Brother: I think Glee is kinda... silly. Troper: alot of people do. I think you're kinda annoying. Brother: alot of people do. Wait....

Once I had a substitute teacher who liked to use this. Quoting one of my friends: "Wow, he called us all idiots and we only noticed that when somebody told us".

When I was in school doing my A levels, a joke insult that went around the class was to call another a 'Myogenic Bastard'. When we were taught that Myogenic = Self Stimulating, some of us used it to mean a person who... self stimulates

My friend once likened me to the Marquis de Sade, and I said yeeeeeeaah. Um... THEN I looked him up. And was pissed off.

This troper doesn't usually use stealth insults (although he sometimes does use obscure words in insults). Instead he uses something similar to avoid insulting people while still telling the truth. Like when one of his friends was wearing a dress her mother made her and asked how it looked. This troper replied that she looked very pretty, but then again she looked pretty no matter what she wore. Translation: You look pretty but the dress looks like it's made out of a bedsheet.

This Troper often gets an "Are you implying something?" from friends for the few times they catch his stealth insults.

There are several people this troper would call St. Fu. in STFU.

This same troper, on the silver anniversary of EDSA I, gave "Sieg Heils" with matching Nazi Salutes to... fans of the sitting president. Fans who have no flipping idea who I just compared their leader with in terms of publicity.

This troper once called a particularly dim-witted school bully a Neanderthal. While he was trying to figure out what this troper had meant, I had made my escape!

This troper refers to people as "Prince Myschkin". If you don't understand, brush up on your Dostoyevsky.

You insult people by comparing them to a Christ figure? That seems a little self-defeating.

Not if you think god is an asshole.

This troper once had a supervisor respond to one of his offhand remarks with "That's what I like about you; you never take me too seriously", and couldn't resist replying with "I could never take you too seriously, Tom." The idiot supervisor never did catch on, as far as is known.

This troper was once a member of a love triangle, and a friend was reading a book by Ken Follet. He said we were almost like a love triangle in the book, ''World Without End''. Here is the love triangle. First, there is me, I had a crush on Molly from the start, but she was technically paired off already to a guy from Mission High School. I finally met the guy at the Senior Ball. He was this pretty boy with an older suit and blond hair. I felt like marring that all too {{Bishonen}} face. I didn't. I did some reading out of curiosity of what the friend meant by the love triangle relation...I was the bad guy. He was insulting how I pursued Molly. And the worst part is I resemble said villain down to hair and eyes. Good thing the relationship never continued, considering what happened to the girl in the book.

This troper has been known to push his glasses up with his middle finger while looking at someone in order to flip them the bird in the most plausibly deniable manner.

This troper does the same thing. It's a classic.

This troper has a strange sense of humor, and makes a lot of jokes that people don't get. She's taken advantage of this and used the 'weird person humor' in her insults. She can't remember any specific jokes at the moment, though. Subverted, though, because even her obvious insults tend to fly over people's heads: "Going down the evolutionary scale: Human, monkey, fish, amoeba, perverted classmate (I used his name, of course)". I said this to his face and he didn't get it.

"I can't tell you how happy I am to accept your apology in the same spirit with which it was offered." That's the wording used by this troper when accepting a coerced and blatantly insincere non-apology apology from my neighbor's deadbeat pill-hound boyfriend after a very public - and somewhat violent - argument with him in which he called me just about every name in the book and a drug addict. I bring up the drug addict part because a couple years later he died of a drug overdose.

This editor's mother was learning Latin insults for this specific purpose. She would tell someone something along the lines of "You have shit for brains" in Latin and tell them it means something complimentary.

Isn't that the point of learning another language?

This editor doesn't know about you, but I made a point of learning variations on "_____ if I know", i.e. "coitus si scio" or "Tartarus si scio."

This troper doesn't know about ''either'' of you, but rather than use actual German profanity (which sounds too similar to English anyway), he's been known to say "Did you come out of the closet yet?" and "I hope you grow flowers out of your knee," among others.

This troper has a part French Canadian friend who would secretly insult her incompetent French teacher to her face... in French.

So insulting the teacher, her French skills, highlighting the lack of those skills, ''and'' getting away with it! I take my metaphorical hat off to your friend.

This troper, who doesn't normally swear at all, has practiced a form of the Lapine highest insult so as to be ready to use it should occasion arise.

Henry Beard's books, ''Lingua Latina Occasionibus Omnibus'' (''Latin For All Occasions'') and ''X-Treme Latin'' have "Hidden Insult" and "Stealth Latin" sections respectively.

This was actually ''subverted'' in this troper's life. I called my mother something unrepeatable in Italian. Unfortunately for me, I had forgotten that mummy dear is ''fluent in Italian'' and I endured a hair-raising lecture.

This troper takes altogether too much pleasure in cussing people out in invented languages, too. Nothing like the Black Speech for insulting someone.

(RealLife example about poems where first letters spell an insult)

This troper did something similar, but gave it to the person in question and had the first letters spell "Asshole." Despite the title being "Acrostic" . . .

And then there's the infamous photo of a lengthy tombstone epitaph that's actually an acrostic reading "FUCK YOU." According to the urban legend that accompanies this picture, the wife and mistress of the deceased only became aware of each other's existence once his funerary preparations were underway, and they both chipped in for the tombstone.

Not that smart. It rather looks like they wanted to insult whoever looks at the tombstone, not the guy buried under it - and that wouldn't be the point, would it?

I once had a severely incompetent history teacher who required us to make lists of key events from the chapter. My friend has his list spell out " Fuck [teacher's last name]" and the guy not only didn't notice, he complimented my friend on being thorough.

I did something subtler with my English teacher, who was incredibly incompetent; for the hell of it, to see if he would notice, I wrote part of that year's final project in Doctor Seuss-style rhyme and another in haiku. He didn't notice.

This Troper was in a program at his high school for professional scientific research, and one of the girls in the program who was well-known for academic dishonesty was receiving awards and special recognitions for a "science project" which she could not have put less actual into if she tried (assuming she did the project at all, which we suspected she did not); these recognitions included being asked to speak at an invitational science symposium. As part of the program, we were required to listen to her present her research and provide critiques and positive remarks, to help her prepare to present her research formally. This Troper gave his compliments and criticisms, all legitimate, which he used to spell "You Bitch" and "Bullshit." She never realized.

This troper has been told on several occasions that part of the fun of being his friend is watching people not get it when they are being insulted, even when everyone else around him is laughing.

This troper personally prefers to do the version where the person you're talking to knows ''exactly'' what you mean...but no one else does.

This troper was hoovering her social area at school once (we take it in turns) and her Irish teacher walked past. He greeted her and then commented that she would make a good housewife. She wasn't sure how to take it...

Years ago, This troper hoped for the right opportunity to rise to write a Get Well Soon card for his least favorite aunt. Inside, would be this long, sweet message that basically says that she's a good person and I hope she gets better soon. However, some of the letters in that long spiel would be in italic, and when taken away from everything else, you'd find a hidden message: "Sucks to be you". I had the long spiel saved, but the file went missing when transferring stuff to the desktop I just got around that time.

I once said to a really annoying and pervy lad at school, "Tu as un petit verge." His response, "Oh yeah, baby!" as un petit verge."="You have a small penis."

I've never really come up with any really good ones, but the people I serve them to are ''particularly'' stupid, so not much effort is needed. I know these girls, and one in particular likes to run off her mouth quite a bit, especially on Facebook, and trust me, she's ''unbelievable''. She's racist, sexist, homophobic, all of it. She once updated her status with, and I quote, "fucking chinks!" I commented, and this is the exchange that transpired (including the typos and spelling errors): #QUOTE#'''Me:''' Every time you update your status, I lose a little more faith in humanity. #QUOTE#'''Mouthy Girl's Friend:''' Its one of my exes g'fs, funny story actually. #QUOTE#'''Mouthy Girl:''' lmao!!! #QUOTE#'''Me:''' haha, I fail to see how that justifies overt racism, or racism of any kind. I suppose I'd have to be a lumbering yob:BritishEnglish was [[ForeignCussWord intentionally used here.]] to understand. #QUOTE#'''Mouthy Girl:''' [Troper Name] ur a towl! lmao u nn ur stupid big words, i did not understand a word you said #QUOTE#'''Me:''' haha don't worry, it shows. #QUOTE#'''Mouthy Girl:''' Lmao ok?

This troper wore a nice, flattering dress to school one day (don't worry, the dress was a casual kind), and one of her classmates said "You know, when you stop wearing all your frumpy clothes, you look really cute!" Troper, foolishly, said "Oh, thank you!" She only realized it on her way home. D'ohhhh...

I took to calling a certain teacher 'Santorini' as a nickname due, partially, to name resemblance (Santos). My friends have yet to make the connection.

This male troper was never particularly tall (even, now only 5') and was constantly harassed about it in school. At least once a day I'd get asked, "how tall are you?" ("This tall", while setting a hand on the top of my head) or "What's your shoe size?" (at the time, it was a 6). I was having a particularly bad day when one of the football linebackers tried to intimidate me and he asked the latter question. I responded, "larger than your IQ," and kept walking. To this day, I'm still not sure the football player ever picked up on it.

I had a bully circle a few years back. This was around the same time I was learning bits of Japanese. I ended up using a whole bunch of "{{Baka}}" and {Honorifics -Kosenpai} (little upperclassmate, ie. not worthy of your grade).

My mom's favorite singer is JoshGroban. My favorite singer is...not. Don't get me wrong, I think he sings beautifully an' all, but it gets a little grating after hours and hours and hours of his voice. She was playing one of his CD's the other day and I said, "Ooh! That's my favorite song on that whole CD." My mom said, "But that's the only one where he doesn't sing." Me: "I know."

Wow, it was really hard to notice some of those were ''Stealth'' Insults.

This Troper had one recently. He called someone a {{hypocrite}} on a forum. The other poster then replied, coming off as more than a little butthurt. This troper replied with an apology, but hyperlinked the full stop at the end of the sentence to an image of the infamous "BAWW!" picture.