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| Which is more insulting? |
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| Twit |
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| Git and Twit are equally insulting |
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| I'm not really sure. |
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| Don't know - I'm not familiar with one or either of the terms |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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 Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:40 pm Post subject: Which is more insulting - git or twit? |
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Git (Insult) from Wiki
I was a little surprised this morning to read the highlighed part (highligted by me):
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| Git is a relatively mild British slang term, used to denote a silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying, childish or senile elderly person. It is usually used as an insult, more severe than twit but less severe than a true profanity like wanker or arsehole, and may often be used affectionately between friends. |
Is git really more severe than twit? I'd hardly care if someone called me a get or a git, but if they called me a twit, I'd be most offended! 
I've done a poll - now drink one. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd say git, because it sounds foreign like w.anker or tos.ser. |
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SeoulShakin
Joined: 05 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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Hehe I knew you wanted to make one 
I voted for git.
Git just seems sharper, and more harsh.
Twit is a word I find somewhat amusing, like twitter. |
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venus
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: Near Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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I voeted Twit to be harsher. Git is more a term to use on a mate who won't give you a f@g (can't believe that was censored with correct spelling) or someting 'ah you tight git.'
Or if used towards some one you don't know it at least denotes the person has character.
Twit is more demeaning, it means someone who is imbecilic, inefectual. There is something about the employment of the term that assumes the person being called the twit is of little circumstance, not even enough to be called an idiot, a tw@t or a tosser.
Twit is on level terms imo with 'berk' 'whally' 'prat' and even 'gimp.' |
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samd
Joined: 03 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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Neither term is insulting.
In fact, if anybody called me a git or a twit in anger, I would probably laugh. |
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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf
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| Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| I personally prefer the vastly underrated and oft seldom used 'Whally.' |
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nobbyken
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
Location: Yongin ^^
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| Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| I would call myself a twit for doing something silly, but I wouldn't call myself a git. |
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venus
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: Near Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:10 am Post subject: |
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| indytrucks wrote: |
| I personally prefer the vastly underrated and oft seldom used 'Whally.' |
Ha ha. He's such a whally! My Mum would use that sometimes. Funny memories... usually leveled agains co-workers of hers who were midlle aged, single and a bit daft.
I also like Berk.
Bloody berk. What a complete and utter berk!
Bring back the old insults I say. They had so much more range, a broader pallette.
Modern popular terms terms such as Cnut, mofo, a'hole are versatile but there is no real depth, range, subtlety, they all mean practically the same thing... They're so plainly vulgar as well.
I really like prat aswel.
Mate acts like an idiot one night and insults his girlfriend publicly and she dumps him. She was the best thing that happend to him...
'You complete prat.' |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:16 am Post subject: |
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"git goin?
git lost!
go on, git!"
i thought it was just a different way of saying "get"
anybody who tried to insult me by using "git" would be met with a  at the silliness of the sound |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:20 am Post subject: |
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| Git is worse as twit is a little twee. My fave is plonker, a word I'm trying to use more in conversation. |
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venus
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: Near Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:28 am Post subject: |
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| Git is worse as twit is a little twee. My fave is plonker, a word I'm trying to use more in conversation. |
Rodney, you Plonker!
Sorry Del. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:54 am Post subject: |
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| venus wrote: |
I voeted Twit to be harsher. Git is more a term to use on a mate who won't give you a f@g (can't believe that was censored with correct spelling) or someting 'ah you tight git.'
Or if used towards some one you don't know it at least denotes the person has character.
Twit is more demeaning, it means someone who is imbecilic, ineffectual. There is something about the employment of the term that assumes the person being called the twit is of little circumstance, not even enough to be called an idiot, a tw@t or a tosser. |
Well put. I would use twit to label someone whose intelligence I held in very low regard. But I might call someone a git, yet still have a fair amount of respect for them. git and bugger are quite interchangeable IMO.
He's a stubborn little git, that lad! 
Christ, what a silly little twit.  |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:57 am Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
"git goin?
git lost!
go on, git!"
i thought it was just a different way of saying "get"
anybody who tried to insult me by using "git" would be met with a at the silliness of the sound |
What's all this bollocks then, you ignorant git!?
Actually it is a different way of saying get - in the North of England, we generally say "get" instead of "git."
According to Wiki, it began as a synonym for 'bastard.'
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| The word git first appeared in print in 1946, but undoubtedly predates it. The etymology of the word is a contraction of "illegitamate", or possibly a corruption of the word 'get', dating back to the 14th century. A shortening of 'beget', 'get' insinuates that the recipient is someone's misbegotten offspring and therefore a bastard i.e. illegitimate. In parts of northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland 'get' is still used in preference to 'git'. |
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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 3:40 am Post subject: |
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| venus wrote: |
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| Git is worse as twit is a little twee. My fave is plonker, a word I'm trying to use more in conversation. |
Rodney, you Plonker!
Sorry Del. |
Hehe!
I'm also a fan of bellend. |
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BS.Dos.
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 4:04 am Post subject: |
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| T.w.a.t, closely followed by git-faced dandy bambam. |
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