And it means "Your dad sells Avon", Avon being a door-to-door selling multi-level-marketing makeup brand.

Amway is the American equivalent

Avon is quite prevalent in the US as well.

Yeah doesn't the mother in Edward Scissorhands sell Avon?

Aye

Except Avon is predominantly sold by women ("Avon Ladies"), so there's a "your da's a lass" in there too.

I always find it interesting that although Americans and Brits share the same language, our humor is so divergent.

There's plenty of divergence within the UK. This particular insult is only known outside of Scotland because of Twitter.

https://www.reddit.com/r/scottishpeopletwitter/comments/5m7i...

Bit of a stretch to say it's only down to Twitter.

I take it you have never been to Northern Ireland.

Well, I've never been insulted by a Northern Irish 8 year-old!

Can you explain this one please?

Basically it means "your dad sells Avon". Avon is a cosmetics brand distributed by an army of (usually female) representatives.

Suggesting that someone's father has such a non-masculine job as delivering nail polish is so childish and stupid that it's funny.

I found a video on YouTube when I googled for it, that was kind of homophobic. Let's just say "Da" is short for "Dad".

> Let's just say "Da" is short for "Dad".

Wait, would you really not cop that right away?

"Da" is not common in the US. If I saw it on its own, I would almost certainly assume it was the Russian word for "yes" before I drew connection to "Dad". Most people still say "Dad" without dropping the ending, or "Pa" if they were raised by heathens.

Also, when I first saw the image, I read it as "Yerda", which I assumed to be something like a female given name of some sort of Scandivanian origin.

I don't think it's homophobic but it's definitely sexist.

I'm only sort-of aware of the background on this one, so bear with me:

Avon is a brand of cosmetics being sold door-to-door, so it became a favorite of many transvestites in the UK, many becoming Avon salespeople themselves.

So "Yer da sells Avon" could also be meant to imply "your dad is a transvestite".