What's your insult of choice?
 

Not rude ones or offensive ones, but the ones that we use almost as a term of endearment.

In our house, we're called muppets if we do daft things, or sometimes puddins.

One I've not heard for a long time is numpty - there was an article in the Guardian about its use recently - apparently it's of Scottish origin and very popular up there!

So what's everybody else's insult of endearment?

Re: What's your insult of choice?
 

There is one insult I have ready to use (but never dared to, as yet)
When offended by a football hooligan (wearing shirt):-
Is that number your shoe size, or, your age?

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hahahahahaha classic margret classic.

I call stupid people bag heads

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Weiner and/or Dork is a typical discourse between Annie and Joshua. On ocassion they mean it nicely;) !

Brian

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It's pillock everytime for me;with the occasional prat thrown in !

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Okay, Annie just reminded me that Cindy calls her idgit (idiot), and she calls her chubs and loser. Oh, how the love is spread so kindly (actually, our house is most often full of laughter and english humor!), ya gits!

Brian

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i just call everyone a spaz or a div or an eejit

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Its a Joey for me,although dont want to say why!

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Actually think numpty is back Gayle, heard it loads of times recently.

We used to say 'cuckoo' .. not sure how it relates though .:D

I love it when my much younger colleagues at work call me a 'tart' (in the best possible taste of course) .. sorta' raises me status like.. :rolleyes:

Rather like 'Spazz' .. think some people may feel an an insult to certain disabled people, but never feel it is said in any cruel or detrimental way.

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Soft arse,dozy mare,daft get,thickhead....sometimes the list seems endless at chez Silver,la maison d'amour:rolleyes:

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Gobsh*te (the missing vowel is an "I") is a standard term of rebuke, as is donkey and dung-brain. But, for people who earn my special appreciation, the epithets can be a good deal more ascerbic, not to say, caustic. Acid Drops, Moi?

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Me too ;)

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we once had a YTS kid at one of the places I worked, We called him "Opium" for years, when he was leaving he asked why we called him that.

Cause your "a slow working dope" was the response :D

Re: What's your insult of choice?
 

ponhead(panhead)...don't know where it derives from but it goes back donkeys years.....'spooner' is another one...it implies that you are not bright enough(or safe enough) to be allowed to use a dinner knife.

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Another one I use which was passed down from Grandparents .... ya daft ape'ath :D