The silliest insult someone has given you?

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I am what is politely referred to as follicley challenged. I went to a client meeting with a company I was working for once and on being introduced to one of the client's senior managers, who I had never met before, he looked at me and went "alright Kojak". I wasn't bothered, I've been called much worse, but what was irritating was that he was a dead ringer for a smurf. As he was the client I had to keep Schtum

Perhaps he was taking amiodarone for his ticker

 

[Van Cleef]

I had no idea spaz was an insult in 1971?! 80/81 was my reception year at school, so I put it down solely to Joey Deacon’s fame.

Although Wikipedia does seem to indicate its use as an insult increased significantly in the early 80s thanks to Blue Peter.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spastic_(word)#:~:text=Some%20of%20these%20associations%20use,'%20is%20'spaz'.%22

I believe you're mixing up spaz and joey? Joey deffo came about from Blue Peter/Joey Deacon.
Joey and flid were the main insults knocking about when I was in lower school in the early 80s.
Eek!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

“Hey there, Mr Liberal …. ” …. sent by NSC pm from an Alt Right bod, angered by my posts against one of his heroes.

Instead of feeling intimidated, I couldn’t stop laughing.

I've only had one nasty PM. It was when I'd idly mused (and that's all it was, idle musing) that a new NSC member had certain typing idiosyncrasies reminiscent of a certain Mr Bush.

You can guess the rest

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I believe you're mixing up spaz and joey? Joey deffo came about from Blue Peter/Joey Deacon.
Joey and flid were the main insults knocking about when I was in lower school in the early 80s.
Eek!

Flid was around in the late 70s. One of my flatmates occasionally used it, the silly old poof.

 

[The Clamp]

I got called a paedo when I was in infant school.

* That’s in infant school. Not in AN infant school. For clarity.

 

[RyFish]

During a game a football I was once call a man's penis

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

As one of the Metro trains pulled out of the station in Amsterdam some Ajax bozo put his phone against the glass that was displaying the Palace badge.

Oh my God, what an insult! It ruined my whole trip, in fact it still gives me sleepless nights. It made our 2-0 victory totally worthless

 

[raymondo]

In the late 70s I wrote to complain about non/late delivery of a product I'd ordered.
Their reply,:
"We are sorry for the delay - your product will be on its way shorty"

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Flid was around in the late 70s. One of my flatmates occasionally used it, the silly old poof.

Ignore me if I’m stating the obvious here but is everyone aware of this ‘flid’ origin?

Indeed it was a common insult in the 70s as the babies that were born in this country with birth defects (invariably short limbs) were born c1959-1962. The cause was an anti morning sickness drug called Thalidamoid.

 

[dazzer6666]

I believe you're mixing up spaz and joey? Joey deffo came about from Blue Peter/Joey Deacon.
Joey and flid were the main insults knocking about when I was in lower school in the early 80s.
Eek!

Spaz was around before ‘Joey’ for sure (as was Flid)…….happy days 🫣

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Ignore me if I’m stating the obvious here but is everyone aware of this ‘flid’ origin?

Indeed it was a common insult in the 70s as the babies that were born in this country with birth defects (invariably short limbs) were born c1959-1962. The cause was an anti morning sickness drug called Thalidamoid.

I suspect not.

And like most of the other schoolyard slurs, not remotely acceptable.

 

[METALMICKY]

Two rather tame school faves were dur-brain and wazzock.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

And like most of the other schoolyard slurs, not remotely acceptable.

Indeed, but we digress, this was a thread about silliest [harmless] insults.
Growing up in the 70s I recall anyone with any sort of handicap or disability just being seen as fair game for vile abuse and ridicule.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Indeed, but we digress, this was a thread about silliest [harmless] insults.
Growing up in the 70s I recall anyone with any sort of handicap or disability just being seen as fair game for vile abuse and ridicule.

Children are cruel. They have to be trained out of it. Or else they grow up to be twats.

Edit: sorry for the digression. It wasn't me who introduced the F word, I should note.

 

[dazzer6666]

Indeed, but we digress, this was a thread about silliest [harmless] insults.
Growing up in the 70s I recall anyone with any sort of handicap or disability just being seen as fair game for vile abuse and ridicule.

Yep. Same for the one black kid in our school as well

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Children are cruel. They have to be trained out of it. Or else they grow up to be twats.

Edit: sorry for the digression. It wasn't me who introduced the F word, I should note.

No apology required certainly not to me, simply an observation how a harmless thread easily changes track.

 

[Easy 10]

Very popular as school was ' Benny ' or for extra emphasis you could declare someone to be ' many Benny '.

Or if you were going the extra mile (in my school playground) you would go up to someone and say:
"Are you a BENNY tied to a tree ?"
To which the not unreasonable answer would be "No"
Which would result in the response - "BENNY ON THE LOOSE! BENNY ON THE LOOSE!"

In other news, after a bit of a Twitter gloat on my part following that game when we were 4-0 up vs Leeds at half time, a disgruntled Leeds fan clocked my avatar pic and described me as "a paedo version of Paul Hollywood".

Going the other way, when I used to post on the BBS I once referred to one of their gimps as being a "catastrophic feltching cockspangle". They took umbrage and reported me, but I was quite pleased with that tbh.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Yep. Same for the one black kid in our school as well

I cringe looking back at what Moulsecoombe and Falmer schools were like in the 70s/early 80s.

I’m very proud of the way my 15 year old son sees the world these days.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Or if you were going the extra mile (in my school playground) you would go up to someone and say:
"Are you a BENNY tied to a tree ?"
To which the not unreasonable answer would be "No"
Which would result in the response - "BENNY ON THE LOOSE! BENNY ON THE LOOSE!"

Cheers (!) now I’m reliving that nightmare, as soon as you were asked about your “Benny status” you were done, it was checkmate, no way out. I just cut my losses and admitted to being a Benny tied to a tree, I found the ordeal was over quicker that way.

 

[knocky1]

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