‘Mouth Breather’
Like yeah I don’t get this one. We all breathe through our mouths (and noses), because we have to. Yet I read this sometimes as it is used like an insult. So what are you saying? You’re insulting someone for doing what billions of other human beings have to do naturally?
I adopted the term “Day walkers” to refer to people who walk too slow, take up too much space, or are otherwise unaware in walking areas.
An example would be a group walking in one direction side by side taking the whole path width. Another would be people standing at the top or bottom of an escalator.
I think it’s nonsense to anyone who isn’t in the know but easily figured out.
“Bless your heart.”
Means they think you’re naive.
Then of course all the sarcastic ones like “Smooth move, Ex-lax,” “Way to go, Einstein,” and “No shit, Sherlock.”
“You’re at the top of the bell curve”
“You look gay”. You mean I look clean, well-dressed, not smelly, and sensitive? Well, thank you.
Wanker.
Anyone in this thread who’s not?
A woman or two perchance?
Is wanking a gendered activity, though?
Interesting question. In our apparent societal quest to remove as many differences between the two traditional genders (yes, there are more than two, but that’s a whole other conversation that’s been covered at length and in-depth elsewhere), we seem very keen to push the idea that attitudes and physiology in terms of masterbation for men and women are mostly the same.
It feels like we’ve conflated equality with similarity, to such an extent that to suggest differencees between the most prominent genders implies superiority/inferiority of one group over another.
I’d argue that the trope of the teenage boy who’s coming of age, suddenly obsessed with sex, who discovers masterbation and does it several times a day - to the extent that it’s viewed in a slightly comedic/immature yet relatable fashion by fully grown men, is mostly accurate. Hence being a wanker is a fairly easy insult to throw - the implication being that the man being insulted is immature and sexually frustrated.
I don’t think that lands the same to teenage girls in terms of the weight of the insult. Girls don’t generally, to my knowledge (3 sisters, multiple female friends, 2 marriages) reference each other’s elevated teenage sex drives when insulating each other.
Away from the internet, there are obviously physical differences and less well understood hormonal and psychology elements at play that affect the frequency, intensity and arguably the nature of arousal in men and women. There are outliers and yes, to some extent we’re all similar… But those differences needn’t be dismissed in a well meaning but, to my mind, over-simplistic take like ‘both men and women can be wankers’.
Yes I’d agree, that’s objectively true, but the very act of pointing that out as some some sort of self-evident fact, shows that there has been a belief to the contrary in the past that’s worth exploring. It may very well be rooted in historical sexism or ignorance, but my point is that we have a tendency to short-circuit the discussion with convenient and acceptable statements, rather than exploring, acknowledging and possibly celebrating our differences.
I dunno honestly. Is it considered wanking if you do it to somebody else? Or is it only considered wanking if done to yourself thus eliminating women and anybody withput a penis?
I think the imputation is that masturbation isn’t gendered
Imputation? Masturbation is not gendered hut is wanking masturbation or is wanking masturbation requiring a penis?
Wanking, “fapping” and “jerking off” are all specific to penises, yeah. But now people use them for female anatomy too because they’re too lazy to find the specific words and are too used to using the ones for men.
Wanking… just one of many male dominated professions
I always considered wanking to be synonymous with masturbation, penile or not.
Merriam Webster defines it as masturbation. Guess my assumption was wrong though. I don’t see it used much for women doing it though.
Anyway the point still stands there might be some asexuals or people without feeling any beed to wank so they don’t classify as wankers.
Most people use it to mean stroking a penis. The prior commenter is obviously using it to mean masturbate
A post menopausal one, definitely.
I think it’s the “look” on your face when breathing out of your mouth. Like you are dumb, or dim-witted.
One of my great uncles would call us kids numb skulls. I heard it as one word as a kid and it wasn’t till I got older did I realize what he was saying.
Maybe it’s due to growing up in the wild internet era, where making international friends was simpler than trying to befriend the other dolts in the cafeteria, but I’ve always chuckled at people using cunt as an insult. It’s such a gasp inducer among the older crowd, but even when I was just learning the word, it struck me as odd, and my thoughts were always in line with that one quote about pussies being able to take a pounding.
Much less common now but calling things gay. I find it fascinating watching early 2010’s video and hearing people call things gay, I even remember doing it myself lol.
My trans niece doesn’t get the joke when I (correctly but excessively) call random shit she does gay (like not in an insulted way, mostly just confused). She’ll be like “my girlfriend is so pretty” and I’m just immediately like “gay.” Your girlfriend made you pancakes? GAY. Cuddling with her? SO. gay. Long walks in the park? Extra gay. I picked that joke up in 2016 and I’m not letting go any time soon.
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So! There’s a place in Philly called the Mutter Museum. Filled with all manner of human specimens of various ailments.
Absolutely fascinating. Like $20 admission. 100% worth it.
A couple of the pieces on display are the skulls and jaws of mouth breathers. I don’t know if they had an issue that required surgery that wasn’t available in the 1800’s, or if it was just bad habits, but.
Literally changes the shape of your bones. And therefore your face.
Fucking wild.
Mega colon
Been there several times. Incredible place even though all the giggling at medical oddities annoys me.
When I was in primary school approximately in the early Devonian period, it was considered the height of cutting wit to insult somebody by calling them “gay.”
In the intervening decades throughout which society has somehow (possibly briefly, current events taken into consideration) become a bit more tolerant, nowadays it seems you have about a one in six chance of whoever you just called gay responding with, “Okay, and?”
Years ago I had a gay male friend who got drunk and decided to hook up with a girl to see what it was like. I (also drunk and being a twat) was trying to cockblock him by telling the girl he was gay.
No matter what I said, she thought I was just slinging witty banter. “haha gay”. “No you don’t understand, he is a 100% homosexual man!!!” My buddy found the interaction pretty hilarious.
Is the Devonian period what we call the time during which the band Devo was active?
cocksucker
yeah, cocksuckers are awesome.
I love their work. No one shouts “hey, you fuckin’ Scorsese!” at cab drivers and then goes to a movie later the same day saying “God, I wish someone would shoot me like Gangs of New York” while they jerk off.
Approx half the population has clocks. The other half likes sucking cock.
Seems like a win win?
There’s a decent amount of overlap in those populations.
Given the ubiquity of phones and watches, I’d say close to 100% of the population has clocks
Yes but we breath mainly with the nose; breathing with the mouth evokes the image of slack-jawed awe, or the long pause that takes the recipient to elaborate a simple concept.
/me cries in chronic allergies that keep my nose at like 60% capacity all year long
Next time you’re in a waiting room or somewhere a bunch of people are just sitting around trying not to bother each other have a look around and see how many people are sitting there actively not closing their mouths to breathe, its going to be zero. I dont mean they dont sigh or take the odd breath either. Then just imagine they are, its horrifying.
Luddite. Maybe today more than ever, we should all be somewhat luddite-y
Lots of ideologies can be used as an accusation depending on context.
I self identify as a luddite. I don’t fear progress, but I also do not trust that advances in technology will be used to make life better for any but the wealthiest.
The luddites were early union organizers among seamstresses and weavers.
You think it was people acting against progress because the winners of that conflict rewrote history.
That conflict has never ended and the owner class is still using the machines to squeeze every drop of production out of the workers while paying less for the work every year. It’s not rewritten history it’s ongoing propaganda, and you are arguing against a point I never made.
It’s not the insult, it’s who says it. If a MAGAt called me a great guy for example, I’d feel offended.
Bless your heart
That’s nice, dear…
