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“A February face”—the original “resting bitch face.”

Here’s a complementary glossary on how to insult like Chaucer:

https://sciencenews22.substack.com/p/olde-english-insults

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Thanks for the link.

Several new-to-me terms.

English is such a wonderful language!

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Thank you - what a list...

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Yasss🤣🤣

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Being an acolyte of both Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce I’ve always appreciated the Bard’s barbs but I suspect that most of them are above the dumbed down heads of the post-me generations. Just snarking to the worst of my ability.

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How refreshing! Thank you for the chuckle.

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You seem to have forgotten - it is no longer global warming but rather climate change. Now it applies no matter what happens to the temperature!

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Non- static climate from dawn to dusk. From eon to the next. From season to season and storm to still. Fitting description of the any possibility. What a great manner to describe nothing and from which create a control matrix.

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"Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon - Timon of Athens". My favorite!

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Delicious and damning...we might want to emulate the old Bard because calling people Nazis and Assholes gets dull...

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Thou art a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality - All’s Well That Ends Well....🤣🤣 made me think of a few loved ones

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Fabulous post on many levels, NE!

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It's not Global Warming, you Wally, it's Climate Change, so's you can never be wrong. D'Oh!

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Bloody wonderful post... made me laugh out loud... and not only proud to be British ( in a politically correct sort of way of course) but proud to be human... a mere, but glorious human. Bless ya!

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He is civil,as an orange.

Much Ado About Nothing.

It is a play on the Seville orange,which is very bitter and used fir marmalade.

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🤣😁🤩😎😉

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"Not clean enough to spit upon" wins it for me, I must say. It's so close to pre-americanisation of swedish when it comes to slurs, swears and so on: creative but not flowery, to the point and without real profanity.

Nowadays, it's all fuck this and fuck that. Or the perennial favourites "kuk" and "fitta"; cock and cunt respectively - the origin of both are worth a titter maybe. "Kuk" stems from and old word meaning "burnt tree-stump", and "fitta" originally means "sodden grazing land/field".

Speaking of being strangely proud, may I make a local cross-cultural comparison?

In the township of Malung (which was a fully developed and well-known town over 1 300 years ago) there's an annual music festival for dansbandsmusik [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dansband], a genre of music difficult to translate. Malung has about 5 000 inhabitants but during this week it swells to about 100 000, most living in campers and caravans and coming from all over.

This year the region where Malung lies at has suffered almost biblical rains.

On Monday, all stores ran out of beer.

On Tuesday, all stores ran out of condoms.

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Lol, we won't be defeated by climate change!

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Wonder if old Wikkelspies would have been up on hate speech charges with those insults. How sensitive we have become.

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They still had dueling back then, didn't they?

We should bring that back, would be hilarious to see a professional victim try to stand their ground against a bricklayer after the former challenging the latter for saying "faggot" or somesuch.

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Many thanks! This was so needed!

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These are hilarious!😂

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