To wish people would give the twee insults a rest?

[JesusInTheCabbageVan]

It just feels like some people are still spitting their tea out over the first 'cockwomble' 500 million years ago. So often someone will post something genuinely nasty or upsetting that they're dealing with, and in among the thoughtful responses you'll see 'Yanbu, he's a cuntwibble/arsewagon/tit-carrot [insert one syllable swear word followed by arbitrary two syllable noun]. No other contribution, they just wanted to get that in there in the hope of a 'PMSL, User12345567 won the internet today!!!!!! '

It's OLD.

Tell me I'm not the only one who cringes when this happens?

And anticipating the 'You're not the MN police' brigade.... I'm not saying people have to stop doing it. Just that I wish they would

Someone on another thread has come out with «ok, boomer». The most tedious pseudo-insult ever.

Smeg plant pot

ILs have a Smeg fridge - will that do?

I'd ban 'Oh my days' though. That just screams Bible belt housewife stereotype to me.

Hazeyjane ‘life is tough enough already’ you made my night!

I love this thread! I thought I was the only joyless bugger who hates those type of insults. It reminds me of Mark in Peep Show trying to think of an insult- 'watch out you jizz cock! You could've had my leg off you piss kidney!' when the guy replies with 'arsehole' he thinks 'of course, arsehole, clean, clear and insulting.' Arsehole is now my insult of choice, it just has it all

Clunge-chimney

Piss-herring

Flap-spanner

Turd-tea towel

Fart-pineapple

This is fun...

I'm old, but the most common insulting phrase was 'complete prat' when I was young.
Made me cringe then, and now. 😕

What insults would you say are acceptable? I find you are left with female genitalia, and I'm trying to avoid using those terms.

Cockwomble and wankbadger are perfectly reasonable words. People aren't being twee or trying to be amusing, they are just using language.

If you don't like it, you can bumbledick off to another thread.

I use twunt in real life if I need to mind my language.

I'm a fan of plain old fuck, cunt, shit, bastard otherwise though!

Oh the irony of moaning about twee language on a site that uses DH, DD etc because people cannot type husband, daughter etc.

I think I really like PP's wank lampshade as my new insult of choice.

Also a big fan of fuckface and fuckwit.

What a load of burbling gruntfuttocks you are!

I use Gobshite in RL and across SM. It sums some people up.

I to, would like to see the end, of the perfectly acceptable usage of words, being described as twee.

I agree. The people who do this are the same people who call their kids 'the smalls", wear one Disney and one Harry Potter sock, wear fleeces with dogs on and say 'I'm mad, me'.

"Someone on another thread has come out with «ok, boomer». The most tedious pseudo-insult ever."

Ok boomer!

@3catsandcounting

I never use that phrase myself, impart from when describing a particular relative for whom there is no better description. Interestingly the complete prat uses the word prat frequently. I prefer to prefix it with a real swear so tend to describe this person as a "complete fucking Prat" when I use this term my other family members know who I am talking about. It's become synonymous with their actual given name.

@SlightlyStaleCocoPops

Better than being a snowflake

"Better than being a snowflake"

Now that is tedious.

Yanbu. Used by people who probably think they're being delightfully "whimsical".

Stop being such a dick splash

No.

It's a complete sentence in the MN dimension, not so good in real life I find.

'Ok Boomer ' is the youf insult of the day. Keep having to remind my kids I'm Gen X when they use it on me - the pair of knobjockeys

I love the creative insults. Reminds me of Shakespeare.

@SlightlyStaleCocoPops

Oh yes, if anything can beat 'boomer' in the tedium stakes it is most definitely 'snowflake' they are both words I would happily never hear again.

Cock lodger just conjure an image of a giant penis renting the granny annex over someone’s garage.

Stop being douchecanoes the lot of you.