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Share your best insults

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MadMAGA · 15/10/2026 15:32

A FB post by Fran Whinge Whinge Got me laughing today. It included the insult, "A brain parasite would starve in your head."

I always think of these things after the moment has passed. Any to add to my collection for next time I need one? A colleague has volunteered "Wisdom is chasing you, but you are faster".

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Gherkinlovesme · 15/10/2026 15:34

Are you Fran by any chance?

ChaToilLeam · 15/10/2026 15:39

If his brains were chocolate, he wouldn't fill a Smartie.

MadeForThis · 15/10/2026 15:43

I hope your next shit is a hedgehog.

cambiodenombre123 · 15/10/2026 15:46

Where were you when they were handing out the charm? When someone is just blatantly rude...

DozyCrow · 15/10/2026 15:47

If ignorance is bliss, you must be the happiest person on the planet.

I will not have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.

I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup and shit out a smarter statement than what you've just said.

Describing someone who is dim....The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.

MadMAGA · 15/10/2026 15:50

Gherkinlovesme · 15/10/2026 15:34

Are you Fran by any chance?

I am not. I haven't even liked her post, just pirated her content.

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MadMAGA · 15/10/2026 16:27

More suggestions from colleagues on our group chat:

Is an echo when you think, since there's so much space in your head?

If brains were dynamite, you wouldn't have enough to blow your nose.

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Stickthatupyourdojo · 15/10/2026 16:32

I’d call them a cunt but they lack the warmth and depth

Notbuiltforheat · 15/10/2026 16:37

“what your daughter lacks in looks, she makes up for in stamina.” (Paul Calf)

Redheadedstepchild · 15/10/2026 17:37

A classy one best delivered in your best low but controlled voice:

"I can explain to you but I can't understand it for you."

Not quite an insult but a good cutting remark, perhaps.

itwasyourshowallalong · 15/10/2026 17:44

I could agree with you but then we’d both be wrong

Someone having the IQ of a Jaffa cake

BeMintFatball · 15/10/2026 17:49

He fell out the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down

DollopOfFun · 15/10/2026 17:51

It's not big or clever, but tbh, neither am I 🤷‍♀️

"And your dad sells Avon"

Redheadedstepchild · 15/10/2026 18:12

Redheadedstepchild · 15/10/2026 17:37

A classy one best delivered in your best low but controlled voice:

"I can explain to you but I can't understand it for you."

Not quite an insult but a good cutting remark, perhaps.

I missed out a word.

"I can explain IT to you but I can't understand IT for you."

Which is why I am not a very good insult thrower. I call my mum, "No punchline Valerie" sometimes but I'm just as bad at getting flustered and not delivering the killer blow.

Gherkinlovesme · 15/10/2026 18:42

Redheadedstepchild · 15/10/2026 18:12

I missed out a word.

"I can explain IT to you but I can't understand IT for you."

Which is why I am not a very good insult thrower. I call my mum, "No punchline Valerie" sometimes but I'm just as bad at getting flustered and not delivering the killer blow.

Oh this made me laugh! Yep, you say your first version and all the person would do is look very quizzically at you!!

Koulibiak · 15/10/2026 18:53

He is someone who cannot be underestimated

MadMAGA · 15/10/2026 19:42

Redheadedstepchild · 15/10/2026 18:12

I missed out a word.

"I can explain IT to you but I can't understand IT for you."

Which is why I am not a very good insult thrower. I call my mum, "No punchline Valerie" sometimes but I'm just as bad at getting flustered and not delivering the killer blow.

Same, which is why I need a store to practice beforehand.

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7catsisnotenough · 15/10/2026 19:49

You're a waste of a perfectly good skin...

QuirkyHorse · 15/10/2026 19:52

You are so narrow minded you could look through a keyhole with both eyes simultaneously.

GstaadGuyIsModeratelyHot · 15/10/2026 20:03

Silence.
Then turn back to the people you were talking with, and carry on your thread of conversation.

MadMAGA · 16/10/2026 09:57

Some nice ones here, very funny and/or classy.

Another FB find: When I type 'WTF' but it autocorrects to "Verily, I hath witnessed a spectacle so witless, mine very soul hath packed its belongings and fled mine body. 'Tis as though reason itself hath tripped over a turnip and perished."

Share your best insults
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Preworkouttingle · 16/10/2026 10:29

God wasted a perfectly good arsehole when he put teeth your mouth

SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess · 16/10/2026 19:38

He/She has the perinalty of a Snow Drift and a brain to match.

Used by New Zealanders

SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess · 16/10/2026 19:40

Sorry. Should say personality Over anxious spell checker

AndSoFinally · 16/10/2026 19:57

“Less use than Anne Frank’s drum kit” made me laugh today

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