Society & Culture When insults had class

[Cap]

my favorite orator WC

He is one of those orators of whom it was well said. Before they get up, the do not know what they are going to say;when they are speaking, they do not know what they are saying;and when they have sat down, they do not know what they have said
On Lord Charles Beresford

I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described as "The Boneless Wonder". My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralising and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see the The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.
On Ramsay MacDonald

my all time favorite

A modest man, who has much to be modest about
On Clement Atlee

 

[radiojake]

Or an Aussie accent TBH. I sometimes wish I had a rough Eastern European accent, so much easier to sound angry and insulting.

Though this guy sounds pretty good:

jeez - suprised that nut bag didn't start throwing punches

some people just take any excuse to got off the handle -

 

[The Speaker]

Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you are drunk, and what's more, you are disgustingly drunk."

Churchill: "Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what's more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly."

One of many Churchill quotes that probably didn't happen.

 

[BotsMaster]

Heard this the other day:
"I'll ****ing dog you c*nt"

 

[treefingers]

 

[rayven]

 

[Jackfrost]

Or an Aussie accent TBH. I sometimes wish I had a rough Eastern European accent, so much easier to sound angry and insulting.

Though this guy sounds pretty good:

Haha wow. No way I'd have held my composure like that, would have felt too threatened not to start punching and preempt his strike

 

[Gough]

I once called someone a waste of good white skin.*


*It was an old friend and I neither endorse it's sentiment and only recommend it's use in select company lest people get the wrong idea.

 

[BotsMaster]

Or an Aussie accent TBH. I sometimes wish I had a rough Eastern European accent, so much easier to sound angry and insulting.

Though this guy sounds pretty good:

 

[Upgrayedd]

Op is ghey

 

[mojito]

Op is ghey

You're ghey

 

[Upgrayedd]

You're ghey

...Damn

 

[DrKrieger]

You can't beat R Lee Ermey

 

[Catfish Alley]

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt"

-Abraham Lincoln/Mark Twain

 

[Colin D'Cops]

The Minister for Geelong had something to say a few years ago

 

[Lester Burnham]

I like Roy Keane’s comments to his manager Mick McCarthy during the 2002 World Cup

"You were a crap player, you are a crap manager. The only reason I have any dealings with you is that somehow you are manager of my country and you're not even Irish, you English ****. You can stick it up your bollocks."