Galactic StoneWhich is the best British insult?
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Tosser
Wanker
Git
Bell End
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§ Jason 🥄No debate: Bell End. Such a perfect way to call someone a masgonistic dick.
Thomas Beagle@galacticstone Wanker just *sounds* insulting. Plus the optional hand gesture when you really need it.
The Febrile Muse@galacticstone Git seems more Irish.
AliJustification for my vote: "Wanker" is an epithet that is also used in Australia, where as "Bell End" seems curiously restricted to old blighty.
BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺@grissallia @galacticstone Yes - this q could do with a follow-up. Amongst Brits, what's the best British insult vs rest of the world.
I mean, it's obviously "bell-end" regardless. But, still.
TweetingTechno@galacticstone It's a pity 'gobshite' is Irish.
Tim Ford@galacticstone
Smeghead
Smeghead
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🌮 🚀 🌗@galacticstone There is no insult worse than Linus' source control system.
Toni Scott
Cara Bruar@galacticstone the term 'wanker' is very popular in Australia, perhaps because we have so many of them 🤣
Rorzer@galacticstone smeghead
Pepe Mapache 
@galacticstone @squinky Thanks to Ted Lasso I know the obvious answer
inaforest@galacticstone the best British insults are waaay more subtle than any of these ..the art is leaving the insultee questioning if they've been insulted at all, or did they just misinterpret what was said. yw
Tröglödÿtblighter
Argot_Robbie@galacticstone @CrazyMyra "Pillock" is a grave omission here.
ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘@galacticstone Is a bell end related to a bell wether?
@galacticstone You left out " pond slime".
Em McDonald 🏳️⚧️@galacticstone @donmelton team bell end 4 ever.
Susanne Hart@galacticstone Feels like context could be important. I went with Tosser because it carries contempt well, particularly when paired with a sideways glare.
👩🦯The Blind Fraggle@galacticstone I never heard of the last one.
dangercake@galacticstone for bonus points, use the word bell end in a Christmas #1 record 😁 https://youtu.be/lrVg1toMzuo
The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) (Official Music Video) [HD]
Frank Bennett 🇯🇵@galacticstone Not sure if it's English or Australian, but "waste of space" tops my list of insults learned during time in the UK.
BenAveling@fgbjr @galacticstone “waste of oxygen”.
The Animal and the Machine@galacticstone @HollyGoDarkly
Although any insult can be used for anything, especially with irony, this is a rough guide to what they mean.
Tosser: Someone who without thinking harms something. Possibly by being an idiot.
Wanker: Someone who purposely does something for personal gain knowing it my negativity impact others.
Git: An out of use term for an old git, which is a cantankerous old man. Is still used ironically with friends when they stitch you up.
Bell End: Similar to wanker but a total wanker is an utter bell end. Like a mate involved with a pyramid scheme and trying to sell you on it.
Although any insult can be used for anything, especially with irony, this is a rough guide to what they mean.
Tosser: Someone who without thinking harms something. Possibly by being an idiot.
Wanker: Someone who purposely does something for personal gain knowing it my negativity impact others.
Git: An out of use term for an old git, which is a cantankerous old man. Is still used ironically with friends when they stitch you up.
Bell End: Similar to wanker but a total wanker is an utter bell end. Like a mate involved with a pyramid scheme and trying to sell you on it.
Daniel Turner@galacticstone Needs 'muppet' option
Jonathan Hill@galacticstone Sureiy these are all terms of affection, aren’t they?
C.S.Strowbridge@galacticstone Smeg Head. It's not on the list, but it has to be the winner.
Atlas@galacticstone British people encounter an annoying person and be like "git push origin main"
Loot & Plunder@galacticstone Clearly "git" - even the Monkees thought so - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejw_LOi-nhk
The Monkees - Randy Scouse Git
Liz Ellis She/Her🌳@galacticstone I voted wanker because it's my most frequent go-to after fucker, but I have a fondness for git because of its historical origins, so obscured that I could get away with using it as a kid, and it's comparative rarity now
Ged|Net@galacticstone ALL of the above!! ALL of the time.
Rhinos Worry Me has moved
Georg Ramer@galacticstone SVN, to go a bit old school
jlj 🇨🇦➡️🇬🇧@galacticstone As someone who's just received his citizenship, I both echo your urgency, and demand my voice carry equal weight.
Spenbroc 🏴🇪🇺🇺🇦🚴🏊🏃🧗⚖️@galacticstone
Dick Head is missing off the list!
Dick Head is missing off the list!
Tirial@galacticstone Berk. How could you leave out Berk‽
SubtleBlade ⚔️@galacticstone though Wazzock is better still
IHateGreed@galacticstone Since Harry’s memoir SPARE, my husband is now calling everything a todger.
@galacticstone of course, the one most likely to be followed by violence is “mate”.
Cassana@galacticstone My vote went to bell end, though it always makes me wonder if people in Bell End, Worcestershire, just end up cracking up all the time, especially if they also need to go pick up some stuff in nearby Lickey End.
Other suggestions: sod, prat, cockwomble, twatwaffle. The first two are older and pretty common and probably on par with tosser and git.
Other suggestions: sod, prat, cockwomble, twatwaffle. The first two are older and pretty common and probably on par with tosser and git.
JaxBellend. The others suggest they are an arsehole, but bellend is basically a dumb arsehole!
Sherbs@galacticstone can't believe the number of bell ends voting Wanker
Becky 🇬🇧@galacticstone I personally use fucktard and twunt regularly, but I don’t know if anyone else does. So I’ll go with bellend for this poll. 😄
Mat Bradshaw@galacticstone this is very much my specialist subject, being a fully committed sweary British person.
Fuckwit
(The word, not you)
caragraph@galacticstone wankers deserve to be called out as such, same for tossers et al
I've yet to meet a one size fits all dickwad
Pankhurst2
Bater Kari@galacticstone I occasionally will call someone a knobhead. However, that's not well-known here in the United States. I never explain that knobhead is the British equivalent of dickhead.🙃
MarcusCSC@galacticstone missing CU next Tuesday
@galacticstone git as that would come from a politer and more mannered generation
empiricism
Cade JohnsonWhat's a tory? Daddy taught me to be a liberal Democrat.
A "Tory" is a British slang word. However, rather than describe what a Tory is, it would be easier to look up the sociopolitical & socioeconomic activities of a typical Tory.
For example, fossil fuel fan Jacob rees-mogg.
Are they greedy %#%# or merely stupid? Well, their activities suggest a lot of both.
Though they do have a polished sales & political spin act.