Non-vulgar interjections and insults that are worse than swearing.

My darling husband, for some reason, says, “mother puss-bucket” as a random interjection, usually in place of motherfucker. I absolutely can’t stand the image this puts in my mind—not the mother part, the puss-bucket part—and I tell him he should just say motherfucker instead, which is a fairly unevocative vulgarity, instead of . . . Oh, ick—I’m not typing it again.

I also find “dumb as a bag of hair” particularly gross and disturbing. I’m not quite sure why. Honestly, I’d rather someone call me a c*nt than a bag of hair, and I really hate the c-word.

Is there anything they could say on broadcast TV during primetime that bugs you more than the usual obscene words?

Mother Puss-bucket, for reference, originates as far as I can tell with Ghostbusters, from the lips of Peter Venkman.

Ah, so that’s where he got it! Thanks!

One that I just made up today, to describe a guy I work with:

“You big, nasty, candy-crunching, soda-slurping, talking-to-yourself goofball!”

Of course, I only think it, but it’s satisfying nonetheless…

A bucket full of cats?

Hmm. I went to look it up in the dictionary to get a smartass fancy definition, and discovered that pus only has one s. D’oh.

One more for the “List of Words I’ll Never Spell Wrong Again.”

paraphrased from Babylon 5

You have a well-earned and charming humility.

From somewhere else

You have delusions of adequacy.

My own

Your not the brightest bulb in the greenhouse.

Personally, I think it is much more insulting to call a woman a cow than to call her a bitch, but that might just be me.

Not just you. Probably because bitch often gets used for women who’re perceived as being aggressive/pushy/etc when they’re being assertive, plus a bunch of other things.

But there’s no way of slicing it for cows – they just stand there and moo at you.

‘Run along, the grown-ups are talking.’

I think we might have the same husband.
And I feel the same way. Ick! Just swear, goshdarnit!

“Scum-sucking guttersnipe!”

There’s a more obscene version of this, but since I don’t know how to do the whole Spolier-box thing, and I’m at work, I’m loathe to post it…
It rolls trippingly off the tongue, tho’.

“Ok, you’re speakering privallages have officially been revoked.” Then upon that person’s next attempt at saying anything: “What did I say about the talking? Yeah, no more of it.”
And then of course there’s always: “Every time your mouth opens, I die a little inside.” and: “shut you’re mouth and know you’re role.”

Ok, Daithi Lacha, I really want to hear the thing. What you do to quote is on the advanced reply page hit the little “talky blurb” on the toolbar, then enter the dirty stuff in the pop up.

Or do like this, only replace the “<” bits with “[” bits.
<QUOTE>this is the hidden bit</QUOTE>

Actually the code is [ spoiler]hidden text[ / spoiler](without the spaces), not “quote”.

OOOOH! :smack: My bad! It’s early. kinda. Is that an excuse?

And another classic: “Oh, I’m sorry, were you talking? Because all I heard was someone scraping their fingers against a chalk board.”

I always gross my husband out with this one, but there’s no way they’d say it on primetime:

Eat my menstrual chunks.

Yay! My first spoiler! Thank you, Homebrew.

Hmmm, I’m trying to think of a less gross one. Perhaps crusty butt-nugget? Then again, maybe not.

Dimwad

Lemme check the heel of your boot. (for piss-pouring instructions)

OK - check it out:

cum-guzzling gutter-slut

Little Bird & Homebrew, thanks for my cool new superpowers! :slight_smile: