Bar room trash talk

[Loki]

Okay! You've just landed after a long trip out in the depths of space. You're thirsty and head for the nearest bar that caters to spacers.

The hours pass and you're rapidly getting a good buzz on. You're enjoying your favorite "drink" (substitute the word "smoke", "stimulant", etc) when suddenly you are bumped by an alien.

In anger, you turn to say something. What do you say? Just what will constitute an insult in the Traveller environment? "Furball" works well on a Wookie but how do you insult a Hiver? A Vargr? Centaurs? Aslans? Droyne? Or, would you insult the alien's profession?

Just got to thinking about the typical Cantina scene and the trash talking used there and wondered just how you would go about bad-mouthing an alien. Maybe something grabbed from the M.I.B. or M.I.B.2 movies? I just have to believe that Will Smith or Tommy Lee Jones could throw a zinger at an alien that even it's mother would hate. If "it" had a mother!

 

[notagoodusername]

Call a Vargr "Doggie", or "Fido"

Call an Aslan "Woman" (unless it is a woman, then just poke her in the eye)

Call a K'kree "G'naak" (means meat-eater - boy, will that get a reaction)

Droyne - maybe caling it a "Chirper", but I doubt it. Or just "Bugboy" - most likely it wouldn' care.

Hivers - I dunno. I don't *think* they'd get upset. Which is not to sya the inevitable Ithulur bodyguard wouldn't...

Just initial guesses.


Shane

 

[Liam Devlin]

Originally posted by Shane Mclean:
Call a Vargr "Doggie", or "Fido"

Well, the defacto SOB call, would be a truism, so thats out.Hmm. IMTU, a decent Vargr specific curse is the word daergh: meaning(all) inedible meat/ filth/ excrement. Guns will draw, blades will flash at this, as there is a word for things even a Vargr will not eat.

Call an Aslan "Woman" (unless it is a woman, then just poke her in the eye)

ANything that can insult honor, clan or family.
IMTU: "Eayaghai' Khaorii-So!" ("F@@K You and your Clan", literally every person animal, stick stone belonging to the clan is included-then get ready to rumble!). Note Hexos was wiped out in the rebellion with a bio agent in Trojan Reaches. Rumor has it a chap from here radioed this to the ihatei fleet and sat back smirking till they all started dying.

Call a K'kree "G'naak" (means meat-eater - boy, will that get a reaction)

Agreed. Or askin' em out fer a BBQ picnic, themsleves as main entree..works fer me!

Droyne - maybe caling it a "Chirper", but I doubt it. Or just "Bugboy" - most likely it wouldn' care.

Hivers - I dunno. I don't *think* they'd get upset. Which is not to sya the inevitable Ithulur bodyguard wouldn't...Shane

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Ithklur laugh, even when they kill folks. hard to tell about them.

For a Hiver, stump him at a manipulation (not a one liner-refuse to acknowledge they exist o r that anything you say and do has anything to do with his/her/its manipulation)!

Droyne.
Hmmm. "Bug-eyed Bungling butterfingered boob!" be my first guess if he spilled me drink.
Alliteration (all B words). harder to do to vargr (all V starting words). Who's next? the Heretics have now weighed in...

 

[Shadowdancer]

Droyne -- "Caste-less," or maybe something like "Lotto boy."

Vargr -- "Cat feces breath."

Aslan -- "Dog toy" or "Clawless."

K'Kree -- "Lone Ranger."

 

[far-trader]

And of course,

Vargr male - "Den mother" typically followed by "Go back home to your pups"

Aslan male - "Landless" typically answered by said Aslan challenging you to a claw duel for "your" lands

 

[sinbadsam]

Well in Solomani Bar just get the entire bars attention then

Raise your pint and drink it down in one long swallow, slam it down on the bar upside down.

Works better in bar that has Royal Navy or Marines visiting it.

Get ready for a A** whopping the likes you never have dreamed of....

 

[Liam Devlin]

Another one, fer either vargr, or Aslan:
to be called "Toothless", meaning has to have others hunt/ gnash up their food fer em.

 

[Falkayn]

IMTU the Julian Protectorate has its own peculiar rules for invective. For example:

Human
Derogatory = "monkey-boy" / "weak-clawed"
Joking = "ape-man"

Vargr
Derogatory = "dog-boy" / "slave"
Joking = "wolf-man"


Other derogatory names in and outside the Protectorate are:

Human
"Pink"

K'Kree
"Manure-maker"

Vargr
"Arse-sniffer"
"Sentient Pet"

Aslan
"Pussycat"

Vilani
"Bwap wannabe"

Bwap
"Littering Lizard"

 

[Liam Devlin]

Good ones, Angus! Gota remeber that Vilani one fer a certain Baron in our campaign! As we have two Vargr players, some of the others might not do too well.(and they're both Navy guys)