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unusual facts about insult


Insult

Desmond Morris, noting that 'almost any action can operate as an Insult Signal if it is performed out of its appropriate context - at the wrong time or in the wrong place' - classes such signals in ten 'basic categories: 1. Disinterest Signals...2. Boredom Signals...3. Impatience Signals...4. Superiority Signals...5. Deformed-compliment Signals...6. Mock-discomfort Signals...7. Rejection Signals....8. Mockery Signals...9. Symbolic Insults...10. Dirt Signals'.


Alfred Diete-Spiff

Taking this as a deliberate insult, Diete-Spiff's aide Ralph Iwowari had the reporter's head publicly shaved and had him beaten with 24 lashes of a cane.

American Shaolin

To add to the insult, Drew's teacher Master Kwan (Kim Chan) confesses that he is not—as he had claimed—a Shaolin monk, and therefore he had not passed on the actual knowledge of Shaolin kung fu to Drew.

Andrew Charles Stewart

To add insult to injury, the day on which he finally left Tripoli and the Service was an appallingly wet one.

Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll

During his visit to Monck at Dalkeith in 1654 to complain of this, he was subjected to much personal insult from his creditors, and on visiting London in September 1655 to obtain money due to him from the Scottish parliament, he was arrested for debt, though soon liberated.

Athena and Phevos

Prior to the Games, a group affiliated with the Societas Hellenica Antiquariorum called the Greek Society of the Friends of the Ancients and a Hellenic polytheistic group called the Committee for the Greek Religion Dodecatheon, devoted to the preservation of ancient Greek culture, sued over the mascots, claiming that they "savagely insult" Classical Greek culture.

Attack on Camp Holloway

Then in February 1964, North Vietnam joined the People’s Republic of China in refusing to sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which was an insult to the policy of co-existence adopted by the then Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

Blame Canada

When asked, the Canadian Consul General (and former Prime Minister) Kim Campbell said that she was not offended by the song since it was clearly a silly satirical piece and not intended to insult her country.

Bunghole

In the MTV cartoon series Beavis and Butt-head created by Mike Judge, the term "bunghole" was popularized as both a personal insult and slang for anus.

Chuck Knipp

John Strausbaugh, author of Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture, explores Liquor's act in his book.

Conversation games

The Dozens – A popular game originating from Hip-hop culture where players verbally spar in an attempt to entertainingly insult one another.

Dhanya Balakrishna

Referring to the long standing Kaveri River water dispute, she tweeted an insult directed at Chennai and subsequently faced backlash on social media for her comments.

Flex Mentallo

Flex is in part a parody of Charles Atlas' long-running "The Insult that made a Man out of Mac" advertisements seen in American comics from the past.

Fred Swift

He raced back towards the goal square, just in time to intercept a kick from Colin Eales and, to add insult to injury, ran across the face of goal, bounced the ball, with Wade in hot pursuit, and calmly passed the ball to John Perry.

Google Sites

It was done after one of the pages contained an insult of Turkey founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Hector the Tax Inspector

In 2011, supporters of Scottish association football club, Celtic started to use images and masks of Hector to insult supporters of their Old Firm rivals Rangers by referring to Rangers' tax problems with Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.

I Apologize campaign

The Şişli 2nd Criminal Court Judge Hakki Yalçinkaya ordered that the 'özürdiliyoruz.com' site should be shut down and that the signatories should to be punished under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, an article which makes it illegal to insult Turkey, the Turkish ethnicity, or Turkish government institutions.

ISheep

The marketing term is borrowed by some in tech sites and forums as an insult to a person who is an Apple Inc. products fan.

Joseph Martin-Dauch

Each representative signed the oath, in turn, until the pen was passed to Martin-Dauch; he declared that his constituents did not send him to insult the monarchy, and that he would protest against the oath.

Michael Ben-Ari

In 2009, in an open letter to Israeli leaders and politicians, Ben-Ari stated that Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Israel would be an insult to the memory of Holocaust victims.

Nuu-chah-nulth people

In 1811 the trading ship Tonquin was blown up in Clayoquot Sound when its efforts to trade were turned into an attack by Nuu-chah-nulth in revenge for an insult by the ship's captain.

Ottamthullal

Kunchan Nambiar lavishly used the similes to insult the landlords and other so called very reputed personalities of that time as Bhima’s image was pictured like them foolish and arrogant landlord.

Pankrti

They billed themselves The First Punk Band Behind The Iron Curtain (one of their songs has a title Behind iron curtain old brods are pulling the red beet).

Restoration and tolerance of Paganism from Julian till Valens

The Christian Sozomen acknowledges that Julian did not compel Christians to offer sacrifice nor did he allow the people to commit any act of injustice towards the Christians or insult them.

Rob Bonnet

During an interview with Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius on 6 September 2011, Bonnet asked about the ethnical issues associated with his partipication in the 4x400 relay during the World Championships in Daegu with Pistorius replying "I think that's an insult to me and I think this interview is over" and then left the studio afterwards.

Sadegh Sharafkandi

In a 2004 letter to Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (the mayor of Tehran at that time) objected to the commemorative plaque in front of the restaurant, calling it an insult to Iran.

Shailaputri

But in a sacrificial ceremony organized by her father Prajapati Daksha, she got her body burnt in the yogic fire, because she could not bear the insult of her husband Lord Shiva by her father Prajapati Daksha in the sacrificial ceremony.

Tanuku

Tarkasena was made a demon after his defeat in a great war between him and Lord Kumara Swamy (Subramania Swamy), the son of Lord Shiva and Parvathi and the son-in-law of Indra, who was invaded by Tarakasura over an insult meted out to him.

Telebasura

The term telebasura is usually associated with reality programs and talk shows where either the moderator is partial or inexistent, the supporters of a particular point of view are the majority, or insults, abusive language and uproar predominate.

Think the Unthinkable

A running gag is that he usually describes the consultancy process with a metaphor that leads to an inadvertent insult to himself (for example: “Imagine you are square pegs and we are round holes. Try to think of me as a round hole”).


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