AUSSIE INSULTS….The actual subject of this post over at Road to Surfdom is of no interest at all, but it did provoke a remarkably vitriolic comment thread. Today, commenter Geoff Honnor collected a definitive list of the insults exchanged amongst the participants, and I felt that it ought to be displayed and saved for posterity. Here it is:
Pea-heart.
Nerd-infested rantblabber.
Disgruntled Underachievers Club.
Lord of the Flies.
Wingnut.
Lonely little loser.
Total and complete wussbag.
Get a goddamn life or get back under your rock.
Heartless hypocrites.
Sociopathic
Patronising
Glass jaw
Desperate
Insecure
Paradigm (pet hate of mine)
Dog whistler
Lame Jokester
Bitchy
Ridiculous evasion.
Selective compassion.
Grub
Prick
Undeserving father.
Privileged, private school, white male heterosexual, WASP, eastern suburbs pro-scribbler, right winger.
Anti-Americanism.
Little Big Man.
Hole digger.
Mate of George Bush (may not necessarily be taken as an insult, of course)
Offensive
Moral equivalence
moral non-equivalence
Goose
Gosling
Right Whinger
Mediocre trollop (ironic usage)
Timmmeee!
Sad, withering little psyche
Lefty compassion (ironic usage)
This is a bit more colorful and sprightly than the average American insult exchange, don’t you think? Thanks, Geoff, for performing this valuable piece of cultural anthropology for us.
