Bloodmouths and other strange insults

[Hoplon]

Doing well in TF 2 for once and being called a "Hacker" It's just hilariously pathetic.

 

[The Funslinger]

I've always found it hilarious when you're doin good at a game and you get called a "nerd"

I know that feel.

Couple of years ago in an english class, we all had laptops and were playing a flash port of Doom I had brought in and begun circulating (along with other games) as a way against the shutdown of access to basically any good website.

Basically, I overheard two complaining they couldn't figure out how to finish level one. I had just done it, and... well, it's level one.

I walked over. "Yeah, you just go down there and turn left". This was just greeted with "you know that? God, you're sad". "What, because I remember something I did five minutes ago?"

"Yeah." I shit you not, he said that.

 

[Palademon]

I've always found it hilarious when you're doin good at a game and you get called a "nerd"

Yeah this was always ridiculous. Implying that being better is somehow now a bad thing.
They usually say things like "You're only good at this because you have no life and spend all your time on it!"
Yes, because the prefered way to be good at something to not play it often and be immediately good. Becuase thne you're no nerd, you're just awesome.
Also the nerd label doesn't apply if it's an awesome game, because spending lots of time on it then just makes you hardcore.

Damn people.

"You're good at games and/or do well/try in school. NERD!"
I really think they missed what an insult is.

 

[Rayne870]

call me what you want, but be warned i have been known to eat things out of pure hate. vegans should be warned that they are made of meat.

 

[SlamDunc]

"Chlorophyll Mouth Scum" does not have the same ring to it so I would just call them idiots. If you dont eat meat that is fine but you are a moron for thinking it is wrong, immoral or cruel. Humans evolved to eat meat. You are free to object to factory farming but that is a completely different issue, one I don't need to hear about. I get the point after hearing so many complain about it and I still don't care.

 

[Trololo Punk]

I've always found it hilarious when you're doin good at a game and you get called a "nerd"

This for me. Get called this every once in a while at school. Just sort of shrug my shoulders and say "okay?". Guess people don't realize it's not REALLY and insult anymore. At least not for most people

 

[Kordie]

Doing well in TF 2 for once and being called a "Hacker" It's just hilariously pathetic.

Ah I love those days. Thank you for confusing my skill at a game as me using a program designed to make only headshots. It's more of a compliment than anything.

As for the OP,
Yea, I fall into that white-male group too, so it's pretty hard to hurt my feelings. Honestly, I would love to hear a good insult for white males if you have one.

 

[Durgiun]

Bloodwhore, bloodmouth and carnist.

Those have got to be the coolest names I've ever heard. I'm a Bloodmouth, fuck yeah!

 

[Durgiun]

"Chlorophyll Mouth Scum" does not have the same ring to it so I would just call them idiots.

Leafgob and Grasstooth are the best I can come up with. Also Barktongue.

 

[Lieju]

I don't really understand why 'dick' is an insult. I mean, generally in history it's been considered good or the norm to have male genitalia, and in many cases suggesting someone has feminine qualities is an insult.

Does it come from suggesting they feel the need to affirm their manliness or something?

It's not like many insults don't mean what they used to, but they usually originally had some logic behind them.

Like 'handler'. Used on some arachnid and related exotic animals-forums to describe people who handle their pets (especially the venomous ones).
And oh boy, do those debates about handling get nasty and pop up frequently...

 

[Blunderboy]

I wouldn't mind being called a "bloodmouth" if I actually liked my steak rare. As it stands, though, I don't so I don't feel it applies to me. I'd happily welcome something more descriptive, like "fleshmouth" or "meatmouth". Damn, I'm getting hungry now.

Even if you did eat steak rare, that isn't blood, it's myoglobin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myoglobin], so the term 'bloodmouth' isn't applicable unless you actually rip the flesh from an animal with your own teeth.

OT: Tribalism, 'us and them' mentality. Nothing to worry about though, us carnivores are too busy being awesome.

You're going to have to give us mere mortals more time to respond to threads before you come in and solve them.

 

[HammerIntoAnvil]

I once saw a drunk being thrown off the bus. His final word in the matter was to lunge back on and yell "Ya fuckin trumpet".

I still have no idea why that would be insulting.

 

[SlamDunc]

"Chlorophyll Mouth Scum" does not have the same ring to it so I would just call them idiots.

Leafgob and Grasstooth are the best I can come up with. Also Barktongue.

Bark-tongue sounds like a word for someone bad at kissing and the other two sound like Pokemon moves to me. I cant think of anything more insulting than just calling them vegans.

 

[Durgiun]

"Chlorophyll Mouth Scum" does not have the same ring to it so I would just call them idiots.

Leafgob and Grasstooth are the best I can come up with. Also Barktongue.

Bark-tongue sounds like a word for someone bad at kissing and the other two sound like Pokemon moves to me. I cant think of anything more insulting than just calling them vegans.

OK, how about mini-Onision?

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

The first one that comes to mind is "breeder," a derogative term for heterosexuals. Also "Cracker" as an insult makes me laugh, mainly because in my home state (Florida), "cracker" is the term for people whose families were among the first to immigrate, because the main industry at the time was cattle driving. So it still has to do with cracking whips, but on cattle, not people. Anyway, it's a compliment to those who know their Florida history.

In Britain a cracker is an lightly salted biscuits made to go with cheese and other small snacks.

And taste rather nice. So i can't say i find the term cracker very offensive either.

It means that in the US, too, which makes it doubly silly as an insult. I mean, I know academically what's going on, but it's hard to be offended by such a silly slur.

 

[Psychedelic Spartan]

I wouldn't mind being called a "bloodmouth" if I actually liked my steak rare. As it stands, though, I don't so I don't feel it applies to me. I'd happily welcome something more descriptive, like "fleshmouth" or "meatmouth". Damn, I'm getting hungry now.

Even if you did eat steak rare, that isn't blood, it's myoglobin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myoglobin], so the term 'bloodmouth' isn't applicable unless you actually rip the flesh from an animal with your own teeth.

I knew that (or at least I knew it wasn't blood), however it's close enough in looks for me to consider the term acceptable.

But now, "steakmouth", yeah, I'd love to be called that. Imagine saying something like "So, fellow steakmouths, shall we go indulge in some cooked flesh from a formerly living being that was sacrificed for us?" Damn, that makes me want a steak so much. But I don't have any

Going along with steakmouth, I'm already called T-Bone at school because of how damn close my name (Tobin) is to it already. And yes, people have called me T-Boner. We do spend our free time making up ridiculous nicknames, how did you know?

 

[MetalMagpie]

Kind of relevant: At work we call people who are incompetent (or currently acting in an incompetent way) "cranks". We even have a "Crank of the Week" on my team's white-board (which is usually an employee of one of our clients). Not sure how widespread that is; I'd never come across it before working here.

Other slang that seems to be specific to my workplace includes "FRV" ("First Rule Violation", meaning a huge f*ck-up), "fonx" (meaning to get rid of something) and "mem" (meaning "I'd like some of that coffee you just made").

Sentences like this really confused me when I first joined: "Better fonx that component unless you're sure you won't crank it up; it's got a history of causing FRVs. Grab a dev if you need help braining it."

 

[SlamDunc]

"Chlorophyll Mouth Scum" does not have the same ring to it so I would just call them idiots.

Leafgob and Grasstooth are the best I can come up with. Also Barktongue.

Bark-tongue sounds like a word for someone bad at kissing and the other two sound like Pokemon moves to me. I cant think of anything more insulting than just calling them vegans.

OK, how about mini-Onision?

I dont get it. I assume it is a reference to something I have never seen.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Kind of relevant: At work we call people who are incompetent (or currently acting in an incompetent way) "cranks". We even have a "Crank of the Week" on my team's white-board (which is usually an employee of one of our clients). Not sure how widespread that is; I'd never come across it before working here.

Other slang that seems to be specific to my workplace includes "FRV" ("First Rule Violation", meaning a huge f*ck-up), "fonx" (meaning to get rid of something) and "mem" (meaning "I'd like some of that coffee you just made").

Sentences like this really confused me when I first joined: "Better fonx that component unless you're sure you won't crank it up; it's got a history of causing FRVs. Grab a dev if you need help braining it."

Do you work with a bunch of MIT graduates or something? Because that's MIT levels of bizarre slang XD

By the way, using "crank" in that sense sounds kind of unique; usually if you call someone a crank, it means they're crazy, generally in the paranoid conspiracy theorist sense.