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Let's be honest, it doesn't take any talent to insult someone.
After all, by the time children learn to speak in complete sentences, they're hurling sophisticated comebacks like:
"You’re a doo-doo head!"
But a truly clever verbal takedown is a thing of beauty.
Reddit user BrucePennyworth asked:
"What is the most brutal insult you’ve ever heard in your life?"
"Makes me think of:"
"'Your family tree is a wreath'."
~ xRocketman52x
"Along the same lines:"
"'Knowledge seeks you, but you're faster'."
~ coffeebreakhero
"Before I had braces, my fifth grade teacher told me I looked like I could eat corn off the cob through a chain link fence."
~ KaptOKrunch
"I've said:"
"'If you could understand why your wife was right to leave you, then she wouldn't have left you'."
~ Grimdotdotdot
"'Your learning curve is a circle'."
"Saw it online once."
~ Pandarenu
"I like, 'Everyone who ever loved you was wrong'."
~ Deadsuooo
"'One day you will realise that your friends were right to leave you behind'."
~ Nullagainagain
"In Germany we ask politely, 'Did the Swings in your childhood stand too close to the wall?'."
~ DollimusMaximus
"First time I heard 'Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others', I told my mom about it and she thought it was obnoxious."
"A few weeks later we went to a restaurant with my dad. It was raining so he dropped us off at the front, parked in a lot three blocks down, and raced back in the pouring rain."
"My dad makes good money, but most of it goes towards the family, obviously. His single brother has the same job and had just bought his third sports car before heading off for a 2 week singles cruise."
"As we watched my dad run towards us, my mom turned to me and said,- 'Oscar Wilde may not have had it entirely wrong'."
~ midnightsunofabitch
"'Usually they throw out the placenta and keep the baby, but I see in your case they did the opposite'—a Jamaican sheetrocker I used to work with."
~ PantsOfALion
"'I envy people who don't know you'."
~ blackmesawest
"During a teenage fight with my brother, I repeated what I thought was an iconic line:"
"'Did you roll off the changing table as a baby‽‽'."
"Before he could answer, our mom replied, guilt ridden, from the other room:"
"'THAT ONLY HAPPENED TWICE!'."
~ gloriomono
"'I'm so happy you're here. Give the people at home a break'—Dylan Moran to a heckler at a comedy show I was at."
~ CommanderKobe
"Good old Oscar Wilde provided many harsh, yet eloquent ways of being rude.
"'Some people bring joy wherever they go. Some whenever they go'."
~ Validarian
"Our agency division was in a dispute with another department because one of the people in that office didn't want to certify a payment to a vendor because they 'didn't like' the terms of the vendor's contract with our agency (finance & accounting for the Air Force, Defense Department).
"My supervisor and I were trying to explain to their supervisor it was a legally binding contract that didn't violate any agency or federal rules or regulations, so 'liking' the contract terms was immaterial. We needed to pay this vendor on time or we'd pay $$ penalties."
"Government contracts with private sector vendors are subject to interest penalties if they're even a day late. This was a multimillion dollar payment."
"Finally, exasperated, I told the room as a whole:"
"'I'm not an expert in astronomy, but I know for a fact the universe doesn't revolve around anyone in this room."
"So check your ego and certify the damn payment'."
"After a moment of silence, their supervisor and mine started laughing. Their supervisor certified the payment and we avoided several hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest penalties for late payment."
~ LakotaGrl
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In an unexpected move, Her Highness Sheikha Mahra bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Dubai princess, addressed her husband's infidelity on Instagram, declaring their divorce.
Sheikha Mahra, who is daughter of the UAE Vice President and Prime Minister, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, wrote a scathing and short message to her husband.
“Dear Husband, As you are occupied with other companions, I hereby declare our divorce. I divorce you, I divorce you, and I divorce you. Take care. Your ex-wife.”
Following the announcement, fans noticed that the royal couple had unfollowed each other on Instagram and removed all photos of each other from their profiles.
Some followers mentioned that they had "blocked" each other, while others speculated that Sheikha Mahra’s account might have been hacked. Despite the rumors, the post quickly garnered tens of thousands of likes.
This shocking news comes just over a year after Sheikha Mahra and Sheikh Mana bin Mohammed bin Rashid bin Mana Al Maktoum tied the knot. The couple announced their engagement on March 22, 2023, and exchanged vows in a traditional Islamic marriage ceremony on May 28, 2023, followed by a lavish wedding reception in June.
They welcomed their first child, a baby girl also named named Mahra, in May 2024.
People were immediately taken with the example she set for all women to find their self worth and stand by it.
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Folks especially liked the example she set for Muslim women around the world.
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She spoke for many women who choose divorce on their own terms.
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Commenters quickly assured her that her new beginning was a good idea.
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Many also told her that she deserved better and that she made the right choice.
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Others were just there for the diction choices.
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People showed no sympathy for her cheating ex-husband.
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The comment section reflected a sense of possibility.
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Many people took the chance to wish her well.
We're not sure of the legalities around divorce for Sheika Mahra, but she's stated her position.
A clip of the original voice of Ariel, Jodi Benson, watching her daughter Delaney play the lead role in a stage production of The Little Mermaid has gone viral, and Benson revealed she was moved to tears by the performance.
Posted to TikTok, the video has already garnered more than 4.2 million views in only a few days, and people on the platform said they got a bit emotional, as well.
In the clip, Benson can be seen in the audience of the shorter, interactive stage version in Miami as Delaney approaches with a "dinglehopper" and begins to sing Ariel's iconic number "Part of Your World."
An absolutely beaming Benson looks on while Delaney continues with the song, sounding almost identical to the 1989 classic.
You can watch below.
@coolzjay Watching @Delaney Benson play Ariel and @Jodi Benson being the most supportive mom was honestly such an honor!!! So lucky to have been able to witness this 😭 #thelittlemermaid #jodibenson #ariel #disney #miami
Benson gushed about Delaney's performance in a statement to Entertainment Weekly.
"I was completely blown away by Delaney’s brilliant performance."
"She was truly born to play Ariel."
"The whole experience was so surreal."
She added that she was in tears throughout the entire production.
"I wept throughout the show. I am so honored to pass on my treasured dinglehopper to my daughter."
"Delaney has created her character of Ariel with such love, strength, vulnerability, curiosity and honesty."
"I’m so incredibly proud of my daughter!"
And she wasn't the only one.
Fans on TikTok commented that they, too, were overcome with emotion watching Delaney sing so beautifully alongside her mother.
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Several also said they were blown away by the likeness between Benson and Delaney, in both sound and appearance.
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Of course, Delaney isn't the only Ariel for whom Benson has sung praises.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight,, she had only great things to say about Halle Bailey's portrayal of the queen consort of Eric's kingdom in the 2023 live-action Little Mermaid remake.
"She doesn't need any advice from me!"
"She's brilliant."
"I did get to meet her a few times and chat with her and just tell her how proud I was of her, and I love that she has a purity of heart and a pure spirit, and you can see that vulnerability and that childlike bravery and courage coming through, and it's beautiful."
"I'm so thrilled for her and I'm so proud of her."
British actor Kate Beckinsale has no time for trolls criticizing her looks.
Instead of addressing haters' unsolicited assessments of her online, the 50-year-old actor came for them with a fierce fashion statement that said it all.
The sparkly phrase on custom black, one-piece beach attire read:
"I did not ask your opinion."
The Underworld movie franchise star modeled the fabulous couture from Mua Mua fashion house's designer Ludovica Virga that was featured on their Instagram page, which you can see here.
In response to one of the commenters who wrote, "I don't have much of an opinion here but I do wonder why all the Instagram posts if you're not interested in people's opinions," the fashion house replied:
"Kate was bullied on line so I made her that swimsuit."
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Fans were here for her beachy statement.
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Beckinsale had been constantly attacked for her appearance.
In May, she posted behind-the-scenes video from her upcoming movie Stolen Girl featuring playful shots of her wearing a form-fitting black gown and another in a loose-fitted silk top with tight denim shorts and goth boots.
The images prompted some fans to express concern that she looked "too thin" or to suggest she needed to "eat a little more."
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In response, she opened up about the various traumas in her life, including dealing with the emotional hardships of losing two fathers, one when she was five and the other when she lost her stepfather this January.
"I watched my stepfather [director Roy Battersby] die quite shockingly, my mother has stage 4 cancer, and I lost a lot of weight from stress and grief, quite quickly," she said.
Beckinsale also shared that she spent six weeks in the hospital after "vomiting blood" due to a Mallory-Weiss tear, a condition that affects the esophagus, which plays a vital role in digestion by carrying food from the throat to the stomach.
She also replied to someone concerned about how her body looked:
"I found eating very hard and I just worked very very hard on a movie that was actually quite triggering because it also involved the theme of the death of my father. So I’m not really concerned about what you think about my a**."
Many of the comments about her looking "too skinny" were also in response to a photo of her ailing on a hospital bed following treatment for her esophageal tear.
Beckinsale responded:
"I experienced a severe flair of my mast cell disease, also mitigated by stress, shock, and grief."
"That's what I am prepared to disclose that has contributed to some weight loss."
"What you think of my appearance and how I should look, independently of any circumstances in my life and my family's, is not important."
There were plenty of fans who showed support and love.
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The actor had also been criticized for sporting an oversized black bow on her head in some photos, which has become her trademark accessory.
When she featured the look to compliment her black outfit in a carousel of photos she posted in June, a user suggested she "Please take that ridiculous bow off."
Beckinsale fired back:
"As I said before, take that expression off your bitter a-- face. Unless you can't. In which case, condolences."
There comes a time when responding to every judgmental remark from anonymous internet dwellers without social lives becomes tedious.
Why not say it once and for all while simultaneously looking fabulous in a cute swimsuit?
You go, Kate!
Her upcoming film Stolen Girl is a kidnapping drama directed by British filmmaker James Kent.
The fictional premise is inspired by the true story of Maureen Dabbagh, "a woman from Virginia whose ex-husband stole their two-year-old daughter and took her to the Middle East in 1992," according to the film's synopsis.
Filming began back in April.
Fans of Heartstopper were absolutely chuffed and crossing their fingers after hearing rumors that British actor Kit Connor was being considered to play a known LGBTQ+ superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The 20-year-old has been acting since he was just 8 in numerous TV and film projects, including roles in the 2018 films The Mercy, and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. He also portrayed a teenaged Elton John in 2019's Rocketman and voiced Pantalaimon in the HBO fantasy series His Dark Materials.
His breakthrough came in 2021 playing Nick Nelson opposite Joe Locke's Charlie character and love interest in Netflix's acclaimed LGBTQ+ teen drama series Heartstopper, based on the eponymous graphic novel by Alice Oseman.
According to the accounts @MyCosmicCircus and @MyTimeToShineH, known for sharing reliable Hollywood inside scoop, the studio is allegedly eyeing Connor to play MCU's Hulkling character, also known as Theodore Rufus "Teddy" Kaplan-Altman.
Hulkling, who is patterned on The Incredible Hulk but with shape-shifting powers and biological pheromone immunity, was first introduced in April 2005 in the Marvel comic Young Avengers #1.
The character discovers he is a hybrid of two alien races, the Skrull and the Kree.
Hulkling is also canonically gay and a prominent figure in the MCU for LGBTQ+ representation, which makes the potential casting of Connor in the role particularly fitting given Connor's bisexuality.
The actor was forced to come out as bi on X (formerly Twitter) in October 2022 after he had been repeatedly harassed with claims of queerbaiting after being photographed holding hands with actor Maia Reficco.
Fans are cautiously anticipating seeing him in a Marvel movie as a prominent LGBTQ+ character.
Heartstopper fans were elated at the prospect of Connor and Locke being romantically linked as Marvel characters when it was announced that Locke was also cast in another MCU project, the upcoming Disney+ show Agatha All Along, a spinoff of 2021's WandaVision centering on Wanda Maximoff, who becomes the Scarlet Witch.
The online buzz was that Locke might be playing Wiccan—a.k.a. William "Billy" Kaplan-Altman—a member of the Young Avengers and a reincarnation of one of Wanda's twin boys.
Wiccan is also a confirmed lover of Hulkling in the Marvel comics.
However, a new trailer for Agatha All Along showed Locke playing another confirmed queer character named Teen.
In Agatha All Along, the title character, played by Kathryn Hahn, attempts to regain her stolen powers after breaking free from the spell Wanda cast on her at the end of WandaVision.
The speculated casting of Locke in Agatha All Along as Wiccan, who with his twin brother was conjured into existence by Wanda, would have been unlikely given the adversarial nature between her and Agatha.
In her new spinoff series, Agatha assembles a coven of witches, including Locke's Teen character, and he appears as an ally, though Screen Rantpointed out that the new trailer teased that Locke could be "a brand-new version of one of the Scarlet Witch's sons."
Still, with the two out Heartbreakers actors both playing gay characters in the MCU, fans believed anything was possible and hoped there might be a strong potential for a crossover with their characters co-existing in some capacity.
With the MCU multi-verse, anything is possible.
Locke told Rolling Stone UK that his character in Agatha All Along helps the title character break free from Wanda's curse.
"We gather a coven and a very unlikely group of women and me – which is my life in general – get on the Witches’ Road," he told the entertainment magazine.
"Then magic, fun, and mystery prevails.”
The 20-year-old actor, who took over the role of Tobias Ragg in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street on Broadway in January, added that Marvel fans can expect “twists and turns” and “different subgenres of comedy” in the new Disney+ series.
He stressed that the show was "definitely darker" and a "little bit scary."
"I think it’s a great start for a new journey within the MCU of exploring different types of characters that aren’t like Iron Man or Captain America. It’s a new type of superhero, which I think is exciting," he said.
Fans will have to wait until September 18 to watch the first two episodes of Agatha All Along, followed by the remaining seven episodes to be released in November.
For now, here's a teaser trailer.
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And now we wait for confirmation of Connor's casting as Hulkling.
Please?
Meanwhile, Heartstopper season three is scheduled for streaming on Netflix starting on October 3.
Series creator and writer Alice Oseman shared with fans what to expect when Nick and Charlie return for an all-new season as their relationship deepens.
Oseman told Netflix:
“Season 2 ended with Nick beginning to understand the extent of Charlie’s mental health issues, and it’s this that will drive the story through Season 3."
She continued:
“While Heartstopper will always celebrate the joyful and point towards hope, I’m really excited that we are allowing the tone of the show to mature alongside our beloved characters growing up."
"Mental health, sex, university ambitions, and more: Nick, Charlie, and the Heartstopper teens are getting older, learning more about themselves and each other, and experiencing new desires, new fears, and new joys as they approach adulthood.”