Updated Jan 13, 2019; Posted May 08, 2014 Southern Insults Your Mama Taught You 5.8.2014 These light-hearted insults are written to be purposely less disrespectful but still humorous to say. As Lesley M. M. Blume observes in Let’s Bring Back: The Lost Language Edition, while clothing fashions have a way of cycling in and out of popularity, when the sun sets on popular slang, it tends to remain buried forever.This isn’t always a bad thing — no one is jonesing for “Tubular!” and “Groovy!” to resurrect from the 1980s and 60s, respectively. List of the Funniest 75 Insults Ever Last Updated: 8th July 2020. If you've ever gone home to visit your parents after a long absence and your mother says, "You must have ridden with the windows down," you know how to recognize a southern insult. Southerners don’t check for food in the “fridge”…they look in the “frigidaire.” 21. Southerners don’t call people “unintelligent”…they say “dumber than a sack of rocks.” 20. This and all future requests should be directed to this URI. Searching for funny insults? Read on for Bless Your Heart 101, a few variants, and their appropriate responses. … Join The Potluck for exclusive swag, behind-the-scenes content, discounts and more! In fact, they practically wrote the book, so you should study up too. When you’re exhausted in an I’m-so-beat-I-can’t-go-on kind of way, you’re definitely worn slap out. Nitwit: silly, or foolish, person—she’s such a nitwit . 13. It happens often during a Southern summer, when the heat rises and … 14. You can bet your Southern mamas, aunts, and grandmas are all well versed in the language of ‘bless your heart.' British Insults. Southerners aren’t “broke”…they’re “so broke they can’t afford to pay attention.” 19. “I hope your day is filled with people like you.” — Adamdidit. Southern insults: Did your mama really teach you to skirt the Golden Rule? Here are 13 thinly veiled southern insults: A note to readers: If you like what we do and want to help support It's a Southern Thing, please consider becoming a member. “I hope you lose weight so there’ll be less of you!” — bobapplemac. Southerners hear: "I hate your hair more than anything and am so thankful it's not mine." It is a physical and mental state a few degrees past weary and just this side of dog-tired. 12. It sounds sweet as pie, and sometimes is said affectionately about pitiable situations, but it’s often acid-tongued because you’re pitiful and did something you shouldn’t’ve but were too dumb to know better, which is why it’s a perfect saying to export from a region that has hung on for dear life to its manners because it has little … In the south, where people were raised to be polite, we don't come right out and say, "Your hair is a disaster." Support bacteria is the only culture some people have. I am jealous of those that have not met you. 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