What's your favourite way of calling someone stupid without swearing?
Posted by imjoiningin@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 79 comments
I'm try to expand my safe for work vocabulary. Particularly fond of 'mouth breather' and 'thick as mince'.
EDIT: Thanks for the responses everyone, kept me chuckling all day
Bamrock@reddit
Keep rolling your eyes, maybe you’ll find a brain back there.
I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain this to you.
Ok-Champion-559@reddit
Thank for your comment, it worked like a charm!
Callietheyardcat@reddit
lol my mom used to say this to us when we were teenagers
That_Z28_Guy@reddit
An old friend's dad used to say "If brains were gas, you wouldn't have enough gas to power a piss-ant's motorcycle around the inside of a rolling Cheerio. " I've used it for close to 20 years now.
The_Undercover_Fox@reddit
"(blank) is as dense as a neutron star."
Dysprosium_164@reddit
I'm fond of 'room temperature IQ'.
jackbarbelfisherman@reddit
Gotta point out that it's room temperature in Celcius and not Fahrenheit too
Joosh93@reddit
If someone is using fahrenheit, they have room temperature IQ anyway..
slayerSTL@reddit
You just proved you do…
mathcampbell@reddit
Nah nobody uses Fahrenheit cept the yanks
TrashbatLondon@reddit
Room temp in farenheit is 68-74, so it still works.
AshFraxinusEps@reddit
The only time where F is better. As if you have an IQ of 80 ish then you wouldn't be able to spell your own name. Having one of 60 I think means you are in a near vegetative state
Ravenser_Odd@reddit
21C is a normal room temperature in Celsius, so it's a pretty brutal insult in the UK!
AshFraxinusEps@reddit
The point is though if you had an IQ of 60, you'd probably be bedridden, unable to speak or write or anything. 140 is MENSA. 100 is the average. 60 means anti-MENSA
You'd die at about IQ 50. IQ 21 is essentially impossible
turtleltrut@reddit
I know this is old but that's not correct. 60 is about 3rd grade level intelligence.
Calm-Ad6725@reddit
in kelvin
anieut@reddit
Dingus
Shamless_Fap@reddit
I call all my coworkers drateR.
Trueman_77@reddit
Window licker
SetBatonsToWomp@reddit
"You are perhaps the only person on the face of the earth who could fail an IQ test"
Significant_Peak_863@reddit
😂
Turbulent_Willow_455@reddit
Wisdom has been trying to catch up with you, but your always three steps ahead
JAM3S_H0PW000D@reddit
The wheels turning but the hamster is dead
WiillaBee@reddit
“Obviously… you’re not a golfer.”
Skyla_B1rD@reddit
Did your brain fall out of the sidewalk you slept on last night?
PomegranateFun4535@reddit
“Your parents must’ve poured paint in your cereal”
Rich-Poem-8798@reddit
I say to them “Bless your heart.”
rde42@reddit
I do like "with all due respect"
ikhnos@reddit
I like using that with Americans. They have no idea how much they've just been insulted.
WoodenCollection2674@reddit
That's not any different than when a southerner starts a sentence with "god bless your heart" that phrase is like taking morphine before the roasting of a lifetime. Some people are too dense and take it as a compliment 🤣
connorgrant20@reddit
In the south it's the old " bless their heart" is the insult or what ensues before the insult
ClusterFoxtrotUck@reddit
“The light is burning but nobody’s home.”
aphrobrisiac@reddit
You fell off the stupid tree & hit every branch on the way down.
Lucky-Panda-1979@reddit
The hamster wheel is running, but the hamster is d*ad
eviltoe101@reddit
You have 2 braincells left and there fighting for 3rd
exhaggerated_imagine@reddit
You are an apocalyptic dingleberry- James May
Apprehensive-Age-102@reddit
I am yet to see an insult that beats this, I know this is a year old but still
PricePopular5821@reddit
I really need to call my mom
kaleb88072007@reddit
he downs
Callsign_Crossroads@reddit
Plank, Pleb, Spanner and Plonker are some of my favourites
fuck_peeps_not_sheep@reddit
Also see spoon, tool, wet wipe, twonk and twit
SmellyfourSkin@reddit
Room temperature IQ 🤦🤣
Vance2pants@reddit
Wisdom is chasing you, but you are faster.
Komplex39@reddit
I came up with the phrase "Not an Intellectual rainbow" last year
FTNKing@reddit
"hes not digging himself a deeper hole, hes eating the shovel."
ElementalSentimental@reddit
Not the sharpest spoon in the drawer.
Used that once and someone said "But spoons aren't sharp..."
RGC658@reddit
I've never heard it said with 'spoon'. Normally 'not the sharpest tool in the box' or 'not the Knife in the draw'.
further_information@reddit
Consider butchering the metaphor further:
'Not the sharpest fish in the barrel.'
Affectionate_Shoe158@reddit
Not the sharpest fish in the chandelier.
psychic_london@reddit
“Muppet” conveys pretty serious contempt while also being family friendly
ClaritySam@reddit
I got in trouble with HR for calling my friend a muppet on the company internal social media app. It’s “Against our policy of equity and inclusion” apparently 🙄🙄🙄
CriticalCentimeter@reddit
from a HR perspective, its not really OK to use any form of derogatory language to describe anybody.
xdragonteethstory@reddit
Yea you could get told off for using any word in an understandably "angry" "targeted" or "aggressive" way
YOU MEDIUM PRESS OLIVE OIL BOTTLE
YOU GRAPE EATER
MATTRESS SLEEPER
of course all of these insults are made better by slipping the word cunt in there somewhere.
Affectionate_Shoe158@reddit
A former cow-orker of mine used to use the term "sandal wearer"
Taken from the science fiction Darkover novels, by Marion Zimmer Bradley. The people on that planet despised tourists and people who wore sandals, because the climate was harsh, so the term became one implying utter stupidity.
Once, when particularly peeved at an attorney who was giving our office trouble, she growled "His BRAIN wears sandals!!"
CommonMidnight3671@reddit
“Your elevator doesn’t reach the top.”
Internal-Pineapple58@reddit
Your elevator must not go all the way to the top
JeffyWeffy88@reddit
My neighbor describes her not very smart dog with “the elevator doesn’t go all the way up for him” I died laughing the first time she said it.
M3m3sterr@reddit
Intellectually impaired is my favorite way of saying someone is underdeveloped in the brain department.
The_OG_Adele@reddit
“Wisdom has been chasing you, but you have been much faster”
LookItsDadBod@reddit
The wheel’s spinning but the hamster’s dead
BoomalakkaWee@reddit
Indirect: "If it was raining brains, s/he wouldn't even get damp."
Direct: "Does your head whistle in a cross-wind?"
Commander_Phoenix_@reddit
Your definition of indirect is using a claw hammer instead of a sledge hammer.
Azzen_Goat1@reddit
"you make Mentally challenged people look smart" is probably the best one I've heard.
Thruthatreez@reddit
Wisdom has been chasing you, but you've always been faster.
Raydubzz@reddit
I like to call them sea sponges.
Positive-Pool-6153@reddit
You can't wake up the dead.
rde42@reddit
Saw this the other day: "He's like a man with a fork in a world of soup"
Dude_and_The_Bug@reddit
That one’s related to anger rather than stupidity.
Busy_Mortgage4556@reddit
Don't look back in anger.
T4nj1r0_K4m4d0@reddit
i heard you say
realpellegrino@reddit
'Hard of thinking'.
renslips@reddit
Note to self: don’t read this thread while drinking coffee. Spit out half of it. Now I gotta shampoo the carpet
sja-p@reddit
Excuse me but coffee? My good person, this is AskUK, not AskUSA, take your colonial beverage elsewhere! Good day to you!
Sharp_Voice_9473@reddit
*Ok Jack! Here in ‘Murica tea is like the trainin’ wheels on a bikecycle: ya don’t no longer need ‘em when ya’ ain’t a little sissy no more. Coffee is a man’s drink an’ the only ‘septable way ta drink it is hot, black and strong!
(*The above comment is best experienced while reading it in an Alabaman redneck accent with a large amount of sarcasm. I actually love tea. And the UK 😁)
lesbonette@reddit
tell them to kts
rowandoodlez@reddit
Bellsprout
RainbowHoxo@reddit
😂🙌🏻
Dazz316@reddit
Couldn't empty a bucket with the instructions on the bottom.
cherrymerrywriter@reddit
Is there a point to this?