The wizard butterfly has cursed you, and all you can do about it is call him a fluffy-backed tit-babbler. Now what?

Ahh, we are lucky that taxonomists are so bad at naming things.

I dare you to call me that to my face, you bony-eared assfish !

I’d call them a spiny lumpsucker.

There are already existing insults which are animal names. Pig – used to say that someone is either a slob or a glutton (glutton is also another word for a wolverine). Worm – used to say that someone is a lowlife. Snake – also used to say that someone is a lowlife, with the added implication of d…

Why you… you crazy pyramid ant !

Umm guys, don’t you know this thread is highly offensive? :nerd_face: [IMG_6085] (This is a joke in case it wasn’t obvious, although that Peta tweet is somehow real)

I can’t recall the last time I used an animal name in insulting a human (there are many better alternatives for insults). I have used human insults on the occasional animal, like when a rat latches onto my finger when I’m trying to remove it from a live-trap (lots of cursing, but really not the rat…

I’m fairly anti-name calling as a general rule – but I make an exception for iNat identifiers! If I have one non-human group reference that I really hate when it’s used as an insult, it has to be – dinosaur. To be called one is to be labeled with an incapacity to adapt to change, to be laughingly …

Poof! You can now only insult people using animal names. What will you be using?

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Thunderhead March 10, 2025, 8:59pm 31

Yes, I had to agree with broacher’s insult of homo sapiens…

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Poof! You can now only insult people using animal names. What will you be using?

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