There’s nothing more satisfying than watching someone blast back with an absolutely perfect response.
Well, maybe there is. I guess it’s a little more fun if that person is YOU, but honestly, how often does that happen for most of us?
Those are once in a lifetime moments for us mere mortals, so to get our fill of that feeling we gotta revel in galleries of others pulling it off instead.
Galleries like this one. Here are some of the best responses of all time.
20. The answer I’m looking for
This is what the smartphone was invented for.
19. Cool as ice
It’s just layers on layers.
18. Fair is fair
Why does he look like his mouth is trying to jump into the camera?
17. Right place, right time
I don’t know who you are but this is the start of something great.
16. If you can’t take the heat…
…get out of the kitchen.
15. Holy flex
He came not to be served, but to serve looks.
14. Dug yourself into a hole
Nobody really cares how friendly you are if you’re still using your funds for evil.
13. At what price?
I’m so poor I can’t even afford to be myself.
12. Dead meat
A Kelly in name, a Karen in spirit.
11. Getting a leg up
Here’s the long and short of it.
10. Cursed cursive
Of all the things we need to focus on right now…
9. A bad look
They just keep running into it.
8. Doesn’t measure up
The fact that this tweet is from/about my hometown makes me feel doubly proud-shamed.
Americans will measure with anything but the metric system https://t.co/m7EFYJbFAX
— Ralph (@Ralphium) August 10, 2019
7. Read the room
How are you gonna tell a prolific author they don’t know how words work?
A Yale History professor told me to get tutoring for my “remedial English.” I’d already received Wright Prize for nonfiction & later that year, the Veech Prize for fiction, so I told him: “It’s not that I don’t know how to write; it’s that you don’t know how to read.” #Grammar
— Min Jin Lee (@minjinlee11) July 23, 2020
6. Say Watt?
Once again, the jocks get all the cool stuff…
how much are they for everyone else?
— JJ Watt (@JJWatt) July 24, 2020
5. Why Musk you be this way
Dang, two Elon tweets in a row.
You named your kid like R2-D2 or some shit https://t.co/yvJDRPkcYY
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) July 25, 2020
4. Exception that proves the rule
You didn’t just walk into this, you hopped on a rocket and blasted in.
You are absolutely right. https://t.co/5HDi6pOpVJ
— ROYZ (@royzkingin) January 6, 2020
3. No accounting for taste
How low can you go?
2 awful logos, the worst name in pro sports, and a ridiculous color scheme. How does something like this happen? It’s so bad it must be intentional. And what does this say about our society? Surely this is the end for us.
— Scott (@slboehler) July 23, 2020
Ah daaamn, that was good
— Scott (@slboehler) July 23, 2020
2. A dated reference
I think it’s time we saw other formats.
DD/MM/YYYY
Other formats can really be confusing 😩 https://t.co/dITwyX5z8r
— Innovated_Matheus (@InnovatedM) September 8, 2017
1. I’ll be your number one with a bullet
Pretty unlikely anybody would come up with a better response, I’ll tell ya that.
3 bullets colliding
— DaveAgainstTheMachine🏴 (@DaveyCarnage) May 7, 2020
If I was as clever as these folks, I’m sure I’d have the perfect response to myself to close off this article. Um. That’s what she said?
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