There is a reason we still run to Twitter for humor even though it's not the first place that comes to mind when you want to have a good laugh. The kind of comedy gold you can get from some threads there is amazing, as in the case of this one which started when user Sarah Dempster tweeted this :
What’s the most hauntingly specific insult you’ve ever received? I once made a joke about Dennis Waterman’s dentures and a man wrote to tell me I was “obviously lonely”.
— Sarah Dempster (@Dempster2000) March 17, 2020
It got crazy from there.
1.
"Whenever I'm feeling cynical he makes me feel worse." - The best thing anyone has ever said about me
— David (@Flahute66) March 17, 2020
2.
When I worked in a sports shop 100 years ago a child said I looked like ‘a weak Steve Collins’. This chap, but significantly atrophied pic.twitter.com/ZQ3ZeeqxdR
— Jonnie Baker (@MrJonnieB) March 17, 2020
3.
A review once described me as having a ridiculous head with "a jaw like an Easter Island statue".
— Benet Brandreth QC (@benetbrandreth) March 17, 2020
4.
“I think of you as a combination of Curly Watts and Rigsby.” From my mother.
— Dave Hollins (@HollinsHolly) March 17, 2020
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A regular seeing me from out behind the bar for the first time, looks me up and down: you must never wear a hat, you will look like a mushroom.
— Lisa Solley (@VWGertrude) March 17, 2020
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My ex once told me after I'd wet shaved my beard off that I looked like a foetus.
— 'Josh' (@jogules) March 17, 2020
7.
I was in a pub and, as a group of people passed my table, one of them looked at me and then said to his friends: 'I might be a prick, but at least I won't go through life looking like Frodo.'
— Andy (@Lazarus22) March 17, 2020
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I was once referred to as “the lowest form of humanity” in Ikea, Croydon.
— Hannah Williams (@flamingnora) March 17, 2020
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A taxi driver once said to Kathy Burke, “Don’t take this the wrong way, but you look like that Kathy Burke.’
— Dean Charles (@DeanCha08184104) March 17, 2020
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I had a disagreement with someone at work. They won the argument by calling me "a Welsh Alan Carr" before storming out.
— Christletoe & Webb (@chrisporkerwebb) March 17, 2020
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Whilst at school, aged 16, a friend of mine told a younger kid of 11 that his Mum was fit.
— Socrates1882 (@Socrates1882) March 17, 2020
Quick as a flash the 11 year old shouted back that “she doesn’t shag anybody with yellow teeth”.
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Apparently I had the personality of a ‘frozen Christmas Turkey’.
— Gaby Ellis ♿️ (@EllisGaby) March 17, 2020
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I can't think of my worst received insult, but I did tell Sarah Huckabee Sanders, after one of her more poisonous jibes at Greta Thunberg, that calling someone out for their looks was a bit rich coming from someone who looked like a dog licking piss off a nettle.
— Akbar Fazel (@AkbarFazel) March 17, 2020
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A friends dad had to go oversee a new work project in the north. The workers weren't thrilled with this London lot coming and and were giving him the silent treatment. A few days in one guy cut him off mid sentence and said "I bet you eat Muesli for breakfast."
— Sack Jugden (@JackSugden) March 17, 2020
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“Dude! Check out the old chick in the mosh pit!” somebody yelled out at a Beck Concert....then I realized they were referring to me. 🤔
— Trump is Putin’s Golden Goose among Useful Idiots (@PDX_DianeS) March 17, 2020
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Stupidly decided to read the comments section of a piece I was in ages ago and someone had written "I know this is a serious video but the guy looks like an older version of augustus gloop from tim burtons charlie and the chocolate factory" ... It's done wonders for my selfesteem
— Oliver Monaghan (@Ollie_Mon) March 17, 2020
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A kid I don't even teach would not stop hassling me one day, had to tell him to leave as I was busy, they ended up calling me an Irish cow. I mean, I am Irish, but so very specific...
— Sio (@Wee_Sio) March 17, 2020
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A workmate once said I look like Mr Burns who has been very ill
— Chris wheeler (@Chriswh30270174) March 17, 2020