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[-] nirodhaavidya@lemmy.world 55 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[-] Today@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks 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 6 points 3 weeks ago

I've also heard "wind sandwich."

[-] ashenone@lemmy.ml 36 points 3 weeks 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 14 points 3 weeks 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.

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[-] rslogix89@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Beat me to it

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[-] Forester@pawb.social 23 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks 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 10 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 weeks ago

The classic southern "Bless your heart"

[-] FritzApollo@lemmy.today 17 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[-] Surenho@beehaw.org 13 points 3 weeks ago

It's really hard to underestimate you.

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[-] Athena5898@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 12 points 3 weeks ago

Did your mother have any children that lived?

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] BROTHERM00N@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks 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

[-] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] FrickAndMortar@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago

As sharp as a bowling ball.

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[-] funkajunk@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] tgc2darkness@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 9 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

You make this world not worth saving.

[-] osanna@lemmy.vg 8 points 3 weeks ago

A few beers short of a six pack

[-] Safeguard@beehaw.org 7 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] FrickAndMortar@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] Today@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Leather@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

... Do the down votes prefer anal?

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] _deleted_@aussie.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago
  • Have you been tending to your hounds? You smell like a wet dog!
  • Is that fur growing out of your ears?
[-] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

I love this one from Coriolanus:

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

[-] SelfHigh5@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Have the day you deserve!

[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] chirayu_alias@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks 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!

[-] __hetz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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)

[-] BreadOven@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] tangentism@beehaw.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

"I say this with the greatest respect...."

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

"you're the sharpest bulb in the chandelier"

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Your ma wears high heels with tracksuit bottoms.

[-] helix@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

"You're irrelevant to me."

[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Thick as mince

[-] LiamTheBox@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Too offensive for lemmy.ml

[-] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Removed is the best one.

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

You two make quite the wit.

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