Portuguese: És um caracol com olhos
English: You are a rock with eyes
Collected: Amsterdam, Netherlands (12-16-2018)
Origin: Her mother used to say this about people when she was upset with someone. From Lisbon.
Tag Archives: stupid
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Portuguese: Se estupidez fosse música, tu eras uma orquestra sinfônica”, that means “If music was being stupid, you would be a symphonic orchestra
English: If music was being stupid, you would be a symphonic orchestra
Collected: Amsterdam, Netherlands (12-16-2018)
Origin: Her mother used to say this about people when she was upset with someone. From Lisbon.
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English: You’re so stupid you can’t tell your ass from a hole in the ground
Collected: Amsterdam, Netherlands (12-16-2018)
Origin: Might’ve heard it on Saturday Night Live (Celebrity Jeopardy skit)
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Dutch: Jij bent echt te dom om te poepen.
English: you are too stupid to poop
Collected: Amsterdam, Netherlands (12-16-2018)
Origin: A popular insult from maybe 10 years ago.
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English: You could wrap your brain in tinfoil, shove it up a gnat’s ass and it’ll sound like a BB in a tin can
collected: Chapel Hill, NC (9-2-2018)
origin: Told to him from his grandfather, who learned it in the Navy
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English: You don’t know your ass from your elbow
collected: Chapel Hill, NC (9-2-2018)
origin: Told to him from his grandfather, who learned it in the Navy
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English: Your mama is so stupid, she went to a movie that was rated R and it said 17 and over, so she went and got 16 of her friends
collected: Chapel Hill, NC (9-2-2018)
origin: Remembered from his childhood, in Philadelphia.
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English: You don’t know shit from Shinola
collected: Raleigh, NC (9-1-2018)
origin: Something his father would say when he was being dumb.
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English: Your mama is so stupid, she bought a cup to see Juice.
collected: Jamaica, Queens (05-14-2016)
origin: heard this playing The Dozens with friends in school, sometime around 1993 in Jamaica, Queens. Juice is a 1992 American crime drama film featuring Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur, and Samuel L. Jackson.
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Lithuanian: Tau ne visi namie
English: you don’t have everybody at home
collected: Kaunas, Lithuania (01-10-2016)
origin: old Lithuanian insult