DU Offense-o-meter. Please give me your personal rankings of what DUers take most offense at

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Please arrange from the following list the most likely to offend the common DUer to least likely offend the common DUer:

Insulting your state
Insulting your region of the country
Insulting your favorite band/musical artist
Insulting your favorite TV show
Insulting your religion/spiritual beliefs (or professed lack thereof)
Insulting your favorite restaraunt
Insulting your favorite sports team
Insulting your primary election candidate of choice
Insulting your mother

If I have neglected to add a notable area of insult, please feel free to add at your leisure.

[TZ]

1. I think the top one would be insulting your favorite band/musical artist...

followed by sports team, followed by restaurant, followed by religion, followed by region of country, followed by state followed by TV show and election candidate of choice.
As for insulting your mother..dude come on, thats standard fare...:rofl:
But to me, nothing gets people more annoyed than attacking ones musical choices...

[RebelOne]

2. Insulting my living accommodations.

I live in a mobile home and my posters have used the term "trailer trash." I am offended by that. Not all of us mobile home dwellers are ignorant, beer-swilling, foul-mouthed, knuckle-dragging redneck Republicans.

[Heidi]

5. :thumbsup:

"Trailer trash" says a helluva lot more about the person using the term than it says about people living in mobile homes.

[Symarip]

3. In order of most offensive to least

Insulting your primary election candidate of choice - This is pretty obvious. The primary wars permeated and spread lulz to all aspects of DU

Insulting your region of the country - Oddly enough, it's more offensive to talk shit about the Confederate flag (now defunct) than it is to call out a state like Kansas (still open for business). Go figure.

Insulting your favorite band/musical artist - Though seemingly of the least offensive, I believe the lack of DU regulation allows us to use music as a scape goat for other offensive and lulzy talk ("if you're not into Motown you're obviously racist" - wait, I'm going to have to save that one. It's pretty good)


Insulting your favorite TV show - Most TV talk goes nowhere but the occasional eruption over content, actors, or genre can often lead to the average DU'er spasming on the ground and spitting out slurs as though they were demonically possessed.

Insulting your favorite restaraunt (sp?) - As with music, food can lead to vicious (and thereby hilarious) attacks on regionalism, political affiliation, and of course, taste.

Insulting your favorite sports team - But wait, isn't sports talk the most heated? Sure, but it's between a select few and during specific times of the year.

Insulting your state - *yawn* Never really goes anywhere, and in today's mobile age, half of us have lived a little bit of everywhere.

Insulting your religion/spiritual beliefs (or professed lack thereof) - Always gets shut down before it ever gets hot.

Insulting your mother - We're desensitized to mom jokes.

[NoPasaran]

4. Insulting your favorite

Insulting your favorite Latin American dictator/benevolent tribune of the people

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. Insulting your primary election candidate of choice

insulting your religion

[Shell Beau]

7. Ok!

Insulting your religion/spiritual beliefs (or professed lack thereof)
Insulting your state
Insulting your region of the country
Insulting your primary election candidate of choice
Insulting your mother
Insulting your favorite band/musical artist
Insulting your favorite TV show
Insulting your favorite restaraunt
Insulting your favorite sports team