Every moment I spend with you is better than the next.
You’re really at the top of the bell curve!
You represent the 5th percentile really well!
You are hard to underestimate.
Your ratio of words to significance is extremely high
Among everybody here, you have the most potential to learn something.
I’ve been told that a few times…
good luck out there my friend
“My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.”
-Malcom Reynolds, CAPT.
I like how you live your true self even when it’s not appropriate.
I’m confused, should I keep stripping, or…
What in interesting use of free will
I see you are not hindered by the restrictions of logic.
What you lack in evidence or convincing argument, you make up with conviction.
That’s the trick. End with the part that sounds nice
I don’t have one in English, but I have some in German for those who understand.
My Granddad had a female coworker that was higher in rank than him. He would always greet her with “Meine Allerwerteste”. It’s a word play because “Meine Werteste” is equivalent to a very formal version of “my dear”. “Aller” is a superlative form, so basically “My very dearest”. But “Mein Allerwertester” (so the male form of what he used) means “my ass”.
The other one is to use terminology like “Er versucht immer sein Bestes zu geben” (“He always tries to give his best”). In Austria, you are legally allowed to ask for a work testimony from your employer when you are looking for a new job. There is some legislation that prohibits negative speech in these work testimonies so that your employer cannot make you look bad in front of your potential new employer (which makes the whole concept pretty useless, but it is what it is). So to get around that, employers adopted a kind of “secret” code where e.g. “tries to” means “fails to”. So you can use the same kind of terminology to deliver something that sounds like a compliment, but for everyone in the know (which is most people by now) it’s clear that you deeply offended the person you are talking about.
A snarky one I heard from a woman to another.
“It’s amazing how you can pull off THAT outfit”
Implying poor taste in fashion. I do think delivery is important here.
I don’t have a lot of petty female friends but I’ve certainly encountered them and they are masters of the craft of two faced insults. Especially involving taste and habits.
My dim brother threw something similar at that me (he always wears whatever plaid is in fashion). I will admit my fashion is loud, but damn if I don’t look good. I cheat a little. I have a tailor who will take my cheap button downs and tailor them for 10 bucks so i always look sharp as fuck.
“I love how you are so confident with your body to eat that”.
No fat-shamming like girl fat-shamming.
I’ve on occasion realized like days later that I was being insulted cause my little monkey brain was just thinking.
"This cake is good. I don’t know what that has to do with my body confidence ".
Honestly I used to joke that negging doesn’t work on me. Not cause I’m so smart I see through it, but that I don’t realize some guy is trying to insult me until like the next day. Or sometimes never.
This one guy at a bar after telling him about my graphic novel collection
Him: “you arent that unique you know?”
Me: “yeah I know, Ive met people with similar interests online. There is a whole subreddit on the locke and key series, very popular”.
Him: states at me blankly as then i proceed to tell him more about the series he was obviously only half assed pretending to be interested in.
His loss. The locke and key series are fabulous.hold on you mentioned cake i forgot what else you said. where’d you get the good cake
Look up Shakespeare’s insults. They’re literally classic.
I must have used up all my luck before meeting you
