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Comeback refers to a quick reply to a critical remark which basically shuts down the critic immediately. The best comebacks are always a step ahead in restoring karma, defending the accused ones, and making that snap which is entertaining to anyone who witnesses it.

And since experiencing a real-life clapback which is both fun and witty is somewhat rare, we turn to the internet, or this Twitter page, to be precise, to give ourselves a masterclass in savage comebacks.

Named “Clever Comebacks,” the page is busy sharing exactly what it promises in the title and from 75.5k followers, it seems like it’s doing a pretty good job. More masterclass comebacks from the same account can be found in our previous feature right here!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Call the fire department, thats is not a burn, thats a frikking forest fire....

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In a previous interview, Bored Panda spoke with Abigail Paul, an actress, standup comedian and improviser who has been giving seminars on incorporating theatre techniques for purposes beyond the stage to schools, businesses and organizations.

Abigail argues that the secret to any comeback is connection. “If you are really listening to (and connecting with) another person, you are taking them in fully, aware of who they are, the context in which you are dealing with this person,” she said.

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N Miller
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ugh, obnoxious hateful b*tch. Has she not crawled back under her rock yet. Could've done with her name being censored - the less air time this oxygen thief is given the better

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TooTall
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They forgot to mention the historical forcing conversion to Atheism through torture and/or being killed...

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Moreover, according to the comedian, people do this assessment unconsciously. In fact, we aren't even always aware that we are always sizing up other people. “This is too often because we are so focused on ourselves.” A great comeback feels great because it was earned, Abigail argues. “It was spontaneous. The commenter was probably really listening. It was unique to that moment, set of people, situation,” she told us some time ago.

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Hotdogking
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, that’s because we’re so.... I can’t be bothered to finish that sentence 🥱😴

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Jaaawn
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Members of the Church of Satan are some of the most charitable and humane people around! It's only feared because of the name.

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One of the biggest challenges in saying a comeback is making sure it doesn’t sound mean. But Abigail reminds us that a comeback is not a clapback. The latter one “is generally sarcastic, but a clapback might be fun among friends.”

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At the same time, the context of a situation always matters. “In working on status exercises in improv, we try to get people to see that the easiest way to raise another person's status is to lower their own. We see that in standup comedy too. Usually it works best if the comic is the butt of the joke, not the audience. (There are plenty of exceptions.)”

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girlsrock4ever
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And also, expecting them to be happy is first of all sexist, and also dumb because how would they be happy when so many problems plague femalekind, like pink tax, groping, jerks like this guy, etc. Today in my bus some guy apparently pulled up the shirt of & touched this girl in her private parts. That girl is a 4th grader, and that guy is that age or younger! (my school goes from Nursery to 12th grade).

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Bender Bending Rodríguez
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Haters gonna hate. Potatoes gonna potate. Karens gonna talk to a lawyer about suing an underage child. Something tells me there's more than just hairstyle why kids call that karen, karen.

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While you don’t need to be too self-effacing for a good comeback, if it can lift other people up, the job is done. “When it works well and gains the speaker a laugh and cements the bond that says, we are in this together,” Abigail explained.

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While comebacks can be used as an excellent communication tool, listening skills are the most important thing. “Paying attention, making accurate observations about the people in the room, and how they feel—these are the tools that will make a comeback really shine,” Abigail explained.

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Caro Caro
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jenni is going places and she has my vote. What a gutsy intelligent young lady.

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Hotdogking
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My granddad died of Parkinson’s so it would be a slap in the face for me if a cure is discovered now

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Rowlie
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These brands are like a pets fast food- it tastes great so pets love it but there is no real nutrition value.

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waddles
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the dishwasher is a scary thing, nearly as terrifying as the microwave

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Nathaniel
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We AlL KnoW mORe gUnS MaKE uS SAfeR FrOM GuN vioLENce tHAt iS WhY UsA Is thE SaFESt CoUNtrY iN thE WOrlD.

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Marleinah Smith
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

True beauty comes from the inside. This new gf must be a better person than the ex.

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Nathaniel
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If all women protected their virginities ( I am cringing at this sentence by the way) how would all these studs of men, these players, get their end away?

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The lesbian knitting panda
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

well it involves a time machine, some ballpoint pens and a whole lot of dumplings. Who's with me?

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Nathaniel
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also why would they? What is the reasoning FOR women taking a man's last name?

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Autistic apricot
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I get so mad at this, if the rest of the clothes turned back, why didn’t the shoe? And also if the shoe didn’t turn back when it fell off, why didn’t she take off other things so they would stay?

GirlFriday
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If Cinderella would have just stripped naked, say around 11:45, she could have stayed with the Prince and avoided all of that trouble.

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Zedrapazia
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As far as I remember Grims original, it didn't fall off, but the prince tried to catch her in a human sized glue trap on a stair on the floor and it got stuck

Abby da great
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And if you think about it the prince was a creep who stalked her through the entire kingdom

Violet Jensen
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wrote a retelling where Cinderella was a trans girl at her senior prom and the “prince” was like “well, there’s probably only one girl in town with size 14 in men’s.”

DrBronxx
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here's a sentence I never thought I'd say....the alpha male has a point.

O.M.Miki
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was always impressed at the idea the shoe was f*****g glass and she could run and dance in them like that s**t wouldn't shatter and firework shards into her soles lol

Zee
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I was Cinderella I would WWE that b**ch to get my shoe back, ain't nobody ever take my shoe from me.

MarchingBanda786
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hmmmm I wonder what the censored words say, they blurred them out soooo well

NekoNonsense
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It honestly kills me that nobody seems to know that in the Grimm's fairytale the prince put pitch on the steps of the stairs outside the palace in the hopes of stopping Cinderella from running away on that last night of the dances (there were three nights of dances, first one she wore all silver, the second she wore all gold, the third night, diamonds and glass slippers). But Cinderella ran down the steps covered in pitch, and that's why the glass slipper fell off her foot and got left behind. Disney has f'd up so many of the Grimm's Fairytales... and other fairytales and stories too.

PjandBolt
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A good thing to take in consideration, Cinderella's shoe size is 4 1/2

Collin Lyle
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You try running in a custom made glass slipper with sweaty feet

K.A. Hansen
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The prince shouldn't have needed the dang shoe to fit, he should've remembered her FACE.

Daniel-Teodor Circa
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Disney are trying to wash their sins of portraying the girl like week persons who's jurny is to get a prince with introducing lesbians in their stories and this is a good thing because if before the girl stayed with a person for their status and then for the others thing now the love is the most important

the laughing koala
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

in the original story he saw what house she went into also the clothes did not change back

LiuLiu
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

because people - it was a magical shoe & could only fit the owner of the shoe, that is how magic works

Marcus Rantala
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I recall a version of the original story did not speak of a "shoe", but a fur slipper (sp?). That's old folk tales for you.

Ashley Schriber
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What about the fact that this prince was supposedly in love with her, but couldn't recognize her by sight? Could he not be bothered to leave his home to identify her? Did he suffer from prosopagnosia?

Jan Dunn
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And if it was glass why didn't it break on those Stone steps when it fell off.

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Lace Neil
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Spongebob Squarepants! Who died in the oil spill caused by BP?

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Nathaniel
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like what you did with your leaves. Can you send me a pic with you not wearing your bark?

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Nathaniel
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Women getting tattoos is disgraceful, what next? They'll be getting the vote?

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N Miller
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The person asking the question also has no idea that Musk isn't an inventor, but an investor. That wealth grows over time and get-rich-quick schemes are 99% scams. They probably believe in pulling oneself up by the bootstraps and the American Dream is still attainable. Bless 'em

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

personally I'd feel safer as an african with their tyres gone. At least I won't get shot for walking in the street.

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Tamra
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The right absolutely chooses violence, but in subversive ways. Curtailing women's rights over their own bodies, resulting in more deaths from botched abortions; anti-LGBTQ rhetoric resulting in more violence against that group; steadfastly against gun control...need I go on?

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Nathaniel
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So what? I have a book and sat quietly with a pint in the corner. Just who is wasting their energy not liking me?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and that's why we don't give strangers our Venmo, always give social security number first-so you can trust them.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Both of these things still took a lot of effort and work to produce tho.

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The lesbian knitting panda
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sir this is the maths department for a highschool they're not supposed to learn about that for another few years

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