32 Funny Old-Timey Insults That Will Leave Your Grandma Clutching Her Pearls
Despite the existence of fancy wine, expensive cheeses and White Lotus-era Walton Goggins, not everything gets better with age. This sentiment is best proven by the abysmal state of modern insults, which are often reduced to curse words like “bitch,” “asshole” and “douchebag.”
Our forefathers, however, weren’t afraid to get creative when it came to conjuring up burns that were somehow as unique as they were scalding. “I’d be surprised if you can count to 20 with your shoes on,” is one Redditor’s favorite diss, while another shared their elderly former colleague’s insult of choice: “You may be slow as hell, but at least everything you do is wrong.”
Other Redditors have also taken a page from their grandparents’ diss books and recalled their personal favorite insults, the most savage of which include razor-sharp jabs at looks, smarts and other folks’ mothers.
