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[-] nirodhaavidya@lemmy.world 65 points 1 month ago

I have neither the crayons nor the inclination to explain it to you.

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[-] Today@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago

I saw one here the other day calling someone a soup fork. I've been using that for people who are completely useless.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 10 points 1 month ago

I've also heard "wind sandwich."

[-] gnuthing@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago
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[-] ashenone@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 month ago

I work with an older lady who hits people with "you're so pretty" when they do or ask something stupid and I love it.

[-] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 15 points 1 month ago

I first saw this used by Hugh Hefner in some reality TV show with some of his bimbos in Venice. One of them said how cool it was to be where Al Capone was born and he responded with, "You're so pretty." Of course, she absolutely took the compliment at face value.

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Lmao, it did took a while for me to register

[-] rslogix89@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

“Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!”

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[-] Forester@pawb.social 30 points 1 month ago

I can read it to you all day but unfortunately I cannot understand it for you.

[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 month ago

The classic southern "Bless your heart"

[-] TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Big fan of a slow disapproving head shake and a thumbs down. Especially in road rage situations (or any time I see a Cybertruck).

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I only recently discovered the power of the thumbs down in the car. It is magical.

[-] FritzApollo@lemmy.today 21 points 1 month ago

I bet you sit on the TV and watch the sofa.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago

I love how you don't let facts influence your opinion.

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 month ago

I have to thank the one and only James May for introducing me to “you witless dishcloth”

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[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

I can explain it to you, but I cannot understand it for you.

[-] vrek@programming.dev 16 points 1 month ago

I blame the alcohol, not what you drank tonight but what your mother drank while pregnant with you

[-] Surenho@beehaw.org 16 points 1 month ago

It's really hard to underestimate you.

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[-] daannii@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Sorry, I already have a boyfriend/girlfriend."

Implying that everything they said or had done was to get your romantic attention.

It was trending a few years ago but never caught on fully.

Still good.

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[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 14 points 1 month ago

Did your mother have any children that lived?

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[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If all the village-idiots of all the villages in the world, would leave for a brand new village of village-idiots, you'd be their village-idiot.

If idiot does not count as "swear" tho...

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[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Just respond to everything they say with "sorry, I'm not into Pokemon."

[-] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

You're about as smart as a bag of hammers.

[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

As sharp as a bowling ball.

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[-] FrickAndMortar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Or like Foghorn Leghorn said, “nice kid, but about as sharp as a sackful of wet mice!”

[-] funkajunk@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago
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[-] Athena5898@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

"If she was a spice, she would be flour" - Louise Belcher

[-] tgc2darkness@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

No one could possibly have a higher opinion of you than I have.

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[-] BROTHERM00N@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Chuckle and as you walk away, and under your breath but just loud enough to hear, say "eyebrows" in a way that sounds like you were amused and thinking about how it amused you. They will think about that for years, as I have been

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 12 points 1 month ago

They’re a south-pointing compass (if they assert something, you know it’s wrong)

[-] osanna@lemmy.vg 10 points 1 month ago

A few beers short of a six pack

[-] Safeguard@beehaw.org 10 points 1 month ago

You are the proud owner of not a single redeeming quality.

[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

You make this world not worth saving.

[-] MantisToboggon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I would not make you the night manager at a place that closed in the evening. Also your mother's a huge slut.

[-] FrickAndMortar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

There’s a great artist that sells stuff at our local ren-faire; I bought a fridge magnet that says “I saw thee, and thought my day unwell.” It’s illuminated like an old manuscript and depicts a slim greyhound tossing his cookies.

[-] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I love this one from Coriolanus:

For you, be that you are, long, and your misery increase with your age!

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

The truth. The reason you'd want to insult them as a direct pointed criticism.

[-] _deleted_@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago
  • Have you been tending to your hounds? You smell like a wet dog!
  • Is that fur growing out of your ears?
[-] chirayu_alias@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

"You look so generic I got a deja vu the first time we met."

I keep recycling this one but it's hard not to. I have so few good ideas!

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Your ma wears high heels with tracksuit bottoms.

[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Thick as mince

[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

You're lucky your momma died giving birth to you. If she saw you now, she would've died of shame.

[-] Today@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

From my friend - You're the load your mom should have swallowed.

[-] Leather@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

... Do the down votes prefer anal?

[-] SelfHigh5@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Have the day you deserve!

[-] __hetz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

"You are not acting like the person Mr. Rogers knew you could be."

Guaranteed to slug the inner child of, at least, three or four generations. Might have diminishing returns at the extremes (brainwashed boomers and brainrot zoomers) but should still hit pretty hard on those who grew up watching Fred Rogers and are capable of some amount of introspection.

[-] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

You look like you trust politicians/newspapers/AI

You think that streamer likes you

Your brain could revolve around inside a peanut shell without ever touching the sides

You have a head full of vacuous nothings that occasionally leak out of your mouth

(To name a few that I enjoy)

[-] Pazuzu@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"you're the sharpest bulb in the chandelier" is my personal favorite

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