From salty to simp – ten Gen Z insults that’ll make you sound like a plonker…but how many do you know?

WHAT a week it’s been for progress, eh?

First the simple joy of changing gear is put on life support because some plonkers in the motor ­industry decided to make more automatic cars.

BBC‘Plonker,’ the favourite insult of Only Fools and Horses’ Del Boy is out of fashion with Gen Z[/caption] GettyGen Z are more keen on calling you ‘basic’ (ordinary), ‘delulu’ (delusional) or ‘salty’ (bitter and resentful)[/caption]

Then the Swiss army knife switches from being the world’s most famous penknife to its greatest misnomer...