Animals used to describe people

Horse's ass

Fish

Shark

Monkey

Wolf

Jackal

Dinosaur

(from Fisk, above)

cockroaches in a glass jar

two-legged beasts

ants

serpents

crocodiles

scorpions

cancerous manifestation

Lotta people here who really hate animals, eh?

What is wrong with a horse's ass that would make you compare it to a bad person? I think horses' asses are actually quite beautiful, and their gait as they walk away from you is deeply sensual.

I think that if people have lived through truly awful experiences -- of animal abuse, eg, or the abuse of people who are mentally disabled -- they learn not to use animals or mental disability as smart-mouth metaphors when they need to vent their anger at humans who do terrible things that would never occur to animals or the mentally disabled.

I understand what it's like to hurl imprecations at my monitor or the ceiling -- I'm a woman; I'm old; and I spend too much time reading about torture. But even when I'm swearing, I would never dignify a criminal like Dick Cheney by calling him a pig or a horse's ass or crazy. And it doesn't help me or any other serious detective to read sentences like "Fuck the fucking fucker for fucking authorizing fucking torture" when slower and more quiet work can actually get us closer to proving what the war criminals did.

The animal-metaphor threads are starting to become triggers for me, just as Alzheimer jokes often are. I doubt I'm alone.

I understand what it's like to hurl imprecations at my monitor or the ceiling -- I'm a woman; I'm old; and I spend too much time reading about torture. But even when I'm swearing, I would never dignify a criminal like Dick Cheney by calling him a pig or a horse's ass or crazy. And it doesn't help me or any other serious detective to read sentences like "Fuck the fucking fucker for fucking authorizing fucking torture" when slower and more quiet work can actually get us closer to proving what the war criminals did.

True, and in the threads where this all came up, I was thinking that totalitarian was a closer to the mark adjective, and being so might be a more powerful word to sling about, in the long run.

But, on the other hand, a message board should be organic, too.  It's why I don't use spell check, or correct all of my spelling, and sometimes use wierd syntax or slip into a dialect.   And that includes letting loose when something really upsets you.

Speaking of which, what the fuck is this bullshit about "I'm old".   You're old when you've given up. 

You'll never be old.

I don't hate animals at all. My lovely cat is watching me as I type this ("get off the friggin' table"). 

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What is wrong with a horse's ass that would make you compare it to a bad person?

The thread title is "Animals used to describe people". If doesn't say "bad" although HA is usually a put-down.  I didn't make it up. In any case, I wasn't venting. I was just listing. Perhaps I do once in a while Skdadl and I will keep your views in mind next time I'm tempted. 

Hmmm, they mentioned flirting, this brings to mind:

Peacock

Fox

Stud

Vixen

and to my understanding, the OP was looking for animals used to describe people, didn't specify they had to be pejoratives.

Yes, the Canadian Senate is a puss oozing syphilitic sore on the body politic.  But I mean that in the nicest possible way.

But remind, bagkitties are mythological, I think the OP was referring to real animals.

Had this great No Fear ball cap, that had a embroidered cat and a chicken on the front calling each otther "pussy" and "chicken", someone stole it....miss that hat, for several reasons, the main one being it worked better for holding long hair back than a hair tie.

Have been thinking about this subject, and I have found my position on it has not changed, actually it has become further entrenched.

My goodness, I forgot to include a couple of obvious ones yesterday:

Ferret

Hyena

[ETA: and in response to al-Qa'bong's irreverent drift... can't we lump a lot of those under the catchall "tool"?]

Polly B wrote:

Somewhere there's a pig thinking how embarassing it is to be compared to us lesser mammals.

Wow, my second chance to use the same Churchill quote within 24 hours:

WinstonChurchill wrote:

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

I think it is more likely that the pig would be merely confused about the matter, cats are the ones more likely to consider us lesser mammals.

Agree about cats thinking we are the lesser.....and the brat cat has taken to lying to me even.

"The cat who thinks she is wild", comes to the door and scratches it off until she gets fed her wet food, which usually means 30 seconds is not quick enough for her, or if she wants to be talked baby talk to....damn you Michelle.... :D.

bagkitty wrote:

My goodness, I forgot to include a couple of obvious ones yesterday:

Ferret

Hyena

[ETA: and in response to al-Qa'bong's irreverent drift... can't we lump a lot of those under the catchall "tool"?]

Why irreverent?  Am I disrespecting of insults, or have I violated a holy place?  Am I some sort of worm, a mole or a termite?  Should I follow the rest of the herd like a sheep, or merely ruminate?  I hardly think that by adding terms beyond those that describe humans I'm behaving like some sort of bull in a china shop.

And no, you cannot lump these terms all together, as each performs a different funtion, and they aren't really "tools," unless you'd call a floor, for example, a tool or a shelf a tool.

Those examples aren't of animals.

Sorry, but I refuse to be cowed by such a convoluted attempt at reasoning. 

A guy would say what he means, instead of inverting his meaning then making one guess what he's really getting at.

You're arguing like a woman (not that there's anything wrong with that).