“You […]” makes pretty much anything an insult.
A positive word implies sarcasm. “You genius”. “You hero”.
A random noun drags out the negative aspect of the noun or implies lack of a brain. “You french fry”. “You paper bag”.
Adding a random adjective just strengthens the statement. “You british bathroom sink”. “You beautiful parking lot”.
Of couse it depends on delivery, and using random words makes some strange insults, but I rarely see “you […]” turn into a positive compliment.
You Beautiful parking lot
This sounds like something Leslie Knope would call Ann Perkins.
I’ll take “beautiful parking lot” as a compliment and there is nothing you can do about it
“You genius” sounds like a compliment to me. A “funny” compliment. Would it be taken as sarcasm in the US? It really depends the tone I guess but in Australian english I wouldnt interpret it as sarcasm.
I think that changing it to something gramatically correct would make it into a compliment. “You are a genius” would make it positively charged. However, I would expect “you genius” to be something that, for instance, someone would exclaim when someone cuts their hand when trying to open an avocado. Meanwhile I think it would be strange to exclaim “you genius” when someone solves a partial differential equation. But it probably does rely on the tone.
“you genius” is what a lad would say when you’ve found a solution to a stupid problem you got yourselves into while drunk or something. A geniune compliment, but with some humour added in.
Almost any adjective works. It’s the ‘you’ part that implies ire and intended denigration.
You incredible sock! You blind carrot! You empty bottle! You missing tooth! You complete thumb! You glazed pie! You stewed milk! You wet sandwich! You frosted toenail! You waxy discharge! You nauseous chifferobe!
Okay maybe not every one of them works but I think most of the time you can just put on a bad attitude and attach a adjective to an object to create some rare insults.
I think it works best with an adjective that has 3+ syllables. E.g. You incorrigible turnip You reprehensible teapot You abominable spoon You acephalous sandwich
Absolute unit.
Whoops, I broke it.
Equally if you write the word “totally” in front of any noun it means drunk.
“I’m totally suitcased”
That’s not a noun, is it.
Could be a system daemon process though.
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
You absolute sith.
Explain this then.
Weird how one of the strongest Jedi in history “just didn’t notice a Sith Lord corrupting the whole fuckin Galactic Senate”
“He trained Like though?”
Yeah, just like Palpatine wanted, so he could get a newer, younger model.
You shouldn’t have given me this new power you absolute pork tenderloin!
I love it! Lol
Foods definitely work best, you absolute Dorito.
Don’t be so sure about that, you absolute budgerigar.
You absolute value
And add absolutely to the front of almost anything to describe how pissed you were. I was absolutely trousered/shedded/etc
Get out of here, you absolute integer.
What a non-negative thing to say.
You absolute absolute
This is absolute Reddit shit.
I don’t think so, you absolute absolutist!
You absolute humidor. Nah. This works a lot of the time, but not all the time 🤣
