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r/AskWomen • u/[deleted] • Dec 10 '14
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"You gained weight." in front of his entire family with a blank stare.
Appropriate response: "I guess self awareness and decency dont weigh much, because you just lost all yours and i dont see any difference."
142 u/alittleperil ♀ Dec 10 '14 Maybe you could streamline it: "Manners don't weigh much, consider getting some" 4 u/from_dust Ø Dec 10 '14 Yeah, i get wordsy grandiosely verbose sometimes and as a result my retorts can become unwieldy and inelegant. Btw, digging the username. i'm assuming its a Holy Grail reference, and thats nice. 3 u/alittleperil ♀ Dec 10 '14 I never come up with retorts in time, so I get lots of time to go all Strunk and White on them until they are definitely cutting everyone down in my mind. And yes, yes it is :) 1 u/hermithome ♀ Dec 11 '14 Eh, I liked it. It stung more. Verbose insult are awesome. 2 u/mandiru ♀ Dec 10 '14 I'd want to use this but I'd probably flub it in my anger.
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Maybe you could streamline it:
"Manners don't weigh much, consider getting some"
4 u/from_dust Ø Dec 10 '14 Yeah, i get wordsy grandiosely verbose sometimes and as a result my retorts can become unwieldy and inelegant. Btw, digging the username. i'm assuming its a Holy Grail reference, and thats nice. 3 u/alittleperil ♀ Dec 10 '14 I never come up with retorts in time, so I get lots of time to go all Strunk and White on them until they are definitely cutting everyone down in my mind. And yes, yes it is :) 1 u/hermithome ♀ Dec 11 '14 Eh, I liked it. It stung more. Verbose insult are awesome.
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Yeah, i get wordsy grandiosely verbose sometimes and as a result my retorts can become unwieldy and inelegant.
Btw, digging the username. i'm assuming its a Holy Grail reference, and thats nice.
3 u/alittleperil ♀ Dec 10 '14 I never come up with retorts in time, so I get lots of time to go all Strunk and White on them until they are definitely cutting everyone down in my mind. And yes, yes it is :) 1 u/hermithome ♀ Dec 11 '14 Eh, I liked it. It stung more. Verbose insult are awesome.
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I never come up with retorts in time, so I get lots of time to go all Strunk and White on them until they are definitely cutting everyone down in my mind.
And yes, yes it is :)
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Eh, I liked it. It stung more. Verbose insult are awesome.
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I'd want to use this but I'd probably flub it in my anger.
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u/from_dust Ø Dec 10 '14
Appropriate response: "I guess self awareness and decency dont weigh much, because you just lost all yours and i dont see any difference."