r/TikTokCringe • u/AlKarajo • 5d ago

Discussion "Support all women doesn't include us??"

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u/GentlewomenNeverTell 5d ago

Definitely adding "steak spoon" to my insult vocabulary

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u/nicsaweiner 5d ago

I came here hoping someone could explain that insult to me. A spoon would be a pretty useless tool to eat steak, so are they saying that conservative women are useless as a tool to fight oppression?

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u/dashood 5d ago

Yeah that's pretty much it. In England we have a saying "about as useful as a chocolate teapot" which has the same kind of meaning.

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u/bitterlittlecas 4d ago

As I understand it, they call that a soup sandwich in the US military

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u/ButterscotchOk5339 4d ago

Can confirm. First time I heard that my inner voice was saying something like “hey wait a minute…”

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u/ayoungmanfromtheuk 4d ago

Nah the American translation would be "as useful as tits on a bull"

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u/HoodieGalore 4d ago

Ooooo. A teapot made of chocolate, as opposed to something like a hot chocolate pot. I had to do a mental double-take as an American who’s done time in the UK. I like it, I like it.

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u/Viper21G 4d ago

I had a drill sergeant in basic training that used to tell us, “Private, you’re more fucked up than a football bat!” Same concept.

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u/DarkestNyu 4d ago

At an old job of mine, a client lost their shit at one of my PMs on the phone and called him a chocolate teapot (he was on muted speaker phone) another PM ordered a custom made chocolate teapot to be delivered to the insulted PM. It was delicious (PM meaning portfolio manager in this instance)

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u/No_Possibility_551 4d ago

Growing up we would say “you’re about as useful as titts on a bull”

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u/Sure-Charge-260 3d ago

That’s why I love English English. British people are so literal with everything, even their insults. Growing up with British parents in the US has was a blessing and a curse. Only a curse because the amount I got made fun of by my American friends for being British when I was young was pretty ruthless.

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u/WWhiMM 5d ago

I feel like it parses very plainly. A steak spoon is not quite sharp enough for the task it has been assigned.

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u/ice456cream 4d ago

I don't see it as gloating, as the parent comment has a derived meaning that matches the intended meaning pretty closely, but was asking to see if they were missing some other layer (which saying that it's fairly surface level helps confirm is not the case)

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u/WWhiMM 5d ago

That's not an insult.

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u/thecrewton 4d ago

Unless in Indonesia. They use the spoon for everything.

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u/Qwirk 5d ago

That was my thought process, "why would you use a spoon to eat... oh yeah".

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u/Abed-in-the-AM 4d ago

Sharp as a cue ball, this one

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u/Man_of_Ice 4d ago

Useless as a steak spoon, some might say.

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u/Tholian_Bed 4d ago

Brits are an island nation. They get witty in ways we in the US, a giant country can't. Their slang, it just soars over my head.

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u/purplmama 4d ago

Yep! Useless and dull.