‘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?
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“You look gay”. You mean I look clean, well-dressed, not smelly, and sensitive? Well, thank you.
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.
Wanker.
Anyone in this thread who’s not?
A woman or two perchance?
Is wanking a gendered activity, though?
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?
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.
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.
Bless your heart
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.
Because humans are awful, mouth breather probably comes from Down syndrome and the associated physical traits of a proportionally large tongue and narrow mouth.
That feels like a bit of a jump. I’ve associated “mouth breather” with insults like “slack jawed yokel” or even just “dumb face”. It’s someone who generally looks like they’re not comprehending what’s going on around them and not smart.
What source do you have that links it to down syndrome? When people are dumbfounded, they often open their mouth. One of the definitions of “Slack Jawed” is: lacking intelligence or sophistication.
Also, mouth breathing can impact the development of ones face, where you have less muscle tone and a more elongated face. These traits are sometimes associated with someone with less intelligence. Nowhere do I see anything about the term referencing/originating from Down Syndrome.
Luddite. Maybe today more than ever, we should all be somewhat luddite-y
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.
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?
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.
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.
/me cries in chronic allergies that keep my nose at like 60% capacity all year long
It’s not the insult, it’s who says it. If a MAGAt called me a great guy for example, I’d feel offended.
cocksucker
yeah, cocksuckers are awesome.
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
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.
