euphemisms - Lets start a thread on euphemisms.

[hamermill]

What is an example of euphemism?

A euphemism is a word or phrase that softens an uncomfortable topic. It uses figurative language to refer to a situation without having to confront it. For example, if someone was recently fired, they might say they are between jobs, a common euphemism for being unemployed.

Unhoused - homeless

 

[unassuming]

Porch light on, nobody home- a retard

 

[unassuming]

He's too short for his weight- a fatty

 

[Meesh]

Porch light on, nobody home- a retard

A few fries short of a Happy Meal

 

[trm]

 

[John Wick]

He's Intellectually Challenged = He's an idiot

 

[ogibowt]

this a horrible sanitized, bureaucratic way of saying hunger/hungry....food insecurity

 

[GeeBee]

Dangler and nuggets.
Meat and two veg.,
The banana and plums (when I played we used to call a jock strap the fruit bowl)

 

[onomatopoeia]

Autophilanthrophy - embezzlement

 

[onomatopoeia]

Strategic Misrepresentation - lie

 

[thumper18474]

Follically challenged.(Bald)

 

[escortsxxx]

Before the The courts -fuck you /no comment you idiot

 

[onomatopoeia]

Rugged - a man wearing a toupée.

 

[escortsxxx]

That's hot - It makes me come

 

[Insidious Von]

Dead from the neck up - a moron.

 

[Insidious Von]

Rugged - a man wearing a toupée.

William Shatner - a man looking for the closed orifice.

 

[hamermill]

Strategic Misrepresentation - lie

I love this one can’t wait to use that in a soul sucking meeting…

 

[onomatopoeia]

I love this one can’t wait to use that in a soul sucking meeting…

I'm not sure, but I think 'strategic misrepresentation' was first used publicly by Alexander Haig, early 1980's, when he was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of State.

 

[downbound123]

Gorge Santos doesn't lie, he commits terminological inexactitudes

 

[onomatopoeia]

These from The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, 1994. Beard and Cerf were two of the founders of National Lampoon magazine.

h'orsh'it - a gender neutral pronoun, a contraction of 'he or she or it'. - Joel Forbes, 1975.

individual with temporarily unmet objectives - loser

environmental hygienist - janitor

person with difficult to meet needs - serial killer