DU's PC Guide To Insults: Suggest your substitute vocabulary of insults here...

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hedgehog  (1000+ posts)      Tue Sep-23-08 03:01 PM
Original message
Suggest your substitute vocabulary of insults here: 

there are concepts, usually insults, that we all want to express, but the words we use are now offensive. How do we insult our target without hitting innocent bystanders that we don't intend to offend?

For example, from time to time someone does something outlandishly stupid. The term "retard" is incredibly offensive. Use the term "dolt" instead.

YOY  (1000+ posts)       Tue Sep-23-08 03:08 PM
Response to Original message
1. You don't like "asshat" or "clownshoes"?
 I do.

I piss of plenty of folks with the latter and there's no profanity involved at all.

hedgehog  (1000+ posts)      Tue Sep-23-08 03:12 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. Ooooooh! I like clown shoes! 
 What we need is a replacement for the term "pansy" to describe an ineffectual weakling. I only use that term when tallking about my garden myself, but a lot of people here want to have a term to apply to McCain without insulting our GLBT members!

BerryBush  (1000+ posts)       Tue Sep-23-08 10:50 PM
Response to Reply #3
4. When I get mad at my (female) cats
 I call them "daughters of a queen." (A "queen" being the name for a mother cat.) Sort of the feline equivalent of "son of a bitch," but doesn't have the same violent sound.

My personal favorite epithet is one my mother used to use: "Son of a seacook!"

 

countryjake  (1000+ posts)      Tue Sep-23-08 11:34 PM
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10. A term handed down in my midwestern family, Prick Hadley...
 has become known, once again, in this western place I'd long ago resettled to. My grandma and mother always used it as the ultimate insult for someone who's nose was so far up in the air that they couldn't smell their own stink. It relates back to the days of the Puritans and religious prudes of colonial ilk. I find it comes in handy with fundamentalist fanatics these days and leaves them seriously wondering what the hell, except that most are hep to my meaning now.

What a retarded pansy! 




 

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hedgehog  (1000+ posts)      Tue Sep-23-08 03:12 PM
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2. Ooooooh! I like clown shoes! 
 What we need is a replacement for the term "pansy" to describe an ineffectual weakling.

They don't have to look any farther than their own URL to find "Democrat," what's the problem?

 

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They're in search of new terms to express their anger that the world doesn't fall down and worship them.

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[Airwolf]

If this is the best they got then Don Rickels is in no danger of losing his job. It also goes to show you the average DUmmie suffers from an age old afflection called ,

Ass ring around the collar.