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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Well, it's no secret how I feel about surgeons. I hate them. I'd liken them to rocks, but that would be an [[Trope Namer|insult to rocks]] because, you see, at least rocks are useful to society. We build bridges with them. [[Refuge in Audacity|We stone surgeons with them.]]"''|'''Dr. Cox'''
Alice says Bob is dumb as rocks, then takes it back, claiming it is insulting to rocks to compare them to Bob.
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See also [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]. Compare [[Insult Friendly Fire]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* During ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'''s Duelist Kingdom arc (English dub), Yugi faces off against <s> [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|a gay clown]]</s> Kaiba's evil side, brought back from the Shadow Realm by Pegasus. When the doppelganger reveals its true form, Yugi remarks, "You know, I'm not quite sure what to call you. I was thinking about '[[You Monster!|monster]]'... but I wouldn't want to insult the cards."
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* Played For Drama in ''[[Naruto]]'': Obito/Kakashi's [[Badass Creed|motto]] is "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are trash, that's true, but those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash."
* Shizuo from ''[[Durarara!!]]'' does not like it when people positively compare him to Kasuka - As far as he's concerned it's much too insulting to his little brother [[Heroic Self-Deprecation|to be put on the same level as him.]]
== Comic Books ==
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{{quote|"We often say "Man is a wolf to man". But saying this is bad for the wolves. Instead, we should say "Man is a man to man". But it would be bad for men."}}
* ''[[Enemy Ace]] War in Heaven'':
{{quote|'''[[Those Wacky Nazis|Oberst Lieutenant Engels]]''': If it became known that you compared [[Adolf Hitler]] to an ''ape''-
'''Hans von Hammer''': No chimpanzee would ever speak to me again, I know. }}
* In ''[[The Beano]]'' strip Crazy for Daisy, Daisy compares Ernest, the guy who just won't leave her alone, to a warthog. After this, she's incredibly shocked at herself for being so insensitive and immediately apologises...to any warthogs who happen to be reading.
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'''slot machine''': {{smallcaps|Now, see here, sir! I'm programmed to interact with guests to maximize--}}
'''Zodon''': Shut up. }}
== Film ==
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* A version appears in ''[[The Abyss]]'' "You're going to give that rat a disease".
== [[Jokes]] ==
* An old political joke, typically set in the Alberta or Montana backwoods with the politicians' names varying by era and location. If the joke were as old as [[The Roman Empire]], the original would likely be "A city slicker walks into a bar on a distant chariot trail, loudly proclaiming 'Brutus is a horse's arse!' There's immediately a big fight and he is violently thrown out of the inn. He staggers back in and loudly proclaims 'Caesar is a horse's arse!' There's immediately an even bigger fight and he is thrown out again. He crawls back in almost near death, asking 'if this isn't Brutus country and it isn't Caesar country, then whose country exactly is this?' The immediate response: 'It's horse country!'"
== Literature ==
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** One book remarks that Ankh-Morpork is known as the Big Wahoonie, the wahoonie being a large foul-smelling root vegetable, then adds that even the wahoonie doesn't smell as bad as [[Wretched Hive|Ankh-Morpork]] on a hot summer's day.
** In ''The Art of Discworld'', [[Terry Pratchett]] says that one of the inspirations for Greebo was his own Russian Blue, who has the intelligence of a rubber band "and at that I'll probably be accused of being offensive to stationery equipment".
* In the [[Gentleman Bastard Sequence]] Sequence, the author claims that to refer to a certain pimp known as "Rude Trevor" as an "intemperate murderous lunatic" would "hurt the feelings of most intemperate murderous lunatics".
* From ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Star Wars: Crosscurrent]]'': [[Loveable Rogue]] Khedryn Faal makes a rude comment about enemy smuggler Earsh's ship, prompting this exchange:
{{quote|'''Earsh''': You calling my ship trash, Faal?
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* ''[[Papillon]]'' features an inmate who says to a guard: "I would spit on you, but my spit would just get dirty."
▲== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' Artillery Arthur says calling an employee's report crap was an insult to crap.
* In the ''[[Firefly]]'' episode "Shindig"
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== Music ==
* Dave Bartholomew's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kda8G5xg44s "The Monkey Speaks His Mind"]. In the song, three monkeys claim that the idea that man evolved from primates is an insult to monkeys.
== New Media ==
* From [[Riff Trax]] ''[[Fantastic Four (film)|Fantastic Four]]'':
{{quote|'''Mike Nelson''': [[Danny
'''Kevin Murphy''': Mike, that's a horrible insult to the Thing! }}
* The [[News Biscuit]] article "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130730201304/http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/09/13/underworld-does-not-want-blairs-book-in-crime-section/ Underworld does not want Blair's book in crime section]" responds to an Internet campaign to move Tony Blair's memoirs to the 'crime' section of bookshops by suggesting the criminal underworld is "unhappy at being associated with Mr Blair as it makes them feel 'dirty'".
== Print Media ==
* [http://www.cartoonstock.com/cartoonview.asp?catref=cgon134 This cartoon]. It refers to an incident where Ken Livingstone compared an [[British Newspapers|Evening Standard]] journalist he was exasperated with to a concentration camp guard.
== Reviews/Critics ==
* Jason Sartin's review of the tabletop RPG ''[[FATAL|F.A.T.A.L.]]'' notes that "saying that this game [[Kill It with Fire|should be burned]] is an ''insult to fire''." Later, he says that "giving FATAL a 1/1 Style/Substance rating was an insult to almost every other product on RPGnet that ever got a 1/1."
** Along with his [
* Two recaps by [[The Agony Booth]] have done it so far.
** ''[[Batman and Robin (film)|Batman and Robin]]'': "[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Batman___Robin_1997.aspx I would say that the Batman movie franchise has been reduced to the level of the] [[Batman (TV series)|campy 60's Adam West TV series]], but that would be an insult to Adam West."
** ''[[Battlefield Earth (film)|Battlefield Earth]]'': "[[Dutch Angle|Every shot is tilted at a different angle.]] [http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Battlefield_Earth_2000.aspx I'd call this 'jarring', but I'd worry about offending jars.]"
* Speaking of ''Battlefield Earth'', J.D. Shapiro, one of the credited screenwriters (he wrote the first draft, and was fired due to [[Executive Meddling]]), started an [https://web.archive.org/web/20100331182718/http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/penned_the_suckiest_movie_ever_sorry_MdXedZpTMWJmfpw80Xc7aO/0 apology letter] on the movie with this:
{{quote|" Let me start by apologizing to anyone who went to see "Battlefield Earth." It wasn't as I intended -- promise. No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn't really fair to train wrecks, because [[Bile Fascination|people actually want to watch those]]."}}
* [[Roger Ebert]]'s review for Tom Green's ''[[Freddy Got Fingered]]'' is as follows:
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** And ''[[The Spirit (film)|The Spirit]]'': "To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material."
** And, of course, ''[[The Village]]'': "Eventually the secret of Those, etc., is revealed. To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes."
** Additionally, discussing ''[[Ishtar]]'' on their Worst of 87 special, Gene Siskel said, "I just saw ''[[Road
** Of ''Battle: Los Angeles'', he said: "Here's a science-fiction film that's an insult to the words "science" and "fiction," and the hyphen in between them."
* His former workmate Richard Roeper, listing ''[[Jonah Hex (film)|Jonah Hex]]'' among [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgDI-2wd0hk the worst of 2010]:
{{quote|[[Megan Fox]] is truly the [[Raquel Welch]] of our generation. And maybe that's an insult to Raquel Welch.}}
* One RPGamer [https://web.archive.org/web/20141116150028/http://www.rpgamer.com/games/other/psx/hoshigami/reviews/hoshigamirdrev1.html review] had much to say about ''[[Hoshigami]]'''s lack of sound quality (among other things):
{{quote|''"The sound quality is the crappiest this side of the original NES and the compositions are so dull, so bland, so sickening, that you'll think it was composed by an ape! I apologize; I meant no disrespect to the ape community."''}}
* [
* "Calling [[Seltzer and Friedberg|Friedberg and Seltzer]] untalented hacks is an insult to REAL untalented hacks like [[Uwe Boll]], [[Michael Bay]], [[Roland Emmerich]], and [[Eli Roth]]." -- '''[http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=33285 Squid Vicious]''', Joblo.com
* [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] did a crossover review with the Last Angry Geek of ''[[Spider-Man]]: [[One Moment in Time]].'' Said comic was supposed to be an explanation of the whole mess that ''[[One More Day]]'' ended up creating, but only ended up making it worse. Linkara once again [[
** On the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130814205104/http://thecinemasnob.com/2011/06/27/suburban-knights-part-1.aspx Cinema Snob webpage comments] on ''Suburban Knights'', in response to a troll:
{{quote|'''Adam''': So your method to criticise something you'll never watch is to swear about the people involved? That's not a critical opinion, that's throwing a tantrum for attention. Congrats, you're equal to my 4 year-old cousin.
'''Linkara''': Now that, sir, is simply unfair. 4 year-olds don't know any better. }}
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** And in reviewing the fundamentalist propaganda film "Rock: It's Your Decision", he says that calling the Captain and Tennille "sin" is a sin against the word "sin".
* [[Obscurus Lupa]], on ''[[The Room]]'': "I'd go as far as saying ''[[The Room]]'' is this generation's ''[[Troll 2]]'', but I'd be afraid of insulting ''Troll 2''."
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20130521211005/http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/comments/savage_moon_by_cassie_edwards/ SB Sarah's savage review] of Cassie Edwards's ''Savage Moon'', she comments: "I might have to [[Broke the Rating Scale|modify our grading schedule and give it a Z]] except that the poor letter Z did nothing to deserve being permanently stuck on a Cassie Edwards novel."
* Did you call "Shades of Gray", the poorly received [[Clip Show]] [[Season Finale]] of the second season of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', a "piece of shit"? In "[http://www.cracked.com/article_23554_7-humiliating-changes-hit-shows-made-when-they-went-broke.html 7 Insane Things TV Shows Did When They Ran Out Of Money]", JM McNab of ''[[Cracked.com]]'' calls that "an insult to the integrity and efficiency of our body's waste management system."
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* In [[fault|fault milestone one]], Ritona and Selphine are appalled by Rune's treatment in the Zhevitz company, but Rudo, the interim CEO, insists that:
{{quote|'''Rudo:''' Sara is not a slave. There's more purpose and worth to being a slave.''}}
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! DUEL LINKS]]'', if Joey duels [[The Rival|Bandit Keith]], Joey says, "I'd call ya a dirty rat, but I don't wanna insult da rats!"
== Web Comics ==
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* In ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'', Millie comments that the school's pit orchestra isn't good enough to deserve the word "pit".
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' once mentioned that "[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-12-17 Most politicians are uncomfortable being compared to tumors. The tumors, however, are getting the short end of the stick]".
* ''[[User Friendly]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20190504073133/http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20051209 reminds us] that sometimes you end up with [[Men at Arms|rocks... an'... other sort of rocks]].
== Web Original ==
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** Out-of-character, he looks at the propaganda film ''Rock: It's Your Decision!'' where the protagonist lists off "sinful" bands, including The Captain and Tenille.
{{quote|Calling Captain and Tenille a sin, is an insult to the word sin.}}
* Mencius Moldbug's "[http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/08/whats-wrong-with-cs-research.html What's wrong with CS research]" <ref>his answer boils down to "most of it is an overlong, taxpayer-sponsored LARP of [[Gulliver's Travels|Laputa]], and the few useful things are buried under mountains of this trash"</ref>, in one example:
{{quote|This entire problem space comes down to a single error in the metamathematical approach to computing, which is that the 1930s metamathematicians were fascinated by the fact that they could represent any data structure as a function. While this is true, to describe it as perverse is an insult to perverts.}}
== Western Animation ==
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'''Butthead:''' Uhhh, yeah. It should be out in the dumpster.
'''Beavis:''' No way, Butthead. There's cool stuff in the dumpster. You wouldn't want to mess it up with this crap. }}
== Real Life ==
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* British MEP Nigel Farage was ordered to apologise after comparing the President of the European Council to a low-grade bank clerk. His response was to issue an apology to bank clerks.
* One of the very few apologies given by [[Donald Trump]] during his presidential campaign was for referring to Sen. Elizabeth Warren as "Pocahontas", a jab at Warren's fraudulent claim of being Native American. After the statement was deemed offensive, Trump eventually apologized to Pocahontas, who had been dead for just shy of 400 year dead.
* One of ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s "[http://www.cracked.com/article_25068_6-hidden-biases-in-everyday-words-you-never-noticed-before.html 6 Hidden Biases In Everyday Words (You Never Noticed Before)]" is that "childish" is an insult. (See for example [[Man Child]].) It cites a letter by two child psychologists to ''The New York Times'' arguing that calling the [[Donald Trump|impulsive 45th President of the United States]] a "child" is an insult to children.
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