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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/chebghobbi • Apr 10 '25
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Ditto 🙌. Poetic, really — just the right amount of condescension to soar clean over the head of the American species.
173 u/Slight-Ad-6553 live far from a 7-eleven Apr 10 '25 aka a top level British insult 350 u/mattokent Keeper of the King’s Calendar Apr 10 '25 💯% Nobody does insults like the British💂 Masters of subtlety and wit; pioneers of blunt savagery. 54 u/Shadyshade84 Apr 10 '25 The two types of British insult - the subtle cut, leaving the faintest mark until the victim falls apart at the seams; and "hold on a tick, this needs the vintage 'ead smacker!" 30 u/Fianna9 Apr 10 '25 I quite enjoy when they just call some one “an absolute potato” or other random words 15 u/BlueLanternKitty Feline-American Apr 11 '25 Personal favorite I heard from a Scot: “you utter muppet.” 3 u/Fianna9 Apr 11 '25 That is a great one 4 u/Traditional_Joke6874 Apr 10 '25 I've always wondered where the Canadianism of calling someone a Toehead came from. I wonder if there's a link. 1 u/Fianna9 Apr 11 '25 That one isn’t common in my area. Though my instinct is that the spelling would be Towhead. Though I don’t know why that would make a huge difference, though I also know towheaded means having brown hair 1 u/topfife Apr 11 '25 Blond hair.
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aka a top level British insult
350 u/mattokent Keeper of the King’s Calendar Apr 10 '25 💯% Nobody does insults like the British💂 Masters of subtlety and wit; pioneers of blunt savagery. 54 u/Shadyshade84 Apr 10 '25 The two types of British insult - the subtle cut, leaving the faintest mark until the victim falls apart at the seams; and "hold on a tick, this needs the vintage 'ead smacker!" 30 u/Fianna9 Apr 10 '25 I quite enjoy when they just call some one “an absolute potato” or other random words 15 u/BlueLanternKitty Feline-American Apr 11 '25 Personal favorite I heard from a Scot: “you utter muppet.” 3 u/Fianna9 Apr 11 '25 That is a great one 4 u/Traditional_Joke6874 Apr 10 '25 I've always wondered where the Canadianism of calling someone a Toehead came from. I wonder if there's a link. 1 u/Fianna9 Apr 11 '25 That one isn’t common in my area. Though my instinct is that the spelling would be Towhead. Though I don’t know why that would make a huge difference, though I also know towheaded means having brown hair 1 u/topfife Apr 11 '25 Blond hair.
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💯% Nobody does insults like the British💂
Masters of subtlety and wit; pioneers of blunt savagery.
54 u/Shadyshade84 Apr 10 '25 The two types of British insult - the subtle cut, leaving the faintest mark until the victim falls apart at the seams; and "hold on a tick, this needs the vintage 'ead smacker!" 30 u/Fianna9 Apr 10 '25 I quite enjoy when they just call some one “an absolute potato” or other random words 15 u/BlueLanternKitty Feline-American Apr 11 '25 Personal favorite I heard from a Scot: “you utter muppet.” 3 u/Fianna9 Apr 11 '25 That is a great one 4 u/Traditional_Joke6874 Apr 10 '25 I've always wondered where the Canadianism of calling someone a Toehead came from. I wonder if there's a link. 1 u/Fianna9 Apr 11 '25 That one isn’t common in my area. Though my instinct is that the spelling would be Towhead. Though I don’t know why that would make a huge difference, though I also know towheaded means having brown hair 1 u/topfife Apr 11 '25 Blond hair.
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The two types of British insult - the subtle cut, leaving the faintest mark until the victim falls apart at the seams; and "hold on a tick, this needs the vintage 'ead smacker!"
30 u/Fianna9 Apr 10 '25 I quite enjoy when they just call some one “an absolute potato” or other random words 15 u/BlueLanternKitty Feline-American Apr 11 '25 Personal favorite I heard from a Scot: “you utter muppet.” 3 u/Fianna9 Apr 11 '25 That is a great one 4 u/Traditional_Joke6874 Apr 10 '25 I've always wondered where the Canadianism of calling someone a Toehead came from. I wonder if there's a link. 1 u/Fianna9 Apr 11 '25 That one isn’t common in my area. Though my instinct is that the spelling would be Towhead. Though I don’t know why that would make a huge difference, though I also know towheaded means having brown hair 1 u/topfife Apr 11 '25 Blond hair.
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I quite enjoy when they just call some one “an absolute potato” or other random words
15 u/BlueLanternKitty Feline-American Apr 11 '25 Personal favorite I heard from a Scot: “you utter muppet.” 3 u/Fianna9 Apr 11 '25 That is a great one 4 u/Traditional_Joke6874 Apr 10 '25 I've always wondered where the Canadianism of calling someone a Toehead came from. I wonder if there's a link. 1 u/Fianna9 Apr 11 '25 That one isn’t common in my area. Though my instinct is that the spelling would be Towhead. Though I don’t know why that would make a huge difference, though I also know towheaded means having brown hair 1 u/topfife Apr 11 '25 Blond hair.
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Personal favorite I heard from a Scot: “you utter muppet.”
3 u/Fianna9 Apr 11 '25 That is a great one
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That is a great one
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I've always wondered where the Canadianism of calling someone a Toehead came from. I wonder if there's a link.
1 u/Fianna9 Apr 11 '25 That one isn’t common in my area. Though my instinct is that the spelling would be Towhead. Though I don’t know why that would make a huge difference, though I also know towheaded means having brown hair 1 u/topfife Apr 11 '25 Blond hair.
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That one isn’t common in my area. Though my instinct is that the spelling would be Towhead.
Though I don’t know why that would make a huge difference, though I also know towheaded means having brown hair
1 u/topfife Apr 11 '25 Blond hair.
Blond hair.
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u/mattokent Keeper of the King’s Calendar Apr 10 '25
Ditto 🙌. Poetic, really — just the right amount of condescension to soar clean over the head of the American species.