As amarone pointed out, though, most Brits are unaware that there even was such a war. All most Americans know about it is that we won and that Dolly Madison got all of the ice cream out of the White House just before the British arrived³. To them it was on par with the invasion of the Dominican Republic. Some pipsqueak declared war, and Great Britain bloodied the pipsqueak’s nose and everything went back to normal. A minor distraction to the Napoleonic Wars.
³ Neither of these facts is true.
Hmmm, I’m sure I’ve heard this one before… http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5998527&postcount=22
What about “bugger” (as in “bugger off,” or “bugger that” or “buggery”?) Is that still considered obscene/vulgar these days? Is calling somebody a bugger as bad as using it as a verb?
Wasn’t expecting that one. 
I have some british players in my guild in WoW. Tonight I will insult them with:
"QQ, Learn2Play Knobcheese! ~La. "
‘Bugger off’ is on a similar level to ‘piss off’. The usage as a verb is verging on obsolescence.
Oh I dunno. “You’ve buggered that up” is still common as far as I’m aware. However, that might be due to my incompetence.
A Brit guy I know once had a big hissy fit when someone called him “aussie”.
OK, the original verb, not the general insult as a verb!
“Bugger” is still used as a verb in Australia and NZ, although generally not relating to anal sex- it’s more commonly used to mean something’s broken, wrecked, or generally stuffed- for example “Well, the engine’s buggered”, or “You’re not going to bugger it up, are you?” (in reference to tinkering with something), plus expressions like “Bugger that!” (Not a chance/not interested/no way/too hard), and, of course, as a general expletive, “Bugger!”
For maximum effect, it needs to be said in a calm, matter of fact voice after something has gone spectacularly wrong.
Sensitive much?! This is a humorous thread in IMHO. Try being more sensitive to context than to imagined slights. I used to live in Crawley and lots of the people I knew from the sports club I was a member of were from Brixton, Norwood, Peckham, etc. Some were even black. Chill!
Oddly, I never thought to suggest “smeghead” as an insult. I’ve been using it as a name for so long that I often forget its other meanings.
Isn’t “berk” current? (Rhyming slang, from “Berkshire Hunt”. I originally thought it was “Burke”, as in Burke and Hare.)
“Well, who won the bloody Revolutionary war, then?”
You do realise no one in the UK gives a rat’s arse about the Revolutionary War, right? The fact people in the US keep harping on about it nearly 250 years later only serves as a source of amusement and minor irritation…
Similar arguments about bailing them out of WWII are also going to be laughed at (see the “WWII What Ifs” thread for more on that)…
Which revolutionary war, mate?
I’m a sarf Londoner and I’ve never heard that one!
A word of warning: some insults vary, depending on region. ‘Twat’ is mild in London and the south but in the north it’s very obscene. On a par with ‘cunt’.
So, would one call someone a “fucking chav tosser/wanker,” or “fucking tosser/wanger chav”? To my ears, the first sounds more plausable.
I wish “daft bint” would catch on in the US, I know a lot of chicks to whom it would apply 
The first. Tosser and wanker are both nouns, chav can be a noun and an adjective.