Spite is a timeless concept. From the first time a caveman got the idea to break off a tiny piece of his rival’s walking stick every morning until it was comically short and useless to just last week, when you ate your roommate’s leftovers after he used up the last of the milk without telling anybody, people have been finding creative ways to screw over their enemies.
History’s most important names and events aren’t exempt from such folly. In fact, they’re the source and/or site of some of the biggest middle fingers ever extended. As a result, when user inactivevolcano asked r/AskReddit, “What would you say was the biggest historical ‘fuck you’?,” the amateur historians of Reddit didn’t have to dig deep for their favorite tales of righteous rancor.
