“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.
Ya fucken mong
He’d be a great snipe hunter.
Your father smells of elderberries.
Non native here: I even saw the movie.
“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.
They made booze from elderberries. The insult translates to “Your mother is a whore and your father is a drunk”
Ohhhh… TIL!
I’ve had elderflower liquor (St. Germain is very nice) but not elderberry.
Good booze, in fact… I’ve had an elderberry wine and it was awesome
Fucktard
Calling someone a Muppet. In NZ (and to a lesser degree, UK/Australia), it’s a common thing to call someone who’s being an idiot. Not sure why. I think as a nation we generally like the Muppets, but not someone who’s being a Muppet.
I think the connotation is that a Muppet is controlled by someone else. Their every thought, word, and action is the intent of their handlers.
I think it’s more that most Muppets are silly and not very intelligent
Yeah, I’ve definitely seen it most used to describe people acting ridiculous.
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.
You’re being a wet blanket.
Non native here: never heard it, is implying an unpleasant feeling?
I have no idea how it started being used that way, but it’s true, there’s nothing fun about a wet blanket.
You’d use a wet blanket to smother a fire.
I suppose so, although a proper fire blanket would be even better.
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.
Does your face hurt? Because my eyes hurt.
Non-native. I got this one.
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”.
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.Rode hard and put up wet is a reference to horses. Riding a horse hard and then not taking care of them after the ride can cause them issue, physically and mentally. It is usually used to say someone is tired or generally not well. Others, my mother included, use it to mean she thinks a woman has had too much wild sex, usually with too many partners.
Three sheets to the wind, means to be drunk. It is from nautical terms meaning the sails are not fastened.
On a ship, a sheet is a line made of rope, used to manipulate the angle of a sail, not a sail itself.
Correct, the sheets are trailing in the wind, meaning the sail is not tied down and it’s flapping all over.
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
“You make a better door than a window.”
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 do 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.
Believe me i’ve already logged off. If this shit happened in an org I would have resigned out of disgust.
EDIT: “don’t darken my inbox again” 🤨 Is that really the kind of language you want to be using in this conversation? I think you have your own soul searching to be doing, if this ‘log off’ rant is any indication to be going off of, you probably do, because this the kind of thing that’s indistinguishable from twitter fascists who think they’re leftists yet spend more energy attacking the left than they do the right. Talks the big talk but routinely side with nazis whenever push comes to shove.
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.
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
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?
Just come out as a pedophile, it’s a more productive use of your time and accomplishes the same thing.
I’m trying to think what I need to say to get you to call me a necrophiliac 🤔
Language != Race
But you’re a massive bellend
Bless your heart
This person volunteered to be the one we can practice using this new knowledge on, bless their pure heart
He’s got a couple of roos loose in the top paddock
May your chickens turn to emus and kick your dunny door down
Non native here: didn’t heard that one before but I guess is wishing the person misfortune?
Yeah, but in a light-hearted way.
*Chooks….you make it to easy if you call them chickens.
Non native here: it’s a variation of “he got some screws loose” we even use it a version of it in spanish.
In Australia, “40¢ short of a shout” is unlikely to be understood by visitors.
Non native didn’t get it… Sounds like a reference of a specific event.
Means they’re 2 bob short of a dollar
Somehow this doesn’t help… :)
Not all there in the head basically.
6 pack short of a carton
2 short of a dozen etc
2 fries short of a happy meal
Even as an Aussie I haven’t heard that one.
In Scotland it’s “A couple of pieces short of a picnic”, a piece being a sandwich
Like his brain is not complete or something didn’t get it not sure.
It means they went for a picnic and lo and behold, a smarter-than-average bear stole their pic-a-nic basket
“He’s not all there” is the most basic version of this saying.
“He’s got a few tools missing from the shed” is an aussie version too.
Not the brightest fork in the tool shed, are they?
Not the sharpest crayon in the bunch?
