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What is worse than being called a Fascist?

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Being called a faggot. Hurled obloquies such as “fascist” and “fat git” are water off a duck’s back to those drenched in today’s ambience of tolerance. But refer to someone as something I used to eat with gravy every Wednesday and the equality Gestapo start launching probes.

Obviously I am going to have to brush up on my insults.

From here:

An Aberdeen councillor has been cleared of making homophobic comments towards the authoriity’s gay then-leader.

Jim Farquharson admitted calling John Stewart a “fascist” and a “fat git” but Mr Stewart claimed the term “faggot” had been used.

The incident happened after a heated council meeting in September last year.

A complaint was lodged with the Public Standards Commissioner for Scotland (PSCS). It has been ruled he was not in breach of his code of conduct.

Mr Farquharson categorically denied using the term at the time of the incident.

He told BBC Scotland: “I have never used such a word.”

However, he added that he stood by his fascist comment.

 

Vituperative Gems

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From here:

•  Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it. (Margot Asquith)
•  [Benjamin Disraeli]  is a self-made man and worships his creator. (John Bright)
•   I only wish I knew [Bill Vander Zalm] before his lobotomy. (Kim Campbell)
•  [Stafford Cripps] has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. (Winston Churchill)
•  Clement Attlee is a modest man, who has a good deal to be modest about. (Winston Churchill)
•  [William Gladstone] is a sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his verbosity. (Benjamin Disraeli)
•  In a disastrous fire in president Reagan’s library both books were burned. And the tragedy is he hadn’t finished colouring one. (Jonathan Hunt)
•   [Gerald Ford] is so dumb he can’t fart and chew gum at the same time. (Lyndon Baines Johnson)
•  He compresses the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. (Abraham Lincoln)
•  When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit. (David Lloyd George)

…  William Shakespeare –

•  His brain is as dry as the remaining biscuit after voyage. (As You Like It)
•  [You are] one that converses more with the buttock of the night than with the forehead of the morning. (Coriolanus)
•   God has given you one face and you make yourself another. (Hamlet)
•  What is this quintessence of dust? (Hamlet)
•   Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! (King Lear)
•   [You are] an index and prologue to the history of lust and foul thoughts. (Othello)
•  Ajax, that wears his brain on his belly and his guts in his head. He hath not so much brain as earwax. (Troilus and Cressida)

A few more random tidbits:

  • He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others. – Samuel Johnson
  • I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. – March Twain
  • Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go – Oscar Wilde
  • He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends – Oscar Wilde

A lost art these days, I fear.