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?

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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

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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

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One I haven't heard for years is Crate-egg, no idea where it originates from. Personally I like Twerp, though Wazzock has a nice ring to it. ;)

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If you do something silly in our house you get called a biff.

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wassak is what i use:D

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Shlepper is a new favourite of mine.

Though 99% of the ones I use can't be typed on here :)

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Yah Spawny eyed parrot faced wassak!

:D

Anyone else remember the song???

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Lugan is popular around here ... and for stupid: "you have the IQ of a salad bar," or "you couldn't pour water out of a boot even if the instructions were written on the heel." My gran used to call me "useless Eustace," and tell me "I was neither use nor ornament." And I was her favorite.

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"Socialist" or "Daily Mail Reader" are my favorite ;)

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i use alot....noggin,numpty,div,prat,plonker,plank,and just plain stupid but swear words usually follow most of them

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I would have thought the Daily Mail would have been your newspaper of choice. :D

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Prat, unless they are actually called Pratt, then I have to go a bit more Anglo-Saxon.:D

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I once called my little grandaughter a duck egg,which is what we were called when i was a kid.. but her mum thought i said something ruder ,and i was not the flaver of the month ...:p

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It depends what I am refering to of course

but do use numpty... and have been know to say scroats about certain people :rolleyes:

As others have said there are too many to repeat on here :o

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How about a good old-fashioned Lancashire one of 'chump'

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If there wasn't cameras about i'd burn them all to save people from the complete and utter crap that gets written. :p

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You do realise that you're turning red right in front of our eyes, tory boy. :D

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lard arse is one

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I don't hate the Daily Mail because of its politics, I hate it because the way it bends the truth :p

....and tells people what to think....

.... and has articles about white cats who travel on buses

:p

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...whilst ten brown cats, illegally stowed away in the boot, travel without paying their fares.:D

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You forgot that they're murdering, pillaging and raping English people. :P

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Cats?

Raping people?:eek:

I think you may be reading the Daily Sport instead of the Mail.:D

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It has articles?... What? Are they on the back or something?


:D

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Yes, just after the day's nipple count.;)

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Oi, Cyfr....I am one of those people. Beats the sleazy Sun and the Daily Mirror.

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Doughnut is one of my favourites

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I have different ones for each one that crosses my path in a nice way as well,
the current one I have for Cyfr is 'John Boy', (Waltons).;)

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Mine too ... esp. the triple chocolate from Tim Horton's ... only in Canada, eh, pity.:D

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Ditch both of them and get the times! :D

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It is rather an unwieldy paper to read Cyfr...even though it has gone tabloid.
I'm always thinking that folk who see me reading the times might think I am highbrow or something...wouldn't want to be accused of that.
Anyway even the beeb is accused of political bias. I am not Labour/Tory or any other political persuasion.......I just want to read the news in a format that I find easy to read.

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The Guardian is the only paper worth reading.

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And that is another humungous paper. Oh btw Cyfr, I read the Mail not the Sun or the Daily Mirror.

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If its read alongside the times, i'd agree with you :p

I tend to read both the guardian and times so I can make up my own view inbetween the two :p

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Margaret, from around 2005 the Guardian have run a Berliner edition of the paper. Just ask your newsagent :)

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I will try to remember that.

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I was recently in the Isle of Wight and bought the Guardian....it kept me entertained all day...well, their telly is cr@p (interference from froggy TV).

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sometimes i would call someone a "clot"
or "plot"

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I must disagree about French TV. Their Multivision and Canal providers offer some excellent films and other programming not unlike our Sky and much of it in English.

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I have one provided years ago by my mate Darren.. You great Dobber!

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Its very tame in our house silly sausage or you billy bobber!

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Neil, I was saying that the TV on the Isle of Wight is blighted by interference from the French TV stations...we couldn't get French TV in the hotel and the English TV was very badly affected by the interference, so much so that it was unwatchable...sorry for the thread wander.

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how about twonk!! especially for the saddos who keep bloody spamming!!

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Two classics in my opinion, "The last time I saw mouth like yours, it had a hook in it".
Anyone calls you 'bighead' reply;"Yes, but it will fit in your mouth"

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obviously i get called fat a lot, simply cos i am :D my insult back is usually....''i can lose weight mate your stuck with THAT face for the rest of your life'' ;)

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That reminds me of Churchill's classic, when a certain lady said to him,"sir you are drunk" Churchill replied,"madam you are ugly but tomorrow i'll be sober".:D

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Most of the time my insults are tame, especially around my niece and nephew.... silly billy or silly sausage type stuff.

I rarely have to resort to insults with Sparks as he is generally well trained now..;) :D

I will sometimes refer to people as dollopers, plums or prize damsons dependent on what stupid thing they've done..:)

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i like ...Are your parents siblings? :D or....I bet your mother has a loud bark! :rolleyes:

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Reminded me too haha :p

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Insulting a movie: When Hollywood came out with a movie about Werner von Braun called "I Aim for the Stars" an English critic suggested the sub-title: "But Sometimes I Hit London."

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we use the word PRAT and DILLON in our house no idea what DILLON means but its chucked around a lot non the less. Its all meant in the nicest possible way though.

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I think this was a famous quote of Churchills, to Nancy Aster.

(Nancy) ....If i was your wife i would give you poison ..........
(Churchill).....Madam if you were my wife i would drink it....

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ya forgot spoon!!!!


mine are numpty , numbnuts, doris (when referring to the fairer sex), wingnut and remould
and if i'm really annoyed i use a phrase quoted from the film full metal jacket - "what is your major malfunction numbnuts"

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numbnuts!!...lol used that a few times and numpty:D

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No...spoon was covered, along with the reason it was used as a derogatory term.

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'You Twillop' is another one that I sometimes use.....no idea where it comes from.

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cloth head...has that been said??

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With the children it's doolally, numpty, Donkey, wally or Barmpot.
With other's it's Plonker, flippin ejit, spaz, tool,

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Yep, I think that was a reply to Bessie Braddock

Wasn't there another . something about " sir if you were my husband I would serve you poison" Churchill " Madam if you were my wife I would drink it "

:D :D

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lol....Attachment 8850 yeh heard that one...very good:D

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Heard one of the ladies I work with call her little girl a 'rug rat' today whatever that is. Course didn't look like one at all.

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Well to be honest ours aren't really PC! but we do call each other... Spaz, Mong & Flid! But when I say them I don't mean them as an insult to anyone with a physical or mental disability, to me its just like saying numpty or nutter which we also use! I do tend to be very careful not to use these terms outside!!

I remember years ago at school we used to call each other Joey's after seeing a programme about a Disabled man named Joey Deacon, in fact this man is somewhat remarkable.

http://www.spleen.dsl.pipex.com/jd-history.html

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I always thought Mong meant Mongrel....but my sister told me it meant Mongol...so I was very careful about not using it in company that would find it offensive...family seem impervious to most insults anyway

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Yeah, we used to call each other Joey's at school and Flid brought back memories of school days too:D

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We still call each other Joeys (as mentioned in post no 8)but only at work or depending what company i'm in.Showing my age as i remember him in Blue Peter.

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It's a North American thing ... not necessarily an insult ... used to describe any kid of the "playing on the rug (carpet) age."

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Well actually, SPANNER is the new word. Used to be numpty, previously div. But YOU SPANNER is the best at the mo!:)

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I think spaz is a horrible word. It means spastic, though I'm sure nobody here means it that way, and it's one of the reasons the Spastic Society changed its name to Scope. I would never call anyone by that name, even in fun, having a 14 year old great niece who, though highly intelligent and very pretty, has what used to be called a "spastic" arm.

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Hehehe.. That brings back memories. Spanner is not a new one it has been recycled. I remember using it in the 80's..:D

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You lying Wazz, Grego! :D

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Ok tame when the kids are around!:D

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Must admit blind dates were famous for meeting 'bags of spanners'.:D