I know I will be spoken to like an imbecile by a twentysomething bearded hipster, and have to cart dozens of boxes of company-funded wine and beer through the maze of Apple Macs, pool tables and quirky, Lego-filled "interaction spaces" to the kitchen.
The council hates us, with their potholes, ignored broken glass, imbecile cycle lanes and 6in moats around storm drains.
The people of Egypt, who built pyramids to last till the end of time, were a people so ignorant and imbecile as to worship monkeys: why the people of Liverpool bore some resemblance to the people of Egypt in that.
"Such imbecile images should never be shown in this country.
A friend of his left this river on the 4th of this month, and in twenty-five days he had a letter from him from Halifax, Nova Scotia; in six hours they could travel from London to Boulogne; and was it to be tolerated, that a people who could effect such wonders as these should submit any longer to such an imbecile system as that of monopoly?
Today, a naïf is also an imbecile; and the comedy goes south.
It was a glimpse of the more poisonous views held by Dhar, a British-Indian Muslim convert who now goes by the nom de guerre of Abu Rumaysah and has found himself as a key suspect in the efforts to identify the masked gunman who threatens Britain and taunts David Cameron as an "imbecile" in an execution video released by Isis on Sunday afternoon.
One has "imbecile stupidity written on his face" and the other has frightening, "free-floating violence" in his eyes.
First, he breaks down the etymology of that word and now-innocuous predecessors like "imbecile" to highlight the self-absorbed transience of communal offense, then unfeasibly paints the shooting of congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords as a blow for mental health treatment.
A militant speaking in the video taunts the Prime Minister directly, calling him an "imbecile" for launching air strikes against Isis in Syria and threatening to "wage jihad" against the UK.
Italian football's bad boy Mario Balotelli has been called "an imbecile" by a leading anti-mob campaigner after again hitting the headlines for the wrong reasons.
