I swear I remember pausing it to go "did he really just say that?!" But rewatching the pictured scene in S2E19 he's speaking with Aang who would not be a worthy recipient of such a burn, and he doesn't say such a thing to Zuko in that episode
The greatest thing about about this man is that he's steady, you know where he stands. He believes the same thing on Wednesday that he did on Monday... no matter what happened on Tuesday.
Best one is to respond to something they say with "Oh that's quite interesting" in the flatest tone possible, then move the conversation on to a different topic or exit.
Works particularly well on Americans because in American English "quite" is an amplifier modifier but their brain will be confused by the flat (not sarcastic) tone.
This one's not so brainy, but considering the character it was addressed to it was enough - that being one of my favorite lines from the show Firefly: "Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
During my short tenure in the American South I thought women of all ages were in to me because they'd often say, 'Bless your heart!' and call me 'Honey'.
Turns out I should have kept my head down. Don't be fooled by Southern Hospitality.
Honestly, if someone hadn’t let me in on the secret, I probably still wouldn’t have figured it out. Three thoughts later? This one could take you anywhere from three days to three years to figure out.
Both answers to @[email protected] seem to imply there's a hidden insult in their comment, but I can't find it.
I'm the dumb cookie and I don't like that
Implying poor taste in fashion. I do think delivery is important here.
I don't have a lot of petty female friends but I've certainly encountered them and they are masters of the craft of two faced insults. Especially involving taste and habits.
My dim brother threw something similar at that me (he always wears whatever plaid is in fashion). I will admit my fashion is loud, but damn if I don't look good. I cheat a little. I have a tailor who will take my cheap button downs and tailor them for 10 bucks so i always look sharp as fuck.
"I love how you are so confident with your body to eat that".
No fat-shamming like girl fat-shamming.
I've on occasion realized like days later that I was being insulted cause my little monkey brain was just thinking.
"This cake is good. I don't know what that has to do with my body confidence ".
Honestly I used to joke that negging doesn't work on me. Not cause I'm so smart I see through it, but that I don't realize some guy is trying to insult me until like the next day. Or sometimes never.
This one guy at a bar after telling him about my graphic novel collection
Him: "you arent that unique you know?"
Me: "yeah I know, Ive met people with similar interests online. There is a whole subreddit on the locke and key series, very popular".
Him: states at me blankly as then i proceed to tell him more about the series he was obviously only half assed pretending to be interested in.
His loss. The locke and key series are fabulous.
I don't have one in English, but I have some in German for those who understand.
My Granddad had a female coworker that was higher in rank than him. He would always greet her with "Meine Allerwerteste". It's a word play because "Meine Werteste" is equivalent to a very formal version of "my dear". "Aller" is a superlative form, so basically "My very dearest". But "Mein Allerwertester" (so the male form of what he used) means "my ass".
The other one is to use terminology like "Er versucht immer sein Bestes zu geben" ("He always tries to give his best"). In Austria, you are legally allowed to ask for a work testimony from your employer when you are looking for a new job. There is some legislation that prohibits negative speech in these work testimonies so that your employer cannot make you look bad in front of your potential new employer (which makes the whole concept pretty useless, but it is what it is). So to get around that, employers adopted a kind of "secret" code where e.g. "tries to" means "fails to". So you can use the same kind of terminology to deliver something that sounds like a compliment, but for everyone in the know (which is most people by now) it's clear that you deeply offended the person you are talking about.
Je viens d'en entendre quelques unes très bonnes :
"Tu n'es pas un père mais un courant d'air."
À une personne qui noie le poisson, "tu prend ton élan pour mentir."
here's the translation but I don't think they work that well in English:
I just heard some really good ones:
"You're not a father, you're just a gust of wind."
To someone who's beating around the bush, "you're taking a running start to lie."
I'm looking for insults so intelligent you don't realise you've been roasted until 3 thoughts later.
Your precocious insipd query's so strongly influential it triggers my ilithiophobia and a solicitude for philanthropic mischance and exponential precarity of inviolability, and thus my small voice has me incapable of answering.
... May take longer than 3 months [Edit, oh, dyslexic misread, it's "thoughts", not "months". I aimed too high.]. May never realise.
PS, I admire your verbal intelligence if you effortlessly get the meaning of that on first read. Quite the vocabulary you have there. Did you swallow a thesaurus when you were 3 years old?
Was that actually in the show? I don't remember that one.
Don't think so. It's a Nigerian expression.
There are some good ones:
So many good ones in there thank you for sharing!
Leftist infighting in a nutshell
I swear I remember pausing it to go "did he really just say that?!" But rewatching the pictured scene in S2E19 he's speaking with Aang who would not be a worthy recipient of such a burn, and he doesn't say such a thing to Zuko in that episode
Faster than wisdom. Ha! Gotta remember that.
Every moment I spend with you is better than the next.
Bravo, that one took the most thought to figure out it was backhanded.
Really got me till the third thought xd
Shakespeare had a banger.
"I was going to challenge you to a battle of wits but I see you are unarmed."
I also like.
"I could agree with you but then we'd both be wrong."
“I could agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.”
A former co-worker got me with this one many years ago. I laughed out loud. I've never forgotten it.
Got in a literal fistfight in middle school using that first one. Pretty sure they didn’t understand it, and lashed out from ignorance.
Did you win?
Not technically, but they got expelled for it, so yes.
A duel with fists is still a duel
I have a cup with the last line on it
You're really at the top of the bell curve!
Your intelligence is at least on the top 95% of people.
This took actually long to kick LMAO
me too, but mainly due to "on" rather than "in".
..I'd also replace "at least" with "possibly".
probably
so average? is that an insult
It sounds like you're calling them intelligent when you're really saying they're nothing special.
For about half the people, yea.
more than a half, becasue those not in the half like to think that they are in the half
Good point, but now I'm confused about were I am on the curve.
Most people like to feel like they're better than most. Mediocrity is an insult to them.
Blessed are the simpletons that never realise or just don't give a fuck.
Yes
You represent the 5th percentile really well!
You are hard to underestimate.
"See you soon!"
"Not if I see you first"
That one took me decades to understand, after someone explained it.
There's something to explain? I must be missing something. What's the explanation, please?
The implication is that if you see them before they see you, you'll make sure to avoid them.
Ohhhhh! 😂 I had, in all my years, never realized it was so cheeky.
Thank you! (Me => xkcd's 1/10,000 today)
Yeah before it was explained it to me, I always thought it was meaningless banter.
I literally dropped my jaw and smacked myself on my forehead, not kidding. I've also heard it before but never realized haha
To be fair I think that a lot of people also just say it the way you were understanding it, without intending hidden burn meaning...
I'm going to use this, and the other insults here on some "friends", that earned my ire.
If person 2 sees p1, they will avoid p1
"That's a surprisingly confident take."
"I love your confidence"
https://youtu.be/pC4Y5EJD8uU
Reminds me of "bless your heart".
You are a testament to the quality of the educational system.
Colbert at Bush's correspondence dinner:
The greatest thing about about this man is that he's steady, you know where he stands. He believes the same thing on Wednesday that he did on Monday... no matter what happened on Tuesday.
A burn so severe, so long-lasting, that he no longer has to pay to heat his home.
Not directly related, but I've always liked the comeback
Almost every British insult is like this.
Best one is to respond to something they say with "Oh that's quite interesting" in the flatest tone possible, then move the conversation on to a different topic or exit.
Works particularly well on Americans because in American English "quite" is an amplifier modifier but their brain will be confused by the flat (not sarcastic) tone.
Those are cold 😂
You cured my impostor syndrome, thank you.
This one's not so brainy, but considering the character it was addressed to it was enough - that being one of my favorite lines from the show Firefly: "Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
Your ratio of words to significance is extremely high
Among everybody here, you have the most potential to learn something.
I've been told that a few times....
good luck out there my friend
These kinds of insults just make people sound like redditors.
What are the odds that a significant portion of Lemmy/Piefed users weren't at one time exactly that? I figure that number's gotta be pretty low.
Yeah, but you can be a redditor without being a redditor (derogatory).
I am probably one of few lemmings who have never had a reddit account
Enjoy your innocence while you can because you're surrounded, I'm afraid.
Savage!
You can say that again.
Savage!
savage!
you can say that again.
Savage!
You can say that again
I don't know if I can... getting burned out, by all the savagery.
Savage!
You can say that again.
Savage!
I wouldn't come here if it weren't for self satisfied know it all's balanced by insecure smarty-pants'.
With a sprinkling of whatever grammar-Nazi wants to correct my comments.
I generally try to hang out with people smarter/more experienced than I in the hopes some of it rubs off on me.
But, I'm also a pretentious twat, so there's also that.
My the rest of your day be as nice as you are.
i like the "have the day you voted for!" rainbow and clouds bumper sticker
You can't be underestimated
"My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
-Malcom Reynolds, CAPT.
I like how you live your true self even when it’s not appropriate.
I'm confused, should I keep stripping, or...
Did I tell you to stop?
Unironically I think this is the reason why I like one of my friends.
yeah, seriously a great trait. ..in some people.
autism simulator
I see you are not hindered by the restrictions of logic.
This made me laugh. Thank you
Good to hear my cyanide & happiness obsession bring happiness for someone
Many of these rely on big words, or are actually pretty obviously insults even if you don't understand.
The real gems are the ones that read like simple english compliments, unless you spend actual effort looking for the insult.
Bless your heart
During my short tenure in the American South I thought women of all ages were in to me because they'd often say, 'Bless your heart!' and call me 'Honey'.
Turns out I should have kept my head down. Don't be fooled by Southern Hospitality.
Honestly, if someone hadn’t let me in on the secret, I probably still wouldn’t have figured it out. Three thoughts later? This one could take you anywhere from three days to three years to figure out.
Hey!
That one's about me!
;D
(took a thought an a half.)
I don't get it...
Meaning you don't understand the obvious insults.
Well aren't you a smart cookie!
Both answers to @[email protected] seem to imply there's a hidden insult in their comment, but I can't find it. I'm the dumb cookie and I don't like that
Gotta use a positive tone and smile:
"You're no better than you ought to be!"
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StealthInsult
Look up Shakespeare's insults. They're literally classic.
I bite my thumb at you, knave!
A snarky one I heard from a woman to another.
"It's amazing how you can pull off THAT outfit"
Implying poor taste in fashion. I do think delivery is important here.
I don't have a lot of petty female friends but I've certainly encountered them and they are masters of the craft of two faced insults. Especially involving taste and habits.
My dim brother threw something similar at that me (he always wears whatever plaid is in fashion). I will admit my fashion is loud, but damn if I don't look good. I cheat a little. I have a tailor who will take my cheap button downs and tailor them for 10 bucks so i always look sharp as fuck.
"I love how you are so confident with your body to eat that".
No fat-shamming like girl fat-shamming.
I've on occasion realized like days later that I was being insulted cause my little monkey brain was just thinking.
"This cake is good. I don't know what that has to do with my body confidence ".
Honestly I used to joke that negging doesn't work on me. Not cause I'm so smart I see through it, but that I don't realize some guy is trying to insult me until like the next day. Or sometimes never.
This one guy at a bar after telling him about my graphic novel collection
Him: "you arent that unique you know?"
Me: "yeah I know, Ive met people with similar interests online. There is a whole subreddit on the locke and key series, very popular".
Him: states at me blankly as then i proceed to tell him more about the series he was obviously only half assed pretending to be interested in.
His loss. The locke and key series are fabulous.
hold on you mentioned cake i forgot what else you said. where'd you get the good cake
Wisdom has been chasing you, but you are faster!!
Don't feel too down, it's not like this project won't be the same without you.
What you lack in evidence or convincing argument, you make up with conviction.
That's the trick. End with the part that sounds nice
You were so cute when I first met you.
Whoa, we're not negging here
bless your heart.
I don't have one in English, but I have some in German for those who understand.
My Granddad had a female coworker that was higher in rank than him. He would always greet her with "Meine Allerwerteste". It's a word play because "Meine Werteste" is equivalent to a very formal version of "my dear". "Aller" is a superlative form, so basically "My very dearest". But "Mein Allerwertester" (so the male form of what he used) means "my ass".
The other one is to use terminology like "Er versucht immer sein Bestes zu geben" ("He always tries to give his best"). In Austria, you are legally allowed to ask for a work testimony from your employer when you are looking for a new job. There is some legislation that prohibits negative speech in these work testimonies so that your employer cannot make you look bad in front of your potential new employer (which makes the whole concept pretty useless, but it is what it is). So to get around that, employers adopted a kind of "secret" code where e.g. "tries to" means "fails to". So you can use the same kind of terminology to deliver something that sounds like a compliment, but for everyone in the know (which is most people by now) it's clear that you deeply offended the person you are talking about.
![email protected]
From The Royal Tenenbaums:
"Why did you specifically have to point out I'm not a genius?"
"I just don't use that word very lightly."
What in interesting use of free will
I must have used up all my luck before meeting you
lemmy.ml might be a good instance for you.
My brother got sassy with me once, he said "you think you're so much smarter than me, huh?"
"No, I don't think I'm smarter than you."
I would agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.
I've never met anyone else so unshakeable in their convictions.
Je viens d'en entendre quelques unes très bonnes : "Tu n'es pas un père mais un courant d'air." À une personne qui noie le poisson, "tu prend ton élan pour mentir."
Sorry dude my french is not that good.
先生，呢個係香港伺服器。 唔該講廣東話。
C'est du chinois pour moi !
Why do I feel like we've already done this
I don't remember but honestly we could.
Wait, is 先生 used as "sir" in Cantonese?
According to google translate.
Oh hahaha
Lmao
我係廣州出世嘅美籍華人 (I'm a Chinese American Born in Guangzhou)
我未出世就識廣東話啦 (I knew Cantonese before I was even born)
你係乜水來啊？(Who the fuck do you think you are?)
I'm ricky :3
Hi Ricky
here's the translation but I don't think they work that well in English:
No, unfortunatly they are not. That's why I wrote them in french.
I love French idioms. A couple of years of high school French decades ago has left me with recognization of maybe a couple of hundred nouns.
blah blah blah blah fish... wait what?
To a person who is drowning the fish.
I fucked your cousin
😀😀😀...😠
Your precocious insipd query's so strongly influential it triggers my ilithiophobia and a solicitude for philanthropic mischance and exponential precarity of inviolability, and thus my small voice has me incapable of answering.
... May take longer than 3 months [Edit, oh, dyslexic misread, it's "thoughts", not "months". I aimed too high.]. May never realise.
PS, I admire your verbal intelligence if you effortlessly get the meaning of that on first read. Quite the vocabulary you have there. Did you swallow a thesaurus when you were 3 years old?
I can't imagine a better day than one spent after your company.
You're so vain, I bet you think this meme is about you.