Excellent insults that have fallen out of fashion / you don’t hear anymore…

[FusionChefGeoff]

Twerp
Berk

I want to teach my 10 and 13 year olds some ‘funny’ insults from back in the day - any others that need resurrecting??

Dingbat

Face like a wet weekend
Face like a slapped arse
Face only a mother could love
Face you deserve

Twit is still used in my family as a mild insult when you've done something silly.

I heard Muppet a lot at school.

I always liked Eejit.

Plonker is generally reserved for a greater degree of idiocy.

Never knew the origin of Berk. Thank you PP. Noted.

duffer
oik

Isn't "wouldn't kick him out of bed..." a compliment? Ie he's so hot I would put up with crisp crumbs on the sheets.

Twit and wally.
My mum started to combine the 2 and refer to people as twats, had to stop that one!

All used by my Gran
Knob head
A face like a pissed up pilchard
Tuss
Tinnie
You're a whidden with a head full of hay.

duffer
oik
needs to take a long walk off a short pier

@Artesia ah yes! I forgot the thread was about insults 😃

he's got bats in the bellfry

Pranny has made me roar. I haven’t heard that in 30 years

Dicksplash

DH is fond of "You tulip!" when one of the children has done something a bit dopey, as a gentle insult.

Tube- late 80s/early 90s. Mild insult.

Dose- same meaning as a melt, "Oh, she's an absolute dose. You couldn't listen to her. "

Permanently out to lunch
Not quite at the races

Bent as a nine bob note (corrupt, untrustworthy)

An eye like a travelling rat (nosey , judgemental)...such a person is also likely to be "pass remarkable"

Shitehawk.
Face like a bag of grommets.
Face like a welder’s bench.
I’m not saying s/he’s ugly, but s/he could stop in.
Tight as a duck’s arse.
Rough as a badger’s arse.
Rough as a robber’s dog.

‘Couldn’t catch a pig in a ginnel’ is one of my favourites

The mildest words can sound rude in German, when I was yelled at by a taxi driver in Gibraltar who'd cut me up I wound the window down, shook a fist and called out Schleswig Holstein, giving it numerous syllables, he was furious.

Don't just stand there like a stunned mullet/ with two arms the wan length
(the first person isn't helping because they're too slow in the head to leap into action, the second because they're too lazy to help).

Berkeley Hunt ? 🤣

😂

Twpsyn

Bonehead

Knobjockey still makes me chuckle!

And plonker too

Have heard that used when someone had bandy legs.

Err, why are people falling over themselves to quote insults that they apparently think are "excellent", but are actually homophobic, disablist, racist, anti-semitic, sexist.. And only a few are objecting?

The thread isn't 'old insults that are offensive and have fallen out of fashion for good reason'

Haven't heard 9 bob note or arse with both hands in so many years. As if anyone would know what a 10 shilling note might be nowadays!