I want incredibly mundane insults like “you look like you have a terrible handshake.”

  • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    The Monty Python French taunters classic is a scathing insult and noone gets it. Break down the line:

    “Your mother was a hampster, and your father smelt of elderberries”

    Firstly, they are calling your mother a fast-breeding rodent, ergo, your mother is a whore, that one is simple. Second, why would your father smell of elderberries? What was it used for at the time? Wine, but better wine would be made from grapes from France or southern England, implying your father was was not just a drunk, but a cheap drunk.

    Its one of the most insulting lines ever uttered on film and it has so many layers, which is why that movie is hillarious.