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“Try Again”: 59 Of The Most Brutally Clever Comebacks We Can All Take Notes From (New Pics)
Many people get away with dropping ill-advised comments on the internet. But from time to time, you will have one person who humbles them with the perfect clapback that isn’t easy to forget, let alone recover from.
The following screenshots show what that perfect response looks like. It doesn’t have to be downright insulting, but just enough to deliver a burn sick enough to require some ointment.
If delivering the perfect response is something you want to work on, perhaps you can learn a thing or two by scrolling through this list.
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Receiving negative comments is inevitable for anyone who has gained recognition online. And while taking them personally may be a knee-jerk reaction, you can also look at them as a positive.
PenFed Credit Union Chief Marketing Officer Gaurav Bhatia even went as far as saying that criticisms should be perceived as a gift.
As Bhatia tells Forbes, people who take the time to respond, regardless of their tone, typically care or are, at the very least, interested in what you have to say. Therefore, listening to their feedback is the least we could do.
But since this article is all about crafting the perfect comeback, let’s shift our focus to that. One way to deliver that ultimate clapback is to not think too much about what you’re going to say.
As comedy teacher and improv consultant Belina Raffy tells Mental Floss, “You’re taking yourself out of unfolding reality if you think too much.”
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WindySwede 2 days ago
Have you even read the bible Kevin? If you [harm] a lady, you pay to their father or husband. They were not equal, they were property..
turk 1 day ago
If a virgin is r***d, she must marry her rapist and her father is paid off by the rapist for damaging his goods. Equality.
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Tams21 2 days ago
I really wish people would spend 10 seconds of their time researching something before posting it.
Rali Meyer 2 days ago
sometimes google is as fast as 0.3 seconds for 20 results! It's called search engine. Use it
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UpupaEpops 2 days ago
I read both the Bible and the Quran. Multiple editions and translations of both, actually. There's nothing worse in the Quran than what can be found in the Old Testament, and it's actually *more* progressive on the legal rights of women than the New Testament is. Not that I, as a woman, would want my rights dictated by *any* religious text, but just food for thought.
Sue User 17 hours ago
The Quran is usually not translated to avoid changing the meaning
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John Monteith 2 days ago
1 Corinthians 14:34-35: States that women should "keep silent in the churches" and "not permitted to speak," suggesting they should ask questions to their husbands at home. 1 Timothy 2:11-12: Commands women to "learn in quietness and full submission" and prohibits them from teaching or exercising authority over a man.
Travis Sinclair 2 days ago
Obviously. God wrote the book on equality -- the bible. Look how equally people live in its area of origin. Good stuff, Kevin! Don't let reality dissuade you!
Kathrin Pukowsky 18 hours ago
I used to be an altar server. One evening I was scheduled with three boys, all of whom no-showed. No surprise there, happened all the time. Since it was a weekday evening, the church was only a quarter full, all women. Men only showed up on either Saturday evening or Sunday morning. On this evening we had a substitute priest. I was running my áss off to do the jobs of four altar servers, but so far things went smoothly, and then he started to preach. About how women should be happy with the way things are in the church, and how it's written in the bible that women should submit to men and... this was about the time he realised that he would've already died ~thirty times over if looks could kíll.
Kathrin Pukowsky 18 hours ago
Now, think of religion what you will, I'm not following any organised religion anymore, but during my time in the church it became apparent to me that it's women that feel the need to have faith in some benevolent higher power. Maybe because they are used to feeling powerless in a world ruled by men and want somebody in their corner, maybe for some other reason, or a mix of reasons, whatever. But they are the flesh and blood and backbone of religion. They go to church, they drag their men out of bed on Sunday morning, they teach it to their children. WIthout them, the system falls apart. And I think that's what we are seeing in the decline of church memberships. And that's because younger generations of women have more power over their own lives. They are educated enough to understand ethics exist with or without religion.
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Rich Black 1 day ago
The taliban just updated their wife beating rules this month. Mostly okay if you dont break any bones ( this is 100%true)
Scott Rackley 1 day ago (edited)
That dude is as dumb as a sack of hammers. I mean seriously unintelligent. The teacher always handed his test back face down.
Lady Eowyn 1 day ago
It's a pity he turned to be such a d*******g. I liked him in Hercules and Andromeda.
Remi (He/Him) 18 hours ago
He wasn't like that before he got brain damage
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Virgil Blue 1 day ago
Two of the most important plot points are blaming a woman for eating a fruit and punishing her and all off her descendants with pain. And the guy got off light. The other was impregnating a girl without giving her a choice for the greater good. Yeah, equal treatment
Colleen Glim 1 day ago
The biggest plot point is “so-called”God created humans with a sense of curiousity and then put a very important tree in the middle of the garden and said “don’t eat the apples.” Are you serious?! It was doomed to fail from the start
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KatWitch57 1 day ago
Since then; the new pope has to sit on a chair with a hole in the seat, so that a young male priest can have a grope to prevent another female pope.
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This idiot probably can't read. The bible is laden with r**e, incest and misogyny. Nothing like those idiot faux Christians who haven't read the bible. And it s***s when they encounter someone like me, spiritual but not Christian, but I studied the bible in college to know what was being used against me all the time.
Many of us strive for “perfection” when it comes to delivering the knockout punch of a response, and we tend to criticize ourselves too much. To silence that inner critic, experts advise against thinking and just shooting from the hip.
“In the heat of the battle, you just go for it,” freestyle rapper Lex Rush said in the same Mental Floss interview, noting how dropping rhymes on the mic is like a “stream of consciousness” where she has very little control over what she is saying.
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HangryHangryHippo 2 days ago
Letting that frontal lobe to fully mature sounds like a good thing too!
Quickness is also key to delivering the ultimate comeback. Sure, it’s not as imperative as it is when crafting a perfect response in real time, face-to-face. But as social media expert Scott Talan states, “speed is integral to wit.”
“If you’re trying to be witty and have that reputation, then speed will help you,” he said.
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Daisydaisy 2 days ago
"You pinecone"! Some people think of the most deliciously withering insults!
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cerinamroth 2 days ago
Ooh, yes. My husband is only just starting to get this too. He agreed that of course a friend of our daughter's could come over after school in 20 minutes. He went back to work. I had to stop work, hoover, clean up and tidy (I'm working two jobs, day and night atm) and be there to answer the door, provide snacks, check they had their hats, scarves, gloves when they went out and that the friend had everything with her when she left after arranging a pick-up time with the mum. My husband would say it was not necessary to hoover and clean up but he's not the one that bears the social penalty for such things - it has been proven time and again that women bear the social penalty for an untidy/dirty home.
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Rali Meyer 2 days ago
okay, 8 hours left. I suppose I can learn a new language on the way to work and back
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Feathered Dinosaur 2 days ago
I don't know who or what Bad Bunny is and I'm too lazy to run to Google
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Earonn - 2 days ago
That could have been said about the average German under Hitler, too. Nobody made excuses for them. And yes, if you ignore warnings from all over the world and don't work on the problem while it's small, solving it later might be painful. Americans also could support each other, or ask us for help.
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Rocket Surgeon 1 day ago
So there were plenty of tables but they couldn't get a table? I'm so confused.
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Geoffrey Scott 2 days ago (edited)
Keep up that line of thinking and your wish will be fulfilled. Once again, a benefit that has existed for 90 years is in trouble by those who refuse to fight and do not grasp the concept a 401k can be halved overnight, but Social Security even if reduced, would still be there. But then that would require effort to hold your elected Rep accountable to your expectations. BTW, at 30...Social Security Disability is more worth it than me at 63.
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Zephyr343 2 days ago
I got my wife a new XPS laptop for Christmas. It has a dedicated Copilot button where the right control key used to be. First thing I looked up was how to disable or remind it. Remember the bixby button that Samsung force fed down everyone's throats? Yeah, the Microsoft button should do the same and disappear
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Auntriarch 2 days ago
We've still got my great grandfather's lunchbox. It's only got a bit of coal dust in it now, but it used to carry his "snap" down the pit
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TheMFKNXerdo 2 days ago
Japan in particular has walkable cities and superb public transportation and safe streets. Kids can walk to school and are EXPECTED to do so, because there are decent schools in most areas, within walking distance of their homes or the train station. There is how they stay skinny, even if they have delicious snacks and beer everywhere and stupid portions of rice and other carbohydrates.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 days ago
She's just holding out for a world-class university, like Hull.
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CD Mills 1 day ago
I'm sure there are tons more snappy comebacks floating around the internet, more folks should start being funny and make more retorts and help the folks that gather them up. You can't necessarily fault the OP if their pool to draw from is so shallow.
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Ugh, do I have to? 1 day ago
I got quite annoyed at my Chemistry classmates today since they wouldn't stop talking while the teacher was giving a lecture, so I finally told them that "I think this is a situation in which your brains are more applicable than your mouths."
Ugh, do I have to? 17 hours ago
Can someone please explain why I'm getting downvoted?
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CD Mills 1 day ago
I'm sure there are tons more snappy comebacks floating around the internet, more folks should start being funny and make more retorts and help the folks that gather them up. You can't necessarily fault the OP if their pool to draw from is so shallow.
Load More Replies... Ugh, do I have to? 1 day ago
I got quite annoyed at my Chemistry classmates today since they wouldn't stop talking while the teacher was giving a lecture, so I finally told them that "I think this is a situation in which your brains are more applicable than your mouths."
Ugh, do I have to? 17 hours ago
Can someone please explain why I'm getting downvoted?
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