‘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?

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    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?”

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      6 hours ago

      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.