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Thread #125174 Message #2769602
Posted By: MGM·Lion
19-Nov-09 - 11:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: Ridiculous terms of abuse
Subject: BS: Ridiculous terms of abuse
Having got into a somewhat silly spat with another Catter on another thread over nothing v much, the way we all do occasionally, & for which we have both since apologised, I so far forgot myself as to call him a 'pillock', largely because I thought he was being pompous so it was for the alliteration as much as anything else. Another poster took me to task for name-calling, which I admitted, though saying there are much worse names than that - quite a vanilla one, I thought it. But I offered, if it would make him happier, to emend it to "big girl's blouse", an euphemism for a foolish person which had some currency a few years back [did it go in the US also, or was it only over here?]
Looking back over my life, back to 1930s/40s, and remembering such denunciations of people's intelligence as 'twit', 'twerp', 'silly kipper' [a fave of my father's in my earliest childhood], it occurs to me that above-mentioned "big girl's blouse" must be the daftest of the lot.
Can anyone think of a sillier one?