My cleaning lady, of Mexican decent, instead of saying they are 'bad', she says they are 'ugly'.

(She speaks some English, and I speak some Spanish, so we communicate OK together. We are friends. Plus, as I have an orange tree--I live in So. Calif.--I always send her home with an orange, or banana for her lunch.)

Mormons sometimes call bad folks "Flippers" but the really bad are "Honkers"

My former husband used to say "flip honk" all the time. Is that a combination of the flippers and the honkers?

Gosh. To use that kind of strong language he must have been talking about apostates and ex-Mormons:)

is that why he is your former husband?

Why are we avoiding swearing?


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Probably because i swear too much.

Television watcher. My family were bigtime zombievision watchers so i think it's the greatest cutdown. They hated it when i said they couldn't live without the tube. Aaand i was correct.

Nincompoop!

Bad egg.

Meanie.

Judas.

Son of Sam.

Al Capone.

No Einstein.

beach.

doggy bitch.

bitchy dog.

Imbecile.

Tact: the ability to tell a person to go to hell and convince them to enjoy the journey. (~ the late great Paul Harvey)

We cabbies are known for our potty mouths (and working alcoholism treatment before was pretty much just as "bad"), so I'm careful what I say when there are customers in the cab... BTW, I "flip a Louie" instead of a bitch...

Others...

Sister kisser

Internet genius

Reality challenged

Happy Valley Hypocrite

Utahovian

MLM Moron or Network Marketing Nitwit

Cuckhold
Wanker
Pansy
shyster
libtard
broad
numbnuts
dotard
petty
bag
blackguard
turd-burglar
thunder-thighs
dickweed
bubblebutt
cumstain (thank my teenage daughter for this one. Yelling at her brother. As in "where did you put my backpack you stupid cumstain?")
poseur
sissy
wench
wuss
cretin
dork
imbecile
sped
bugger
twit
simpleton
whipped
mundane
barbarian
pedantic
battleax
esoteric
inbred
miscreant
hussy
ninny
gaudy
prude
brute
decrepit
insignificant
absentminded
frump
haggard
pompous
slutty
diva
disheveled
glutton

Wanker and bugger are both swearwords outside North America!

One means someone who habitually masturbates and the other means someone who enjoys anal sex.

Bloody hell!

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> One means someone who habitually masturbates and
> the other means someone who enjoys anal sex.

The boner would be proud.

People who swear are more honest and intelligent.

Well that's reassuring - since becoming an exmo, I sure have developed a potty mouth!

Swearing has nothing to do with intelligence level. If it did, every drug dealer standing on a street corner would be a genius.

“Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.” —Mark Twain

I call people Mormons. Here, I'll show you.

If someone is acting like an asshole I Ask "Are you a Mormon?" If they say no then I replay "Well stop it then because you are making the rest of our species look bad." And if they say "yes". Then i just say "Oh, O.K."

It usually hits them right after I walk away.

Thats the best way to call a person a derogatory name (Mormon) without swearing.

Low blow that one.........lol

FARGING ICEHOLE!!.....don't remember the movie that came from but my wife and I said it all the time.

Did you make it out of Utah without letting er roar?

I am home darlin'. Spent a day and a half chillin' at my cousin's place in Pocatello drinking their beer and playing with their Dachshunds and then hit the road at 7AM this morning. 9 hours and 550 miles later I pulled into my garage. My truck is covering the garage floor with most of the frozen Salt Lake City slush I picked up on Monday morning.

Football officials have their own lingo..

That guy is nucking futs !!
That was a douche bag call !!
He out kicked his coverage when he married her...
Homer Simpson would have done better job

Gatorman

The movie was "Johnny Dangerously" starring Michael Keaton and Maureen Stapleton and I can't remember who else. Hilarious!

Dod Gam, futher-mucking, bon-of-a-sich!

Sunken ditches and dirty bathtubs.........

Putz is good.

You can't go wrong with Sweetheart. Darling. Love-doodle. Those work well to insult the guys.

If you want to really make a woman mad call her "Little lady" and watch the fireworks begin. Or, for extra fun, add a "there, there," to the little lady, and a "just calm down now."

Seemingly friendly words cut the deepest. The other insults have lost their sting. They've been thrown around way too many times---like a Mormon testimony.

What a great list of responses! One, 'Done & done's I especially liked.

And, Posted by: Heartless ( )
Date: February 19, 2018 09:28PM
Re: Names to call people without 'swearing'

Nincompoop!

Thanks, now I'm all prepared.

You could try Flippertigibbet too...

I like Done & Done's response, too.

Nothing makes people madder than either laughing at them, or being superior and condescending to them. If your goal is to make someone mad, that is.

I prefer to not engage with "nincompoops" at all. Arguing, or name-calling is just stooping to their level. Thinking up a clever response is giving too much thought to people who don't deserve your consideration.

Often I just look at them as though they were crazy, and say, "Welllll....", sticking out the tip of my tongue with the "L", and then walk away.

If I was an elderly southern black woman I could say whatever I wanted as long as I finished it with "bless their soul".

"Oh Lawd, dat's an ugly baby. Bless his soul!"

I don't know how that makes it OK, but it seems to. Unfortunately, I could never pull that off.

You may enjoy the movie "The Jerk" with Steve Martin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lduFFNqBFPs

It shows so much charity and very little anger, if any. You may think it's just an expression, but to me it also shows there is another dimension to people that we generally do not perceive.

Every name you call "others," you are calling yourself. It's not that they are faultless in themselves, but it's what you choose to focus on: the faulty in you affirms the faulty in them, dismissing the greater realities of both. If you could see through all that, you would see through all your own illusions, too.

"They" are figures in your waking dream. So, do they really exist? Not as you perceive them--your perception is your projection.

"Some people have yet to understand . . ." What a lead in!


So if someone steals from you and you call them a "G.D. Thief," you are calling yourself that?

If someone stands you up for a very important appointment that costs you dearly with no warning and no explanation and you call them a " rotten creep" are you calling yourself that?"

If someone double crosses you and you call them a "dirty traitor," that means you are calling yourself that?


You say, "Every name you call "others," you are calling yourself." That is the equivalent of "I know you are but what am I?" Personally, I'll leave that nonsense to Pee Wee Herman or in the pages of some self-help book.

If someone cheats on me I may call them a "sleezebag." I will have the proof and it won't be just my perception. If someone steals from me and I have footage of them doing it, it won't be just my perception or projection. Since I haven't cheated, or stolen, would I really be calling myself a sleezebag when I call them that?

Okay, I'll wade in more deeply, and ask you just to consider in a wider sense. Play with it.

The "I" that you use in your rebuttal is the dream-figure-I. You know, when you have a dream you appear as a character in that dream, but that character isn't really "you." The real you is really asleep and is the dreamer...the dreamer of every figure in your dream. In that dream there convincingly appear others, beautiful, ugly, helpful, menacing, or absolutely weird.

This is just an analogy, but how is our so-called waking life different? Because we have "proof"? Because other people also saw or experienced it? Don't we typically manufacture those in dreams, too? Why might there not be a meta-dreamer who is really us, concocting our scenarios, so in fact "we" are actually doing all of this to ourselves?

Why would we do something like that? Existential guilt combined with projection. We see others doing to us what we believe we have done to others in the past, either st some other time (even in another life) or in our imaginations (thought, then immediately pushed down into our subconscious). This is how karma works, I tend to think. The universe or god or gods don't punish; we do that to ourselves, and in such a blinding way that poor innocent we see it all being done to us. Just consider. I'm not making this up but summarizing from esoteric philosophy.

Don’t call ‘me names. Just repeat what Richard said. Then you’ve got the rat bastards by the balls.

(Well said Richard)

Stuck-up, half-witted scruffy-looking NERF HERDER!!!

A favorite on RfM: BIGOT

Heckuvajob, Brownie

My TBM sister is on a crusade to get me to stop swearing. But she says things like "Bugger!" all the time, or "It's buggered!," essentially meaning "It's fucked!" In American English, it's a tame word without much meaning, but refers, or course, to anal sex. I don't think she knows that. She'll also call (only Democratic) politicians things like, "A useless jerk-off." Again, I don't think she really knows what she's saying. Bugger is not used by Americans, so has no real value. She likely has no idea of the verb "to jerk off." I guess I'm just suggesting that if you adopt some colorful English phrases from outside North America, and unfamiliar to Americans, you're good to go, even inside a Mormon church. Or... Adopt some foreign words! Examples:

You could say, for instance, the Italian "Cazzo!" (pronounced "KAHT-so," and means "goddammit!," or "fuck!!"), or "ma che cazzo!?", for "what the holy fuck?!" (You can greatly soften "cazzo" by saying "cavolo," which is a euphemism and only means "cabbage.") Or call someone a "stronzo," which--although literally just meaning "turd"--is the Italian word that translates to "asshole." Say it when you're in bad traffic; it eases your mind. Or the somewhat lighter "porca miseria!" And don't forget that you can dress up any Italian cursing with references to the Holy Mother: "Porca Madonna!" "Che cazzo della Modonna!" (Like "Jesus fucking Christ."

Or... Go French Canadian, and yell out one of their weirdly religious curse words like, "Tabernak!" It just means "tabernacle," of course--referring to the tabernacle on the alter in mass; to the 'Cois it's strong profanity. Somehow. Or yell out, "Osti de tabernak de câlice!" All it means is like "host of the tabernacle chalice" (a reference again to the holy mass), but is the same as saying "Jesus fucking Christ!" The Quebecois are strange and wonderful people. I get the impression that they are all Catholic, but don't much like it.

German cursing also wouldn't sound like much. "Du SAU, du!" means "you sow, you!," but is used as "bitch." Calling someone a sow in public will get you arrested by the police for violating the German anti-insult ordinance. Or "Ach, du Scheisse!" (with a very hard "S"). It means "Oh, you shit!," but is used when you or someone else screws something up or cuts you off in traffic, things like that. "Scheisse" isa much softer word in Germany, believe it or not, than "shit" is to English. Small children say it. If you don't like it, replace it with the fun euphemism, "scheibenkleister!" I guess it's like replacing "shit" with "sugar," which some people do. Scheibenkleister only means something like "disc glue," which is stupid, but it's a fun word. "Scheibenkleister!" I love to say it. When I was a soccer referee in Germany, I'd tell the kids they had to say "Scheibenkleister" instead of shit during play, because the rules say that swearing is a carding offense.

The world is your oyster. I'm only trying to be helpful. I'm just waiting for the bathroom to free up, and have time on my hands.



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Perhaps I'd do it behind their back, but rarely. If I did decide to call a name, I wouldn't worry about swearing although it doesn't come naturally to me, but I am slightly better at it than I was years ago.

I wouldn't call them.

If you can't swear at 'em, F#*K them!


M@t

Gutter trash is a recent favorite of mine.

I like how The Grinch said it:

“He’s got garlic in his soul!”
And “A heart full of unwashed pots!”

I use "B-Hole".

If somebody asks for further light and knowledge (as in, "what's a 'B-Hole'"?) I answer that "It's similar in form and function to an A-Hole, but it's of a lesser grade."



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In the name of freedom, rebellion against authority, and defiance disorder, let's adopt booze, smoking, porn, and swearing/name-calling. Sounds rather... maybe "adolescent"?

"Vindictive, narcissistic, soul-sucking troglodite" is one I came up with. It's also one of my favorites.

"Fuckwit" wouldn't meet the OP's criteria - but it is a marvelous epithet, is it not?

Snowflake has begun to be used as a general insult.

I like "schweinhund", which means pig-dog in German. One of the worst things you can call someone.

Years ago I read a small book about swearing in Mexican Spanish. It said most Spanish vulgarities are very creative, with their literal meanings being clean. Like most language, it's all about implied meaning and context. So your cleaning lady could technically swear cleanly in Spanish.

It's funny, though, how we can get all bent out of shape by certain words but not their synonyms, which mean exactly the same thing. We label some words bad while their synonyms are acceptable in polite company. "That's a load of feces," or "Have intercourse with yourself, " or "You copulate with the woman who gave birth to you," are likely to get laughed at. If we really worried about the MEANING of words, then the synonyms would be bad, too.

All that said, I'm a fan of "pendejo."

Very creative with clean literal meanings....

No mas dos.

Literal: Only two.

Creative: Your wife is a whore and a lousy lay.

FARGING ICEHOLE!

I don't call people names. My mother and brother called me names, and I swore I would never do that. The habit is so ingrained, that I don't use it on my enemies, except to describe their behavior with one word: thief, liar, gossip, bully, crook, cheater, con-man, phony, abuser, pedophile, felon. I have to have absolute proof and/or personal experience of knowing these labels apply.

Done and Done has it down. It's all in the attitude. If you act condescending, that makes people even madder. Or, be silent, and let the angry person act like a fool. My daughter is an expert at the eye-roll. It speaks volumes! I use the type of response that Mother Who Knows uses, or I just walk away, because the offending person is not worthy of a response. The goal is to take away the offender's power.

It's a control thing, too. I won't allow horrible people to drive my behavior. Name-calling would be stooping to their level, and engaging in their game on their terms. That would be a sign of weakness. I choose to dis-engage and walk away.

Too many words to remember. I'll just stick with phauqur, It's more universal.