Sternly tell someone off without swear words

[gruntlabor]

Eat poopies!

I you, Ruthanne. That is pure poetry.
Eat poopies and die, sucker!!

 

[Ruthanne]

I you, Ruthanne. That is pure poetry.

Thank you. I try!

 

[Della]

I beg your pardon.

 

[jujube]

Is "ass" a swear word? If not...."You'd better stop that before I have to open a can of Whup-Ass!"

There's also "Did your parents have any children who lived?"

Judge Judy once said, "If you were the prize at the end of the foot race, I'd run backwards!"

 

[Trade]

Quiet Piggy.

 

[Kaila]

Eat poopies!

Eat poopies;
before I go loopies.

I'm just trying to help you with your penchant for poetry, Ruthanne.


And in the spirit of this thread.

 

[againstthegrain]

I no longer waste the energy, removing myself from the situation is much easier on the brain and body.

 

[Ruthanne]

Eat poopies;
before I go loopies.

I'm just trying to help you with your penchant for poetry, Ruthanne.


And in the spirit of this thread.

Thank you, I need all the help in the world.

 

[Kaila]

Thank you, I need all the help in the world.

You're not alone in that.

 

[TeePee]

I just count to twenty then walk away. They aren't worth me losing my dignity.

 

[Ruthanne]

You're not alone in that.

Sometimes it really feels that way though.

 

[Kaila]

Sometimes it really feels that way though.

Sure does.

 

[LoveTulips]

I've always liked " Suck it up, Buttercup!"

 

[Ruthanne]

Another thing I would say is Oh well!!

 

[willnbugs]

A friend of mine taught me this. I am not sure what some of it really refers to, but it is unique in the curse, nonsensical non-curse mode. Is anyone else familiar with this?

"Cheese pie cake
Got Dan’s hat
Son of a pitch me in the window
Go to help me out again.
Go to hay freezer
And buy a hat
Damaged by fire."

 

[Pepper]

Been thinking a lot about this thread. Yes. Many witty comments BUT for me there’s nothing better than good old phuck you. Please pardon my ignorance and vulgarity.

 

[Jules]

Been thinking a lot about this thread. Yes. Many witty comments BUT for me there’s nothing better than good old phuck you. Please pardon my ignorance and vulgarity.

When I‘m annoyed, I say nothing because it generally doesn’t help. I do inwardly utter your favourite phrase many times as I ignore them.

 

[bowmore]

May you break your neck falling off you ego and hitting your IQ

 

[Aunt Bea]

“Don’t give it another thought, I deal with ignorant people every day!”
- Aunt Bea

 

[Rakaia]

You can't read minds when you have nothing to work with.

 

[horseless carriage]

You don't need words... there's a "look" that can tell someone off with silence.

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The withering stare over the top of the specs that's so powerful it could strip paint. In my working life I used it time and again on many a miscreant. Reason I know it works is because I once overheard two workers in the warehouse, one of which, was saying to his companion: "I ****ing hate it when looks at you over the top of his glasses."

Not exactly telling someone off, but a put down using a whimsical, cynical, immediate comeback, will put anyone in their place. Winston Churchill was the past master at such putdowns. The banter he had with Bessie Braddock has gone down in history:

Bessie Braddock, the politician, who had a firebrand reputation, allegedly told Churchill: "If I were married to you, I'd put poison in your coffee."
To which Churchill is said to have retorted: "Madam, if I were married to you, I'd drink it."

In another exchange: Bessie Braddock: ‘Winston, you are drunk!’
Churchill: ‘Bessie, my dear, you are ugly. But, tomorrow, I shall be sober.’

 

[Della]

Nothing ever shriveled my ego more than having a British person look at me, after I'd rattled on about something, pause, then say, "And you are?"

 

[horseless carriage]

Nothing ever shriveled my ego more than having a British person look at me, after I'd rattled on about something, pause, then say, "And you are?"

You could almost be quoting my wife. In her working life in The Ambulance Service a patient might tell her that they have this or that wrong with them, as if expecting some sort of specialist treatment. They got short shrift, instead they would be asked: "And where did you graduate from university with a medical degree?"

 

[gruntlabor]

Been thinking a lot about this thread. Yes. Many witty comments BUT for me there’s nothing better than good old phuck you. Please pardon my ignorance and vulgarity.

Go pluck a duck, skunk breath

 

[QuietByNature]

As Mrs. Brown would say. "That's Nice"