"If all the village idiots, in all of the villages, left their villages, and formed their own village, of idiots. In that village, you would be the village idiot." - Colin Lane

"Don't be so humble. You're not that great." - Maria Bamford's dad.

"People say you're a real wit, but I think they're only half right." - me

One I remember reading a while ago "your boyfriend looks like he drops common loot when he dies"

"Not even wrong!"

Oh that's good. I'm saving that, but it may be years before I have a chance to use it!

"Who's this clown?"

I'm fond of it for two reasons: calls them a clown and implies that they aren't even a memorable one.

We don't need to insult each other more, just more creatively.

Said by Jack Nicholson to Jim Breuer the first time they met.

Also, your mum is really hairy

You know what, I literally just had the word supercilious pop into my head randomly like 5 minutes ago, then I realized I didn't know what it meant. I looked it up, went "huh" and opened Lemmy. The first post I opened was this one and I come across this comment

Implying the person sucks at their job so bad, they are the equivalent of losing two people who are good at the job.

At least, that's how I took it

I fart in your general direction.

One I saw on Lemmy and remembered was "You have nothing but potential"

Was it classic before this? That was my first exposure to the phrase.

I've always been partial to:

"You're at the top of the bell curve!"

Because it sounds like a compliment, gets taken as an insult, but really you're just calling them average.

It's a whole different level of demoralizing when they finally figure it out.

Although the drawing's eyebrows are not as surprised as the real dude's are. lol

Re: ostracisation

That very same behavioural pattern actually kept the stupid at bay - up until the internet happened.

The internet, for all its positive effects, also gave the stupid they would've previously lacked if they allowed their stupid to show too much: community. It allowed even the most fringe idiots like conspiracy theory believers, to openly be dumb again - because there's no longer a risk of being alone. They found "their people", so to speak. And even if everyone else locally thinks they're a moron... why does that matter when online there's thousands who egg each other on and provide that much needed social connection?

Ni!

It depends which top you mean. Top as in left-right or up-down, can get interpreted differently

Not niche.

Or coworkers.

That phrase could only be more Australian if it had some kind of hat on.

Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!

There's a german saying: "You just need your head so it doesnt rain into your throat"

Where's the fun in that?

supercilious cunt

Damn. I used that exact phrase in an email to my ex-wife like 15 years ago. It's a good'n.

'Daft as a brush' is an oldie but a goodie. I have no idea what it means.

All of that can be achieved without insults. They do not carry utility beyond offloading your own frustration onto someone else.

It's a bit like name-dropping in a sense that almost everyone does it despite knowing perfectly well how it's received when someone else does it to you. It's hard to resist in the moment and it feels good to do but it never achieves what one hopes it would. Unless the intention is purely to insult without anything good coming out from it, that it does achieve, but that's also the definition of evil: doing bad with the sole intention of hurting people.

I enjoy how you always find a way to renew my appreciation for silence.

Disagreement is plenty capable to cause conflicts even without insults as is demonstrated here. The only kind of conflict being a mean jerk causes are the pointless and completely avoidable ones that nothing good comes out from ever.

and the ones opressors are thes that keep insulting people.

you have pretty "thick thighs"

Isn't the elderberries thing actually just about the smell? Based on what I read, elderberry flowers begin to develop a strong musky and/or cheesy aroma, so it would be akin to saying that your father doesn't wash himself.

You have room to improve & learn! tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons & tons of it!

Telling someone they suck, but they can change for better.

!rareinsults@lemmy.world

Cheap drunk? Do you have any idea how much it costed to ship goods back then overland? To ship wine no less, which is bulky in the vast quantities our ancestors drank it.

People made alcohol with what they had, every household made their own usually, they didn't buy it. That's why the north drank beer and ale, and the south wine. That's why so many apple trees were planted in the north as well, the only other northern fruit (idk about elderberries,) that has enough sugar to ferment to an appreciable degree, (it's less than grapes, I think 5% hard cider is about average, or at least mine was that.

Furthermore, I bet I like the taste and smell of elderberries, they don't grow here that I'm aware. So I don't agree it's a good insult, but thank for describing it, because I always thought that was an odd one.

Half wit is one of my go to insults. What else is fun, which I haven't seen on here yet, is complimenting someone in an insulting way, 'wow, great reply, and you did it all by yourself!' But there are better examples I hardly use these.

"I feel like those shoes belong to someone with a better bowking average."

They were shouting it at king arthur (the taunters clearly knew who he was, he was introduced as such), I think his parents could afford the costs to get what ever shipments they wanted, be them from France... Or [shudders for comedic effect] Scottland.

You are correct in that people used what they had, and that is entierly the joke. Wine made from elderberries was much more common up north where imports were not something people had... Unless they were of nobility.

I feep like bell curves are pretty consistent left to right, top being the apex. Maybe some fields do it differently.

#3 is a real scalding, hospital admission level burn. I like #5 too because funny.

I fail to see the insult here. Is the goal to insult the boyfriend, or their significant other? If it's to insult the SO, it's doesn't really mean much. You are judging them based on their association with someone else. A more apt insult would be "you could only attract people who drop common loot"

If the goal is to insult the boy friend why not just address them directly and say "you look like you drop common loot when you die"?

Don’t argue with that guy, he’s the Joe Rogan kind of smart.

It was an instant classic. But also I call it a classic in the insult sense because its simple and can be applied to anyone.

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes

And just for that one moment I could be you

Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes

You'd know what a drag it is to see you

Bob Dylan, Positively 4th Street

Swallows could have carried the elderberries

"Your family tree is a circle"

A swallow couldn't carry elderberries to north america, it's a question of direction, why would they fly west, into the wind when they migrate south?

Fetchez la vache!

This is both historically inaccurate and you typed out "costed" like it was a real word.

The comments have devolved into the less mundane and just regular insults, so I'll throw this one in here:

You're as thick as a brick sandwich