The best kinds are insults disguised as compliments.
"I hope your day is as pleasant as you are."
"I can't tell you how much I enjoyed your presentation."
"You never cease to amaze me."
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It's always the passive aggresive ones haha
"I am sure that with enough determination, you can make it to the top of the bell curve."
If I had a gun with two bullets, and I was in a room with Hitler, bin-Laden, and you, I would shoot you twice.
Oh yeah? Well, I called the jerk store, and they're running out of you!
"You couldn't pour piss from a boot if the instructions were on the heel."
"Are you this stupid full time, or is it just a hobby?"
"You're about as sharp as a bowling ball."
The show VEEP has some of the best insults I've ever heard One of my favorites
"You're as toxic as a urinal cake in Chernobyl"
"If we were sat on a bench together and someone came up and said 'One of you two is an idiot', I wouldn't think they were talking about me because I don't take offense easily".
I've read it 10 times now, and I still don't get it (I think?). Am I the idiot on the bench? Is the insult about me? Can someone explain it to me please?
Yeah it's a confusing way of calling someone an idiot.
It reads like a sentence that was translated from another language into English. It's needlessly confusing, makes the reader feel dumb, but it's not a good insult.
I assume it's to insult both of them with both thinking they just insulted the other.
I actually stopped using Reddit back in December partly because someone DM'd me calling me a "fucking filthy tortoise" which is certainly the first time I've heard that. And also the moment that made me think, why am I wasting my time on this site. Not particularly smart, but certainly unique.
I think the Frankie Boyle insult to an audience member is the best. It was a long story and I'll try and search for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX1jMmfG2Xk&t=60
I always liked "Everyone who ever loved you were wrong"