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

Can I keep 'rancid skin flap'? It so perfectly describes my last manager.

* 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'*

Brilliant 😂

I agree, it's becoming tedious hearing these ridiculous insults 'eleventy billion' times a day.

Who the fuck says eleventy in RL?

Agree but with one exception...

Cocklodger is a genuinely handy descriptive name. Should be in the OED

I completely agree. Puffins and badgers aren't even the funniest animals.

Cocklodger is entirely different because it gives a neat summary. Things like mingebudgie are meaningless and dilute perfectly good profanity.

Jodie77 "CFP" is completely acceptable. 😁

Can we keep knobjockey? I like that one.

@thenewaveragebear1983 👏🏻

HTH

And "Ok, I'll bite" both make me cringe too.

Only jizz-turbots object to twee insults.

Shit weasel works, though.

Cockwomble and wankbadger are perfectly reasonable words

No they are not.

People aren't being twee or trying to be amusing, they are just using language

Yes they are trying to be amusing and failing miserably.

Oh shit. I use some of these on here occasionally. I need to stop.

Twunt is one I use. Sorry!

@ClemDanFango

SHARTGOBLIN made me PMSL I'm not kidding!

Oh and I hate BOOMER as an insult AND I hate SNOWFLAKE.

Both insulting and mean.

'OK Boomer!' really grinds my gears and boils my piss.

I saw SpangleCunt on here the other day. I'm afraid I quite liked it

Some of them are OK. I like dicksplash and pissweasel.

I like shart goblin. 😂

This reminds me of the randomly generated 4 letter/4 letter computer passwords we used to have at work (college). It was hard to keep a straight face when giving them out to students at the start of term. mole-trim etc

I use fuckknuckle and twatweevil.

I'm not trying to be hilarious. Or twee.

Arrived late to the party on this thread, but agree with OP about insults that end up sounding really twee and arch, however they are intended.

Words like cockwomble, etc do not convey anger or indignation.
They come across as ineffectual and considerably reduce the impact.
Perhaps it's about women being able to express their anger....

The usual Anglo Saxon words work well for me.
I do have mixed feelings about the word cunt, as I like the ultimate taboo element of it, whilst resenting that women's genitals are regarded negatively.

Instead, I have been experimenting recently with using words for male genitalia as insults, and the usual dick, prick and cock don't seem to carry the amount of venom needed.
The most satisfying one is “he is an absolute scrotum”, which I have used in polite company, as opposed to the ballbag insult I use in less polite circles.

Still don't have the power of the awesome thunderword cunt, though....

The three syllable insults do have a nice metre and balance from a poetic standpoint.

Still don't have the power of the awesome thunderword cunt, though

Thundercunt...used when the word "cunt" is not strong enough to describe someone

I shall be submitting that to the Oxford English Dictionary for their approval....they'll love it I'm sure.

Not quite in the same vein, but 'bollock-faced foghorn of ignorance' (Philip Pullman on Farage) did improve my day quite a lot.

Germaine Greer described "cunt" as the last sacred word left in English.

You’re all a bunch of sputum-vases..