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“Edomite!”
I was getting onto a bus, someone looked me over and spat out the word. It was clear from the tone that it was an insult, but it also sounded suspiciously bronze age, so I was very excited to find out what it meant.
Turns out it’s a biblical reference used by some black nationalist groups in the US to refer to white people as unclean or diseased. Edom was one of several late bronze age Canaanite kingdoms. At one point the torah describes them as slightly paler and dirty, hence the insult.
“Edomite”? Oh, like one of Yakub’s creations?
“You fucking Alaskan!”
I laughed uncontrollably for several minutes after receiving this compliment. Wrong continent, buddy.
As an Alaskan, I will say that that is a compliment of the highest order.
Now, if somebody had called you a Texan, that’s basically a slur. An insult of the greatest magnitude.
Living in the same latitudes I could only take it as a compliment.
I got told I sound like Dukie from “Adventures of the Gummi Bears”.
It’s hard to underestimate you
From a certain angle it could be a compliment. “I know how good you are, so I can’t undersell you”
Use that angle when someone calls you out on this insult.
Nah man, this is a straight punch to the soul lol
This is very powerfull because it has no slurs, polite, does jot compare you to something like a 8 years old insult and makes you think about for a moment. When the meaning sinks in you realize its power and it hurts.
Insults that compare you to something aren’t that powerful.
Insults that describe you, like this one, have a great impact.
Stealing this
Holy shit, this is crushingly depressing. And wasn’t even directed at me.
The human equivalent of drinking orange juice after brushing your teeth.
That or smooth rain.Oh I got one from when I was a kid: my sibling’s friend once valled her an “invertebrate brain”. I’m glad she didn’t have any vertebrae in there!
I like “mouth breather” from Stranger Things it has the right sound and pacing to make a good insult but doubles back as a wtf thinker moment. In an emo moment where the person wants to auto respond to everything in argument, it is funny to manipulatively force them to deny it, then call them out on how stupid they are for saying they do not breathe.
… then call them out on how stupid they are for saying they do not breathe.
Either you’re a mouth breather yourself or you’re a Fallout ghoul or something.
Also the amount of times I heard people called mouth breathers when I was in the Corps is off the charts.
Sounds like a case of the crayon-eater calling the mouth-breather stupid…
Hahahhahahhahahahhahshajhahahahahhashahhaahahahahahahahhaha what a funny, original joke! I’ve never heard that before, not even a single time in my entire life! You should do standup!
Damn, did I touch a nerve?
Oh, are you actually a person and not ai?
Is that supposed to be the strange insult?
FYI “mouth breather” predates the setting of Stranger Things by decades. It’s also not about manipulatively forcing them to deny it: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/508300/mouth-breathing-as-slang-for-stupidity
A friend of mine who’s a professional singer got told by his former conductor upon firing him, “well, see, if a violinist has a bad instrument he can just replace it. But in the case of a singer, well, it’s just not so easy.” Very roundabout and very crushing.
Not said to me but someone I know, “you’re a lanky string of piss”.
“Call him… call him ‘piss lips’, but don’t tell him I said that.”
“your such a horrible person, Mr Rogers wouldn’t even want you to be his neighbor”
“Your opinion matters as much as anne franks drum set”
A random little kid at the park called me “gummy face”, and I definitely did not cry about later that night.
“Go lick a dead camel jackass!”
Shouted by a friend at a high school bully from a moving car. 😂
I have heard having autism being used as an insult
The strange part is that, even though i have autism and the person saying that insult knows that i have, i have never been called that, even avoiding to tell other people if asked
“You look like Ramsey Bolton”
