
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@SaintAnne (5453)
• United States
9 Oct 08
How do I call my village? I want to go home.
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@dizzblnd (3073)
• United States
9 Oct 08
LMAO! What a great discussion! My Fav's are Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception
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@James72 (26790)
• Australia
10 Oct 08
I hope they stay clean too dizzblnd. Not just for the sake of keeping the discussion from being deleted, but also because it is more challenging to be funny and insulting without profanities! Good luck with your new verbal arsenal.
@James72 (26790)
• Australia
10 Oct 08
Why thank you! I had great concern for people's ability to keep things clean but I am very impressed so far! The examples you have given are very funny! I read another one last night - "Is that your face or did your neck just throw up?" Thanks for sharing these dizzblnd.
@dizzblnd (3073)
• United States
10 Oct 08
I hope it continues to stay clean. I am taking notes. Me and this guy I work with trade insults all day long! It's lotsa fun. Oh.. and uhhhhhhh my neck DID throw up!
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• United States
10 Oct 10
Here in Arkanasaw a common insult hurled at someone doing something particularily stupid and/or ignorant is to call them an Obama voter.
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• United States
10 Oct 10
Well, call me an Obama voter. I misspelled Arkansas.
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• United States
20 Dec 10
Nah, you'd never be mistaken for an 0bama voter. However, check out the lazy, stupid, misfit, and/or criminal Americans you know. Ask them, "Did you vote for 0bama?", and you will discover this select group of people mostly did vote for 0bama. Yes, I have already conducted this experiment.
@James72 (26790)
• Australia
19 Dec 10
Hi RYBD, it's been a long time since we've crossed paths! Wow, it even took me 3 months to reply to you. Does that make me an Obama voter as well?
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@munhozmib (3836)
• Sao Paulo, Brazil
24 Oct 08
Hello! Wow, those are some real insults! That must have been pretty hard to hear. I wouldn't like to listen to it. You know, when I was on the fifth grade insults were common. But I can't really remember them, and they took a lot of bad words, which would get the discussion deleted. Now, the hardest thing to hear was on the sixth or seventh grade. I liked this girl so much, but she didn't pay attention to me. One day she came to me and said: "You are so ugly". lol That sucked, but I could act normally. I didn't seem offended nor anything, but man, that was pretty hard to listen to. Respectfully, Munhozmib.
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@James72 (26790)
• Australia
25 Oct 08
Hi munhozmib. Yes insults can be pretty hard hitting but if we can have a thick skin it can be pretty funny to exchange them! I know many with bad words too and these are definitely the most common. This is why I wanted to take a risk and see if we could all come up with ones that were actually profanity free! And of course I am happy to see that our fellow mylot members have not let me down and have come up with some great ones! The comment the girl made to you may not have been too detailed but I can agree that the straightforward ones can sometimes hurt most of all. Thanks for the response.
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• Romania
4 Nov 08
hey munhozmib if i were in your shoes i would tell her after the calling ugly thing this :"Oh really? coming from you it's a compliment", in my cirlce it's now very old but I still use it. though sooner or later i have to update it. best wishes and luck!
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@munhozmib (3836)
• Sao Paulo, Brazil
4 Nov 08
lol I could have said that, but I just kept my mouth shut. She was just judging everybody around, anyway, and I was included in the everybody.
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@inkling (84)
• United States
10 Oct 08
After dealing with a particularly dense and nasty individual at a local government office who implied more than once that I lacked the intelligence to grasp the reason that the canceled checks I brought with me were not sufficiant evidence that my tax was paid, (It took hours and a conversation with several of her superiors before the matter was resolved). I couldn't help myself; I returned to her desk and said- "Madam, I must say that I deeply regret our earlier encounter and I wish to thank you for your efforts in my behalf regarding this matter. In particular, I commend your complete grasp of the mundane and your total commitment to the ambiguity of your position. By your actions today, you have reaffirmed my belief that my government employs only those individuals who are uniquely qualified in both animus and insouciance." The woman's face immediately brightened and she said thankyou----- I rest my case. My husband says that she probably still remembers the day she got an apology from the stupid, canceled check lady. smiles, ink
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@James72 (26790)
• Australia
10 Oct 08
I can imagine! And you are most welcome.
• United States
10 Oct 08
Thanks James, I know I went away smiling that day----
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25 Sep 10
ha ha like
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• United States
9 Oct 08
The best one I ever heard came from my brother. "Ooooh, you have zackly breath!" What's zackly breath? " Your breath smells zackly like a buffalo's butt."
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• United States
9 Oct 08
Oh, no! Don't tell me, your brothers say that, too? No, he doesn't have red hair.
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• United States
9 Oct 08
*LMAO* That is funny.
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@SaintAnne (5453)
• United States
9 Oct 08
There was once this American Express commercial that asked "How do you stop a rhino from charging?" So my sister asked me the same question and I fell into her trap and said "How?" and she said "Stop yourself." I ended up charging her!
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@alokn99 (5717)
• India
10 Oct 08
James, I've come across a few, but they have been pretty nasty and ones that i feel i would not like to share . I think i'll remain a mute spectator here. Maybe learn a few.
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@James72 (26790)
• Australia
10 Oct 08
Goodness me alok! And a man of your literary talents too! Watch and learn my friend; you just never know when one of these might come in handy. lol. Thanks for the comments.
• United States
15 Oct 08
This is a marvelous post. The responses are teriffic great fun. My 2 favorites are: 1) You are lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut. 2) You are lower than whale feces.
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@James72 (26790)
• Australia
15 Oct 08
I am glad you think so RYBD! I am especially happy that people have indeed kept things clean to date because anyone can be offensive but it takes true wit to be insulting wthout profanity! I especially like your second example and I am sure there is little int his world that would be lower than whale faeces! I read another "Yo mama" one the other day that I thought was very funny - Yo mama is so ugly that when she was a child they had to tie a steak to a rope around her next just so the dog would play with her! Thanks for sharing your own.
@riyasam (16556)
• India
24 Nov 08
i feel a little silly here.i have not gone beyond stupid,idiot and all sorts of sh*ts.
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@riyasam (16556)
• India
24 Nov 08
you know sam would really censore my coming to mylot if i started using the examples others mentioned.lol(you see ,he has more muscle power than me)
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@James72 (26790)
• Australia
24 Nov 08
Hahaha. It may be best to stick with your standard insults then riya!
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@James72 (26790)
• Australia
24 Nov 08
Hahahaha. Well if you are able to read through all the examples so far you will definitely be able to add some new terms to your vocabulary then riya and take it WAY beyond the ones you use already! Thanks for the response.
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@jimbomuso (950)
10 Oct 08
hi James! interesting I've heard "your beautiful, but when you speak the illusion is shattered" or "I didn't realise ugly and stoopid were your parents"
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@James72 (26790)
• Australia
10 Oct 08
Hi Jimbo. Very good. The parents one especially is very funny! lol. Thanks for sharing them.
@DonnaLawson (4032)
• United States
23 Oct 08
My mother used to tell me that "If my brains were in a gnats rear end it would fly backwards".. She did relate this to me in a loving way I am not sure what caused her to say it in the first place but she saw how much it tickled my funnybone that she used it often.. My son also went through the entire litany of the "Yo Mama" jokes, he laughed his behind off everytime he got me with a new one.. I am so glad that I do have a sense of humor, or he would be in deep stuff..
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@James72 (26790)
• Australia
24 Oct 08
That's an interesting statement to put in a loving way Donna! There was actually a TV show called "Yo Mama" that I used to watch on MTV and I used to laugh myself silly wayching all the insults people came up with. I think it's great that you can see the humour in it all because some of them can be very witty and hilarious! Thanks for the response.
• United States
24 Oct 08
When she said it, she softened it by calling me by the nickname that she had made up for me, so I know that she wasn't in the least bit being serious.. She is gone now and I do wish she were here to insult me again..
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@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
10 Nov 08
Well this isn't a joke insult that I've seen or heard anywhere but an exboyfriend of mine told me about it. He had gone to McDonalds to get some food and he was asked to go sit and they'd bring his fries since they weren't done. When the employee brought the fries, she told him 'sorry about your wait'. I guess she was like 350 lbs or something because my ex said right after she said that, he said 'no, I'm sorry about YOUR weight' and after he said that, he said he felt like an absolute d*ck... I guess it just popped out. Anyway, unfortunately I have not been able to forget it even though it IS quite offensive. I do not know what he was thinking - and yes we were already split up by the time that happened lol.
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@James72 (26790)
• Australia
11 Nov 08
Hahaha. This was quite rude yes, but still funny! lol. It's sort of a freudian slip in a way too. Sometimes our mouths move faster than our minds and before we know it we have been unbelievably insensitive. That poor woman! But as much as I hate to admit it, it is still a very funny thing to say back so quickly! Thanks for the response mommyboo.
@elitess (5070)
• Ipswich, England
31 Jan 11
How did i missed this one ? I think i believe it will not last :D So i know the one with the manure but using a tray not a bag. There is also those about fat people. Quoting from the Crazed professor (with Eddie Murphy): Reggie's momma is so fat, that if while you are making love to her, you roll over twice, you'll still be on her.
@alottodo (3056)
• Australia
12 Nov 08
I love humour, and I had a good laugh,I have a few of my own and I HOPE wont offend anyone. Why did the Irish woman fell out the window? [ she was ironing the curtains ]
@James72 (26790)
• Australia
12 Nov 08
Hahahahahaha. Very funny alottodo and let's hope that no Irish people are reading through this discussion! lol. Thanks for the response.