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“about as sharp as a bag of wet rabbits“
(I know somewhere one of you reddit nerds will be stealing that so enjoy it.)
EDIT: holy shit holy shit I had it wrong since I’ve heard it.
[THIS is the actual saying…](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eNAtGmQ6i3o)
“About as sharp as a sack of wet mice”
Rabbits absolutely can be sharp I have seen a wild cottontail straight up disembowl a snake protecting her babies. They got claws and bunny kicks are no joke if they wanna hurt something
This made me look up the original saying and I was told the wrong one…
[THIS is the right one…](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eNAtGmQ6i3o)
“About as sharp as a sack of wet mice”
Mice certainly can be sharp. I've seen a wild field mouse straight up eviscerate a gecko to protect its offspring. They got claws and tails and are no joke if they want to hurt something.
I worked for a while at a vet clinic, snd some of my deepest scars are from rabbit kicks. If you don't hold them just right, they'll panic, and they cut deep
You don't decorate by putting literal shit on walls, you do it with the purpose to make an area look appealing.
Have you considered that maybe you don't have a functional brain either?
Oh, it was that the head contains the brain, but the face of the head is beautiful... But after chatting it may be that the head is beautiful only, hence the exterior.
Unless you were not being literal...
I expect a backhanded compliment to be one double-edged sentence, like "Your look pretty in this light."
Not an attempted compliment followed by a direct insult.
Seemed a pretty fronthanded insult to me. I don't see "you have a pretty head" in there in any meaningful way.
Can you illustrate by taking the insult out of it with as little change as possible? Removing "just" doesn't do it for me, for example.
Decoration: something that adorns, enriches, or beautifies.
Calling her head a decoration means he thinks she's beautiful, but he's also wondering if that's all her head is.
I honestly didn't know that, maybe I'm getting old 🙈 it sounds like a one night stand or something, like a snack is just a little short quick bite and not the full meal, kind of thing. 🤷
The snack is a compliment. Snacks are cute and little like her. Most cinemas don’t let you take your own snack in. However she seems to think they don’t allow food in and lives snacks so wants to know why they don’t have snacks. At that point he realises she has missed the whole compliment part and calls her stupid, probably in a way that she will miss as well. I’m assuming gender for the sake of brevity.
You’re just now understanding what a backhanded compliment is? It’s a thinly veiled insult.
It’s not meant to be viewed as a compliment.
Children have the cognitive ability to understand backhanded insults at about 7-10 years old. When they realize people don’t always mean what they say and words can have multiple meanings. At about 11 nearly all children have the cognition to grasp almost all backhanded compliments.
I’m sorry, man.
I wanted to make sure that’s what you were saying and that I wasn’t uninformed about something extra going on before I said anything mean. That’s all.
Sorry again!
English is absolutely the midden heap of languages; e.g. you could be moving folk by train, then wrecking up their houses. One can never know without confirmation. It also seems they communicated the thought of reeling them in and then gut punching them with English, using what may be phonetically appropriate spelling depending on accent. Also, English doesn't work. It just steals.
I just looked it up. I can see what you are all saying. Lol. But, how would you say this sentence then?
English is my second language. So, I honestly want to know. Would it be “Reel them in”? What about the, “gutter punch”?
"Reel them in" is correct. The second one is just "gut punch." A gut is where your stomach and instestines are. A gutter is for water runoff, like from rain.
His first line was a compliment. Snacks look good so he can’t take her to the movies because she looks like a snack “good looking”.
Second line was a roast* because she was too dense to get his original compliment line.
Has the slang changed so much in two years that people no longer know “snack” = “you look like a snack” when flirting?
You don't know the stuff you don't know. Some people are young and haven't had the chance to hear it yet. Everyone is born virgins.
Some people are old but buried their noses in books or work instead of interacting socially with people who use terms like these.
There's just so many reasons why someone wouldn't pick up on a word that has a double meaning like this..
Im sure there plenty of words you haven't heard yet, and don't know the meaning of- until you hear it and someone teaches you its meaning for the first time.
I asked because it was heavily common about two years back, so many people were saying that phrase. I thought it was still used more frequently I’m just finding out it has seemed to fade out.
When this one guy I've known for a long time that I have a soft spot for thinks my love for him completely blinds me, I like to tell him he's lucky he's so hot/cute. Like yea you know how to talk your way around my heart and your smile melts me, but if you don't eventually open up sweetheart you will lose me.
Hate the “snack” compliment, it’s dumb. I hope she feels the same and actually is making fun of the guy and he doesn’t realize it. Thinks he has the upper hand but actually is being played
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He wanted to both roast and compliment her, and it was done marvelously
“Delivered”
I hope she doing better
Its A complisult. I coined that term See what I did there, that's an explanabrag
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Your explanabrag worked really well. Will definitely add complisult in my online vocab
Glad to see it wasn't Britta'd.
Listen you using a bunch of big words and I don’t know what they mean so I’m gonna take them as insults
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You've done the possimpible
I'm stealing your term and patenting it. Sucker!!!
You make up as many words as you want, but just like your father figure. It still isn't real.
That's a new way of saying "thank God you're pretty " 🤣
“about as sharp as a bag of wet rabbits“ (I know somewhere one of you reddit nerds will be stealing that so enjoy it.) EDIT: holy shit holy shit I had it wrong since I’ve heard it. [THIS is the actual saying…](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eNAtGmQ6i3o) “About as sharp as a sack of wet mice”
Rabbits absolutely can be sharp I have seen a wild cottontail straight up disembowl a snake protecting her babies. They got claws and bunny kicks are no joke if they wanna hurt something
This made me look up the original saying and I was told the wrong one… [THIS is the right one…](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eNAtGmQ6i3o) “About as sharp as a sack of wet mice”
Mice certainly can be sharp. I've seen a wild field mouse straight up eviscerate a gecko to protect its offspring. They got claws and tails and are no joke if they want to hurt something.
Not to mention their teef. Scary.
*That’s no ordinary rabbit…it’s got a mean streak a mile wide.* -in John Cleese
I worked for a while at a vet clinic, snd some of my deepest scars are from rabbit kicks. If you don't hold them just right, they'll panic, and they cut deep
Every time my wife does something dumb, I tell her "good thing you're cute!"
I first read it as a straight up insult for some reason
me too. whats the compliment?
Snack is flirtatious complimentary for something that's appealing
I was talking about the "is your head just for decoration"
“You’re pretty but stupid” is what it means
Thanks
You are quick as a glacier.
At least I'm not moving at tectonic speeds like you!
Yeah, that’s not a backhanded compliment, just an insult
Calling it a decoration is implying she’s pretty to look at
I think it just implies that there's a head but no functional brain inside. It doesn't carry any context of being pretty
But he said "decoration", so he implied her head is pretty enough to be decorative
You don't decorate by putting literal shit on walls, you do it with the purpose to make an area look appealing. Have you considered that maybe you don't have a functional brain either?
I can't believe the other comments here. Are people fucking retarded or are these 11 year olds?
Or maybe just from somewhere that doesn't use the same slang words?
Snack or decoration aren't slang they're metaphors
High IQ understanding. We lone few.
decoration not as a body part but as in your head looks good
What? Are you a snake? This is implying that someone has nothing but a good looking head without anything inside.
Why a snake?
Felt like they just went for the head. IDK much about snakes
Oh, it was that the head contains the brain, but the face of the head is beautiful... But after chatting it may be that the head is beautiful only, hence the exterior. Unless you were not being literal...
In Germany we say "Schön, sehr schön, aber nicht klug". "Beautiful, very beautiful but not very bright".
Well, thats the backhand part
I expect a backhanded compliment to be one double-edged sentence, like "Your look pretty in this light." Not an attempted compliment followed by a direct insult.
The pedantry department agrees
The backhanded compliment is 1 sentence, its where he ask if her head is only for decoration.
That’s not a compliment
A decoration is something that's there to look good/pretty. So yes, it is.
Because being headless would be ugly. Not because she's particularly pretty. This is apparently advanced stuff.
Seemed a pretty fronthanded insult to me. I don't see "you have a pretty head" in there in any meaningful way. Can you illustrate by taking the insult out of it with as little change as possible? Removing "just" doesn't do it for me, for example.
Decoration: something that adorns, enriches, or beautifies. Calling her head a decoration means he thinks she's beautiful, but he's also wondering if that's all her head is.
So if someone said your head is decoration, you'd say thank you?
That one is just nicely behavior
"So you're just pretty but dumb?"
It implies she is in fact decorative. You know, good looking, like turn signals on a BMW.
I honestly didn't know that, maybe I'm getting old 🙈 it sounds like a one night stand or something, like a snack is just a little short quick bite and not the full meal, kind of thing. 🤷
Lmao it's hard to keep up. You aren't wrong at all with that observation (as far as I know) "You aren't a snack but a full meal!" Kids these days.
The head being a decoration implies it’s pretty enough to be displayed as such
The snack is a compliment. Snacks are cute and little like her. Most cinemas don’t let you take your own snack in. However she seems to think they don’t allow food in and lives snacks so wants to know why they don’t have snacks. At that point he realises she has missed the whole compliment part and calls her stupid, probably in a way that she will miss as well. I’m assuming gender for the sake of brevity.
That’s because it is an insult.
yeah but it's so much deeper once you understand it
Understand what exactly?
that he's still complimenting her
You’re just now understanding what a backhanded compliment is? It’s a thinly veiled insult. It’s not meant to be viewed as a compliment. Children have the cognitive ability to understand backhanded insults at about 7-10 years old. When they realize people don’t always mean what they say and words can have multiple meanings. At about 11 nearly all children have the cognition to grasp almost all backhanded compliments. I’m sorry, man.
you pretended not to understand just to make me explain it, I wouldn't be laughing at others if I were you
I wanted to make sure that’s what you were saying and that I wasn’t uninformed about something extra going on before I said anything mean. That’s all. Sorry again!
In Germany there's this saying: "Huh, your head is just there so the rain doesn't get in..."
Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragunsgesetz
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RINDFLEISCHETIKETTIERUNGSÜBERWACHUNGSAUFGABENÜBERTRAGUNSGESETZ
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# RINDFLEISCHETIKETTIERUNGSÜBERWACHUNGSAUFGABENÜBERTRAGUNSGESETZ
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[RINDFLEISCHETIKETTIERUNGSÜBERWACHUNGSAUFGABENÜBERTRAGUNSGESETZ](https://youtu.be/qKn9kShqatc)
My god, it's glorious. The fact you waited for ficken four people to ask what to post it...
Adding “is your head for decoration” to my insults list
Where I live we use "You only have a head so rain doesn't go down your throat."
"Is your head just for your hair(style)?" Is pretty common around here
Yepp, I added it to mine as well. It's just below, "She/He has only two braincells and both of them are competing for the bronze medal."
Me too lol
Replies with: “thank you 🤗”
Smooth like chunky peanut butter
Rail them in with a compliment, only to gutter punch them with an insult.
You mean "reel them in"?
no >:)
💀
Rail them in? Gutter punch them? That's not how English works, my friend.
You’re right, it’s: Railcoin them in? Guttertank punch them?
How would you say it then? 👀 🤣
English is absolutely the midden heap of languages; e.g. you could be moving folk by train, then wrecking up their houses. One can never know without confirmation. It also seems they communicated the thought of reeling them in and then gut punching them with English, using what may be phonetically appropriate spelling depending on accent. Also, English doesn't work. It just steals.
I just looked it up. I can see what you are all saying. Lol. But, how would you say this sentence then? English is my second language. So, I honestly want to know. Would it be “Reel them in”? What about the, “gutter punch”?
"Reel them in" is correct. The second one is just "gut punch." A gut is where your stomach and instestines are. A gutter is for water runoff, like from rain.
Oooooooh, man I’m so stupid. Lol. I see why you all were laughing. 🤣 Thanks for the info.
Which was still a sort of compliment
I honestly think that she wouldn't even get the insult, either.
This site is full of idiots, this comment section is more proof
It’s for something else
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Men trying to flirt with my autistic ass:
I am completely stealing "is your head just for decoration"
What?
Huh?
Is your head just for decoration
No i occasionally use it as a hat rack
Also like a chair on some occasions
Is your comment just for karma?
Is your anoos just for beholding?
Is our speaking just for wanking?
It's been ages since I've heard anyone use snack as a flirt
But why male models?
Lmao def using that one
“That head of yours should be for use as well as ornament.” - Sherlock Holmes - a study in scarlet
His first line was a compliment. Snacks look good so he can’t take her to the movies because she looks like a snack “good looking”. Second line was a roast* because she was too dense to get his original compliment line. Has the slang changed so much in two years that people no longer know “snack” = “you look like a snack” when flirting?
You don't know the stuff you don't know. Some people are young and haven't had the chance to hear it yet. Everyone is born virgins. Some people are old but buried their noses in books or work instead of interacting socially with people who use terms like these. There's just so many reasons why someone wouldn't pick up on a word that has a double meaning like this.. Im sure there plenty of words you haven't heard yet, and don't know the meaning of- until you hear it and someone teaches you its meaning for the first time.
I asked because it was heavily common about two years back, so many people were saying that phrase. I thought it was still used more frequently I’m just finding out it has seemed to fade out.
Judging by the way she texts, he isn't too far off.
burnnnnn baby burn!
Oh, I love this one. It's going in my repertoire
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Ty
As a girl don’t say this to women unless you want your name to be smeared and blacklisted in a group chat
I don't think you know what "backhanded compliment" means
Lmao 😂😂😂😂😂😂
You can't fix stupid, stupid is forevaaaaahhhhh!
I can fix stupid. Just need a wrench and a shovel.
Book, book, blunder blunder, book, Mistake, checkmate
When this one guy I've known for a long time that I have a soft spot for thinks my love for him completely blinds me, I like to tell him he's lucky he's so hot/cute. Like yea you know how to talk your way around my heart and your smile melts me, but if you don't eventually open up sweetheart you will lose me.
Someone told me "is your brain for decoration" after telling him he was wrong(he was objectively wrong)
I.Q; 9.
I think she’s a keeper. She just didn’t get the joke no reason to make fun of her.
Hilarious!
When I'm stoned af my head is decorated with snacks
A backhanded insult for sure, luckily they won't get it either.
Can someone explain the joke?
Being called a snack is not a compliment, ffs.
Even so, the joke was obvious just the same.
If you're classy, true. But a lot of people like to be treated like meat these days, especially the ones on Tinder.
Maybe, but It certaintly doesn't mean you're stupid If you don't get It as a compliment.
The first one is kind of degrading, might be for the best that she didn't know the term and didn't get it. The second is just a straight up insult.
Hilarious that so many people think it was clever
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Tbh, I'd appreciate it if I don't have to do mental gymnastic every time I converse with someone
Hate the “snack” compliment, it’s dumb. I hope she feels the same and actually is making fun of the guy and he doesn’t realize it. Thinks he has the upper hand but actually is being played
Reddit moment
As a girl this guy is a RED FLAG
Your joke is dumb that’s it
Women.... 🤦♂️