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Germans reveal their greatest ever insult

And it's not "you couldn't even win a penalty shoot-out against the English"...

By Will Sturgeon

Published: 11 February 2002 10:49 GMT

Software firm Baltimore has challenged the public to submit insults in an attempt to refine an email filtering system for businesses.

The company received 4,000 submissions suggesting different workplace slurs, but the uber-insult among the German people was considered to be referring to somebody as "intelligence allergic".

Runners up included calling somebody an "evolutionary brake" or the kind of person who might be found "ironing tinsel".

According to German magazine Spiegel one particularly profane individual submitted 494 different insults.

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