‘Mouth Breather’
Like yeah I don’t get this one. We all breathe through our mouths (and noses), because we have to. Yet I read this sometimes as it is used like an insult. So what are you saying? You’re insulting someone for doing what billions of other human beings have to do naturally?
Because humans are awful, mouth breather probably comes from Down syndrome and the associated physical traits of a proportionally large tongue and narrow mouth.
Much less common now but calling things gay. I find it fascinating watching early 2010’s video and hearing people call things gay, I even remember doing it myself lol.
My trans niece doesn’t get the joke when I (correctly but excessively) call random shit she does gay (like not in an insulting way, mostly just confused). She’ll be like “my girlfriend is so pretty” and I’m just immediately like “gay.” Your girlfriend made you pancakes? GAY. Cuddling with her? SO. gay. Long walks in the park? Extra gay. I picked that joke up in 2016 and I’m not letting go any time soon.
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So! There’s a place in Philly called the Mutter Museum. Filled with all manner of human specimens of various ailments.
Absolutely fascinating. Like $20 admission. 100% worth it.
A couple of the pieces on display are the skulls and jaws of mouth breathers. I don’t know if they had an issue that required surgery that wasn’t available in the 1800’s, or if it was just bad habits, but.
Literally changes the shape of your bones. And therefore your face.
Fucking wild.
Been there several times. Incredible place even though all the giggling at medical oddities annoys me.
“Clown.” Some of my best friends do clowning as a hobby.
Luddite. Maybe today more than ever, we should all be somewhat luddite-y
I self identify as a luddite. I don’t fear progress, but I also do not trust that advances in technology will be used to make life better for any but the wealthiest.
The luddites were early union organizers among seamstresses and weavers.
You think it was people acting against progress because the winners of that conflict rewrote history.
That conflict has never ended and the owner class is still using the machines to squeeze every drop of production out of the workers while paying less for the work every year. It’s not rewritten history it’s ongoing propaganda, and you are arguing against a point I never made.
When I was in primary school approximately in the early Devonian period, it was considered the height of cutting wit to insult somebody by calling them “gay.”
In the intervening decades throughout which society has somehow (possibly briefly, current events taken into consideration) become a bit more tolerant, nowadays it seems you have about a one in six chance of whoever you just called gay responding with, “Okay, and?”
Is the Devonian period what we call the time during which the band Devo was active?
Yes but we breath mainly with the nose; breathing with the mouth evokes the image of slack-jawed awe, or the long pause that takes the recipient to elaborate a simple concept.
/me cries in chronic allergies that keep my nose at like 60% capacity all year long
It’s not the insult, it’s who says it. If a MAGAt called me a great guy for example, I’d feel offended.
cocksucker
Approx half the population has clocks. The other half likes sucking cock.
Seems like a win win?
yeah, cocksuckers are awesome.
I love their work. No one shouts “hey, you fuckin’ Scorsese!” at cab drivers and then goes to a movie later the same day saying “God, I wish someone would shoot me like Gangs of New York” while they jerk off.
Bless your heart.
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Mother fucker. Like yeah, I’m married and have kids. I fuck their mother like a muha fucka.
It came from the late 19th century, back when anything nice happening to a woman was considered novel and slightly untoward
Clanker.
It sounds like they’re insulting a robot that doesn’t exist instead of you or the AI.
Asswipe. Frankly, I prefer people who wipe their asses. I myself wipe my ass regularly and thoroughly. I am not ashamed of the fact.
They’re calling you the asswipe itself (toilet paper) not a person who does it. Noun not the verb.
Hmmm, never thought of it that way. Makes sense. It would be the equivalent of calling someone a douche bag.
Exactly. Or just a douche since that can be used as the verb too, but the insult is the noun.
Get a bidet, and change your life.
They are referring to the thing that is used to wipe the ass, like a wet wipe or toilet paper.
Nice guy
Wise guy
