What's your worst local insult (without swearing)

[Cycleops]

Here its calling someone 'bush'. In other words you are saying they come from the village or the back of beyond and are uneducated. Particularly effective with taxi drivers who in all probability do come from there.

I also remember some time ago in London I was going out with my friend and business colleague and his friend who had worked for some time in the UAE and Saudi. We were going out for a meal and looking for a place to park. Just as we were about to manoeuvre into a slot a flash car driven by a man of middle eastern appearance shot into our space. Our friend reversed back, wound the window down and shouted something to him in Arabic. The guy got out and went crazy jumping up and down dancing around, waving his fist and shouting. After driving off we asked what had he said to him to make him so mad. Oh, he said I just called him the son of a camel driver's whore.

 

[marinyork]

Worst thing by a country mile around here you can say to anyone the last few years is to call them a chav. Unfortunately its a word some on this forum struggle not to use.

 

[Dayvo]

Don't know if it's correct but my grandfather told me that when he was a young lad, he bent his left arm so that his fist was next to his left shoulder, then rubbed the palm of his right hand around his left elbow, thus 'telling' a deaf person to f*** off.

I've never tried to test the theory.

 

[AndyRM]

Mackem (a resident of the dark place below the Tyne).

 

[TVC]

In Leicester it is common to suggest that people from Coalville are inbred, references to six fingers and 'banjo country' are usual.

 

[TheDoctor]

Much the same thing gets said about Norfolk.
I rather liked the place when I was cycling there a few months ago.

 

[Dave 123]

When we used to go drinking in Liverpool as lads we would be called wool/woollyback/woolly by the city inhabitants.


Round here it's 'NFN' which is normal for Norfolk.

In our house we also have normal for Cambridge, which is aimed at many of the special students- split an atom but can't put a jumper on the right way around!

 

[Dayvo]

My brother was in the Air Force and stationed in the Falklands (after the war).

The military personnel referred to the islanders as 'Bennies', as in the character Benny in Crossroads many moons ago.

The top brass heard about this and it was strictly forbidden for the military to refer to them as Bennies. So a new nickname was used: 'Stills' as in 'still Bennies.'

 

[User33236]

Don't know if it's correct but my grandfather told me that when he was a young lad, he bent his left arm so that his fist was next to his left shoulder, then rubbed the palm of his right hand around his left elbow, thus 'telling' a deaf person to f*** off.

I've never tried to test the theory.

Mrs SG, who studied British sign language, tells me that to tell a deaf person to do as you suggest is as follows:-

Create a fist with one hand a hit the closed end formed by your thumb and forefinger with the open palm of your other hand. Then, using the non fist hand, make a guesture as if thumbing a lift.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Here in Scotland we don't do insults without prefixed and suffixed swearing, so I can't help you. Sorry.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Mrs SG, who studied British sign language, tells me that to tell a deaf person to do as you suggest is as follows:-

Create a fist with one hand a hit the closed end formed by your thumb and forefinger with the open palm of your other hand. Then, using the non fist hand, make a guesture as if thumbing a lift.

I've been practicing that in the mirror but I'm not sure I'm getting it right. Isn't it far simpler to just up a middle finger?

 

[jonny jeez]

He's a bit "south London" is enough to incite a riot round here.

 

[Roadrider48]

When you start at the bottom there aren't many insults that rile you. (So I've heard)

 

[Crackle]

What kind of farkin nobber starts an insults thread?

 

[ColinJ]

What kind of farkin nobber starts an insults thread?

One who travels a lot and who needs to be able to deal with local drivers ...?