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Ft Alphaville Reader Calls For To A Greater Extent Than Civil Incivility

Appended to FTAV's "Thoughts for the Weekend" postal service regarding Cleveland-Cliffs' CEO Lourenco Goncalves telling an analyst, on the conference call, "...you are an embarrassment to your parents".
Mr. Goncalves raised another interesting points equally well.

To which reader Simple Simon replied:
Simple Simon 2 days ago

Surprised that Goncalves didn't telephone phone Korn "horseface". Trump leading the agency together with Trumpian CEOs follow inward his wake.
Now at that topographic point are many who would limited scandalize at the eruption of insult together with abuse inward populace discourse. They prefer from our leaders civility, decorum together with technocratic mealymouthed platitudes.
Not I!! I long for more incivility. Not inward the coarse together with clumsy Trumpian fashion simply amongst witty, creative together with linguistically ingenious barbs that our Elizabethan forbears were together with then fond of (and that nosotros tin yet hold upwards entertained past times when nosotros larn run across Shakespeare at the theater).  What nosotros involve is to a greater extent than Fallstaffian vituperation! Good-natured simply clever, tender simply cutting to the quick. Repartee, gentlemen (and ladies), repartee!
We convey had like thoughts.

From 2013's "More on Jon Corzine together with MF Global":
In yesterday's postal service "Thoughts for the Weekend" postal service regarding Cleveland-Cliffs' CEO Lourenco Goncalves telling an analyst, on the conference call, "...you are an embarrassment to your parents".
Mr. Goncalves raised another interesting points equally well.

To which reader Simple Simon replied:
Simple Simon 2 days ago

Surprised that Goncalves didn't telephone phone Korn "horseface". Trump leading the agency together with Trumpian CEOs follow inward his wake.
Now at that topographic point are many who would limited scandalize at the eruption of insult together with abuse inward populace discourse. They prefer from our leaders civility, decorum together with technocratic mealymouthed platitudes.
Not I!! I long for more incivility. Not inward the coarse together with clumsy Trumpian fashion simply amongst witty, creative together with linguistically ingenious barbs that our Elizabethan forbears were together with then fond of (and that nosotros tin yet hold upwards entertained past times when nosotros larn run across Shakespeare at the theater).  What nosotros involve is to a greater extent than Fallstaffian vituperation! Good-natured simply clever, tender simply cutting to the quick. Repartee, gentlemen (and ladies), repartee!
We convey had like thoughts.

From 2013's "Jon Corzine together with the First Two Rules of Risk",  I said "Corzine should hold upwards shot together with his occupation solid unit of measurement stripped of every final penny of their wealth."
I forgot to add together that his bones should hold upwards Blue Planet to dust together with his lands salted together with then they prevarication fallow for a G years.

Even that doesn't quite limited my thinking on the guy. For that nosotros should in all likelihood plow to a writer*:

Corzine Oswald: What dost thou know me for?

Earl of Kent:
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; i that wouldst hold upwards a bawd, inward agency of adept service, together with fine art zip simply the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, together with the boy together with heir of a mongrel bitch: i whom I volition shell into clamorous whining....
 Oswald: Oh.
broken meats = left-overs
worsted-stocking = inferior [because worsted (wool) stockings were inferior to silk ones]
action-taking = litigous, running to the constabulary instead of using virile self-defence
glass-gazing = given to gazing into mirrors
superserviceable = officious, a 'little hitler'
finical = nit-picking
bawd = whore master
the composition of = the effect of combining
pandar = pimp
thy add-on = your personal description
HT for the definitions: Listology 
*If you've succeeded inward blocking out high schoolhouse English linguistic communication that's King Lear, Act II, scene 2

note: Oswald doesn't genuinely nation "Oh" inward the original text, an oversight, I'm sure, on the work of The Bard.

Now, if the whole lily-livered whoreson affair is equally good drawn out for thee, MIT has a handy "Shakespeare Insult Kit":
To practise a Shakespearean insult...
  Combine i discussion from each of the iii columns below,    prefaced amongst "Thou":          Column 1            Column 2                Column 3          artless             base-court              apple-john         bawdy               bat-fowling             baggage         beslubbering        beef-witted             barnacle         bootless            beetle-headed           bladder         churlish            boil-brained            boar-pig         cockered            clapper-clawed          bugbear         clouted             clay-brained            bum-bailey         craven              common-kissing          canker-blossom
...MUCH MORE

Even easier to work is:

Although sadly it alone delivers two-beat invective i.e. "Thou fine art a mongrel deformity", etc.


Enough to larn started though. Change the world, i insult at a time.

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