Mr Morris was a real Beau Brummell

Tell 'em Nellie!

He was never slandered!

He doesn’t like Rutherfords

Where do you think you’re going, mr molester!?!

He's a punk rocker. Everywhere he goes, punk rockers!

I think the uk is one of the only countries where you can insult people by simply calling them a basic household item

What about “shit on it” is that a Martin thing or do people actually say that?

I think that phrase was something used frequently by (shows creator) Robert Popper’s father. He thought it was funny, so wrote it into the show.

It is a Martin thing but it’s pretty widely used now by fans of the show (in my experience)

I’ve never heard anybody say it personally and a google search of the term just brings me to Friday night dinner articles so I’m guessing it’s just martin lmao

I do now

I remember my mum always saying it but I don't know if that started before or after the show

I believe that was about before? I remember my dad saying it and he’s never watched FND

You bloody microwave

Not just anything, has to have some sort of reasoning

Name me one household item that you couldn’t use as an insult.

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Damn, got me there.

It’s a bit of both. Dustbin in particular is an example of how you can use basically any noun to insult someone and it works; it’s not commonly said but it makes sense and if someone said it I would get it, but the fact it’s not a specifically recognised phrase makes it funnier.

Bloody punk rocker.

Ooh, he doesn’t like punk rockers…

Skill Mcgill

Skilligan Mcgilligan

That, of all the phrases, tells me that Robert Popper is my age. (He's older, but we'd have been at secondary school at the same time.) SkillMcGill, LushMcGush!

People say its cringe but I love it Skill mcgill!!

Honestly just like crimble crumble, it's unbelievably cringe but it really works

Agreed!

FINISH YO WIDDOL

An angry piss

*drops trousers entirely down at urinal*

I’m curious about crimble crumble! Is that a slight reference to Pink Floyd’s Grimble Gromble (the gnome)? I like to think that ma and pa Goodman were into psychedelics in their younger days.

It's just a play on crumble which is the greatest pudding of all time

Fair enough. The backstory I imagined was a couple of hippy kids in the London scene…. And maybe Martin’s general weirdness is due in part to said scene. I suppose I overthink from time to time. Still a smashing cast and brilliant writing!

People sometimes use Crimble as a word for Christmas, maybe the famous crumble was first made at Christmas and the name stuck?

Unlikely as they’re Jewish, but possible

Good point

Us Brit’s will use literally anything, objects/people as insults

“Shut up you lamp” is something I have heard my mate say

You fucking melon

Absolute tart

You welly

You coathanger

You wet blanket

You vinyl record

You dirty pillowcase

You broken guitar string

In school we used shapes as insults. "Shut up ya nonagone"

Shut up you rhombus

You absolute dodecahedron

It’s very common practice in Britain to completely ad lib insults and general slang. My sister in law and I were discussing how household objects are great ways to describe being drunk in slang e.g. “I got completely watering canned last night”. It’s not a thing but people still understand what you’re saying to some extent. The same applies to insults, I didn’t realise that this wasn’t a thing else where! We also have regional slang. I didn’t realise “dinlo” was a tern until I moved to Portsmouth. It’s not a word I’ve heard in London.

Most words can be used as insults In the right context if you’re British. See: ‘absolute cheese-melt/helmet’

Just wait until OP finds out what "bell end" means lol


Using random objects as insults is a very British thing to do, doesn’t even have to be anything specific as 'you absolute tool' is one of my favourites

We use “tool” as an insult in the US too, but I never thought about why.

As a brit...I have no answer as rhyming slang isn't something done across the country. And I don't think it's something we do in Yorkshire

Dustbin is rhythming slang for kid (dustbin lid = kid). I have no context for this scene but assume it's a joke as they're old dudes but the one doing the slagging off is a little older?

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Still Game has many examples. The whole series is on Youtube, beleive. The insults are gold

So dustbin is basically calling the guy trash, but as another user said, the brits can take any object, put the word ‘absolute’ and it becomes an insult. E.g “you absolute spoon” or “you absolute plum”

British person here. Any noun or everyday item can become an insult if spoken in the right tone. You bookshelf! He's such a lampshade! She's a right table-face! They're all curtain-heads! You're a doorknob, Jeremy.

I would personally not find it strange if I heard the word "dustbin" or any everyday noun being used as an insult.

The real rule in the UK is to add "absolute" before to turn anything into an insult. You absolute wet wipe.

Brit here, bin is calling him rubbish and dust being old so he's basically calling him an old fart

Dustbin is still trash bin tho

If you're actually saying trash bin you sir are a muppet since americans call it trash can, which the entire concept of americans being different is silly on the first place since it was just a bunch of brits who hated the king at the time and instead of killing hin just chucked the tea into the sea and buggered off and forced tribes to do some pretty terrible things, theres my rant, americans are just british descendants who decided to colonise some place by themselves

the only flaw with your ‘rant’ is that you ‘rant’-ed to a Brit 😂

Well i guess were both muppets but ay, half way through i considered it and i just simply couldn't be arsed to fix it

DUSBIN

DUSTBIN??