It was evident that the new prisoner was himself as much a savage as his captors if apparel and weapons were any criterion by which to judge; yet it was also equally evident that he was a white man and from his well-shaped head and clean-cut features that he was not one of those unhappy halfwits who so often revert to savagery even in the heart of civilized communities.

A WEST Yorkshire fire chief has called Donald Trump a "halfwit" for suggesting the Notre Dame cathedral fire in Paris could be extinguished with "flying water tankers".

Halfwits gonna halfwit, as the young folk say, and there is nothing more likely to inspire genuine LOLs than a middleaged white bloke complaining that the odds in life are stacked against him.

Yes, only in times as crazy as our own could a malicious, incompetent halfwit who is doing a very good job of destroying the NHS overtake the man responsible for setting up the NHS, Aneurin Bevan.

So whenever he spoke to me he did so very, v-e-r-y slowly as if talking to a halfwit.

In a failed bid to stop the tedious rot, the BBC wasted a million quid on an unspectacular crash that sent halfwit thug Phil Mitchell through the windscreen of gormless gangster Carl's ancient Rover.

If I don't agree with what anyone says I tell them why, so in my opinion James Benton calling David Jeffries a halfwit because David didn't agree with him was insulting, and warrants an apology.

He has a piece on his site about the contretemps and offers an explanation as to 'why they did it now and why their halfwit colleagues at the RAIA are very, very worried'.

The plot is convoluted, funny, fast--and names like Hogwash, Hermine Cringer, Lon Measley, Halfwit, Alpo Bumblebore, Muddle, Uncle Serious, Valumart, and Severe Snipe will soon become as familiar as the originals.

Which halfwit thought Falkirk v Celtic would be a better TV spectacle than Killie v Ayr?