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Try taking a Jenga block out

Used to challenge someone who is calling your stability into question.

Metaphor’s imagery context: The popular wood block game is readily associated with the concept of stability, as a tower will fall if the wrong block is removed. A suitable retort if a douche-twat questions your sanity or suggests you to be of unstable mental persuasion (often after seeking provocation and getting none from you”

Wit and humour are the king and queen of verbal confrontation, being key players on the chessboard, dancing between confrontation and diversion, gambits and can throw an aggressor off their advance with deft surprise.
Trenchcoat Triad: “Are you mentally well/crazy/unstable/right in the head?”

Mr Parsons: “Try taking a Jenga block out!”

Trenchcoat Triad: *looks for the right Jenga block but can’t find one*
by Hot-Cross Pun March 18, 2026
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