People are sharing the ‘hauntingly specific insults’ they’ve suffered and these 25 are awfully brilliant
13.
Then there was the time I wore a pair of brothel creepers in Norwich and a small man outside Accessorize shouted “LESBIAN FEET”.
— Sarah Dempster (@Dempster2000) March 17, 2020
14.
I asked somebody out and was told that she’d “rather fuck a penguin”.
— Gary Bainbridge (@Gary_Bainbridge) March 17, 2020
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I was 14, walking home from beach reading a book, 3 men in a car slowed to shout ‘frigid slut!’ at me then lost control, mounted the curb and smashed smartly into a telephone pole. Thrilled to report I glanced at them, then kept walking – & reading.
— Kaz Cooke (@reallykazcooke) March 17, 2020
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I wore a leather jacket to the office once and a younger colleague said, “That’s so cool- I can’t imagine *my* mum ever wearing a leather jacket”.
— Lizzie Coulter (@elizabethceast) March 17, 2020
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A boy at school started calling me “Monobutt” as he decided I looked like I had one solitary butt cheek.
— Jim Field Smith (@jimfieldsmith) March 17, 2020
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A kid in the audience of a comedy show I was in yelled out, "Stop pretending you're a child!" https://t.co/VpdtYWQrfF
— Bec Hill (@bechillcomedian) March 17, 2020
19.
I once was chatting to someone in a pub thinking we were getting on well.
As we parted ways the person said, “Well have a nice life……….if you ever get one.”
🤷♂️😳😂
— Jon S. Baird (@jonsbaird) March 17, 2020
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Young lad in this twenties walked down the platform & tried a chat up, at the station – then said – ‘oh, sorry, you look quite good from far away’
Cruel. I know I’m ageing…
— Margaret Casely-Hayford CBE (@MCaselyHayford) March 17, 2020
21.
This very morning I’ve been termed ‘a bit Aga’ 👀
— Emma Mitchell (@silverpebble) March 17, 2020
22.
I haven’t worn shorts since an angry man at a festival told me to “put those legs away, Skeletor.”
— BumblingDad (@BumblingD) March 17, 2020
23.
In 1995, I was walking to a Middlesbrough match sporting beige flares, a brown suede jacket and mutton-chop sideburns, and a random bloke in the street shouted "MAN ABOUT THE F***ING HOUSE" at me. https://t.co/oC3qwFLLzj
— Bob Fischer (@Bob_Fischer) March 17, 2020
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Fond memories too of the time I described Ann Widdecombe as a “Worzelian bumbler” in a piece for Word magazine, and an astonishingly angry man emailed to ask “What the fuck would you know about The Wurzels?”
— Sarah Dempster (@Dempster2000) March 17, 2020
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Sid Waddell said I had a face like an Etruscan coin.
— Steve Hill (@HillyTheFish) March 17, 2020
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Simply 23 very funny nicknames that people ended up with at work
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