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7->''"Well, it's no secret how I feel about surgeons. I hate them. I'd liken them to rocks, but that would be an [[TropeNamers insult to rocks]] because, you see, at least rocks are useful to society. We build bridges with them. We throw them at guys who wear those tiny phones clipped to their heads."''
8-->— '''Dr. Cox''', ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''
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10You want to tell someone else that they're as dumb as a brick -- but then you answer that that's a terrible thing to say about bricks.
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12More generally, any insult following the form of "I'd call you an X, but that would be an insult to all X's." Typically, X will be an inanimate object, or something detestable. ("I'd call you a motherfucker, but it'd be demeaning to those guys who [[ParentalIncest fuck their mothers]].") Using this latter form is like saying that the one being insulted is far worse and more worthy of contempt than the detestable X to which they're being compared.
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14Another variant is acknowledging that at least X is much more worthy of some respect. "I'd call you an X, but then again I take it back because at least X is <insert positive description here>."
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16A third is to state the insult, and then apologize — [[BaitAndSwitchComment to any X who felt insulted by the comparison]].
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18A fourth, related to the above, is calling someone X, and when actual X find out, they react with outrage, at being compared to that someone, or alternatively, someone getting aggressive defending X.
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20A fifth involves the form "You are so <insert negative description generally used to describe X here>, X is <insert opposite positive description here> in comparison."
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22This can also involve SelfDeprecation if the insulter notes their own negative qualities, then says how much worse the insultee is.
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24See also EvenEvilHasStandards, MyFriendsAndZoidberg, BaitAndSwitchComparison, InsultFriendlyFire, InsultMisfire. If the insulter compares the insultee to an X, but the insultee notes positive qualities of X see InsultBackfire. May [[InvokedTrope invoke]] SympathyForTheDevil.
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31* A semi-serious [[https://youtu.be/j0iG6iZWACc PSA]] by [=UAnimals=] that stars Sala Baker (Sauron) urges people to donate to the charity. At the end, an [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Orc]] from ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' urges people to not call [[NicknamingTheEnemy Russians]] [[DehumanizingInsult orcs]] because "we're warriors and not a crowd of scumbags".
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35* During ''Anime/YuGiOh'''s Duelist Kingdom arc (English dub), Yugi faces off against 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 '[[YouMonster monster]]' — but I wouldn't want to insult the cards." (This insult would sound even more appropriate when you consider that in the ''original'' version, the imposter was ''not'' Kaiba's evil side, but a mercenary cruelly trying to break Yugi's — and Mokuba's — spirits by making them think Kaiba was dead.)
36* The second ''Franchise/{{Gundam}} Evolve'' CG short ends with [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Kamille Bidan]] writing an apology for destroying a camera during a field test of the Gundam Mk-II. His BackhandedApology includes this memorable line:
37-->''Letting a person like Lieutenant Quattro command a mission is like letting a monkey handle a bomb. Saying it, I even feel as if I were insulting a monkey.''
38* In Encounter 142 of ''Manga/SgtFrog'', 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, he considers it an insult to the ants.
39* ''Manga/IgaNoKabamaru'': Whe Kabamaru dines at the Ookumo's house for the first time, he's eager to see so much food and scarfs it down with no manners. Mai is disgusted, and in her mind compares him to a monkey, before realizing that what she's saying is insulting to monkeys.
40* When Konata from ''Manga/LuckyStar'' 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.
41* In an alternate ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' tale, "Shooting Star," 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.
42* Shizuo from ''Literature/{{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 [[HeroicSelfDeprecation to be put on the same level as him]].
43* When ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' begins his training, Akisame has him focus on building strength, alluding to the old saying that an ant cannot defeat an elephant, no matter what kind of techniques it has. Kenichi asks if he's being compared to an ant, and Akisame says no; that would be insulting to ''the ant''.
44* In ''Manga/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular'', Tomoko is on the receiving end of some food from her LethalChef classmate. At first, she compares its taste [[ItTastesLikeFeet to that of pig food]], then thinks it insulting to pigs and revises her opinion to industrial waste.
45** Early on, she wonders if she might be ugly. But no, she decides, calling her ugly would be an insult to true ugliness! (Of course, she doesn't realize what she's implied.)
46* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
47** When Sanji found out about [[spoiler:his brother Niji beating up a cook just to spite Sanji for helping her]], he's so infuriated he can't even bring himself to call the guy responsible scum; he's the ''shit beneath it''.
48** In the 4Kids dub, when the Straw Hats scarf down food at the feast following Crocodile's defeat, the Alabasta guards say they're like "monkeys on a banana boat, but the monkeys have more class".
49* In ''Manga/WastefulDaysOfHighSchoolGirls'', when Baka saw a group of grade-schoolers teasing an overweight schoolgirl as a literal pig four years before PresentDay, Baka yelled at the boys for a whole hour... because they insulted pigs. {{Subverted|Trope}} in that Baka's concern ''really'' was pigs and did not intend to insult the schoolgirl in question at all, nor did the schoolgirl in question took Baka's action as insult--actually she takes it as [[spoiler:BecauseYouWereNiceToMe]].
50* The English version of ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' has Escargoon comment on Dedede's messy throne room as such at the start of episode 81.
51-->'''Escargoon:''' I'd call this a rat's nest, but that's an insult to rats.
52* Similarly, the English version of ''Anime/JackAndTheBeanstalk1974'' has Jack use this as part of his plan to DrawAggro and lure [[TheDragon Tulip]] from the castle by repeatedly insulting him until he hits his RageBreakingPoint and gives chase.
53--> '''Jack:''' What's the matter? Can't figure it out, you walnut-brained ape? I shouldn't have called you an ape, they're smarter! ''And'' a lot prettier!
54* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'': After Ken unleashes Kimeramon, both Cody and Wormmon say that Ken is more of a monster than the actual monsters he creates.
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58* 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 twenty-one percent body fat.
59-->'''Cotter:''' To put that in perspective, ''a pig has nineteen''. So if you called me a "fat pig", it would actually be an insult to the ''pig''. I'm gonna have to work out for ''months'' just to ''become'' a fat pig. Then if someone says, "You're a fat pig!" I'll be like, "Why, thank you. I work out."
60* Rich Hall's country-singing character Otis Lee Crenshaw says this about his family:
61-->'''Otis Lee:''' Calling my family white trash would be an insult to polystyrene.
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65* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': In ''ComicBook/BatmanHush'', Batman thinks about ComicBook/RasAlGhul's daughter ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul, who is running ComicBook/LexLuthor's company:
66-->'''Batman:''' Talia. Ra's. Luthor. Calling them a nest of vipers is an insult to vipers...
67* ''ComicBook/TheBeano'': In the strip "Crazy for Daisy," Daisy compares Ernest, the [[StalkerWithACrush 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 apologizes — [[BreakingTheFourthWall to any warthogs who happen to be reading]].
68* ''ComicBook/LeChat'', a Belgian comic book written by Philippe Geluck:
69-->"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 harsh for men." (untranslatable pun: In French he says "c'est '''vache''' pour l'homme": when used as an adjective, "vache" means "harsh", but it also means "cow".)
70* A ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'' 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 FurryConfusion, the insult may or may not be worse than it is in our world.
71* ''ComicBook/EnemyAce'': In ''Enemy Ace: War in Heaven'':
72-->'''[[ThoseWackyNazis Oberst Lieutenant Engels]]:''' If it became known that you compared UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler to an ''ape''—\
73'''Hans von Hammer:''' No chimpanzee would ever speak to me again, I know.
74* ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'': Someone must be insulted especially carefully. Calling the overweight Spratt widow a cow promptly offends a cow.
75* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': In the Superman vs. Franchise/{{Predator}} crossover comic, the MadScientist is trying to cleanse the world of genetic defects by killing everyone with them, via atmospheric poisoning. ComicBook/LoisLane claims she would spit if her mouth wasn't so dry, but retracts the statement, saying "—spit's too good for you."
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79* ''Fanfic/TheKingNobodyWanted'': After Victarion Greyjoy announces his intention to [[spoiler:join the Iron Islands' rebellion while in a room full of armed Baratheon loyalists]], Hoster Tully remarks that saying he's got pease for brains would be an insult to pease.
80* ''Fanfic/PercyJacksonSpirits'': After calling Amarok "dog breath", Percy feels a bit sorry for the dogs he compared Amarok to.
81* ''Fanfic/{{Retribution}}'': Kirk comments that he isn't a coward; he's worse because a coward wouldn't have been bold enough [[Recap/StarTrekS2E12TheDeadlyYears to call Spock a traitor to his face]].
82* In ''[[Fanfic/HardResetEakin A Stitch in Time]]'', Twilight has had enough of her {{jerkass}} of a blind date trying to get her liquored up, and tells her that to compare her to the pond scum she cleans out of fish tanks would be more of an insult to the pond scum, giving a lecture about how essential cyanobacteria is to Equestria.
83* When Ichigo and Kaien are bickering once in ''Fanfic/SwingingPendulum'', Ichigo threatens to drown Kaien in a swamp. When Kaien comments on how that seems harsh, Ichigo says, "You're right; the swamp hasn't done anything to deserve getting you dunked into it."
84* In ''Fanfic/FistOfTheMoon'', Ranma suffers a ModeLock and is so disturbed that s/he neither eats, trains nor bathes for three days. Kasumi knocks her out of her funk with food and tells her to bathe because she smells worse than Akane's cooking. Post-CharacterDevelopment Akane hears this and takes offense.
85-->'''Akane:''' Hey! You take that back, Kasumi! Nothing smells worse than my cooking!
86* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5985759/6/Colors-and-Capes Colors and Capes]]'', when ComicBook/LoisLane tries to get [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander]] aka Flannel Man angry, he turns it around by suggesting she whored herself out to Bruce Wayne and ComicBook/LexLuthor for a story. Then he retracts his statement as prostitutes have more honesty and integrity than she does. Once Lois realizes he was simply turning her tactics back on her, she offers a grudging, "NotBad."
87* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5475405/26/DragonKin DragonKin]]'' Harry and Draco discuss a curse cast on Umbridge.
88-->'''Draco:''' What? I've been with you, Harry. Besides, if I was going to curse her, I would probably transfigure her into a toad and feed her to a snake.\
89'''Harry:''' That would be cruel to the snake, Draco. I wouldn't do that even to Nagini.
90* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4191209/14/Dangerous-Liasons Dangerous Liasons]]'':
91-->'''Ron:''' I can't believe you just broke up with me and you were already whoring yourself off with that Bulgarian caveman.\
92'''Hermione:''' Viktor is more mature and evolved than you, Ron. If anyone is a caveman it's you. Though I think that would be an insult to that race.
93* ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/863889/chapters/1667751 Ascension Book One: Bloodline]]'':
94-->Oh yes good old Aunt Marge, Harry had to admit that he was not sure who was uglier out of the two between Vernon and Marge or who was manlier rather. It was a toss-up. It was funny how Marge resembled her favorite companion, a bulldog. Although the ten, nearly eleven-year-old prodigy felt bad about comparing bulldogs to Marge. The poor animals didn't need to be insulted as such.
95* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12023037/7/Hitting-the-tomes Hitting the Tomes]]'':
96-->Even before they stepped into the classroom Harry just knew that by the end of the day Neville was going to be offended on Trevor's behalf if they called [Umbridge] a toad.
97* In ''[[http://kinsfire.fanficauthors.net/Redemption/Chapter_2/ Redemption]]'' Harry went to rescue his friends after they were captured by Death Eaters.
98-->'''Hermione:''' I think the closest I ever came to being scared of you was watching you as you gave those ... well, I'd have said Neanderthals but that would insult Neanderthals, but I think you get the gist of my choice of epithets against them.
99* ''[[http://ficwad.com/story/222069 Harry Hibiki and the Philosopher's Stone]]'':
100-->Behind the man were two hulking men that looked a little like apes... which was insulting to apes... that looked like Malfoy's grunts.
101* ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/8069536/chapters/19411408 Ophidian]]'':
102-->'''Draco:''' Lockhart's nothing but tactless, spotlight-mongering, intellectually inept, bollocks-for-brains swine.\
103'''Harry:''' Oh, come now, Draco. That's an insult to swine.
104* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3163139/11/Raspberry-Jam Raspberry Jam]]'' Harry and Draco discuss Harry's relatives.
105-->'''Draco:''' No, I want to know why you don't hate [Dumbledore] for sending you to those beasts.\
106'''Harry:''' You're insulting beasts everywhere.
107* In ''Fanfic/XMenTheEarlyYears'', Angel spouts the line as bickering with Beast.
108-->'''Warren:''' Well, I could have said you were related to a monkey's uncle. But I would be insulting the monkeys.
109* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12868354/3/Muggle-Movie-Night Muggle Movie Night]]'':
110-->'''Remus:''' What do you think will happen to Petunia?\
111'''Snape:''' Don't know, don't care. All I know is that next time we see her she'll be on the stand testifying against her troll of a husband.\
112'''Sirius:''' Now that was an insult to trolls.
113* ''Fanfic/TheGreatAlicornHunt'': Bowser's Diamond Dog parents are not impressed with the city watch's charges against their adopted pony son. They are most especially disappointed by how flimsily they are constructed.
114--> '''Bowser's dad:''' "So....''maybe'' involved with group that ''maybe'' connected to other group that ''maybe'' have plans that ''maybe'' terrorist..." He held up a paw. "Four maybes. You get one more maybe, you reach 'once upon a time.' " His eyelids drooped further. "We know ponies think Diamond Dogs stupid, but ROCKS not THAT dumb."
115* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9395231 young scrappy and hungry (rise up, rise up)]]'' revolves around the election for President of the United States. Of course, it's going to be tense:
116-->'''Damian:''' The key is to ensure that none of the buffoons in the circus currently masquerading as the RNC make it to the highest office in the nation --\
117'''Dick:''' Excuse me, don't insult the circus by comparing us to the Republicans. Haley's would've kicked Donald Trump out before he could even finish introducing himself.
118* ''[[Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton After Many Dates: Danny and Kim]]'': As far as Tucker is concerned, calling Bueno Nacho junk is "totally unfair to junk".
119* Riot's host in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/16397411 Six Months Missing]]'' initially compares the symbiote to a barking dog. When Riot angrily insists it's not a dog, she retorts that he's right... a dog can survive on its own.
120* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5483280/15/Harry-Potter-and-the-Champion-s-Champion Harry Potter and the Champion's Champion]]'' Fleur, Viktor and Cedric decide to go after the Triwizard Tournament cup as a team.
121-->'''Viktor:''' Vat about the fourth?\
122'''Cedric:''' If it was still Harry Potter, I'd have him join us. Actually, I think if it was him, he would have suggested it to start with. You know he even warned me about the dragons? But I can't bring myself to offer the same invitation to [Ron] Weasley. I swear he's thicker than a stone.\
123'''Luna:''' Now Cedric, I happen to have a lot of stones who are my friends. You don't have to insult them like that.
124* In a sidestory of ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', Ash's Butterfree is having a very bad day at Oak's ranch (due to being reminded of his lost mate [[AloneAmongTheCouples by the sight of many loving Pokémon couples]]) and decides to take out his frustrations on a nearby Pokémon fight club. He engages in some TrashTalk with his first opponent, a Growlithe, and draws his ire by calling him a puppy. The Growlithe starts yelling back that he's not a puppy, so Butterfree replies "You're right. Puppies are stronger than you."
125* In ''Fanfic/AManOfIron'', Catelyn Stark is [[NotDistractedByTheSexy unimpressed]] by her cousin [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]]'s attempts to charm her, comparing him to an attention-starved donkey...only to take it back and think that "a donkey would be at least useful".
126* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12671078/2/A-Dance-All-My-Own A Dance All My Own]]'':
127-->'''Remus:''' What did Petunia say? How did she explain it?\
128'''Harry:''' I was told I was the unwanted offspring of two drunks who died in a car crash, that I was a freak and that I should not ask questions and do as I was told. They basically lied about everything and tried to squash my magic out of me. I learned not to trust them early on and I always doubted their story, but I didn't have any proof otherwise until Hagrid came.\
129'''Remus:''' What a bitch!\
130'''Harry:''' That, Remus, is insulting dogs and with the exception of Padfoot I don't even really like dogs. Can we change the subject? I don't like thinking about the Dursleys.
131* Many characters throughout ''Fanfic/CrumblingDown'' call [[ConsummateLiar Lila]] a snake, only to take it back when they realize that would be an insult to snakes.
132* At one point during the [[ChristmasEpisode Mistletoe arc]] in ''Blog/AStudentOutOfTime'', one anon expresses disappointment that they can only request people kiss as he wanted to make Haiji kiss a sewage pipe. Monaca claims that would be mean to the sewage pipe as it has a vital job.
133* In the [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/2265452 Supposed to be a secret]] series, Hogwarts has been delivered the seven Harry Potter books, which are being read out loud. When they reach the point where Harry gets taken to the zoo and mentally compares a gorilla to his fat cousin Dudley, Luna asks Harry if he's apologized to the gorilla yet.
134* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4776976/14/The-Problem-with-Purity The Problem with Purity]]'':
135-->'''Snape:''' You sent [Ron] a gift, of course.\
136'''Hermione:''' I'd already bought it. We've been friends for a long time, and it seemed foolish to throw all that away over one altercation even one where he was behaving like a vile, reprehensible worm.\
137'''Snape:''' The worms of the world protest.
138* In the ''VideoGame/Persona5'' and ''WebVideo/ScottTheWoz'' crossover ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/33728470 I Think I Literally Count As An RPG Guy Now]]'', the rest of the Phantom Thieves react to Ryuji calling Shinjuku cops pigs by protesting the insult to pigs.
139-->'''Ryuji:''' fr tho pigs these days rlly got jack shit to do w their lives huh \
140'''Scott:''' Cmon man, dont call cops pigs what did a farm animal ever do to you to deserve a comparison like that??\
141'''Yusuke:''' True... pigs aren't tainted by the same vices so many humans are, and yet we portray them as revolting...\
142'''Ann:''' ig its because it's a gross job trying to take care of them? idk
143* In ''Fanfic/OneForAllAndEightForTheNinth'', the villain Menagerie gives one of his subordinates the codename Neanderthal for being an idiot, then admits to himself he's being unfair to the historical Neanderthals, who were no less intelligent than regular humans.
144* In the ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'' and ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' crossover fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14087136/1/Full-Loki Full Loki]]'', in chapter 17, Hiccup calls Schmidt a backstabbing Death Gripper because comparing him to a snake is an insult to snakes.
145* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9729235/15/Wand-Knife-and-Silence Wand, Knife and Silence]]'' Lily's spirit hopes that Mrs. Weasley will accept Ginny's choice of boyfriend before the family becomes estranged.
146-->'''James:''' ''Give the lady some credit, Lily – she's a lot smarter then Petunia. Then again, a turtle is smarter then your sister.''\
147'''Lily:''' ''Don't insult turtles James, you know I love those animals!''
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151* ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'': Hopper's prejudice against ants is so great, he considers calling Flik a piece of dirt an insult to dirt.
152-->'''Hopper:''' You piece of dirt... No, I'm wrong. You're lower than dirt! You're an '''''ANT'''''.
153* ''WesternAnimation/EetuJaKonna'': When Eetu and Konna are on the run from government agents, at one point they hitch a ride in a truck carrying pigs, and Eetu says:
154-->'''Eetu:''' Those pigs are coming! Sorry, pigs.
155* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'':
156-->'''Moe:''' What, are you telling us we're trapped like rats?!\
157'''Russ Cargill:''' No, rats can't be trapped this easily. You're trapped like... carrots.
158* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': The below exchange happens when the Spider-Gang are spying on Kingpin as he's making a self-aggrandizing speech at a banquet to honor Spider-Man's memory. Also counts as a [[PlayedForLaughs humorous]] instance of YouKnowImBlackRight
159-->'''ComicBook/SpiderGwen:''' What a pig!\
160'''ComicBook/SpiderHam:''' [[ImStandingRightHere I'm right here!]]
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164* From ''Film/DuckSoup'':
165-->'''Rufus T. Firefly:''' To me you suggest a baboon... I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. It isn't fair to the rest of the baboons.
166** Firefly, to Mrs. Teasdale:
167-->'''Firefly''': Married. I can see you right now in the kitchen, bending over a hot stove. But I can't see the stove.
168* From ''Film/AFishCalledWanda'':
169-->'''Otto:''' Don't call me stupid.\
170'''Wanda:''' Oh, right! To call you stupid would be an insult to ''stupid people!''
171:: On the DVD, that scene was called "An Insult to Stupid People".
172* A version appears in ''Film/TheAbyss'': "You're going to give that rat a disease."
173* In ''Film/{{Porkys}}'', Tim Cavanaugh calls the Jewish Brian Schwartz a "kite", and Schwartz [[DoWrongRight reminds him that the correct word is "kike"]], telling him, "You're too stupid to even be a good bigot."
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177* Classic EvilLawyerJoke: A man loses a lot of money in a trial and goes to a bar to [[DrowningMySorrows drown his sorrows]]. As he gets more and more drunk, he finally slams his mug down on the bar and shouts, 'Goddammit! 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.'
178* 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 first man says 'You can't tell me you actually like that horse's ass!' 'No, but this is horse country.'
179* A New Yorker goes in a bar in the DeepSouth, starts drinking and yells out loud "Texans are all assholes!". Dead silence in the bar, until a huge guy goes up to him and says "Hey now, I take offense to that." "Why, are you a Texan?" "No, I'm an asshole!" (replace Texan with acceptable target of choice).
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183* In ''Oh My Goth'' by Gena Showalter, Jade Leigh says she would like to add fangs and horns to the AlphaBitch's face (on a school election poster). She promptly changes her mind, deciding that it would be an insult to TheDevil. (After the two of them escape from the virtual reality world together, she [[{{Irony}} celebrates seeing those same posters.]])
184* Creator/GordonKorman's ''The Chicken Doesn't Skate'': "To call you a pig is an insult to pigs!"
185* The antihero 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.''
186* ''Literature/CatherineCalledBirdy'': "The man was a pig, which dishonors pigs."
187* ''[[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/69923/commerce-emperor/ Commerce Emperor]]'': While being magically compelled to fully and honestly confess all his sins, Robin refers to a former acquaintance as "a cheap son of a whore, no offense to whores, whose beds I often visit."
188* ''Literature/DoraWilkSeries'': Dora, upon meeting goddess [[JerkassGods Badb]] again: "Maybe she was raised by wolves, although suspecting this would be unfair for those animals."
189* In the ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'' novel ''Ascension Warrior'', the insanely powerful (and just plain insane) archmage Porthos Fitz-Empress, on noting that a political enemy of his is present at a meeting of the [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Council of the Traditions]], announces that he'd thought he'd smelled a large pile of rotting fish. He then proceeds to summon a pile of dead fish so he could apologize to it for mistaking it for Vargas.
190* In ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'', ''Lord Brocktree'' has this to say about the singing of [[DreadfulMusician Dotti the hare]]:
191-->"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."
192* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
193** In one book, a character calls Corporal Nobby Nobbs a pig, and another responds "Hey now. I've known some splendid pigs."
194** In ''Literature/MenAtArms'', 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.
195** One book remarks that Ankh-Morpork is known as the Big Wahoonie, the wahoonie being a fruit described like an exaggerated [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian durian]], then adds that even the wahoonie doesn't smell as bad as [[WretchedHive Ankh-Morpork]] on a hot summer's day.
196** In ''The Art of Discworld'', Creator/TerryPratchett 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".
197** Near the end of ''Literature/MakingMoney'', Lord Vetinari says that putting the bank in the hands of a convicted criminal is in the "best traditions of the Lavish family". Cosmo Lavish starts to object, but Moist von Lipwig objects over him. He's just a conman, but the Lavishes originally owe their fortune to piracy and the slave trade.
198* In the Literature/GentlemanBastard Sequence, the author claims that to say that a pimp called "Rude Trevor Vargas" "was an intemperate, murderous lunatic would wound the feelings of most intemperate, murderous lunatics".
199* Dudley gleefully tells ''Literature/HarryPotter'' that the boys at Harry's new school, Stonewall High, stuff new kids' heads down the toilet the first day, and asks if Harry wants to practise. Harry declines, and retorts that "the poor toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it before; it might be sick," then escapes before Dudley can figure it out.
200* From ''Franchise/StarWars: Literature/{{Crosscurrent}}'': LovableRogue Khedryn Faal makes a rude comment about enemy smuggler Earsh's ship, prompting this exchange:
201-->'''Earsh:''' You calling my ship trash, Faal?\
202'''Khedryn:''' Calling your ship trash would be an insult to trash.
203* Two examples from the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series:
204** In ''Storm from the Shadows'', [[GeneralRipper Solarian League Battle Fleet Admiral Josef Byng]] is described by one character as not having "the brains God gave a cockroach", to which another character later says that the first person was "doing cockroaches a disservice".
205** In ''Mission of Honor'', Admiral Sandra Crandall is described as having "the disposition of a grizzly bear with hemorrhoids trying to pass pinecones", after which another character thinks the comment "gross libel against grizzly bears".
206* At one point in the ''Literature/BelisariusSeries'', Irene got angry at Ousanas, calling him "a foul creature from a foul land. Now I know where Creator/{{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."
207* In Creator/VCAndrews' ''Literature/MidnightWhispers'', Jefferson is ranting about his (and the protagonist's) aunt, who favors her own children over them and, [[TheUnFavourite therefore, punishes Jefferson constantly]], and calls her "a low worm!" Christie tells him not to insult worms.
208* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', ''The Gathering Storm'', with Egwene [[Awesome/TheWheelOfTime utterly crushing Elaida in a debate]], Elaida tries to bully Egwene into subservience with a rather [[LargeHam hammy]] WhoDares.
209-->"I dare the truth, Elaida. You are a [[DirtyCoward coward]] and a {{t|heCaligula}}yrant. I'd name you Darkfriend as well, but I suspect that the [[TheAntiGod Dark One]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards would perhaps be embarrassed to associate with you]]."
210* In one of Creator/GKChesterton's ''Mr. Pond'' stories, a General is explaining his thought processes to a subordinate, and the LemonyNarrator comments that he's the sort of person who enjoys explaining things to the dog, before adding "It would be unjust to compare Lieutenant Von Hocheimer to a dog. It would be unjust to the dog, who is a much more sensitive and vigilant creature."
211* In Creator/NealStephenson's ''Literature/{{Reamde}}'', a reviewer once apparently stated about Devin Skraelin that "to say he is tin-eared would render a disservice to a blameless citizen of the periodic table of the elements."
212* In ''Literature/TheSecretOfPlatform13'', 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:
213-->[[GoodIsNotNice She wasn't a particularly nice woman]], [[FriendToAllChildren but she loved babies]], and she knew that [[RichBitch Larina Trottle]] was as fit to look after a young baby as a baboon. Actually, a lot ''less'' fit because baboons, as it happens, make excellent mothers.
214* ''Literature/IClaudius'': Claudius' mother, Antonia, manages to make this one do double duty, by finding something a moment later that she thinks ''is'' a sufficiently insulting comparison.
215-->'''Antonia:''' That man ought to be put out of the way! He's as stupid as a donkey — what am I saying? Donkeys are sensible beings by comparison — he's as stupid as... as.... Heavens, he's as stupid as [[WellDoneSonGuy my son Claudius]]!
216* ''Literature/{{Papillon}}'' features an inmate who says to a guard: "I would spit on you, but my spit would just get dirty."
217* ''Literature/EndersGame'', Shen and Ender on Bernard:
218-->'''Shen:''' He's a pig.\
219'''Ender:''' On the whole, pigs aren't so bad.\
220'''Shen:''' You're right. I wasn't being fair to the pigs.
221* In ''Literature/AFeastForCrows'' from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', one character describes the "butchery" committed to a nearby town. Another takes issue, as "that gives insult to honest butchers everywhere."
222* In the ''Literature/PaladinOfShadows'' book ''Unto the Breach'', Father Kulcyanov says that calling Stalin a pig is an insult to pigs.
223* ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImQueenOfTheDead'': Avery likens the social behaviors at Pepperidge Prep to a snake pit. When Alicia Blackheart possesses her, she decides that was an insult to the snakes.
224* In the book ''Literature/{{Elvenborn}}'', Kyrtian and his bodyguard Gel are talking to the former's mother via teleson (a magical device that works like Skype). Gel starts to refer to the rather unpleasant Lady Triana as a bitch before correcting himself out of deference to Lady Lydiell. She then says, "I wouldn't call Triana a 'bitch', Gel. It's a terrible insult to all female canines, which are, on the whole, rather nice creatures."
225* In Chapter 28 of ''[[Literature/RiversOfWar 1824: The Arkansas War]]'', Andrew Jackson publicly denounces the deal-making that put Henry Clay into office as President after getting only about a sixth of the popular vote, and initially lambasts John Calhoun as [[Literature/TheBible Judas]]. Later, Jackson corrects himself, saying that the comparison was an insult to Judas.
226* Creator/DaveBarry's column "Insect Aside" mentions that some people voting for Official National Insect compared dung beetles to Congress. He objected:
227-->"I'm sorry, but that's a low blow: Our research indicates that no dung beetle has ever accepted money from a savings-and-loan operator."
228* In ''Literature/BoredOfTheRings'', the narration says:
229-->Heavily ridged over the eyes and prone to a rather poor posture, [the men of Whee] were often mistaken for Neanderthals, a common confusion that the latter deeply resented.
230* In ''Gray Literature/{{Lensman}}'', Kimball Kinnison expresses his disapproval of people who deal in illegal drugs:
231-->"Calling a zwilnik a louse is insulting the whole louse family."
232* The novelization of ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' says: "On the other side of the job was a gent name of Marco Ferlinghetti who had the brains of a cabbage -- and that was only if one was feeling inhospitable toward vegetable matter."
233* In ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'', [[DeadpanSnarker Shallan]] amazingly ''stops'' herself from responding to Bluth's comment, "You think I'm as dumb as that stick" with, "Stop insulting my stick." She does, however, think it. On the other hand, the stick is a POV character, and Bluth isn't.
234* In Hilda Lewis's ''Harlot Queen'', a furious Edward III confronts his mother after [[spoiler:being told how his deposed father was murdered]]:
235-->You are not a woman; you are an animal, a savage beast. And so the people name you. ''She-wolf!'' But they wrong such beasts; for they are, as God made them, innocent.
236* In ''[[Literature/TheRedVixenAdventures Captive of the Red Vixen]]'' Lord Rolas is punished after an escape attempt by having his diet reduced to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutraloaf "Prison Loaf"]].
237-->'''Red Vixen:''' "[It] contains every bit of protein, vitamins, and nutrients that a healthy adult needs for one day, and tastes like wet cardboard, or so I'm told."
238-->(later)
239-->'''Narration:''' As it turned out, the Red Vixen had been wrong about the prison loaf. Comparing it to wet cardboard was really a deep insult to the disposable packaging industry.
240* ''Literature/SleepingBeauties'': When Clint is informed how hopelessly understaffed the guards at Dooling Correctional Facility for Women are due to Aurora:
241-->To call this a skeleton crew would be an insult to skeletons.
242* In Lawrence Block's ''The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams'' Bernie accuses Borden of hitting on Gwendolyn.
243-->'''Borden:''' One occasion. One drink, for God's sake!\
244'''Bernie:''' Perhaps a little farther than that, but I don't think your husband made a very favorable impression on Miss Cooper. I've heard her compare him to pond scum.\
245'''Lolly:''' If pond scum had a lawyer, pond scum could sue for libel.
246* ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' takes this view of [[AdultsAreUseless Mr. Poe]], the perennially useless manager of the Baudelaire affairs.
247-->"Mr. Poe meant well, but a jar of mustard probably also means well and [[TheLoad would do a better job of keeping the Baudelaires out of danger.]]"
248* At one point in the Creator/BillBryson book ''Neither Here Nor There'', he describes a burger he orders as, "To say that it was crappy would be to malign faeces".
249* In ''Literature/HeavenOfficialsBlessingTianGuanCiFu'', during Xie Lian's first visit to the Ghost City, Lan Chang becomes annoyed by Xie Lian not paying attention to her and calls him a pig. A nearby ghost pig overhears and takes offense.
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253* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. In a flashback scene to before he became the badass he is today, Oliver Queen is being taught to fight by [[ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} Slade Wilson]] who is unimpressed by the spoilt playboy he has to turn into a soldier. "To say you fight like a girl would be a compliment!"
254* In one episode of ''Series/BarRescue'', he told a bad owner that he'd call the person a douchebag, but that would be offensive to douchebags.
255* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
256** While Buffy is hunting Angel inside the empty Bronze, she calls out that she knows he's in there, and she knows what he is ("Angel"). From the balcony, Angel, in game face, sneers:
257--->'''Angel:''' I'm just an animal, right?\
258'''Buffy:''' You're not an animal. Animals, I like.
259** In "Lover's Walk", Spike sobs that he's "nothing" without Dru, a sentiment with which Buffy is inclined to agree. "You're not even a loser anymore. You're a shell of a loser."
260** In "Consequences", Angel's sermon to Faith doesn't appear to be sinking in. In the privacy of his garden, he grumbles to Buffy that it's like talking to a wall. "Only you get more from a wall."
261* One segment of an episode of ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'' gives the narrator this to say about two fools who die when their zorb ball goes down a cliff.
262-->'''Narrator:''' To compare these two to hamsters would be an insult to the entire rodent community.
263* In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "Shindig":
264-->'''Sir Warrick Harrow:''' I know [Badger]. And I think he's a psychotic lowlife.\
265'''Mal:''' And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community.
266* In a ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' episode, Mary tells Dick, "To say that you behaved childishly is an insult to children everywhere!"
267* ''Series/That70sShow'':
268-->'''Red:''' Eric, what did I tell you about comparing your sister to the Devil?\
269'''Eric:''' That it's insulting to the Devil?
270* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'':
271** Dr. Cox provides the trope name and headline quote when talking about how much he hates surgeons.
272** In "My Drama Queen," there's this exchange between JD and Dr. Cox:
273--->'''Dr. Cox:''' Could I be included in the planning of your coming out party?\
274'''J.D.:''' Is that a gay joke?\
275'''Dr. Cox:''' No, it's a cotillion joke. ... I would never compare you to the gays. I ''like'' the gays. I like their music, I like their sense of style, I especially like what they've done with Halloween! But ''our'' thing is that you're a little girl.
276** "My Night to Remember" has Dr. Cox tell JD he's as useless as the wall he's leaning on... then take it back because the wall is somewhat useful, as it's currently providing a place for "some jackass to lean on and reflect on what a jackass he truly is."
277* In ''Series/ICarly'':
278-->'''Sam:''' ''[when she sees Carly's painting]'' Who's that? Freddie?\
279'''Carly:''' No! It's a clown!\
280'''Sam:''' Oops. Sorry, Clown.
281* In ''Series/{{Doctors}}'', an ex of Daniel's left a [[MosesInTheBulrushes baby]] in the surgery. When he insists it was nothing to do with him, Michelle calls him a horrible stinking rat. Archie asks them not to insult rats.
282* In ''Series/{{Friends}}'', "The One Where Mr. Heckles Dies":
283-->'''Rachel:''' Have you ever seen so much ''crap''?\
284'''Chandler:''' Actually, I think this apartment sullies the good name of crap.
285* During an episode of ''Series/CheapSeats'' dedicated to Roller Derby:
286-->'''Jason:''' Roller Derby was once considered "Poor Man's Wrestling", which I think we can all agree is a tremendous insult to wrestling.\
287'''Randy:''' ...and the poor.
288* ''Series/TrueBlood'': Talbot insulting werewolves:
289-->'''Talbot:''' Please, they're all dumber than a box of rocks.\
290'''Werewolf:''' That's unfair!\
291'''Talbot:''' To boxes, maybe. ''[{{beat}}]'' Or rocks.
292* ''Series/TheDailyShow'':
293** In one segment that dealt with 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. Creator/JohnOliver (on Team Stupid) helpfully pointed out that potatoes can still power a digital clock, and suggested rocks with mouths.
294** In response to Boko Haram's kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls and subsequent videos attempting to intimidate the public, Jon said the only ones that come off as badasses were the students for having gone to school in spite of the danger in the first place. It took the form of a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and ended with an inversion of this trope:
295--->'''Jon Stewart:''' I'd call you a bunch of little girls, but you don't deserve the compliment.
296* ''Series/TheColbertReport'': [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/9riu8g/the-colbert-report-canton-apology In the midst]] of heaping abuse on Canton, Kansas, Stephen says that converting the town to a landfill would be an insult to landfills.
297* ''Series/{{Room 101}}'':
298** In the last episode, Ian Hislop tried to put in Piers Morgan and mentioned how in ''Magazine/PrivateEye'' they call him Piers Moron.
299--->'''Paul Merton:''' Is that unfair to morons?\
300'''Ian:''' And to piers. I mean, Southend — very nice.
301** When Paul eventually did pull the lever to send Morgan into Room 101, an alarm went off and it was announced that Room 101 had [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth rejected him for being too toxic]].
302* ''Series/{{Psych}}'':
303-->'''Czarsky:''' Haven't you embarrassed yourself enough already?\
304'''Shawn:''' Hardly. I'm just getting started, you giant cockroach. ''[beat]'' You know what, that was out of line. I apologize to cockroaches everywhere.
305* In the very first episode of ''Series/DoctorWho'' in 1963, the Doctor uses this on his first ever human companion, Ian, who is complaining about being condescended to. It would surely be a throwaway line if it were uttered today by Matt Smith, but this is Creator/WilliamHartnell we're talking about here.
306-->'''Ian:''' You're treating us like children!\
307'''The Doctor:''' Am I? The children of MY civilization would be insulted.
308* Based on the idiom 'Everything resembles its owner,' the title character of ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' compares Doña Florinda to a broom. When Don Ramón tells him that was offensive, El Chavo responds that doesn't matter, because brooms don't understand.
309* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': One "Hardball" sketch had Chris Matthews doing an interview with Ann Coulter.
310--> '''Matthews''': I'd call you a media whore, but I feel like that'd be offensive to whores.
311* In ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck'', Bailey compares talking to London to talking to a tractor. Zack promptly replies that it's an insult to tractors.
312* In the ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' 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!" [[FisticuffProvokingComment Fisticuffs ensue.]]
313* From ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' when Hilda is forced to tell jokes by a magical belt.
314-->'''Hilda:''' You should meet my mother-in-law. I used to say she was ugly as sin. Sin sued.
315* ''Series/{{Jessie}}'':
316-->'''Ravi:''' He has the personal hygiene of a wolverine!\
317'''Bertram:''' That's offensive to wolverines. They occasionally lick themselves clean.
318* In ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', Doctor Erhardt states that calling ''Film/RobotMonster'' wretched was an insult to the word 'wretched'.
319* ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'': "You're so far ahead, you might as well be competing with that chair — oops. Sorry, chair."
320* Inverted in the penultimate episode of season nine of ''Series/{{NCIS}}''. Dr. Samantha Ryan, who loves to play mind games and has been trying to get Gibbs to be off his game, calls Gibbs "solid as a rock. Which is, by the way, a compliment to rocks."
321* In an episode of ''Series/HannahMontana'': A cleaning lady refuses to clean Jackson's room and wanted to call him a pig but it would be an insult to pigs.
322* ''Series/LifeWithBoys'':
323-->"I just realized that when I compared you to an average dog, I was being insulting to dogs."
324* In the ''Series/{{Suits}}'' pilot, Harvey claims the company executive being sued doesn't "give a rat's ass about his employees' right to privacy. Sorry, that's actually unfair to rats' asses."
325* In ''Series/HorribleHistories'', after pointing out that the [[AdiposeRex rather corpulent George IV]] was called the "Prince of Whales" before ascending the throne, Rattus apologizes... to whales.
326* A variation in ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'', where Callen's ArchEnemy [[SerialKiller the Chameleon]] calls his tracking device a collar.
327-->'''Callen:''' Collars are for animals. Don't flatter yourself.
328* In one episode of ''Series/ThePretender'', Jarod has captured Mr. Lyle and threatens to torture him for information. He whips out a cattle prod but adds that he shouldn't compare Lyle to cattle, it's insulting the latter.
329* From the ''Series/BlueBloods'' episode "Knockout Game", Frank's remarks on the eponymous spate of kids running up to random pedestrians and landing haymakers on them:
330-->"Look, this kind of stupid, random brutality gives regular street crime a bad name."
331* In an episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' where the team has to deal with a suspect's TrashOfTheTitans, Nick says "People are pigs" and Grissom says "Don't insult pigs, Nick, they're actually very clean."
332* On ''Series/TheHughleys'' as Darryl, Milsap and Dave are hanging out at a bar and Dave excuses himself to get another round, a customer begins making snide and racist comments to Darryl and Milsap, who fight back with equally snarky remarks.
333-->'''Racist:''' Are you calling me stupid?\
334'''Milsap:''' No, sir, that would be insulting to the stupid.
335* In ''[[Series/{{Blackadder}} Blackadder the Third]]'', Prince George recounts in conversation with Edmund that somebody at the Naughty Hellfire Club said he had the wit and sophistication of a donkey. Blackadder says this the suggestion is absurd, "unless, of course, it was a particularly ''stupid'' donkey".
336* In ''Series/{{Westworld}}'' the Man in Black inflicts one of these on ''himself'' after Teddy calls him an "animal".
337-->'''Man in Black:''' No, an animal would have felt something.
338* In an episode of ''Series/RobinOfSherwood'', the VillainOfTheWeek calls the outlaws pigs. Robert of Huntingdon calls him a pig, at which Will Scarlet butts in to accuse Robert of insulting pigs.
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341[[folder:Music]]
342* Dave Bartholomew's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLaW9NnKU6M "The Monkey Speaks His Mind."]] In the song, three monkeys claim that the idea that man evolved from primates is an insult to monkeys.
343* "The Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away" by Benjamin Hapgood Burt is an OdeToSobriety in which a woman comments on a drunk lying in the gutter with a pig, and the pig takes offence at being grouped with the drunk.
344* Music/ElvisCostello's opening lyric to "Swine" is "You're a swine, and I'm saying, that's an insult to the pig".
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347[[folder:Podcasts]]
348* ''Podcast/RiffTrax'':
349** ''Film/FantasticFour2005'':
350--->'''Mike Nelson:''' Creator/DannyDeVito!\
351'''Kevin Murphy:''' Mike, that's a horrible insult to ComicBook/TheThing!
352** ''Film/TheRoom2003'':
353--->'''Kevin:''' ''[on Creator/TommyWiseau]'' Wow, producer, writer, director, and actor? He's a modern [[Creator/MNightShyamalan Shyamalan]]!\
354'''Mike:''' Kevin! Don't besmirch the good name of... Tommy Wiseau.
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357[[folder:Print Media]]
358* There's [[http://www.cartoonstock.com/cartoonview.asp?catref=cgon134 a cartoon]] that refers to an incident where Ken Livingstone compared an ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers Evening Standard]]'' journalist he was exasperated with to a concentration camp guard.
359* ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' once said that saying Wario smells like a sewer is insulting to the sewer.
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362[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
363* On an episode of Wrestling/WWERaw, Wrestling/ChrisJericho would call Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon a "filthy, dirty, disgusting nasty, skanky brutal bottom-feeding, trash-bag ho!" When he was forced to apologize, he apologized to all the filthy, dirty, disgusting, brutal, skanky, bottom-feeding, trash-bag hoes for even comparing them to Stephanie. He decided that "Bargain basement slut" and "Miserable slimeball pig" were more appropriate.
364* [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] had one when he put an end to Wrestling/VinceMcMahon's [[LiteralAssKissing Kiss My Ass Club]]. He had won a match that stipulated Vince was to pucker up and plant one on Rock's bottom. The Rock stops him before his moment of humiliation, exclaiming "Your lips are not good enough to kiss the People's Ass!!!" He brought out Wrestling/JimRoss and then teased him with the prospect of kissing Wrestling/TrishStratus' firm glutes … [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdqksr_the-rock-and-trish-stratus-make-vin_fun?search_algo=2#.UQQuY0JBRmB before declaring there is one ass Vince would kiss]].
365* On November 27, 2015, Wrestling/HaniaTheHowlingHuntress [[https://twitter.com/HaniaHuntress/status/670347193824448513 wrote]] about the [[UsefulNotes/ChristmasInAmerica Black Friday]] [[RetailRiot shopping frenzy]], "I would say people act like animals on Black Friday but animals have more couth."
366* Wrestling/JimCornette [[https://youtu.be/2LjcDaC4Evk?t=46 apologized to plumbers of the world]] for nicknaming Wrestling/JonMoxley "The CEO of Moxley Plumbing" after a plumber doing work on his house complained. Cornette noted that plumbers are highly specialized and trained professionals that provide a vital service, while Moxley is a guy that has bad fake-looking garbage matches in front of tiny crowds and slices his head open on a nightly basis.
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370* In the ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' episode, "[[Recap/DinosaursS02E12RefrigeratorDay Refrigerator Day]]", Earl is unable to pay his bills when B.P. Richfield doesn't give him his Refrigerator Day bonus, and as a result, the Sinclair family's refrigerator gets repossessed. This exchange then occurs between Earl and Robbie:
371-->'''Earl:''' This is terrible. I've failed my family. I'm nothing. I'm dirt.\
372'''Robbie:''' You're not dirt.\
373'''Earl:''' No, you're right, I'm beneath dirt. I look up to dirt. I wish I was dirt. Dirt laughs at me!
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376[[folder:Radio]]
377* ''Radio/TheMenFromTheMinistry'': In one of the episodes written exclusively for YLE (essentially BBC of Finland) has Mildred's boyfriend comparing Mr. Lamb's mind to a sieve. Mildred protests, as something actually sometimes stays in a sieve.
378* ''Radio/TheNewsQuiz'':
379** In the 6 January 2023 episode, Samira Ahmed says that UsefulNotes/RishiSunak's "five-point plan" speech was compared to a Creator/{{CBeebies}} presenter, and that this is unfair, because [=CBeebies=] presenters don't talk down to their audience.
380** In the 9 February 2024 episode, Alex Kane quotes Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Chris Heaton-Harris saying his knowledge of [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Ulster Unionism]] was "UsefulNotes/{{GCSE|s}} level", and adds "I taught GCSE Politics. He's not even ''close'' to GCSE level!"
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383[[folder:Reviews/Critics]]
384* Jason Sartin:
385** His review of the tabletop RPG ''TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}'' notes that "saying that this game [[KillItWithFire should be burned]] is an ''insult to fire''." Later, he says that "giving FATAL a 1/1 Style/Substance rating" ([[BrokeTheRatingScale the lowest score they were able to give without modifying their website's backend code]]) "was an insult to almost every other product on [=RPGnet=] that ever got a 1/1."
386** Along with his [[http://web.archive.org/web/20080212094700/http://atrocities.primaryerror.net/rahowasucks.html Racial Holy War's]] "Badness" rating: "To say that this game sucks would be an insult to oral sex."
387* At least two recaps by ''Website/TheAgonyBooth'' have done it so far.
388** ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'': "[[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]] [[Series/Batman1966 campy 60's Adam West TV series]], but that would be an insult to Creator/AdamWest."
389** ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'': "[[DutchAngle 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.]]"
390** There is also one that almost fits on ''Film/MyraBreckinridge'': "[[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Myra_Breckinridge_1970.aspx?Page=5 This means that at one point]], there was actually a scene in this movie that implied a fucking ten-year-old was ''getting bukkaked''. I now understand why ''Time'' called this movie 'about as funny as a child molester.' Actually, that's not completely accurate. I think a child molester gets more laughs."
391* ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'': J.D. Shapiro, one of the credited screenwriters (he wrote the first draft, and was fired due to ExecutiveMeddling), started an [[http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/penned_the_suckiest_movie_ever_sorry_MdXedZpTMWJmfpw80Xc7aO/0 apology letter]] on the movie with this:
392-->"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 [[BileFascination people actually want to watch those]]."
393* Creator/RogerEbert:
394** His review for Tom Green's ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'' including this phrase:
395--->"This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels."
396** And ''A Lot Like Love'': "To call ''A Lot Like Love'' dead in the water is an insult to water."
397** And ''Film/TheSpirit'': "To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material."
398** ''Film/TheVillage2004'': "Eventually the secret of Those, etc., is revealed. To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes."
399** Additionally, discussing ''Film/{{Ishtar}}'' on their Worst of '87 special, Creator/GeneSiskel said, "I just saw ''Film/RoadToMorocco'', and it is funnier than ''Ishtar'' — of course, that's really, I guess, an insult to ''Road to Morocco''. Anything is funnier than ''Ishtar'' — except ''Film/LeonardPart6''."
400** Of ''Film/BattleLosAngeles'', he said: "Here's a science-fiction film that's an insult to the words 'science' and 'fiction,' and the hyphen in between them."
401** His ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' review reads: "To say ''G.I. Joe: Retaliation'' is a video game for the big screen is to insult a number of video games that are far more creative, challenging and better-looking." Mr. Ebert never was a fan of video games, either.
402** When speaking on ''Film/DirtyLove'', he lamented: "Todd [=McCarthy=], the esteemed film critic of ''Variety'', should have won the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for generosity after writing the 'whole package has a cheesy look.' This movie is an affront to cheese. Also to breasts."
403* His former co-host Richard Roeper, listing ''Film/JonahHex2010'' among the worst of 2010:
404-->"Creator/MeganFox is truly the Raquel Welch of our generation. And maybe that's an insult to Raquel Welch."
405* One [=RPGamer=] [[https://archive.rpgamer.com/games/other/psx/hoshigami/reviews/hoshigamirdrev1.html review]] had much to say about ''VideoGame/{{Hoshigami|RuiningBlueEarth}}'''s lack of sound quality (among other things):
406-->''"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."''
407* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20101006010915/http://www.ferretbrain.com/articles/article-139 This review]] of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' features the line "To say it's massively dissatisfying and frustrating is to do massively dissatisfying and frustrating things a great disservice."
408* "Calling [[Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg Friedberg and Seltzer]] untalented hacks is an insult to REAL untalented hacks like Creator/UweBoll, Creator/MichaelBay, Creator/RolandEmmerich, and Creator/EliRoth." -- '''[[https://www.joblo.com/movie-news/new-vampires-suck-clip-and-posters-make-it-look-really-really-really-bad Squid Vicious]]''', Joblo.com
409* In [[https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/reviews/savage_moon/ SB Sarah's scathing review]] of Cassie Edwards' ''Savage Moon'', she comments: 'I might have to [[BrokeTheRatingScale 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."
410* Quoth [=MaryAnn=] Johanson of ''[[http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2004/09/superbabies_baby_geniuses_2_re.html Flick Philosopher]]'', on ''Film/BabyGeniuses 2'': "To call this immeasurably terrible movie 'stupid and nonsensical' would be an insult to stupid and nonsensical movies."
411* Creator/ChristopherHitchens [[http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2004/06/unfairenheit_911.single.html referred]] to Creator/MichaelMoore's anti-[[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush]] documentary ''Film/Fahrenheit911'' as such:
412-->To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. ''Fahrenheit 9/11'' is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject political cowardice masking itself as a demonstration of "dissenting" bravery.
413* The Moiderah of Ponies has this to say about ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureau'': "Burning is not advised, as [[KillItWithFire burning it]] is a grave heresy to fire. Consider sending it to your enemies instead."
414* After a scandal over the number of synthetic additives contained in Miller Lite beer, the well-known beer critic Roger Protz stated: "I have, in the past, compared Miller Lite to [[ATankardOfMooseUrine a certain equine by-product]], but now I see that that is an insult to a noble animal."
415* A [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] [[http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1552893-nba-power-rankings-how-each-team-ranks-entering-final-stretch/page/2 analysis]] states that "To call the 2012–13 season a forgettable one for the [Bob]'Cats is an insult to long-lost memories everywhere."
416* Reviewer James Berardinelli on ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20070220191407/http://www.reelviews.net/movies/z/zombie.html Zombie! Vs. Mardi Gras]]'' (considered the worst movie he's ever seen): "The film seems to have been [[JustForFun/XMeetsY inspired in equal parts by]] Creator/GeorgeARomero's ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' and Creator/EdWood's ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''. The result is an embarrassment to both films. [[LampshadeHanging (When was the last time anything was described as]] [[DamnedByFaintPraise an embarrassment to Plan Nine??)]]"
417* "[[http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/15/movies/review-in-norm-of-the-north-a-polar-bear-takes-a-stand.html?partner=rss&emc=rss The title character of]] ''WesternAnimation/NormOfTheNorth'' may be a bear, but the movie is a dog. Actually, that assessment is unfair to dogs — real, anthropomorphic and metaphorical."
418* While reviewing ''Frankenstein Stalks'', ''[[http://1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewse-g/frankensteinstalks.htm 1000 Misspent Hours]]'' took issue with David "The Rock" Nelson calling himself "the Creator/EdWood of the 21st century."
419-->'''El Santo:''' Wood made his movies to the best of his abilities, and if his abilities turned out not to be very great, it's still no slight against the commitment and work ethic that he brought to bear in their service. ''Frankenstein Stalks'', by contrast, represents something close to the absolute minimum of effort that it would be possible to expend while still producing what technically qualifies as a feature motion picture. Someone who understood, appreciated, and respected what Ed Wood put into even his shittiest and most worthless films, and who wanted to honor his example with their own work, would have ''written a damn script''. They would have ''recruited some damn actors'', even if they were just folks from the local community theater who were willing to work for beer on their days off. And they ''sure as fuck'' wouldn't have been content to settle for how Nelson depicted the Frankenstein monster's ostensible reign of terror.
420* [[http://negativereader.tumblr.com/post/121717214199/the-negative-reader-reviews-marked This]] review of the first ''[[Literature/TheHouseOfNight House of Night]]'' book:
421-->May you be ranked with ''[[Literature/TheEyeOfArgon Eye of Argon]]'' in the future.\
422And I'm not sure if I'm insulting ''Eye of Argon''.
423* In [[https://lparchive.org/Lunar-Dragon-Song/Update%2015/ this Let's Play]] of ''VideoGame/LunarDragonSong'', the recapper is about to compare Jian's memory to that of a goldfish[[labelnote:context]]Jian, in a bad case of AesopAmnesia, insists on [[IWorkAlone going alone]] to a dangerous dungeon to rescue Lucia when he got thrashed earlier in the game for pulling the same stunt when fighting one of the dragons[[/labelnote]], but decides that Jian's probably [[IdiotHero dumber than that]] after noting that goldfish can be trained to memorizing simple mazes for up to a month's time.
424* [[http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/12921/toddlers-and-tiaras-honey-boo-boo-child/ This review]] of the trash TV reality show, ''Series/HereComesHoneyBooBoo'' describes her family thusly:
425--> To call these people animalistic would be a compliment. They are more like plants: sedentary, incestual, and easily killed by tornadoes.
426* From Christy Lemire's [[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/cosmic-sin-movie-review-2021 zero-star review]] of ''Film/CosmicSin'':
427-->To suggest that Creator/BruceWillis is phoning in his performance in ''Cosmic Sin'' would be an insult to telephone communication, which can be an effective means of conveying important information and genuine emotion.[[note]]This review became considerably HarsherInHindsight after Willis's family revealed that the actor was suffering from aphasia and frontotemporal dementia at the time he'd filmed it.[[/note]]
428* LGBTQ Nation's review of ''Film/LadyBallers'' called it "[[https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/12/lady-ballers-is-too-stupid-to-even-be-anti-trans-propaganda/ Too stupid to be anti-trans propaganda]]" on the grounds that calling it propaganda implies that there were ideas put into the film and it has none.
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432* In ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'', calling [[WretchedHive Legba]] a hive of scum and villainy is actually described as an insult to scum and villains.
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436* It's a fact that describing ''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild'' as "a bad fanfic" is so common in the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fandom that it's practically a {{meme|ticMutation}}. It's also a fact that an equal portion of the fandom repeatedly objects to that description because they sincerely find it an insult to fan fiction.
437* As per JustForFun/TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples: In ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'', Lavinia likens Tamora to the legendary queen Semiramis, who founded the [[SoiledCityOnAHill infamously sinful city]] of Babylon and was associated with the lascivious goddess Ishtar of Myth/MesopotamianMythology. Then Lavinia backtracks on this comparison, not considering it fair to Semiramis:
438-->Ay, come, Semiramis -- nay, barbarous Tamora,\
439For no name fits thy nature but thy own.
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443* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'', Nalia deArnise describes her betrothed [[spoiler: who [[ObviouslyEvil unsurprisingly]] turns out to have been behind the attack on her family home]] this way. Her statement is actually doubly funny if you remember that the main character [[InsultFriendlyFire actually is a bastard]].
444-->'''Nalia:''' He is a complete and total ''bastard'', and calling him that insults bastards everywhere!
445* From ''VideoGame/RomeTotalWar'', there's the description of the "Deranged" trait:
446-->"There are those who say that this man gibbers like a deranged rock ape. The rock apes will take offense at this slur."
447* The manual for ''VideoGame/FullThrottle'' described Adrian Ripburger as follows:
448-->We'd call him a weasel at heart if he had a heart and it wasn't an insult to respectable weasels.
449* In ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'', 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 flinch at their offensiveness but still pity her for having to put up with him. If your main character says "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 …"
450* In ''Lords of the Realm'' the default insulting message contains the line "You look like a toad. No, that's an insult to toads, you look worse."
451* ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'':
452** This exchange when a coachman mistakes Luke and Tear for bandits.
453--->'''Luke:''' Don't go comparing me to some pathetic bandits!\
454'''Tear:''' Yes, you might upset the bandits.
455** In the manga of ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny'', Leon says to Stahn's ineptitude, "I'd compare you to that chicken there, but it wouldn't be fair to the chicken."
456* ''VideoGame/EternalSonata'': "Really, though, comparing seawater stirred up by the beauty of the moon to the ugly waves created by the effects of human desire is rather an insult to the ocean."
457* The vice president of the school in ''VisualNovel/SnowSakura'' was compared to a snake by the main character. His uncle then tells him that he shouldn't insult snakes like that.
458* ''TabletopGame/BloodBowl'''s VideoGame edition has an example of this when the Pro Elves play a game and the AnnouncerChatter turns to them:
459-->'''Jim:''' Hair products? Check. Scantily clad players? Check. If I didn't know better I could have mistaken these for an [[AmazonBrigade Amazon team]], Bob.\
460'''Bob:''' Don't be silly, Jim, I don't think I know anyone that fears an elf.\
461'''Jim:''' That's true, Bob.
462* Before the first Sonic/Shadow boss fight in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', Sonic calls Shadow a faker, only for Shadow to retort that Sonic is the fake hedgehog and that he isn't good enough to be his fake. Sonic then tells him that [[ShutUpHannibal he'll make him eat his words]].
463* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsV's'' mission "Not Your Natto" (based on an episode of ''Anime/TheBraveExpressMightGaine''), [[DisproportionateRetribution Catherine Vuitton kidnaps a group of your support characters]] as part of a plot to [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext destroy all the natto in Japan.]] Your PlayerCharacter's comment says it all.
464-->'''[[Characters/SuperRobotWarsV Chitose]]:''' I would call this childish but I don't want to offend any children.
465* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'': If in the mood, Arthur Morgan can use this insult towards Sadie Adler.
466-->'''Arthur:''' I'd call you a fishwife, but I'd be insulting the fish.
467* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
468** {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney''. Trucy scolds Apollo when he calls Machi Tobaye a pianist, because that would imply, he can be compared to her father (who can't even be called a DreadfulMusician because Phoenix barely plays the piano at all).
469** The DLC case in ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Dual Destinies]]'' has Dr. Crab remaking that Phoenix is more birdbrained than Rifle (a penguin at the aquarium where Dr. Crab works), which Blackquill (who has a pet hawk named [[ADogNamedDog Taka]]) takes great exception to:
470--->'''Blackquill:''' Witness, I will not allow birds to be belittled in my presence! Limit your disparaging comments to the defense alone!\
471'''Phoenix:''' (''So I get disparaged either way. Great.'')
472* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', after Byleth [[spoiler:pursues their father's killer]] only to end up in a trap set by the enemy, Sothis calls them out.
473-->'''Sothis''': YouFool! What were you thinking, charging right into an enemy's trap? Are you just a boulder that rolls down whatever hill it's on? No, even a boulder has more sense!
474* ''VideoGame/LoveAndPies'':
475-->'''Esme:''' Saw that rat of an ex-husband outside, Amelia.\
476'''Amelia:''' You shouldn't call him that. It's not fair on Kate.\
477'''Esme:''' Not fair on rats, more like.
478* ''VideoGame/Persona5Tactica'': In the side quest, when Yusuke is informed how he behaved while he was {{Brainwashed}} by Marie:
479-->'''Futaba:''' Marie made you call yourself an "inconsequential, dirt-poor brat."
480-->'''Yusuke:''' What!? How... How could she...!?
481-->'''Makoto:''' Hey, it's okay. You shouldn't take what she says to heart, you know that right?
482-->'''Yusuke:''' [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne Dirt is the source of all things beautiful and nutritious. I won't allow anyone to insult it like that.]]
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486* ''WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt'': When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo4gYh5K-Ls Azami]] refused to admit her wrongdoing to her boss a few days after an incident during Akane's wedding day, Tsutsuji finds her logic absurd and alien, while apologizing to the aliens for the comparison.
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490* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
491** In a [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0285.html strip]], V compares Belkar's mental abilities to a table. V [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0286.html later apologizes to the tables of the world]] for comparing Belkar to them.
492** When Belkar comments on seeing that O-Chul survived Azure City that "those paladins are like roaches", one of the [[GreekChorus Demon-roaches]] takes offence.
493* In ''Webcomic/BetweenFailures'', 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.
494* Done implicitly in ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?db=comics&id=35#comic "Do you have to put [art degrees and particularly low-quality toilet paper] next to each other?"]]
495* In ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'', Millie comments that the school's pit orchestra isn't good enough to deserve the word 'pit'.
496* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' once said, [[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."]]
497* Used [[http://amultiverse.com/comic/2016/02/24/the-persistence-of-trump/ in this strip]] of ''Webcomic/ScenesFromAMultiverse'' in reference to UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.
498* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', calling [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Dellyn]] a monster will seriously insult monsters.
499* In ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'', Esther [[https://www.gpf-comics.com/archive/2015/02/20 refers to Trent]] as "that pond scum [Trudy] dated in college". Trudy replies "Please, Mother. Don't insult pond scum like that."
500* In ''Webcomic/SequentialArt'', Art [[https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1227 criticizes A.I.-generated "art"]], and the "artists" that produce it and stand by it as a legitimate medium, by comparing their lazy, ugly, keyword-generated images to a portfolio of nothing but [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirograph spirograph]] drawings, but relents because the spirographs at least take some skill to make.
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504* The Website/NewsBiscuit article [[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 UsefulNotes/TonyBlair'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'."
505* After the CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch made some nasty comments about the company refusing to make larger sizes of clothing because they don't want "ugly people" in their stores, the Internet got angry and started making fun of his appearance, with posts circulating Website/{{Tumblr}} [[http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/542/299/d84.png comparing him to]] a particularly ugly orc captain named Gothmog in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing''. Cue the [[http://sharkchunks.tumblr.com/post/50023814521 counter-post]] saying that this is entirely unfair to Gothmog, because ''he's'' a total badass.
506* Website/{{WrestleCrap}}, in its [[http://www.wrestlecrap.com/inductions/induction-heel-dixie-carter-2013-gooker-winner-winner-turkey-dinner/ 2013 Gooker Award column]] lambasting Dixie Carter's FaceHeelTurn, recalls the time [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] briefly hired NFL cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones, who was suspended by the league at the time for his conviction on felony gun charges:
507-->"Long story short, he's a football player and convicted felon that TNA brought in because they thought it would bring them some much-needed pub. Which it did, but it was [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity negative pub]]. But said negative pub wasn't that TNA was bringing in a felon, it was that the FELON LOWERED HIMSELF BY GOING TO TNA."
508* [[https://www.cracked.com/blog/4-insane-conspiracy-theories-that-need-their-own-movie/ This]] Website/{{Cracked}} article, in discussing a conspiracy theory that Creator/StephenKing killed Music/JohnLennon, says:
509-->...Yes, according to a particularly inspired conspiracy enthusiast (who I'm specifically not calling a loon, for loons are a fine folk and I have no wish to offend them)...
510* [[https://left-reminders.tumblr.com/post/183462145788 This]] infographic on Tumblr explains why comparing [=CEOs=] to vultures would be unfair to the vultures.
511* ''Website/SFDebris'': When Chuck Sonnenburg reviews ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' and talks about how unfit Kirk is for command, he compares him to Stifler from the ''Film/AmericanPie'' movies. He then says this is a disservice to Stifler because he [[CharacterDevelopment matured over time]], while Kirk merely grows more insufferable.
512* Reviewing ''Film/MadameWeb2024'', David Sims of ''[[UsefulNotes/AmericanNewspapers The Atlantic]]'' stated that to say that the film's star, Creator/DakotaJohnson, phoned in her performance would be an insult to Alexander Graham Bell.[[note]]The inventor of the telephone.[[/note]]
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516* PJTV's Bill Whittle, in his ''Afterburner'' episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeGGs6642O8 "Rule of Lawlessness"]] states that calling the "fiscal cliff" shenanigans (or "goat rodeo" as Bill calls it) Kabuki theater was an insult to that art, which has rules, structure, beauty, and an ancient and honorable tradition.
517* WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob enjoys using comparisons like this.
518** While reviewing ''Brazilian Star Wars'':
519--->'''Snob:''' To say that these dipshits overdo it on the silly factor would just take the dignity of the word silly.
520** After confirming that the name "Uwe Boldt" in the credits of ''Film/ViolentShit'' has no connection to Creator/UweBoll:
521--->'''Snob:''' Oh good, because for a minute there I thought... you know what? This movie is so fucking awful that comparing it to Uwe Boll ''is an insult to '''Uwe Boll!'''''
522** He uses a variant of the joke in his review of ''Film/PinkFlamingos'':
523--->'''Snob:''' ''[after a character goes on an expletive-laden rant]'' I'd [[SoapPunishment wash this movie's mouth out with soap]], but ''[pulls bar of soap out of his jacket]'' I'd rather give this bar of soap a more dignified death, like scrubbing my asshole!
524** And in reviewing the fundamentalist propaganda film ''Film/RockItsYourDecision'' on ''WebVideo/DVDRHell'', Creator/{{Brad|Jones}} says that calling the Captain and Tennille "sin" is a sin against the word "sin".
525* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'':
526** Linkara did a crossover review with the Last Angry Geek of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan: ComicBook/OneMomentInTime''. Said comic was supposed to be an explanation of the whole mess that ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' ended up creating, but only ended up making it worse. Linkara once again [[PunctuatedForEmphasis loudly declares]] that Creator/JoeQuesada is a hack, and that calling him one was actually [[InvertedTrope doing a favor to the other hacks out there]] by making them look better.
527** Linkara also went on a rant against Mentor Ji in the ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' episode of ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'', calling him a glorified butler -- before retracting it and saying Spencer from ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'', an actual butler, did more to help the Rangers of ''Operation Overdrive'' than Ji ever did the ''Samurai'' Rangers.
528** On the Cinema Snob webpage comments on ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'', in response to a troll:
529--->'''Adam:''' So your method to criticize 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.\
530'''Linkara:''' Now that, sir, is simply unfair. 4-year-olds don't know any better.
531* Creator/AllisonPregler, on ''Film/TheRoom2003'': "I'd go as far as saying ''The Room'' is this generation's ''Film/Troll2'', but I'd be afraid of insulting ''Troll 2''."
532* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic:
533** While reviewing ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'':
534--->'''Critic:''' Now, I would say this chase scene seems to copy the one from ''Film/JudgeDredd'', but that would imply that people actually saw ''Judge Dredd''. [[note]]Then again, the Critic admitted that he kind of enjoyed ''Judge Dredd'', so that may be just a jab on it flopping at the box office.[[/note]]
535** In the SNICK review, the Critic compares the musical numbers of ''Series/{{Roundhouse}}'' to bad Christian rock. After playing a sample of one of the numbers, though, he admits that Christian rock doesn't sound ''that'' bad[[note]][[HilariousInHindsight Amusingly enough]], the musical director for that show is an actual early Christian rock musician, Benny Hester (of "When God Ran" and "Nobody Knows Me Like You" fame)[[/note]].
536** In his "The WORST Christmas Special Ever" episode on ''WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree'' when he sees a bear that is not a polar bear in the North Pole, he comments that even ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians'' at least got what kind of bear lives in the Arctic right.
537** In his review of Creator/MNightShyamalan's ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', he mocks the EvilOverlord's non-threatening appearance:
538--->'''Critic:''' It's like they grabbed a guy at the grocery store and dressed him up as [[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian Biggus Dickus]]! Hell, ''Biggus Dickus'' is more intimidating than him! He at least is played by [[Creator/GrahamChapman an actor]] I know is dead, which kind of has the ghost value... It's more intimidating than ''this!''
539* In WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick's spin-off ''[[Literature/ViridianSaga Fifty Shades of Green]][=/=]Booze Your Own Adventure'', she calls [[Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey E.L. James]] "the Creator/MichaelBay of writing," and after a moment profusely apologizes to Bay, saying that comment was "way out of line."
540* In his "Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2022" list, WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows described Music/MeghanTrainor's style as "white Music/{{Lizzo}}" but quickly recants that, saying it's insulting. Not to Lizzo, but to ''white people.''
541* ''WebVideo/TVTrash'': During the review of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E11NotAllDogsGoToHeaven Not All Dogs Go to Heaven]]", Chris asserts that the decision by the creators of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' to compare the ''Family Guy'' writers to manatees is an insult to the manatees.
542* ''WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow'' has one against [[Music/NoDoubt Gwen Stefani's]] "Hollaback Girl" and its video.
543-->"Saying that this song and video is an insult to songs and videos is an insult to insult to insult to songs and videos."
544* Stefan Molyneux's Website/YouTube video "Social Security Is Not a {{Ponzi}} Scheme" says this about the American "Social Security" system and Ponzi Schemes. Since Ponzi Schemes don't force you to join it's arguably justified.
545* WebVideo/BadCreepypasta: After the reading of ''It's OK, Your Soul Doesn't Matter'', MD Phantasm made a remark about how poorly-written creepypastas were written by children, where Jacob took offense to his remark and gave a small rant how they should be writing better stories as they learned in school.
546* ''LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}} Civilization'': During the Christmas 2014 livestream (aka the "Datlof" game), a very, very drunk Lewis [[BadBoss threatens to fire Parv]] for a number of different reasons, such as putting a speck of grime in his glass of gin[[note]]No, not for doing a poor job cleaning it and leaving some grime in the glass; for "putting" it there, deliberately, to spite him[[/note]]. [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity He then takes that back]] because he's unsure if Parv does enough work to even technically ''be'' fired and compares it to firing the gin glass itself, which he also takes back because the glass actually serves a purpose to him.
547* ''WebVideo/TJOmega'' TJ states that Titanium Megatron has more in common with a brick than a real Transformer... and ends up apologizing to the brick he used for the gag.
548* ''WebVideo/MothersBasement'': Geoff's claim to fame is many videos bashing ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'', so whenever he says a series is ''even worse'' than SAO, you know he really hates it.
549* WebVideo/JanMisali, creator of ''WebVideo/ConlangCritic'', has repeatedly stated how much he HATES Votgil. Since the third episode, when he reviewed Votgil, it has been at the bottom of his list. That is, until he reviewed Poliespo. It's so much worse he doesn't even go so far as to actually compare the two!
550-->comparing Poliespo to Votgil is an insult to Votgil
551* WebVideo/CrashThompson:
552** In "Worst Albums of 2022", Crash compares the lyrics from "Emo Girl" by Music/MachineGunKelly to Franchise/{{Bratz}} dolls, before going on to say "that's not fair to the Bratz dolls".
553* When WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd reviewed ''VideoGame/CountdownVampires'', he initially compared ''Countdown'' to ''VideoGame/TimeKillers'', as both games were FollowTheLeader equivalents to [[GenrePopularizer game-changing franchises]] that came out way too late. He quickly changed his mind thinking he was being mean to ''Time Killers'', and then said it would be better to compare ''Countdown'' to ''VideoGame/ShadowWarOfSuccession''.
554* When dissing SquareEnix on the ''WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}}'' episode "Square Enix Can't Stop Being Terrible", James Stephanie Sterling initially refers to Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda as "weasel-in-chief" before apologizing to weasels, saying "Weasels are cute. Matsuda's a stupid fucking dickhead."
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557[[folder:Western Animation]]
558* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'':
559** In a micro-commercial for ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'', 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."
560** ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020'': In a YouTuberApologyParody, the Warners apologize for calling Ralph the Guard a "silly goose", which offended a lot of geese.
561* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': In "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS2E17And18SummitToSaveEarth Summit to Save Earth]]", [[KnightOfCerebus after a two-parter's worth of his usual violent cruelty]], Zarm is yelling at the birds and monkeys attacking him, calling them vermin. The incoming Captain Planet snaps back that ''[[NoYou Zarm]]'' [[NoYou is the vermin]], and then immediately backpedals, saying that calling him vermin isn't terrible enough to be accurate.
562-->'''Captain Planet''': You're ''trash'', and this is one time I'm ''not'' recycling!
563* ''WesternAnimation/TrippingTheRift'': When Angel calls the alien T'Nuk a cow for knocking her out of her chair:
564-->'''Chode:''' She's not a cow.\
565'''T'Nuk:''' Thank you, Chode.\
566'''Chode:''' Cows have a quiet dignity and serve a purpose.\
567'''T'Nuk:''' Jackass!\
568'''Chode:''' Let's not drag {{your mo|m}}ther into this.
569* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' once said his dad's cookies tasted like dirt, so his dad made him eat dirt for comparison. Johnny apologizes and admits he was wrong. Dirt tastes better.
570* In one ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' episode Sonic mentions that he'd like to call Robotnik a slime bucket, "but that would be an insult to decent slime buckets everywhere!"
571* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' -- Spider-Man to Hobgoblin:
572-->'''Spider-Man:''' Personally, I'd never call ''you'' a fool. That'd be an insult to fools everywhere.
573* WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead, discussing Scatman John's "Scatman" music video.
574-->'''Beavis:''' They should have a name for this kind of music.\
575'''Butt-Head:''' There already is a name for this music, Beavis. It's called ''crap''.\
576'''Beavis:''' They oughta have, you know, a "Crap" section in the record store.\
577'''Butt-Head:''' Uhhh, yeah. It should be out in the dumpster.\
578'''Beavis:''' No way, Butt-Head. There's cool stuff in the dumpster. You wouldn't want to mess it up with ''this'' crap.
579* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
580** In "Homer's Enemy", Frank Grimes observes Homer's eating habits.
581--->'''Grimes:''' God, he eats like a pig.\
582'''Lenny:''' I dunno. Pigs tend to chew. I'd say he eats more like a duck.\
583'''Grimes:''' Well, some kind of farm animal anyway.
584** Inverted in "Beyond Blunderdome", where a studio executive declares that an [[ActionizedSequel Actionized Remake]] of ''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington'' (that ends with Smith killing everyone in Congress and decapitating the President) made by Creator/MelGibson and Homer was worse than ''[[Film/TheGodfather Godfather III]]''. Mel and Homer gasp in horror and the studio executive quickly apologizes.
585** Milhouse pulls a self-effacing version in "I Am Furious (Yellow)" when Bart says he can tag along to a WackyStartupWorkplace he's making webtoons for.
586--->'''Bart''': You can speak nerd to them.\
587'''Milhouse''': ''(annoyed)'' I'm ''not'' a nerd Bart... ''(suddenly crestfallen)'' Nerds are smart.
588** In "Homerazzi", combining with MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting, Homer's failure to blow out the candles on his birthday cake prompts Lisa to point out that, even for an American, he's ''really'' out of shape. And to elaborate further, the candles on Homer's birthday cake weren't those trick candles that you can't blow out--[[EpicFail they were candles that are supposedly]] '''[[EpicFail EASIER]]''' [[EpicFail to blow out than regular candles]].
589* On ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama World Tour'', [[SassyBlackWoman Leshawna]] opens a can of peanuts only for a little [[DepravedKidsShowHost Chris]] head to pop out.
590-->'''Leshawna:''' A Chris-in-the-box? That's an insult to boxes.
591* At one point in ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', Morty compares SociopathicHero Rick to Hitler, "except at least Hitler cared about Germany, or something!"
592* ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}'': In "Hunka Hunka Burnin' Reef", when Fin and Lo are competing over Reef:
593-->'''Lo:''' So Reef is the dog? Kinda insulting.\
594'''Fin:''' Yeah. To the dog.
595* ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'': During "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch", Creator/ThurlRavenscroft sings that the Grinch has "all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile", then adds "Given the choice between the two of you, I'd take the.... seasick crocodile!"
596* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': In "The Secret(s) of Castle [=McDuck=]!", Scrooge and his estranged father, Fergus, start in on another of their many arguments.
597-->'''Fergus:''' You avoid us like the plague!\
598'''Scrooge:''' Oh, come now, that's unfair ''to the plague!''\
599'''Fergus:''' That's it! {{Go to your room}}!\
600'''Scrooge:''' I NEVER ''LIVED'' HERE!
601* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/NexoKnights'', while the knights are struggling to work on a movie headed by an upstart director, Macy calls the movie a farce before deciding that it's too bad to even be called that.
602* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Discord invokes this as part of his BatmanGambit against the villains while insulting Tirek.
603-->'''Tirek:''' He's lying! He won't tell us!\
604'''Discord:''' I certainly won't tell ''you'' after the way you lied to ''me'' the last time we teamed up, you muscle-bound cretin.\
605'''Tirek:''' This "cretin" could destroy you before you blink, so choose your words carefully.\
606'''Discord:''' You're right. "Cretin" is too polite. How about "pathetic centaur who uses magic to compensate for the fact that deep down he's afraid he'll never be enough to please dear old dad, King Vorak"?
607* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': One episode had Quagmire threaten he'd "squash (Brian) like a bug", causing a family of anthropomorphic bugs watching the series to become offended by it.
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610[[folder:Real Life]]
611* In a lot of earlier seasons of ''Series/TheSteveWilkosShow'', Steve Wilkos would often refer to particularly disgusting guests as 'pigs', and would provide the analogy of pigs wallowing in dirt. However, he seems to have dropped the use of this, as in real life pigs are quite clean animals, and only lie on dirt or waterlogged ground to cool off.
612* Regarding the Allied nations' need for cooperation with the Soviet Union to defeat the Axis forces, British Prime Minister UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill remarked "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would at least make [[SympathyForTheDevil a favorable reference to the Devil]] in the House of Commons", just before Germany implemented Operation Barbarossa, invading the Soviet Union soon after Churchill's remark.
613* On one occasion, Creator/WillRogers remarked: "A senator got up today in Congress and called his fellow senators sons of wild jackasses. Now, if you think the senators were hot, imagine how the jackasses must feel."
614* "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!" U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald (R-Illinois) to Kenneth Lay, Feb. 12, 2002
615* Creator/DavidLetterman on the O.J. Simpson trial: "To call this trial a circus is an insult to the fine people at Ringling Brothers!"
616* "I'd call her a [[CountryMatters cunt]], but she lacks the depth and the charm." — William Styron. Nobody seems to know to whom he referred.
617* A common form of rebuke from an instructing NCO to a recruit in the British Army was "I'd call you a cunt, but unlike you, cunts are useful. And decorative."
618* In one of [[Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher Bill Maher]]'s 2010 monologues, he [[GodwinsLaw compares the anti-immigration reforms of Arizona to Nazi Germany]]. He then takes it back because "the Germans knew how to dress themselves."
619* There is a Website/{{Facebook}} group that claims that calling [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Cullen]] gay is an insult to gay people. One would argue this is a JustifiedTrope: most gay people don't [[StalkingIsLove break into someone's house to watch them sleep]].
620* Creator/JonStewart, towards UsefulNotes/SarahPalin:
621-->'''Palin:''' [[BaitAndSwitchComparison What's the difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom?]]\
622'''Stewart:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint 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]]?
623* On the UsefulNotes/{{Usenet}} newsgroup ''news.admin.net-abuse.email'', comparing a spammer to anything will get you a metaphorical call from the proper Anti-Defamation League.
624* "I would call them scumbags, but that would be an insult to bags of scum." — Creator/DennisMiller, in reference to the French.[[note]]On the contrary, Miller's francophobic comment [[UnfortunateImplications would be an insult to]] ''the French''.[[/note]]
625* Another generic one is calling someone "retarded", then taking it back because "that insults the intelligence of the mentally retarded." Jon Stewart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfwNlJZ-_l4 did this as part of a bit describing the U.S. government's response to Hurricane Katrina at the 2006 Emmys.]]
626* Binghamton University athletic director Joel Thirer compared the basketball team to a zoo. [[https://deadspin.com/binghamton-zoo-doesnt-appreciate-the-comparisons-to-tha-5370248 The Binghamton Zoo got offended.]] ("Not one of our tigers has been arrested with cocaine. No otter knocks over old ladies to shoplift condoms.")
627* Quoth Creator/DanSavage: [[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."]]
628* 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.
629* In addressing a Republican convention, UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan said, "To say Congress is spending like [[TheDrunkenSailor drunken sailors]] is an insult to drunken sailors…" The cheers and applause kept him from delivering his punchline, "…who at least are spending ''their own'' money."
630* After Matt Taibbi called Goldman Sachs "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity", he received responses from a number of zoologists saying he was slandering the squid.
631* After the Italian election of 2013, German politician Peer Steinbrück [[OpenMouthInsertFoot made a comment]] about being shocked that "the two Italian clowns" won, referring to Silvio Berlusconi and Beppe Grillo. Afterwards, Bernhard Paul, the clown and boss of Circus Roncalli protested against the comparison, stating that clowning is an honorable, difficult, and sensible job.
632* Music/MarilynManson once mentioned, when OneHitWonder Music/NewRadicals released their hit "You Get What You Give," which contained this closing rap:
633-->''Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson\
634 Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson\
635 You're all fakes, run to your mansions\
636 Come around, we'll kick your ass in!''
637:: He was less insulted by lead singer Gregg Alexander mentioning he'd kick Marilyn's ass in as he was [[TakeThat being mentioned in the same breath]] as Music/CourtneyLove.
638* Some people compare the user interface changes in Windows 8 to the flavor changes in New Coke. Robert X. Cringely [[https://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/windows-8-new-coke-thats-insult-new-coke-218441?source=rss_infoworld_blogs called it an insult to New Coke]].
639* In June 2013, ''The Sun'' published the following retraction/apology:
640-->''In an article on Saturday headlined 'Flying saucers over British Scientology HQ,' we stated 'two flat silver discs' were seen 'above the Church of Scientology HQ.' Following a letter from lawyers for the Church, we apologise to any alien lifeforms for linking them to Scientologists.''
641* In a [[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19100105&id=vlxXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=W_ADAAAAIBAJ&pg=4097,3506777 1910 trial]] Judge Ralph H. Latshaw declared that grouping [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapists]] with murderers was an insult to the murderers and even went so far as to deny the rapists the dignity of being hanged on a Friday, the traditional day on which hangings take place.
642* Conservative commentator David Frum declared UsefulNotes/SarahPalin to have demonstrated that she wasn't up to the job of being Vice President of the United States and compared her to UsefulNotes/DanQuayle, before admitting that he felt such a comparison unfair…to Quayle.
643* Comparing anyone to the Westboro Baptist Church is literally an insult to everyone else. [[MoralGuardians Jerry Falwell]] (who believed, like them, that gays caused 9/11) [[EveryoneHasStandards thought they went too far, and even the]] ''UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards officially disavowed any connection with them.]]
644* As part of the Uruguay government's infliction of [[{{Unperson}} damnatio memoriae]] upon the Tupamaros, the word "terrorist" could not be used to refer to them, as they were making such inept fools of the government with their antics that it was held that to call them terrorists would be an insult to terrorists.
645* Many people have quipped along the lines of "To call X 'sophomoric' would be an insult to sophomores."
646* In the 1964 British general election, the constituency of Smethwick swung from Labour to Conservative against the national tide, partly thanks to a campaign that was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smethwick_in_the_1964_general_election accused of race-baiting.]] [[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/15/britains-most-racist-election-smethwick-50-years-on More information here.]] Prime Minister UsefulNotes/HaroldWilson called on the Tories to disavow Peter Griffiths MP, whom he called a "parliamentary leper". Several Conservative [=MPs=] proposed a motion to condemn Wilson's insult to Griffiths,[[note]]Long-standing Parliamentary rules hold that members are not allowed to insult each other directly.[[/note]] while some of Wilson's own Labour [=MPs=] ''also'' proposed a motion to condemn his insult... to lepers.
647* The controversial practice of using [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_behavior_analysis "Applied Behavior Analysis"]] to teach children on the autistic spectrum to interact with others in an outwardly 'normal' way is frequently compared to dog training by its detractors. (And, tellingly, [[NotHelpingYourCase some of its advocates]].) At least one professional dog trainer has weighed in on the subject [[https://theaspergian.com/2019/03/27/is-aba-really-dog-training-for-children-a-professional-dog-trainer-weighs-in here,]] describing the comparison as deeply unfair: She would ''never'' treat a dog that way, because it's cruel and ineffective.
648* When Charlie Finley, owner of the Oakland A's baseball team in the 1970's, was feuding with then-baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, Finley at one point called him a "village idiot". Afterwards, Finley corrected this, saying, "I apologize to all the village idiots of America. He (Kuhn) is the nation's idiot."
649* A Chud.com review of ''Film/Dracula3000'' stated that "To call this film shit is an insult to fragrant brown logs everywhere."
650* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur6QgEC3ONQ This video]] tells the story of a mother who horribly abused her daughter for 15 years, including starvation and torture. Candace (the host) says at the end that she was sentenced to death, and adds that she sincerely hopes she goes to {{Hell}}, but then adds that even {{Satan}} probably [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth wouldn't want her there]].
651* After a terrible Philadelphia Eagles game, a Website/{{Facebook}} member snidely commented that "the Eagles played like they were wearing tutus." Incensed at this, a member of the Pennsylvania Ballet offered up a [[https://www.indy100.com/article/an-american-football-fan-tried-to-mock-ballerinas-and-it-completely-backfired--WJZeeeln13x blistering editorial]] that described how difficult the life of a ballerina was and suggested that the comment was an insult to the dancers rather than the football players, capping it off with this gem: "So no, the Eagles have not played like they were wearing tutus. If they had, Chip Kelly would still be the head coach and we'd all be looking forward to the playoffs."
652* Invoked and inverted by historian Gareth Russell in his nonfiction book ''Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of Henry VIII''. Russell noted that the Duke of Norfolk, uncle to both UsefulNotes/AnneBoleyn and Catherine Howard, had once complained that "...Queen Anne Boleyn drove him from her presence with words that one would not use to a dog," an anecdote which the author notes "...if nothing else was inaccurate on the basis that [Anne] liked her dogs far more than she did her uncle."
653* After the Russians launched missiles at a funeral in a Ukrainian village, killing over 50 mourners, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said that the attack [[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67022615 "couldn't even be called a beastly act - because it would be an insult to beasts".]]
654* In 2023, a columnist for the ''Los Angeles Times'' characterized a politician as having [[https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-04-26/column-disney-lawsuit-shows-ron-desantis-at-his-bullying-bumbling-worst "all the charisma of a linoleum floor"]]. An architect wrote back demanding an apology on behalf of linoleum, [[https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2023-05-01/leave-linoleum-out-of-the-the-desantis-disney-fight "which has comported itself with dignity now for more than a century and a half."]]
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