Insult to Rocks: Difference between revisions

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Alice says Bob is dumb as rocks, then takes it back, claiming it is insulting to rocks to compare them to Bob.

 

See also [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]. Compare [[Insult Friendly Fire]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* The second ''[[Gundam|Gundam Evolve]]'' CG short ends with [[Zeta Gundam|Kamille Bidan]] writing an apology for destroying a camera during a field test of the Gundam Mk-II. The [[Wangst]]-filled "apology" includes this memorable line:

* In Encounter 142 of The ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' manga, the author explains that the underground base constantly expands with no plans or organization, and says that while he could say it looks like an ants nest, that he feels it's an insult to the ants.

* When [[Lucky Star|Konata]] compares her using homework as an excuse to go see Kagami to that of an animal following her around, Kagami tells her to apologize to the animal world. Konata asks if she's lower than a dog.

* In an alternate ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' tale, 'Shooting Star', [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/cowboy_bebop_shooting_star/v02/c000.1/14.html rich people are compared to pigs] (in their eating manners). Another member says they're insulting pigs, even including a line defending pigs manners. Another of the characters even states that she used to be like that

* 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."

 

== Comic Books ==

* A ''[[Donald Duck]]'' comic set in Donald's childhood has him wanting to call a classmate a rat, but he doesn't since that would be insulting to all the rats of the world. Given the [[Furry Confusion]], the insult may or may not be worse than it is in our world.

* "Le Chat", a belgian comic book written by Philippe Geluck:

* ''[[Enemy Ace]] War in Heaven'':

'''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.

 

== Film ==

* From ''[[Duck Soup]]'':

* From ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'':

'''Wanda''': "Oh, right! To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!" }}

* A version appears in ''[[The Abyss]]'' "You're going to give that rat a disease".

 

 

== Literature ==

* The [[Gordon Korman]] book ''The Chicken Doesn't Skate.'' "To call you a pig is an insult to pigs!"

* The anti-hero of the classic satire ''Augustus Carp, Esq. By Himself'' cries so much that he sprays his former boss with his tears, and then apologizes. ''To the tears.''

* From ''[[Redwall|Lord Brocktree]]'': [[Dreadful Musician|"To describe the young haremaid's singing voice as akin to a frog trapped beneath a hot stone would have been a great insult to both frog and stone."]]

** In another book, Nobby is described by saying that the only reason why you can't say that he's close to the animal kingdom is that the animal kingdom would get up and move away.

** 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".

* 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:

'''Khedryn''': Calling your ship trash would be an insult to trash. }}

* At one point in the ''[[Belisarius Series]]'', Irene got angry at Ousanas, calling him "a foul creature from a foul land. Now I know where [[Homer]] got the inspiration for the Cyclops." A moment later, she brightened up and apologized for slandering "the memory of an honorable monster of legend."

* In ''[[The Secret of Platform 13]],'' Nanny Brown agrees to go along with Larina's kidnapping plan in part because she knows that ''someone'' has to take care of the stolen baby:

* ''[[Papillon]]'' features an inmate who says to a guard: "I would spit on you, but my spit would just get dirty."

 

'''Captain Mal Reynolds''': And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community. }}

'''Eric:''' That it's insulting to the Devil? }}

'''Sam:''' Oops. Sorry, Clown. }}

* In ''[[Friends]]'' "The One Where Mr. Heckles Dies":

'''Chandler:''' Actually, I think this apartment sullies the good name of crap. }}

* During an episode of ''[[Cheap Seats]]'' dedicated to Roller Derby:

'''Randy:''' ...and the poor. }}

* ''[[True Blood]]'': Talbot insulting werewolves:

'''Talbot:''' "To boxes maybe. (Pause) Or rocks." }}

* ''[[The Daily Show]]'' once featured a segment where, trying to debate whether [[Fox News]] were stupid or evil, Wyatt Cenac (on Team Evil) noted that if they weren't evil they were as stupid as potatoes with mouths. Jon Oliver (on Team Stupid) helpfully pointed out that potatoes can still power a digital clock, and suggested rocks with mouths.

'''Ian:''' And to piers. I mean, Southend -- very nice. }}

* ''[[Psych]]'':

'''Shawn:''' Hardly. I'm just getting started, you giant cockroach. (beat) You know what, that was out of line. I apologize to cockroaches everywhere. }}

'''The Doctor:''' Am I? The children of MY civilization would be insulted. }}

* In ''[[The Suite Life On Deck]]'', Bailey compares talking to London to talking to a tractor. Zack promptly replies that it's an insult to tractors.

* In the ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode, "The Trouble With Tribbles", a drunk Klingon calls the Enterprise a garbage scow. When Scotty demands an explanation, the Klingon apologizes for his misstatement, saying, "I didn't mean to say that the Enterprise should be hauling garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away ''as'' garbage!" [[Bar Brawl|Fisticuffs ensue]].

** There was another that came with the end of [[Vince McMahon]]'s Kiss My Ass Club. [[The Rock]], after winning a match that stipulated Vince was to pucker up and plant one on Rock's bottom, (see what I did there?) Rock stops him before his moment of humiliation, exclaiming "Your lips are not good enough to kiss the People's Ass!!!" He then teased him with the prospect of kissing Torrie Wilson's firm glutes... BEFORE SIGNALING FOR [[Mighty Glacier|RIKISHI.]]

* ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'': "You're so far ahead, you might as well be competing with that chair-oops. Sorry, chair."

* ''[[Jessie]]'':

'''Bertram''': That's offensive to wolverines. They occasionally lick themselves clean. }}

 

== 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 ==

'''Kevin Murphy''': Mike, that's a horrible insult to the Thing! }}

 

== 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 ==

* [[Roger Ebert]]'s review for Tom Green's ''[[Freddy Got Fingered]]'' is as follows:

** And ''A Lot Like Love'': "To call ''A Lot Like Love'' dead in the water is an insult to water."

** 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."

** 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."

* "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

'''Linkara''': Now that, sir, is simply unfair. 4 year-olds don't know any better. }}

** After confirming that the name "Uwe Boldt" in the credits of ''[[Violent Shit]]'' has no connection to [[Uwe Boll]]:

* [[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''."

 

== Stand-Up Comedy ==

* Comic Simon B. Cotter, relating his attempt to lose weight, said he knew that he had to start when he got his BMI checked and found that he had 21% body fat.

* Rich Hall's country singing character Otis Lee Crenshaw says this about his family

 

== Video Games ==

* From ''Rome: [[Total War]]'', there's the description of the "Deranged" trait:

* In ''[[Jade Empire]]'', one of the more fucked up people you meet in the game, aside from the villains themselves, is the powerful Judge Fang: a man so disgustingly perverted that he's implied to have gotten off to a corrupt guard's genitals being torn off by starved dogs in addition to paying a prostitute a lot of money to allow him to "do things to her" that makes his own guards both flinch at their offensiveness but still pity her for having to put up with him. If your main character comments "Sounds like a really sick and twisted person", the guard quips "Nah. I wouldn't call him sick and twisted. That would be an insult to all sick and twisted people everywhere. Fang, he's on a whole other level..."

* In ''Lords of the Realm'' the default insulting message contains the line:

'''Tear:''' Yes, you might upset the bandits. }}

 

== Web Comics ==

** And his exact words in the initial insult were that Belkar would compare unfavorably to tables. The tables started off smarter than Belkar ''and he was still dumb enough to make the comparison offensive''.

* In ''[[Between Failures]]'', Mike finds himself confronting Reggie over setting the microwave on fire. When he mentions the number of accident reports in Reggie's file (long story short, Reggie's reliance on his executive aunt's interference makes the official quantity "long past too many"), Reggie interrupts to point out that they were all accidents, just like the term says. Mike states in no uncertain terms that "accident" is no longer sufficient to describe the things Reggie accomplishes, and that it's entirely possible that there is no word for what Reggie does, but either way, it's not fair to accidents to lump them in with Reggie.

 

== Web Original ==

** He found German slasher film ''[[Violent Shit]]'' so awful that comparing it to Uwe Boll is an insult to Uwe Boll.

** 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.

 

== Western Animation ==

* In a micro-commercial for ''[[Pinky and The Brain]],'' the Brain said Pinky had the approximate IQ of an empty soap dish. "I take it back. I don't want to insult the soap dish."

* ''[[Tripping the Rift]]'' - When Angel calls the alien T'Nuk a cow for knocking her out of her chair:

'''Chode:''' Let's not drag [[Your Mom|your mother]] into this. }}

** And let's not get into the implication that T'Nuk's ''mother'' was somehow a ''male'' donkey.

* ''[[Johnny Test]]'': Dirt tastes better than Mr. Test's cooking. Johnny checked.

* In one ''[[The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' episode Sonic mentions that he'd like to call Robotnik a slime bucket, "but that would be an insult to decent slime buckets everywhere!"

* [[Beavis and Butthead]], discussing Scatman John's "Scatman" music video.

'''Beavis:''' No way, Butthead. There's cool stuff in the dumpster. You wouldn't want to mess it up with this crap. }}

 

== Real Life ==

* "I'd say you were a carnival barker -- except that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers! A carny will at least tell you up front that he's running a shell game!" Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL) to Kenneth Lay, Feb. 12, 2002

* [[David Letterman]] on the OJ Simpson trial: "To call this trial a circus is an insult to the fine people at Ringling Brothers!"

* [[The Daily Show|Jon Stewart]], towards [[Sarah Palin]]:

'''Stewart:''' [[Bait and Switch Comparison|One is a variety of dog that's unfairly maligned in spite of being no worse than other varieties of dog, and the other is an artificial demographic of mothers no better than other mothers]]? (Jon has a pit bull himself. He's a bit touchy on the subject.) }}

* Classic [[Evil Lawyer Joke|lawyer joke]]: A man loses a lot of money in a trial and goes to a bar to [[Drowning My Sorrows|drown his sorrows]]. As he gets more and more drunk, he finally slams his mug down on the bar and shouts, "Godammit! Lawyers are nothing but a load of scumbags!" The man sitting next to him turns and says, "Mister, I take offense to that." "Why, you a lawyer?" "No, sir. I am a scumbag."

* Another classic joke: A man walks into a bar and starts complaining about the president, finally saying "The president is a horse's ass!" Another man says "Hey, don't talk like that in here." The man says "You can't tell me you actually like that horse's ass!" "No, but this is horse country."

* Another generic one is calling someone "retarded", then taking it back because "that insults the intelligence of the mentally retarded."

* Quoth [[Dan Savage]]: "[http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=30928 Your boyfriend is an asshole. Wait, maybe I'm not being fair—to assholes, which are as delightful as they are functional. Your boyfriend is a piece of shit, a loose stool, a santorum slick.]"

* 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.

 

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