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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You absolute winner

You absolute king

You absolute beast

Im bad at this

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No you're not you absolute gummy bear

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

You guys are absolute stars!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Absolute winner and absolute beast are common compliments in my social group.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You absolute textbook.

Yeah, you.

[–] fin 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How dare you say that? you absolute toothpaste

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I think his name is based on "Harvey Dent", and not "dentistry" you absolute dolphin

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Thank... You...?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"You [...]" makes pretty much anything an insult.

A positive word implies sarcasm. "You genius". "You hero".

A random noun drags out the negative aspect of the noun or implies lack of a brain. "You french fry". "You paper bag".

Adding a random adjective just strengthens the statement. "You british bathroom sink". "You beautiful parking lot".

Of couse it depends on delivery, and using random words makes some strange insults, but I rarely see "you [...]" turn into a positive compliment.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

You Beautiful parking lot

This sounds like something Leslie Knope would call Ann Perkins.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I'll take "beautiful parking lot" as a compliment and there is nothing you can do about it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

“You genius” sounds like a compliment to me. A “funny” compliment. Would it be taken as sarcasm in the US? It really depends the tone I guess but in Australian english I wouldnt interpret it as sarcasm.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Context and tone matters.

"Hey, I figured out a way to cut our EC2 needs and scaled down, saving us a ton of money." "You genius!"

vs.

"Ummm.... I accidentally left half a dozen m8g.16xlarge nodes running... for the last four months." "You... fucking genius."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think that changing it to something gramatically correct would make it into a compliment. "You are a genius" would make it positively charged. However, I would expect "you genius" to be something that, for instance, someone would exclaim when someone cuts their hand when trying to open an avocado. Meanwhile I think it would be strange to exclaim "you genius" when someone solves a partial differential equation. But it probably does rely on the tone.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Only a Sith deals in absolutes

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

[–] eth0slash0 14 points 1 month ago

You absolute sith.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Weird how one of the strongest Jedi in history "just didn't notice a Sith Lord corrupting the whole fuckin Galactic Senate"

"He trained Like though?"

Yeah, just like Palpatine wanted, so he could get a newer, younger model.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Get out of here, you absolute integer.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What a non-negative thing to say.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's only natural to say it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Hey, get real

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

task failed successfully, you absolute unit.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Absolute unit.

Whoops, I broke it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Equally if you write the word "totally" in front of any noun it means drunk.

"I'm totally suitcased"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

That's not a noun, is it.

Could be a system daemon process though.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You absolute strawberry plant

You absolute fishtank

You absolute houseplant

Yeah, this checks out

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Close!

This has been a Brit thing for a decade or so, particularly Scots and Northern English. The idea is to use a noun that could already be a slightly insulting word to start with, like 'potato' in the example

You absolute donkey

You absolute cabbage

You absolute bin-bag

You absolute Belgian

Etc etc

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On a similar note, with an "absolutely" and a word ending in "ed", you get words which mean "very inebriated/stoned"

Common

  • absolutely battered
  • absolutely blathered
  • absolutely pissed
  • absolutely wankered
  • absolutely trolleyed
  • absolutely shitfaced
  • absolutely twatted

Less common

  • absolutely potatoed
  • absolutely cultured
  • absolutely traffic coned
  • absolutely fishcaked
  • absolutely Belgianed
  • absolutely bin-bagged
  • absolutely cabbaged
  • absolutely Tobleroned
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

"absolutely" in this context can be replaced by "pure" if you're a weegie

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Almost any adjective works. It's the 'you' part that implies ire and intended denigration.

You incredible sock! You blind carrot! You empty bottle! You missing tooth! You complete thumb! You glazed pie! You stewed milk! You wet sandwich! You frosted toenail! You waxy discharge! You nauseous chifferobe!

Okay maybe not every one of them works but I think most of the time you can just put on a bad attitude and attach a adjective to an object to create some rare insults.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I think it works best with an adjective that has 3+ syllables. E.g. You incorrigible turnip You reprehensible teapot You abominable spoon You acephalous sandwich

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

You absolute value

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You shouldn't have given me this new power you absolute pork tenderloin!

I love it! Lol

[–] logos 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Foods definitely work best, you absolute Dorito.

[–] Mouselemming 3 points 1 month ago

Don't be so sure about that, you absolute budgerigar.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I've watched all of the Gordon Ramsey Kitchen Nightmares series and it's full of these, except it's usually fuckin' instead of absolute.

My favorite is when after having lunch he went back to the kitchen to find they were just microwaving everything. The exchange went something like this:

"Did I have anything for lunch that wasn't microwaved?"

"your salad"

"Of course you don't microwave a salad you fuckin' donut"

Edit

Found the clip at 1:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so5eX9q3k9A

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It's a very British thing. Like adding "ed" to anything to mean very drunk. Hammered, trollied, steamed, cunted etc.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

you absolut vodka

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

You absolute absolute

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

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[–] PennyRoyal 6 points 1 month ago

And add absolutely to the front of almost anything to describe how pissed you were. I was absolutely trousered/shedded/etc

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

You absolute noun

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Too much absolutism in this thread.

[–] babybus 3 points 1 month ago

Good, good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

You absolute water bottle

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Common insult in germany for people being too stereotypically german. Used it on multiple occasions :D

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